Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-12

| Nlut Dy biGc III tllt JuttHlnGut hud iu'b-
ey bags and judicial crime aud royal
robe shall be rlven with the lightnings.
| Behold also how giant may be slain
| OF u woman. Delilah started the train
OF circumstances that pulled down the
temple of Dagon about Samson's ears.
And tens of thousands of giants have
gone down to death and hell through
the same fascinatons. 1t seems to me
! that IL Is high time that pulpit and
platform and printing press speak out
against the impurities of modern so
| ciety. Fastidiousness and prrdery say,
Better not speak; you will rouse up
adverse criticism; you will make worse
what you want to make better; better
deal in glttering generalities; the sub.
ject is too delicate for polite ears" But
| there comes q voice from heaven over
powering the mincing sentimentalities
Of the day, saying, "Cry aloud, spare
not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and show my people their trangres-
sions and the house of Jacob their
SINS"
The trouble Is that when people
write or speak upon this theme they
are apt to cover it up with the graces
of bellies lettres, so that the crime is
made attractive Instead Of repulsive.
Lord Byron, in Don Juan, adorns this
crime until it smiles like May queen.
Mlchelet, the great French writer, COW
ers it up with hewitching rhetoric un-
til 1t glows like the rising sun, when
1t ought to be made loathsome as q
smallpox hospital. There are today
influences abroad which, IL unreslsted
by the pulpit and the printing press,
will turn our modern cities into So.
doms and Gomorrahs, fit only for the
storm of fire and birthstone that
whelmed the cities of the plain.
You who are seated in your Chris
tian homes, compassed by moral and
religious restraints, do, not realize the
gulf Of iniquity that bounds you on the
north and the south and the east and
the west. While speak there are tens
Of thousands of men and women going
over the awful plunge of an impure
life, and while l cry to God for mercy
upon their souls call upon you to
marshal in the defense Of your homes
your church and your nation. There
is a banqueting hall that you have
never heard described. You know all
about the feast of Ahasuerus, where q
thousand lords sat. You know all about
Belshazzars carousal, where the blood
of the murdered king spurted into the
faces of the banqueters. You may
know of the scene of riot and wassai
where there was set before lEsopus
one dish of food that cost 100000. But
/ spea:: now OF a different banquetine
hall. Its roof Is fretted with fire. Its
floor is tessellnted with fire. Its
chalices are chased with fire. It's song
Is song Of fire. Its walls are but
tresses of fire. Solomon refers to II
when he says, "Her guests are in the
depths of hell"
Free Love Blight.
Our American communities are suf
fering from the gospel of free lovism
which, 30 years ago, was preached or
the platform and in some of the
churches of this country. l charge
upon free lovlsm that it has blighted
innumerable homes and that it has
sent innumerable souls to ruin. Free
lovism Is bestial. II Is worse--it IL
Internal! 1t has furnished this lane
J with many thousands Of divorces an
nually. In one county in the state o.
Indiana 1t furnished II divorces in one
day before dinner. 1t has reused VI
elopements north, south, east and west
You can hardly take up paper bu
you read Of an Selopement. AS far n.
can understand the doctrine of free
lovism it is this: That every mar
ought to have somebody elses wife
and every wife somebody elses hus
band. They do not like our Christian
organization Of society, and wish
they would all elope, the wretches oi
one sex taking the wretches of the
other, and start tomorrow morning fol
the great Sahara desert until the 81
moon shall sweep seven feet of sane
all over them and not one passing cara
van for tho next 800 years bring bach
Dnc miserable bone Of their carcasses
Free lovism! 1t is the double dIstill
ed extract of nux vomica, ratsbane arc
adder's tongue. Never until soclet,
} goes back to the old Bible and hear.
It's eulogy of purity and its anathema
Of uncleanness-never until then will
, this evil be ext!rpated. ''''''
Behold also In this giant OF the tex
J and In the giant of our own century
that great physical power must crum
! BILE and expire. The Samson OF the
, text long ago went away. He fought
the lion; he fought tho Phllistnes; ht
coulc fight anything, but death wa.
too much for him.. he may have requir
ed longer grave and a broader grave
but the tomb nevertheless was his ter
! minus.
If. then, we are. to be compelled tc
60 out Of this world, where are we ia
go to? This body and soul must soon
part. What shall be the destiny of the
former l know-diist to dust. But what
shall be the destiny Of the latter? Shall
1t rise into the companionship of the
white robed, whose sins Christ has
slain or Will 1t go down among the un'
believing, who tried to gain the world
and save their souls, but were swim
died out OF both?. Blessed be God
We have Z Champjou! He Is so styled
In the Bible: A Champion who has con
quered death and hell, and he is ready
, to fight all our battles from the first tc
the last. "Who is this that cometh VI
from Edom with dyed garments from
Bozrah, mighty to saye?" II we fol
low in the wake of that Champion
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