The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-08-30

false labels, and ia the ilching Of custom
ers Of rival houses, and In the making and
breaking Of contracts. Young men are in
doctrinated in the idea that the sooner
they get money the better, and the get.
ting Of 1t on a larger scale only proves 10
them their greater ingenuity. There is a
glitter thrown around all these things
Young msr have got TO find out that God
LOOKS upon sin In a very different light
And remember that the man who gets
his gain by iniquity will soon lose It all
One moment after his departure from life
he viii not own an opera house, he VIII
not own o certificate of stock, he viii not
own one dollar Of Government securities
and the poorest boy that stands on the
street with a penny in his pocket looking
at the funeral procession Of the dead cheat
as it goes by will have more money than
that man who one week previous boosted
that he controlled the money market,
So there has been a great deal Of iasci-
nation thrown around hbertinism. So
ciety is very severe upon the impurlty that
turks around the alleys and low haunts
Of the town. The law pursues It, smitea
it, incarcerates it, tries to destroy it.
You know as well as / that society be
comes lenient in proportion as lmpurity
becomes affluent or Is in elevated circles,
and finally society Is silent or disposed
20 palliate.
Where is the judge, the jury, the police
officer that dare arraign the wealthy liber-
tine? He walks the streets; he rides the
parks; he faunts his iniquity in the eyes
Of the pure.
Sometimes it seems to me as society
were going back to the state Of morals OF
Herculaneum, when it sculptured its vile
ness on pillars and temple wall and moth
inc hsrA Ahn lawn of "a burning maintain
could hide the immensely Of crime. AT
what time God will rise up and extirpate
these evils upon society ] know not nor
whether He will do it by fire or hurricane
OF earthquake, but holy Cod do not
think, will stand it much longer. / be-
lieve the thunderbolts are kissing hot,
and that when God comes to chastise the
community for these sins, against which
He has uttared Himself more bitterly than
against any other, the fate of Sodom and
Gomorrah will be tolerable as compared
with the fate of our modern society,
which knew better, but did worse.
We want about 10000 pulpits in Amer
lea to thunder, "All adulterers and who're
mongers shall have their place in the hell
that burneth with fire and birthstone,
which is the second death" 1t is hell on
earth and hell forever. We have got to
understand that iniquity on Columbia
Heights or Fifth avenue or Beacon Hill is
as damnable in the sight of God as it is
In the slums.
Whether it has canopied couch or elder
down or dwells amid the putridity of a
low tenement house, God is after it in His
vengeance Yet the pulpit of the Chris
tan church has been so cowed down on
this subject that it hardly dares speak,
and men are almost apologize when they
| read the Ten Commandments.
Then look at the fascinations thrown
around assassination. There are in all
communities men who have taken the
! lives of Others unlawfully, not as execu
TONERS of .le law, and they go scot free
! You say that they had their provocations
] God gave life, and He alone has a right
to take it, and He may take it by vista
ton of Providence or by an executionel
of the law, who is His messenger. But
when a man assumes that divine preroga
tive he touches the lowest depth of crime
Society is alert for certain kinds of muir
der. If a citizen going along the road al
night is wayaid and slain by robber
we all want the villain arrested and exc
cuted. For all garroting, for all beating
out of life by a club or an axe or a slung
shot, the law has quick spring and heavy
stroke, but you know that when men ge
affluent and high position and they aveng'
their wrongs by taking the lives of other
great sympathy is excited. Lawyers plead
ladies weep, judge halts, jury is bribed
and the man goes free If the verde
happen to be against him a new trial i
called on through some technicality, ant
they adjourn for witnesses that neve
come and adjourn and adjourn until tn
community has forgotten all about it, ant
then the prison door opens and the muI
derer goes free
Now, if capital punishment be right
say let the life of the polished murdere
go with the life of the vulgar assassin
Let us have no Partially of gallows, n
aristocracy of electrocution chair. D
not let us float back to barbarism, whei
every man was his own judge, jury an
executioner and that man had the 81
premacy who had the sharpest knife an
the strongest arm and the quickest ste
and the stealthiest revenge. He who wi
fully and in hatred takes the life of an
other is murderer, care not what tn
provocation or the circumstances.
He may be cleared by an enthusiast
courtroom, he may be sent by the Coy
eminent of the United States as Ministe
to some foreign court or modern literatur
may polish the crime until it looks lik
heroism, but in the sight of God murde
is murder, and the judgment day will S
reveal it.
Now, do not be fascinated by the I'll,
NOR thrown over crime of whatever sOr
Because others have habits that seem bri
liant, but yet at the same time are wicked
do not choose such faults. Stand ind
pendent Of all such influences. Put you
confidence in the Lord God. He viii
your strength. Vengeance is mine.
will repay, saith the Lord"
Cultivate old fashioned honesty TIL
book is full of it. Old fashioned honest
such as was spoken of by DR.. Livingston
the famous explorer. You may not kno
he was descended from the Highlander
DR.. Livingstone said that one day one
the old Highlanders called his childre
around him and said: 'Now, my lads,
have looked all through our family lin
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