Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-01-09

10 DO Idncleu from the galle1leS,
from the roof and from the turrets
may be seen gardens as far as the eye
can see. full of fruits and flowers, ar
ranged in the most beautiful order,
with walks, colonnades, aquedncts,
canals, ponds, plains, amphitheaters,
terraces, fountains, sculptured works,
pavilions, gondolas, places of popular
amusement to tire the eye and
fancy.
lie goes on and gives plates of the
machinery by which this work is to
e done, and he says he only needs
at the start n company in which the
Shares shall be $50 each, and a hun
dred or two hundred thousand shall
be raised just to make specimen
community, and then, this being
formed, the world will see it's practi-
CABIN 'y, and very soon $2,000,00Q or
s"'ooo'000 can be obtained and irbten
years The whole earth will be emps ra
ulseo. The plan is not so preroster-
Gus as )me / have heard of, but / will
take no stock in that company. i do
not believe it will ever be done in that
way by amy mechanical force or by
any macbjuery that the human p1ind
can put into play. 1t is to be done by
the Gospe of the Son Of God-the Om-
nipotent machinery of love and grace
and pardon and salvation. h:chim.
edes destroyed a fleet Of ships COM
ing up the harbor. You know how he
did it! He lifted a great sunglass,
hlstoy tells us, and when the fleet
OF shlfs came up the harbor of Syra-
cuse he brought to bear his sunglass,
ana ne 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 the sunglass of
the Gospel converging the rays of the
Sun OF Righteousness upon the sins.
the wickedness of the world. we will
make them blaze and expirel
In that day of which | sneak do
you believe that there will be any
midnight carousal? VIII there be
any Kicking off from marble steps of
| shivering mendicants? VIII there be
any unwashed. unfed, uncombed chill
dren? VIII there be an blasphemies
in the street? Will there be any inc
briates staggering past? No. No
wine stores, no lager beer saloons, no
breweries where they make-the three
Ms. no bloodshot eve, 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 curse,
stoned by the boys that follow her,
VIII be the reformers and the philan-
thropists and the Christian men and
the honest merchants of our great
cities.
Gods love will yet bring back this
ruined world to holiness and happi-
ness. An Infinite Father bends over
it in sympathy. And to the orphan
lie will be n Father, and to the widow
lie Will be n husband. and to the out
cast He will be a home, and to the
poorest wretch that to-day crawls out
of the ditch of his denominations. CRY
ing for mercy, He viii be an all-par
doning Redeemer. The rocks will
turn gray with age, the forests will
lie unmoored in the hurricane, the sun
VIII shut its fiery eyelid. the stars will
urop like blasted figs, the sea will
heave its last groan and lash itself
in expiring agony, the continents will
drop like anchors in the deep. the
I
flame and leap on the funeral pyre of
the Judgment day, but Gods love will
never die. 1t shall kindle its suns
after all other lights have gone out.
! II will he n 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!
! know that sometimes it seems a
hopeless task. You toll on in differ
ent spheres. sometimes with great dis
cOuragement. People have no faith,
and say: ut does not amount to any
thing. You might as well quit that. -"
! Why, when Moses stretched his hand
over the Red sea, it did not seem to
mean anything especially. People
came out, 1 suppose. and said:
"Aha!" Some of them found out what
/ he wanted to do. He wanted the sea
| parted. It did not amount to any
thing, tfis stretching out of his hand
| over the sea. But after awhile the
wind blew all night from the east.
and the waters were gathered into a
| glittering pa,isade on either side. and
III" pillows reared as God pulled back
on their crystal bits. Wheel into line.
| o Israeli March, march, Pearls
crushed under feet. Flying spray
/ gathers into rainbow arch Of victory
| for the conquerors 10 march under.
| Shout OF hosts in the beach answering
I the shout Of hosts amid sea. And
when the last line of the IsracIites
/ reach the beach the cymbals clap. and
| the shields c.ang, and the waters
rush over the pursucrs. and the swift
| fingered winds ON the white keys of