The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-04-10
Rum and Christianity.

IL neeos no argument TO prove that
these two elements or forces, are as di-
rectly opposite to each other, as fire and
water. or death and life. A compromise
between them is not possibility. In all
Their effects and influence, direct and in
direct, sney are constantly warning with
each other. Those who profess the
Christian faith and sustain the rum traffic
have stolen the livery of heaven to serve
the devil in. and they ought to be arrest
ed, by the police of public opinion This
mask Of hypocrisy ought to be torn from
them, that the community may know just
where they stand. '~'~a- s.
Here in our city we have Rum and
Christianity in full operation, and. their
effects are before the world. The form.
er can boast of its numerous grog- g-shops
with their blasphemous inmates-its aims
houses, jails, insane asylu'ns. crowded
with victims, its thousands of families
cursed by the demon of in,emperance.--
/ The latter can boast of its churches,
Sabbath schools. benevolent societies,
systems Of charity that embraces the in
terests and wants of the world. As well
expect to unite heaven and hell in one
territory, as to unite these two systems.
a distinguished American writer says:
-" Members OF the Church of God most
pure, bear it in mind. that intemprrance.
! 10 our land and the world over, stands in
the way Of the gospel. It opposes the
progress Of the reign of Christ in every
village and hamlet, in every city, and at
every corner oil the street. It stands in
the way Of rivals of religion, and of the
glo-ies of the millennial morn. Every
drunkard opposes the millennium; every
dram drinker stands in the way efit--ev-
cry dram seller, stands in the way fit
Let the sentiment be heard. and echoed
land re- echoed, all al ng the hills, and
vale and streams of the land, that the con
uers,on Of man aoho habitually uses ar
dent spirits IS all 6at hopeless. And let
this sentiment be followed up with that
other melancholy truth, shat the money
wasted in this business--now a curse, to
all nations--nay, the money wasted in
one year in this land for it, would place a
Bible IN every family on the earth. and
establish schooli in every yillage--and
that the talent which intemperance con-
#isigns each year to infamy and eternal
perditioa, would be sufficient to bear the
Gospel over; sea and land--to Polar
snuws, and to the sands of a burning
SUM-
1 One Of the uniform benefits oflhe tenn.
:. perance reformation is its influence upon
the advancement of christianity. Where
ever the Man Law has been faithfully
executed, or the comm unity have fully
!, suppressed intemperance in any other
way the Sabbath has been better observ-
ed, churches have been better attended
and the reformed have in many instances
become Christians. ofthirty five thou
: sand reformed drunkards in England
nearly six thousand have become mem
] bers of Christian churches. 1t is eviden
: therefore. that it the Gospel is ever t
triumph, the grog shop must be banishet
: from our cities. All the preaching ant
r praying in Christendom cannot save /
t community cursed by the evils of til
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