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fool mortified and dlsgustod ovory, slmo tho

council brings them together.
length Of tilno aubjoot OF this rum Babylon,
Olthor az 4 manufacturer or vondor, or AZ q pot
house politician, upon whom aome mark Of tho
wrath OF God dooa not already roat? DO yo,l
oloHots sro not fnl! Of 'skolosonh Did you over
500 n fortune Of this sort A.aY in ono family for
I've full goneratona7 Whore Is tl,e groggory
thofoof who Inn not In hia own aoul and body,
ana In hia family, tile record Of mtncry, and dog
radiation, and crime Tloac poor iNrotctes who
grind In these dovil's nia have neod Of thoao
applications on their boiln1f which thay call tho
n-prnyer- plague" for there are 30 many Of their
Sins praying against tliom that It ia only OF Gods
great moroy they arc pot slready doaa and
Ihayo somewhere hoard of ono Of these un-
botievIng saloonlsts, who; being enragel at tho
Church aud tho temperance roform, composed
Treatise against them, which ho blasphemously
entitled Ths Seven Last pegss rsse
Societies, Sons Of Temperafice.t Good Templara,
Bands OF Hope, prohlbltory Laws, Young Mons
Christian Associations, and sunday-sohools.
fpnx faasxs % sso hsSssG he fsa ssf o
his customers: Presently poor old wreck Of q
man came ia for his morning bittors and, Beoing
tho placald, aIowy road 4 to himself. thon IN. a
kind Of terror, he began to count OF the soven
whisky, vino, alc. cidor, --and, turning upon hla
| heel, hastily loft tho place. The noxt man
| stopped to read tho sign, aud then began
sn ssns @ tue asSss which oxal apt
staggering, drunkonnoBa, dolirinm tremonB, In
sanity and ho, too, haatonod away. Tho third
man road aud rockoned thus: Poverty, thirst,
hunger tho
plaques: LOSS OF character loss Of crodit loss OF
property, debt, desperation, prison, tho gal
And thon the horror-strioken drarn~soller hs.
IN - Fri @t,uf
ness, ruined homo, q son lying In . drunkard'a
| grave, another in lunntio asylum, a murder
committed IN his house, atorturing, conscience,
aud he'll in Immediate prospoot. And tho mlsera-
| BILE wretch ID rushed out of his place. and ran for
hia lifo as II his store were hauntod.,
And 30 it Was. 50 arc all such places; and,
IN view Of tho inevitable plaques which their
sins bring upon them who Pit tno M bottle to thot
would seetn that tho prayers Of our Bistora Of
| tho temperance crusade ought to be a welcome
sound to their esrst since nothing but speedy
peniteneo and Almighty grace can save them
| come. > ,>,.-:
| am sometimes Inclined to think that tho
Babylon mentioned In tho Revelation, Ia mona
other than the Kingdom Of Dr1lnkdnneea which
defyfnR, and that 1t ID upon this "aoat of tho
boaa. that those awful via1s full OF tho wrath
Of dod arc to be poured out; and Il 1t be 30, it
Agreos with the record OF our prisons, poor
houses, bedlams, idiot asylums. criminal courts,
executions, and diaaocling g-ro0ms.
10 warned In time; every onesof you; go not Ia
tho way OF thoso aihnorB Lost the plagues which
in this world sud the no1t' aro poured out
upon them' should also light on you.
But there Ia another world under this ono, mid
my soul ahrinkB with horror at the pordition Of
those mon who, in spite Of the warnings OF Gods
Providence IS we[l as Gods Word, for tho sake
OF filthy lucro, or litta briof authority, become
tho subjects OF this Rum Babylon; for, il all the
evils which mon inliot IN this world como back
upon their own heads In tho world below, what
store for thom Wien " Holi from bonoath iE
moved to moot them at their comiug!"
[ wont one night into tho domonatrating-ro room
Of . ohiea{q medical college. a, crowd Of rel: re-
redhot stove till called by tho entrance Of the
Professor to their soata which arose. circle above
circle, around q long narrow table which waB tue
tor turned back tho whito cloth from tile naked
body Of a man, took up bis scalpal, and. dis
ooufsing learnodly, began tho ''demonntration
!. O., showing tho boys how to cut 2 Living BODY
seemod to bo the wreck Of what had once
been strong and stalwart nan; the deai
faco boro marks Of dissipation aud'the body Of
negloct,. and took him to bo some panpo1
House, aud who, having no friends to claim hil
corpse, had been sold to the doctors or stolen b,
solno " resurrectionist, +" to furnish, safo oxer
clse for saws and knives in the interest Of the
|
history OF many of tho subjects which do oomt
to those strange uses, and when there is ne
longer any member Of that poor body which ca,
be cut any smaller, the mass Is thrown into th'
sewer or sold to be boiled into Honp. These art
facts. give them from medical authority.
ThuB the awful curse OF Hoaven which sparot
not even tho corpse OF the BabyloniBh K1u{
follows the subjects Of this: modern Babylon
their bodies like hia out Of their infamous grayos
So lot 1t 10. When thoao Babylonians have rur
their short race Of authority and mischief. ant
, have met the stroke which their impiety has in
yited, 1t iB but small return to society whiol
their lives have cursed, that their bodies shoul
be made Of somo little service to the satenco ant
health OF the world, Why should these mon SEN
their servants and Victims, paupors and mut
, dcror9, to teach young doctors surgery, and no
In their own turn lie on tho dlssecting- -tabl
| thom8elyos9 = ~ =. -
Finally, tho vrathfnl prophecy concerning IL
fato Of this anciont sinner doscenda to his ohil
ter OF 1Ba,ah and written it amongst the branche
, OF every family tree,' The aosd' Of evil-doer
shall mover DO renowned" In our day, fortune
and 'honors ohaDgo hands with astonishing RI
:. now hold the ronH of civic government
but God is pledged to 800 that their oaraer sha
| be Short and, in Wow Of tho facts, He eoens t.
be terribly in earnest. Tho system Of sin will con
tinuo, but the names on the civic roll and on til
aign-bonrds Of saloons will speedily change, an'
: tho SONG Of those who bore them will b
!, !, ashamed OF them and want to cbnnga the spell
! ing, it.; indeed. thoy do not perish nltogathe
> through the Sins thor fathers taught them. :.
J In. human experience, aa we'll aa in Hol
4 Scripture both doom and de1verance arc writ
- ten delivaranoo for the poor that cry unto Cox
T. and for every sinner that turnsth'away from h
= y sinH, but doom for all high. things that exa
= the1nselveB' aHainst JehoVah, among whic
= stands forth with the boldest lmpiety the prcf
\ ent City Government Of Chioago.. -. . ri:
:, We. need not wait for somo great Cyrus
| HRhVJ0nih0R
!; many mon aud groat many women must have
- hand in it,-men with votos, and women .wis
i prayers, till they hare yotes also. They are til
a enemes Of mankind, their business is outlawe
. already by the Judge Of all the earth, aud til
q time Ii coming coming specdily-when a long
snHfn Wh1'sss t,sa community Nv, w hnnt
: the boustlul politicians OF our boer aud whisl
= ring, Lot the Church pray for their pardon
= they ropent,-there is no uso OF praying il the
= do mol, t,-but as for those who can neither
I, brought to fear God nor regard good men. ]
- the righteous wrath Of all good citizonB stril
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