Connecticut western news., 1901-07-25

French frontier, and some of the men wanted to take It, said: Soldiers, do not touch that. God will take care cf us He will take care of the Eng fish army. Plenty of plumber, know, nll around. but do not take it." He | told the story afterward himself, how that the French people brought to him | their valuables to keep-he supposed | to be their enemy-brought him their valuables to keep. And then, he said, 1t a time when the creditors of the | army were calling for money and for pay all the time, and they had so much all around about, he did not feel il right for him to take 1t or for the army | to take 1t.
 Oh, that God would scatter these fas- cinations about fraud and let us all un- derstand that if I steal from you $1 | am a thief, and if steal from you | S50O,0OO I am 50O,O00 times more of a ! thief!
 Society to Blame.
 So there has been a great deal of fas- | .ination thrown around libertiniSm. | Society is very severe upon the impu- rity that turks around the alleys and | low haunts of the town. The law pur- sues 1t, smites It. incarcerates 1t, tries | to destroy 1t. You know as we'll as ] | that society becomes lenient in propor- | ton as impurity becomes attluent or Is
 in elevated circles, and finally society | is silent or disposed to palliate. Where | is the judge, the jury, the police officer, | that dare arraign the wealthy lbertinei He walks the streets; he rides the parks; he fiaunts his iniquity in the | eyes of the pure. The hag of unclean- | ness looks out of the tapestried win | dow. Where Is the law that dares take | the braZen wretches and put their | faces in an iron frame of a state prison | window?
 | Sometimes it seems to me as if so-
 ciety were going back to the state of
 morals of Herculaneum, when 1t sculp- | tured it's vileness on pillars and temple wall and nothing but the lava of a burning mountain could hide the i'm l mensity of crime. At what time God will rise up and extirpate these evils upon society 1 know not nor whether | he will do 1t by fire or hurricane or | earthquake, but a holy God, I do not | think, will stand 1t much, longer. l be-
 leve the thunderbolts are hissing hot | and that when God comes to chastise | the community for these sins, against | which he has uttered himself more bit | terly than against any other, the fate | of Sodom and Gomorrah will be toler- able as compared with the fate of our modern society, which knew better, but ! did worse.
 We want about 10000 pulpits in | America to thunder, "All adulterers | and whoremongers shall have thelr place in the hell that burneth with fire | and birthstone, which is the second death." It 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 dam- nable in the sight of God as 1t Is in the | slums. Whether it has canopied couch | or eiderdown or dwells amid the pu- tridity of low tenement house. God | Is after it in his vengeance. Yet the | pulpit of the Christian church has been
 so cowed down on this subject that it hardly dares speak, and men are al- | most apologetic when they read the Ten Commandments.
 Then look at the Vaccinations thrown
 around assassination. There are in all
 communities men who have taken the
 lives of others unlawfully, not as exc ] cutioners of the law, and they go scot I free. You say they had their provoca-
 tions. God gave life, and he alone has
 a right to take it, and he may take It | by visitation of Providence or by an
 eXecutioner of the law, who Is his mes- l senger. But when man assumes that | divine prerogative he touches the low | est depth of crime.
 Society Is alert for certain kinds of
 murder. If a citizen going along the
 road at night Is waylaid and slain by | a robber, we all want the villain ar
 rested and executed. For all garroting.
 for all beating out of life by club or | all ax or a slungshot, the law has quick | spring and heavy stroke, but you. know
 that when men get affiuent and high position and they avenge their wrongs
 by taking the lives of others great sym
 pathy is excited. Lawyers plead, la |
 and the man goes free. If the verdict
 happen to be against him. a new trial
 is called on through some technicality
 and they adjourn for witnesses that
 never come and adjourn and adjourn
 until the community has forgotten all
 about 1t, and then the prison door
 opens, and the murderer goes free.
 Now, If capital punishment be right
 say let the life of the polished mur-
 derer go with the life of the vulgar as.
 sassin. Let us have no partiality of
 gallows, no aristocracy of electrocution
 chair. Do not let us float back to bar
 barism, when every man was his own
 judge, Jury and executioner and that
 man had the supremacy who had the
 sharpest knife and the strongest arm
 and the quickest step and the stealth.
 fest revenge. He who willfully and in
 hatred takes the life of another Is a
 murderer, l care not what the provoca.
 tion or the circumstances. He may be
 cleared by an enthusiastic courtroom
 he may be sent by the government of
 the United States as minister to some
 foreign court or modern literature may | poalSh luc CEIIlle ulllll II LOOKS llke neTO'
 ism, but in the sight of God murder Is
 murder, and the judgment day will SC
 reveal 1t.
 Now, do not be fascinated by the glam-
 our thrown over crime of whatever
 sort. Because others have habits that
 seem brilliant, but yet at the same
 time are wicked, do not choose such
 faults. Stand independent of all such
 influences. Put your confidence in the
 Lord God. He will be your strength
 Vengeance is mine. I will repay,
 saith the Lord" Cultivate old fash
 toned honesty. This book Is full of It.
 Old fashioned honesty such as was spo-
 ken of by Dr. Livingstone, the famous
 explorer. You may not know he was
 descended from the highlanders. Dr.
 Livingstone said that one day one of
 the old highlanders called his children