The morning times., 1897-01-18

gers, the plundercrs, the marduders, the
pillagers, the corsairs, the wreckers, the
bandits. the tricksters, the forgers, the
thugs, the garotters, the fire fiends, the
dynamters, the shoplifters, the klepto-
maniacs, the pyromaniacs, the dipsoman-
iaes, the smugglers, the kidnapers, the
Jack Sheppards, the Robert Macaires,
and the Macbeths of villainy. The crimes
of the world. The highest mountain Is
the Mountain of Crime, and is ii possible
that this mountain, before our Zerubbabel,
can ever be made plain?
There is also the Mountain of War, the
most volcanic of all mountains-the Fesu-
suvius which, not content, like the Vesu
vius of Italy, with wheming two cities,
Herculaneum and Pompeii, has covered
with its fiery scoria hundreds Of cities
and would like to whelm all the cities OF
both hemispheres. What a kissing, below
ing, tumbling, soaring force is kilauea!
Lake Of unquenchable fire; conyolutions
and paroXysms of flame; elements of ma
ture in torture; torridity and luridity;
congregation of breads; molten horrors,
sulphurOus abysms; swirling mystery or
all time; infinite turbulence; chimney or
perdition; wallowng terrors; fifteen
acres of threats; glooms insufferable and
Dantesque: cauldron stirred by the cham
pion witch of Pandenonium; campfire OF
the armies of Diabolus; wrath of the
mountains in fun bloom; shimmering in
candescence; pyrotechnics of the planet;
furnace blast of the ages; Kilauea!
But, my friends, mightier, higher,
vastcr, hotter, more raging is the volcanic
Mountain of War. 1t has been blazing for
hundreds of years, and win keep on blaz
ing until, until but l dare not hazard a
prophecy Can it be that it's fires will
ever be put out? Can it be that it's roar
will ever be silenced? Can it be that before
our Zerubbabel that blazing mountain will
ever become plain?
''The mightiest, grandest movement for
driving brutal war out of the earth will
date January IL, l S97. The men on either
side Of the sea who did most to effect
that plan of arbitration have made them
selves immortal. The evening of the
present administration of the United States
government is honored with the gladdest
event OF eighteen centuries. An civilized
nations will copy the glad example. I'm
plore the illustrious Senate of the United
States not to allow anything to interfere
with vote of ratification, so that the
bells of all Christendom may ring out
Peace on earth and good will to man.
Senators, many of you my personal
friends, this is the opportunity of your
lives. BY emphatic and enthusiastic vote
rise to the splendor OF the occasion, and
win the favor of all the good OF earth and
the mighty OF heaven. Let the aye! aye!
of our American Senate resound through
the capitals OF Europe, and make all the
arsenals and armories OF the round world
hear that there shall be no more murder
among nations. The worst thing you can
do To man is to kill, and the best thing
you can do To man is to save him. "
There is also the long range OF noun
tains, longer than Appalachian range,
longer than Caucasian range, longer than
Sierra Nevada range-the piled-up opposi-
tion OF bad literature, bad homes, bad in
stitutions, bad amusements, bad centuries,
bad religions: Paganism, Hindooism, Bud
dhsm, Mohammedanism, and buttressed
and cnthroned Godlessness, devoted to
ambition and lust, and hydra-headed,
argus-eyed abomination, as it stands with
lifted fist and mocking lips, challenging
to strike If he dare. Oh, it Is a great
mountain, as MY text declares There is no
use in denying it. The most authentic
statistics declare it. The signs of the times
prove it. All Christian workers realize it
1t is a mountain. In
this great battle against sin and
crime and moral death the enemy seen
too much or us. More grogshops than
churches. More bad men than good men
and they come up with hrayado and the
force of great numbers. They have opened
battle upon us before we are, in our own
strength, ready to meet them, and great
are the discoura gements. But steady, there,
Hold on! Reinforcemcnts are coming
Through the glass OF inspiration | look
and see the flash Of the sword of Him
who hath On His vesture and on His thigh
a name written, King Of kings and Lord
OF lords All heaven is on our side and
is coming to the rescue.
II hear the rumblinG OF the Kings
artillery louder than any thunder that ever
shook the earth, and with every roll of the
ponderous wheels our courage augments.
and whenthese reinforcementsf from heaven
get into line with the forces of God al
ready on earth all the armies of unright-
eousness will see that their hour of doom
has come. and Will waver and fall back and
take flight, and nothing be left of them
save here and there, strewn by the way
side, broken decanter or a torn pla ybill
of debasing amusement, or ablasphemous
paragraph, or leper's scale, or a dragons
tooth, to show they ever existed. Let
there be cheering all along the lines of
Christian workers over the fact that what
the shovels fail to do will be accom-
plished by the thunderbolts'