Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-17
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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 Gomorrah" 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
EMMY to marry the very swine Of So
ciety II they be wealthy. The Bible all
aflame with denunoiation against an
impure life, but many Of the American
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-
pecting Of the country farmhouses, one
procuress confessing in the courts that
she had supplied the Internal market
with 100 victims In six months. Oh, for
500 newspapers in America to swing
open the door of this lazar house of So
cial corruptioni 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 a van Of popular indigna-
tion and drive them out of respectable
What prospect Of social
publication can there be as long as at
summer watering places it is usual to
see 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 tho
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 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
A. 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-
Gent l begin to look up. I listen for
artillery rumbling down the sapphire
boulevards of heaven. watch to see 1t
In the morning light there be not the
lash Of descending scimiters. Oh, fol-
Godl Does 1t not seem time for his APP
pearance7 Is 1t not time for all lands to
cry out, "Let God arise and let his en-
emies be scattered"
I got letter asking me If I did not
think that the earthquake in one of ou1
cities was the divine chastisement on
that city for its SINS That letter an
swered by saying that If all our Ameri'
Fan 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 500 feet below the surface. 1t is Of
the Lords mercies that we have moi
been consumed.
Not only are the affairs Of this world sc
h-twist, a-jangle and racked that there
seems need of the divine appearance,
but there is another reason. Have yor
not noticed that in the history Of thil
planet God turns q leaf about every
1900 years? God turned leaf, and THU
world was fitted for human residence
About 2, 900 more years passed along
and God turned another leaf, and il
was the deluge. About 2, 900 more year.
passed ON, and it was the Nativity. AL
most 2, 900 more years passed by, ant
he will probably soon turn another leaf
What it shall be cannot say. 1t ma.
be the demolition of all these monstros
tiles of turpitude and the establishment
of Righteousness in all the earth. HI
can do it, and he will do it. l am a
confident as if it were already accom-
plished. How easily he can do it III.
text suggests. 1t does not ask God tt
hurl grlst thunderbolt Of his power
but Just to rise from the throne OF
which he sits. Only that will be necea
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. 1t will be no sending dow
the sky of the white horse cavalry {
heaven or rumbling war chariots. H
will only rise. Now he is sitting in til
majesty and patience Of his reign. II
is from bis throne watching the muster
ing Of all the forces of blasphemy an
drunkenness and impurity and frau
and Sabbath breaking, and when the
have done their worst ard are MOI
surely organized he will bestir himse
and say: "My enemies have denied II
long enough and their cup of iniquity
full. I have given them all opportuni'
for repentance. This dispensation OF p