Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-09-19
fangs of this cobra t..-,l st.ngs to death
SO large ratio of the human race.
Satanic Sins.

| fangs Of this cobra t.4-,6 st.ngs to death
SO large a ratio of the human race.
Satanic Sips.
Others are ruined by the common and
i'll destructive habit of treating custom
ers. And it is a treat on their coming
to town, and a treat while the bargain
ing progresses, and treat when the
| purchase is made, and treat as he
leaves town. Others, to drown their
troubles, submerge themselves with this
worse trouble. Oh, the world is bat
tered and bruised and blasted with this
growing evil. It is more and more in
trenched and fortified. They have mil
lions of dollars subscribed to marshal
and advance the alcoholic forces. They
nominate and elect and govern the vast
! majority of the officeholders of this
country On their side they have en-
listed the mightiest political power OF
the centuries. And behind them stand
| all the myrmidons Of the neither world,
satanic, Apollyonic and diabolic. 1t is
| beyond all human effort to overthrow
this Bastile of decanters or capture this
! Gibraltar of rum jugs. And while I ap-
| prove of all human agencies of reform
/ would utterly despair if we had moth
! ing else. But what cheers me is that
| our best troops are yet to come. Our
chief artillery is in reserve Our great
est commander 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 scattered.
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 SodOm quite re-
spectacle, "for such things" Christ
says, "were more tolerable for SodOm
and Com Orrah' than for the Chorazins
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 sol
emily to marry the very swine of So
ciety if they be wealthy The Bible all
aflame 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 thousands of the unsus-
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
open the door of this lazar house Of So
cial corruption! Exposure must come
before eXtirpation.
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-
ton 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 q 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 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-
tricities, 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 call
ed-an organization making a 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.
As We Reap.
But is this all? Then it is only a |
question of time when the last vestige |
of purity and home will vanish out of |
sight. Human arms, human pens, hui
man voices human talents, are not suffi-
cient. I begin to look up. I listen for
artillery rumbling down the sapphire |
boulevards of heaven. I watch to see if |
in the morning light there be not the
flash of descending scimiters. Oh, for
God! Does it not seem time for his APP
pearance? Is it not time for all lands to
cry out, ''Let God arise and let his en-
emies be scattered?''
got letter asking me if 1 did not
think that the earthquake in one of our
cities was the divine chastisement on
that city for it's sins. That letter 7 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