Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-12-15
IS IT RIGHT TO DRINK INTOXICATING LIQUORS
UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES? K 4.


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Multitudes think so. But we mus
consult something else than popular opin-
ion. The public j. generally in favor o.
something wrong therefore we consid
er the subject on its own merits. If al.
low myself TO partake of little, because
/ imagine that it does me good, / give a
license to another to take as much as be
sees fit; and by SO doing | promote the
habit of drunkenness, because furnish
evidence that il is right 10 use them
Shonld l, as a Christian, or even as a
nan, do anything that promotes the use
of that which destroys the peace, prosper
ity happiness of families d
makes women wretched, children miser-
able, and men assimilated to brutes, nay,
to devils Z Now i t is truth that God
will not exempt a man from punishment
because he sins only little. BY analo-
gy, we may say that the man who steals
only dollar is as much thief in princi-
pie, as the man who steals hundred
thousand The man who aims a deadly
blow at his neigbbor, though the latter
escapes unharmed, is as much a murder
er in principle as the ruffian, immured in
one OF the prisons of France, who boast
ed that be had killed upward of seventy
persons. The man who bows down from
day to day before one idol, is as much an
idolater in principle as he who is devoted
TO the thirty million gods of China. So
the man who allows himself the liberty
of taking a glass of Intoxicating liquor
ever so seldom, is as much drunkard in
principle as he who drinks to excess, and
by meddling a little with the sin, shows
that he belongs to the fraternity who
literally wallow in the mire. He a
thief and murderer, because he en-
courages the drunkard to continue his
baneful course. This language is very
strong, but for the reason assigned, and
also, because there is no possibility of
'eclaiming drunkard by making him a
Moderate drinker, which s proved by
Universal experience, it is none the less
rue. He W ho by his principles and
ractices sanctions the use OF intoxica,
ng liquors, and has never been known
reclaim a drunkard, or to promote
luse which reolaims him is a partaker ,
his sin and the tears and blood of the :,
idow and orphan crieth unto him from
e ground. He is an idolater; for be
Us as many human sacrifices on the al. :
r of Bacchus, as the Hindoo mandates
} Juggernaut. Brabma, Vishnu and
iva. Here is river of death which
amps as many precious lives as the
anges, an impetuous torrent, carrying
victims to the ocean of perpetual mis- !,
y. The Ganges swallows the innocent !
be when thrown into it by an infatua- ),
mother, the grave, too wraps many :
tender infant hurried there by an In #
mperate, infatuated father, over whom 6.
e moderate drinker had no influence 8,
r good, and generally an influence for !,
Ill. But while the Ganges swallows :.
nly its innocents, this river OF death
Vallows IS culprits. And while the :
abe rises to glorious Immortality, ''for !,
such is the kingdom of heaven" the !,
DOR drunkard sinks to rise no more, but ;,
to shame and everlasting Contempt
With such awful consequences in view,
is full time to cease trimming between ;.
'acchus and God. If any man be on 6
he side of Bacchus, let him serve him ;,
any be on the side OF God let him serve !
i'm. Half-hearteduess here we cannot :
bide. There must be no neutrality i
ere, no fellowship with Christ and Be d
al, no kissing of the idol and saying, l 4
ave done no harm. Let a man take r
is full satisfaction OF hilarity, mirth and r
snsual delight, but God will NOT hold d
i'm guiltless. Rejoice, 0 young man,
! the days of thy youth, and let thy heart
heer thee, and walk in the sight of thine
yes and in the ways of thine heart, but
now thou that for all these things God
ill bring thee into judgment. But do
j this on limited scale and thou
OF enjoy either earth or hee- .nst
ia Herald, ,.,en.-PsaSa-
FERMENTED LIoUoRs.-Dr Bacon