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


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Remarks Of Father Walker on the
Temperance Question, Delivered
at the Opera House, Delaware, D.
Father Walker said he would consld-
er drunkenness in its tlnree-fold relations:
1st. As it refers 10 the individual. I'd.
As ii refers to society. Sd. As the great
est insult that is in the power Of man 10
offer 10 God the Maker.
:. MAN
Is a compound being and possesses in
common the properties Of all of Gods
creatures. He has the vegetative which
is the property of existence and growth.
He has the sensual or animal which con
sists in the five senses, namely seeing,
hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling
this he holds in common with all the
animal kingdom. But over and above
all these he has something far greater
the senses are all brutal, but he has in
telligence-a soul.
Man is styled the noblest work Of God
in all material beings. God did not say
when lie made man as He did when He
created other things. When He created
light, He said let there. he light lie
spoke into existence the vegetable aud
animal kingdom. Not 50, however, with
man. When He contemplated creating
the masterpiece Of His material beings,
BE said, let Us make man; time was
now necessary. He formed the body OF
the earth, and then breathed into him a
living soul-created him IN the image
and the likeness Of God. Man, By WELD
ing to the emp, destroys all this work
ruins his soul, destroys all the divinity
that is ia him, ruins his free agency and
throws he power of repentance beyond
his reach, and IS damned for all eternity.
1t is singular "a It, that Of all evil
spirits, LHt onccan destroy the humanity
Of man. i man may commit murder,
but he may still be a man. By any
manner Of sin ne may lose grace, but
not his manhood; he still possesses the
properties Of love, freedom but not so
with drunkenne-<. lie loses not only
grace, but all his humanity, knowledge,
free-wil, all-all gone.
THEoLoGIANs
Teach that when God created the angels
they were not confirmed in their perfec-
ton. He made known to them that lie
would create man with material part,
that in time His son would take upon
himself human nature, and that man
wouh adore Him, and thai angels should
adore Him also. Angels not confirmed
in. their perfection abuse their free will,
rebel against Gods designs, and are BAN
ished TO the abyss in consequence there
of. Those who were confirmed are BOW
adoring God and IIis Son, but Satan, the
chief of the fallen angels, hates human
ity; for it was on account of Gods re-
quirement that he should worship the
humanity of His Son that he rebelled,
and, consequently, was banished forever
from His presence.
SATAN,
The arch angel. Is the most powerful Of
all spirits created by God. and being at
enmity with God, his object is to destroy
this pOblest Of Gods creatures.
Getting a man intoxicated, the evil
spirit can say 10 God, Where il your
noblest work Is he not lower than the
brute? ia, ha! take pleasure iu de-
stroying him"
In all the attributes Of God, and espec-
tally of jesus Christ, was love-all the
senses perfect humanity united with
God. In Gethsemane the humanity of
Christ prays to the Divinity. 1t is here
that He feels the weakness of His hui
manity-the load of sin of the whole
world bears Him down, as He sees the
drunkard bind up as it were the offered
mercies and cast them from him, by his
acts saying, will have none of your
mercies," and sees man die aa a brute
1t is then that the blood oozes out of
every pore, and He sweats great drops of
blood. He-sees man offer the greatest
insult to God that is in his power, by
throwing away respect, friends, love,
grace and the whole of his humanity.
THE GREATEST EVIL MAN ISFLIcTs oN
SOCIETY.
The first and great commandment of
God is: Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart and with all thy
mind and The second is like unto it,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor az thyself
Does the drankard obey the great COM
mandment? All men are deserving of
our love, be they Jew, Turk or Infidel,
all are deserving of our general respect
and love, but we are particularly obli-
gated to love father, mother, wife and
children; not doing this, we fail TO COM
ply with Gods commandments. How is
it with the drunkard? Where is love
for the wife, for the father or mother
the good example ? Alasl none; no
love, no kindness-all gone and destroy
ed. Behold a man reeling from these
craters of hell-the dramshops. He goes
to the home of her hom he vowed to
love and protect the wife hides, the
children run. is he not an enemy to his
own household? A pestilenee goes forth
from him. Who hath woe? Whose
father hath woe? Who hath conten-
tions. Who falls into pits? Surely,
those who pass their time in wine, and
study to drink off their cups. Look not
upon the wine when it is red, when the
color thereof shineth in the glass it
goeth in pleasantly, but in tie end it
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abroad poison like a basilisk.
1t is said by ancient writers that the
/ basilisk was SO poisonous that it filled
! the atmosphere for a considerable dis
tance around it with deadly poison,
and who came within this compass were
poisoned.
In 1873 there were in New York city
alone 81 900 arrests, and 66,OO0 were ar
rested while intoxicated or from being
intoxicated. Col. Burr, of the Ohio
| Penitentiary, states that of the / 400 Con
victs that have been under his charge at
that prison, something over 900 were
brought there on account of intoxica-
! ton.
Enough grain is manufactured into
intoxicating beverages to give three to
five loaves of bread TO every man, wo-
man and child of the United States every
day. Has not drunkenness spread ovel
our whole country a poison, and have
we not a right to arrest this poison? The
law restricts the sale of certain poisons