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( . S' - if. - . r.L'V"J3 Ccrr.-.Jcs cf Congregation:) C;,;;:':) OFFICIAX- ORGAN OF. THE PItO ITIOIilSTS IN NORTH CAROLINA; VOL. IV. , GREENSBORO, N. C, 7JDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1886. -TTA 3D I -.'.'' " - 'i I ------ - r "i ri - . rv , r : ... - . . i i 1 . . i SJ'ORY OS : NELL. i After a week of c'.oud and stoma, ' - . - . The sun rose briglit and clear, : ' f Bathing the chill mid -winter jnorn - . "In radian Waves of light That 4aa aroOT aclreotte floot,? i - Made eVerVmdofla H : As staggering to the Mayors door - ; A mandlin dranftard came, j He hiccoughed oat this startling tale, (Holding by palingjslats) J! -: llifc&s TW A send MA& iiiry SaU3 3 ' - She's dead and all her brats, f v I had no seen them for a. week,' . '. I don't know when they died ; .r. - " They 're .lying there Is if asleep , h Therchildren side by:sidev 'yjypx H tfsed and stumbled back to- Vaughn's " Tdhik the broth f HetfiJ!-V-' "While strangers gathered up thebones - Of poor, deserted Nell . :., . They found in her thinf wasted hand 5 7 A paper- torn and old, " -- And pencilled on its margin band, '; - ; - Her story there she'd told, I sit within my humble cot, i ; " And through its harrow, pain . ,-, ' ; -I watch the sullen,;wintry sky, 1 r . The chilling, wiutry rain. . " The-icy winds shriek madly by, y jAnd through each crevice creep, s As crouching h-e I wait to dieV' "v ' Too weak to even weep. The damp dead, leaves whirl e'erily . : y Along. he sodden path ; ? The stately pines sway" drearily . ,1 Above the rain soaked earth ; . : 'Tis wild withput,.tis drear within No food, nor fire "is here. V ' For four long days we've-starving been With none to "heed or carel ' , '.' My starving babe gnaws savagely, -My shrunken: milktess breast. And little "Mary, yesterday, " - - Sank to her last, long rest, v And precious CharKe died thi morn. At nooffi dearTreddie tooM, . Oh, God 1. What has my darlings done That they must suffer so ? . - And yonder at that gate to Hel J Satan's enchanted ground, Lured by the whisky demon's spell - And wine-cup circling round Their father lingers, brute, besof, With all his manhood dead, v A bloated carcass, f onl with rot, A thing to kflth and dread. What matter that hi ehi!dren die? He neither knows nor cares ; " . The fountains of my grief are dry, - For God lias heard my prayers ' My suns will never drunkards be ; : Nor daughters drunkards wives ; . Better this death of agony,. Thah shameful, suffering lives. A gap, A quiver, babies gone ! Ah, well J 'tis better so; ., . How eoull-I leave: ther here alone When God ealin me to go? Thers nothing left to keep me now, More faintly comes achTreath, I close this record of our woe With fingers chilled with death. . We gather up, with pitying care,' Each wasted, lifeless form, . Returning them with words of prayer To dust from: whence it came. Then turning; sadlp, 4o our homes ' . We read Christ's solemn word No drunkard's souLshall ever come To dwell with me, the Lord And pondering sadly, as we read, On what we'd that day seen. - We feel less sorrow for the dead, " Than for those lost in sin, ' And praved. Oh. . Godt quick, close these . doors ll'tt'S ' And Tar these gat to Helly , y" IjestouKmen, toyfeld toitsppwers, Our daughters, dS,s like Nell.. Ashevt le, May 5, JL885. . -.;; -v -i.'" . DR.' TALMAGE'S SERMON. 'TWO YOUNG MEN f WHO CAME . - TO-IjIVE.IN THE CITY." Text: Proverbs' iv, 20, "Ponder the path of thy feet." . . ; --"! It was Monday, Sept. 20, at a coun try dep'ot. "- Fwojyonng men are to take . thenars for the city," Father : brought them in a wagon. :vi$h tUro trunksr- The evening - before, at the. old. home , was rather a s tin?e The; neighbors had gathered in to iay good-by, - Indeed, all ' the "Sundaj - afternoon : there -had b'eeij a 'strolling jihat way; fFQm adjoin ing farms, for jj; "was generally known that the two boys the next- morning Hrere QQingit the city tq Uv and the hqle i neighbpVhopd ? watf mjteresfed, pme hoping they wquld; do- well, rand qthers, witlqui saying anything,: fhoi fng for them a city fail nre"."; fitting on ,he fence talking over: tbe" matter the neighbors' would -interlard their con yersatiqu about the wheat crop .of last summer and the apple crop yet to be gathered with 'remarks abont thecityj prospects qi jqwafa .auu lciiojias, ior ' thflse.werq the parties of the. two" young , inen-4rfed warty s Vl? aiuj. jchplas?i 19, but drd,: althqijgljq years young er, bejnig, aitle - quicker - tq learn, knew asanuch as ficnolaa. . They were " both brown faced and hearty, and had gone through all the curriculum, of hearty sports by which muscle ;is de yeloped and the eldest fiileil out., w father and mofijer qn Jfqiday morn: ittg had both esqved to' go to the de . pot with the boysV' bu Ihe rqother-at . the last ttonjeut backed' bnt; and 'she . said that somehow she ; felt quite weak that morning, and had no appetite for ; a day or two, and so ; concluded to say gooq-hy at the front 'dqor of - the old place, j'Where she weqt" aqd t wha? she did after the wagon Jeft J leave other mothers to guess. Tbeireakfast things stood almost till noon before they were cleared away.'. But. little was said on the" way to the railroad station. i As the locomotive whistle was . heard -coming around the curve, the ' father pnt Ont his hand somewhat ' knotted f at. the knuckles and one of be joints stiffened years ago by a wound fromi a- scythe-r and said; jOoodNby, Edward"; gobd-by; Nicholas: ? Take godd care of ; your selyes, and write - as soon, as yon get tVioro onrl'lat na TrTifiw bfW- t.bev treat Ju.V ' Your mother will be atikioua to hear' '---'. ; T-v-' -'"'j " ' ;- - Landed in the city . they .sought out, with. considerable- inquiry of. the po licemen on street corners and epiestion- mff of car drivers, . the ! two' commercialJ establishments to which. hey were destined," so lar', apart that 5 thereafter tliev seldownV saw-, each-1 other, i for it is astonishing how fa;, apart j two per sons can be in, a large city, especially if their habits are different; iFractically a hundred miles from: IBowlrne Green to TuIton.-: ,: -. t"":-v' Edward; being the youngest, - we must look- after him (first."-: .He : never was in so large a .store in' all . hia life, Such'interminabie shelves,' "such skill ful imitation of real men and; vomento display goods on such agility of cash boysr, such . immense stocK oi gooas, and a' whole ' community., of employes. His head is confused, as he seenia drop- ted like a uebbleiu-the great ocean of business life; 4 'Have you 'seen that sxeenhorn from' the. country?" whis pers ybung .man to young .man. . ; "He is. in such and - such a ' department ; we win nave, bo uruait. mm. ju uuw utgut. Edward stands at hia iiew place 11 day so homesick that any moment he conld have cried aloud if his ' pride had not sutroressed everything, .Here and there a" tear .- he carelessly dashed off, , as though it were from influenza or a cold in the head. ' But some' of " you . know how a young man feels when set down in a city, of 'strangers, thereafter to fight his own battles, and no one near by seeming to care whether he lives or (Ilea. - iuc ceiiliio ui a ucocxv, utvuvu o iourner to the first settlement, is, not much more solitarr. ' ) But that evening ; as the hour for closing has come there are two or three young men who side up to Edward and ask him how he " likes 1 the city; and where he eioects to slo that night, and if he would like, them to show him the. sights. He thanks them . and says he shall have to take some eveiiinga4or unpackingnd- maki6gMrangemla as he lias just arriyedbutay3 that after awhile he will be glad to accept their company. 5 After spending two or three evenirigs in his boarding houses room walking up and down, looking at the bare wall or an old cbroino- hung there at the time that j religious newspapers by such . prizesj advanced their sub scription lists, and after, an hour toy ins with the match V box and ever and iinon -examining his watch to see if it is time lo retireand it seem3 . that, lu o'clock wiU neypr come, he resolves to accept the chaperoning of his new friends at the store, : " . The following! night they are all pnt together. Although his salary, ia hot large- he is quite flush -with, pocket money, which the old folks gave him after saving by for some time. 'He can not. be mean, and these friends are do ing all this for his pleasure, and so he pays all the bills. At the door of places of. enchantment;.' his companions can not find the change, and they accidental ly fall behind r just as . the ticket Office is approached, or- they say they, will make it all right,-. and will themselves pav the next time.- Edward, accustomed to farm life or village life, is dazed and enchanted with the glitters of spec tacular suk Plain and blunt iniquity Edward would' have immediately re pulsed, but s.in ; accompanied by be bewitching orchestra; sin amid gilded pillars and gorgeous" unholstery: sin arrayed in all- the ; attraction that "the powers of darkness in combination , can arrange to magnetize 'a young man;, is verv different from sin in its loathsome and disgusting Bhape. . But after a few nights -being; very late out, he say- i "I must stop. ' My purse won't -stand this.' My health won't stand this.,;. My reputation won't stand this. - Jndeed, . one of the bust ness firm one night , from nis " private box, in wh'ch applauded a play, in which attitudes and phras.efllQgy oa curred, which X taken or uttered in his own parlor would have . caused him to shoot or sjtab the, actor on the spot- from this high-priced box sees in a cheaper place ' the new" clerk . of his store, and is. let to ask questions about his habits, and; wonder ? how on the salary the house pays him, he loan do as he does. Edward to recover his physical, vigor and his finances, stop ped - "awhile, and spent 8" few more even ings examining' the-;chromo on the wall aud counting the matches in the match J?ox, or goes 4own into - the boarding house; : parlor to hea.the gos sip about the other boarders - or a dis course on the insufficiency of the table fare considering the price paidthe criticism severe -in proportion as the fault-finder pays litjle'or js resolved to leave unceremoniously and : pg.y hotli ing at all. . ''':- r;Tr :. . I , ' 'Confound it !" cried he young man, "T cannot stand ' this ' life any longer. and Ilnust gq quf; and ' se the world.3' The same y qu'n & man aha ? others of a now larger acquaiiftnj jire .ready Stp escort him. There is never any lack, of auch guidance. it a -man wants the whole round of sin he can find, plenty to . take -him", a v whole : regiment who know tlje way. But after awhile Ed ward's money is all gone. . - He has r re ceived his salary ftgain and gaini, but it was spent lefqre lje gQt" it, borrow ins a little here and a little there. What shall he do now? yyhy, he has seen in his rounds of. the gambling tableamen who put dowhr a .dollar and- took up ten, pqt down a hundred and took up a thousand. . Wliy not he? To, recon land takes another handand loses' . When ne nrst came to tue city. sm. ward was disppsed.to keep gjqqday in quietness, reading a WtUe, aud-gQing ooeasionally tp hea ' a I sermon. 5 Now, it is a day of carousal.-He is so full of 8tru9t Qs ftqa,nces,qe taKes a nana ana Tfrins; is f oj pleaged I he , takes ' another tialnd AUdl wins: is ina frenzy of delight an. in the day he licensed mm staggers into one " of the holes of the cit v.' 1 " . t ; Some morning, Edwar0," ws oreatn stenchf ul with rum, takes his place in the store. He is : not fit to be there. He is listless, silly ? or impertinent,'. or in some way incompetent, and mes senger comes to him and says; ' T 'The firm desires to see yoii iin ; their private office. ; ffi-0' Wvc ."" i'-trHlr-S .The gentleman in ' theVpwy ate ..office says: . r v.ff-.;: j:!i!:-ti - fEdward,;we willao peea yott, any more. ' We owe you a little money for services since ire paid you- last, ana hereit is." ?;f9iW--ws;-t "r.-hii 5 c. -'r 'What is the matter?" says, the young man. . "I cannot understand this. '.Have I done anything?" .Thereply i8:,',We do not wish any words with you. r Our engagement with each other is ended." t H ' ' l T ft "Out of employment.", what does that mean to a good young Jjoan? f It tmeans opporttmrty o 'get another wna perhaps a better placet- -it - means' ppr portunity Jor mental improvement . and preparation for higher work., ,"Ont Of employment!" hat does that' mean to a dissipated young man , it t means a liarhtnincr express train on a down grade on the Grand Trunk, to perdition Al Bprak was a winged 4orse on which Mahomet pretended to have ridden by nisrht from Meeca" to" Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem to the seventh heaven," with such speed that each step was as far as the eye could reach. A' young man out of employment through; his dissipations is seated on an - AJ Borak, riding as fast in the opposite direction; It is now only . five years" since Ed ward came to tOwtf, ' He used to write home once a week vat tbe longest.! He fhas not written home for three months. "What can be the matter?" say the bid people at heme, i; One Saturday morn ing the father puts on the best apparel of his wardrobe and goes ,to the city to find -out. ' ' -V'V-'! " '.'Oh, he has not been here for a long while." say. the gentlemen , of I the firm. "Your son, I am sorry to say, is on the wrong track." " ,' ;; ; . -. The old father goes hunting him from place to place,and comes snddenly upon him that nisrht in a "place' of abandon- rmerit, The father says i "My son," come with me: your mother has sent me to bring you home. . I hear you are out of money ana good.ciotnes, ana you kuowj as long as we live you can have a home. ; Come right away, he says; putting ; his hand on the young man s shoulder. In angry tone Edward replies, "lake your hands ott me! lou : min a your own business: 1 will do as. l-piease: Take vour hands " off of ' me or I will strike you down T You go your way and I will go mine!" ; f ', , ':;::y: That Saturday - night, or rather Sun day morning for it is by this time 2 o'clock in- the morning the' father goes to the city home of - his son Nich olas, and rings the . bell, and rings again, ajid agaiA and tit seems as if no answer wouia w given; dui alter a while a window is hoisted and a voice cries, -"Who's there?' - ? : ? -v"It is me,' says the old man. "Why, fathey, is that you?" i - In a minute the door la opened" and the son says; "What in the -world has brought you to the eity: at this hour of the night?":.. -r... ' : ,: :Jl- "Oh ! Edward has brought me here. I feared your; mother would go stark crazy not hearing from him, and I find out that it is. worse; with him than ' I suspected." ; " f r : ' t . -i 'x- - "Yes," says Nicholas, fI. had not the heart to write yon anything about it. I have tried my best with him and all in vain. -. But it is after 2-o'olock," says Nicholas to his father, nd I will take y ou to a bed." .' " -y On a comfortable conch in that house the old father lies down coaxing "sleep for a few. hours, but . no , sleep comes. Whose house is it? That - of ; hia" son Nicholas. - The fact; is' that Nicholas soon after - coming to t the city became indispensable ia , ; cpmmercial . es tablishment where he was plaoed. He knew, what ' few : persons know, that while in all - departments of business, and mechanism, and art ; there is a surplus-of people of ordinary application and ordinary diligence,- there is a great scarcity, ancl always has been a great scarcity, of people who excel- 1'lenty of people ; to - do things' poorly or tof- at very ; tew cierks, ; or qv meohanios who-' can do splendidly well.. V Appreciating thisH Nicholas had resolved to do so grandly that the business zirm; could not do without him. i Always; at his place a little after everybody . had gone. As extremely polite to those who decline purohasing as to those iyhQ made large prohases. He drank np wine, for he saw it: was the empoisooment of multi tudes, and when any one asked him to take something he said r "No" with the peculiar intonation- that meant no. His conversation was always f as ' pure as if his sisters had been listening. .He' went to no place of amuemeut w-here be would be ashamed tQ":4e. H never bet or gambledi even; at: a church' fair! When he -as i at - the boarding , house, afterha-nad got all the artistic de yelopeiuent he buld, possibly . receive from the ohromo on the wall, he began no siuuy iuai wuiou woiua ueip.mm .to promouonstuqy penmanship, 'study oung ations, and ' was not ; ashamed 3 tor: be found at a church prayer meeting. He rose from position to-position, and from one salary to anpthdr salarv. y ;. Qqly five years in tqwn, ; 4 ye.hej Qfts renea na qwn ; npijs,e , qr suite of rqpms', . nqt very ; large, t but "Jaree enough in its; happiness to be a type of father with . ; handkerchief ; in : hand pomes crying down stairs to the; table there" are four persons,' ; one ' to each side; the yxrnng man, - and -opposite to him the best blessing ? that a God of in- nnne guouue can oesiow,- namely, a good wife; and oh anqtljer s4e the high chair filled with dimpled; and rollick ing glee that makes , the erandfather opposite smUe onide 5-whfle 'be; has a sWellf as I said;ii;3waji'SAbbaa Niohelaa and his father, knowing that there la no place so appropriate for 'a intoxicant by 11 o'clock biographies oi suppagsiui men; or went fqrth to places of innocent amusement and ipvYouhg Men s Christian Associ- troubled soul as tLe house of God,; find their way to c.hu r . Ii. It is' communion day, and what 'is the old ' man's sur prise to see his sc v pass down the aisle with one of the s. ver chalices, show ing him to be a . Imrch- official. . The fact was, that k slas from the start in' the city life honored God,' and God hadlionored him. : When' the first wave of city temptation struck him he had felt the need of divine guidance and di vine : protection,-- and in prayer had sought ; a regenerr 4ed heart,- and rhad obtained that mightiest of all armor, that mightiest of all protection, that mightiest j ,of all ; re-enforcements, - the multipptent and - omnipotent grace; of' God, ana you" might - as well throw a thistle down against Gilbraltar, expect ing to destroy it., as with: all the . com bined temptations of earth and hell try to Overthrow; a young man who: can thruthfnlly say: VGod is my "refuge 'and; strength.-";;;';- ;;;.-. ;; Come let us measure Nicholas around the head. - As maky inches of brain as any other; intelligent man. liet us measure him, around, the .heart. . It is so large it takes ' in all the earth and all the heavens. -Measure him around the purse. He. has more resources than nine-tenths of those who' on that Mon day, Septt 20i 'came - in on, any 'of the railroads,' from north or south or east or west. - - ..r -- . ..-.'. But that Habbath afternoon, --.while in? the; back joom Nicholas' and -his father are talking ' over an attempt jat the reclamation, of fidwara, mere - is a ringing of the door; bell,-; and a man with the uniform of a policeman stands there) and a man, - with some embar rassment, and .some . halting,;- and - in a round-about . way r- says that in a fight in some low haunt of the city Edward had been hurt. w He .'says to- Nicholas: "I heard that he was some relation ; of yonrs, and thought you ought to know it "- '--i;.; ,?' !L;'-?.-?:s'!-- ..'"Hurt?; Is he badly hurt?" :.;:'.; "Yes, very badlv hurt." . v. . : MIs the wound. mortal?" -4" "Yes, it is mortal. To tell you the whole truth' sir,'' says, the policeman, "although I can hardly bear to tell you, he is dead." '-' ' - . rf -Dead P' cries Nicholas. And by this time the whole family are in the hall way. The father says:. "Just as T feared;; It will kill ' his mother when she hears of it. : Oh, - vox. Bon my son! Would to God I had died for thee..,Oh, my son,' my son !" ' ;-;"; -pn ' .'-A',' i "Wash off the "wounds," says Nich olas,;'and bring him right here to my house, and let there be all respect and gentleness shown him. - It is the best we can do for himi". . ": t- -Jv" :zi-:': Oh what. obsequies! The next door neighbors hardly knew what was going on;, but Nicholas aqd the father . and mother i knew.. ' Out of ; the Christian and beautiful home of the one brother is carried the ' dissolute ibrother. ; ;: No word of blame uttered. No -harsh things said. " On a bank of camellias is spelled out the word "brother..." " Had ihe prodigal been true and pure and noble in life and honorable in death he could not have been carried forth with more tenderness, j. or slept in a more beautiful casket, or been deposited in a more beautiful garden of -the dead. Amid the loosened turf the brothers who left the country for city life five years before now part - forever. - The last, scene of the fifth .act of an awful tragedy of human life is ended. t . r What made the difference - between these two young men? . Religion. The one depended on himself, the other de pended on God.. -They started from the same home, bad the same oppor tunities of education, ; arrived in the city on the. same, day,; and if there was any durerenee, luawaru f: had . the ad vantage,, for he was brighter and quick er and air the neighbors prophesied greater success for him' than for Nicholas.- ; But . behold and wonder -at the tremendous secret.;;; Voices come tup pnt of this audience and say : 'Did you know- these "brothers "les, knew them well," ; "'Did you know their pa rents?" "Yes, -Intimately." "What was the city, what the street, what the last names of these young men? ; xou have excited bur curiosity ; .now tell us aU." .: - ;;;K;-- ;V: .,:-' ; - ' -1 will. - Nothing in thesp; characters' is ficticious ; except the names. -They are in every .city, and in; every - street of every city, and in .eyery country ." Not :wq : of them, but ten thousand. Aye,, aye! .. Bight before me to-day and on either side of me; and . above; me, they ait and stand, the s invulnerable through ; religious ' defense - and; the blasted of city-allurements.. Those who shall have longevity in beautiful homes, and others who. shsfj.) -h.aye; early" graves of infamy. Jinti - f am here ; today in the name of Almighty God, to give you the choioe of the - two characters, the two histories, the two experiences," the two destinies, the two worlds, ( the two eternities.;- - Standing with you at the forks of the road, something makes me- thinkthat if today-1; set before the- people the terminal of the two roads thev will all of them take the right one. ..There are , . - 1 1 i - -i . - ii - Deiore me in mis nouse uu m me in visible audience back-; of - this for journalism ' has generously; given me every, week full opportunity to address me peopie in aii .vuBuwns ana cmes of Christendom- I say, in the visible and invisible, audience ; there r are many who have not' fully.- .made up their minds which road lo take.: "Come with us!" cry all the voices of righteousness. "Come with usT' pry C all the voices, of sin. -, ; r .- :.;.-- Now; the trouble ; is that many make disgraceful surrender. y all Itnow, there; is; honerabl. and dignified ; sur render, as when a small host -yields to superior numbers. ' It is no" humili ation for a thousand men to yield to ten thousand.; It is better than to keep on when, there can' be no result except that of massacre. "But those who sur render to sin make a surrender, jwhen on their side they nay ejflou.gh reserve forces to rout fUl anjps. of perdi tidn.-whether led on by what a demono grapher calls Belial, or; Beelzebub" or A Twillvnn. or- Abaddon, or Ariel.-"; The disgraceful taing about the surrender at sedan was that the. i?'rencii handed over 410 field guar and mitrailleuses, fl.lMHl horses, ana oiJ, w armed men .and tKMXKJ. 4nd it ia base for that man to surren- der to sin when all the armaments of Almightiness would 5 have wheeled to the front to fight his battle if he had waived the earnest signal. But; no! He surrendered body, mind, soul, repu- tation, home, ;, pedigree, time, V and eternity, ' wjiile i yet all; .the prayers of his Christian "ancestors; Vere on his side and all the proffered . aid supernal. cherubic, seraphic,- angelic, deific. '-" - ;Weiiave talked so much the last few weeks -abbut the abdication of Alex ander of Bulgaria, but what " a paltry throne was that from which - the un happy kiner descended compared- with the abdication ' of that young man, or middle aged man, or old man, who quits the throne of his opportunity and turns his back upon ' a heavenly throne, and tramps off into iernomitv and ever lasting exile, - That is - an abdication enough to shake a universe. -'.In Persia they will not have a blind man on the throne, and when a - reigninar monarch is' jealous of some ambitious relative he has his eyes extinguished.. -8o that ; he cannot posibly ever come to crowning. And that suggests the difference be tween the way sin: and divine grace takes -iold of a. man. The former blinds him ' so he : may ; never . reach a "throne, while the latter illumes -the bund that he may take coronation. -' Why this sermon?- I made up my mind that our : eity life is destroying too many young men. There, comes in every September and October a large influx of those between 16 and: 24 years of age, and New York and Brooklyn damn at least a thousand of them every year. , They are shoveled off and down with no more "compunction than that with which- a coal-heaver- scoops the anthracite into a yard - cellar. What with the "wine eup, and ' the. gambler's dice, land , the scarlet enchantress, no ydung man, without the grace of God, is safe ten minutes. ' . ;' " ; There : is 'much discussion about which, is the worst "city of the continent. Some say New York, some say New Or? leans, ;e6me say Chicago,' some say St. Louis.4 " What X have to say is. you can not make much comparison. between the! innniues. ana in an our eities the temp tation seems infinite. We keep a great many mills runninjr dav and morht. Nn rice mills r -cotton -muls; not mills of corn Or wheat, r -but mills for grinding up men.-- SHch are all the grog shops, licensed : and ; unlieensed j such are all the gambling saloons; such are all the houses of infamy;- and we do the work -1. 1 --. ' ' a'- - aocuruiug w law, ana.; we -Turn out new gnst every hour, and grind up warm hearts and clear heads,, and ; the earth about a cider mill is not more sat urated with the beverage ; than the ground about all these mind-destroying institutions is saturated with the blood of victims. We say to Long Island neighborhoods- and villages, "Send us more supply;" and to Westchester and Ulster and all the - other counties of New York;. "Send us more men and-wo men to put under the wheels." Give us full chance and we could grind up in ine municipal mm ouu a. day. We have enough machinery; - we - have enough men who can ruu - them. '.- Give us more homea to crush! a Give us more parental hearts to pulverize! Put into the hopper. the ward-robes and the fam ily Bibles and the livelihood of wives and children . Give us more material for these mighty mills,; which are wet with tears and sulphurous with woe. and trembling with' the earthquake of an incensed God, who will, tiuleia our cnies repent, -cover uaup as quiekand as aeep-as iu AUgwo or theyear.7 Ve suvius avalanohed Herculaneum. - Oh,man and woman, ponder the path of thy feet! See which way-you are gor ing. : Will you have the .destiny of Ed- wara or isicuoiasi un this sacramen- ptal day, when the burnished : chalices stand . in fhe presence of , the people. start from the foot of the cross for use fulness and heaven. ' Plutarch tells us that after Ctesar was slain and his twen tythree wounds had been displayed to tne. people, arousing, an uncontrollable excitement,; and the body f the dead conqueror, according to ancient custom, naa - been , put upon the funeral pile. and . the flames arose, people rushed up. L 1 J .11. LI buy, iroui. lue uiazing mass , torches, with which they ran .HirougU the city crying the glory of theaaaassinated rul er and thps,hajae of his "assassinators. On thi aabramental day; when the five bleeding.wounds of Christ - your -. King are shown to you, - and the fires of His earthly suffering blaze before your im agination,; each one of you take a 'torch and start- heavenward a toroh with light for yourself; and light for others; for the race that starts at the cross ends at the throne. While the twenty-three wounds of Ciesar wrought nothing but the eonsternation of the peopled from thejfive" wounds of . our Conqueror there flows a transforming-power to make all the; uncounted millions; Who accept it forever happy and forever free..--; j- THE FIELD AT LARGK fiCAAAH-pl It isn'i exactly tbe, happy land of Canatt anywhere in this state for oiir cause.; A week's work here convinces rne of this. To be sure, the campaign is not yet well on. ; Nobody has got s tired up. "All sides are indifferent except the right side, . Tat barely exists. -A Then" there appears to be ' an Issue 'of license and prohibition, clear ly defined between" the Bepnblicans and. the Democrats, and - prohibition Bepnblicans can.and do- point with compacency to. their, platform,' and say r "That settleslt ! Our party has declared against the saloon system and w.faTar tif ;laws enforcement. "Wht'more da yon want?f The mere declaration satisfies them. That their nartT made .one equally : strong . and satisfying in 1882, and has not check ed the sale of .liquor perceptibly since does not matter :. All that is wanted on the part of New Hampshire Tem perance Republicans, if one may udge by all he sees and hears, is an ayowed policy in- line with. their state law, on this qnestion, and whatever practices the saloon men wish... Any excuse to s tay with their party is enough. ; "."We can't be driven -out' of it!w " testified their United States Senator, Blair, in the anti-saloon convention at Chicago, Saloons may abound; in Manchester, where he lives, and 150 drinking places may curse Dover,; where lives his candidate for Governor ; and at the state capital signs of ! an Topen liquor traffic may flame out in . daily sight of a Republican executive but the" Senator hugs his - uartv. and. though he goes to Chicago, announces that he will not apply ; for divorce. Yet never a party any where' by such open harlotry with; evil gave; more excuse to honest men for separation.7 Yesterday morning the Manchester Union said : this : "If Senator Blair will guarantee that . the; Republican saloon, shall notyote in New Hamp shire, we will guarantee election of the'' Democraticr ticket. ' It 'was a safe proposition : every - way. - The senator knows too much to accept-: Last night I asked my audiencenot an immense -one. J like Blaine's and mine at Damarescotts, but it fjairly filled the two-quart jug Are ; there no Republican liquor-sellers in New Hampshire ? If you think there are none," I added; "holdup your hands.? Not a hand lifted It is generally admitted, and everywhere understood, that prohibition, so far as enforcement-goes, is here a farce. Last night, also, I called fora show - of hands on ' this question : - "Do you think prohibition of necessity a failure because it is not in this state enforced ?" and not a hand came - up. "Have you any doubt.'M asked, "of the ability of the party in power ;.tb enforce the law and stop liquor - sell ing, if it pleased to try Y and again no one voted. - . it; Now, why is not the law enforced ? Because Republican saloons have the franchise.1 . In those half-dozen words the whole secret of this ; trouble lies. The; law7 does not lack proyisiona for enforcement the party does not lack power to enforce; but let the party eiercise its power, and it would soon lack majority, lack place, lack profi table-being. ; . . Existing lor another purpose than to make prohibition a fact, the Republican party must pre serve its; victorious existence. So argue its leaders j so say the large ma& of its rank and file ; so - concede the liquor men, who' vote its ; ticket because for years they have - gone un molested, or have paid less1 in fines than under ordinary license. And the political conscience ' of New Hampshire, grown torpid as a toad in the granite jock, sleeps von and makes no sign. . ; - ; How,long is it thus to be? That depends. ;' Of course I.- have put ; the case rather strongly have given the worst Tiew of it. Even , the ; best is bad. A few men here and there are conscientious, energetic", willing. But numerically -they are weak, and finan- cLJly they- are not strong.; They have nominated their wealthiest man, CoL Wentworth, for governor,' and hois spending all his time,' and some of his money, in pushing our princi ple. They have a bright state paper, in the' andard- Bearer, well :r edited by the. state committeeV secretary, Rev. J. R. Bartlett, and it struggles to' correct : misrepresentations and falsehoods! of the old; partv press. Yet it is all against great odds; and long cherished prejudices, and bitter hate Everywhere the stale cry of "Democratic : annex ! meets - rs.,. It is believed, too. ;. The echo of Blsune's malicious untruths is , heard on all hands. ' Good men count us in league with the devil and the Democrats It would be amusing if . it were not so abominably mean ;.-; '- ;v: ; ; How.sensitive - New .'England .Re publicans are, and how loyal to their party yet; is illustrated by the follow ing brief note, signed 5Pro J ustitia,' which came tome from Damaribcotta, Me., three days ago: 7 The. next time; you undertake to refute the statements of : Mr. Blame in regard to the Prohibition speakers being imported and paid agents of the Democracy please -read and ex plame to the audience, this-extract from Mr. Blaine's speech, which jrou intentionally and purposely -omitted from your reading last night : "MThey have Kentucky Democrats - j in Maine to-day direct from the Land of Bourboo whisky, to teach temper ance to our people, and Senator Col quitt of Georgia, "a rank partkan Democrat, has been stumping in New York to show how valuable it would be for the cause of temperance if the Republican, party could be destroy ed.' !-; ;-' '- . -; Now.' I did ."purposely and inten tionally, omit to read that just as I omitted to Vead nearly all Mr. Blaine's speech, when I refuted his ' charge that we were not carrying this, party contest South for lack of time. I am sorry I didn't keep that Dama- riscotta audience till Sunday, and -dissect Mr. Blaine sentence by . sent- -ence, as he deserved. .Did ever a -pothouse politician tell a mofe out rageous,; oontemptible lie, to suit a more . rnfiftn. rrTiirnrff Wo rnwnon' , ; -wwM.'.wv . lUjfK) than' this which . "Pro Justitia" quotes from the great' Maine states man ? The lie is double j it includes CoL Cheves and Senator Colquitt. Cheves is from Kentucky, but no lon ger a Democrat ; Colquitt is a "parti san Democrat," but he has not been imping" New York for any 'i pur pose, and he has. never anywhere made speeches '.of the character Blaine indicates. He ;. has . made no party speeches for temperance of any sort He is not a Democratic partisan in this line. He is a non-partisan tem perance speaker jof the; strictest- sect far more so than Mr. Blaine could be, or than any of the "Noh-Parti- s'r are. ; Mr.' Blaine knew, it I have no doubt he did. His Latin- learned friend in . Damariscotta pro bably did- not, and thousands who read the Blame-speech from which -he quotes are equally ignorant. But because a brilliant Republican states man so belittlies himself by delibe rate untruths, must the Prohibition speaker who follows him use a whole -evening in proving them such ? There is a hint in this rather per- sonal reference which it may be well for party Prohibitionists "everywhere to heed. Senator Colquitt, as has been said by Blaine, and denied by no one, is a Democrat. His Northern speeches have been made with few exceptions under non-partisan auspi ces, upon invitation of state alliances or campmeetmg managers. His calls to the North by agencies like these has been fitting, and as a Northern man, grateful for. Southern hospitali ty, I have . rejoiced - in ,them, and have ; myself enjoyed hearing him repeatedly." But to invite Senator Colquitt to Prohibition party plat form is as inconsistent as it would be to invite Mr. Blaine there himself. Indeed,; strictly speaking,- Blaine comes nearer being a party Prohibi tionist than does. Colquitt." Blaine avows himself for, prohibition in Maine, and his party there avows it self for prohibition. Colquitt de clares for' prohibition; everywhere, but his party nowhere declares for it, and he stands by his party. If Sen ator Colquitt had 'been "imported" into Maine by our prty managers, to speak there, ; Mr. Blaine's charge -would-have had' fairjustification provided, of course, the senator had said what has been maliciously im-, puted'to him. As he has nowhere advocated the Prohibition - party, or assailed the Republican, or sought to show how valuable its destruction would be for the cause of temperance, , the Maine statesman stands convicted of political libel before every audi ence which the Georgia senator has addressed.;"' - ; The - keynote" of ; our opposition, , through many coming Prohibition ' campaigns North, was sounded again in Maine. It , was hot new, but a louder voice gave it' than ; had been heard before, and 'more people list- ened. In'New Hampshire they will feign to hear ; little else. Finch is eoming here next month, - and the papers are discounting him as a De mocrat in 'advance. I; wish Chevis were coming also, that these Phari saical patriots might meet a genuine exrebel fighter face to face, ltook a grim pleasure in telling them ' last night that there are more rebels and more rebellion right " here in New Hampshire - than in Mississippi I said it smilingly; but I fear some of them thought, with Shakespeare, that 'a man may smile, and smile, and be a villian too." - "" ;-. ' ; : . - Let ho one get an impression that we shall make no growth in this state this ML We shall. It may equal that intfease of Maine. ' I only desire to show-under what disadvantages we. must labor, and what are the diUcul ties to overcome. There are some compensations, ' chiefly to be drawn upon hereafter; of which I would speak were not my space filled. They center in New " England conscience and : education. By-and-by-they will appear. A. A. IIopeixs. 1 - . f - Y
The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.)
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