Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-06-05

prosecuted. Another distinctive feature
peculiar to 1t Ia, that woman is the sole
agent In the movement. Woman Is tx-
p cted to do the work and she alone Is
responsible for its accomplishment. And
as she Ia the worker she must follow to a
great extent the womanly instincts OF
her nature. have fai h In woman and
am willing to trust the work to her. In
her hands 1t Is the concentrated power Of
m)therEood, wifehood, daughterhoOd
and sistcrhood, imbutd with the love o..
God, and cJnsecrated to this especial
work by pentacostal baptism combined
with the calmness and patience OF fixed
purpose against the traffic that nothing
can stay or turn aside.
Let inf ltls scof and pour ont their
hellish invectives with scOrn and derision
and pirate like fools, as the V are, abcu'
the flnatical usade of weak and deluded
women. Let them whine with hypocrit-
icll cant about the "desecratio OF prayer
and the rtproach to religion " for chris
tian women to sing and pray on the
streets and in front Of saloons. Let
Sdtan's swinc-herds, who deal out still.
sop to beastified humanity at five cents
glass and pocket with unhaliowcd
greed tie price Cf blood, tr, mble in VII W
Of the justice of God to whom their case
has been appealed by the wives and chill
dren OF the drunkards they have made
and ruined. The whole accumulated list
of wrongs, wretchedness, poverty and
distress of the families Of the poor ine-
briate lies at the door of the liquor ven
der. His diabolical business Is to take
the unwary victim Fl ON the paths Of so
briefly and virtue, and by long continued
series Of arts and seductive influences
peculiar TO the craft to gradually but
surely induct and forward the deluded
wretch on the road to ruin, who, with
every step he takes in his downward ca
reer, looses self control and the self re-
spect due to his manly nature. 1t is the sa-
loon-kesper's work to decoy the wavering,
(as does the spider the unsusp, citing fly
Into the meshes he weaves around him un-
til past all possibility Of escape from the
drunkard-maker's net he ields himself q
b 'sotted slave and is led captive by the
Devil at his will and With accelerated mo-
mentum rushes madly on through the
portals If hell. The drunkard. maker
not only murders the body of his sub
Jec:s with slow poison but destroys 10 h
soul and body in hell. He not only robs
thC m of their money, the hard earned
fruits of their labOrs, and impoverishes
and beggars their families; but which is
pie OF manhood, degrading them below the
level o! the brute and graduating them
In the school Of fintemperance, dissipation
and vice, he turns them out as finished
samples of his d, yilish work-poor, bloat-
ed specimens Of poisoned physical cor
uption--demented maniacs, thoroughly
fitted and prepared for any and every
crime In the dark catalogue Of human
enormities candidates for eternal Gam
nation.
Does the saloon-keeper, with the irfi
del think, that there Is no God9 Or does
he suppose that he will not visit the su
thors of such three-fold iuin with the
curses pronounced against him in the sa-
cred volume? Does he not tremble under
the curse of God as denounced by the
Prophet Habakkuk against such as
''maketh his neighbor drunken?" Let
him ponder these utterances OF Holy WI 1t:
He that by usury and unjust gain in
creaseth his substance he shall gather
1t for him that will pity The poor. Fl,
that turneth away his ear from hearing the
tdw even his prayer shall be abomination."
"Whoso causeth the righteous to. 90
astray in an erH 'cdy he shall fall himself
into his own pit."-Prov. 2sc s, o & l0vs.
Thus the righteous retributive Justice
Of God brings the devices of the wicked
upon their own heads, as illustrated IN
the fact that drunkard-makers and their
sons become drunkarfs themselves. ''He
that being oft r. proved hardeneth hi.
neck shall suddenly be destroyed and |
that without remedy."- P. ov. 29c Iv.
'Let destruction come upon him st un-
awares; and let his net that he hath hid |
catch himself; into that very destruction
let him fall. - Pea, 35c Sv.
:" There are the workers Of in;quity fall
len they are cast down and shall not BE-
able tn rise. ."-Psa. 36c l2v.
Truly there is a fearful retribution for |
the liqIor-seller at the Judgment day.
g when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed
from heaven with his mighty angels, in
taming fire taking vengeance on them
that know not God and that obey not the
Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; who
'hall be punished with everlasting de-
from the presence of the Lord
md from the glnry Of his power. list
rhess. 1c to 9vs.
Even as have seen, they that plough
niquity and SOW wickedness reap the
me."-Job &c 8v.
There is God who hears the prayers
" the crusaders, and II his mercies and
warnings fail to stop the work OF the
lquor vendt rs his judgments wi remove
hem, and she that hath an ear to hear
ct him hear and stop his fendish work
'efore IL Is too late. RoLLos.
Good Stave JOinung.-Lastw week, Jo.
eph kanney did some fast stave jpintinR Al
rowbridRe's Stave Yard, in our town. He
ommenced on Tuesday morning and worked
ntil Saturday evening with the following re-
ult:
FRS: day-Ia,35O. Time O< hours.
Second day--l3, ESQ. Time 9I q"
Third day Is $50. Time W.
Fourth day y-lS 100. Time 9H
Fifth day-l5, $50. Time W
Tie staVea were Insnecfad aud countsd h.