Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-01-07


many Of our cities you just walk down
by the city halls and look in at some of
thu rooms occupied by politicians and
see to what a 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.
Who are those wretched women TAX
en- up for drunkenness and carried up
to the courts and put in prison, of
course? What will you do with the
grogshops that made them drunk?
Nothing. Who are those prisoners in
Jail? One OF them stole a pair of shoes;
that boy stole a dollar; this girl snatch
ing society less than $50 or $50. But
what will you do with the gambler
who last night robbed the young man
of thousand dollars? Nothing. What
shall be done with that one who breaks
through and destroys the purity of a
Christian home and with an adrOitness
and perfidy that beats the strategy of
hell filings q shrinking, shrieking soul
into a bOttomless perdition? Nothing.
What will you do with those who fleece
that young man, getting him to purlOin
large sums Of money from his employ
er-the young man who came to an of
ficer of my church and told the story
and frantically asked what he might
do? Nothing. And we do we'll to pun
ish small crimes, but have sometimes
thought it would be better in some of
our cities if the officials would only
turn out from the jails the petty Grim
inals, the little offenders, the so des-
peradoes, and put in their places some
Of the monsters of iniQuity who drive
their roam span through the streets so
swiftly that honest men have to leap
to get out of the way of being run over.
Oh. the damnable schemes that pro-
feSSed Christian men will sometimes
engage in until God puts the finger of
his retributiOn into the collar of their
robe of hypocrisy and rips it clear to
the bottOm!
But all these wrongs are going to be
righted. | expect to live to see the day
1 think | hear in the distance the rum
bling of the Kings chariot. Not always
going to be, or are good men going to
be. The streets are going to be filled
with regenerated populations. Three
hundred and sixty bells rang in Mos
COW when one prince was married:
but when Righteousness and Peace
kiss each other in all the earth, ten
thousand times ten thousand bells shall
strike the jubilee. Poverty enriched.
Hunger fed. Crime purified. Igno-
rance enlightened. All the cities saved.
Is not this a cause worth working in?
Power of Gods Love.
Gods love will yet bring back this
ruined world to holiness and happiness
An infinite Father bends over it in SYM
pathy. And to the orphan he will be a
father, and to the widow he will be q
husband, and to the Outcast he will be !
a home, and to the poorest wretch that I.
today crawls out of the ditch of his /
crying for mercy, he will |
be an all pardOning Redeemer. The /
rocks will turn gray VIII: ace. the I
forests will be unmoored in the hurri- I
cane, the sun will shut its fiery eyelid, .
the stars will drop like blasted figs, +
lash itself in expiring agony. the coli
tinents will drop like anchors in the /
deep. the world will wrap itself in /
sheet of flame and leap on the funeral .
pyre of the judgment day: but Gods .
love will never die. 1t shall kindle its
suns after ali other lights have go:
out. 1t will be a billOWing sea after
all other oceans have wept themselves
away. 1t will warm itself by the
blaze of a consuming world. 1t will
sing while the archangel's trumpet
peals and the air is filled with the
crash of breaking sepulchers and the
rush of the wings of the rising dead.
Oh, commend that love to all the cities
and the morning without clouds will
come!
l know that sometimes it seems a
hopeless task. You toll on in different
spheres, sometimes with great discour-
agement. People have no faith and
say: "It does not amount to anything.
You might as we'll quit that" Why.
when Moses stretched his hand over
the Red sea it did not seem to mean
especially. People came out,
suppose, and said, aha" Some of
them found out what he wanted to do.
He wanted the sea parted. 1t did not
amount to anything, this stretching OFT
Of his hand over the sea! But after
awhile the wind blew all night from
the east, and the waters were gathered
into glittering palisade on either side,
and the pillows roared as God pulled
back on their crystal bits. Wheel into
line, o Israel! March, march! Pearls
crashed under feet, flying spray gath
ars into rainbow arch of victory for the
to march under, shout of
hosts on the beach answering the
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