The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-10-09

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In the issue of the 18th ult notice :
! comm unieation zpurported to be written
III M Burden have examined il
very carefully, and without prejudice
and have failed to discover anything that
would frighten any one very much, es
peelally an Editor. | will leave it to any
intelligent man of any party to point out
where he has made single paragraph,
having sound logic. l see nothing but
words, words words. and that is ALL
Some wise man has said: Measure
every man according to his own measure;
that is, do not expect or demand of him
more than there is in him" So am not
much surprised after all az
In the first place Bro. Burden comes
back again on the Fegee Island question.
as he terms it. and attempts to show the
absurdity of my reasoning by making the
following interrogations: "Why are the
people of Ohio addicted to intenperanee2
Is it not because both the old parties
have nourished and cherished this des-
troying curse?" Now to answer this
question positive without no 'uniustifia-
bic prevarication, / would say, that nei.
ther OF the political parties are the cause
OF intemperance. The cause is in the
people. This fact is SO palpably plain
that it requires further proof
Ii i follow Mf., Burden still further. and
| see him making a miserable "fist" at
quoting and interpreting the language of
Paul, thus: when the law came sin
revived and l died, thence he becomes dead
an tresspdsses and SIN, DC. Does not every
Sabbath School child know that IL is
not after the death alluded to in the
above quotations, that the person "be-
comes dead in tresspasses and sin p
Again what does this quotation signify +?
There is no reference to prohibition here.
1t is the moral law that is meant by the
Apostle in the passage
Again Mr.. Burden attempts 10 vindi-
cateEhis former assertion, viz: aYou can
not sing down crime; you cannot prav
down crime; you cannot preach down
crime, it must only be crushed by the
arm of power" tell you my friend it
f would be greatly to your credit and hon
esty If you, instead Of trying to defend
such giaring absurdity, frankly confess
your error. You say that Moses, Joshua
and Elijah prayed, and through prayers,
brought down blessing to their hearts
and wrought many miracles among the
people, &c Now Moses and Joshua
were law givers, but did they vote for
prohibition, or even enforce it upon their
eountrymen How preposterous it is
that any person would have the audacity
to intimate, that the All Merciful Father
will nof haop h.
His Saints, unless they vote for prohibi
ton How have you found such secrets?
Were you admitted to the Council Cham
Der of the Most High?
o, if you would only have a glimpse
into the Holy City, and see the blood
washed throng as John did at the Isle
of Patmos, you would undoubtedly see
thousands that have been tipplers and
=, drunkards, walking the streets of the
New Jerusalems with the ransomed host;
with harps in hand singing the wonders
of redeeming love.
You say that it will not do to say that
our leaders are God Almighty and His
Son Jesus Christ. &C. Now how does
Christ advance His kingdom? Did He
while on earth resort to political agency"
: to aid Him lin the renovation of man
kind? Christ has established kingdom
mightier than that of the Caesars and
raised up an army of followers more nu-
merous than Xerxes's train. and that by
moral force. mot by. power, not by
might, but by My word saith the Lord"
Let us labor and pray then with cheerful
~ heart, that the Creators plan of moral
agency may work out its happy results;
that man be redeemed, ennobled and pu-
rifed; God be honored and glorifed, and
Christ the blessed Mediator of the New
Covenant, see of the travail of His soul
and be satisfied. Va Il
But let US go on. Burden writes
great deal about the evils of intemper-
ance and that alcohol is poison, &c;
but who ever denied these things? Again |
he seems to be anxious to have good |
start and goes back to the Garden of
Eden, to+see if he can find something |
there upon which to establish his creed. |
He imagines that he has found solid ba-
sis, and says.with unusual confidence and |
- poiiteness:s HSir, we find that the first |
pfohibitory law was given in the garden
OF Eden,' dc. l see not the least shadow
of reasoning in this. There Is nothing T
said about whisky, rum, gin, brandy, nor
any thing of the like, in the command
mentgiven by God to Adam But per-
haps Bro. Burden thinks that it was a
shadow, or a sort Of a prophetical en-
= blem of their grand prohibition move
ment of jackson county
Again, Burden says that tell the peo-
pie of the necessity of gin, tonics and
bitters. | never said any such thing.
Again you state that Il have made the
discovery that there is alcohol in all the
products of nature" This is also false.
Do you do this Intentionally or for pure
cussedness, or what? l said that the ele-
ments composing alcohol pervade all ma
ture. These elements are oxygen, car
bonie acid and hydrogen No new ele-
ment is created when alcohol is formed