The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-03-04

tnlS very purpose W0t ~ Hitym
destroy tie seorks Of thd deVil And
if these are not the works of the
DEVIL we shall look in vain to find
them,
What other business claims the
special privilege Of desecrating Gods
holy day? What other business makes
indiscriminate war on every thing
sacred and holy pertaining 10 christi
anity : What other business tends
to viriate the morals of a community
like this /? What other business so.
surely and speedily disquali6es man
for pure and elevated enjoyment Of
any kind and especially that which
our common christianity is peculiarly
calculated to supply? 1t is entirely
inconsistent both with the ofloye to God
and love to ourneighbor, and therefore
vitiates the fundamental principles Of
true religion. This it does, not only in
the general, but in detail, And if we
must abhor that which is evil, and
cleave to that which is good, how
can we countenanee and support
system fraught with evil only !? 1t is
at war with just and upright dealings
between man and man. 1t takes our
money without an equivalent, and thus
becomes robbery. F
He, and he alone, honors the truth
who acts it, who impresses upon all
his conduct, and who feels and means
it in his heart. And no liquor vendet
can do this without writing over his
door, liquid death for sale here--with-
out faithfully advertising his own GUS
toners of their danger, when they
come to purchase his damnable wares.
And to do this, would be to turn tenn
perance lecturer in good earnest.
We see then, most clearly, that the
spirit Of christianity and the spirit of
the liquor trade, are perfectly antago.
nistic, the one with the other, For
the spirit Of christianity is love; and
while IoVe blessess-ram curses. While
love honors God, rum blasphemes his
name. While love 'worketh no i =
rum works aH i'll. Love cheers and
blasts and detodfz Es !
helps the poor-rum makes paupers.
Love builds hospitals--rum fills them.
Love builds asylums-rum fills them.
Love feeds the hungry-rum starves
people. Love clothes the naked-rum
strips them. Love builds ms-houses--
rum fills them. Love heals disease
rum induces it. Love saves life-rum
DESTROYS life. One is from above-7
the other from beneath. One is from
God--the other from the devil. The
one is the very soul of harmony-the
other of discord. Whatsoever things
are lovely, pure, true, and of good
report pertains to the one-while
whatsoever things are base, mean,
foul, corrupt, licentious, obscene, aOick-
ed and abominaNe, pertains to the
other. @
Cd. We cannot pray for its sue
cess-but must pray against it. And
to be consistent, what we pray for we
must earnestly labor for.
Sd. The tree is known by it's
fruit Now, the fruits of the goad
spirit, i. e., the Holy Spirit, are these
Lone, jog, peace, long-sgfering, gen.
Aeness goodness, Jaith, meekness, tenn
perance.' The fruits of the Evil
Spirit, i. e., rum or alcohol, hatred,
sorrow, turbulence, revenge, rudeness,
wickedness, infdelity, reckIessness,
intemperance, ignorance, poverty, dis
ease, crime, death. Against the first,
there is no law Against the last,
are the laws of God-the laws of ma
ture--the laws of society, and should
be the Maine LaaU.'
How then, can christian men and
women countenance and support a
system SO directly and pointedIy op-
nosed tn the fundamental nrincinlne