Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-29

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Nom quite respectable; "fcr such
things" Christ says, s'were more toll
| cradle for Sodom and Gomorrah" than
| for the Chorazins and Bethsaidas of
| greater light 1t is no unusual thing
| in our/cities to see men in high posi-
/, tons with two or three families, or
refined ladies willing solemnly to
/ marry the very swine of society, if
they be wealthy. The Bible all afame
| with denunciation against an impure
/ life, but many of the American minis
| try uttering not one point-blank word
against this inquiry lest some old lib
ertine throw up his church pew. Ma
chinery organized in all the cities of
the United States and Canada by which
to put yearly in the grinding mill of
J this iniquity thousands of the unSus-
pecting of the country farm houses,
one procuree confessing in the courts
that she had supplied the Internal
market with 150 victims in six months.
| o. for 500 newspapers in America to
swing open the door of this lazar
house of social corruption! Exposure
| must come before extirpation.
When the city van carries the scum
| of this sin from the prison to the po-
lice court morning by morning. it is
full time, if we do not want high
| American life to become like that of
the court of Louis XIV, to put mill
| lionaire lotharios and the pompa-
| dours of your brown-stone palaces
| int van of popular Indignation, and
drive them out of respectable asso-
Citations. What prospect of social
publication can there be, as long as
| at summer watering places it is usual
| to see a young woman of excellent
| raising stand and shipper and giggle
| and roll up her eyes sideways before
| one of those first-class satyrs of fash
| ionable life, and on the ball room
floor join him in the dance, the ma
| ternal chaperon meanwhile beam
| ing from the window on the scene?
Matches were made in Heaven, they
say. Not such matches; for the brim-
| stone indicates the opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing all our
| cities By some these immoralities
| are called peccadillos, gallantries, &C.
centricities, and are relegated to the
| realms of POPULARITY. and few efforts
are being made against them. God
bless the white Cross" movement, as
| it is called-an organization for max
ing a mighty assault on this evil!
| God forward the tracts on this su bject
| distributed by the religious tract So
| cieties of the land! God help parents
in the great work they are doing, in
| trying to start their children with
| pure principles! God help all legisla-
| tors in their attempt to prohibit this
| crimei
| But is this all? Then it is only
question of time when the last vestige
of purity and home will vanish out of
sight Human arms, human pens.
human voices, human talents are not
| sufficient L begin to look up. L listen
| for artillery rumbling down the sap
| phire boulevards of Heaven. watch
to see if in the morning light there be
| not the fash of descending scimitars.
| Oh, for Godi Does it not seem time
| for His appearance? It is not time for
all lands to cry out: Let God arise,
and let His enemies be scattered?"
got letter asking me if did not
| think that the earthquake in one of
our cities was the Divine chastisement
on that city for its sins That letter
answered by saying that if all our
American cities got all the punish
ment they deserve for their horrible
| impurities. the earth would long ago
have cracked, opening crevices trans
continental, and taking down all our
cities SO far under that the tip of our
| church spires would be 500 feet below
| the surface. 1t is the Lords mercies
that we have not been consumed.
| It will be no exertion of omnipo-
tence. It will be no bending or brac-
| ing for a mighty lift 1t will be no
sending down the sky of the white
horse cavalry of Heaven or Fumbling
war chariots. He will only rise. Now
He is sitting in the majesty aud pa
| thence of His reign. He is from His
| throne watching the mastering of all
the forces of blasphemy and drunken
ness and impurity and fraud and Sab
| ath-breaking, and when they have
done their worst and are most surely
organized He will bestir Himself and
say: My enemies have denied Me
| long enough, and their cup of iniquity
is full. 1 have given them all
opportunity for repentance. This
dispensation for patience is ended,
and the faith of the good shall be
tried no longer" And now God begins
to rise. and what mountains give way
| under his right foot know not; but,
standing in the full grandeur of his
| nature, he looks this way and that,
and how his enemies are scattered!
Blasphemers. white and dumb, reel
| down to their doom; and those who
| have trafficked in that which destroys
the bodies and souls of men and fam
lilies will fly with cut foot on the
down grade of broken decanter;
and the polluters of society,
that did their bad work with
large fortunes and high social sphere,
will overtake in their descent the de-
| graded rabb1e of underground city life.
as they tumble over the eternal preci-
| pices; and the world shall be left clear
| and clean for the friends of humanity
/ and the worshipers OF Almighty God.