The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-26

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that man takes that money-the money OF
others-aud goes to specializing with 1T Tor
his own purposes. he is guilty of THEFT,
falsrhoOd and perjury, and in the most
intense sense Of the word IS a miscreant. -,
There are families to-day-widows and
orphans-wiIh nothing between them and
starvation, but a sewing machine, or kept
ont of the vortex BY the thread OF d needle
red with the blood OF their hearts, who
were by father or husband left a compe-
tenCe. .
You read the story in the newspaper Of
those who have lost by u bank delalcatlon,
and it is only one line, the name OF a
woman you never heard OF, and just one or
two figures telling the amount OF stock
she had. the number OF shares. 1t Is a
very short line in a newspaper, but it is a
line of agony as long as time. 1t Is a story
long as eternity.
50 there has been a great deal of fasci-
nation thrown around hhertIn1sm. So
eietv is very severe upon the lmpurlty that
turks around the alleys and low haunts
d of the town. The law pursues it, smltes
it, incarcerates it, tries to destroy it.
You know as well as ! that society be-
comes lenieut in proportion as lmpurlty
becomes atiluent or IS in elevated circles!
and finally society Is silent or disposed
Where is the judge, the Jury, the police
officer that dare arTaign the wealthy Hber-
tine? He walks the streets; he rides the
parks; he haunts his in.quity in the eyes
OF the pure.
Sometimes it seems to me as if society
were going bacl, to the state of morals of
H~erculaneum when it sculptured its vile
ness on pillars and temple wall and moth
ing but the lava of a burning mountain
could hide the immensely Of crime. AT
what time God will rise UP and eStlrpate
these evils upon society know not nor
whether He will do it by fire or hurricane
or earthquake, but a holy God, [ do not
think, will stand it much longer. l be-
lieve the thunderbolts are kissing hot,
and that when God comes to chastise the
community for these sins, against which
He has uttered Himself more bitterly than
against any other, the fate OF Sodom and
Gomorrah will be toierable 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 whore.
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 1t Is
in the slums.
Whether it has c|anopied 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
tjan church has been so c0wed dow on
this subject that it hardly dares speak,
and men are almost apologize when they
read the Ten Commandments.
Then look at the destinations thrown
around assassination. There are in all
communities men who have taken the
lives OF others unlawfullv, not as execu-
TONERS of the 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 1t by vista
ton of Providence or by an eXecutloner
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 at
night is wayiaid and slain by a robber,
we all want the villain arrested and exc
| cuted. For all gaIrotjng, for all beating
out Of life by q club or an axe or a slung-
shot, the law has quick spring and heavy
stroke, but you know that when men get
aitluent and high position and they avenge
their wrongs by taking the lives OF others
great sympathy is excited. Lawyers plead,
ladies weep, Judge halts, jury Is brIbed,
and the man goes free. ii the verdict
happen to be against him a new trial IS
called on through some teChnicahty, and
they adjourn for witnesses that never
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community has forgotten all about it, and
then the prison door opens and the muir
derer goes free.
Now, if capital punishment be right I
say let the life Of the polished murderer
go with the life of the vulgar assassin.
Let us have no partiallty OF Eallows, no
aristocracy of electrocution chair. Do
not let us float back to barbarism, when
every man was his own judge, jury and
eSecutIoner, and that man had the su.
premacy who had the sharpest knife and
the strongest arm and the quickest step
and the stealthiest revenge, He who will
fully and in hatred takes the HE OF an
other is a murderer, | care not what the
provocation or the circumstances.
lie may be cleared by an enthusiastic
courtroom. he may be sent by the Gov
eminent Of the United States as Minister
to some foreign court or modern literature
may polish the crime until it looks like
heroism, but in the sight Of God murder
is murder, and the judgment day will so
reveal it,
Now, do not be fascinated by the gla-
NOR thrown over crime OF whatever sort.
Because others have habits that seem bril-
liant, but yet at the same time are wicked,
do not choose such faults. stand mde'
pendent OF all such influences. Put your
confidence in the Lord God. He will be
your strength. Vengeance is mine. !
will repay. saith the Lord
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