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GREENSBORO, N:. 0, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1886.;
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JiiUL JJiii JL AXP IN JLUJlo
? -THE SALOON-KEEPER'S VISION.
BY KISSli. A. N.
. I bave had a fearful vision, r , v r ', .-.
, ' And it haunts my memory yet :
, Doleful shapes in wild collision,
Sounds l ean never forget.
. ' I within my home was seated - . -',.
At the twilight hour of day :- -n
my home, where luxuries greeted--,
- Every sense in fair array.
'leased; I looked on my surrouunding
' With a glance of kindling pride, ; - - ;
. . Oil the comforts so abounding
' ' By my daily gains supplied:-'
On a sudden, through the doorway,
. Lo I a weird procession came :
- . Struggling forms as on a forays - : ;
Every age and every name. .
v , - -. - v , . - - . .
Onward came they-r-oh 1 their number,
Filing through that pleasant room, ;
. From mine eyelids driving slumber,
Shading everything with gloom, u
: Staggering gait and bloated features,
y "Leering glances there were seen ; "
Bagged, dirty, loathsome creatures,
Wrecks Of what they might have been.
Stolid faces, or impassioned, .
. , fierce with fighting and disputes, '
Man, so near the angels fashioned,
Sunken lower than the brutes, ,
-Wives and mothers broken-hearted, ' :
Weeping infants, pale and wan.
Women from all shame departed, -Children-with
sweet childhood gone.
Wild delirium's frenzied aspects .
EfAlI the ills intemperance brings,
Like a swarm of noxious insects
Stinging me with countless stings. . -
Circling round me, nearer, nearer,
Came that hideous, serried band,
Filling all my frame with terror,
Powerless, still to move a hand. "
' .. . ... . "
With their finger toward me pointed,
Fixed, on me the bloodshot stare.
Cursed me thus ; ''Thou hast done it ;
Thou hast made us what we are J"
Then my child, my loved Alicia,
Took her harp and struck a chord,
But the sounds which thence made issue,
Smote my spirit like a sword.
Cries of anger, shrieks of madness,
Waiiing tones of pain and woe,
Language foul, and groans of sadnessr
Mingled with the music's flow.
Softly sang she in sweet measures,
, With a voice unknown to crime ;
Sang of happy homes and pleasures, - -'
And of deeds of olden time.' ,
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i-. , ' "
Yet alike o'er song and sonnet
- Ever rose' that sad refrain.
"Thou hast done it, thou hast done it ;
. ' Thou hast caused us all this pain."
Conscience, with a voice accusing, '
Laid these evils at my door,
'While Remorse, new "tortures using,
- - Wounded my heart's inmost core.
Then Unconsciousness; relieving,
' Kindly to my succor came,
But I woke again to greiving
' Would to God 'twere but a-dream I
Ps. viii. 5 "Thou hast made him a-lit-tle
lower than the angels." - '
. National Temperance Advocate.
"AS MANY AS I LOVE;
rev. m. 19.
' :As many as I love love. I
The shadows fall upon our sunny hours
'v.:.: Darkness and sorrow move
Amid our treasures, in our joy-built towers.
" Yet this sweet comfort ever may be onrtt
As many as I Jove I
. As many as I love !
To human eyes God's "dealings oft seem
' ' dark ; ' . - - - '
' But he would only prove
'" The sunBght where the cloud alone we
mark;-" ' .
lie says--if "wounded souls ; woud onl
' ,hark '
As many as I love ! .
.: . -As many as I love! . , - -
O burdened, sorrowing heart, this is fo;
T thee.
- Thy Father's hand above; . -! '
In meeting out these trials but to be -j
The measure of A good thou canst not see
- . .: - As many as I love.
: . . As many as I love! . , ' .
Oh! earth's affections are but poor to 'this
t " Which reaches from above!
They, mortal frailties, ' change, and ,fade
' and miss ".-, -
But this thought gives everlasting bliss
. As many as I love! ;
'As manv as I love!
When life, work, pain' and waiting, alj
are o'er. - "
- ' Our earth-tied feet shall move
. - Upon golden streets on the celestial shore
And we shall sing with saints lorevermore
v- - f As many as I love!' ,
BARTER.-
"Give me the gold from off thy hair, . ;
,The rose upon thy cheeks that lies,, - '
" Thy singing voice that everywhere; "
Makes laughter in the trembling air, .- i
i The young joy.in thine eyes.'!:-
"What will you give to me, oh say
Thou gray old man with restless wi
For love's entrancing morn of May.
For dawn and freshness of , 'the day,
"' And life that leaps and sings!" r . -
.'Lo! I will make thy footsteps slow -
Across the flowers that bend and wave;
And for thy gold will give thee snow, "
And silence for thy laughter low,, -y- ,
Darkness, a grass-grown grave.,"'
, , - Boston Transcript,'
TABEENACLE SEEHON. ;,
DK.- TALMAGE 1 PREACHES TO
? ' MERCHAITTS-AD BUS-'
. - J INESS MEN: S
TH3; SCHOOL? OP HARD KNOCKS"; THE
- Sub ject of his disCouese jbusi-
NElk LIFE A SCHOOL OE PATIENCE
: AND CHRISTIAN ' INTEGRITY -IN-
- DUCEMENTS FOR KNAVERY, ' V '
: Brooklyn, Oct 31.-rThe-Beryi3es
at the Brooklyn Tabernacle are' aU
tended by laxce numbers of fnerebants
and business men from all ; parts of
this country and from loreign lands,
and the following sermon, preached
by the Rev;: T. PeWitt .Talmage, ) J),
D., thi3; 'morning, : was timely. He
selected for the opening hymn of the
service that beginning': .-
Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world "go free?' :
The text was Romans xii, 11 : "Not
slothful in business ; fervent in spirit,
serving the Lord.' ' -
: Industry, i devotedness, Christian
service are all recommended in this
one short text. "What f is it possible
to conjoin them ? 0 yes ! Tfeere is
no war between religion and business:.
iKJiweeii xiuxes ana leugers,- Between
churches and counting houses. . On
the contrary, religion accelerates
business, sharpens men's wits, sweet
ens acerbity of disposition, fillips the
blood - of phlegmatics, and throws
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more velocity into all the wheels of
hard work. To the judgment it
gives more skillful balancing ; to the
will more strength; to industry more
muscle ; to enthusiasm a more con-
centraiied fire. You cannot show me
a man whose business prospects have
in any wise be en despoiled by his re
ligion. '.V ' , -The
industrial classes are divided
into three groups producers, manu
facturers, . traders. Producers, such
as farmers and miners. -Manufactur
ers, such as take the corn and change
jinto food, or the wool and flax and
change them into apparel. - Traders,
who mak e a profit out of the transfer
and exchange of" that which is pro
duced or manufactured; Now, a
business man may belong to one of
these classes or may belong to all of
them. Whatever be your avocation,
if you plan, calculate, bargain ; if in
to" your life there ; come annoyances,
vexations : and disappointments, as
well as gains, dividends and percent
ages ; if you are harressed with a mul
tiplicity of engagements ; in a - word,
if you are driven from Monday morn
ing to Saturday night and from Jan
uary to. January with relentless obli
gations and: duty, then you are a
business man or business woman, and
my subject is appropriate to your
case." We ; are apt to speak of the
moil and tug " of 4business life as
though it were an inquisition -or a
prison into which a man is ' thrown
or an unequal strife where, half arm
ed, he goes to contend. Hear me,
this morning, while I try to show
you that God intended, business life
to be a glorious education and discij)-
line, as d if-1 shall -be successful in
what y IA shall say I ' shall rub the
wrinkles out of your brow and un
strap somejof the burdens from your
back. . ' ' -
j. I have' first to remark that God in
tended" business , life -to be-.-, to you a
school-: tf Christian energy.,. God
started us in the World, giving ns' a
certain amount of raw material ' out
of which' we ;- were to hew,, our own
character. Every faculty peeds to be
reset, rounded, sharpened up. After
our 'young people have graduated
irom tne scnoo is r ana colleges ana
universities, they need- a higher edu
cation, that .which "the collision and
rasping of everyday life'alone can ef
fect.- Energy of soul ; is wrought not
only in. the fire. And - when a man
for ten,' or .fifteen, or twenty, or thirty
years ha? been going through; busi
ness activities, Jiis ' energy . can no
longer be measured by weights, or
plummets, of ladders It can.-scale
any height It can plummet any
depth. : -It can 'thrash any .obstacle
Now, do you suppose .that God has
spent all this education .on you -for
the purpose .of: making you a. more
successful worldhn e, . of enabling you
to more rapidly accumulate '- dollars,
making yon sharp in a trade ? Did
God make you merely to "be-a yard
stick to measure cloths, or a steelyard
to weigh -flour ? And did'He intend
you to spend your life ingoing-nothing
but to chaffer and higgle ? " My
friendrHe has putyou-in this school
to develop your energy for His cause
and kingdom There is enough un
employed talent in-the churches, and
in the world . to-day, ? to. 'reform all
empires,' and all kingdoms and people
in three weeks. ,j .0, how much idle
ness and : strong muscles and stout
hearts I ! ; How- many ; deep streams
that turn no mill wheels and haul on
the bands of : no factory ? God de
mands Hhat hevhave the;.best lamb
out of. every flocky the richest -. sheaf
in ; every harvest, - the best of men
of every generation ; and in a . cause
where the Newtons ;and the Lockes
and-the Mansfields of the . earth were
proud to enlist, you .and I need.; not
be ashamed to ' toil. : 0," for fewer
idlers ' and for : more consecrated
Christian workers I : f -. ' :
'Again r-". God' intended business
life to be to you a school of patience.'
How many little things there are in
onev day's engagements to perturb,
and annoy, and disquiet you. .Bar
gains will rub, and men will break
their engagements. Collecting agents
will come back empty handed. Trick
sters in: business will play upon what
they call the "hard times," when in
any, times they j. never, pay." Goods
placed 'on the wrong shelf. Cash
books and money drawerin a quarrel.
Goods ordered for an especial emer
gency failing to tome, or, if coming,
damaged in the transportation.' Peo
ple who intend no harm going about
shopping, unrolling goods they do
not mean to buy,' and trying to break
the dozen. ' Men: obliged to take up
other people's notes- More counter
feit bills in the t drawer. More bad
debts, i Andther ridiculous panic.
Under all this : friction . men break
down, or they are scoured up into
additional brightness. - How many
you and I have known who, in the
past few years have gone down under
the pressure, and have become petu
lant, and "choleric, and crabbed, and
sour, and pugnacious, until custo
mers forsook their stores, and these
merchants have . become insolvent,
and their names - were pronounced
with detestation ! But other men
have - found in I this a school for
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patience. They toughened under the
exposure. They were like rocks, more
servicable for the blasting. There
was a time when they had to choke
down . their wrath. : There " was ' a
time when they thought, of a stinging
retort they would like' to utter. But
now they have conquered their im
patience. They have kind words for
sarcastic flings. They have a polite
behaviour for discourteous customers.
They have forbearance for unfortu
nate debtors. They have moral re
flections for the sudden reverses of
fortune. - How are you going to' get
that grace of patience ? Not through
hearing ministers preach about it.
Oh", no. ; If you get it at all you ' will
get it in the world, where yon sell
hats, and plead causes, and. tin ' roofs,
and make shoes, and turn banisters
and plow corn-i I pray. God; that
through the, turmoil and sweat and
exasperation of j your everyday life
you may hear the :.voice. of Christ
saying to you : - Vlf patience possess
your soul," let patience have -a perfect
work." ! ,. - : 1 v : - ; '.
Again :', God . intended - business
life to be to you a school for the at
taining' of knowledge. ' Merchants do
not read -many books, nor '- sturdy
manv lexicons, nor. dive into grea
profounds,, yet through the force -of
circumstances they get intelligent on
questions of;- politics, - and. financed
'and geography' and jurisprudence
and ethics. Business is a hard school"
mistress. : If her pupils will not learn
in any, other way, with ( unmerciful
hand she smites r them on the head
and on the; heart with inexorable loss.
You went inio some . business enter
prise, and five thousand dollars got
out ot your grasp. : xou say the live
thousand dollars was wasted. O, no !
that ;v was only tuition. Expensive
schooling', but it'. was worth it. - Mis
fortune, with hard hand, comes upon
a man und wakes him up, and. by the
very force of circumstances business
men get to be -intelligent. - Traders
in grains. must know : about foreign
harvests. ; Traders . in fruits must
know abomt the prospects' of tropical
production! Manuracturers of Amer
ican oods must know about the tariff
on imported articles f Publishers "of
books must-., know the : new law 'of
copyright. Owners of .ships come to
understand winds and -4 sKbals f and
navigation. 'And' so' - every bale . "
cotton, and every raisin c cask, . and
every tea box, and every cluster of
bananas, become literature to our
business men. Now, what is the use
of all this intelligence unless yon
give it to Christ ? - Do yon snppose
God gives ' you these opportunities
of brightening np your intellect and
of increasing your ; knowledge merely
to get larger treasures and grander
business ? 0, ; no ! Can it ; ; be that
you hate been learning about foreign
lands and. people that-dwell' under
other skies, arid yet have no mission
ary spirit ? Can it be that yon have
been learning the follies and tricker
ies and hollowness of ; the -r business
world, and yet you are not trying to
bnng to bear , upon them this gospel
which is to correct all abuses, and
abolish all ignorance, and correct all
mistakes, and arrest all - crime; and
irradiate all darkness, and lift up all
wretchedness ? Can it": be that, not
withstanding your acquaintance' with
the intricacies of business, you are
ignorant of those things which . will
last the soul long after bills of. ex
change and commissions and invoices
and consignments and rent rolls have
been crumpled up and consumed in
the fires of a judgment day.- . -
Again : God intended business life
to be to you a school of Christian in
tegrity. . ' No age of the world ever
offered; so : many inducements for
sconndrelism as are offered now.
There is hardly a statute on the law
books that has not some - back . door
through ; which : miscreants can es
cape. How many deceptions in the
fabric of goods I Commercial ' life
plies the land with trickeries innum
erable, arid there are so many people
in Brooklyn and New York who live
a life of plunder, that when a man
proposes a straightforward, honest
business, it" is almost charged to
greenness and 'want of - tact. ; Ah 1
breathren, this ought not to be. But
I have to tell you that it requires
more grace to be honest how than" it
did in the -days of our fathers, when
business was plain, .and there were no
stock gamblers, and woolen was wool
en, and silk was silk, and men were
men. How fare it is that yon find a
man who can from his heart say r "I
never, cheated in trade. I never
oversighted the value of goods when
I was selling them. I never covered:
up a defect in a' fabric I never play
ed upon the ignorance of a customer,
and in all my estate there isnot one
dishonest farthing." There are those
who can say it; They never let their
integrity. bow or cringe to present ad
vantage. They ; are as . pure arid
Christian to-day as on the day " when
they sod their first tierce of rice or
their first firkin of butter. .There
were times when they v could have
robbed a partner, when they could
have absconded with the funds of a
bank, when they could have sprung
a snap judgment, when they could
have borrowed inimitably, when they
could have made a" false assignment,
when; they could have ruined a neigh
bor for the . purpose of picking up
some of the - fragments ; but they
never took onejstep on that pathway
of hell fire. Now they can'pray with
out being haunted? with the chink of
dishonest gold. Now they can read
the Bible without thinking of the day
when with a lie on their soul, they
kissed the book in a " custom ; house,
Now they can look into the laughing
faces of their children without think
ing of orphans left by them penniless
and homeless ." Now they can think
of death without having-their knees
knock together, nd their .hearts
tink, and their teeth chatter,' because
there is a judgment where all de
frauders, and jockeys, and tricksters,
and - charlatans , shall e doubly
damned'. Now thev can read in the
Bible without flinching : ' : "As the
partridge sitteth on eggs and hatqh
eth them , not j so he that- getteth
riches, and not by right, shall leave
them in the midst of his days," and at
the end shall be a fool." 1: Alas ! ifi
any of you, for the purpose, of getting
out of temporary embarrassment, dare
tosell your soul or any portion of it
You may .wake np in the- midst of
emoarrassment ana say i..yio one -is
looking. This transaction imay b$ a
little out of ihe way, but' it is -k only
once, only once ; On that one occa
sion you riot only wrecyour spiritual
nature but yori despoil your business
prospects. You put one' dishonest
dollar in an . estate, but it-will not
stand. ; You may take ta ;- dishonest
dollar and put it down mv the very
depths of the earth, and yon may roll
on the top of it the rocks and moun
tains, and dri top . of the rocks and
mountains you may put all the banks
and moneyed institutions, piling them
up heaven high but that 'one dishon
est dollar down in the depths of the
earth will begin, to: rock,' and - heave,'
and upturn itself until it comes to the
resurrection of damnatipn. You can
not hide a dishonest dollar. . -'' -.
In theireview of this. subject. there
are two or three things I want to say,
and the first is, let us have va ' larger
sympathy for business menuj I think
it is a shame that in our pulpits we
do not oftener preach on this enbject
and show that weappreciate the' sor
rows, arid struggles, andftemptations,
and trials of everyday life.' Men who
toil with the hands are very aptr; to
be suspicious of those who move in
thejworld of trafic and think that
they get their money idly", and that
they give no equivalent. .Meri who
raise the corn, and wheat, and rye, and
oats are very apt to think that -grain
merchants get easy profits.' The first
is very apt to be jealous of the brain.
Jflato ana Aristotle were so, opposed
to all kinds of merchandise that they
said commerce was the curse of the
earth, and they recommended that
cities should never be built any near
er the seacoast than ten miles. But
we have become wiser than that,1 and
yet know that there are ' no harder
workers than those who plan and
calculate in stores and banks - and
counting houses. .. What though theirH
apparel be neat:, what though their
manners be refined, do not put thein
down as idlers. -: Th'ey t carry,loads
heavier than a hocL of bricks, they go
into exposures keener;than the cut
ting of the east wind," they scale
mountains higher than the Alps and
Himalayas, and ' maintaining their
Christian integrity, Christwill at the
last accost them, saying : Welldone,
thou: good and'iithful servant : thou
hast been faithful over a few things
I will make the : ruler J over many,
things ; enter thou into the joy of thy
Lord." '
I also enjoin you to quit all fretful-
ness about business matters. Is there
not something, in your own household
that you would ; not give up for 'the
worldly success other - men have?
Besides that, if these trials lifted you
up, you ought to bless God for the
whip of disciplined The larger the
note yon have to pay, the greater the
uncertainty of business life,the better
for your -soul if Jesus Christ leads
triumphantly through, c How do I
know? I know it by this ' principle
-that the hotter the furnace the bet
ter the ' refining. " There have" been
thousands of men . who. have gone
through the same path "you are now
going through with an aching heart."
There are multitudes before1 the
throne ot God who were lashed with
cares : and anxieties innumerable
and were cheated but of evrything
but their coffini They were ' suedtHey
were ejected, theyv were - imprisoned
for debt; they were maltreated, they
were throttled" by -constables with
whole packs of . writs, thy were , sold
out by sfieriffs, they had to V. confess
judments, "thy hadr to compromise
with creditors,"and their last hour, on.
earth was disturbed by the- fact that
their door bell . rung.;' loudly - and
angrily by the :hand of impetuous
creditor, who was surprised that that
sick man should be so impertihent-and
outrageous as to die befor lie had paid
him the last . three shillings . -and
sixpence. Oh! how men are tossed and
driven! I had a friend who went from
one anxiety to another; a good :and
great heart he had, but-; everything
hevput his hand to seemed to , fail.
Misfortunes , clustered around and
after, awhile' I , heard he was dead,
and the first word' I said was: Good!
he has "got .rid of the sheriffs "; There
js a great multitude of business men
who on earth' had it hard, but by the
grace of God they stand triumphant
in heaven; arid .when the questou is
asked of them, "Who are they?" the
angles of God, . standing on ; seas of
glass, will riry ou:t: "These : are, they
who came out of great tribulation
arid had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the Lamb." .
- Again r I want you to seek business
grace. Commercial ethics, business
honor, laws of trade, , may do .very
well for a while; but theie will come
a time when the- ground , will slip
from under your feet and the world
willfrbwn,and the devils will set after
your soul, and 'you will, want more
then than, this world can give you
You will want the' eternal rock to
stand on Forthe Zack of that grace
you have known men toX forge; and
to maltreat their friends, arid; to
curse their enimies and youhave seen
their names bulletined among scoun
drels,; spit upon,- and v blistered by
scorn, and ground to powder. They
riot only lost their property, but their
souls were mauled, , and blasted for
eternity Yon could count-' np scores
of such persons,while there are others
whoi tossed on the same sea, sustained
by the grace of God, have all the time
kept their eye on the lighthouse Men
coming out of that man's store sayj "If i
there ever was a Christain trader, that
is one." Stern : integrty. kept the
books and waited on" the .-customers
Lijht from the . future wprld 'flashed
through the show windows. wrath
never-stamped that floor, nor did sly
dishonesty cover up . imperfections
in goods. Love to God and ; love to
men wererthe principles that ruled in
the store of - that Christain ' trader.
Some day the shutters : are not let
down from the store window and the
bars are not taken from the door.' Men
pass along and stop, and go up to
read a card on ' the ' door which
announces: "Closed on account of the
death of one of the firm."That" death
it is talk in commercial circles that a
good man has gone, Boards of trade
pass resolutions : of sympathy, ; and
churches of Christ pray: "Help,! Lord
for the godly, mari ceaseth." He - has
made his last bargain. He-has suffered
his last loss. He has ached with . his
last fatigue. The results of his : Chris,
tian industry will bless his children
after he is dead, and bequests to the
kingdom" of God will gather many
sons into glory. Everlasting rewards
in place of business discipline." There
"the wicked cease from troubling; and
the weary' are at rest." , . . -
THE PLEDGE AND STKAW-
BERRIES. . ' . '
One of the best temperance lectures
ever deliverd fell from the lips of a
litt'e child in Covington, Kentucky,
the chid of a reformed man. "Father,"
said she,: "are you- always going to
wear the blue ribbon?' " - '
"I hope so, my dear' was his reply.
"So do I," said the little one. '
"Why do you hope so?" asked her
father. - - y
"Because I've never -had so; many
strawberries in my life as I've had
since you TsingriecL the pledge and put
on that blue ribbon." ' , : '
Men who are ,not. feeding saloon
keepers' children can afford luxuries
for their own. Temperance Banner.
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN RAN
. V DOLPH. - .
Somebody put .out the, 'report in
the South part of Randolph, county?
last Monday, that there was going
to- be a negro msurrection.that a large
company of colored men were corning
toward" Thomas ville,V leaving death
and destruction behind them.: As this
.... - . -i . "v. - - . -
report spread," many families ' left
their- homes and fled to the ; adjacent
towns for protection, and it is stated
that from four to five hundred - men
were under arms ready for the attack.
The whole thing gfew out of this lit
tle thing: A smalL company of col
ored men ; who are employed in the
Steele Mine left in a .body going to
Thomasvllle . to : vote. Somewhere
along the route they got whisky - and
got drunkstopping at a house they
called for something to eat, but failed
to get it. " - They used some abusive
language and left. From' this some
poor, timid folks got scared and the
report fiew - like wild'" fire that the
niggers were rising., and; great excite
ment prevailed, and as it was about
election time many were willing to
aid in exaggerating the thing to fur
ther their own selfish ends. - , "
The Prohibitionists lost largely by
the negro scare. v Negroes and whites
were'kept from the polls and -many
Prohibitionists were fooled into voting
the Democratic ticket for fear of put
ting the Republicans iri and thus as'r
sisting ' negro insurrection.i Prohibition-
Leader. ' '' .
" The fealty of . the rum league to
party is gauged by the party's fealty
to the rum league. '
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v. . Saloon -ridden partyism is ' impo
tent to protect the home.
V. C. T. U, DEPAHTI'EiJ.
CONVENTION H0TE3.
There is just one issue upon which
the people, not the politicians, of
America are united. It is not the
tariff, for that is the chameleon among
issu.es, taking its color from the per
sonal selfishness of capitalists cr the
interosts, real or imaginary, of dilTer
ent industries. It is not ths Southern
question, for that is the deed lion
among issues, in whose skeleton we '
white ribboners have found already
the honey-comb, of loving comrade
ship. It is not the labor question,
for that is the elephant amongissues,
not yet grown to full size, and gener
ally feared save when attended by its
keeper,' Grand Master Workman Pow
derly. But it is the prohibition - of
the liquor ' traffic, ' that earthquake
among issues, which, by blending our
homes in indistinguishable ruin, -has
shaken - us -together -in , our great
brotherhood of fear and anguish.
This earthquake . extends- under the,
sea. The curse of Cam was not so
deep as shall be God's curse upon the
nation that in the light of Christ's
gospel, curses the barbarians of Con
go with ,"the crazyN drinks." .Miss
Willard's Address.
One thousand and -two political
meetings were held in New York city '
last year, and-792 of these were held
in saloons. Miss Willard's Address.
. We are firmly persuaded that , the
separation of the people into two dis
tinct armies, one voting for men-who
will outlaw, the (poison) curse and'
the other for men who would legalize
itmust come, and that such separa
tion cannot come too soon. To-day
the sheep and goats are mixed, and
that is not the method of a wise
shepherd. To-day the temperance
people are a mob and not an army,
save as the drums beat, the recruiting
goes forward and the battle is being
set in "array by our brave brothers,
the political prohibitionists. God
bless them in these crucial hours f
Their work is slow and " hard and
thankless harder than the crusade
itself I Indeed, I think of them aa
the Crusaders of the present, worthy
sires and sons of women ; brave and
true. To recruit, and drill an army
is the gigantic task to which they
have set their heroic hands turning
aside from tile armies of the past
whose watchword is in Pennsylvania,
give the platform to the temperance
people and v the candidates to the
saloons." Miss Willard's Address.
AN APPEAL TO YOUNG WOMEN
Young women, you have it in your
power to make the drunkard's ranks
very thin in the next decade. The
men who will fill drunkards graves
in ten and twenty years from to-day
are now learning the simple easy les
sons in the beginning of evil. This
iswhy we appeal to you to set your
faces like flint against the custom -of
social drinking. Make it unpopular.
You can do it! Brand it as a dis- .
giace to tipple, to drink wine at".
social parties, to guzzle beer, or even
to sip the seemingly innocent cider.
Many a poor victim lies now in his '
grave'because he learned the relish
for alcohol hrcider. - If these dan
gerous habits be made unfashionable
in this decade the poor chain-gang of
drunkarns will be small in the next. -You
young jjoomen9 haye just this
responsibility upon your shoulders
Do you toss your heads and say
"very well, we will assume the re
sponsibility! We will do as we please !
We will not be .temperance fanatics !
We shall serve wine at our socials!
The young men of . our acquaintance
are not so weak and silly as to be
made drunkards by a little wine.'
A day is coming when you must face
the Great Judge of the Universe and
give an account ! What will you say
when He says, "I gave you a bright .
jewel, your influence, what have you
done with it ?" Before you can H nd
your tongues to make answer there
will confront you the lost and ruined'
souls of young men whom yout in your
loveliness,' tempted to turn from their
mother's counsel and enter the road
to ruiri; - . " . -
O, dear girls, wherever you are, thia
is just the responsibility yon carry.
May God give you grace and course
to stand by your convictions and- to
frown, down the fashionable drinking
customs of to-day.
r - Maby C. Woody.
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