The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-01-21

I tnat dare the hghtntngs OF heaven. Before
Zeruobabel, n It ever become u plain2
Another mountain OF hindrance is that OF
positive and outspoken immorals. There Is
the mountain OF inebriacy. 1t Is pile I with
kegs and demijohns and decanters and Hugs
heads, on which sit the victims Of that traf-
nc whose one business Is to rob earth aud
heaven OF the most generous and large
hearted and splendid OF the human race. II
their business was to take only the mean aud
stingy and c~ontemptlble and useless, we
would not say much against the work, for
there are tens OF thousands OF men and wo-
men who are a nuisance to the world. aud
their obltteration from human society would
be an advantage to all that is good. The re-
moval OF these moral deficits would not
arouse In us much OF n protest. But inso-
briefly takes the best, The mountain of
inebriacy stands in the way of the kingdom
OF God, and hundreds of thousands Of men
but for that hindrauce would step right INTO
the ranks OF tho Lords host and march
heavenward. each ono taking n regiment
with him. The mountain OF ineoriacy IL not
an ordinary mountain, but 1t is armed. Ii
Is I line OF fortresses continually blazing
away its destruct,v We forces upon all our
neighborhoods towns and cities. their VOL
leys OF death poured down upon the homes
anu churches. Under this power mora than
ioO,00D men and women are in this country
every year Imprisoned, and an army of 6OD,-
700 drunkards almost shake tho earth
with their staggering tread. 1t causes in
this country 300 murders AMI 400 suicides a
year. This mountain OF inebr!ucy has not
only assaulted the land, but bombardei tho
shipping OF tho sen, and some OF the most
appalling shipwrecks on Atlantic AMI Pacific
coasts have been the result. What sank the
steamer Rothsay Castle, on tho way from
Liverpool to Dublin. destroying l0J human
lives! A drunken sea captain. What blew
up the Bon Sherrod on tho Mississippi and
sent 100 to horrible Il ath? A drunken crew.
what drove on tho breakers a steamer
making its way from New YorS to Charleston
and sent whole families on tho way homo
from summer watering places to this merci-
less depths OF tho sen? A drunken sea cap
tain. Gather up frorG the depths OF the
rivers aud lakes and oceans tho bones oil
those shtpwrecSed by Intoxicated captains
and crews. aud you could build out of Thorn
a temple OF horrors, all the pillars aud affairs
and floors and ceilings fashioned OF human
sSulls. Is 1t possible that such u mountain
OF lnebriacy can ever be made n plain?
Ionder also Is tho mountain OF crime, with
its strata OF fraud an malpractics and NAL
irasance and blackmail AMI burglary and
piracy and embszzlement an libertinism
and theft, all its heights manned with the
desperadoes, the cutthroats, the pickpockcts.
the thimble rig ,ers, tho corsairs, tho wreck
ers, tho bandits, tho tricksters, the %forsers,
the thugs. the garroters, tho fro tlends, the
d~ynaniters, the shoplifters, the %kleptomani-
acs, the pyromaniacs, tho dipsomaniars, tho
smugglers, the kilnapers, tho Jack Shep-
pards, the Robert Macaires and the M,cbeths
OF vlllainv. The crimes of the world Am
l not right in calling them. when piled up
together, n mountain? But wa canuot brin..
ourselves to appreciate great heights EXCEPT
by comparison. You think OF Mount WASH
ington us high, especially those Of you who rs.
cended rs OF OLD. on mule back, or moro re-
Gently by rail train, to tho Tip Top House.
On, no! that is not high. For it L. only
about 5000 feet, whereas rising on this West
tern Hemisphere are Chimboraz0, q. 900
feet high, aud Mount Sahama, 90, 900 feet
high, and Mount Sarato. 1900 feet high.
But that Is not the highest mountain on tho
Western Hemisphere. Tho highest noun
tain Is tho mountain of crime, an is it pos
sible that this mountain, before our Z,ru5-
babel, can ever be made u plain?
There is also tho mountain OF war. the
most volcanic OF all mountains-tho We.
vius Will b, not content, like the Vesuvius OF
Italy, with overwhelming two cities, Hercu- |
laneum and PomDeii, has covered with its |
fiery scoria thousands OF cities, and would
like to whelm all the cities of both hemls- |
pm res. Give this mountain full utterance, |
anatt would covir up Washington aud New
- u IJOnuDu rs easily rs u nOl9plOlu- |
er, with his shovel at 10 o'clock ut night.
banks a Crate fire with ashes. This noun,
tnin Is q pile OF fOrtresles. barbados and
armories, the worlds artillery heaped, wheels |
above wilees columbia Is above columbiads. |
Founders above seventy-four
FOUNDERS, wrecked Nations above wrecked
Nations.
This mountain Of war il not only loaded
to canuonade the earth. but 1t Is also n come
hnl Iinp tha pnrAun al y 4 nln m 4 al.E-
in tho wars of Alexander and Cyrus, 60. OOo.-
OoO slam in Roman wars, 49, 900, 900 slain in
war with Turks and Siracens AMI holdiny
ABOUT $4,000 ,OOO, 900 corpsrs, not million, hut
billion. which was the estimate made by Ell
Burke mOrethau 100 years ago of thos.
who had been destroyed by war, 50 that YOU
would have to add moro millions now.
twenty years ago u careful author estimated
mat about fourteen times tho then popu-
OF the world had gone down in battle
or in hospital after battle. All. this noun
tain or war is not like an ordinary mountain
Ii Is like Kilauea, one of the Sandwich ISL
nnds, which holds he greatest volcano in all
The earth, and concerning which | wrote
from the sandwich Islands u few years ago.
"What Il Kissing, believing. tumbling. soar
force Is Kilauea! Lake OF unQuenchablo
IRE; convolutions and paroxysmS Of flame:
elements OF nature in torture; torridity md
uritily; congregation Of drelds: molten
sulphurous abysms; swirIing mvs- ,
cry of MI time; infinite turbulence; chimney
Of perdition: wullowin !; ~trrrors: M zen acres
VI threats; glooms insult 'rable and Dant- I
caldron stirre by The champion witch ,
II pandemonium; campfire Of the armies OF !
)iabolus; wrath of tho mountains in full ,
,loom; shimnering incandnscence: pyrotech- l
OF tho planet; furnace blast of the a ,es;
But. my friends. mightier, high .
II, vaster, hotter, moro raging. is the V, lclnic
OF war. 1t h1s been blazing for
hundreds OF years and will keep on blazing
Until, until-but l dare not hazard a proph-
cy. Can 1t he that its fires will ever be nut
utP Can 1t be that its roar will ever be ST.
nnced3 Can it be that before our Xprubba-
el that blazing mOultain will ever become \
plain?
There is also the long range of mountains,
than Appalachian range longer than ,
range, longer tnau Sierra Nevada 4,
angr-tne piled up opposition OF bad literl- "
ure, bad homes, bad institutions. bad amuse. ~
lents. bad centuries, bad rcligious-Payau- :,
'm, HinioOism, Buddhism. MOhammedau- =,
i'm and buttressel and enthronei goddess -
ess, devoted to ambition and lust and hydra :,
eaded. argus eyed abomination, II, it stands :,