The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-10-15

are the sad ofSpring. the whole arrange
ment should become disreputable anon,
true men, and fall Into disuso.
Inc race course abroad, as a popula
amusement, but strengthens the posi-
ton we have assigned It ct home, Say.
. late writer-'Ia England the races are
m unmingied abomination, in which
all denominations conspire. Drunken
men, profanity, gambling, hold high
Carnival on the occasions when men
meet to match the speed OF horses.
The noble brutes shame the ignoble
epectmens OF humanity THAT use them
Tor their pleasure, train them for their
sport work them in the interest OF
their mad passion for money, and OH
their fame stake their own infamy.n
Rev. I. i. Cuyler, writing from Sar-
atoga under date of August 18th, 1868,
says, In reference to the thorse opera
there patronizcd, IF any one has q
doubt Of the moral character of this pop
nlar sport, let him come and look at the
class Of people which 1t attracts to Sara.
toga. That tells the whole story. The
tree to known by its fruits. Take away
betting and the bottle, and the race
course would be deserted in an nour.
And II our County Fairs are to be
kept up, and gentee.ly conducted, and
Tor the highest good of the county as
such, and not of a few individuals, they
ought to close on Friday evening, SO
that persons with their varied mer-
chandise and stock might reach home
on Saturday-and not violate the sane
tity Of the Sabbath as is now universal
~ done by SO many returning home
with their effects on that day. s..... ...
As to drinking saloons they are always
attended with indecent revelry and riot
Ing that shock the moral sense, and en-
danger the peace and safety Of the neigh
borhoOds where they are located. They
are always prolific sources of dissipation,
aud nuisances wherever established.
How then, any man, or any class of
men, that Is not destitute of moral prin-
ciple, or in whose heart, the love of God
and the love of his fellow men, is not
dried up, can in this age of Bible light
and growing experience of the certain
evils, private and public, that result
from the sale and use of intoxicating
drinks rs beverage; aid in establishing
IN aquestion which perhaps the light of
eternity, and the revelations Of the Judge
ment day only can fully answer.
But the DeuR is as busily engaged now
In going to and fro in the earth, and
walking up and down in it, as he was
In the days Of the Patriarch Of Uz. He
seems now to be unmasked, and let
loose, and to be running at large. And
the friends Of humanity, Of morality,
and OF religion are summoned to the con-
test. They must resist the Devil They
must 6ght him on his own ground as
well as on their ground. They must
fight him around the stump, or amidst
skilful maneuvering to violate right
and justice, as well rs over the stump or
amidst the open violation of law. They
must do II perseveringly and in the
strength of the Lord or they will be
overcome. He works in the hearts of
the children of disobedience, and he
leads many captive at his will.
Some are advocates for moral suasion
only, to check the evils of the day. But
this Of itself will prove wholly inetli
cient, whether urged in private, or from
the pulpit, or by the press. There must
be action, and that legal action. The
strong arm of the law must be brought
into requisition. This authority God
has delegated to human society as essen
tial to its protection from the evils of in
temperance, and of other gross forms of
iniquity thatthe devil proposes and men
encourage. Says terse aud vigorous
writer: Never is our degraded nature,
In its masses, managed for God without
the authority of law. Never can moral
suasion do more than make good men
enough to govern bad men, and impel
them to restrain the lawless and disobe-
dent, by the hand of powerful enact
ment Beyond the reach of moral sua-
sion, there is always a conspiracy against
the foundations of social order sufficient
to destroy them. At the verge of our
utmost endeayor, to impress the multi
tude with argument and exhortation,
we encounter tumult of passion beyond
which you must quell by the enforce
lnent of law, or it reacts, with violence
enough to destroy, in a day, what per-
suasion has accomplished by the toll of
many years
And o We servants of sin, and slaves
of Satan, thus led captive by him, for
sake his leadership, cease to do evil,
cultivate a nobler nature, let your true
manhood crop out aud manifest itself,
and let your lives on the theatre of
action tell in grand results to the Divine
glory, and the welfare of fallen humani-
ty.
While those of you who may, properly,
be called "the righteous" who possess
integrity, manly courage, morality and
piety; should hold fast to the founda-
tons Of society, personal, social and reli-
gious; and should do whatsoever your
hands find to do, in unfolding the good
and in opposing the evil, with all your
might, "fOr the night cometh when no
man can work" Solomon says, "When
the righteous are in authority, the peo-
pie rejoice; but when the wicked beareth
rule, the people mourn"