The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-18

/ ueLIdI Henry ftdWilnSOu anu OppcTL
ana Hincks, and Palestine exploration SO
] cieties. and Psychologists, and EgyptOlO-
! gists, have rolled another Bible ~ from
| the depths of the earth. and 10! it CORE
| spends exactly with our Bible, the rock
/ Bible just like the printed Bible. inscrlp-
| tons on cylinders and brick-work cut
/ thTty-eight hundred years before CHRIST
testifying 10 the truth of what We read
/ eighteen hundred and ninety-seven years
/ after Christ The story of the tower Of
! Babel has been confirmed by the fact that
| recently at Babel an oblong pile of brick
| one hundred and ten feet high evidences
/ the remains OF "A fallen tower In the IN
| spired Book of Ezra we read Of the great
| and noble Asnappcr "A name that meant
nothing especial, until recently. i'm pried-
up Egyptian sculpture, we have the story
/ there told of him as "A great hunter as
well as a great warrior. What / say now
is news to those prejudiccd against the
Bible. They are so far behind the times
| that they know not that the old Book les
being proved true by the prying eye of
the antiquarian and the ringing hammer
Of tho archaeologist and the plunging
crow5ar OF the gcologist No more IS inh-
| deity characterized hy its basphemy than
by it's ignorance. but oh, what a high
mountain Of prejudice against the Bible.
against Christianity against churches,
against all evangelizing enterprises
mountain that casts its long black shad-
|
tinents. Geographers tell us that Mount
Everest is the highest mountain in the
world. Oh. no, The mountain Of preju-
dice against Christianity is higher than
| the highest crags that dare the lightnings
Of heaven Before our Zerubbabel can it
| ever become a plain?
Another mountain of hindrance is that
of positive and outspoken immorais.
| There is the Mountain OF Inebriacy. It
| is piled high with kegs and demijohns and
decanters and hogsheads, on which sit the
| victims of that traffic whose one business
| IS TO rob earth and heaven of the most
| generous and large-hearted and splendid
of the human race. If their business was
| to take only the mean and stingy and con-
| temptible and useless. we would not say
/ much against the work for there are tens
| OF thousands of men and women who are
/ a nuisance to the world and their obiter-
| alton from human society would be an adj
vantage to all that is good. The removal
| of these moral deficits would not arouse
| in us much Of a protest. But insobriety
| takes the best The Mountain of Inc
| briacy stands in the way OF the Kingdom
| of God. and hundreds Of thousands Of
| men, but for that hndrance would step
right into the ranks of the Lords host and
march heavenward, each one taking a reg
/ iment with him. The Mountain of In
| ebriacy is not an ordinary mountain but
| il is armed. II is line of fortresses con-
/ tinually blazing away its destructive
| forces upon all our neighborhoods, towns
and cities. their volleys of death poured
down upon the homes and churches. I'm
| der this power more than one
| hundred thousand men and wo-
men are in this country ev-
| cry year imprisoned, and an army of six
| hundred thousand drunkards almost shake
| the earth with their staggering tread. 1t
| causes in this country 300 murders and 400
| suicides a year. This Mountain of Ire
! briacy has not only assaulted the land,
| but bombarded the shipping of the sea,
and some of the most appalling ship
wrecks on Atlantic and Pacific coast
| have been the result. What sank the
| steamer Rothsay Castle, on the way from
! Liverpool to Dublin, destroying 100 hui
man lives? A drunken sea captain. What
| blew up the Ben Sherrod on the Missis-
sippi and sent $50 to horrible death?
| drunken crew. What drove on the break
| ers a steamer making its way from New
| York to Charleston, and sent whole fami-
lies on the way home from summer wat
ering places, to the merciless depths OF
| the sea A drunken sea captain. Gather
up from the depths of the rivers, and
| lakes and oceans, the bones of those
| shpwrecked by intoxicated captains and
crews and you could build out of them a
temple of horrors, all the pillars and all
tars and floors and ceilings fashioned of
| human skulls. Is il possible that such a
Mountain of Inebriacy can ever be made
a plain?
Yonder also is the Mountain of Crime,
with its strata of fraud, and malpractice,
and malfeasance, and hlackmail, and
burglary and piracy, and emDezz.ement,
| and libertinism, and theft, all its nights
manned with the desperadoes, the cut
| threats, the pickpockets, the thimble-rig-
| gers, the plunderers. the marauders, the
I pillagers, the corsairs, the wreckers, the
| bandits, the tricksters, the forgers, the
thugs, the garotters. the fire-iends, the
| dynamiters, the shoplifters, the klepto-
maniacs, the pyramanics, the dipsoman-
iacs, the smugglers, the kidnappers, the
Jack Sheppards. the Robert Macaires, and
| the Macbeths of villainy. The crimes of
the world Am l not right in calling them,
| when piled up together, mountain? But
we cannot bring ourselves to appreciate
great nights except by comparison You
| think of Mount Washington as high, es-
! pecially those of you who assembled as OF
| old, on muleback. or more recently by rail-
train, to the Tip Top house. Oh, no! That
| is not hight For it is only about six thous-
and feet, whereas rising on this western
hemisphere are Chimborazo. twenty-one
thousand feet high. and Mount Sahama
twenty-three thousand feet high, and
Mount Sarota, twenty-four thousand eight
hundred feet high. But that is not the
highest mountain on the western hemis.
phere The highest mountain is the
Mountain of Crime, and is il possible that
this mountain, before our Zerubbabel, car
ever be made a plain?
There is also the Mountain of War, the
most volcanic of all mountains-the We.
suvius which, not content, like the Ncsu-
vius Of italy with whelming two cities
Hercuaneum ana Pompeii, has covered
with its fiery scora thousands of cities
and would like to whelm all the cities OF
both hemispheres. Give this mountain
fun utterance, and II would cover ur
Washington and New York and London
as easily as a householder, with his shov-
ell at 10 o'clock at night. banks a CRATE
fire with ashes. This mountain is a pile
Of fortresses. barbados and armories the
worlds artillery heaped wheels above
wheels, columbiads above coumbads
seventy-four Founders above seventy-four
Founders, wrecked nations above wrecked
nations. This Mountain OF War IS not
only loaded to cannonade the earth. but
il Is also cemetery, holding the corpses
of thirty million slain IN the wars of Al
exander and Cyrus. sixty million slain I'm
Roman wars one hundred ana eighty mill
ion slain I'm war with Turks and Sara