Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-06
ARDENT SPIRITS.
Sunday Evenings Temperance Meet
ing Across tsIe Eiyer-YiVid Portray
al of incompetence and It's Effects
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al Of InIemperasce and It's Effects
/ by Mr.. Balm.
\ very large audience assembled in Nc
Clure's Hall, Ed-eheld, on SUNDAY even
| ing, 20 heM q. ". Balm, Of Kentucky. He
was introduced 10y Rev. W. q. Inman, and
| commenced bis address with : f5rCibie IL
| lus.ratiOn, comparing the evil Of iutCmpeT-
aLce in the way OF the church 10 a huge
log across the track Of a sweeping engine.
Financially, he claimed that If the use Of
/ ardent spirits viii make an individual
poor, then IL viii make a community poor
to use it, a State or nation.
He said, SIS there any difference in Nash
vile to-day between the home OF a sober
man and the home ola drunkari? YOuier
is a neat home, flowers around The door
children well clad and the housewife hap
py. Are these the signs of a drunkard's
hOme2 No. But yOnder is woe and weep
ing, sickness and 10 sympathy, hunger
and no food, disease, death aud the grave,
and no hope beyond. God pity the poor
drunkard and his family. Its individual
effects need net be picturcd-tEey are all
around you. Just in proportion does it
effect communities or nations. Who are
the richest people in the world? The
Jews. They own France, they own Spain,
the Holy Land is mOItgaged 10 Jewish
bankers, Rome, the common enemy Of the
Jew, IS kept up by Jewish mOnied men,
the money vaults Of England open and
close at command of Jewish bankers,
and Wall street. New York, tTembles
at a combination Of the same.
AS rich as . Jew is q trUism the
world over. When did you see a drunken
Jew Among 537 arrests in Louisville in
enc month there was but one Jew; out OF
ll,JJO las year in Cincinnati were Jews.
They are not in our iailS, peuitenliaries,
nor almS-hOUSes. y rich, q sober people.
Now who are the poorest?
The Iyish. He presented the present
panic Of the country and cry
fJ- bread, and then stated that the brewers
and distilleTs destroyed enough LAST fall and
winter to feed 100000 OF our starving
poor.
Though he deploFed the condition, and
did not know when or how it would ever
be stopped, yet he had been raised i'm the
Methodist church and led on faith.
He was Ike the little boy: Two went to
school; one studied anatomy and the other
caught flies. The lazy little fellow caught
a fly, held il by the foot aud said to the
other, ''IOm, shut up your anatomy and
tell me how God made this fly2 See those
eyes, wings and Lego" Tom closed his
book, aud turning, said, "Why, God said
let there be flies, and there were flies"
The speaker did not know when nor how,
but God HAD declared from his home in
heaven that drunkenness and every other
crime should cease.
He referred TO the resolution of the
Brewers Congress against the Sunday
laws, and held up the Christian Sabbath Is
the window Of our week. the skylight Of
our soul, worth more TO the country than
all her fine climate, fertile soil, rivers,
mountains or yellow dust Of her land
Of gold. He then took up the
dangeIOUs example Of moderate drinkers,
giving several touching incidents, one in
which drunken son said to his mother on
his dying bed-"M0ther it vas from your
table took my first drink and you filed !
the glass with your own hand" His ap-
pea! 70 parents was a touching one. He |
then talked to the children and last to the |
young ladies'. He said there was not a |
young man present who would walk the |
street with a drunken giri, lie thought too
much Of himself fOr'thlt. But some girls
take the arm Of their beau when he is |
stepping high, imagining the streets the |
pillows Of the ocean. He had the most |
profound attention throughout and a grand |
success Of his meeting.
LAST NIGHT.
Mr.. Balm addressed an OVERLOOKING house |
last night at the same place. For one hour |
he kept the audience alternately laughing /
and weeping. At the close OF the lecture i
fifty names were secured for the Order of /
Coed IemPlaFs and fcrty-fye initiated. !
He viii give his last lecture tonight at the /
Courthouse, which will, no doubt. be
crowded to its utmost capacity. All are
invited; ladies especially, and seats free.