Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-02-04
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HAVE YOU SPRINKLED THE LIN
Tells OF YOUR DOOR!

Tells OF YOUR DOOR?
Basing an opinion upon the careless un-
concern manifested by very many people up
on the subject of Temperance, one would
be led to the conclusion that they certainly
felt every way secure. that their families
were also secure from the fatal blow of the
arch destroyer. If they even had remote
idea of danger, they certainly would show
little zeal in the advancement of cause
designed tu stay the progress of mammoth
curse whose blight is liable to fall in the cir
Gle of every household. They surely must
be g"ite certain that they and theirs are per-
sonaly secure, and, wrapping themselves in
staunch web of scl6shness, they resolve to
lie in an inactive state while others around
them are being stricken down to depth
lower than the star of Hope sends ray, and
to sleep on like sluggards while the iron
shod whirlwind is roaring its triumphant
shouts on every hand.
Have you an infallblc assurance that this
blasting curse shall never fall on your own
hcarthstonc Have you sprinkled the lintels
of your door with hyssop, dipped in some
magic charm, or some sacred water, or con-
secrated, blood that the destroying angel,
seeing this token of your faith, shall pass on
with none dead in your house? While the
irst-born in thousands Of homes are falling,
and while a mourning wall begins to break
upon your drowsy ear like that which once
stirred the midnight silence of the land of
the Nile, do you still feel no throb of con-
Germ tapping against the bolted door of your
heart, and do you still fold your hands on
your breast saying,-"thank God me and
mine are safe from the destroyer r?'
Dreamer. your poor, little boastns fort
ress of personal security is built of broken
reeds One airy wave from the strong bo-
som of the rushing whirlwind would sweep
it away. \ tap from the death-rod of the
DESTROYING angel would crush it to the earth.
You are not safe, neither you, your sons,
nor your daughters. Let us tell you why
You may be one Of those who drink q lit
tie, but You never were known to be intoxi-
Gated You determine 10 reserve to your
self this pcrogativc. You will be free man
and not cucumber yourself with the oblisa-
tions of any formal pledge. Just 50 hum
drcds have said before you, and by impcrcep-
tible degrees the vice grew upon them until
being seen drunk on the highway aroused
no sentiment of shame in their bosoms.-
You may wind up your career more fortu-
nate and honorable than they, but the chan
ces arc against you. You may remind us
that you are not man after the common
sort-that you are great intellectual man
and can command your moral and intelec-
tual ability just as you please Other men
have thought they were intellectual giants,
and have thought of those things precisely
as you are now thinking have died drunk
ards and been buried without disturbing
any more superfcics of earth than COM
mon dead plebian. You are not safe.
Your sons are not safe They observe
your unconccrn upon this great subject-yor
are their guide-they cannot think you are
wrong, and they will do pretty much after
your manner of doing, and think after your
manner of thinking. They may fall into
the custom of drinking little in q social
way, and before they are aware that there
is really danger in the habit, they will find
that the accurscd thing has so strong hold
upon the appetite that no effort of theirs can
put it aside. And thus it will come down
upon you; your first born will go down to
an early and dishonorablc grave; and your
youngest and best loved may meet with a
worse fate than the elder-he may die in
drunken fit from the hand of murderer, or
commit the horrid deed himself upon the
person of ncighbor. Your sons are not
safe.
Your daughters arc not safe. They may
be without guile Of thoir own, but they are
in danger. You may have done much to
accomplish them and increase their charms
and graccs. You have no power of looking
into the future and what their lots in life
shall be- They are to become wives and
are ignorant as towhcther they shall be hap
py or miserable. The grave may close over
and you may not see it, but your we'll loved
child, even that happy little cherub girl play
ing on your knee, may yet be that most un-
happy being on earth-a drunhord's ryc !!
Of a truth, your daughters arc in great dam
ger.
Wealth, position and intellectual capacity
arc no security from the ravages of the curse
of intemperancc The destroying angel Of
the rum devil is on the wing; and though
you sprinkle the linteIs Of your door with
hyssop dipped in the blood of the first choice
of your focks, yet that will not prevent his
coming within your home he may come as
he has already come to thousands and thou
sands of other homes, and left the dead in
his wake, until the cry of the mourncrs be-
gin to be national, vail, like that which
once stirred the silence at midnight hour
when the last curse of Israel's God fell upon
the land of the Nile
4 POWERFUL SERMoN.-"I felt yours
to be very powerful Sermon" said I to
clergyman of village church in Devonshire,
nc T volked homeword with him HDid