Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-18

WOrkst paVlllOns, ROnuOlas, plhces OF
popular amusement, TO lure the eye and
fancy. All this to be done by urging the
water. the wind and the sunshine to
their foil development" "
He goes ON and gives plates Of the
machinery by which this work is TO be
done. and he says he only needs at the
start a company in which the shares
shall be $50 each, and 800, 900 or
5000, 900 shall be raised just TO make
a specimen community, and then, this
being formed, the world will see its
practicability, and very soon 81, 900, 900
or IS, 900, 900 can be obtained, and in
ten years the whole earth will be en-
paradised. The plan is not SO preposter-
Gus as some have heard Of But 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
machinery that the human mind can
put into play. 1t is to be done by the
gospel of the Son of Cod-the omnipo-
tent machinery Of love and grace and
pardon and salvation. This is TO empar-
adise the nations. Archimedes destroyed
a feet Of ships coming up the harbor.
You know how he did it? He lifted
great sunglass, history tells Us, and
when the feet Of ships came up the har-
Dor of Syracuse he brought to bear this
sunglass, 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 sunglass
of the gospel conyerging the rays OF the
sun Of righteousness upon the sins, the
wickedness Of the world. We will make
them blaze and expire.
The Cleansed Cities.
In that day Of which speak do you
believe there will be any midnight ca
rousal? Will there be any kicking off
from the marble steps Of shivering men,
dicants2 Will there be any unwashed,
unfed, uncombed children? Will there
be any blasphemies in the streets! Will
there be any inebriates staggering past!
No. No wine stores. No lager beer sa-
loona No distilleries, where they make
the three KS. No bloodshot eye. No
bloated cheek. No instruments Of ruin
and destruction No fist pounded fore
head The grandchildren Of that wom-
an who goes down the street with
curse, stoned by the boys that follow
her, will be the reformers and philan-
thropists and the Christian men and the
honest merchants Of our cities.
Then what municipal governments,
too. we will have in all the cities. Some
cities are worse than others, but in
many Of our cities you just walk down
by the city halls and look in at some Of
the rooms occupied by politicians, and
see to what a sensual, loathsome, igno-
rant, besotted crew city politics is often
abandoned. Or they stand around the
city hall picking their teeth, waiting
for some emoluments Of crumbs TO fall
to their feet, waiting all day long, and
waiting all night long.
Who are those wretched 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 jailI One Of them
stole pair Of shoes. That boy stole a
dollar. This girl snatched purse. All
of them crimes damaging society less
than $50 OF $50. But what will you do
with the gambler who last night robbed
the young man Of $l,OOOI Nothing.
What shall be done with that one who
breaks through and destroys the purity
of O Christian home, and with an adroit-
ness and perfdy that beat the strategy
of hell, filings shrinking, shrieking
soul into ruin: Nothing. What will you
do with those who fieeced that young
man, getting him to purloin large sums
of money from his employer-they young
man who came to an officer OF my
church and told the story and frantically
asked what he should do? Nothing.
All, we do well to punish small
crimes, but have sometimes thought 1t
would be better in some Of our cities IL
the officials would only turn out from
the jails the petty criminals, the little
offenders, $40 desperadoes, and put Ill
their places some Of the monsters OF IN
iouity who drive their roam span through
the streets so swiftly that honest men
have TO leap to get out OF the way oil be-
ing run oyer Oh, the damnable schemes
that professed Christian men will some
times engage in until God Puts the hn-
ger of his retribution into the collar OF
their robe Of hypocrisy and rips 1t clear
to the bottoml But all these wrongs
will be righted. expect to live TO see
the day. l think hear in the distance
the rumbling Of the Kings chariot. Not
always in the minority is the church OF
God going to be, or are good men gong
TO be. The streets are going to be nlled
with regenerated 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 10000 times lO,OOO
bells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty
enriched. Hunger fed. Crime banished-
Ignorance enlightened. All the cities
saved. Is not this cause worth work
ing ini
Oh, you think sometimes it does not
amount 10 muchl You toll on in your
different spheres, sometimes with great
disbursement. People have not faith
and say: at does not amount to any
thing You might as well quit that.
WIZ. when Moses stretched his hand
over the Red sea it did not seem to
mean anything especially. People came
out, | suppose. and said, "AhaP Some
of them found out what he wanted to
do He wanted the sea parted. 1t did
not amount TO anything, 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 q glittering palisade on either side.
and the pillows reared as God pulled
back on their crystal bits Wheel INTO
line. o Israeli 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 snout
Of hosts amid sea And when the last
! line of Israelites reach the beach, tne