The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-09-24

this iniquity thousands Of the unsus-
pscting OF the country tarm houses
one pfocuree eonfessing in the courts
hat she had supplied the inferAal
market with $50 victims In six monthk
q. for 500 newspapers in America to
swing open the door OF this lazRr
house Of social corruptionl Exposure
must come before exurpation.
When the city van carries the scum
OF this sin from the prison 10 the po-
lice court morning By morning, IL Is
full time, II we do not want high
American life 10 become like that Of
the court of Louis Nv. 10 put mill
lionAire lothArios and the pompa-
dours OF your brown-stone palaces
into a van of popular indignation, and
drive them out Of respectable asso-
Citations What prospect Of social
publication can there be, A. long as
at summer watering places II is usual
to see . young woman Of excellent
raising stand and simper aud giggle
and roll up her eyes sideways before
one OF those irst-class satyrs OF FASH
ionAhle life, and on the ball room
ioor join him In the dance, the ma
ternal chAperon meanwhile beam
Ing from the window on the scenef
Matches were made In Heaven, they
say. Not such matches; for the brim-
stone indicates the opposite region
The evil Is overshsdowing 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, a.
Il l. eaiied-an organization for max
ing . mighty assault on this evil
God forward the tracts on this subject
distributed by the religious tract So
cieties Of the landl God help parents
in the great work they are doing, In
trying TO start their children with
pure principlesi God help all legisls-
tors in their attempt TO prohibit this
orimel
But is this all2 Then II is only q
question of time when the laat vsstige
Of purity and home will vanish out OF
sight Human arms, human pens,
human voices. human talents are not
sufficient begin to look up l listen
for artillery rumbling down the sap
phire b~oulevards of Heaven. l watch
to see II in the morning light there be
not the fash Of descending scimitars
oh, for Godl Does 1t not seem time
for His a~ppearanceS 1t is not time for
all lands to cry out: "Let God arise,
and let His enemies be scatteredS"
l got q letter asking me II / 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 II 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.
II will be no exertion OF omnipo-
tence. II will be no bending or brac-
ing for q mighty lift 1t will be no
sending down the sky Of the white
horse cavalry Of Heaven or rumblIng
war chariots. He will only rise. Now
He Is sitting In the majesty and pa
thence Of His reign. de IL from His
throne watching the mastering Of all
the forces OF blasphemy and drunken
ness and impurity and fraud and Sab
bath-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 / 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 rist, 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 traficked 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 ra5ble 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.
The last thorn plucked of. the world
will be left a blooming rose on the
bosom Of that Christ who came TO gar
denize it The earth that stood snarl.
ing with its tigerish passion, thrustinR
out its raging claws, shall lie down q
lamb at the feet Of the Lamb of God
who took away the sins Of the world.
And now the best thing l can wish
Tor you, and the best thing l can wish
for myself, is. that we may be found
His warm and undisguised and enthu.
siastic friends In that hour when God
shall rise and his enemies shall be
scattered.