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V ri3T0n lit. ? i 1. ritOTIJ B1T10KISTS' IN NORTH CAROLINA.' ;";i;;: VOL. IV. GREENS BOKO, X. 0., K11)AY, OOTQBKJl 1, 1S8(. m. 38. :i -. i ' ,t-' ;i.-3i"; .'VJ; v -';"r;-C-ir -" -"E?- r ;f ; 1 1 . 1 1 : t 11 - 11 1 1 1 i . 1 1 1 r 1 --i 1 ' 1 - 1 .. IT.., I I -. THE DRUNKARD'S LIPS. Yp are coming to woo me," but not as of yore, - - When. I hastenerfto welcome your ring at - the 3oor. - , T ; - For Intrusted that xhe .who . stood - wailing - me then, - Was the brightest the truest, the noblest of men, ' Yonr lips on my own when they printed .- rarewen. - " Had never been -soilod'by the beverage -of hell,"" - : , - - But they come to me now with the - anal sign. - ' t ' 1 '. And the lips that touch liquor, can '... touch mine . - - . Bach- never I think of that night in the1 garden alone, When in whispers yoa told me your heart .'was my. own That your love in the future should faith- ful be 't " - - - - . 'Unshared by another, kept, only.for me Oh ! sweet to my soul is th& meiory still, Of the lip which met mine, when they murmured "I will." I r : - But now to their pressure no more they - . incline, - " .- -. - - ' ; For the lips that touch . liquor can never . touch mine. - ... " - T : r" . . -. . ': " , . Oh Jolui ! now it crushed ne, when first in your face . The pen of the Vlluni Fiend" had written . "disgrace," . . " - And turned me in silence and tears fi"om -" that breath : . All poisoned and foul from the chaHce of --death. .. . " It shattered the hopes I had treasure.! to - last ' i. It darkened the future- and cloudtid the past ; . v . It shattered my idol.TLnd ruined the shrine. For the lips that touch, hquor can never touch mine. . . I love you oh, dearer than language - tell", .i - can knew1 And vou r. ,v it. yon proved it, you it too well ; -But the man" of my love was far other , - than he - - - - Who now from the "Tap-room"- comes reeling to me In manhood and honor so noble and r'ujht, His heart was so true, and his. genius so bright v And his soul unstrained, unpolluted by .;..: wine ; ': - ,.v. ' "But the lips that touch liquor can never touch mine. You promised reform, X but I trusted in vain ; - - . Your pledge was made but to be broken again- ' " y-r- , - AntTthe lover so false to his pr)niises now, Will not; as a husband, be true to his vow. The word must be spoken- that bids you :. - depart .,' . :-- -. ' Though the effort to speak it should sjiat O . .... . . ,. - .. .. A - ; ter my heart ' "' Though in silence, with plighted affection . I pine , - Yet the lips that touch liquor can never i touch mine. ' : - ... Jf one spark, in your bosom, of virtue re main, . ' . - . " . " ! Gq fan it with .'-prayer-till it kindres again ; Resolved with ' (Jod helping," in future to be From wine and its follies unshackled and . free " ' "" . -. And when you have conquered this foe of - soul - - . ' In manhood and honor beyond his control, This "heart will -again beat responsive to thine i - " - " AndT the lips free from liquor be welcome ' to mine. . " . " " DR. TALMAGE'S SER1MDN. THERE IS A WAY OUT AND A WAY -'-UP FOB ALtr OF YOU. ;,';'" r: '''' ;..--'T'-,' ''t-::: 7C':-'' "' " '-J;;'" ". ;.'.' I' ... ; : ', -Tey-t : Genesis xlii, . 36. ' 'All these things, are against me." -, Father Jacob,' vou are wrong! You think your son is dead, but he is prime minister of Egypt, and has keys of the .' great corn crib. . You think ' that cir cumstances are all adverse, but they will turn out well. In all your life you never made a greater mistake than'w hen vou said ""All: these. ' things are .against ; me. ' - - . . - A trreat magnitude , of people are "under.seeming disad vantages, and I wiE to-day, m the swathiest, Anglo-Saxon tbat i ; can maimg'e, treat; their case; not as a nurse countsjtout eight or-ten - drops of prescription and stir3 them in "a half-glass of waterpbut - as;wneji a man- has bv mistake taken a larce amount of strychnine, - :or Paris' green, opJ)ellad6nha,and the'patient is walked raoidlv round the room, and shaken . up, and pounded ; until " he ? gets wide awake. - Many. of you have taken a large " draught of the poison - of discourage ment and I come out by. the order ot the Divine Physician to rouse you ouf of that lethargy. : - ':.'; .-K ,;; I. Manv people are tinder the disad - vantage of atf nnf ortimae name given them by-)arents who thought they wc doing a i good thing. Sometimes L at the baptism of children; while l havei held up one hand in prayer I have held " p the other hand- in ' amazement that parents should have .weighted ; the babe w itbJ such : a dissonant; and repulsive . nomehclatnre: x '-' have -n 3t - so ?-mu'eh wonder that some children' sh.ould cry out at the christening : font;" .as - that others with such -smiling face should take a title that w'll? bo : the burden of their - lifetime,-;- It lis - outrageous, to afflict" ' uhildr en - with : ; "an. undesirable name because it happened , to ; be pos sessed by a parent or a rich uncle from whom favors are -expected,- or some prominent man . of the :day "who ;-may - end his life in - disgrace. It is no exr cuse, because they are Scripture names, ' to call a child ; Jehoiakim;; pr "Tiglath Pileeri":r Aiiiliia very xiltar '? I.;b2,ptizfed one '..by "the- iiatne-Bathsheuai".Wiiy, under ' all the circumambient" heaven, any parent should "want to giv to child the name .of .: that loose and in famous creature lof . "Scripttire ; times I cannot imagine;" I have - often t felt' at the baptismal alta, ; when-;names wep announced to me, like -saying, - as -did Rey, ! Dr.;Hlchards of Morristown, N. r... when a child was handed tohim for sprinkling 1 '-: and- the? .name given Hadn't yon better "call it something oise?"N -.. a :;.;- m y T 5::2;- . : Impose not . upon - thafe babe a- name suggestive ? o? flippancy for meanness." There is no. excuse for such assault and battsrv. 'AiK'rdle'r-'four'aii-' guage! opulolit ! with i iaines hvuscical m sound and suggestive meaning, such as John m eaning ;the gracibita gift of God;" or Henry, meaning 'the chief of a household;" or- Af red, .meaning "good counselor;'' or Jpshtia, .meaning 'G6d, o;?,vation:;' ';' bK,ichol'sJ..inea.Tiing victry .-of lxe ;'. people;"' or", eAiibrose, meaning 'imniortal ;" or Andrew, nieanr ing "manly;" or Esther, meaning "a star;" pr Abigail meaning" 'my father's joy;" or Anna, : meaning "grace ;" or Victoria,1 meaning "victory;" or Ros alie, meaning- '"beautiful as a "rose;" or Margaret,; meaning : "a pearl ;"-: or Ida, meaning "godlike;"- or; Clara, meaning "illustrious;"! - or . Amelia, - meaning "busy;" or ;Bertha," meaning "beauti ful," and. hundreds of other names just as. good, that iire a'lielp rather than a hindrance. ..i . . - ' - '' But sometimes the great liindrance in life is not in the - giveor name" but in the family iname. While ; legislatures are willing to lift such incubus there are families- that keep a name which mortages all the generations with, great disadvantages, j Xou say : "1 wonder if he is any relation to so and ' so," ' men tioning some family . celebrated for crime or deception. It is a wonder to me that in all such families some spirr ited young man does not rise, .saying to his brothers ajid sisters: . "If . you want to keep-this nuisance or scandalization of a name I will keep it no longer than until by quiekest course, of law I-can dlough"off this ; gangrene.'' - When the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States met in tlm building inf!876 two estimable men,- of the sweetest disposition, stopped at the same house, and one had the misnomer of being Mr. Sour - and the other had the misnomor of being Mr. Pickle. And your ; city directory .has hundreds of names the mere pronounciation of which has been a? life-long! obstacle. If you have started life under" a name which, either through ridiculous orthography or vicious RUjrjrestion, lias been an in-. cumbrance; resolve that the next gene- ration shall not be so weighted. It is no bemeaning to change a name. Saul of Tarsus become Paul the Apos tle. ' Hadassah, . "the myrtle," became Esther, "the star." We have in Amer ica, and I suppose it is so in all coun-l tries, names which ought to be abol ishedaiiil an be iind will le abolished, for the reason that they- are "a libel and ' a slandeiv i But if, for any : reasonyou are submerged either by a given name or by a family name that you must bear, God will help" you to overcome the outrage by a life consecrated to, the rrnnil flnil naoM -YnTI TTlftT flTOSR the curse from the name. You may some what change the significance. If once it stood for meanness, you can make it stand for. generosity: . If once it stood lor pride, you can make it stand, for humility, If it once ; stood "for fraud, vou. can make it stand for honestv. - If h once it stood ; for wickedness, you can make it stand for : purity. There have been multitudes of. instances where men and women have magnificently conquered jthe disasters of the name in flicted upon them. v . . II. Again: Many people labor under the misfortune' of incomplete pliysical equipment. We are by our Creator so economically built that we -cannot af ford the obliteration -of any iihysical faculty. We want pur two eyes, our two ears, our two hands, or two feet, our eight f fingers," and two . thumbs. Yet what mxlltitudes of people have but one eye, or but one foot. The ordinary casualities of life have been quadrupled, quintupled, sextupled, aye eentupled, in our time by the civil "War, and at the north and south a great multitude that no man can number are fighting the battle of life with half, or less than half, the needed physical armaments. I do not. ' wonder ; at " the - jathos of a soldier .during the; war, who when told that He must have his h .nd amputated, said : "Doctor, can't you save it ?" and when told that it was impossible, said, with tears rolling down his cheeks: "Well, then, good-byy old hand ;X hate to part with you. You have, done me a good j service f or many years, ? but ; it seems, vou! must go. - Goo'd-by." t " A "celebrated surgeoii .; told me of a scene in the clinical department of one of the New York hospitals, when a poor manwith a wounded leg was -brought in before the students to be operated on. -The surgeon was" pointing out thsi and that to the students, and-handling the wounded leg, and was about to pro: ceed to amputati on; when the poor man leaped from the table . and " hobbled to eSective ; layman, in a former pastoral charge that I e'ver heard speak - on re ligious themes could, within five min utes of exhortation, break all the laws of English "grammar, and if he left any law; unfractured he would complete theSvork bf lingual devastation in tne prater with" which ho followed .it. x But I would rather have him pray for me, if I were sick; or in trouble, than any Christian iman that; I know of, and in that -church all the people prefer him in exhortation and prayer to all others. WTrv? - sBecause.; he was so thoroughly pious and had such power .with God he the door; and said: : uenuemen,'i am sorry to .disappoint; you, ' but, -by jTthe help of God, -1 , will die with my- leg on." What a terrible loss is the -loss of our physical faculties!! ; tJ ;THe wav the battle bf Crecy waft cfev eided against . tue . a1 rencniwas oy .tnc Welshmen: killifig - the Prenclr . horses, Arid thatbrought their riders to the ground. "' And - when, yon cripple this body, which is merely; the animal on which the soulridesyou; may some times defeat tne. soux:4 .Yet how ihaiiy suffer from this o il taking off? Good cheer, niy broth er! God .will make it tit to you some how." . The 'grace,; the sympathy of God arwill be more to yon than anything you have lost. If God allows part of your resources to be cut off in one place, '"lie will add it on somewhere else. - As Au gustus, ; the emperor, took off .a. day from" February, making.it the shortest month in the yearA and added it to Au gust, the month; named after himself, so; advantages taken ;;from one vpart 6f yonr nature i will bef . added"? oni to-an-other. :t: ii-J' ----: h" '; :- ' But it; is amazing "how;-much" of .the world's work has been done by men of subtracted; physical; ; organization. S. S.; Preston; ; ? the great orator of "the southwest,"!- went limping - all his life but there was no foot put lown on any platform' of his day ithat resounded asare: under "other : disadvantages ! ' - Here far as liis club. toot. i. Jjcetnoven was so deaf that he could 'not . hear- the crash of the orcliestra rendering his oratorios J ihomas Barlyle the dyspeptic; inartyr, wa'givett"the-e out ; of ' the world's literature. Rev. Thomas".StbcktOn - of Philadelphia, with one dung raised , ins audiences nearer heaven than ;most; ministers'; who "can raise them -with- two i lungs. In the banks, . the insurance companies,. 'the commercial establishments, -the refor matory associations, the churchesthere are tens of thousands of men ' and wo men to-day doubled-up of rheumatisms, or subject to neuralgias,; or 'with,-only fragments of limbs, the rest of which they left - at Chattanooga, or South Mountain,1 or the Wilderness, and they are worth more to the world, "and more to the church, and more to. God than those of us who have; never- so much as had a:"finger; joint stiffened by a felon. Put to full use all the faculties that re man, and cliarge on all opposing cir cumstances with the determination of John : of v Bohemia, i who; was totally blind, and yet at a battle cried xut:, f'I pray and beseech you to lead me so far in the fight that I may strike one good blow t with, - this sword jof mine." Do not think so .: much- of w Jiat faculties yon have lost as of what faculties re main,"" You have enough left ? to ' make yourself felt in three worlds, while you hplp the earth and balk hell ' and win heaven. " - Arise from vour discourage ments, O men and women of ".depleted or crippled physical faculties, and see what, by the special help of God, you can accomplish. . . J : .' - - ' The skilled horsemen stood : around Bucephalus unable, to mount or man age him, so wild was , the steed. But Alexander noticed that the sight of his own shadow seemed to - disturb the horse. So Alexander clutched him by the" bridle and-turned, his head away from the shadow and toward the sun, and the horse's agitation ,was gone and Alexander moilnted him and ; rode off, to the astonishment of ; all who . stood by. 'And what - yoa-people need is to have your sight turned away from the shadows of your earthly lot over which you haye'so long pondered,, and -your bead turned toward the sun the glo rious sun of Gospel consolation,- .and Christian hope, and spiritual truth. And then remember that all physical disadvantages will after f awhile vanish." Let those who have ; been rheumatized out of a foot, jor cataracted out of an eye, or by the, perpetual roar of our citizens thundered out of an. ear, look forward to the day when "this old tene ment house of flesh, will come down, and a better one shall be bnilded. The resurrection morning will provide you with; a better outfit.; Either the ; un strung, worn-out, blunted, and, crip pled organs will be so reconstructed that ' you will not f know them, or an entire new set of eyes and ears, and feet will be given 'you. Just what it means by corruption putting onincor ruption we do. not know, save -that it will be glory ineffable ; no . limpingin heaven, no straining of the eyesight to see things a little way off; no. putting of the hand behind the ear to double the capacity of .the - tympanum; but faculties perfect, all keys of-the instru ment attuned for the sweep of the fingers of ecstasy, Bnt until that, day of resumption comes let jns bear "each other's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.; ' r. ; ; ? ; III. Another form of disadvantage under which mahyjabor is lack of early education.; ; There r will ; lp no excuse for ignorance in the next generation Free schools and illimitable .opportu nity of education ; will ;make ignorance a crime, f I believe' in compuLsory edu cation and those parents who 'neglect to put their children under educational advantages have but one right left, and that is the penitentiary!. : But thereare multitudes of men j and women in mid life -who f have had; no opportunity. Free schools had . not Vet been estab lished, and vast multitudes had little or no school at all. They feel it when as Christian mett they come . to jpeak or pray in religions assemblies, or pub lic occasions, patriotic, or : political, or educational, i .lliey are Silent becausej they do not feel competent. "; I hey owe nothing to Jilnglish grammar; or.geog raphy, or belles lettres. - They-would not know a participle from . a-pronoun if they met it-many times aday. -Many of; the"; most .successful, merchants I of America : and men . in high political places cannot write an ' accurate Tetter on any theme, -! Tjey .are. completely dependent upon clerks,-: and -deputies and- stenographersto make things right I knew a literary Iman- iwho, in . other years in Washington, made his fortune by writmg speeches' for congressmen, or fixing them up foe the Congressional Record after they .were delivered. The millionaire illiteracy of this , country is bevond measurement. r Now," suppose a man finds himself in midlife without education what is he to do? Do the best he can' .The most was irresistable; . and as he ' went on in his prayer sinners repented ' and "saints shouted. fori j oy and j the .-. bereaved sqemeu io get uacit toineir aeaa in celestial. companionship And wh'enhe had stopped praying, and as sodn as I could wipe out of my yes enough tears to see the closing t hymn, I- ended the meeting; fearful that some long-winded prayer-meeting bore : would .1 pull us down from the seventh heaven. . ' . . - Now a word have I to say against ac curacy of speech, Tot - fine .elocution, or high mental culture.; ;h mental culture.. -Get all these yPn' cani i But rl do; say -lt those, who were brought up in- the ruay; ex poor school housesnd ignorant schoolmasters' and no opportunity, yon may liave so much of good in yonr, soul and . so much of heaven' in your everyday " life ' that you will bo mightier for good than any who went throuoh the curriculum of Ilar- fvard or Yale or Oxford, yet never grad- uated m the school- of . Christ. When y6u get up to the gate of heaven no-one will-1 ask -yOulAvhether 'you can, parsed the nrst chapter.Oi Uenesis,put wjiethef yor, have learned the fear of the Xiord, wliieh is tha beginning of wisdom; nor whether you .. know bow' to square the circle, but wliethert you havelived; a square" lifeinVa round "orldlsJ lMount Ziort is higher than- Mount Parnassus. ;IV. .But what other multitudes there is a Christian woman whose husband thinks religion, a shami - and while the wife . prays the children one .way the husband-swears another way. v Or here is ' Christian man whs) is trying to do his best for God and the -church,; :-and j his wife" holds him back and says on theway Jiome -from prayer meeting, wliere he gave testimony for . Christ: "What a fool you made of yourself! I hope hereafter you will keep still:". And when he-would-be benevolent and give she criticises him for not-giving ;50 cents.' "I must do -justice . and pubHclj thank God- that I never pro posed at: home to give anvthing for any cause of humanity or religion but the other; partner in thedomestid firm ai: proved itH: And when it seemed beyond my ability, and faith in God was neces sary, she had three-fourths the faith.- But I know men who, when they con tribute to charitable obiects, are afraid that the;wife Bhall find it outr What a withering curse such a woman must be to a good man!-' " " - . Then there are others under the great disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to get things cheapest? - Y'ou say those who have little means.. But they - pay mere. Y'ou buv coal by the ton,:, they buy it bv-the bucket. You buy flour by.tlie barrel, they buy it by the pound. You get apparel cheaper because you pay . cash." They pay -dear because they have to get trus'ted." And the Bible was right when it said: "The destruction of the poor is their poverty." '. " " Then there are those who made a mis take in early life,, and that overshadows all their days. - "Do you not know that that man was once in prison,"' is whis pered. - Or, f 'Do you itnow that that man once attempted suicide?" Or"Do you know that that man once absconds ed?" . Or, "Do you knoAV that that man was once discharged for" dishonesty?'' Perhaps there was only one wrong deed in the; man's life, and that one act hannts the subsequent half century of his existence. s ' . Others have unfortunate predomin ance of some mental faculty, and their rashness throws them int6 wild enter prises, or their trepidation makes them decline great opportunity, or there is o vein of melancholy in their, disposition that defeats .theixvnr they Jiave an en dowmentof over-mirth that causes the impression' o insincerety. - Others have a mighty obstacle in tneir personal appearance, forvhich they are not responsible. -They forget that G od fashioned their features, and their com plexion and their stature, the size o their nose, and mouth, and hands, and feet, and gave them tne gait and the general appearance; and they forget that ; much of the world's best work, and the church's best work, has been done by.homely people; and that Paul the Apostle is said to nave been Hump backed, and his eyesight weakened by ophthalmia, while many of the nnest in appearance have passed their time be fore nattering looKiug-giasses, or in studying killing attitudes, andin dis playing tne rienness oi wiuuiuubs uut one ribbon, -or vest, or sack, or glove, or button, or shoestring of which they had brains enough to earn, for them selves.;.. ''- " ."" ' -: . ': Others" had.wrong - proclivities from the start: They were born wrong, and that sticks to one even after Ire is born agaiu. iney nave a natural crankiness that, is two Jiundred. and seventy-five, years old. , It came over -with- their great-grandfathers from Scotland, or Wales, - or x ranee, .it was oorn on tne Thames, or the Clyde,,;or;the Tiber, or the Rhine, and1 has -survived all the plagues and epidemics of many; genera- tions, and is living co-day on tne panns of the Pudson, or the Andro -coggm; or the Savannah, or the : Jja l'lata:. And when aiman tries to stop this evil an central proclivity he is like a man on a rock in the rapids' ofNiagara .holding on with a grip from which the swilt currents , are- trying to sweep, him into the abyss beyond. . . . - -. ; . - tnis wpnu .is uu overLrui-ueneu world an overworked world! t It is an awfully tired'orld. . It is a dreadfully unfortune wtid. s Scientists are trying to find out. the cause of these-" earth- quakes in all- lands, cis-Atlantic and trans-Atlantic. Some say this and some say ; that."" I have taken the-diagnosis of what is the-matter with the earth. It lias so many burdens, on it' and so many 'fires 'within -it, it has a fit. It cannot stand such," a circumference and such a diameter. Some new Cotopaxi or Stromboli or Vesuvius will open and then all will be at peace for the natural world. But w hat about the moral woes of the world rthat have: rocked all tfa- tionsand for six housand years science proposes .nothing but knowledge,, . and many people that .know tno - most are the most uncomtorted t - - In the way Of- practical relief for all disadvantages and all woes, the only voice that is worth listening to xua this subiect "is - the . voice of Christianity, which is the. yoice of Almighty-God.c- Whether I have mentioned the particu lar disadvantage under which you labor or not, I distinctly declarem the name of my God,' that there is a-way out and a wav up for all: of - you. . Yon cannot be any .worse off than that Christian vouug woman who was in-the Pember ton mills when they fell some years-ago and from under the. fallen timbers she was -heard singing, "I ; am going home to' die:no mpreJV'C;:r:5;-:.;:r;-Take ood courage from that Bible, "all of whose promises are for those in bad predicament. There are better days for yon, either on earth or In. lieavtheir h en. -I put my hand under your1 chin, and lift your 'face ; into" the light of the coming dawiii-'Have God on your side and then you have for reserve . troops all the" armies of - heaven, the.' smallest company of which is twenty thousand chariots and the. smallest battalion One hundred- and forty-four thousand: the lightnings of heaven their drawn sword. An ancient warrior saw an; overpow ering host 'come down -on - his. small company bf armed men, and, mounting his horse with .a handful of-sand, he threw it in the air , crying: . "Let their faces be covered with: confusion!" -And botharmies beard Ms voice, and histo ry says it seemed ; as" though the dust thrown in the air had become so. many angels of supernatural "deliverance, and the weak overcame the mighty t and the immense host fell back, and the small number marched on;- Have faith in God,-xand though; all the allied forces of discouragement seem to come against you in battle array,- and ' their laugh of defiance and contempt resounds thro' alj : the valleys t .and ... mountains," yon might, by.f aith in God and importunate prayer, pick up a handful of the very dust, of your humiliation, ; and throw it into tEe.air,- and it shall become angels of victory.over all thearmies ;of earth and hell. The voices of your adversa ries, human an 1 satanic, shall be cov ered with conf asion, while you shalLbe not only conqueror, but mora than con; ujueror, , through r that grace which has so often made the fallen ' helment'of an overthrown antagonist the footstool of a Christian victory. . . .' -' DESTINY , OF PROHIBITION: AH EXTRACT FKOif THE SPEECH OP , , , HOJT. CHAS. S. WOLFE" ." ' -r. TheProhibition Party has a Vital, comprehensive, all-pervading, a trans cendant issue the total and univer sal Prohibition of the rum trafl&c It , -. --,;,-:-. -t . i ., - ..-.. nas a righteous cause the suppres sion of that dreadful-curse, intemper ance, .It has a ; grand and . glorious mission-4-thc physical," mental ' and moral improvement of -the citizens and the development of patriotism virtue, and statesmanship in the na: tionv : - . - " Bat Prohibition - laws " will not of ttiemselves prohibit any more than license laws will - of themselves pre vent illegal or., unlicensed traffic, or than .anti-discrimination laws or con stitutional provisions will of them- Uelves prevent "discrimination. : We must have capable,- vigilant, courage ous and faithful officials to ferret out and bring to trial and punishment all violators of them. ' .: ' This" necessarily brings the subject into politics The saloon is, and" al ways has been in' politics tis a very ugly and very potent factor. , Prohi bition must be-there also; as an equally powerful, if- not, a more potential, force.. : How," then, can Prohibitionists ex-i ert their political power most effect, i ively, in securing the election of such men as they want ? Can they best do it through the agency "of the Eepub licanv and Democratic parties, "or through a third party, organized upon the distinctive issue of Prohibition ? ' The trouble with the old party leaders, and many of the members also, is that thev cannot rid their minds ! of the delusion" that somehow or other the party has. a sort of a pro prietorship over every one .who ever belonged to it ; that it is highly repre hensible for any such an one to dare to think--of. working-out the political rights and interests of the citizen, or to attempt to persuade others so to do, through any other political channel. It. is" a great misfortune for" the cause of Prohibition and' every other- good cause, as wen as lor tne OTeat cause of popular government,; that so many good, intelligent, and patriotic mem bers of both the "great political parties without questioning seem to acknowl edge the solidity of 'thedaim.- '. They seem to have a lingering 'notion" that any who have' left the party have only gone temporarily, impelled by some ebullition .of passion , or disapp6ini ment, or to secure some ... trifling ot transitorygain. v They cannot realize that Prohibitionists, disheartened and disgusted it may be by the persistent greed, arrogance, and -corruption of party leaders; and the. disposition, of the party'masses to sustain and even vindicate ' them - therein can have gone, not only never ; to return them selves, but also to use all the power of logic and "persuasion with which they , may be endowed to convince those who still remain that it is their duty to follow them. They would not, if they, conld, - detach a single man until the path of duty is clear to hinr. They . would," however, '"beseechingly implore those who still remain not to allow partisan ; pride to blind their eyestothe light of truth, nor parti- san bitterness to check the free nd genial flow . bf paiotic-impulscrin their hearts. ;.. i.-.;'"-.-. -; ' V.1 ; w ltu tnese, conuitions . nxea, we moveforward .in! i joyful cohfidehce that the day is, hot -distant nearer than some will believe when 'the forces of King Alcohol; and the en tire Prohibition army, no longer inter mingled in confusion, ; shall meet in deadly conflict and victory be won. It leaves its impress on body,-mind and immortal souL It enters home, business, socialpolitical, yea, and re ligions life. It not only spans our continent, bu t it girdles the globe! It reaches from- time to eternity. Its home' is in the : deepest and blackest abyss of hell. God-illuniined Heaven alone is beyond his reach.' , - : - Surely the issue .which ' Prohibition makes with a power srnniversal and permeating must be abroad and all pervading one. This issue the;. Prohibitionist-makes as "a citizen in the exercise of his rights and powers of citizenship, in the -interest of the citizen, and in " harmony with - every Other instrumentalitv that has in view the suppression of inlemperance, , -The Church of Christ; dare not shut its eye to duty. - It dare not re' fuse to carry the principle of its holy religion into the responsible duties of citizenship!"- It dare not tarry. No trivial excuses . dare delay. -The urgency is most . pressing.- God's warning is spread in immense letters of living light all the way across the broad front of the republic "Right eousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people."; : The harvest is white,! but the laborers have, been few. " But, thank God, they are coming ! . From the broad prairies of the West, from Iowa, .from Kansas, and far-off ..Oregon."5 Little Rhody is lighting anew the pathway of those who in ; the past have been lost in the wilderness of old party Prohibition. - Almost like a super natural revelation, but with holy and patriotic inspiration to us, up from the broad savannas of the battle furrowed, . blood-irrigated , South, come the joyful tidinga of willing and . determined ". helpers. What a grand field for Christian faith, for patriotic impulse for heroic effort! What" a glorious opportunityfor forever closing the dreadful wounds left by our7 Civil War ; for winning the sincere affection, the perfect con- confidece, and most - enthusiastic cd operation of our brothers of the South, by the accomplishment of the grand est, noblest, and most beneficent re form that patriots ever undertook for not only firmly v and -immovable re-establishing our. dearly-bought, dearly-preserved republic upon , the broad, deep, sure foundations of pub lic virtue and public confidence but also utterly disintegrating the solid Southland - completely mending every fissure, ; crack,scar, abrasion caused by the; - earthquake ; shock of " civil war.- 'Then the . white banner - -of - Prohibition, with the stars and stripes, shall float; over every capital State and national, and we shall be an enlightened, virtuous, happy, united people. United States, a penect federal union. : Published bv the Prohibition Lecture Bureau, 32 East 14th Street, New York, and sent anvwheref post free, 10 -for 1 cent, 10 cents per 100, or $1 perl,000, Sent free of transportation. ;. -, , , - From DentoresV Monthly for October. STATE PROHIBITION 5 ' 1 ' FORM. - - PLAT ; Greensboro, Dec. 10,-1885. Whereas : : The traffic in alcoholic liquors has," grown and is growing out of all ratio to the increase of pop ulation in this country: and, , : -' Whereas, said traffic unjustly bur dens every- legitimate industry, im poses grievious taxation upon honest labor curses social life, begets crime, breeds . pauperism, antagonizes the church, corrupts politics, ! nullifies law, is a menace to good government and a peril to State ;" and,- v Whereas; The policy of licenseing said traffic has proved a; policy o perpetuation instead of suppression with the perpetuity of all its alarm ing conditions and results; and, ; Whereas, we believe license- not only non-restrictive in fact, but im moral in-principle ; debasing in prac tice, criminal in effect, and unworthy and national law ; and that such pro hibition, to be effective, must be bed- ded in the organic foundation of na tion and state, and be secured through and be. guaranteed by" a political party. : . . - i Resolved i That, as all secondary matters are treated by political, par ties from the standpoint of expedi ency ; as with the two bid L parties of our former affiliation this question of the liquor traffic is and must re main secondary ; and as " we can no longer support either of these old parties, in North; Carolina and. the nation without endorsing saloon in fluences, encouraging the power of the saloon in politics and aiding - to perpetuate that power j we do hereby declare the imperative r necessity for a new' party with-"prohibition of the traffic its prime object ; we urge and will labor to secure its prompt an d thorough organization everywhere, and for it we invite the votes of all wh6 cast ballots, and the sympathy of all others. Resolved : Thatj with the liquor traffic "costing over two thousand million dollars annually for liquors bought and drunk, for crime and pauperism growing out of their con sumption, for judiciary and constab ulary and penal and charitable insti tutions, made - necessary by such crime and pauperism, for unproduct ive life resulting from it, for unpro ductive; laborjnvolved in it, and the enormous waste inevitable under it ; with political corruption its legiti mate child, public abuses its natural brood, profitable , production dis counted because of it, helpful con sumption limited, the equitable dis tribution of wealth and the equitable adjustment of public burdens made impossible, and every material and moral interest enforced by its organ ized selfishness j the issue of its pro hibition "already fixed in politics by the - repeated action of the liquor dealers themselves, more closely in volve the welfare of all " the people and is of far greater concern "to state and nation, than any other, or all other issues now politically recog nized, and that as such, it r deserves and for it wef may justly; 'claim the acceptance of every candid citizen. Resolved ' That we deem unwise and unpatriotic the - course of any man or party, or any locality or State which denies the vital relationship of Prohibition to our nation at large, and which proclaims it a local issue only, to be settled by each locality or state in its own way; that as the na tional government alone can prohibit importation and inter-state transpor tation, has full jurisdiction over each erritory and the District of Colum bia and claims a share in the ? profits of every liquor-seller in the Union, wareit&rate our demand for national sovereignty over the liquor traffic to supress it, instead of to : legalize, protect and to perpetuate it. ' . to Resolved - That we recognize in such demand the new "national issue needed in our politics, to overcome sectional bitterness, to unite ' North ern ahd Southern patriotic sentiment and to' promote those 'conditions of political amenity essential to nation al peace and perpetity. Resolved, That - with confidence in the justice of our cause, with faith in God and prayer for divine guid ance, we will go - forward from this day, embodying; Prohibition in our ballot-box as everywhere, in favor of sobriety and economy in government, of exalting citizenship, and the no ble upbuilding of the State. - Respectfully submitted, " "1- ' N. C. English. For the committee WHY PROHIBIT RUM-SELLING Because in the form of Beer, Whis- key, Wine Brandy eta, it -contains a large proportion of alcohol, which acts as a slow, ' insidious acrid . and deadly poison- to the hu man system ; contains no nutrition or any . healthy ingredient, and no desirable influence can be obtained by its use. Its only effect is to produce a delirum of un natural excitement or abnormal stupor and a permanent derangement of the vital tissues. . Its use blunts every moral sense," predisposes the system to all the diseases common" to humanity, poisons the- animal life weakens the will power, enfeebles the brain.while stimulating the animal passions. It is the common cause of riearly all the vice, crime, pauperism, and wretchedness, cursing the ; indi vidual, the home, and the community by its ravages ... J . , ... : Demote st r 4 . ' ife.'r-. 'I -: ;; ; a--' ' ;'f- -:--' V.