, 1874-03-22

wise. OF course, these baby-eyes. peeping up
at you 30 inaocently through overhanging t1n-
! giles and dirty little face, will look out through
iron Crates by.and-by- and this baby. creeping
through the H.wdust On the floor OF this beer
aa'oo1 and dangling it's bare legs in the doorway,
how would you loye to clasp your Wilc's corals
around its pretty. dimpled ueex, and hear it's de-
ishtfu1 laugh; but it will not surprise yoa very
rnuch. some t~lce ten years from now, to know
that thet neck has been broken by the hang
men's rope.
Poo- old black Perfect went to eimi]ar school,
His moral naturo Was more uadevc1oped than
that Of your 7-year-oM-boy. Ho Was pi1fully
ignorant. His misspelled, painfully -construct-
ed petition pleadincf for his life, touched Mo as
nothing else Ind He was too ignorant and un-
developed to be very blameworthy, it he did do
horrible things. OF course, lie quarreled with
hls wife OF COURSE tho quarrel wa1ed hotter
when bis small quantuu OF reason Was de-
teo is5Dysd bad p0"eF81 q. blo% Srnraa Tth g.a
killed his wife. We know BY tho manncr drunk
en- men staeger from eide to eide in the streets
that their bodies are lone pretty we'll from al
control Tho drunken hand that came down
with such brute force with the g7diron could no
moro regulate its strength toits customary WIFE
beating force than could the tnauimate iron it
! clutched.
few weeks ago. criugcsng like Al abueed
dog, and nearly frightened out OF nll seu~
blance to man, poor old black Perfect WAS
swi5tly, horribly sent into tho presence Of
as you emerge from these streets, and come
into tho pure air OF your own guarded
home. You tate of your bonnet, full OF anger
at tho authorities that license saloon keepers to
make beasts OF human beings, and then 6tunidly
bIeak tue beaats' necks because they have act~ad
like beasts. Women's crusades cannot keep the
1iquor~saloona closed. That can only b. accom-
pllshed BY LAWS against the existence OF such ga
looms. The men have the votes which can make
and enforce theso laws. 1t the crusado stir up
tho men to do this, it will not have been all in
vain.
Have erred in thinking it were impossible to
make Robbie feel too great a horror of any use
OF any kind OF fermented drink was nv ques-
ton. Tho Logic of events gives! a decided No.
Is there any safe middle ground for our little
childfcn'a feet, between the highlands OF total
abstinence and the slimr. dcath-breath,ng
marshes Of drunkenness,-safe enough for your
little Willie and Birdie, and nv Robbie? It is =
sweet s,shs.-litt9s children At the Lords Table,
OF Jesus. I believe that Christ lorcs to
Eddie, and Birdie, and Wilhe and
Robbie will quite, naturally. think it
Mamma. and the Sunday-echool teacher are all
tasting it. It is on The table spread for the
Lord. They may also just taste it elsewhere
Thcv may taste and taste again, all through the
coming years, until total-ahatinence-tha
abused, old-fasbioned idea-comeB to b remem-
bered only to be smiled at Birdie puts VINE in her
pnddings, and Eddie dlsposes Of them nppreci-
a:ively Aud all alons life We hear OF ons here
aud one there becoming nruukard..
You may be obliged, nv dear Elder, to pull of
your Wiile's wet boots and sseady him up p-Btairs
to sleep off drunken ft soma nj snt. Now.
you are shocted when 5ou are told to press the
grapes, Yourself, into tac goblet, communion
morning or, better st:li, to old eyen the an
pcarance OF evil" and fill ths goblets with
Heavens oxn pure, beautiful water. You smile.
and visionary, who tells you tnat though that
crystal goblet. with the sunlight touching it
like hoveriu3 angels wings, passing fro1. hand
to hand at the Lords Tablo,-throngh its pure
crystal you may see . rainbow OF hope
for the future,-fuD, SO full, OF promise. Tne
SO greatly 10 vile aad questionable circles. that
it ought TO be excluded from the Lords Tabio
for its very association Of ideas. To mo it al
ways seems AZ if Satan laughed u2 through The
communion e1u:tlnS that be can thus gam
entrance here; That Ia lanshs as exultin;lE-
only little moro qnietIr-tEan. thorsl tbs sa1o
dreadful drink. he laughs in the vlltst places on
earth
Centuries ago. in thas upper chamber, the
Great Teacher said, ut His last supper rith His
loved Diseirles, Do this in remembrance Of
Me-" DarA-browcl, earnest men recliaea at the
table, iu flowing, Oriental costume. How lho
years they had been together had been crowded.
with events! How the Cnrist's great heart
yearued orer these faithful oaes! We ca,
ima3ine something OF how lovingly and ycsrn-
iEgly He said. do this in remembrance Of Ne"
Tie so lon;;cd that their ho:nclT life together.
Himself, bit, most of ALL His teachings, should
oa kept fresh in their minds. To me the whole
scene Is ine1prcsslbly touching aud beautiful.
4 Temperance movement" as such, was an
unhea,d Of thing in those times Of universal
winc-trinking. in their y1neclad country. In
Saving. " Do tois in remenbranca OF Me," may
BE not also have meant it rs = check to their
customary free use of it? Indeed, how were 1t
possible to d:ina wine With Ill their old abandon
the Crosse Further down the centuries. with
Christ's memory no longer purcly-personal
cne, wo find Christian church rebuded for
feasting ct the Lords Table. Vino flowed
freely At all fcas:s. Wig continue tho nae Of
wine iu comnemo;ating the Lords Supper, any
moro than the Eastern robes aad couchcs, and
position Of the Disciples at the table?
Christ. NC all k1ow, did not often attack the
outgrowtns OF false principles, but the pin
cp;t. themselves; the root itself from which
Slavery, Polygamy. and Dfunsenness grew rank.
The root once DESTROYED, all these outsrowtts
Of leaf and fruitage die naturally enough. He
implanted this principle: "Lovo tho Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and thy neishboE
as tliyself." This is eurcly death-thrust
at the LiquorTrafhc, ns we'll as At Slavery,
standing al! that is meant by THIS love to our
nelghbor, vine will not only ne banlshoa from
the Lords Table, but We will mako IN effort to
drive it, together with al other fernented drink,
from our land MARIA WILLETT OWEN.
GLENCOE, ILL.,. March 13 1874.
victor Eu-o's Nczv Novel.
We have reccred II. Victor Hugos new
novel, "Quatre vingt-treize," Of which we shall
publish rerlow next Saturday. We have I