Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-09-17
streets? Will there he any incbriatcs

streets? VIII there he any lncbrlatcS
staggering past? No. No wine stores.
No lager beer saloons. No diStillerics,
where they make the three Ms. No
bloodshot eye. No bloatc check. No
instruments Of ruin and destruction.
No ilSt-poundcd forehead. The grand.
children Of that woman who goes down
the street with 4 curse, stoned by the
boys that follow her, will be the re-
formers and philanthrOpists and the
Christian men and the honest mcr-
chants of our cities.
Then, what municipal governments,
too, W. will have in all the cities.
Some cities are worse than others, but
in many Of our cities you just walk
down 10y the city halls and look in some
of the rooms occupied by politicians
and see To what II sensual loathsOmc,
ignorant, beSottcd crew city politics is
oftcncd abandoned. Or they stand
around the city hall picking their
teeth, waiting for some emoluments
of crumbs to fall to their feet, wait
ing all day long, and waiting all night
long.
Who are those wrctchcd women
taken up for drunkenness, and carried
up to the courts and put in prison of
course? What will you do with the
grog shops that make them drink?
Nothing. Who are those prisoners in
Jail? One OF them stole pair of
shoes. Tha. boy stole iollar. This
girl Snatched purS'. All of them
crimes damaging society less than $50
or $50. But what will You do
with the gambler who last night
robbed the young man of a
thousand dollars? Nothing. What
| shall be done with that one who breaks
through and destroys the purity of
Christian home, and with an adroitness
and pcriidy that beats the strategy of
hell, filings a shrinking, shricking soul
into ruin. Nothing. What will you
do with those who fleece the young
man, getting him to purloin large sums
of money from his cmploycr-thc young
man who came to an officer of my
church and told the story, and fran
| tically asked what he should do. Moth
ing.
All! we do well to punish small
crimes: but have sometimes thought
| il the officials would only turn out
from the jails the petty criminals, the
little offenders, tcn-dollar despcradoes,
and put in their places some of the
monsters of iniquity who drive swiftly
| that honest men have to- leap to get
out of the way of being run over. Oh,
the damnablc schemes that profcsscd
| Christian men will sometimes engage
in until God puts the finger of His re-
| tribution into the collar of their robe
of hypocrisy and rips it clear to the
bottom. But all these wrongs will be
rightcd. | expect to live to see the
day. I think hear in the dis
lance the rumbling of the Kings
chariot. Not always in the minor
| ity is the Church of God going
to be, or are good men going to be-
| The streets are going to be fill
ed with regenerateu populations.
Three hundred and sixty bells rang in
Moscow when one prince was married;
| but, when righteousness and peace kiss
each other in all the earth, ten thous
sand times ten thousand bells shall
strike the jubilee. Poverty enriched.
| Ignorance enlightened. All the cities
saved. Is not this n cause worth work
| ing in?
Oh, you think sometimes it does not
amount to much! You toll ON in your
! diife -snt spheres, sometimes with great
encouragement. People have no faith,
and say: lit does not amount to any
thing. You might as well quit" Why,
when Moses stretched his hand over
the Red sea it did not seem to mean
anything especially. People came out,
: suppose, and said, AHA" Some of
them found out what he wanted to do.
lie wanted the sea parted. 1t did not
amount to anything, this stretching
out of his hand over the sea l;ut, aft
err awhile, the wind blew a ~ sht from
the east, and the wa'cls ysgr, gathered
into glitterirF pal SADIE ON S.'h"r side,
and the pillows reared rs go pulled
back on their crystal bits. Nn-el
into line: o, Israel, march. march
march! Pearls crashed under feet.
Flying spray gathers into rainbow
arch of victory for the conquerors 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 Gym
balls clap, and the shields clang, and
the waters rush over the pursuers, and
the swift-fingered wings on the white
keys of the foam play the grand march
of Israel delivered and the awful dirge
of Egyptian overthrow.