The Robesonian., 1897-01-20
shipping Of the sea, and some of the most


Liverpool to Dublin. DESTROYING 10) human
lives? drunken sea captain. What blew
up the Ben Sherrod on the Mississippi and
sent $50 to horrible death? A drunken crew.
What drove on the breakers a steamer
making its way from New YORK to Charleston
and sent whole families on the way home
from summer watering places to the merci-
less depths OF the sea? A drunken sea cap
tain. Gather up from the depths of the
rivers and lakes and ocaana the bones of
those shipWreeked by intoxicated captains
and crews, and you could build out of them
temple of horrors, all the pillars and affairs
and floors and ceilings fashioned of human
skulls. Is 1t possible that such mountain
OF lnebriaey cal ever be made plain?
Ionder also is the mountain of crime, with
its strata OF fraud AMI malpractice and mall
feasance and backmail an burglary and
piracy aud enbezzIement an | fbertinism
and theft, all its heights manned with the
desperadoes, the cutthroats, the pickpockets,
the thlmble riggers, the corsairs. the wreck
ers, the bandits, the tricksters, the forgers,
the thugs. the garroters, the fire fiends, the
dynamlters, the shopiifters, the kleptomaui-
aes, the pyromaniacs, the dipsomaniaes. the
smugglers, the kidnapers, the Jack Shep-
pards, the Robert Macares and the Maebeths
OF villainy. The crimes OF the word! Am
not right in calling them, When piled I'D
together, mountain? But we cannot bring
ourselves to appreciate great heights except
by comparison. Yeu think Of Mount Wash
ington us high, especially those of YOU yho as
cended as of ola, on mule back, or moro re-
Gently by rail train. to the TIP Top House.
Oh, mol that is not high. For it is only
about 60o0 feet, whereas rising on this West
tern Hemisphere are Chimborazo, 21 900
feet high, and Mount Sahana. $4,000 feet
high. and Mount Sarato, 24,800 feet high.
Western Hemisphere. The highest noun
tain is the mountain of crime, an is il pos.
sible that this mountain, bafore our Zerub.
babel, San ever be made a plain?
There is also the mountain of war. tho
most volcanic OF oil mountains Ve.u-
ylus whit n, not content. like the Vesuyius of
Italy, With overwhelming two cities, Hercu-
laneum and Pompeii, has covered with it's
fiery scoria thousands Of cities, and would
like to Whetm all the cities of both hemjs-
ph res. Give this mountain full utteran3e,
and it would cover up Washington aud New
York and London as easily as q household
er, with his shovel at 10 o'clock at NIGHT.
banks CRATE fire with ashes. This noun,
tam Is pile of fortresses. barricades and
armories, che worlds artillery heaped. wheels
above Wheels, columbiads above colunbiads.
seyenty-four Founders above seyenty-four
Founders, wrecked Nations above wrecked
Nations
This mountain Of war is not only loaded
TO caunorade the earth, but if is also a come
terry. holding the corpses of $4,000, ,OOJ slain
in the wars Of Alexander and Cyrus. so. .0OO.-
00o siam in Roman wars, 18), 600, 900 slain in
war with Turks and Saracens and holding
about $4,000, 600, 900 corpses, not million, but
Dillon, which was the estimate made BY Ed
mund Burke more than 100 years ago Of those
who had been destroyed by war. 50 thar YOU
would have to add moro millions now.
twenty years ago careful author estimated
that 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.
1t IS like Kilauea, one of the Sandwich ISL
ands, which holds the gr attest volcano in all
the earth, and concerning which 1 wrote
from the Sandwich Islands Il few wears ago.
"What Kissing, below ing. .tumbIing soar
ing force is Kilauea Lake of unquenchable
fire; convolutions and paroyysms of flame:
elements OF nature in torture; torridity and
luridlty; congregation Of dreads: molten
horrors; sulphurous abysms; swiring mys-
terry OF all time; intinite turbulence; chimney
OF perdltIon: wallowing terrors; flfi cen acres
OF threats; glooms insuffArable and Dant-
esque: caldron stirrei by he champion witch
OF pandemonium; campfire Of the armies Of
Diabolus; wrath Of the mountains in full
bloom; shmmering incandescenee: pyrotech-
mes OF the planet; furnace BIAS of the yes;
klauea!' But, my friends, mightier, high
er, vaster, hotter, more raging, is the volcanic
mountain of war. 1t has been blazing for
hundreds of years and will keep on blazing
until, until-5ut [ dare not hazard proph-
ecy. Can 1t be that its fires will ever be put
out? Can it be that its roar will ever be- ST.
fenced! Can it be that before our Zarubba-
bel that blazing mountain will ever become
plain?
There is also the long range Of mountains.
longer than Appalachian range, Longer tlan
GaneaSltn' range, long9~ than Sierra Nevada
ranSP-~tne pTtai up opposition of bad litara-
ture, bad homes. bad Institutions. bad amuse-
ments, bad centuries, bad re'iglons-Pagan-
ism, hlnGooiSm, Bu1fhISnl, Mohammsdau-
ism and buttresSsd and enthEaned goddess
ness, devoted to ambition and lust and hydra
headed, argus eyed abomination, a. it stands
with lifted fist an mooking lips, challenging
senpVan upon the throne Of the universe to
Strike II be dare. On, it is great mountain.
as my tex declares. There is no use in deny
ing 1e. Ihe most authentic st itistics decIara
1t: The signs OF the times prove il. All
onrisflan workers realize it. 1t is a noun.
tH1n. 'Ihe mountain can never be brought
uo"h. says worldly speculation. "The
mountain can never be made a plain. - saws
q small faith in the churches. Well. LEI ns
see. Let US look about for the implements
we can lay our hands or. Let us count the
numper on our side Who are willing to dig
with a shovel or bore tunnel or blast q
lock. Let US see il there is any foreign helm
that Will come in to re-enforce us. I do not
" ihdhe myself HDSurd by attempt
ing an lmpossibiity. If 1t is only one
spade at the foot of Mount Blanc. if il is
only one arm, capable of lifting but q few
pounds, against a mountain that weighs
1oo,o 1900 tons, let US quit before we make
ourselves the travesty and caricature OF the
universe: If we are to undertake this lob.
nrst oi all we must have a competent engi-
neer, one VINO knows ell about excavations.
about embankments, about tunnels. about
mountains l know engineers who have
carved up mountains, cut down mountains.
removed mountains. I will do nothing nm
less L know who is to be our engineer.
Aerubbabel led at the rebuilding of the an
clent temple, and Matthew Henry, the great.
est OF commentators, declares that our
Zernbbabel is the Lord Jesus Christ. The
Zeruboabel my text was only type of the
glorious and omnipotent Jesus, and "a ]
Iook up into the face of this divine engineer
ana see 1t glow with all the splendors Of the
dodnead. and see that in His arm is the al
m!ghtiness thai flung out all the worlds that
glitter in the midnight heavens. and that tn
III the Himalayas would cost Him no more
euort than Tor me to lift an ounce. nv cour.
age pegins to rally, and nv faith begins to
mount, and my enthusiasm is all aflame
az ana the words of my text this moment iust
~ my lps aud express the triumph of nv
SOU. and cry out: "Who art thou, O great
mountain! Before Zerubbabel thou shalt
become plan?"
tell you the mountain is coming down.
Il l. IS coming down rapidly. 1t will all come
~ uao"h. There are those who hear or read
tnese words who wsll gaze upon its com
pete prostration, for what is the use of nv
heeplng back any longer the full statement
" VI the Iact, which 1 have somewhat DELAYED
through lawful sermonic strategy. the faer
lnat IN the Lord God Almighty, in the full
pay OF His omnipotence, will accomplish
TINS supernal work. If God can build a
mountain. guess He can re- move a noun
am. After God has given full opportunity
Tor the shovels He will come in with His
tnunderboits. We have amplifed the idea
81 81 the Lamb of God. tell you now oftne
lion. Here ia a thought that 1 have never
seen projected. and yet it is the most cheer
ing OF all considerations and plainly Scrip
tural. the thought that as at the opening OF
ne me gospel dispensation in the Caristiy and
) ohanlan and Pauline Lays the machinHrv of
me % natural world was brought into service.
the shadow Oh ectipses and the agitation of
earthquakes, temoes!s put to sleep under the
voice OF divine lullaby, iron bolts of prisons
showed back by invisible muscle. kindjine
oi flame on heads of worshipers, by 1ns,an.
Ianeous pharmacy blasted vision given full
eyeslSat, aud the dead returned from the
9Chrnal w0rlH oipr