Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-01-12

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can see. full OF fruits and flowers. ar
ranged in the most beautiful order.
with walks. coionnades. aqueducss.
canals. ponds. plains. smphitheaters.
terraces. fountains. sculptured works. |
amusement to tire the eye and |
fancy.
He goes on and gives plates OF the
machinery by which this work IL TO
be done. and he says he only pesSs
st the start a company in which the
shares shall be $40 each. and hun
bred or two hundred thousand shall
be raised just TO make specimen
community. and then. this being
formed. the world will see IT'S practi-
csbility. and very soon Se.Oc0.0oo or
100000 can be obtained. and in ten
years the whole earth will be einpara-
diced. The plan Is not so preposter-
Gus as some have heard of. but l will
take no stock in that company. l do
not believe il will ever be done in that
way by any mechanical force or By
any machinery that the human mind
can put into play. II is 20 be done by
the Gospel of the Son Of God-the Om-
nipotsnt machinery OF love and grace
and pardon and salvation. Archim-
edes destroyed feet OF ships COM
ing up the harbor. You know how he
did IL? He lifted great sungiass,
history tells us. and when the feet
OF ships came up the harbor OF SYRIA
cusc he brought TO bear his sunglass.
and he converged the suns rays upon
those ships. Now. the sails are wings
OF fire. the mRsts fall. the vessels sink.
oh. my friends. nv the the suaglass Of
the Gospel eonverSing the rays of the
Sun of Righteousness upon the sins,
the wickedness of the world. we viii
make them blaze and expire!
In that day OF which I speak. DO
you believe that there will be any
midnight carousal? VIII there be
any kicking of from marble steps OF
shivsring mendicants? Will there be
any unwashed. unfed. uncombed chill
dren2 Will there be an blasphemies
in the street? VIII there be any inc
briates staggering past? No. No
wine stores. no lager beer saloons. no
breweries where they make .he three
Ks. no bloodshot eve. no bloated
cheek. no instruments Of ruin and de-
struction. no fist pounded forehead.
The grandchildren OF that woman who
goes down the street with a curse,
stoned by the boys that follow her.
will be the reformsrs and the philan-
| thropists and the Christian men and
the honest merchants of our great
| cities.
Gods love will yet bring back this
ruined world 10 holiness and happi-
ness. Al Infinite Father bends over
IL in sympathy. And 10 the orphan
| He will be Father. and TO the widow
| He will be a husband, and 20 the out
| cast He will be home. and 20 the
| poorest wretch that to-day cravls ont
Of the ditch OF his nominations. cry
ing FOR mercy. He will be an all-par-
donins Re6esmer. The rocks viii
turn gray with age. the forests will
he unmoored I'm the hurricane. the sun
will shut its fiery eyelid, the stars will
drop like blasted figs. the sea will
kesve its last groan and lash itself
IN expiring agony. the continents Will
drop like anchors In the deep. the
world viii wrap itself in sheet Of
fame and leap on the funeral pyre Of
tho judgment day. but Gods love viii
never die. IL shall kindle it's suns
after al other lights have gone out.
II will be a bilIowing sea after all
other oceans have wept themselves
away. II will warm itself by the
blaze OF a consuming world. IL will
sing while the archangel's trumpet
peals, and the air Is filled with tie
crash Of breaking sepulchers. and the
rush OF the wings of the rising dead.
| oh, commend that love 10 all the
cities. and the morning without clouds
will come,
1 ! know that sometimes il seems a
| hopeless task. You toll on in differ
snt spheres. sometimes with great dis
| couragement. People have no faith.
! and say; ut does not amount 10 any,
thing You might as well quit that"
| Why. when Moses stretched his hand
| over the Red sea. II did not seem 10
| mean anything especially. People
| came out. suppose. and said:
"Aha!" Some OF them found out what
| he wanted 10 do. Hs wanted the sec
parted. II did not amount TO any
thing, this stretching out of his hand
| over the sea. But after awhile the
wind blew all night from the east
| and the waters were gathered into q
| eiittering palisade on either side, and
the pillows reared as God pulled back
on their crystal bits. Wheel into line
O Israel. March. march, Pearls
crushed under feet. Flying spray
| gathers into rainbow arch Of victory
for the conquerors 20 march under
Shout OF hosts In the beach answering
the shout of hosts amid sea. And
when the last line of the Israelites
reach the beach the cymbals clap. and