Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-03-12

away he courted Eve She was naughty
too. If che had told Adam about the
advances of the pleasant stranger, we'd
all be good yet, but she didn't She was
coaxed into doing what was wrong, and
was chased out of the garden for doing
what was wrong, and Adam along with
her
Then we have Cain and Abel. What
an old thief and murderer Cain was.
And then we have King David, who
stood on the top of his house and saw a
pretty woman. He fell in love with her
a. first sight, though he had wife. He
sent her husband into The fore front OF
the battle, so that he might be killed, that
he might marry the widow.
We read, too, about Noah, who, soon
after the food planted a vineyard, and
made wine, and got drunk on it. 1t was
a mighty big drunk, too, for the good
book says he lay in his tent naked. l
guess that drunk was on the sly, like a
good many now a-days. for his family
Didn't know of il till Que of his boys
went into the tent and saw him. Noah
felt bad over it when he wakened and
found how drunk he was, ard that it was
found out But the worst of all was the
terrible punishment that the Good Man
sent on him just then and there. He did
not punish his body. but he sharpened
his mind, and gave him to understand
that his punishment would fall on the
seed Of the con who had found him drunk
He gave him to understand that his chill
dren's clIildrcn's children would all be-
come slaves
| believe that the sins Of these few
Bible people that have taken a short
look at, cover nearly every kind of sin
we know of or are troubled with. In
Adam aud Eve and RrimstOne we have
one side of the woman question, and its
punishment. In Cain and Abel we have
jealousy, avarce, murder, lying and rob-
berry, and the punishment directly sent
on the offender and onto his children on
down, who knows, may b. to this very
day and generation.
In the conduct of David and the Cap
tain's wife we have another side of the
woman question. with the punishment
sent on thesKing and his son and the
people And in Noah we have drunk en-
ness, and the punishment for it extended
through centuries into many generations
That part of the world found in Eu-
rope and this country have tie woman
question settled on a good foundation
On that point it is wiser than the people
of tie Eastern countries. 1t has been
wise enough. too. to settle the questions
of false witness or lying, theft, robbery
and murder. But it sticks fast in the
slough of liquor debadchery, and that is
as bad as any. if | read my good hook
with the right understanding. and if my
own eyes and ears don't deceive me. 1t
1t is more than as bad as the other crimes,
for it brings all of the others with it. 1t
breeds harlotry. it breeds lies. it breeds
quarrels, it breeds thefts and murder. and
it doesn't do bit of good. And yet we
allow it among US.
There are some chaps down here who
are doing ali they can against Local OPP
ton. The thing they tell that counts
the most is, that it takes away a mans
liberty. And this end of TIE county is
full Of fellows who believe it. They are
just about as smart as the peoplerused to
be who believed that the right of king
to do as he pleased was divine, and that
they had no right to say no, because the
king said so. These people don't see
tha; this business goes further than the
man who sells the liquor, and further
than the man who drinks it. They
don't see that it affects everybody. They
don't see that it fills the poor houses, the
jails and penitenliaries. They don't see
that it takes millions every year from
the whole people to keep up the build
ings, pay the officers, pay the lawyers
and jurors for trying these debauched
people. They don't see these things.
They don't zee that everybody suffers,
and that few only gain by it. l don't
see any sense i'll keeping up such estab-
lishments. think the bully and the
tyrant might just as well be allowed to
strike down any one he pleased. 1t
would crafty his passion and increase
his means, 1t would be gain to him, but
misery to his victims. That's why soci-
ETY. won't allow such people to do as they
please. Why don't they allow fellow
to marry as many women as he pleases
1t would be pleasure to all parties con-
cerned. They won't allow man to 30
such things. They take away his lib
srty in them things, and the reason is
that it spoils people and makes them bad.
1t degrades and debauches the people.
BY taking away the liberty Of the indi-
vidual in these particulars the good of
the whole people is enlarged. That is
just the reason liquor ought to be done
away with; it degrades the people; it
makes them millions of taxes; it make :