The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-02-25
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when / arose, / found your excellent
Organ Of Temperance on my table,
and could not refrain from picking it
up, sick as was, to learn how the
battle was going; and / felt some
thrillings, ] cannot express, fash
through my soul, when i compared
the past, go years ago) with the
present; and if there be any sure in
dication of the near advent of the
glorious millennium, it is the great
Temperance Reform. For there is
nothing more certain than that every
distillery on earth must cease to smoke
and ceases to cast forth her internal
poison; and every death hole must be
overturned and cease to exist, be-
fore theangel Of God shall pronounce
again; Peace on earth and good will
to man; and yet only think that there
are thousands who look for that day
and say they pray for it, that are em-
ploying the light Of heaven, the fruit
full seasons, Gods earth, their own
physical power, and that of all their
children and horses to raise grain to
feed this hellish monster. Iremem7
Der years ago in Kentucky to have
heard a colored man preaching to his
fellow servants, and denouncing their
course Of sin; at length he told them
if they did not cease, that the devil
would come and carry them off and
make them cut and carry wood all
day, to burn themselves at night.
Do not these grain growers, wood
haulers and barrel makers, know that
they are in company with the devil,
and that alltheir labor has but one
tendancy, and that is to increase the
misery Of millions, and prepare many
Of their fellow men for eternal death.
i Does not the devil say to all aiders
and abettors in this work Of death,
"well done good and faithful servant,
H You labor faithfully to people the dark
/ dominion of pandemonium;" and yet
these. men profess to be christians,
| phiIanthropists, good Americans, &c
Il Heaven knows there is not one word
II Of truth in their profession. Can
a man be a christian without leaving
God and his neighbor, as himself
Mol Then all his pretensions aside,
is but shear hypocrisy, Can man
! be a good American without feel
ing it his duty to lessen the evil
and promote the good? Nol Can
any man who has any claims to hu-
manity al cH, for the sake of paltry
gain send, or aid in sending forth, Q
stream Of deadly poison, to destroy
men, women and children, and send
many Of their souls to that lake o.
eternal woe. But, my dear brother
the cause is Heavens, and if you anC
i your colleagues are faithful, you vii
surely triumph; and although | an
standing on the verge Of the grave
yet my voice in death shall echo bacl
eight on ye conquering souls, fgh
on, "ql, epery one, men, sCOmen,chitdre'
! Sons Of Temperance, you are no
worthy the name if you fold you
arms up at this hour Of the conflict
let your Temperance Organ and you
tracts fly like the leaves Of autumn
Templar's, Daughters Of Temperance
Cadets, Washingtonians, and all othe
parts of the Temperance army brini
up your different brigades. Let n
man, or woman, or boy sleep at hi
: post. Now in the death struggle Of al
cohoI, and the forces OF this evil on
, will be on the field to a man; the Go
J Of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, is o
the side Of Temperance, and in hi
name and BY his strength you sha
! prevail, nothing short of the Main
J Law. Let this be your motto. sW
Maine LGw or nothing. And if
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