The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-03-06

OF dOu, anu NUMEROUS OF tnOuotuuS "a itSu
bur for that hindrance would step right into
the ranks OF the Lords host and march
heayenward. each one taking regiment
with him. The mountain OF ine5rtacy is not
an ordinary mountain, but 1t Is armed. II
Is line OF foriresses continually blazing
away its destructive forces upon all our
neighbour pods. towns and cities. their vol
leys OF death poured down upon the homes
and churches. Under this power more than
10000 men add women are in this country
every year imprisoned, and an army OF 6o0,-
600 drunkards almost shake the earth
with their staggering tread. 1t causes Ia
this country 500 murders and 400 suicides a
year. This mountain OF inebriacy has not
only assaulted the land, but bombarded the
shipping of The sea, and some OF the most
appalling sl1ipwrecks on Atlantic and Pacific
coasts havo been the result. What sank the
steamer Rothsay Castle, on the way from
Liverpool to Dublin, destroying 10l human
lives? A drunken sea captain. what blew
up the Ben Sherrod on the Mississippi ana
sent $50 to horrible dsath? A drunken crew.
What drove on the breakers steamer
making its way from New YORK 10 Charleston
and sent whole families on the way home
from Sumner watering places TO the msrci-
less depths of the scar drunken sea cap
tain. Gather up fror: the depths OF the
rivers and lakes snd oceans the bones OF
thoss shipwreclSed by intoxicated captains
ana crows. anu YOU COutQ DuiiA ONt VI thOAl
a temple OF horrors, all the pillars aud affairs
| aul floors aad ceilings fasaionsl or human
skulls Is ii possible that such q mountain
| OF Inebriacy can ever be made plainP
Yonder also Is the mountain OF crime, with
| Its strata OF fraud an malpractice and NAL
| feasance and blac1maii AMI burglary aud
| piracy and embaZz:emant an Iibertinlsm
and theft, all its heights manned with the
desperadoss, the cutthroats, tbs piekpockets,
| the ihiubis riggers, the corsair5. the wreck
ers. tho baudits, the tricksters, the forgers,
| the thugs. the garroters, the fire fiends, the
| 6yna.nitors, the shoplifters, the kieptomani-
acs. the pyromanigcs, tie dipsomaniacs. the
| smuggiers, the kilnapers, tho Jack Shep-
| pards. the Robert Maeaircs and the Macbeths
| OF viliainy The crimes OF the world! Am
| not right 10 calling them, when piled up
together, a mountain? Bat We cannot bring
| ourselves to appreciate great heights except
| by conps rison. You think of Mount WASH
| ingt0n as high, especially those of you who as
! cended rs of old, on mule back, or more re-
Gently by rail train. to the Tip Top House.
Oh. mol that is not high. For 1t is only
| about COCO feet, whereas rising on this West
| tern Hemisphere are Chimborazo, $1,000
| feet high. and Mount Sahama, 1900 feet
| high, and Mount Sarato, 81, 800 feet high.
| But that is not the highest mountain on this
| Western Hemisphere. The highest noun
| tain is the mountain OF crime, aud is It pos
| Sibie that this mountain, before our Z9ruD-
1 babel, San ever be made plain?
| Thera Is also the mountain OF war. the
most volcanic OF all mountains--the Vesu-
| vius witch, not content. like the Vesuvius oil
Italy, with overwhelming two cities, Hercu-
| laneum and Pompeii, has covered with Its
1 fiery scoria thousands OF cities, and would
! like to whelm all the cities of both hemis.
| ph res. Give this mountain full utterance,
| and it would cover up Washington and New
| - \ n6n n n hnnGah0ld-
| er. with his shovel at 10 O'Clock at night,
! banks CRATE fire with ashes. This noun
| tain Is a pile OF fortresses. barricadas and
| arnories, the worlds artillery heaped, wheel:
| above whees, columbiais above columbiad5
| seyenty-four Founders above seyenty-four
Founders, wrecked Nations above wrecked
| Nations.
| This mountain OF war is not only loaded
to canuonade the earth, but it is also Gene
| terry, holding the corpses of $1,000, 00J siaiT
kin the wars OF Alexander and Cyrus, SO, 900,
| 900 slain in Roman wars 100, 900, 900 slain II
war with Tanks and Saracens and holding
about 81 ,009, 600, 900 eorpses, not million. but
| billion, which was the estimate made by Ed
| mud Burke more than 100 years ago Of those
/ who had been destroyed by war, so that you
would have to add more millions now
| Twenty years ago a careful author estimated
TINT about fourteen times the then popu
iation of the world had gone down In battle
or In hospital after battle. All, this noun
tain of war is not like an ordinary mountain
It is like Kilauea, one OF the Sandwich Isl
ands, which holds the greatest volcano in al
the earth, and concerning which / wrot'
from the Sandwich Islands few years ago;
s."What Kissing, believing. tumbling, soar
ing force Is Kilauea! Lake OF unquenchabi'
fire; convolutions and paroxysms OF hame
elements OF nature in torture; torridity and
luridity; congregation OF breads; moiteT
/ b1- l,1t, ohuzu1c. GrtrltnO nvq
terry OF ali time; Infinite turbulence; chimney
OF perdition; wallowiny terrors; fifteen acre:
of threats; glooms insuffsrable and Dant
esnue: caldron stirred blythe champion witcl
of pandenonium; campfire OF the armies o
Diabolus; wrath of the mountains in full
bloom; shimmering incaudescence; pyroteeh
| MICS of the planet; furnace blast of the ages
KilaueaI'' Bat, my friends. mightier, high
er, vaster, hotter, more raging, is the volcanic
| mountain OF war. It has been blazing fo
| hundreds of years and will keep on blazlnl
until. until-5ut dare not hazard proph
ecy. Can il be that its fires will ever be pu
oa? Can 1t be that its roar will ever be 81
| fenced? Can it be that before our Zerub5a
bel that blazing mountain will ever becom
| plain?
There Is also the long range OF mountains
longer than Appalachian range. longer thai
| Caucasian range, longer than Sierra Nevada
rangs--the piled up opposition OF bad iitera
ture, bad homes, bad institutions, bad amuse
| ments, bad centuries, bad reiigions-Pagan
ism, Hlndooisn, Buddhism. Mohammedan
ism ana buttressed and enthronel goddess
ness. devoted to ambition aud lust and hydr
headed, argus eyed abomination. ~ ii stand
with lifted fist an Inoc.sing lips, Challenger,
| Jehovah uuon the throne of the universe Il
strike il BE dare. Oh, it is a great mountain
as my text declares. There is no use In deny
ing it. The most authentic statistics declar
it. The signs of the times prove 1t. Al
Christian workers realize il. 1t Is q noun
tain. 1.-THE mountain can never be brough
down." says worldly speculation. 18th
mountain can never be made a plain" say
small faith in the churches. Well, los u
see. Let us look about for tho implement
we can lay our hands on. Let US count tn
number on our side who are willing to di
| with O shovel or bore Il tunnel or blast
lock. Let Us see il there is any foreign bel
| that will come ia to re-enforce US. do nc
want TO make myself absurd by attempt
ing an impossibiliiy. Ii 1t is only on
spade at the foot Of Mount Blanc, ii II
only one arm, capable of lifting but fey
pounds. against mountain that weigh
loo 0j0,00O tons, let US quit before we max
ourselves the trayesty and caricature OF tn
} universe. 1.-Two ara to undertake this jot
first of all We must have competent eng
neer, one who knows ell about excavation.
about eInbankments, about tunnels, abou
mountains. / know engineers who hav
carved up mountains, cut down mountain.
removed mountains. will do nothing III
less ! know who is to be our engineer
| Zerubbabe led at the rebuilding of the ar
cient temple, and Matthew Henry, the great
est OF commentators. declares that on
| Zerubbabel is the Lord Jesus Christ. III
Zerubbabel OF my text was only type of th
| glorious and omnipotent Jesus, and as