Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-03-09
REPENT YE, FOR THE MAINE LAW
is AT HAND.

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Wo unto you, rumsellers, for ye are general
ly hypocrtes We make widows and fatherless
children; and then, for pretence, undertake TO
shelter yourselves behind your license. There
fore We shall receive the greater damnation.
Wo unto you, umsellers--hypocrites; for
we compass sea and land to make thousands of
drunkards, and when We make them, we make
them ten fold more the children of poverty and
wretchedness than yourselves because ye take
the bread out of the mouths of their children,
and the last sixpence to make your own wife
and children look fat and sleek
Wo unto you, ye blind rumselers, who say
"Whosoever shall swear and get drunk, it is no.
thing TO me; but whosoever swears the most,
and gets the drunkest, is the best customer, be-
cause he pays down." but the next time they
come to the liquor-altar they are sure to find
debtor marked against them.
Ye fools and deceitful rumsellers; what do
ye care about mankind if ye can get their mon
ey to make your rum-altar more tempting!
And whosoever shall swear by the liquor al
tar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear
very little, and happen to make mis-go, and
breaks few bottles and let the critter run out
on the floor of The altar, he is guilty to the great
est extent, and is charged from one to fifty dol
lars, for desecrating the altar of the rumseler.
Ye fools and blind rumsellers; which of these
two men are worst? They are both your own
children-one has drank bottle or two and the
other destroyed the same.
Ye fools and blind rumsellers ye think the
drunkard is altogether to blame, while your
selves are being purified by the rum ye drink
daily.
Wo unto you rumselers, hypocrites for ye
pay taxes to support the paupers that ye your
selves make, and the next day get enough out
of poor drunkards to make you whole again; and
then boast how ye have paid your tax. But ye
are sure to omit the weighter matters of the
law-judgment, mercy and faith; for ye are gen.
orally faithless, irreligious and infdel.
Ye blind rumsellers, who strain at glass and
swallow bottle full-frst cleanse thou the cup
by throwing the rum away before the Maine Law
throws it away for you.
Wo unto you, rumsellers, hypocrites; for We
are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed ap.
pear beautiful outwardly, but are within full of
dead mems bones and all manner of uncleanness
tina! is, your liquor-altars bear this character
as general thing.
Even so we also outwardy appear to be decent
men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and ini-
guilty.
Wo unto you, rumsellers; for we build rum
shops, and garnish and varnish them, and say,
" if we had lived in the days of our fathers, we
would not have kept such dirty looking rum
shops as they did, nor killed as many as they
did," But We do kill; therefore ye are witnesses
unto yourselves that ye are the children of them
that killed thousands before you. Fill ye up
then the measure of your fathers.
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers; how
can ye escape the condemnation of an enlighten-
ed community, and the God that made you!
Wherefore, ye have sent unto you wise and
good men, to persuade you from your unholy
traffic, and some of them ye have scourged and
prosecuted from city 10 city, that upon you may
come all the rum-king on earth, from the first
poor inebriate down to the thousandth, that We
have slain between your rum-atar and their own
homes.
Verify, verify, say unto you, all the righteous
condemnation of an enlightened community
shall come upon this generation of rumselers
O Orumseller! rumseller thou that hast kill
ed thy thousands, and prosecuted those temper.
ance men that we sent unto you, how often we
would have had mercy on you, and gathered you
under the wing of temperance but ye would
not Behold your house is left desolate. Fol-
say unto you, we will not leave you, until the
Maine Law shall sweep away as with besom
of destruction, your rum and license, and thus
prepare you to be decent men in society. Then
We will say blessed is the Maine Law" Re.
pent, therefore, for the Maine Law is at hand.
Wyoming Co. Mirror.
In the island of ST. Vincent, new kind OF
earth has been discovered, of very peculiar pro-
perties, and witha so valuable, that it is likely
to become, at no distant day an important and
reoular article of exportation Itis said thai