The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-01-30
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Has the Lord any People in Cinoin.
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CoLUnlBUs, January Qsth. lss2

Has the Lord any People in Cinoln-
nati2
COLUMBUS, January 26th, 1859.
Mr.. EDITOR lis not this a singular question
to ask about the Queen City Z" Who doubts
whether the Lord has any people in Cineinna.
III Has she not scores Of costly temples dedi.
Gated to the worship of God, and do not thou.
sands go up thither every Sabbath to offer pure
Incense of holy hearts upon their altarsl Are
there not many Sons Of the Prophets who
preach with a holy unction against Sabbath
desecratiOn, profanity, theaters, gambling, Ii.
centiOusness, slavery--in the abstract-and
every other form of sin Are there not elders
who, with holy hands, pass around the EN-.
blems Of the Savior's love- Do not all the
forms and ceremonies of religious worship
abound there And is it doubted whether the
Lord has any people there If there is so
much counterfeit, doubtless there is some genu.
inc coin. A member of the House of Repre.3
sentatives seriously asked me this question,
and gave as reason, the fact that while all
other parts of the State are sending up to the
Legislature their petitions for the suppression
OF the manufacture and sale Of intoxicating
liquors, Cincinnati is sending up her 81 u. ly,
ih8iasfsaa the internal hh She6ot
only insists that her fifteen hundred dram
shops, her six hundred gambling heIls, her nu-
merouS houses Of infamy, shall not be dis
turbed, but that the food-gates of pollution
shall be thrown wide open, that they may pour
their stream Of death over all her borders.
She insists that the time to check this swelling
tide Of corruptions has not yet come, and she
protests against being tormented before her
time. She insists that her sons and daughters
be still longer exposed to the artifces of the
liquor.seller and the lust of the seducer, and
that crime, with its unblushing front, shall run
riot through her streets until Sodom Itself shall
blush at her shameless depravity. Has the
Lord any people in Cincinnati Are there anv
there who have not bowed the knee to Bacchus2
If there are, let their voice be heard in the
Halls of Legislation. Let the Christian, the
Philanthropist, the Patriot, the moralist, all
who have heart to feel for the woes of man.
kind, speak and act for the cause of God and
humanity. And especially let the ministers of
the Gospel admonish their people to cease to
pocket the price of blood by renting houses for
dens Of infamy, and owning stock in splendid
rum palaces, where the Devil can ruin souls
from the upper ten," according to the most
refined rules of etiquette And where is the
Press, that mighty engine of power 1t doles
out its pitiful lamentations over the depravity
of the city, and records the black catalogue of
crime, from day to day, without even an indi.
rect reference 10 the fruitful cause of it. If
one of your daily papers should truthfully
characterize the liquor traffic, a thonsand grog-
sellers would kick it out of doors the next
morning And here is the secret of their 81
lence. Poor Judas could not pocket the thirty
pieces of silver, but cast them away, and went
and hung himself to escape the lashings of his
conscience; but how much better is he who
will, by silence, betray the dearest interest of
humanity, and listen, with stolid indifference,
to the cries of murdered innocence, for filthy
lucre1
1t costs something to do right in this sim
ruined world, and if men will put a price on
their souls, and offer them in the shambles,
they will find the Devil in the market And
the first thing after the bargain is completed, is
to " clothe them with the livery of the court of
heaven" that they may the more efFectualIy
do his internal work. But have almost for.
gotten the object for which l took up nv pen.
which is to entreat the friends of Temperance
to circulate their petitions for the Maine Law.
There is great hope in the present Legislature.
The cause has many true friends there, and
they are waiting, with painful anxiety, to hear
from Hamilton county. Already the liquor
sellers have sent up several thousand petitions
for free trade in alcohol, and can there not be
as many, can there not be ten times as MANY
sent up for the Maine Law9 Has the Lord
any people in Cincinnati If he has, let them
be heard. E. T.