The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-07-11

.in chat together again some of on
SWINE 'i," 10 driven into the sea.
pest PLor. and fathers say that tn
our III" 10 mid of tobacco has been
!. P'Pe IN" I'd comfort to them for man
greac - snv that under some phase
e 81 ,roubIe that nothing wiz supply it
rIace az a comforter; ye', some exceIlen
ard accomplished people mink that th'
use of tobacco in all lis io'"s Is an un
healthy. filthy and disgns'.ug haoit-bu
will these last insist ma ia avs avs shaii be
enacted to deprive our o'- en"s oi TINS
! favOrite luxury ;o,.tl
mitiance 70 the happy home of innocence
a,d hIights the hopes and peace of that
- 80 fa,a,,or vet society has not found
:.oar,, ~ shut out the farest part
-, c. creatures from the sight of men,
} I'll so,,e ..1ecaved crone' or super
a,',,,,eI noralistn pronounces them OBJ
iec,s Of repulsion TO the Balance of the
human race.
The drumkard is more an OBJECT OF sym
pathv and pity than of cohdemnatlon-do
reformed drunkards ne'et take TINS view
of the case-his life At pest Is living
daotL. but unless he be reformed from
.'r;,,r;ole orr nerhaps necessity, his case is
bon,.Iess But YOU say the example is
JemoraIiz;ng to my children; make ex-
,,,Go rioLf NJ home and the children
1,iII III follow. Children should not
Ia .ton much educated on the streets and
shont nIaces where the drunken and i'm
moral part of the community resort. 1t
win not he difficult for you to make the
contrast between yourself, a sober man.
and the drunkard, and TO make his life
the more odious by the unequal COMPARE
/ son. | will illustrate how terribly this
sense of disgust and sorrow may be inn
! pressed, by an incident "hieh came under
( my own observation quite recently:
/ Several quite little girls were INDUCING
in the gossip peculiar to little ones, when
! one innocently said L.
drum IN : reTt , T2z -, 80 80 -. g
One of the little girls @a's. ne poor un-
/ fortunate daughter. The intense pain
depicted upon the poor little innocents
face shall never forget while | can re-
member PAIN aud suffering, the lesson
never could be more strongly enforced
than in this instance The little mind
suffered all that it was capable of suffer
ing. | know You are ready to say that
this case alone would justify all our best
efforts. So say too.
Sacred history informs us that about
six thousand years ago God created two
human beings, that they were perfect,
that they were made in his own image,
that after making them he pronounced
them very good. Ne are further inform
ed by the same book that he placed them
IN a garden, which doubtless. was in the
same great author estimation as perfect
and beautiful as garden could be. Most
likely II was the original nursery of all
the beautiful flowers aud delicious fruits
that have gone out with man to every
quarter OF the glOte, and to every isle of
the ocean. We have a right to conclude
from the sacred text that if they had
obeyed the divine will that they would
sill have been in that beautiful garden.
But unfortunately for them, aud unfor-
tunately for "a ahd all their descendants
they fell; from this fall has come all our
woes and all of our sOrrows No one, |
judge, Will doubt that this fall could have /
been prevented, but the only means of
prevention offered was the penalty, which |
IS continuing daily to be paid. Too well |
we know the DEVILS in wait for the /
drunkard. Shall we presume TO improve /
upon option of good and evil, left to
man by his creator2 And after this |
ruinOus fall what course was pursued to- |
ward man by the author Of his existence !
Did he not patiently bear with his weak |
ness and sinfulness for four thousand !
years, and then when all the laws aud /
edicts which he had for this long period |
given to man by direct communication
and talks with him, had failed TO reach |
his lost and ruined state did he not
send among men his only begotten Son,
one equally as powerful as himself and
did he not permit them to murder aud
cruelty God n order that an easier way
might be found TO bring man up from his
fallen condition Did this Saviour of
men prohibit, by requesting any nation
or corporation OF his time to pass laws
prohibiting any of the immoralties He
labored faithfully his whole life in Gu
deavoring TO persuade men and women to
practice lste virtues, and hnally gavS
his liMta sacri6cs- 1i,la-> not turn 3
winter ASineT bid he not consecratc
wine as t6G Proper emblen to remind th<e
christian of his blood shed for him.
There are many instances recorded in
sacred history, at times, when God was
speaking directly TO men, that would
seem to have required prohibition law.
The first, and perhaps the most promi-
nent, IL the mentioaed in the 9th
chapter of Genesis. IL relates to the most
celebrated navigator of either ancient or
modern times, navigator who accom-
Pushed feat that never can be accom-
plished again, he safely nsyigated his
vessel over n drowned world. lie was
the favored and chosen of God to do this
wonderful work. How we'll he accom-
piished it is recorded in the writings of |
Moses But after sailing over drowned (
planet, in a vessel Of his own handiwOrk,
lac became n husbandman and planted a
vineyard, and he drank Of the wine aud /
became drunken aud exposed himself.
of fhia L. I
came the curse upon Canaan, caused by |
the indiscretiOn OF his father, which
modern theolOgians have lately told US
was even visited upon his descendants |
until the present day. In this same 9th |
chapter OF Genesis, God spoke unto Noah |
about sundry laws for the government |
of his Noah 81 descendants. Was there |
ever more favorable time in the worlds |
history for this divine law giver to have |
SAID to Noah; "Old fellow, you re drink |
ing too much, you are drunk. Is it not |
time you had Joined our society? 1 have |
used moral suasion long enough, now |
will compel you to quit But he did no
such thing The vineyard was not de
stroyed the heads OF the wine barrels
were not Knocked in, but this preacher OF
righteousness was permitted, in his maud
I'm condition to infict a curse on his son
that was TO cling TO his posterity forever.
There are many other, aud some more
striking examples than this, recorded in
the book, but space forbids my abiding
10 them. In some future number OF your
paper, II you have space for it, will give
some reasons why all men, especially
young men, should shun Intoxicating
liquors as they would the deadly upas,
as wen rs several vices and practices,
some of which are more fatal, both TO
mind and body, than the unfortunate in
tOxicating liquors.
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