The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-03-19
Rev. Father Muller on Total Abstinence and
Drunkenness.

In his latest work, "The Prodigal Son or
The Sinners Return to God" the dis :inguished
author, Rev Michael Muller, C.SS r., pays tn.
folio wing compliment to the members of the
Total Abstinence Societies. compliment sc
justly deserved, in my humble opinion, that
could not but note it as it came under my no
tice, for the purpose of having it again pub.
lished to the greater praise of those for whom il
speaks:
"How glorious is the mission of the temper
ance Society The members of this Society have
r Aised the standard in defiance to this demen
that is destroying the whole world. They have
rs o monument against the vice of drunken
ness. They have thereby asserted the glory of
God 10 His imsge-man. The glory of humanity
is restored by the angel of sobriety and tenn
perauce; the glory of Christ restored from the
dishonor which is put upon Him by the drunk
erd amongst all other sinners; the glory of the
Christian woman retrieved and honored, as
every year adds q new, mellowing grace to the
declining beauty which passes away with
youth; the glory of the family in which the
true Chrstiau son is the reflection of the
virtnes of his trne and Christian father !;
finally. the glory of souls, and the assurance of
holy life and a happy death-all this is in
volved in the profession which they make to
be the apostles and the silent but eloquent
propagatols of this holy virtue-temp perauoe
In his same work, writing of drunkennt IS,
ACneE Muler says:
Go now, aud drink; call it a friendly sls IS.
Yes, you will gain friend and lose your God
Go now, aud drink say that you drink only
because of your weak health, because of your
bard work. Go and buy your drink; bring on
disease and au untimely death. Ask the doc
tors, the chemists, and they will tell you ho "
much deadly poison You continually drink in
with your liquor. Drink and say that you
meant no harm; you only wished to be little
merry; that you wished to drown your grief
and trouble. Drink now of the intoxicating
cup, and hereafter you shall drink of the wine
of the wrath of God; you shall drink of fire
and birthstone; you shall drink of the poison
of serpents and the gail of dragons.
Go now, and cali your frienCs around the
innocent babe that has just been baptized 90
and call your neighboIs around the corpse of
your dead relative, and drink-yCs, drink your
fill; bnt with your liquor drink in the priests
tears, drink in the widows and orphans curse,
drink in the wrath of your offended God. Go,
season and soak your bodies with liquor, and
be assured that they will burn all the more
herceIy for 1T in the eternal flames of hell.
AND you who sell liquor to drunkards-you
whose saloon is the vestibule of hell-yon Who
are In it the DEVILS recruiting sergeant-you
who encourage and fatten upon this accursed
CRIME, stand up now in the presence of your
eternal Judge, and say, If you dare, "Their
blood be upon us and upon our children" Go
home now, and count all your blood money
you have received for your liquor; count it
we'll, for it is the price of immortal souls, pur-
sllj for it 10 mOisteDed by the tears of the
heart-broken wife and her half starved child
rem Hoard it with care for every cent of it
w!ii surely bring upon you and your family the
Widows and the Orphans ourse-the curse of
the avengiDg God. ID. II. BUCKLEY.