Connecticut western news., 1901-01-10

the most beautiful farms and man may live in the most magnificent palaces in all imaginable retinements of luxury and in the most delightful gardens. where he may accomplish without la bor In one year more than hitherto could be done in thousands of years and may level q continent, sink val leys, create lakes, drain ponds and swamps and intersect the land every where with beautiful canals and roads for transporting heavy loads of many thousand tons and for travelling a thou. sand miles in 24 hours.
 "From the houses to be built will be afforded the most cultured views to be fancied. From the galleries. from the roof and from the turrets may be seen gardens as far as the eye can see, full of fruits and flowers. arranged in the most beautiful order, with walks, colonnades, aqueducts. canals, ponds. plains, amphitheaters, terraces, foun- tains, sculptured works, pavilions, gon- dolas, places of popular amusement to tire the eye and fancy. All this to be done by urging the water, the wind and the sunshine to their full develop ment."
 The Omnfpotent Machine.
 He goes on and gives plates of the machinery by which this work is to be done, and he says he only needs at the start a company In which the shares shall be $20 each. and hundred or two hundred thousand shall be raised just to make specimen community, and then, this being formed, the world will see it's practicability and very soon two or three million dollars more will be obtained, and In ten years the whole earth will be emparadised. The plan is not so preposterous as some l have heard of! But I will take no stock in that company! do not believe 1t will ever be done in that way, by Fany mechanical force, or by any ma chinery that the human mind can put into play. It Is to be done by the gospel of the Son of God-the omnipo- tent machinery of love and grace and pardon and salvation. That Is to em- paradise the nations. Archimedes de stroyed fleet of ships coming up the harbor. You know how he did 1t? He lifted a great sunglass, history tells us, and when the fleet of ships came up the harbor of Syracuse he brought to bear his sunglass, and he coDverged the suns rays upon those ships. Now, the sails are wings of fire. the masts | fall, the vessels sink. Oh. my friends, | by the sunglass of the gospel converg- | ing rays of the Sun of Righteousness l upon the sins, the wickedness of the world, we will make them blaze and | expire.
 In that day of which l speak do you | believe that there will be any midnight carousal? Will there be any kicking off from marble steps of shiyering men, | dicants? Will there be any unwashed, unfed, uncombed children? Will there be any blasphemies in the street? Will there be any inebriates staggering past? | No. No wine stores; no lager beer sa- | looms; no breweries where they make | the three Ks; no bloodshot eye; no | bloated cheek; no instruments of ruin | and destruction; no fist pounded fore head. The grandchildren of that wom- ! an who goes down the street with a 1 curse, stoned by the boys that follow her, will be the reformers and the phi | lanthropists and the Christian men and the honest merchants of our great | cities.
 | Then what municipal governments, | too, we will have in all the cities. Some ! cities are worse than others, but in many of our cities you just walk down by the city halls and look in at some of | the rooms occupied by politicians and | see to what sensual, loathsome, igno- | rant, besotted crew city politics is of ten abandoned; or they stand around the city hall picking their teeth, wait ing for some emoluments of crumbs to fall to their feet, waiting all day long and waiting all night long. 1 Who are those wretched women talk en up for drunkenness and carried uI to the courts and put in prison, .ot course? What will you do with the grogshops that made them drunk Nothing. Who are those prisoners ir | jail? One of them stole pair of shoes
 that boy stole dollar; this girl snatch
 ed a purse-all of them crimes damag
 ing society less than $20 or $30. But
 what will you do with the gambler
 who last night robbed the young mar
 of thousand dollars? Nothing. Wha1
 shall be done with that one who breaks
 through and destroys the purity of {
 Christian home and with an adroitnes.
 and perfidy that beats the strategy oi
 hell filings a shrinking, shrleking sou
 Into a bottomless perdition? Nothing
 What will you do with those who fleece
 that young man, getting him to purloir
 large sums of money from his employ
 er-the young man who came to an of
 icer of my church and told the story
 and frantically asked what he nigh
 do? Nothing. And we do well to pun
 ish small crimes, but have sometime:
 thought 1t would be better in some oi
 our cities If the officials would only
 turn out from the jails the petty crim
 inals, the little offenders, the $10 des
 peradoes, and put In their places some
 of the monsters of iniquity who driv,
 their roan span through the streets s,
 swiftly that honest men have to leaY
 to get out of the way of being run over
 Oh, the damnable schemes that pro Q fessed Christian men will semetfmei | ShSo5S III uhlh oOu pulS luG hhScI "
 his retribution into the collar of thei
 robe of hypocrisy and rips it clear t
 the bottom!
 But all these wrongs are going to b,
 lighted. l expect to live to see the day
 1 think hear in the distance the rum
 bling of the Kings chariot. Not alway
 in the minority Is the church of Got
 going to be, or are good men going t
 be. The streets are going to be flllet
 with regenerated populations. Thre
 hundred and sixty bells rang In Mos
 COW when one prince was married
 but when Righteousness and Peac
 kiss each other In all the earth, tel
 thousand times ten thousand bells shal
 strike the jubilee. Poverty enriched
 Hunger fed. Crime purified. Igno
 rance enlightened. All the cities saved
 Is not this a cause worth working in