The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-03-26
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4 WOmai. !, Opinion Of Praying
Raids.
A Few Pertinent Remarks About
Consistency.
Liquor Versus Prayer.

Editor Times
A long as Cur Temperance p7syiHs sisters
think they can pray "down The s'ug SHOPS
we would like then 30 appoint 4 commit ee
to pray down fes other evils 81 like m-g
nitude, and pray in few reforms which I'M
derlie the liquor question.
In house on Shawnee street. there died
the other day, from disease eugendered BY
the most pitiable want, a lady "bred and to
the manor born" Five or six little inno-
cents. hungry, cold and naked, gathered
about that dying mother, over whom was
one poor, ragged coverlet. If the ladies had
no, been 80 busy attending the saioons, this
little case of wre,chedness might have come
to their notice, and they might have enjoy
ed the privilege OF praying down few
blankets, some fuel and food, preserved the
mother t, l. children, and brought bless
ings where despair held high carnival. We
know another =. ne, where the inmates have
len 10 stcn. lnturned 10 procure daily
bread, bu. ya.u,y. They have spent days
in bed to preve.t IN N ron per:shiDg. and
they frequent'y - 'o't7eisht hours without,
food. They are too proand TO beg, too hon.
e., to steal, and too cultivated TO do aught
but suffer silently. These cases sre legion.
We know of men who have
nle,ded tine and again for
the privilege OF working for their board,
and been denied, and who thanked God that
there was place where they could par,ake
OF free lunch, and thus preserve life for
one more day. These cases could be multi
piled to an indefinite extent, and have pre-
vailed with great Halicnancy since las. Sep
TENDER. What have the praying women
done for such as these? Have they denied
Themselves one ribbon, one pair OF kids, or
one garment less? We can tell what they
re done! They discharged the washer
wc-..an 10 add a few more delicacies TO
their tables and concluded to do their own
dre.,-n,akinc, and thus save(?i little mon
ey for superfuous fnery. What have the
churches done? What has the Young Mems
Christian Association done? Have they
provided comfortable meal daily, where
with cup of coffee, men could be preserved
from starvation for dime? ''Iet justice be
done though the heavens fall" A liquor
seller has done, no, only this, bu! mothers
and orphans have been fed from his table
freely, and this man with IN ob:useness
which was sirgularly unci tac"ox, DID not ask
what church they belonged 10, nor even did
they love Jesus! In word, how many in
this community do love Jesus? The Rev.
Mr.. Thineumbob, who breaches to the
congregation of Saints, " looks upon each
person he converts as one more unit to assist
in making up his salary of five thousand
dollars. OF course he loves Jesus.
The ladies beseathered and besilked, pay
punctillous visits to one another, but forget
to call upon those who wear neither purple
or fine linen, And of course they love Jesus!
The Christian book .seller who fears to let
the poor girl have some books until she can
nav for them-he loves Jesus! BAT the
Fifth stree, infidel, who don't love Jesus, fur
nished the books promptly. 1t may com
fort the vary Christian to know that the IN
fidel brother is not yet paid, but We doubt
not that "mansions in the skies" are being
prepared for him. 1t is related by one OF
his parishioners, that the Rev. Tom. Beech
er of Elrlira, used to furnish wood to the
needy from his private purse. and then saw
il himself. A blasphemous infi1el of this city
vent out from the comfortable bosom of his
family, the other night, and after prOwling
around for brief time, deposited at a wild
ov's door enough fuel to last three or four
DAYS. The ridiculous inconsistency of this
man. will commend itself to every thought
full, Jesus-lovipg Christian in the commu-
nity. and many will be led to believe that
there are sermons in wood az well az in stone.
We know of another eccentric case, where a
family eat their meat, day by day, without
asking the Lord TO bless it, and yet they
have the temerity to share all that they have
with some others that have none, and they
have been known to repeat this singular phe-
nomena again and again, without the remot-
est possibility of recompeEse. What sha.i
we conclude from these facts? Simply this :
The Jesus who came among men in the first
century can rarely be found in the churches
now, The man who prays longest and loud
est worships himself or his temporal pros
perity. That is the Jesus he loves the most,
and nine-teutbs OF all the people who throng
cur churches, are daily lowing down to i'm
ages of weed and stone; forgetful that the
hours which hring them nearer to eternity
are speeding Nv on flying feet; forgetiul that
eacn man and woman shall render an ac-
coun, oe the deed one in the body; forget
IL, hat while Y. are locking above and
beyonu Tor some arela where they may dls-
tinguish themse,vss in public, and to be
seen O. n.eD, q Is opp 7itnnitiss fer doing
good are lying within the shadow OF their
own hearthsiones, dDhccied and forgotten.
The praying Temperance women have begun
in the wrong place. The most forcib!e truth
heard in Laing's Hail on Thursday last,
was uttered by c. r. Jennison
He said that when women possessed
the franchise, then ard then only would the
liquor curse be abolished. Bot these refined
women who now parade our streets, accom-
panied ~ motley crowd, jeeriDg, swearing
and Joking in manner not fit for ears po-
lite-they are too sensitively organized and
too modest to 60 to the polls and drop bal:
lot. When women unite in harmonious and
concentrated efforts to obtain the right to
their own persons. their own individuality,
when thev etand as units, instead Of ciphers.
as ,ray do now, then they will possess the
p.s.-r t, mske and enact such laws as will
efecu,lly destroy King Alcohol!
JUSTICE.
P.S.-Since writing the above We are in
IOfIueU thdt lii tne utst SaoS aoo'e
ed it has been discovered that the deceased
lady was Maid Of Honor to the Queen OF
England. This fact has 40 stirred the souls
and purses of pious people that every need
has been supplied to the survivors.
Moral: Distinguished antecedents are q
wonderful stimulant TO successful philan'
thropy. d.
~~.y.-,n~ nC ,caCrNwORrKI
COUNTY GRANGE.
Criminal Court Room, March 20, 1874.
Pursuant to the call of the Master Of The
Old County Council. the Masters and Trus'
tees Of tie subordinate Oranges met and or
ganized temporarily by electing J. K. Bau'
serman Secretary; Andrew Fans in The