St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22

don0 Of the neither world, Satanic, ,Apol-
loynic and Diabolic. II il beyond all
human effort to overthrow this Bastile
Of decanters or capture this Gibraltar
Of rum jugs. And while approvs cl
al human agencies of reform, would
utterly despair II we had nothing else.
but what cheers me i that our best
troops are yet to come. Our chief ar-
t:ilery in in reserve. Our greatest COM
mander has not yet fully taken the
field. II all hell is ON their side, al
!! Heaven is ON our side. Now "Lst God
arise, and let His enemies be scat
tered"
Then look ~ tie impurities Of these
!, great cities. Ever and anon there are
in the newspapers explosions Of social
life that make the story Of Sodom quite
respectable; "for such things" Christ
says, 'swere more tolcrab,e for Sodom
and Gomorrah" than for the Chora-
zins and Bethsaidas Of greater light
1t 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, il they are wealthy. The BIZ
ble all aaame with denunciation
against an impure Life, but many Of the
American ministry uttering mot one
point-blank word against this iniquity
lest some old libertine throw up his
church pew. Machinery organized in
all the cities Of the United States and
Canada by which to put yearly in the
grinding mill of this iniquity thou
sands of the unsuspecting Of the coun-
try farm houses, one procuyess confess
ing in the courts that she had sup
piled the internal market with $50 VIC
Tins in six months. Oh, for 500 news
papers in America to swing open the
door Of this lazar house o. social cor
ruption!, Exposure must come befors
extirpation.
While the city van carries the scum
of this sin from the prison to the po-
lice court morning by morning. it IL
full time, if we do not want high
American life to become like that Of
the court of Louis Xy., to put million
aire Lotharios and the Pompadours
of your brown-stone palaces into >
van of popular indignation. and drive
them out of respectable associations.
What prospect Of social publication
CAN there be, A. long a. at summer
watering places it il usual to zee .
young woman of excellent raising
stand and simper and giggle and roll
mp her eyes sideways before one OF
those first-class satyrs Of fashionable
life, and on the ball room floor join
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 opp0-
site region.
The evil is overshadowing all our
cities. BY some these immortalities
are called peccadillos. gallantries.
eccentricities, and are relagated to the
realms of jocularity, and few ehorts
are being made against them. God
bless the white Cross" movement, a.
it is called-an organization making .
mighty assault on this evil! God for
ward the tracts ON this subject dis
tributed 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 al legis-
lators in their attepmt to prohibit
this crime!
Not only ere the affairs Of this world
SO a-twist, a-jangle and racked, that
there seems a need of the Divine ap-
pearance, but there il another reason
Have you not noticed that in the his
tory Of this planet God turns . leaf
about every 1000 years? God turned
leaf, and this world was fitted for
human residence. About 1900 mor-
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 1900
more years passed by, and He will
probably soon turn another leaf. 1t.
may be the demolition OF all these
monstrosities Of turpitude. and the es-
tablishment Of righteousness in all the
earth. i am NJ confident ss II it were
already accomplished. How easily He
can do it, my text suggests. It does
not ask God to hurl = great thunder
bolt of His power, but just torise from
the throne on which He sits. Only
that will be necessary. Let God
arise!"
1t will be mo- exertion Of omnipo-
tence. 1t will be NO bending or bra
cling for . mighty lift. II win be no
sending down the sky Of the white
horse cavalry Of Heaven or rumbling
war chariots. He viii only rise. Now
He is setting In his majesty and pa
tience of His reign. He il from His
throne watching the mastering Of al
the forces Of blasph.my and drunken
ness, and impurity, snd fraud. and
Sabbath 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
10 full. / have given tAem al oppor-
tunity for repentance. This dispen-
sation Of patience il ended, and the
faith Of the God shall be tried no long
er." And now God begins 10 rise. and
what mountains 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 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 fami-
lies will fly with cut foot on the down
grade Of broken decanters; and the
polluters Of society, that did their bad
work with large fortunes and high %
cial sphere, will overtake In their de-
scent the degraded rabble Of UNDER
ground city life, NJ they tumble over
the eternal precipices; and the world
shall be left clear and clean for the
friends Of humanity and the worship-
ers Of Almighty God. The last thorn
plucked OF, the world win be left .
blooming rose on that bosom Of that
Christ who came to gardeni3e II. The
earth that stood snariing with ita
tigerish passion. thrusting ont its rag
ing claws, shall lie down at the feet Of
the Lamb Of God who took away the