Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-01-27

there nre tens OF thousands of men aud wo
men who are nuisance to the world. aut
th5ir obtiteration from human society woult
be AN ivantage to ali that is good. The re
movdl OF these moral deficits would no
arouse IN us much OF a protest. But inso
briefly takes the best. The mountain o
ineoriacy stands in the way of the kingdom
OF God, and hundreds of thousands of mer
bur for that hindrance would step right into
the -anks OF the Lords host and march
hetvenward, each one taking regiment
with him. The mountain of inebriacy is not
an ordinary mountain, but II is armed II
Is line OF fortresses continually blazing
away Its destructive forces upon all our
neixhborho oods. towns and cities. their vol.
leys of death poured down upon the homes
and churches. Under III power more than
ioJ.0Oo men and women are in this country
every year imprisoned, and an army of 600 ;.
OO0 drunkards almost shake the earth
with their staggering tread. 1t causes Ia
this country 300 murders and 400 suicides a
year. This mountain of inebriacy has not
only assaulted ths land, but bombarded tho
shipping Of the sea, and some OF the most
I appalling shipwrecks on Atlantic and Pacific
coasts hsvs been the result. What sank the
steam'r RothSav Castle. on the way from
Liverpool TO Dublin, desi rowing 10J human
HVe-! drunken sea captain. What blew
up he Bon Sherroi on the Mississippi and
s'.nt $50 II horrible d ,ath? A drunken crew
. What drove on The breakers steamer
making its way from New YORK o Chariest On
ami sent whole families on tho way home
from summer watering pta ,ss to the merci-
less depths of the sea? drunken sea cap
tain. Gather up fron. the depths OF the
| rivers nnt lakes and ocrans the bones OF
tlose shipwre;lsd by intoxicated captains
and crews. aud you could build out of them
Il temple OF horrors, all the pillars and affairs
ani foors and ceilings fashioned OF human
skulls. l. it possible that such a mountain
OF lnebriacy can ever be made plain?
Yonder also Is the mountain of crime, with
Its strata of fraud an 1 malpractice and NAL
feasance and biackmai an l burglary aud
piracy aud smbezzisment an hbertinism
and theft, all its heights manned with the
desperadOes, the cutthroats. the pickpockets
| the tbtmbie rigyers, the corsairs, the wreck
1 ers, the bandits, the tricksters the foryers,
I the thugs. the garroters, the fire fiends, the
dynaniters, the shoplifters, the kleptom AMI
ace, the pyromaniacs. the dipsomaniars. the
/ snugglers. the kifinapsrs, the Jack Shep-
psrds, the Robert Maceires and the Macbeths
( nf villsiny. The crimes OF the word! Am
not right in calling them, when piled up
| together. a mountain? But we cannot bring
! ourselves to appreciate great heights except
/ by comparison. You think OF Mount Wash
ington as high, especially those of you who as
( cended as OF old. on mule hack, or more re-
Gently by rail train. to the TIP Top House.
Oh, no! that Is not high. For il is only
about 60O0 feet, whereas rising on this Vest
tern Hemisphere are OhimboraZ0, 81 900
( feet high, and Mount Sihama, 90 900 feet
/ high, and Mount Sarato. 2i.s0O feet high.
But that is not the highest mountain on the
: Western Hemisphere. The highest noun
tain Is the mountain of crime, an is it pos
/ sible that this mountain, before our Zerub-
babel, can ever be made plain?
/ There is also the mountain OF war. the
/ most volcanic of all mountains the Ve-u-
/ vius whi h. not content, like the Vesuvius of
Italy, with overwhelming two cities, Hercu-
: laneum ani Pompeii has covered with its
3 Anr nn nd nf oft
/ like TO whelm all the cities OF both hemis-
phi res. Give this mountain full utterance,
and 1t would cover up Washington aud New
York and London rs easily rs a household
er. with his shovel at 10 o'clock at night,
/ banks CRATE fire with ashes. This noun
| tain is a pile of fortresses. barricades and
! armories. the worlds artillery heaped, wheels
/ above whee!s, columbia1s above columbiads,
sevsnty-four Founders above seventy-four
/ FOUNDERS wrecked Nations above wrecked
! Nations.
This mountain of war is not only loaded
! to cannonade the earth, but it is also a ceme-
terry. holding the corpses of 81. .0o0, ,00) slain
/ In the wars of Alexander and Cyrus, 60, 600, :
600 slain in Roman wars, lS0, ,000, 900 slain in
war with Turks and Saracens and holding
about 81, GOO OO0, 900 corpses, not million, but
billion which was the estimate made by Ed
mund Burke more than 100 years ago of those
who had been destroyed ~ war, SO that you
would have to add more millions now.
lWonty years ago u CareiUi author eStlludtel
that about fourteen times the then popu-
lation of the world had gone down In battle
OF In hospital utter battle. All, this noun
tain OF war is not like an ordinary mountain,
II Is like Kilauea one of the Sandwich ISL
ands, which holds the greatest volcano in all
the earth, and concerning which | wrote
from the Sandwich Islands a few years ago:
"What a Kissing, believing, ,tumbling soar
ing force Is Kilaueal Lake OF unquenchabe
fre; convolutiOns and paroxysms of flame;
elements Of nature in torture; torridity aud
luridtty; congregation Of dreads; molten
horrors; sulphurous Rbysms; swirling mys-
terry OF all time; infinite turbulence; chimney
of perdition; wallowinS terrors; fifteen acres
of threats; glooms insufferabls and Dant-
esque: caldron stirred by the champion witch
Of pandemontum; campfire of the armies Of
Diabolus; wrath of the mountains in full
bloom; shimmering incandescence; pyrotech-
mics of the planet; furnace blast of the yes;
Kilauea" 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 uutit-but dare not hazard a proph-
ecy. Cin 1t be that Its fires will ever be put
out? Can it be that its roar will ever be si-
leucedi Can it be that before our Zerubba-
bel that blazing mountain will ever bsco ns
a pain?
There is also the long range of mountains,
longer than Appalachian range. longer than
I Caucasian range, longer tnan Sierra Nevada
rang II pile up opposition of bai literl-
fUr-, bad homFs bad institutions. bad anuse-
ments, bad centuries, bad reiigions-Pagan-
ism, Hintooism. Buddhism, Mphammeian-
ism and buttressed and enthronei golless-
ness devoted TO ambition an | lust AMI hydra
headed, argus eye 4 abomination. n it stands
with lifted fist an mocsing lips, challenging
Jeh ,vah uCcn the throne of the universe to
strike il Be dare. Oh, 1t - great mountain
as my tex, declares. There is no use iu deny
inO The nosr authertin az ltistisa ,Eaplara
ii. The signs OF the times prove it. All
Christian workers realize il. 1t is a noun
tain. 'The mountain can never be brought
down." says worldly speculation. "The
mountain can never be made a plain" says
a small faith in the churches. Well, let US
see. Let us look about for the implements
we can lay our hands op. Let US count the
number on our side who are willing to dig
with a shovel or bore Il tunnel or blast Il
iock. Let US see II there is any foreign help
that will come In to REINFORCE us. l do not
want to make myself absurd by attempt
ing an impossibility. II 1t is only one
spade at the foot of Mount Blanc, IL it is
only one arm, capable Of lifting but few
pounds, against a mountain that weighs
100 o % 900 tons, let US quit before We make
ourselves the travesty and caricaiure of the
universe. III We are TO undertake this job.
first Of all We must have a competent engi-
neer, one who knows all about excavations,
about embankments, about tunnels, about
mountains. l know engineers who have
carved up mountains, cut down mountains,
removed mountains. L will do nothing un-
less l know who ia to be our engineer.
! Zerubbabel led at the rebuilding of the an
| cient temple, and Matthew Henry, the great.
! est of commentators. declares that our
| Zerubbabel is the Lord Jesus Christ The
t Ze-ubbabel of my text was only type OF the
| glorious and omnipotent Jesus, ana as
! TOOK up into the face of this divine engineer
! and Sea it glow with all the splendors of the
! Godhead, and see that in His arm is the al
mightiness thai flung out all the worlds that
/ glitter in the midnight heavens and that TO
| lift the Himalayas would cost Him no more
| effort than for me to lift an ounce. my cour.
age begins to rally. AMI my faith begins to
J mount, and my enthusiasm is all afiame,
| and the words OF my text this moment just
! fit nv lima and eyDress the triumph of nv