The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-09-26
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| nc BocS On anu gives plates OF Jno
machinery by which this work is to
be done, and he says he only needs ut
the start company in which the
shares shall be $50 each, and 500, 900
or $500. 900 shall be raised just to make
q specimen community, and then, this
being formed, the world will see its
practicability, and very soon S2,0O0,-
600 or S3,000,000 can be obtained,
and in ten years the whole earth
will be unparalleled. The plan 10
no so preposterous as some / have
heard of. But l will take no stock
in that company! do not believe that
it will ever be done in that way, by
any mechanical force, or by any ma
chincry that the human mind can put
into play. 1t is to be done by the Cos
pei of the son OF God-the ommpotent
machinery of love and grace and par
don and salvation. This is to empara-
disc the nations. Archimedes de-
stroyed fleet Of ships coming up the
harbor. You know how he did it? He
lifted a great sun-glass, history tells us,
and when the fleet of ships came up
the harbor of Syracuse he brought to
bear this sun-glass, and he focused
the suns rays upon those ships. Now
the sails are wings of fire. the masts
fall, the vessels sink. Oh, my friends,
by the sun-glass of the Gospel con-
verging the rays of the Sun of Right
eousness upon the sins, the wicked
ness of tho world, we will make them
blaze and expire!
In that day of which speak, do you
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carousal? win there be any kicking
off from the marble steps of shivering
mendicants? Win there be any un-
washed, unfed, uncombed children?
VIII there be any blasphemies
in the streets? No. No wine
stores. No lager beer saloons.
No distilleries, where they
make the three KS. No bloodshot eye.
No bloated check. No instruments OF
ruin and destruction. No fst-poun led
forehead. The grandchildren OK that
woman who goes down the street with
Il curse, stoned by the boys that tol-
low her, will be the reformers and
philauthropis,s and the Christian men
and the honest merchants Of our cities.
Then, what municipal governments,
ttoo, we wiz have IN all the cities Some
cities are worse than others, but II
many OF our cities you just walk down
by the city halls and look in a. some
OF the rooms occupied by politicians,
! and see to what q sensual, loathsome,
ignorant bcsotted crew city politics
is often abandoned. Or they stand
around the city hall picking their
teeth, waiting for some cmoluments of
crumbs to fall TO their feet waiting
all day long, and waiting all night
long.
All! we do well TO punish small
crimes; but have sometimes thought
it would be better in some Of our cities
If the officials would only turn out
from the jajls the petty criminals, tho
little Offenders, ten dollar dcspcradoes.
and put in their places some of tho
monsters of iniquity who drive their
roam span through the streets SO.
swiftly that honest men have to leap
to get ont of the way OF being run
over. Oh, the damnable schemes that
protested Christian men will some
times engage in until God puts tho
finger of His retribution into the
collar of their robe of hypocrisy
ard rips it clear to the bot
tom. But all these wrongs will
be rightcd. expect to live to
see the day. think hear in the dis
lance the rumbling of the Kings
chariot. Not always in the minority
is the church of God going to be.
The streets are going to be filed
with regenerated populations. Three
| hpnl nd " hallc ,.un
in Moscow when one prince
was married; but, when right
eousness and peace kiss each other in
all the earth, 10000 times 10000 bells
shall strike the jubilee. Poverty en-
riched. Hunger fed Crime banished.
Ignorance enlightened. All the cities
saved. Is this not a cause worth work.
ing in?
| Oh, you think sometimes it does not
amount to much! You toll on your
different spheres, sometimes with
great encouragement. People have
no faith, and say: 1T does not amount
to anything; you might as well quit
that" Why, when Moses stretched his
hand over the Red sea it did not seem
to mean anything especially. Peo-
| PIE GAME on, suppose, anu sdius
"Ahav Some of them found out what
he wanted to do. He wanted the sea
parted. 1t did not amount to any
thing, this stretching out of his hand
over the sea. But, after awhile, the
wind blew all night from the east, and
the waters were gathered into gilt
tering palisade on either side, and the
pillows reared as God pulled back, on
their crystal bits! Wheel into line. o,
Israel! march! march! Pearls crushed
under feet. Flying spray gathers into
rainbow arch of victory for the con-
querors to march under. Shout of
hosts ON the beach answering the shout
of hosts amid sea. And when the
last line of Israelites reach the beach,
the cymbals clap, and the shields clang,
and the waters rush over the pursuers,
and the swift-Hngered winds on the
white keys of the foam play the grand
march of Israel delivered and the
| awful dirpe of Ervptian overthrow