Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1846-02-19
No. 80. WHOLE No. 1927,

while the consecratnd wine Is upon your
lips, your whisky is still atw0Fksin some
bacchanal crew, who disturb the still.
ness Of the day with oalhs, disappearing
Him in whom you trust for salvation,
and whose death you commemorate
What if you should sit down quietly
Of some Sabbath evening, and In that
hour ripe for meditation, 6y some SUPER
natural power, God should bring before
your eye all the results Of whisky made
by you. From the tent of the far-away
Indian, from the hamlets on the verge Of
civilization, from villages far and near,
from vale and iIill side, from dens Of
vice and lairs Of crime. from the adui-
terer's chamber and from the murderer's
haunt. would come trooping TO your eye
all the ghasily disfgurements of abonni-
Dable iniquity-each impeEsonaied evil
as it fitted past, would point at you its
withered hand, and cry thou art my
author! Crimes would hail you. All
hideous temptations, temptations that do
destroy men, would bow to you, and cry
out with hoarse tones hail my parent!'
and would not your own conscience,
breaking its prison doors. where it had
been immured, join and loudest, shar-
pest, and most authoritative Of them all,
you to meet that God. on whose
creatures you have not ceased to pour
that destroying stream from the distiile-
ry! ,.........-.-......
Oh, sir, yotlr heart surely is not turned
to stone you yet, would tain believe,
have hours for reflection and conscience
forebodings. / then appeal to
YOU as man, rs a Christian, as an ex-
pectant of the Judgment day, to desist
from this most detestable accursed traffic.
BY all the misery that it works, by all
the tears which it draws from orphans
and widohood. by the misrule and de.
bauch which it spreads, by the violence,
by the fate Of those who by it arc brought
down to the grave, by all sweet alice
tions blighted and hopes smitten, by your
hatred Of crime and your detestation of
vice, by your regard for religion, for your
own account 10 that awful and impen-
ding hour, beseech you to stop this nc
farious business, to put out those fres
which are burning soul and body. Once
more return to the church in your right
mind. Dismiss that fatal idea with which
Satan has cajoled you. that you shall
make gain by distilIing. God is against
you. His providence will turn your
ways upside down. Money got by un.
Just ways is Gods sharpest curse upon
lhe getter. II will eat you like canker'-.
Your gold will sweat blood in your hands,
r. 1T will distil it on your children. II
.on pursue this course, after Perhaps
hort and Elusive prosperity, you Will
humble headlong in your way, with teD'-
,oral aud eternal ruin. 4 ~
Ia conclusion, I disavow all fightor
desire of moles,ing any man in his char
acter or pursuits. But whenever any
man by his conduct endangers some viz
ss cssslafjpis q Of religion whenever !. is
lotal incompatibility Of religion with eve
cry form Of iniquity. may my tongue
cleave to the roof of my mouth, and my
right hand forget its cunning. i'll am too
to stand for the right. Against
Mr.. C0megys as a private citizen and in
mis- own personal moral character. l have
not a'word of harm TO say. But 10 the
md of life, whether it stikes against him
,r any other man. I will to my utmos! a.
,iIity declare, thata man cannot be dis
iller and a christian. -
;" HENRY WARD BEECHER.