Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-15

trumpet and show my people their trans-
gressions 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
lettrcs, so that the crime is made attract
i've instead of rcpusive. Lord Byron in
"Don Juan" adorns THIS crime until it
smiles like May queen. NLchelet, the
great French writer covers u mp with
bewitching rhetoric until it glows like the
rising sun, when it ought to be made
loathsome as a smallpox hospital. There
are today influences abroad which II I'M
resisted by tho pulpit and the printing
press will turn our modern cities into
Sodoms and Gomorrahs, fit only for the
storm of fire and birthstone that whelmed
the cities OF the plain.
You who are seated in your Christian
homes, comprised by moral and religious
restraints, do not realize the gulf of in
iquity that bounds you on the north and
the south and the east and the west
While | speak there are tens of thou
sands of men and women going over the
awful plunge of an impure life and while
| cry to God for mercy upon their souls
! cry to you to marshal in the defense of
your homes, your church and your ma
ton. There is banQueting hall that you
have never heard described. You know
all about the feast of Ahasuerus, where
1000 lords sat. You know all about Bel
shazzar's carousaI, where the blood of the
murdered king spulted into the faces OF
the banquetcrs. You may know of the
scene of riot and wassail where there
was set before .4Gsopus one dish Of food
that cost 100000 But | speak now OF
different hanQueting hall. Its roof is
frcttcd with fire. Its floor is tessellated
with fire. Its chalices are chased with
fire. Its song is Il song of fire. Its walls
are buttrcsses of fire. Solomon refers to
it when he says, Her guests are in the
depths of hell"
InnumerabIe Homes Blighted.
Our American communities are suffer
ing from the gospel of free lovism which
30 years ago was preached on the plat
form and in some of the churches OF this
country. | charge upon free lovism that
it has blightcd innumerable homes and
that it has sent innumerable souls to ruin
Free lovism is bestial; it is worsc-it is
Internal, 1t has furnished this land with
many thousands Of divorces annually. In
one county in the state Of Indiana it fur
nishcd II divorces in one day before din
ner. 1t has reused up Opponents north,
oo"'"' vas. n , "'''. -, atH.,t
A. o ,,naors.o,,d tho doo,r;,,o
of free lovisnl, it is this-that every man
ought to have somebody ese's wife and
every wife somebody else's husband.
They do not like our Christian organza-
tion Of society. and wish they would all
elope. the wretches Of one sex taking the
wretchcs Of the other. and start tomorrow
morning for the great Sahara desert up-
fill the simeon shall sweep seven feet OF
sand all over them and not one passing
caravan for the next 800 wears bring
back one miserable bone of their car
casses, Free lovism. 1t is the double
distilled extract of nux vomica. rats.
bane and adders tongue Never until
society goes back to the old Bible and
hears IFS eulory OF purity and its nnath-
ema 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 mower must crumble and
exnire The Samson of the text long ago
went away. He fought the lion. He
fought the Philistines. He could fight
ANYTHING but death WINS foo much for
hin, Tie may bove reouired n longer
grave and y broader grave but the tomb
nevertheless wos his terminus.
mad, Con,
H. theH' we are 10 oe coripeiieu W ~
out Vi ',i's "u''u' where are we " s1 ~
Inns pou! anu soui mus. sum p"it' nat
shali ne 'ne ues'iiiS VI NV i'i ,'Vt NnV"
I"us' u uus'' nut WA Hnn' W 'ne
uestln! Vi '!ie '".'er Tnail i'Se il'o
the coinpulilohship VI ,lie ""''e ioocu'
WHose SINS On''S' mas sam VI WI II so
uoWh among the uipe''eN'nR' VINO 'riec
10 gam the "orlu ana save 'neir SOUS,
out were sWihuled OUT OF ootn b'eSseu
De COO we nave chaihpioh' ne Is So
styled III the bibie' a. champion VINO mas
conquered death ana heil. ana ne Is ready
TO hght all our battles, from tue nrst 10
the last WI no is TINS that cometh up
from Edom with uyeu garments from
Bozrah, mighty to saveF III we toiow
III the wake OF that Champion death mas
no power and the grave no victory Inc
worst man trusting IN nm ShaIi nave ms
dying panss alleVlated ana MS future IL
lumined,
In the hght or thls SUBJECT want 10
call your attention 10 fact Whlch may
not nave been rlghtly considered ana
tua' Is .ne iac' Una, we must ne o'ousn'
,,brsiooI nroarisn, Shoridnr hroi, h.na
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thar heon rsad for tba aIavotion Of soci.