Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-28

oil rum Jugs. Anu Whlle approve OF
all human agencies of reform, would
utterly despair if we had nothing else,
But what cheers me is that our best
troops are yet to come. Our chief ar
tillery is in reserve. Our greatest COM
mander has not yet fully taken the
field If all hell is on their side, all
Heaven is on our side. Now "Let God
arise, and let His enemies be scat
tered"
Then look at the impurities of these
great cities. Ever and anon there are
in the newspapers explosions of social
life that make the story of S'odom quite
respectable; "for such things Christ
says, "were more tolerable 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, if they are wealthy. The BIZ
BILE all ahame with .denunciation
against an impure life, but many of the
American ministry uttering not 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 procuress 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 before
extirpation.
While 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 million
aire Lotharios and the Pompadours
of your brown-stone palaces into a
van of popular indignation, and drive
them out of respectable associations.
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 fashionable
life, and on the ball room floor Join
him in the dance, the maternal chap
eron meanwhile beaming from the
window on he scene? Matches are made
in Heaven, they say. Not such matches;
for the birthstone indicates the oppo'
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 POPULARITY, and few efforts
are being made against them. God
bless the white Cross" movement, as
it is called-an organization making d
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 all legis
lators in their attepmt 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 ano ther reason
Have you not noticed that in the his
tory of this planet God turns n lcat
about every 1000 years? God turnet
leaf, and this world wos fitted foi
human residence. About 1000 NOR,
years passed along, and God turned
another leaf, and it was the Dcluge
About 1000 more years passed on, anC
it was the Nativity. Almost 2,O0t
more years passed by, and lie vii
probably soon turn another leaf. i
may be the demolition of all thes,
monstrosities of turpitude. and the es
tablishment of righteousness in all tn,
earth. ] am as confident os if it were
already accomplished. How easily ii,
can do it, my text suggests. 1t does
not ask God to hurl great thunder
bolt of His power, but just torise from
| the throne on which He sits. Onl,
that will be necessary. LET Goo
| arise!"
1t will be no eXertion of omnipo
tence. 1t will be no bending or bra
cling for mighty lift. II will he M
sending down the sky of the whit,
horse cavalry of Heaven or rumblins
war chariots. lie will only rise. Nov
He is setting in his majesty and pa
thence of His reign. lie is from Hi
throne watching the mastering of al
the forces Of blasphemy and drunken
ness, and impurity, and fraud, an,
Sabbath-breaking, and when they hav'
done their worst, and are most surel,
organized, He will bestir Himself an,
say: "My enemies have denied mi
long enough, and their cup of iniquit,
is full. / have given them all oppor
tunity for repentance. This dispen
sation of patience is ended, and TIL
faith of the God shall be tried no long
err" And now God begins to rise, ant
what mountains give way under Iii
right foot | know not; but, standin,
in the full radiance and grandeur o
His nature, He looks this way and that
and His enemies are scattered!
Blasphemers, white and dumb, rec
down to their doom; and those VIII
have trafiicked in that which destroy
the bodies and souls of men and fami
lies will fly with cut foot on the dow
grade of broken decanters; and tn
polluters of society, that did their ba
work with large fortunes and high SC
cial sphere, will oyertake in their de
scent the degraded rabble of under