The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-23

broshsrsT Yes. knsw them well Did
you know thsGv parentsr Yes: Intimate
" What Yas the city. what the street.
what the last names Of these young mSs
You have excited curiosity: nov tell us
all
Il viii. Nothing in these characters Is
fictitious, excep; the names They are
In every city, ard In every country. Not
two q them. but ten thousand. AZ. az
Right before me. and on each side OF me.
and above me. they sit and stand. the
che Invulnerable through religious de-
fense and the other blasted OF city al
lurments. these who shall have longeF-
.ty In beautiful homes, and others wh2
shali have early graves OF lnfaIny. Ana
] I'm here In the name OF Almighty God
% give you the choice of the two char
scters, the two histories, the two expert
enCes. the tvH destinies. the two worlds.
the two etetrties. Standing with you az
the forks Of the road something makes
ne think that II to-day ! set before the
people the teTmini of the two roads, they
viii all Of them take the right one
Dishesarable surrender.
There are many who nave not fully
made up their minds which road to take.
Come with u.s. cry all the voices OF
righteousness. Core With US" cry all
the voices OF sin. Now, the trouble is
that many make disgraceful surrender.
Glgnihed surrender. as when a small host
yields TO superior numbers. II Is no h.
initiation for a thousand men 10 yield 70
ten thousand IL is better than 10 keep
on when there can be no result except
that OF massacre But those who sur
render to sir make a surrender when on
their side they have enough reserve forces
20 rout all the armies OF perdition, wheth-
"a -. b.
Bellal CT Beelzebub OF Apollyon or Abad-
don or Ariel. Some OF you can remem-
Der how we talked about the abdication
OF Alexander OF Bulgaria, but what q
paltry throne was that from which the
unhappy King descended, compared with
the abdication OF that young man. or
middle-aged man. or old man. who quits
the throne of his opportunity and turns
his back upon a heavenly throne, and
tramps off into ignominy and everlasting
exile, That IS an abdication enough 10
shake a universe. In Persia they VIII
Lot nave a blind man on the throne. and
when reigning monarch Is jealous OF
some ambitious relative. he has his eyes
extinguished SO that he cannot possibly
ever come 10 browning And that sug-
gests the difference between the way sin
and Divine grace takes hold OF man.
The former blinds him so he may never
the blind that he may take coronation.
why this sermon? / have made up my
mind that city life is destroying too many
young men. There comes In every autumn
a large influx OF those between sixteen
and tWenty-fOur years of age, and thou
sands of them are destroyed every year.
They are shoveled off and down. with no
more conjunction than that with which
a coal HEAVIER scoops the anthracite into
a dark cellar What with the wine cup
nd h. cor.
enchantress, no young man without tbs
grace of God is safe ten minutes. There
is much discussion about which is the
worst city of the continent. Some say
New York, some say New Orleans, some
say Chicago, some say 81. Louis. What l
have to say is, you cannot make much
comparison between the infinities, and in
all our cities the temptation seems inf
mite. We keep d great many mills running
day and night. Not rice mills or cotton
mills for grinding up men. Such are all
the grog shops. licensed and unlicensed
Such are all the gambling saloons Such
are all the houses of infamy.
Grinding Up Hearts.
"And we do the work according to law
and we turn out a new grist every year,
and grind up warm hearts and clear
heads, and the earth about a cider mill
is not more saturated with the beverage
than the ground about these mind-de-
stroying institutions is saturated with the
blood of victims.
I'VE say TO the Northern neighborhoods.
Send US more supply and to Southern
and Western neighboFhoods. Send Us
more men and women to put under the
wheels. Give Us full chance, and We could
grind UP in the municipal mill 800 day.
We have enough machinery; We have
enough men who can run them. Give US
more homes 10 crush; give US more pa
rental hearts to pulverize; put into the
hopper the wardrobes and the family BIZ
bles, and the livelihoods of wives and
children. Give us more material for these
mighty mills, which are wet with tears
and suiphurOus with woe, and trembling
with the earthquakes of an ineensed God,
who will, unless our cities repent, cover
US up as quick and as deep as in August
of the year 70 Vesuyius avalanched Her.
culaneum.
''Oh, man and woman, ponder the path
of thy feet, See which way you are going
Will you have the destiny of Edward or
Nicholas? On this sacramento day, when
the Furnished chaliees stand in the pres
enee OF the people, start from the foot Of
the cross for usefulness and heaven. Plu-
tarch tells US that after Caesar was slain
and his tWenty-three wounds had been
displayed TO the people, arousing an un-
comfortable excitement, and the body of
the dead cOnqueror, according to ancient
custom, had been put upon the funeral
pile and the flames arose, people rushed
up, took from the blazing mass torches
with which they ran through the city,
proclaiming the glory OF the assassinated
ruler and the shame of his assassinators.
On this sacramento day, when the five
bleeding wounds of Christ your King
are shown TO you and the fires OF His
earthly suffering blaze before your imagi-
nation, each one of you take a torch and
start heavenward-a torch with light for
yourself and light for others; for the
race that starts at the cross ends at the
throne. While the twenty-three wounds
OF Caesar wrought nothing but the con-
sternatiOn OF the people from the five
wounds of our conqueror flows a trans
forming power to make all the uncounted
millions who will accept ii forever happy
and forever free"