Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-12-14
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TO LIuuOr Dealers. =.

Mr.. EDITOR I'm giving an exhor.
tation on Temperance, I would be as
fair as the justice Of man. and as tender
as mothers love. To the seller I APP.
peal ""come, let us reason together"
Have you considered well your respon-
sibility?
When look at that smiling saloon
tender, / ask myself, can he be so
ignorant as not to know what an awful
train Of evils he Is setting in motion ?
Look at the stream of burning lava
running through our community, and
leaving in its track desolatiOn and
waste. Every good man knows, that
you,vender ofspirits, are selling poison,
deadly cruel poison. Ifyou doubt this,
look in the Newspapers of the last five
years, and see the crimes committed by
drunkards. Go, ask the chemist; he
will tell you, that your sparkling wines
are all diluted with poisonous sub
stances. And who would be willing to
set poison on the table, for his friend to
drink .....
Did you ever. see man with the
dettriaa hren,ens. I have seen the
sight. was Oh board mail steamer.
where gentleman of wealth and in
fuence was taken with the madness. O
how the man screamed, at the wild
satanic spirits that he thought were
after him; and how he tried to drive
away the snakes that seemed toenviron
him. That young gentleman DIED with
the dclerium tremens. l thought as !
looked on him, that ardent spirits were
indeed a most deadly poison.
| have been forty years in tho tenn
pcrance cause; and speak from long
observation. Hundreds of thousands
have died from the use of liquors. Iknew
a young man educated at college, hose
father was a venerable minister over
one of the most fiourishing churches in
New England, forty years ago. The
son married lady of wealth and re-
Iinement. / have seen her weeping
'''A WV vi iitI oliCt 6lIl.aDI0 ana
loving husband His downward career
in q fashionable smoking
room {; thence it led to the drinking
house, until lie had wasted thousands
Of dollars, failing in business, and be-
coming an utter outcast. o! how ait
'tings like an adder and destroycth
he hope of man.
! can take you around this city, and |
show victims Of intemperance that /
would cause your check 30 burn with !
shame. Why Sir, it stands in the way
If spreading the Gospel. 1t is a crook
ID place, that must be made strait be- |
ore the Me5siah's Reign. We find in |
own families that are anxious to at /
end church. But the husband has !
pcnt all his money for drink, and |
caves them in proverty and rags at !
.ome. Your business, my friend, is
horrible one. Remember, that thou !
sands by means of it are annually sink
ng into the gulfof Dispair; and think |
low many y0u have helped on to ruin.
Still you say, l have the respectable
lass of customers. But that does not
ielp your case in the least. The pro-
essedly good man who drink. beer in
our saloon, is, know, shining only to
estroy. In young city like this, lie
'robably hardens forty persons, and
,ceps then. from the truth. But what
3 truth? you ask. Jesus is the Light
nd the Truth, | answer. He says
The WATER that shall give you to
rink, shall be- in you WELL OF
WATER, springing up unto everlasting
ite." O!cease from dealing out poison
o your dying fellows, and henceforth
eek to spread abroad that Watcr OF life.
Repent before your feet slide on the
lark mountains of death.
Cedar Falls, Dec. .. Com.