Connecticut western news., 1898-09-15
The Social Sins.

While the city van carries the scum of this sin from the prison to the police 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 millionaire Lotharios and the Pompadours of your brownstone palaces into van of popular indigna- tion and drive them out of respectable associations. What prospect of social purifcation can there be as long as at summer watering places it Is usual to see a young woman of excellent rearing stand and simper and giggle and roll up her eyes sideways before one of those first class satyrs of fashionable life and on the ballroom floor join him in the dance, the maternal chaperon mean while 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 peccadillos, gallantries, eccen- trioities, and are relegated to the realms of jocularity, and few efforts are being
 
 "White Cross" movement, as 1t is call ed-an organization making mighty assault on this evil. God forward the tracts on this subject distributed by the religious tract societies 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 leg islators in their attempt to prohibit this crime. ...s
 As Ye Reap.
 But is this all? Then 1t is only a question of time when the last vestige of purity and home will vanish out of sight. Human arms, human pens, hu- man voices, human talents, are not suffi- cient. I begin to look up. l listen for artillery rumbling down the sapphire boulevards of heaven. watch to see if in the morning light there be not the Hash of descending scimiters. Oh, for Godl Does it not seem time for his ap-
 pearanoes Is 1t not time for all lands to cry out, "Let God arise and let his en- emies be scattered?" M# .a.
 got letter asking me if I did not think that the earthquake in one of our cities was the divine chastisement on that city for it's sins. That letter 1 an swered by saying that if all our Ameri- can cities got all the punishment they deserve for their horrible impurities the
 earth would long ago have cracked, opening crevices transcontinental,a and taken down all our cities so far under that the tip of our church spires would
 be 500 feet below the surface. It is of the Lords mercies that we have not been consumed.
 Not only are the affairs of this world so a-twist. a-jangle and racked that there seems a need of the divine appearance, but there Is another reason. Have you not noticed that iu the history of this
 planet God turns leaf about every 9, 900 years? God turned leaf, and this world was fitted for human residence. About 9, 900 more years passed along, and God turned another leaf, and it was the deluge. About 3, 900 more years
 passed on, and it was the Nativity. AL most 9, 900 more years passed. by, and
 be will probably soon turn another leaf.
 What it shall be cannot say. It may be the demolition of all these monstros ities of turpitude and the establishment of righteousness in all the earth. He can do it, and he will do it. I am as confident as if 1t were already accom- plished. How easily he can do 1t my text suggests. It does not ask God so hurl great thunderbolt of his power, but just to 4 se from the throne oa which he sits. Only that will be neoss- sary. "Let God arise !"
 The Coming of God.
 It will be no exertion of omnipotence.
 It will be no bending or bracing for Q mighty Int. It 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 patience of his reign. He is from his throne watching the muster ing of all the forces of blasphemy and drunkenness and impurity and fraud and Sabbath breaking, and when they have done their worst ard are most
 surely organized he will bestir himself
 and say: My enemies have denied me long enough and their cup of iniquity is full. l have given them all opportunity for repentance. This dispensation of pa tience is ended, and the faith of the | good shall be tried no longer" And now God begins to rise, and what noun
 tains give way under his right foot.
 know not, but, standing in the full | radiance and grandeur of his nature, he
 looks this way and that, and how his | enemies are scatteredl Blasphemers. white and dumb, reel down to their l doom, and those who have traffioked in that which destroys the bodies and souls of men and families will fly with cut | foot on the down grade of broken de-
 canters, and the polluters of society | that did their bad work with large for
 tunes and high social sphere will over- | take in their descent the degraded rab-
 ble of underground city life as they tumble over the eternal precipioes, 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 8 blooming rose on the bosom of
 that Christ who came to gardenize 1t. The earth that stood snarling with its
 tigerish passion, thrusting out its rag | ing claws. shall lie down lamb at the feet of the Lamb of God, who tookaway the sins of the world. rs... And now the best thing can wish for you and the best thing I can wish
 for myself is that we may be found his
 warm and undisguised and enthusiastic | friends In that hour when God shall rise and his enemies shall be scattered Prince Bismarck's wll.
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