The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-18

that il fne natural forces of the wind and
tide and sunshine and wave were rightly
applied and rightly developed il would
make this whole earth a paradise. In a
book of great genius and which rushed
from edition to edition he said: Fellow
men, / promise to show the means of Gre
ating a paradise within ten years, where
everything desirable for human life may
be had by every man in superabundance
without labor and without pay-where
the whole face of nature shall be chang
ed into the most beautiful farms. and
man may live in the most magnificent
palaces, in all imaginable refinements Of
luxury. and in the most delightful gar
dens-where he may accomplish without
labor in one year more than hitherto
could be lone in thousands of years and
may level a continent, sink valleys, Gre
ate lakes, drain ponds and swamps and
intersect the land everywhere with beau
tiful canals n roads for Transporting
heavy loads Of many thousand tons and
for travelling a thousand miles in "a
houZ
2rom the houses to be built will be
accorded the most cultured views to be
fancied. From the galleries, from the
roof and from the turrets may be seen
gardens as far as the eye can see, full Of
fruits and flowers, arranged in the most
beautiful order, with walks, colonnades,
~aqueducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphi-
theaters, terraces. fountains, s%culptured
works, pavilions, gondolas, places Of pop
ular amusement to tire the eye and
fancy. All this to be done by urging
the water, the wind and the sunshine to
their full Development"
The Machinery of Love.
He goes on and gives plates of the ma
chinery by which this work is to be done,
and he says he only needs at the start a
company in which the shares shall be
$50 each, and a hundred or two hundred
thousand shall be raised just to make a
specimen community, and then, this be-
ing formed, the world will see its practi-
cability, and very soon $4,000, 900 or
100000 can be obtained, and in ten
years the whole earth will be empara-
dised. The plan is not so preposterous
as some I have heard of, but 1 will take
no stock in that company. l do not be-
lieve it will ever be done in that way by
any mechanical force or by any ma
chinery that the human mind can put
into play. 1t is to be lone by the gospel
of the Son Of God-the omnipotent ma
chinery of love and grace and pardon
and salvation. That is TO e~mparadise the
nations. Archimedes destroyed a fleet
of ships coming up the harbor. You
know how he did it? He lifted a great
~sunglass, history tells us, and when the
feet Of ships came up the harbor Of
Syracuse he brought to bear his sunglass,
and he converged the suns rays upon
those ships. Now, the sails are wings of
fire, the masts fall, the vessels sink. Oh,
my friends, by the sunglass Of the gospel
converging the rays of the u of Right
eousness upon the sins, the wickedness
of the world, we will make them blaze
and expire!
In that day Of which l speak do you
believe that there will be any midnight
carousal? Will there be any kicking off
from marble steps of shivering mendi-
cants? VIII there be any unwashed. un-
fed, uncombed children? Will there be
any blasphemies in the street? Will
there be any inebriates staggering past?
No. No wine Stores, no lager beer sa-
looms, no breweries where they make the
three KS, no bloodshot eye, no bloated
cheek, no instruments of ruin and de-
struction, no fist pounded forehead. The
grandchildren of that woman who goes
down the street with a curse, stoned by
the boys that follow her, will be the re-
formers and the philanthropists and the
Christian men and the honest merchants
of our great cities.
Then, what municipal governments. too,
we will have in all the cities. Some cit
les are worse than others. but in many
of our cities you just walk down by the
city halls and look in at some of the
rooms occupied by politicians, and see to
-Lo& co.s,o1 loo<bcona ionnranf no.
sotted crew city politics is often aban-
doned. Or they stand around the city
hall picking their teeth, waiting for some
emoluments Of crumbs to fall to their
feet, waiting all day long. and waiting all
night long.
WHO are those wretched women taken
I'D 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 q pair of shoes. That boy stole a
dollar. This girl snatched a purse. All
of them crimes damaging society less
than $50 or $50. But what will you do
with the gambler who last night robbed
the young man of $1,000? Nothing.
What shall be- lone with that one who
breaks through and destroys the purity
of q Christian home and with an adroit-
ness and pprtidy that beats the strategy
OF hell. filings a shrinking. shrieking soul
into a bottorless perdition? Nothing.
What will you do with those who fleece
that young man. getting him TO purioin
large sums of money from his employer
the young man who came to an officer Of
my church and told the story and fran.
ticaily asked what he might do? Nothing.
All. we do well to punish small crimes,
but | have sometimes thought il would
be better in some of our cities. il the Off
Gals would only turn out from the jails
the petty criminals. the little offenders.
the $40 desperadoes. 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
10 leap to get out of the way of being run
over. Oh, the damnable schemes that
professed Christian men will sometimes
engage in until God puts the finger Of his
r~etribution into the collar Of their robe Of
hypocrisy and rips II clear to the bottom.
But all these wrongs are going to be