The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-07-27
viii rise UP and ext.rpate these evils

VIII rise UP and e~xt.rpate these evils
upon society l know not, nor whether
lie viii do it by fire or hurricane or
earthquakes; but a holy God I do not
think will stand it much longer. 1 be-
lieve the thunderbolts are Kissing hot
and hat when God comes to chastise
the community for these sins, against
which He has uttered Himself more
bitterly than against any other, the
rate 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 10, 900 pulpits in
America to thunder: "All adulterers
and whoremongers 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
INA lniquity on Columbia heights or
ruth avenue or Beacon hill is as
damnable in the sight of God as it is
In the slums. Whether it has canopied
couch of eiderdown or dwells amid
the putridity of a low tenement house,
GOD is after it in His vengeance. Yet
n pulpit of the Christian church has
oeen so cowed down on this subject
ina 1t hardly dares speak, and men
are almost apologize when they read
the Ten Commandments,
Then look at the destinations
around assassination. There are in
all communities men who have taken
the lives of others unlawfully, not as
executioners of the law, and they
go scot free. You say they had their
provocations. God gave life, and He
also 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 messenger. But when a man
that Divine prerogative he
touches the lowest 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 CARROT
ing, for all beating out of life by a
club or an AK or a slungshot, the law
has quick spring and heavy stroke;
put you know that when men get af-
fluent and high position and they
avenge their wrongs by taking the
of others, great sympathy is ex-
cited, lawyers plead, ladies weep.
Judge halts, jury is bribed 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 it,
and then the prison door opens and
the murderer goes free.
Now, if capital punishment be right,
I say let the life of the polished MUIR
derer go with the life of the vulgar
assassin. Let us have no partiality of
galloVys, nc earistocracy of electrocu-
ton chair. Do not let us float back
to barbarism, when every man was his
judge, jury and executioner, and
that mar had the supremacy who had
the sharpest knife and the strongest
arm and the quickest step and the
stealthiest revenge. He who willfully
and in hatred takes the life of another
is a murderer, 1 care not what the
or the circumstances. He
may be cleared by an enthusiastic
courtroom, he may be sent by the gov
eminent of the United States as min
to some foreign court, or mod
ern literature may polish the crime I'M
til it LOOKS like heroism; but in the
of God murder is murder, and the
judgment day will so reveal it.
There are hundreds of young men
who have good blood. Shall l ask three
or four plain questions? Are YOUR
as good as when you left YOUR
house? Have you a pool ticket
in your pocket? Have you a fraudu-
lent document? Have you been exper-
imenting to see how accurate an imi-
you could make of your en-
ployer's signature? Oh, you have good
Remember your fathers
prayers. Remember your mothers
example. Turn not in an evil way.
you been going astray? Come
Have you ventured out too far?
At Brighton Beach or Long Branch
you have seen men go down into the
to battle, and they waded out
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