Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-06-12


dark spot on the escutcheon of any
Christian man and the brighter his
escutcheon, the darker seems the spot
the fouler and the deeper its stain.
Only blood-the blood of Christ,
Gods son-can cleanse from its guilt |
and shame.
If men did not reflect before they
succeeded in opening, or procuring to
be opened, a tavern bar, or were de-
luded by passion or supposed selfish
interest, and acted from mistaken mo-
tives-if they did not think before, let
them think now. You do not know
whose son is to stand before that bar
you opened, and take his first glass
of liquor there, and learn to sip the
fascinating but fatal glass. Ii may be
your own son, or your friends or bro
theirs son. 1t may be young man
the only son Of his mother; and she
a widow. 1t may be only some poor
mans son that is inundated to fill the
Golfers of the wording or the tavern
keeper 1t may be the son of the
poorest man in town; but that boy
may be as dear to his fathers heart,
and may be a youth of as much no
bleness and promise as your own boy.
Though my locks are yet but gently
touched with growing years, | have
seep in repeated instances, sad, sad
things in this line. Men may poison
the fountain of sweet and crystal
clearness but they do not know who
will drink. | have seen the men
themselves drink, and die; the hand
that dropped the poison in, bear to
their own lips, the cup. With the
end Of a smallest rod, you may make
a tiny opening into the embankment
which holds back the waters of desc
lation and death, and gradually it
gives way, topples over and you know
not who, nor how many shall sink be-
meath its deep and swelling flood
Yes. You know not what son or
brother, what husband or father, is
there to be confirmed in his bondage
: TO drunkenness-have his letters riv-
eted more firmly and closely-Or, ii
uncontaminated by this vice, be train
ed to a drunkard's life, drunkard s
death, and a drunkard's damnation
Tears will flow; hearts will break
homes will be made wretched; souls
: made in Gods image, will be degra
ded and eternally lost! Is this a
work for christian men to have .
hand in it? 0, ''tell it not in Gath
publish it not in the streets Of A8ke
lon" 1t opens the mouths of the en-
: emieS Of God to blaspheme. The in
consistency is publicly and severely
f commented upon everywhere. Scot
ferS mock and rejoyce. If in civilized
community in our land and town
there are christian men who join un
9 godly men, iu working and signing tC
secure a tavern license, are we moi
warranted in demanding, ''what fellow
ship hath the righteousness with the
/, unrighteousness ? And what comm
MON hath light with darkness ? anC
, what concord hath Christ with Belial
! or what part hath he that believetf
with all infdel p And f~such chris
: ton ,oo,, 900 10 s-9'-'-ss. - ~ - n :
aged, or the man trembling on hi
= staff for very age, going IN to drink
. or sec them suffering from the cOnse
+ quences of liquor, how can they 8pea
4 against drunkenness or how, in fac
g can they speak against any sin what
h ever? "If, therefore, the light that
-, in thee be darkness, how great is tina
Il darkness q Think you that for you
~ hand in this work, you will gain
= widows blessing, as she mournS he
: dishonored, ruined husband; or r
ot ceive a fathers grateful thanks for h
+ loved and noble son, ruined and a
20 cursed by the bar which you helpe
a to open? Will it be to yourself
- pleasing Renaissance, when you kne
al in delightful communion with you
7 Saviour before his cross? Will yC
Il thank God that you we're enabled
70 do this for his glory: and the goo
lS of souls? Will it be comfort
ot you in your seasons OF affiiction 2?
bo Will it aid your faltering hope
h the hour of death? Will it prepa
at and strengthen your spirit as it fc
or sakes its cal thly abode, to stand wi
od cheerful courage, and triumphant co
,or fidence before God? Not for tt
h. will he say unto you, "Well dol
Of good and faithful servant"
Ia Is there any man who would wi
so that his children should remember,
en- that it should be recited in MS funt
he al sermon, that on such day, in t
es. year of grace one thousand eig
ON hundred and siXty-seven, he subScr
no ed a memorial setting forth: that
ne. Hotel" I. e., Bar room-(the wo
- in this connection has no other pos
tn, BILE meaning)--."is necessary a
es, much needed, and we do respectful
ex. and earnestly ask, that the prayer
es- the petition (for license) be granted
re- Will he not rather desire that his &
las may forever be blotted from his CT
So dren's knowledge, and when his
ha
Ity, of forgetfulness and concealment
- thrown over it? Rather than tt
: my voice should favor with the slig
the est whisper, any mans obtaining
be license to deal out the waters of f
He and death, or that my hand shot
his append its signature enforcing
son prayer of a petitioner for licen
He 'Let my right hand forget her C