Connecticut western news., 1900-02-15

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 til it glows like the rising sun, when
 it ought To be made loathsome as a
 smallpox hospital. There are today
 influences abroad which, if unresisted
 by the pulpit and the printing press. | will turn our modern cities Into So
 doms and Gomorrahs, lit only for the
 storm of tire and birthstone that 1 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 l 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 l 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 a
 thousand lords sat. You know all about | Belshazzar's carousal, where the blood
 of the murdered king spurted into the | faces of the banqueters. You may | know of the scene of riot and wassail | where there was set before Esopus | one dish of food that cost S400, ,000 But | l speak now of different banqueting l hail. It's roof is fretted with fire. It's
 floor is tessellated with fire. Its | chalices are chased with fire. Its song | is song of fire. Its walls are but | tresses of fire. Solomon refers to it | when he says, Her guests are in the depths of he'll"
 l Free Love Blight.
 Our American communities are suf-
 fering from the gospel of free lovism. | which. 30 years ago, was preached on ! the platform and in some of the churches of this country. l charge | upon free lovism that it has blighted
 innumerable homes and that it has sent innumerable souls to ruin. Free
 lovism is bestial It Is worse-it is | internal. It has furnished this land
 with many thousands of divorces an nually. In one county in the state of | Indiana it furnished II divorces in one | day before dinner. It has reused up | elopements north, south, east and west. | You can hardly take up paper but ! you read of an elopement. As far as
 1 can understand the doctrine of free ! lovism it is this: That every man ought to have somebody elses wife | and every wife somebody elses hus- band. They do not like our Christian | organization of society, and 1 wish | they would all elope, the wretches of one sex taking the wretches of the | of cto rf mo for | the great Sahara desert until the si-
 moom shall sweep seven feet of sand
 all over them and not one passing cara van for the next 800 years bring back | one miserable bone of their carcasses! | Free lovism, It is the double distill- | ed extract of nux vomica, ratsbane and adder's tongue. Never until society | goes back to the old Bible and hears | its eulogy of purity and its anathema | of uncleanness-never until then will | this evil be extirpated.
 Behold also in this giant of the text and in the giant of our own century that great physical power must crum- | ble and expire. The Samson of the | text long ago went away. He fought I the lion; he fought the Philistines; he ! could fight anything, but death was too much for him; he may have requir-
 ed a longer grave and a broader grave, I but the tomb nevertheless was his ter | uinus.
 If, then, we are to be compelled to l! go out of this world, where are we to 1 go to? This body and soul must soon | part. What shall be the destiny of the | former I know-dust to dust. But what ! shall be the destiny of the latter? Shall l it rise into the companionship of the | white robed, whose sins Christ has slain or will it go down among the un- | believing. who tried to gain the world and save their souls, but were swim | dled out of both? Blessed be Godl | We have Champion! He Is so styled | in the Bible: A Champion who has con- | quered death and he'll and he Is ready | to fight all our battles from the first to | the last Who is this that cometh up | from Edom with dyed garments from
 Bozrah, mighty to saye?" If we fol low in the wake of that Champion, | death has no power and the grave no ] victory. The worst man trusting in | him shall have his dying bangs ale Nldleu dllu HIS luluTe llluI1lueu.
 | Must Answer In Judgment.
 In the light of this subject I want to call your attention to a fact which may not have been rightly considered, and | that is the fact that we must be brought into judgment for the employ ment of our physical organism. Shoul- | der, brain, hand, foot-we must answer | in judgment for the use we have made | of them. Have they been used for the | elevation of society or for its depres- sion? In proportion as our arm is | strong and our step elastic will our ac- count at last be intensified. Thou sands of sermons are preached to inva- | lids. I preach this sermon to stout men and healthful women. We must | give to God an account for the right | use of this physical organism. These I invalids have comparatively little to l account for perhaps. They could not lift 20 pounds. They could not walk | half a mile without sitting down to | rest. Yet how much many of them ac- | complish! Rising up In judgment. | standing beside the men and women | who had only little physical energy and yet consumed that energy In a | conflagration of religious enthusiasm, | how will we feel abashed! O men of | the strong arm and the stout heart,
 what use are you making of your phys | ical forces? Will you be able to stand | the test of that day when we must an | swer for the use of every talent, wheth-
 CT it were physical energy or men,
 tai acumen or spiritual power?
 The day approaches, and I see one | who in this world was an invalid, and | as she stands before the throne of God to answer she says: II was sick all my days. I had but very little strength, | but I did as we'll as I could in being