The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-04-20
For the Good Templars' Column.
INTEMPERANcB VS. HUMANITY.


age Of God" STOP! Before you 60 fur
ther hellward, before you hide your heads
again behind the himsy gauze Of / am
just as much respected" before you blot
out from your hearts the last vestige Of
your kin TO the angelic hosts, stop and
thing. Think Of these things. Think Of
your noble structure your divine origin,
your glorious destiny. Composed as you
are Of body and soul, mortality and i'm
mortality mysteriously and intimately
connected, you present to lockers on in
other worlds, the strange spectacle Of be-
ings which embrace some Of the attri-
butes Of every being in the scale Of ami
mated nature, from the parasite of the
ocean rock, up TO the angel that gazes up
on the Eternal Throne and scars into tho
perfections Of Jehovah.
The soul, that divine spark that links
us 10 heaven, will, if kept unpollated, con-
tinue to rise higher and higher, and enjoy
more and more rs il increases in knowI-
edge and wisdom, while the on-coming
ages of reyer ending future rolls. But
it is SO inseparably connected with this
mortal covering that each act which the
body performs leaves nm indelible mark
upon its immortality. Each one of us,
by minding the laws Of an all wise Crea-
tor, may doubtless rise in the scale of be-
ing until away on in the on coming ages
Of the future there will be time when
we shall stand nearer the throne of the
Eternal than now does the highest arch
angel. A glorious destiny that, my
brother. Why will YOU spend the life
which God has given you, in which to pre-
pare for it, in polluting, mangling and
damning it. Why betray so great trust,
and provo to God and yourself traitor
incomparably base. To perfect, not to
destroy yourself is your bounden duty.
The body is subject TO the same laws that
govern its kindred mortality. Use is uni
formly followed by waste, as in other ma
terial fabrics so in the human body. Re
pairs must be constantly carried on or the
structure falls into ruins. And as the
animal is designed for locomotion it can
not draw up nourishment like the vegeta-
bic, from fixed roots; hence its apparatus
for this purpose is within, portable; and
unlike the vegetable, it comes not in con-
slant contact with sources of nutrition,
but requires that its food be prepared and
deposited in its place. In the right recep-
ton of nutrition into this PREPARATORY ma
chine, the whole body is thrilled with
pleasure; every little vessel, and nerve,
and fiber, feels consciousness of increas-
cd life and comfort and power. The
mind partakes in the enjoyment, and
moves and rejoices in the assurance Of
augmented energies. But a disarrange-
ment Of that apparatus deprives the pos
SCISSOR of that happiness, subjects him to
pains, and disQualifies him for fulfilling
his high destiny. While he who pollutcs
his system with stimulants, drugs and poi
sons, in the form Of intoxicating liquors, |
burns up his own blood, clouds his rea-
son, dulls his sensibilities and makes of |
himself n creature lower than the beasts
of the jungles. His body instead of be-
ing repaired is more exhausted in its vital
forces, and his mind becomes dull and in
active, while his moral nature is entirely
becloudcd. Ho loses his affection for his
father, mother, wife, and children, and his
voneration for his God. He destroys the
partner Of his bosom, he stagCers over
the dead bodies Of his children, and looks
into the grave Of his mother with mani
&C grin. Standing upon-the scaffold with
the rope about his neck he confesses that
his course has been his ruin. The drunk
ard is an anomaly in creation. There is
focling of love for the offspring which
has descended from the skies through all
The ranks Of animated beings. There is
not a songster that MARBLES in tho breeze,
not a fish that moves within the deep, not
an animal that walks the earth, not a
beast that prowls the desert or the forest,
not even the hyeua itself excepted, which
docs not, love its offspring, aud delight to
cherish and protect them, Man only,
with a heart blackenod and polluted by
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