The Republican journal., 1874-05-07
For the Republican journal.

MIR, EDITOR: Will You please publish
the following statements that appeared in
the Camden Herald, April 25th. Also the
comments thereon.
A REMARKABLE INCIDENT IN THE WOMAN 5
TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.
We take the following from the Wor-
cester South Compendium, Uxbridge,
Mass, OF the date of April 11th.
On Saturday afternoon last Mrs. L. Hill, Mrs
| W. &. Emmons, Mrs. Royal Keith and Mrs. s.
helley, members of the temperance committee
CHOSEN at meeting held last week, visited the
saloon kept by Lucius Simpson, in East Doug
las Tor the purpose of influencing him to abstain
from the traffic in Intoxicating drinks. They
mad previously sent word of their intended
visit, and Mr.. Simpson prepared for them b,-
sweeping the floor, and otherwise putting the
premises i'll order, and intmated that he had no
objection to their coming. The ladies made
their appearance at about three o'clock and
We're politely received. They told him they had
come as friends to talk with him for his own
good, and urged him to join them in promoting
the cause OF temperance. In reply, Mr.. Simpson
said he could not promise to do ls they asked
is he dld not believe it was any worse to sell
liquor than any thing else.
After alluding to the law. Mrs. Hill opened
The Bible with the remark, ''Now let us see
what God says. She turned to Deuteronomy
And it came to pass, when he heareth the
words of this curse, that he bless himself in his
heart, saying, shall have peace, though walk
III the imagination Of mine heart, to add drunk
enncsS to thirst. The Lord will not spare hin. .
but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy
shall smoke against that man. and all the curses
that are written i'll this book shall lie upon him.
and the Lord shall blot out his name from under
heaven"
During the reading of these prophetic wor,l,
Mr.. simpson stood listening mtently and at the
close appeared to be strangely affected lie
stepped trembangly behind the bar and moist
ened his forehead with water at the stme time
mutterng, ''tYou do wrong; you do wrong"
The ladies disclaimed any such intention, stat
ing that they had come only for good purpose
Some one remarked that the man Lad been
drinking, and it would not do to talk with him,
but bvsander replied, mo, it is the spirit Of
God. lie was taken to Il rear room and placed
IN Il chair, where he twice repeated, "Gou have
mercy on my SOUL" These We're his last words
a physician was sent for and the ladies, after
a few consolins words, quietly withdrew. Mr.
simpson was conveyed to his house in a state
of ncOnsciouSneSS. and died the following
morning at about 3 o'clock.
The singular circumstance of his death. of
course, occasioned great deal of excitement
and gossip, and all unite in expressions of
sorrow for his unexpected aud unavoidable
death. lie leaves wife and daughter.
Moses was the servant Of God, and the
chosen agent or medium by which the
statutes and Judgments OF the Lord
We're communicated to the lsraelites for
their instruction and guidance after their
arrival in the Gland of promise
These are the statutes and judgments which
we shall observe to do in the land which the
! Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess.
It, all the days that ye live upon the earth"
| Deut. T. l.
Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the
| tithc of thy corn or Of thy wine, or OF thy oil.
or the frstlings of thy herds or of thy iock, nor
OF thy VOWS which thou voWest, nor thy free
will offerings, OF heave offering OF thine hand
| But thou mayest eat them before the Lord thy
God i'll the place which the Lord thy God shall
| choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter,
and thy man servant and thy maid servant. and
! the LevlteS that is within thy gates and thou
shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God in all that
| thou puttest thine hands unto" Deut Il. Ills.
| And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God
| IN the place where he shall choose to place his
/ name there, the tthe of thy corn, of thy Wine.
/ and OF thine oil, and the tirstngS of thine
tiockS that thou maycst learn to fear the Lord
| thy God always. And if the way he too long
/ Ion thee, 80 that thou art not able To carry ii.
! or if the place he too far from thee, which the
| Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there
| When the Lord thy God hath blessed thee !:
/ then thou shalt turn il into money, and bind up
the money III lhlne littllu, anu shalt go unto the
| ti",N "i.i~i. tl.e I-"rI I'll, NoL ,li.ui choose
| And thou shalt beStoW that money t0r whatso-
ever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, for sheep.
| or for Wne or for StrnHV driH&, or for what
soeyer thy soul desireth; and thou shalt eat
| there before the Lord thy God, and there shalt
rejoice, thou, and thine household" Drut II
23-22i-91-l6.
The foregoing passages are of the same
authority rs those named IN Deut %: 10.
20 and are iuSt rs much what God saws
1t was an unfortunate thing Tor that Mr.
Simpson that he was not better posted in
what Is said in the Bible. If he had been,
he could have easily found from "what
God says" sufficient justification probably,
for what he had done.
II not he would not, very likely. have
been so badly frightened as to cause his
death by merely hearing two verses read.
But the statement is, probably. untrue,
and made to have an effect on minds as
imbecile As the parties concerned in the
matter. Everybody should have credit
tor all the good they can do but the
world will never be made much wiser or
better by such exhibitions of human weak
ness. COMMON SENSE.