Connecticut western news., 1898-09-22
The Social Sins.

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 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 tho birthstone indicates the opposite region.
 The evil is overshadowing all our cities. By some these immoralities are called peocadillos, gallantries, eooen tricities, and are relegated to the realms of jocularity, and few efforts are being made against them. God bless the "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 l with pure principles. God help all leg islators in their attempt to prohibit this crime.
 As Ye Reap.
 D-k .o 4k;, ol1o n,ho,, ;a o,,Ir 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 sufi- cient. I begin to look up. listen for artillery rumbling down the sapphire boulevards of heaven. I 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- pearanoei Is it not time for all lands to cry out, "Let God arise and let his en- emies be scattered?'
 I got a letter asking me if I did not think that the earthquake ill one of our cities was the divine ohastisement 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, and taken down all our cities so far under that the tip of our church spires would be 5O0 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 raoked that there seems need of the divine appearance, but there is another reason. Have you not noticed that in the history of this planet God turns a leaf about every 2,000 years? God turned leaf, and this world was fitted for human residence. About 3, 900 more years passed along, and God turned another leaf, and 1t was the deluge. About 3. 900 more years passed on, and it was the Nativity. AL most 3, 900 more years passed by, and he will probably soon turn another leaf. What it shall be I cannot say. It may be the demolition of all these monstros- ities of turpi tude and the esta ablishment of righteousness in all the earth. He can do it, and he will do it. I am as confident as if it were already accom- plished. 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 neces- sary. "Let God arise.'
 The Coming of God.
 It will be no exertion of omnipotence. It will be no bending or bracing for mighty lift It will be no sending down the sky of the white horse cavalry of heaven or rumbling war ohariots. 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 moun- tains give way under his right foot, know not, but, standing in the full radiance and grandeur of his nature, be looks this way and that, and how his enemies are scatteredl Blasphemers. white and dumb, reel down to their 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 blooming rose on the bosom of that Christ who came to gardenize it. 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 took away the sins of the world.
 And now the best thing I 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 VIII.
 The Dantzio Gazette says that it has seen Prince Bismarck s will. The late