Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-10-02

| macnlnery ~ which this work fS 70 M
done. and be says he only needs ut the
start a company I'm which the shares
shall be $50 each. and n hundred or two
hundred thousand shall be raised jusI
10 make specimen community, and
then. this being formed. the world will
see us practicability and very soon two
or three million dollars more win be
obtained, and In ten years the whole
earth will be emparadised. The plan
is not so oreposterous as some have
heard or! But I will take no stock
In that companyl I do not believe
IL Will ever he done In that way, by
any mechanical force. or by any ma.
chinery that the human mind can put
into play. IL Is TO be done by the
| gospel OF the Son OF God-;he omnipo-
tent machinery OF love and grace and
| pardon and salvation. That Is to EN-.
paradise the nations. Archimedes de-
stroyed a feet OF ships coming up the
harbor. You know how he Nd Il? He
lifted a great sungiass. history tells
us. and when the feet OF ships came up
the harbor Of Syracuse he brought TO
bear his sunglass, and be copverged
the suns rays upon those ships. Now,
the sails are wings OF fire. the masts
rail-, the vessels sink. Oh. my friends.
by the sunglass OF the gospel eonyerg.
Ing rays OF the Sun of Righteousness
upon the sins. the wickedness OF The
world, we will make them blaze and
expire.
In that day OF which speak do YOU
believe that there will be any midnight
carousal? VIII there be any kicking
on from marble steps OF shivering men,
dicants2 VIII there be any unwashed,
unfed, uncombed children? Will there
be any blasphemies I'm the streeta VIII
there be any inebriates staggering pastp
No. No wine stores; no lager beer sa--
looms; no breweries where they make
the three KS: no bloodshot eye; no
oloated check; no instruments OF ruin
and destruction; no est pounded fore
head. The grandchildren OF that wom-
an who goes down the street with a
curse, stoned by the boys that follow
her, will be the reformers and the phi-
lantbropists and the Christian men
and the honest merchants of our great
cities.
VINO are those wretched women tax
en- up for drunkenness and carried up
10 the courts and put In prison, of
eourses What will you do with the
grogshops that made them drunk?
Nothing. Who are those prisoners I'm
asilF One OF them stole q pair of shoes.
that boy stole dollar; this girl snatch
ed purse-all OF them crimes damag-
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 perfdy that beats the strategy of
hell filings a shrinking, shrieking soul
into q bottomless perdition? Nothing.
What viii you do with those who fleece
thSt young man, getting him to purloin
large sums OF money from his employ
er-the young man who came to an Of
fcer of my church and told the story
ana irandcally asked what he might
uof Nothing. And we do well 10 pun
ism small crimes, but have sometimes
thought 1t would be better In some of
our cities IL the officials would only
turn out from the jails the petty Grim.
inais, the little offenders, the $40 des-
peradoes, and put In their places some
or the monsters OF iniquity who drive
their roam span through the streets so
swiftly that honest men have TO lean
TO get out OF the way Of being run over.
On, the damnable schemes that pro-
fessed Christian men Will sometimes
engage In until God puts the finger OF |
mis- retribution into the collar of their
robe OF hypocrisy and rips II clear TO |
the bottomI
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
In the minority is the church Of God
going to be. or are good men going TO |
be. The streets are going TO be filed |
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. Irno-
rance enlightened. All the cities saved.
Is not this a cause worth working I'm?
Power OF God's Love,
Gods love win yet bring back this