, 1874-04-10


SIN: It is often we'll to pause iu tho midst OF |
great excitement and think What will The end I
bo ?--s good queBton~to ask when emotion |
runs high. It Is good timo to ask it now. a |
temperance movement, wholly unique |
aud unprecedented, sweeps tho country; but |
whittier is 1t lending?
Wcro thero no such NATURAL low as TINT OF
action ami rcaction, thoughtful people might
contemplate the good that is being doue-and
done by women, who aro usually credited with
doing nothing-with unalloyod satisfaction
But this great Law worlis everywhere. ball
rebounds; tho tide ebbs buck to tho soa; \ flow-
ing stream that is damned rushos with greater
1orcc when tho barrier gives way. It Is tho eatno
In society. Up and down, back and forth, hu-
man feeling oscillatoB like pendulum; md,
whenever there is swift aud brenthloss rush
forward. We may calculate upon n backward
swing proportionatoly rapid. Tho prayor-movo-
mont Ia just now tho forward rush; bus 1t has
got to 70 baclx,-and what then2
Prayer is a good til ing, and 1iquor-aolling is
bad thing; hut whoth or mere prayer can uproot
the OWL, aud whether the deadly upas will not
frosen and flourish all tho more, like green
bay tree, for its sinking, md for tho ptous toars
that now wator ita roots, arc questions to thiuk
about Hero ia tho doubt and tho danger that
loom ahead.
Ilofor1nation-tho sort TINT is roal and per--
manent-iH not ofton q result Of sudden and
| yioent up1elvnl. It is tho auro and slow-work-
! ing leavcn which clovatoB mud puriiics I'M
proyement ia thing OF degreeB.
| Progress is ono thing; Hpasmodio push
| ahead is quito another. The liluor-sollor who
abanlons his traffic because ho is fully convinced
Of tho evil and tho sin Of It, has washed his
| hands of it forever. The one who emptles his
| kogs and barrels in d moment Of sudden emo-
| tion, Ia very likely to. fill them aEain.
| AS to the praying itself, to What or whom do
thoao women pray To God, or to tho .saloon-
| keepers !? lit Is to God, can uo not hoar aud
answer them ut homo or In His churches Ia
His ear tho moro open to their petitions for
knooling upon muddy pnvemcntH aud hlthy ba-
II It is to tho 1iquor-solers TINT they really
pray, why address God at oil
Noasoniug, persuasion, plending across count
erB and over rows of whisky y-barrols, addressed
directly to tho mon designed to DO roached,-
with tho praying left out, as dono somewhere
elso,-wonld bo o bottor mothod. It is tho
parade Of religion which, while 1t strikes somo
with an irresistible terror, rouses others to COM
Jesus condemned tho Pharisooa who prayed
standing ut tho corner Of tho streots. These
praying enthusiasts aro not PhRraees thoy arc
honest and deeply IN earnest aud }t yet they haye M
tho streots, often in tho midst Of ribal1, ioor-
i tFihe motive is good. What these women do is
cou1agooua i Is herelsm itysf bnt tat aoas
/
tulo Of prosecuted martyrs; but martyrdom
mny bo hut cruciGod fanatlcsm. +" Lookors-on
SEQ moro than players" We, horo In tho heart
OF tho country, bohod-from a distanoe-our
praying sisters mud, oven while We respect thog
devotion, wo wondor at thom. Wo are shocked
that pure and modest women, such as We believe
thom to bo, should do anything to rouse ,t tho
don1on of riot should be the means Of calling
togethor u howiing, cat~calling, obHcono mob,
but, 1T them DO as successful .s1sa .ns as they
not roach the bottom Of tho matter
ALL There is yast aud deadly gro"rIh| which
pounding away at tho top, Topping off branch
here and there and givin ho wole thiag atgo
St the roots at once. Could evory hquor-Bollo1
the aaa bo prayed down t0as ffssh gq cgqp
arc drunkarls, mad with thirst, thoro will be
somebody to sratiiy that thirst. aud In mate ly: ;
tho traffic, tho traffic will 60 on oithor oponly
or in secret. When tho 'accursed passion fol
! drink il eradfcated from the people, thon, and
not till then, tho saloon-keeper will find lis o.
! cupation gono. A FARMERS WIFE.