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i- j - p- - - n r .TTT K r si". -L kj 5 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE PROHIBITION IS 13 IN NORTH CAROLINA. I- VOL. IV. GREENSBORO, N-. C, FRIDAY, ! DPTEMBER 10, 1886. NO. 35. C 4 -S f f f ! ? I i - : r x - f i ?:-: ,1 . . ? 4 ! i - '-: 1 ...... HO LICENSE TO PAVE THE DARK PATHWAY. T6 HELL. Thefollowlng ooem was wrlten and re cited by W; K. Weare, of San Francisco, -who atter wards died in an inebriate asy. lunu He was - rained by the curse of drink. " . . . . The .slogan is sounding ! all hail ! By the mountains 'tis echoed 'tis borne "on the gale - The tlark clouds are liftine the mists clear away. ' - - And soon through their rifting will shine . . the bright day. r - What., what is the watchword .'that floats - on the air, ; .That, with the rose-tint of hope, gilds the - - clouds of despair ? " , : , "-' 'Tis no license" the death dealings liquid .'..to sell, . " - . .- : 'Tis "no license" to pave the dark path way to hell ! -. --v And whence comes the promise that rests . -on the air. That, with, rose-tint of hope, gilds the clouds of despair T, . Was it born in the halls of the wealthy ; ' " an gre&t ? ' , ... Did it spring" from the mentors who rule - for the State - Or from "public opinion" which claims to be right, .. Did it spring in full armor, resplendently bright? . No! never such glory their fame did yet - . swell As no license to pave the dark pathway to " hell ! It was born from oppression : 'twas nur tured in grief 'Till from suffering and sorrow, it sprang for relief . . Like Gethsemane's martyr,- from almost despair 4 , It rse to the light on the pinions of prayer; And the wails of the millions who sor rowed alone, Now break in one billow now swell in one tone; And this is the judgement 'tis destined" to tell - . No license to pave the dark pathway to hell. Arise in' your manhood, to duty come forth ; Let the land of the sunset respond to., the north ; it- ' For women have bowed before God and the throne, :- . And led where proud men dared not travel alone. V ,Fulfill the requirements and meet the de- ." cree, ' Aiidfrom henceforth from the wine fiends - be free, ". " Let it sound in the ears of the tyrant a knell, No license to pave the dark pathway to hell ! No license ! no license I Oh, brother, take heed No license to further the broken heart's bleed ! " No license ! no license ! Raise high the aclaim, No license to pander to falsehood and shame. ' , 'Tis the first dawning ray in the fullness of time, No license for murder, no -license for , ' . crime j No license to purchase, to make or to sell; No license to nave the dark pathway to hell I . The goddess of freedom, with courage sublime, .. - . : . Has vanished one monster that threaten ed her clime ! ; -r . Xow her eye fiercely blazmg, sees onher loved sod ' :t: -y ;: 7 : - Another that trifles with freedom and God. ' -V ' v It was not God or nature that placed on the earth .A curse so abnormal, so monstrous in birth; As the life-stealinjr. death-dealing, soul- scanting well That flows onward to people the region of hell I V ' " Oh. eruicUs of salvation ! ye priests of the "- cross, --. Have you studied the question t " the gain and the loss ? Have vou weiehed the temptation to sin n. j in'the wine ? When none but the pure can on Jesus re cline ? - , . " Heed not your false prophets, plead not ; for the sin, Which, from little beginning, destruction .will win.., - If the doctrine of Jesus you wish to preach well, Preash no license ! to pave the dark path way to hell ! . . -. ' , 'Tis summer ; the gardens are . painted in bloom, v .;: - 7 " And the zephyrs of evening are breathing , perfume ; All nature is resting, the bliss seems pro found, As if-earth.-lancL.and c'oud-land elysium , had found. - ' Hark 1 hark ! there's a cry there's a shriek on the air I . ; 'Tis murder I foul murder ! a wail . of . de - spair, . v . -No,-matter, there's license the liquor to sell, : . .. ' ; " :. There's license to pave the dark pathway 'Tis winter J and - midnight,' and fierce " 'howls the blast, , . -'- And the storm froni the ocean drives f u rious (arid fast ; , t And a little oTm of beauty flits noiseTessiy There's death in her pallor despair in her eye ! -r - : Before the dark river rolls tttrbidly on- There s a shrieK and a plunge and a vic tim has gone - To join the lost millions ; oh, friends, is it well - . Still further to cave the dark pathway - to hell! Oh I toilers of earth ! in this land "of the free - - . : It is yours to redeem if redeemed we shall Our banner; is waving come, now, join the ranks And to God will your wives and . your , . children give thanks, No longer your- heart-broken loved ones shall weep : We are strong to redeem you and stronger to keep: . . f . Swell the tide of advancement with "'us come and dwell - r And license no more the dark pathway to heU f i 'Tis the gift ", of the ages, ' by progress v brought down. . 'Tis the-present's best guerdon our glory to crown, :.. ? Break the maniac's foul fetters, the cap . ;. tive set free, Let forever be banished : the curs'd gal- ; lows tree, Let the Senator's judgement be calm and serene ; . v. Let the ermine of justice' from baseness be clean. v And consign to oblivion in darkness to dwell, s . The time when we licensed a pathway to hell.; .. ; Then the mountains shall echo, the val leys shall ring, And the isles of the ocean their offerings shall Jbring 1 - And the dower of the ages, the land of the west, Shall be freely and proudly the land of the blest ; i On her bosom ; the poor and oppressed shall recline, With ennobling surrounding to raise and refine, While mothers dread tales to their chil dren shall tell ; Of an age when was licensed a pathway to hell. " DR. TALMAGFS SERMON. IT IS HE THAT SITTETH UPON THE CIRCLE OF THE EARTH." Text: Isaiah xl. 22. "It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth While yet people thougnt mat ine world was flat, and. thousands of years before they fotind ont that it was round, xsaian in my lexi iuiuuitiu , wo suno of it, God sitting upon ihe circle of the earth. The most beautiful figure in all geometry ishe circle. God made the universe on the plan of a circle. There are in the natural world straight ines, angles, parellelograms, diagonals, quadrangles; but these evidently, are not God s favorites. Almost every where when you find Him geometrizing you find, the circle dominant, and if not the circle then the curve, which is a circle that died young. If it had lived long enough it would hav full brb a periphery. An. em circle pressed only a little too the sides. Uiant s uanseway and shows what tfod thinks o matics. There are over tbJ thousand columns of rocks oc hexasronal. pentagonal. Thea seem to have been made by raid compass. ? Every artist has his room, wnere ne may mate ny . f -l i mi but he chooses one shape as pr to all the others. I will not the Giant's Causeway was - thef molding room, but I do say crreat many hcrures uod seems selected the circle as the bes He that sitteth on the circl earth.",1 The stars m a circle, t! in a circle, the sun in a circle, I verse m a circle, and the thron the centre of that circle. I When men build churches tK to. imitate the idea of the greq tect and puff the audience in knowing that the tides of em( more easily that way than in lines. ; Six ; thousand years flung this world but of His ri . . 1 "1 i T 1. out ne aia not wiruw noui in k line, but curvilinear, with a I love, holding it so as to bring again.' j ' The world started' 1 hand pure and Edenic. It rolling on through regions or if and distemper.;;.; How : long if God only knows: but . it will time make complete circuit, r back to the place where it I the hand of God, pure and Eq xne nistory oi ine wona I circle.; Why is it that the shf our day. is lmorovinar so - rar is because men are imitating model of Noah s ark. : A ship cdves that as his opinion. Al much derided by small wits, of Noah's time beat the Etrur Germanic of whioh we boast Where is the snip on the s that could outride . a deluge the heaven and. earth were landing all the passengers two ol each kind of living thousands of species; tT v. iromoiogy go oa with its achievements mtil, after manv centuries, the world will have plums and pears equal toxhe i Paradi sical.! The art of gardening will grow for centuries, and after the Downings and Mitchells of the world have done their best, in the far future the art of gardening will 'come up: to the arbo rescence of the year one.. If the makers of colored glass go on improving they may in some centuries be able to make something equal to the east window of York Minster, which was . built in 1290. "We are six centuries, behind those artists, but the world must keep on toiling until it shall 'make the com plete circuit and come up to the skill of those very men. If the world con tinues to improve in masonry we ' shall have after a while, perhaps after the advance of centuries, mortar ? equal to that which I saw in the wall of an ex humed English city, built in the time of the Romans, 1,600 years ago that mortar to-day as good i as the -day Th which it was made, having outlasted the brick and the stone. I say, : after hundreds . of years masonry i may ad vance to i that point. t If ; the world standslong enough we may have a city as large as they had in s the old times. Babylon," five times the size of London: You go into the potteries of England and you find them making eup and vases exhumed from Pompeii. The world is not going back. Oh, no,- but it is swinging in a circle and will come back to the styles of pottery, known so long as the days of Pompeii. The world must keep ' on progressing-' until it makes the complete circuit. . The curve is in the right direction." The curve will keep on until ' it becomes a circle. 1 Well, now, my friends? what is true in the material universe is true in uod s moral government and spiritual ar rangement. That l is the " meaning of Ezekiel's f wheel. I All .. commentators agree in saying that the wheel means God's providence. ; But a wheel is of no use unless it turn, and if it turn it turns around, and if if turn around it moves in a circle. " What then? Are we parts of a great iron . machine whirled around whether we will or not, the victims of inexorable fate? : No. So far from that I shall show you that we ourselves start the circle of good or bad actions, and that it will surely come around again, to us unless by divine intervention it be hindered. . Those bad or good actions may make the circuit of many years, but come back to us they will as certainly as that God sits on the circle of the earth. Jezebel, the worst woman f of the Bible, : slew Naboth because sue wanted his . vine yard. - While the dogs' were eating the body of Naboth, Elisha, the prophet, put down his compass and marked a circle from those dogs : clear around to the dogs that ; should eat the body of Jezebel, ; the murderess. "Impossi ble! the people said; i "that will never; happen." Who is that being flung out of the palace window.' Jezebel. A few hours after they came around hoping' to bury her. i They find only the palms of her "hands and the skull. The ? dogs that devoured Jezebel t and the dogs that devoured - Naboth! Oh, what ' a swift, what an awful circuit! t : But it is sometimes the case that this circle sweeps through the ' century, or through many centuries. - The world started with ' a theocracy for govern-; ment; that is, God . was the president and emperor of the world. ; People got tired of a theocracy. They said: "We don't want God i directly interfering with the affairs of the world; give us a monarchy." The : world had a mon archy. From a monarcy it is going to have a limited monarchy. After a while the limited monarchy wvU be given up, and the republican form of government will be everywhere dominant and recog nized, i Then the ' world ; will . get tired of the republican.; form, of government, and - it will have an an archy, which is no government at all. And then, all nations finding out that man is not capable of righteously gov erning man, will ! cry out again for a theocracy, and say: r "ijet ttod come back and conduct the affairs of the world.'' Every step monarchy, lim ited monarchy. 1 republicanism,-- an- cai3k0-nlvj3ifFot-. etween t the- t circle kts. and "goverh- History e lyra en two rom the ramids. can af cannot lernities ,h God .to draw e watch y night j beside are j accord 's thou snce has nday to t the re irele is Ivethat pan.:". -In lunsel in i cnuo. ,ve a let- ng man ing -that tation in one; you kps, you m comes a't know I don't m vou Sabbath a teacher. o Christ. see that yonder?" . That is you see is where as to you, You look have the lace you. rIjHaygTojm6gffiSaT. years ago, giving a letter of introduc tion to a young man a letter of intro duction to a prominent merchant "Ye, yes, I do. j He says: "I am the man. .That was my first step toward a fortune; but 1 have retired, from busi ness now, and am giving ;mv time to philanthropies and . public 'interests. Come up to my country place and see me?" t Or a man comes to you and says: f'l want to - introduce myself to you. j I " went into a prayer meeting some years ago. I sat back by the door, xou arose to make an exhortation That talk changed the course of my life, and if l get to heaven, under God, 1 I will owe my . salvation to you. ' ' In only ten, twenty. 'or thirty year , the circle swept out and swept back : jain to your own grateful heart. lut sometimes, it is a wider circle and does not return for" a great v Idle. I saw a bill .of "expenses for burning Lati mer and Ridley. The bilP c f ex penses gays : ' 'One load of fir f jots, 3s. ;4d. : cartage of four loads of wood, 2s.; item, a post,. Is. 4Aj( item, two chains, 3s. 4d. ; item, two staples, 6d.; item, four laborers, 2s. 8d.. -- ! That was cheap fire, considering all the circumstances; but it kindled a light which shone all around the.world, and around the martyr spirit; 'and out from that '.burning of Latimer and Ridley rolled the circle, wider and wider, starting other, circles, convolut ing, overrunning, circumscribing over arching all heaven a circle. ." But what is true of the good is just as true of the bad. You utter a slander against your neighbor... ' It has gone forth from your, teeth. It will never come back, you think You have done me man au me misemei you can. 'aou rejoice to see him ; wince. You' . say "Didn't I ive it to him?'' 'That word has gone out, that slanderous word, on its poisonous and blasted way. You think it will never do you any harm. But I am watching - that . word, and I see it beginning to curve, and it curves around, and it is aiming t at your heart. You had better dodge it. - You cannot dodge it. It rolls -into your bossom, and after it rolls in a word of an old book which says : 4 'With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured td you again." . - You maltreat an aged parent: Vou be grudge him the room in your house: you are impatient of his - whimsicalities and garrulity; it makes you mad to hear him tell the same story twice; you give him food he cannot masticate; you wish he was away ; you wonder if he is going to live forever. . He will be gone very soon ; his steps are shorter and shorter; he is going to stop. - But God has an account to settle with you on that subject. After awhile your eye will be dim, and your gait will -halt, and the sound of the grinding will be low, and you will tell ; the story twice, and your children will wonder ' if you are going to live forever, and wonder if you will never be taken away. They called you "father once; now they call you "the old man." If you live a few years longer they will call you "the old chap." What are those . rough words with which your ; children are accosting you? - They are - the echo of the very words you used 4n the ear of your old father forty years ago. What ii .i i i . . is mai wnicn you are trying o cnew, but " find it nnmasticable, and your jaws ache as you surrender the attempt? ferhaps it may.' be the gristle which you gave to your father for his break fast forty years ago, ;; A gentleman passing along the street saw a son drag ging his father into the street by the hair of his head. This ' gentleman, outraged at this brutal conduct, ; was about to punish-this offender'; when the old man arose and said : "Don't"; hurt him; it's all right; forty years ago this morning 1 dragged my father pup by the hair of his head." It Tis a circle. My father lived into the eighties, and he had a very wide experience, aad he said that maltreatment of parents was always punished in this world. Other sins may be adjourned to the next world, but maltreatment of parents is punished in this world. The circle turns quickly, very quick- y. un, wnat a stnpenaous . tnougnt that the good and - the evil we start comes back to us. Do you know that he judgment day will be only the points at which the . circles join, ' the good and the bad we have done com ing back to us, unless divine interven tion hinder coming back to - us, wel come of delight or curse of condemnation?--.;' -: - ,.:- ; :;: .; - Oh; I would like to see Paul, the in valid missionary, at the moment when his influence comes to . full orb his influence rolling out through Antioch, through Cyprus, 1 through " Lystra, hrough f Corinth, through - Athens, through Asia, through Europe, through America, ' through the first century, through five centuries, through twenty centuries, through all the succeding centuries, through earth, through heaven, and, at last, the wave of influ ence having made full - circuit, ' strikes his great soul! Oh, then I would like o see him! No one can tell the wide weep oi the circle pi. nis innuenos save the One who is seated on the cir cle of the earth. I should not want to see the countenance of Voltaire when his influence comes to full orb. When Ihe fatal hemorrhage seized him at 83 years of age, his influence did - not cease. The most brilliant man oi his century: he had used all ; faculties for assaulting Christianity. His bad in fluence widening through : France, widening out through Germany; wide- mng tnrongn ail XiUrope, widening m . -n . 1 " through America, widening'; through the one hundred and one1 years -that have gone by since he died; - widening throush earth, widening through hell, until at last the accumulated influence of his bad life inflfery surge of omnipo tent wrath will 'beat against his de stroyed spiriti and that moment it will be enough to make the : black hair of eternal darkness turn . white with the horror. No one can teU h5fw that bad man's influence girdlel the earth, save the One who" is seated ' on the circle of the earth- the Lord Almighty. ' "Well, now," say people in this au dience,"this in some respects is a very glad theory," and in others a very sad one; we -would like to have all the good we have ever done - back to us, but the thought that all the sins we have ever committed will come back to us fills us with affright.' ; My. brother, I have to tell . you God can break that circle, and will do so at - your call. I can bring twenty passages of Scripture to prove that ; when" God for Christ's sake forgives a man, the sins of his oast life never oome back. The wheel may roll on and roll on,- but you take your position behind the cross, and the wheel strikes the cross ancT it is shat tered forever. The sins fly off from the circle into the perpendicular, falling at right 1 angles with complete oblivion. Forgiven! forgiven! The .meanest thing a man can do is, after some difhculty nas been settled, to bring it up again; and Clod will not be so mean - as that. God's memory is 4 mighty r enough to hold all the events of the ages, but there is one thing that is sure to slip Jlis memory, one thing He is sure to forget, "and that 1 is pardoned " trans gression. How do I know-' it? -I will prove" it. 'i Their sins and their ini Come into that state this morning, my dear brother, my dear sister. "Blessed is the one whose, transgressions are for- given. . . : . - " ' But do not make the mistake of think ing that this-doctrine of the circle stops wn xms me; n :roiis on tnrough heaven. You might quote in opposi tion to mo .what" St. John says about the city of heaven. He says it "lieth four square. That does not seem to militate' against this idea; -s but you know there is many a .square house that has a family circle facing each other, and in a circle moving, and I can prove that this .. is so in regard to heaven. : St.. John says, - heard- the voice of many angels round about .the throne, and the beasts and ; the elders!" And again he says, "There was a rain bow" round about 'the throne.'' The two former instances, a circle; the last, either "a circle or a . semicircle. The seats facing each other, . the angels fac ing each other, ; the men facing each other. Heaven an amphitheater of glory; circumference of patriarch, and prophet, and apostle; circumference of Scotch covenanters andTheban legion, and Albigenses; circumference of the good of all ages. Periphery of splen dor -unimagined and indiscrible. - A circle! A circle! . . - . . But every circumference must'have a center, and what" is vthe center of this heavenly circumference? Christ. His all the glory, His all the praise, His all the crowns. All , heaven ' wreathed into a garland round about Him. Take off the imperial .sandal from His foot, and behold the - spike.' . Lift the coro net of dominion from His. brow, and see where, was the laceration of the briars. Come closer, ' all heaven. Nar row the circle around His great heart. O Christ, ' the Saviour! O Christ," the man! O.Christ, the God! Keep Thy throne forever, seated on the circle of the earth, seated on the circle of the heaven. -. - "On Christ the olid rock I stand; All other ground is shifting Band." DEAD ISSUE. (Continued.) To Distillers I would speak a word. It is a frightful thing to turn the bod supplied by a kind providence into whisky arid brandy. There is no force in your reply that" God so made themthat alcohol" may be got out of them; you may say the same of almost every vegetable that grows, Their object was for food, (see App.) God has so arranged that one man can make more than he requires for his individual -support, but he has also arranged that there are others who are barely able' to make any thing. He designs that we who have a surplus should exchange of our products for what we need, but cannot make, and he gives us yet a surplus' which he designs we should share with the helpless. Should you, as a human being, be the cause of increasing the. cost of the real necessities of life, when there are so many in every county in the United States, who can scarcely live when they do their utmost? You help to lessen the amount of bread stuff, Which of course increases the value, they are unable to buy and hence many are driven to the poor house who could live were no grain distilled. By this also you increase the taxes of those who are not bene fited by 'your enterprise and if you think it a benefit that grain be high priced,only consider,' as said above, it is the rich who have com to sell, but the poor who have to buy, and there are ten buyers to one seller, so that, ; to the masses, it is almost, if not altogether, a curse that provisions behigh. .- - '-- Imagine your wife a widow; your children orphans, and your neighbor buying all the surhplus corn in the spring to make up into spirits, possi bly to sell to your boys. I dare say, if you love your wife and children" as I know vou do, your heart revolts at thoughts of such a course in him ; then ought you not also to desist ? Let conscience decide. My' friend, the- meal you. measure out will cry in the judgment against you. Bat per hapas -you already agree that it is sinful to make breadstuff s into trong drink, but do not think you should cease irom making brandy. : Have you a good orchard ; it is a great blessing. You should share, the pro duct with the less fortunate. Apples and peaches are luxries to eat, either fresh or dried, and to be made into pies; this was their design and noth ing more. It will not do for you as a fair minded man to say, "they wil pay me better made into brandy. But the right must be considered: are you doing riqht to make that which will ruin all who meddle with it? It will not do to say they rjuy it of their own accord, and if ruined the fault is their's. You try to sell it where" it will be drunk ; that is why you made it. Is it right to do so ? If you will ,agree with me that it is not right, it will be a blessing to the world and you, if you will never make nor sell : any more. But if you think it wrong and persist in distill ing, I am sorry," you are-lost lost ! " ". There are many men, who, when they have fussy, spenthrif t wives and prodigal boys, could make: more money and have mere quiet by leaving the one and driving f off the. others, but such a course would not be right. (See Tract 300, page 3, and 125 page 22). ' And so of many things, we must make all we can; always jjrovided we ao not -sacrmce the , eight, i may add here that ill results will come, of what one acquires through -wrong means, and I am sure you will agree with me." The observation of us all teaches that' ill got 'gain-. will'not re main. " As to your fruit, you can make dis posal of it in a manner that will sat isfy your conscience ; you can feed to your nogs the . laulty and. rotting fruit, let the poor have and dry on shares, &c. Concerning a wise dis posal of your surplus fruit, I respect full refer, you to God's commands in Leviticus, 19th chap, and 9, 10 and 18'verses : "Thou shalt not gather every grape of thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am the Lord your God. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self." And most of vour visting friends will 'enjoy the pies your wife will make in the winter, and the lus cious fruit more than your brandy, at least the former will be far more serviceable. It Vwill . not avail for you to argue that good men used to still. They were not as good as they might have been and : the evil results of making strong drink were not as observable as now." Uo man can look upon the mischief of whisky to-day and innocently manufacture it. Your fathers did not know that it caused three-quarters of the pauperism and crime in the land, that it deprived so many of "reason; greatly increased the number and frequency of diseases and brought down such multitudes to an untimely "grave, and that all men would be better without it . They did not know what a hindrance it was to the. Gospel. "You know it or have ample means for knowing it Christ said, "If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.w Every barrel of whisky or brandy you send out will be the cause of sor row and misery at last and possibly of death. Will you not then with these startling facts before you de sist forever from this business?,. - You are able to live without ; your neighbors will be. sober if you cease to supply them, and your children will have better society to 1 mingle with ; they will grow to manhood and womanhood, your sons not so likely to be dissipted, and your daughters not so likely to mary drinking bus bands, which is a matter of no small concern -to every parent. .; l Knew a distiller whose life was shortened many years by drink, two of hisjihree sons died drunkards, one of delirium tremens, the-third is a sotted wreck, whose wife cannot live with him and three of his daughters married most worthless men and drunkards. - An-i other, a distiller and a church mem ber, raised two sons, one partially de ranged, the second a bloated sot ; two of his daughters married men who are Very, fond of strong drin k : and who are likely to be hurried in drunk ard's graves and- go to a drunkard's hell . - : I will speak a word of remonstrance to those who supply the material from which ardent spirits is made. Your chief argument; perhaps, is that you want money to pay your taxes. The whisky and brandy made of the ma terial you help to furnish is the cause of at least three-fourths of your taxes, as shown above; and as we have said of the distiller so you are perverting the God-sent blessings of life ' into curses and engines of poverty, crime, and woe four gallo: for food and Will keep a Child alive and well for two or three weeks, to .be" made 'into one gallon of liquid that will not sustain life'an hour, but which will inflame and in furiate a man for many days. If you were unfortunate by disease in your family, or having a broken limb so that you could not work, you would prefer, I am sure, that others should not lessen the necessaries of life, when you were in such distress. The nob ler instincts of humanity "bid you cease to increase this flood of ruin and - turn your goods into- chan nels that will bless. True vou raav have much land and money in orch ards, .butsyou had. not thought, per haps, of the evils which you now know to come from drink. Dnrintr the war a gentleman said, "If the war will continue twenty years I shall make a fortune." His m'oney was in vested in a musket making factory and he' said he wished it to continue. ' Oh," said a lady near by, "I wish this cruel, cruel war was over; al ready they have slain my husband and one of my boys and they want the only one I have left to go. Oh, I wish i t was over fqreyer." So while you look at a little financial loss as the gun maker, others are losing what no money can replace , through the very agency that has appeared, it may be; so harmless ; to you. V Give it up, and trust. the God above to helt vou to live by means that will not disturb your conscience now and in death. And now to the retailer, distiller, and supplier of material, I will saj "you are. creating and distilling the material of discord, . crime, poverty, disease, and intellectual and moral degradation, you are perpetuating one of the sorest scourges of the world and: in the language of the above quotted author "I foresee the day when the manufacture of intox icating liquor for common destribu- tion will be" classed with the arts of counterfeiting and forgery and the mamtenence of houses for midnight reyerly and corruption. Like these, the business" will become a work only of darkness, and be prosecuted only by the outlaw. You must be looked upon as forming a triple league dangerous alike to private and social happiness, and to the very liberties of the nation. And an awakened people cannot rest till the deadly compact is murdered.l - .Why not then anticipate a little to the verdict and the vengeance of a rising tone of public sentiment and at once proclaim the unholy alliance dissolved? Why not anticipate an infinitely higher tribunal's verdict why not : believe God's threatening, and escape the eternal tempest that ' lowers for him who putteth the cup to his neighbor.'s lips ? Why not co-operate promptly in a public re form that is -regarded with - intense interest in heaven, on earth, and in hell? O review, men of reason -and conscience and immortality this whole business- And if you can-consent to ruin many for both worlds with no ambition to benefit your fellow-man fif you can persist in wasting and perverting - the bounties of a kind Providence if you can out rage the feelings of the most enlight ened and virtuous if you can pursue a work of darkness amid noonday light if you can sacrifice a good name, and entail ; odium on all you love and if you can deliberately of fend God, and jeopardize yoifr immor tal interest for palfry gain, then go on go on a little longer; but "O, my soal, ; come not thou into their secret ; unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united." - The liquor traffic covers the land with idleness, poverty, disease and crime; fills jails, supplies alms-houses, demands asylums, en jenders contro versies, fosters quarrels,cherishes riots cuts down youth in its vigor, man hood in its strength, and age in its weakness, breaks the fathers's hearts, bereaves the doting mother, extin quished natural affection, erases con jugal love, blots out filial attachment, blights parental nope, and. brings down old age in sorrow to the grave ; incites the father to butcher his offspring, the husband to murder his wife, and the child to grind his par ricidal axe ; burns up man, consumes woman; detests life, curses God ; breaks the Sabbath and despises heav en. Subborns witnesses, nurses per jury, defiles the jury-box,bribes voters, corrupts elections, debases the legis lator, and dishonors the statesman; brings shame, not honor ; terror, not safety ; despair, not hope, and, as with malevolence of a fiend, it calmly surveys its frightful desolation, still ! I" I ? 1 ?t nri -noHnnal hrmnr : then rnrRP.q th world and laughs at its ruin. Such is the liquor traffic V? r,
The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.)
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Sept. 10, 1886, edition 1
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