Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03

| turtles. And behind them stand all the
myrmidons of the neither world,
Satanic, Appollyonic and diabolic. It
| is beyond all human effort to over
throw this Bastille of decanters OF
capture this Gibraltar of rum Jugs,
And while / approve of all human
agencies of reform, would utterly de-
SPAR II we had nothing else. hut what
cheers me is that our best troops are
yet to come. Our best artillery is in
| reserve. Our best commander has not
vet fully taken the field. IF all hell is
on their side, all heaven is on our side.
Now, 'Let God arise, and let His enc
mics be scattered"
Then look at the impurities of these
great cities. Ever and anon there are
in the newspapers expositions of social
| life that make the story of Sodom
quite respectable; ''for such things"
Christ says, "were more tolerable for
Sodom and Gomorrah" than for the
| ChoraZins and Bethsaidas of greater
light. It is no unusual thing in our
cities to see men in high positions 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 denuncia-
| ton against an impure life, but many
! of the American ministry uttering not
| one pO1ntDlank word against this
iniquity, lest some old libertine throw
up his church pew. Machinery organ
lied in all the cities of the United
States and Canada by which to put
! yearly in the grinding mill of this
| iniquity thousands of the unsuspect-
ing of the country farmhouses, one
| procuress confessing in the courts that
she had supplied the Internal market
with $50 victims in six months. Oh, for
| 500 newspapers in America to swing
social corruption! Exposure must
| come before extirpation.
! While the city van carries the scum
| Of this sin from the prison to the
police court morning by morning, it
I is full time, if we do not want high
| American life to become like that of
| the court of Louis XIV, to put million
aire Lotharios and the Pompadours
| of your brown-stoned palaces into a
van Of popular indignation and drive
| them out of respectable association.
| What prospect of social publication
can there be as long as at summer
watering places it is usual to see
| young woman of excellent rearing
stand and shipper and giggle and roll
up her eyes sideways before one of
those first-class satyrs Of fashionable
ho11
him in the dance, the maternal chap
eron meanwhile beaming from the
window on the scene? Matches are
made in Heaven, they say. Not such
matches; for the birthstone indicates
the opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing all our
cities. By some these immoralities
are called peccadilloes, 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 making
a mighty assault on this evil! God
forward the tracts on this subject dis
tributed by the religious tract socie-
ties of the land! God help parents in
the great work they are doing, in try
ing to start their children with pure
principles! God help all legislators in
their attempt to prohibit this crime!
Not only are the affairs of this world
SO a-twist, a-jangle and racked that
there seems need of the Divine ap-
| pearance, but there is another reason.
Have you not noticed that in the his
tory of this planet God turns a leaf
about every 1000 years? God turned
leaf, and this world was fitted for
human residence. About 1000 more
years passed along and God turned
another leaf, and it was the deluge.
About 1000 more years passed on and
it was the nativity. Almost 1000 more
years have passed by, and He will
probably soon turn another leaf.
What it will be I cannot say. It may
be the. demolition of all these mon
strosities of turpitude, and the estab-
lishment of righteousness in all the
earth. He can do it, and He will do it.
I am as confident as if it were already
accomplished. How easily He can do
it my text suggests. It does not ask
God to hurl great thunderbolt of His
power, but just to rise from the
throne on which He sits. Only that
will be necessary. "Let God arise!"
It will be no exertion of omnipo-
tence. It will be no blending or brac-
ing for 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. He is from His
throne watching the mastering of all
, the forces of blasphemy and drunk
, enness and impurity and fraud and
Sabbath breaking, and when they
have done their worst and are surely
organized He will bestir himself and
say: "My enemies have denied Me long
enough, and their cup of iniquity is
full. I have given them all opportu-
nifty for repentance. This dispersal
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