Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-09-23
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beyond all human effort to overthrow
this Bastle Of decanters or capture this
Gibraltar OF rum jugs. And while 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 foT 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.
emnly to marry the very swine Of So
ciety if they be wealthy. The Bible all
afiame 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-
pecting Of the country tarmhouses, one
procuress confessing in the courts that
she had supplied the Internal market
with 80 victims in six months Oh, for
500 newspapers in America 10 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 a van of popular indigna-
tion and drive them out Of respectable
associations What prospect Of social
purihcation can there be as long as at
summer watering places it IS usual 10
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 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 jocularity, 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.L God forward the
tracts on this subject distributed by the
religious tract societies ot 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 Ye 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, hu-
man voices, human talents, are not suffi-
cient begin to look up. listen for
artillery rumbling down the sapphire
bouleyards Of heaven. | watch TO see II
in the morning light there be not the
dash of descending scimiters. Oh, for
Godl Does it not seem time for his ap-
pearance! l. it not time for all lands 10
cry out, LET God arise and let his en-
emies be scattered"
/ got letter asking me if | did not
think that the earthquake in one ofour
cities was the divine chastisement on
that city for its sins. That letter l 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 creyices tSanscontinental, ard
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 not
been consumed.
Not only are the affairs of this world so
a-twist, a-jangle and racked that there
seems a need of the divine appearance,
but there is another reason. Have you
not noticed that in the history Of this
planet God turns leaf about every
1000 years? God turned leaf, and this
world was fitted for human residence.
About ., 900 more years passed along,
and God turned another leaf, and it
was the deluge. About ,. 900 more years
passed on, and it was the Nativity. Al
most ., 600 more years passed by, and
he will probably soon turn another leaf.
What it shall be l cannot say IL may
be the demolition of all these monstros-
tiles Of turpitude and the establishment
of Righteousness in all the earth. lie
can do it, and he will do il. l am as
confident as if il 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.
Il will be 10 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 chariots. 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 impuritv aud fraud
aud Sabbath breaking, ~ when they
have done their worst and are most
surely organized he will bestir himself