Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-08-16

| ME possession, and Nho ~ N4 oWn taleibt iHiej
opeued be door, led forth his victim inca
pahle NJ standing uunded. nnd ~ though he
would eudifr bis injury ~ not his death, extin.
gnishod ihe light aud left him in darkness ON the
] stars 70 grgpe and 20 stumble, and 70 plunge
headlung 20 odestruction
| SUCH un. his own showing are the gamblers
| tender mefccsi Such an one we might expect
70 answer when the Almighty Himself gives the
/ challenge, "Where b. thy brotherY" ~ know
| not am ] my brothers keeperW To such an
one speaks in thunder tones the Omniscient
! Witness "The voice Of thy brothers blood crith
unto me from the ground
To each one Of US, my hearers, the Providence
OF God IN this calamity has voice
Il speaks TO each Of us Of the sin Of drunken
ness. There is not one word in this Sacred
Book, from first to last Of the disease Of drunk
enness. do not say il ia never a disease nor
! ever 70 be treated as q disease; but where AMIN
has such use Of bis mental and moral htuin9s
as enables him to know right from wrong, he
cannot excuse himself before God IT, whatever
| be his appetite or his propensity, he yields 10
| the temptation. God classes the drunkard with
the murderer. He says that for such there is no
part In the Kingdom Of Christ and of God Not
that 1t IS an unpardonable sin but that it is like
any other sin OF the nesh and one which the
Divine Justice cannot let 20 unpunished. The
current conversation of society, the common
language Of the press deals altogether too light
" with this offence against God and against man
Even Christian men and women are too ready to
| iaultwhich may well remind us Of the Divine
declaration-"Fool make mock Of SIM"
Of this subject hope 10 speak at length here
alter yet let me now add IN reference to it, that
every man should be keenly npprehensive Of his
own danger If he makes any use of toxicatina
drinks. No man can safely form such habit.
Those in whose purity of character, in whose
strength Of will in whose Intellectual powers
and culture, in whose social position there
would seem to be every possible security have
.F.Ns
The best, the wisest, the noblest have been
bound in chains by their souls enemy urinp
them TO their destruction by the gradual steps OF
the drunkard's downward path There is perfect
safety IN habit Of abstinence; there IL no safe
ty IN even occasional indulgence; there is GER
tain ruin for him who, conscious that he has an
appetite for strong drink, uses Il at all From
the grave Of the lamented f. r. Sterling pos
sessed as he was of so many noble traits of
character from ten thousand thousand graves
comes this night the warning Let it alone Tri-
te not with what has murdered such multitude
already. Tamper not with what is dragging
thousands at this very hour, down TO death
down TO everlasting death .... .
But If any imugiues himself safe let me re-
mind him that God hath set him to be his broth.
er's keeper lfnot for your own sake, yet for
your poor tempted brothers sake, abstain. As
you would not answer at the judgment DAY for
the blood of souls, let not your example tempt
others to risk peril which may work their ruin.
All what friend of l.. I Stcrling's would not
say this night 81 will drink no intoxicating
drink as long as live" it that could but restore
the dead Oh that his every friend and com.
panOn had but said TO himself | know this nv
brothers weakness-God hath set me as this my
brothers keeper, will never, by word or by
example, encourage him, nor will join him, in
any such indulgence, Had they done So the
voice of his blood would not this day be crying
unto God from the ground
4 OF the other vice into which our friend fell
| can scarcely bring myself to speak at all
Drunkenness drags man down to the level o.
the brute; Gambling, perscvered in, degrade
him to the baseness of u iiend II was only b,
e destroying his moral sense through the intoNi
eating cup that he could be made TO stoop to suc
- degradation. The essential nature Of gambling
7 seen in the revelation that has been even par
Z TALLY made, IN the Investigations Of the pas
l week Il is Worae than theft; worse than high
= way robbery worse than hundred other crime
5 for which the law sends culprts TO the Peniten
4 tiary. So even tie imperfect legislation of mos
70 we'll ordered communities deals with il. VIII
: then, let me ask, has it been tolerated in TIN
+ city, Why has not public sentiment demanded
the enforcement OF existing lLwsg Why have no
those in authority felt themselves under continue
! pressure Of public opinion insisting that the laws
both as to this vice and to the traffic In posOnou
drinks, should be vigorously eNecutedY Hay
{ any of US said-"lt is not my husnessyn Hnv,
I any said-lf do not drink and gamble, | hay
. nothing to do with others who may thus offend
= But where Is sterling, our brothery Dare
. dare you, say, ~ Rm not my brothers keeper
j. Nay, I'VE nre verify guilty concerning our broth
;, er..' Every one of us ought TO have been "hi
= keeper" his guardian, his true watchful friend
o There are other men in like peril at thi
n hour Other brethren, fathers, sons, citiEen
r are in danger of being pluudered, degraded
y ruined, it may be, murdered, through the q
e lurementS OF these DestrOyers. Men aud brett
e ren,-beiore God, | charge you, save them. 1t
- the thunders OF public Indignation oxpsl fro,
our CITY all who would continue TO ply this trad
5. OF death amongst usl Let the voice Of our br'
K TIERS blood be heard-if not crying for vel
Is geance on his murderers-y crying Tor prOte
e ton, moral protection, legal prOtectOn-fOr ou
own sons, for your husbands, Christian wives,
IS FOL, your fathers, young mentor all who are It
:, red into she Society of those Vampires VIII
s would plundcr and destroy them,
j. The day before this deed was done-eight day
" agu-slttlng vt my own table with the yenerub
j. Bishop Of Kentucky, was giving vent to m
9 feelings Of strong detestatou Of every thing th
q had the remotGst semblanoc to Gambling an
u even the experienced Bishop seemed TO think NJ
II in danger Of taking an extreme view The noi
. morning he understood why | spoke and felt as
l. did
IS Christian men and womeul hear the charge
g give you all, young and old this night and remiu
l. Inc Of IL, If you will when we stand together b.
IS fore Gods throne in judgment ! charge yC
d never amuse yourselves with the implements
the Gambler. Never permit your children to u
ji them, uuder preteIt Of amusement; never, nev
= provide them for your friends
r From every pack of cards, in your Offices,
lc your purors, in your chambers, the voice Of
D, n. Sterling's blood cries to you, Touch them n
'i except to consigu them to the lames Eve
"a spot upon them is u spot Of boOd---of soul bloc
NJ Teach your children TO abhor them Here h
10 fore God, thank my own reyored Christian p
~ rents (nOw in lleAYeul that they never suffer
ul me TO trjile with the Gamblers tools. II n
~ sons perish, as our loved friend has perisho
RS they shall not have 10 charge me with being eve
he ~ hpi
Us Happy was | 50 hear one Of your most honor
III fellow citizens, lNOr Church cOmmuucanD NJ
u, this week, 81 have never played game OF car
] in my life, | do not know one card from uuOt
lu er" Would that every man, in public or In p
y yate life could make tho same honorable avOWu
a. NOrespectubs househOll-n TO say no Christi
a family should ever tolerate whGt distinguish
al citizen Of Alabama not long since described
, "tho well known Implements of the gamester"
ia heretofore you have used them thoughtless
re hereafter when you would touch them, think
a. u. 4. Sterling, aud let them alone. II one
on generous, 50 unselhsh, so truthful, 50 honorab
~ so noble, could not resist the msclnations Of
ID in this form, who can safely make an experimt
ar Of going 50 far and no tartherr
Ith But how is il, my dear hearers, with each a
srs al Of YOU as 20 the whole tenor Of your life
all to your whole chhracterY You may neither bt
err drunkArd nor a gambler, aud yet you may X
ng your soul What a Thought is this A lost sOl
ms lie who dies in unbelief in impenitence in ali,
lth alton from God, in rebellion against Him, ml
pF enter eternity lost SOUL OF the destiny of
ma departed friend, 1 would not, cannot speak
my who heard, on the Cross, the Prayer Of the
The inc VLord'l remember me when Thou CONTEST /
To- Thy Kingdom" is able TO save unto the utt
zen most all that come unto God by Him,
But what II the angels Of God ahOuld have
)lei take 10 their lament for YouR soul
zee How fearful Is the description which NJ
re- Hewitt gives of the votary Of vice: Gle is
nus, one selfconducted TO sacriaoej captive y
lev rivsts on his own letters while ho groans
so freedom; for the indulgence of those Vi
L. mis-. called pleasure, while they deaden the n