The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-04-10
The remperata l.. C. c.

Not only arraigns me for being friend
to publicans and sinners, but as a publi-
can and sinner in fact.
tried to keep in good company, and
therefore, referred to the fact that Christ
had made something like three barrels
of 6rst-rate wine, and sent it to the gov
ernor of the feast, that is, gave it to 9TH
ers to be drank in moderation. Will J
c. take Him to account for such an ex-
ample, and not confne his abuse to the
sinners of our own time, who treat theil
friends occasionally?
The same Christ is the first on record
who opposed street-praying, and who
according to our virtuous J. c. c., "lift.
ed his hand with the filthy poison of the
dram-shop against the best women of the
age"
What a firat-class hypocrite and phar.
asee this J. c. c. would have made, had
he and Dio Lewis lived at the time Of
Christ! Is Dio Lewis far superior to
Christ as an exemplar of prayer, when
the latter favors the closet, while the
former adopts the street, Did ]. c. G
ever reflect that our mothers and grand.
mothers, and the mothers of Christ and
Washington were very noble women, and
yet never prayed on the streets?
AS TO LINCOLN.
J. G. c. cannot believe that "honest Old
Abe" ever drank drop. Bartlet's Life
of Lincoln, page SO, is against the total
abstinent habits of Old Abe. Stepher
A. Douglas, who knew Abe for 25 year.
prior to 1858, says he kept grocery in
Salem, Ills, and said so in presence Of
Lincoln, who said, just as n. X. sayi
now, if he had, he did not look upon il
as much Of a sin. Lincoln says he work,
in a stiN-house, at the head of a ravine
the latter part of one winter, and man
aged to keep sober. Douglas says Lin
coin could outjump any body, and ruin
more whiskey than all the other young
men in the neighborhood, and Abe did
not contradict it. So it seems that some
passably good men can keep grocery
make whisky, and drink it pretty freely
without incurring the wrath of J. C. G..
who denies that either Christ or Lincoln
ever drank drop, or made any for 9th.
ers to drink.
THE GOOD TEMPLAR's OATH,
As set forth by J. C. c., is about as near
correct as his knowledge of Lincoln; for
if it be as he asserts, he took an oath
never to reveal it, and he has, therefore
perjured himself morally; and il it be
not as he asserts, he is only a common
falsi6er, intent on mischief. He may
impale himself on either horn of the di-
lemma.
When J. c. C. concludes that Christ
did not commit sin by making three bar.
rels of wine to complete the festivities
of wedding party; and learns more OF
both Lincoln and Christ, and other peo.
pie who use strong drink in moderation
as they use fire without becoming in.
cendiaries; when he learns that sight OF
water produces hydrophobia and the
sight of whisky aleophobia, and the dis
tress of the patient in either case is very
deplorable; when he realizes the fact
that very reputable women are now liv.
ing who never prayed on the street corn.
ers; and that temperance people oppose
the paternal-guardianship theory of gov.
ernment, and therefore, set their faces
against the enforcement of total abstinence
and prohibition; that such examplars OF
temperance as Christ and Lincoln were
not total abstinence fanatics, but both
not only made, but gave to others to be
drank in moderation, the drink which il
now sought to be prohibited by mis-
guided men;-when these thoughts get
room in J. c. C.'smind, and he gives up
the hope of being translated without
enduring the ills Of life, i will be glad
to talk to and of him, even in print
NJ. K.