The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-07-08

cons1s sn ssrtS. aithourh at first pleased and
s.ononnoed good by the Creator, was soon
sfterwSrds cSrssS IN n ia,snasd Tor com.
Sors. q benefit, and q blessing TO man, was
turned by man himself into corse. danger,
and cause of death man. ma NOT OTTO, Sod' 0olns TO-
If we are permitted to judge by facts, II viii
be- hard, yea impossible, TO prove that epiritu-
iquors had anything 81 All 70 sSSs sssv siS
mot then exist. God did indeed create the
laws and forces of nature. and the seeds and
plants of the earth. BY these laws the earth
plants and fruits. But deny that God or the
earth, or that any plant, spring. or river, has
Or ANY s any man w iae
plass of ale, wine beer, hisky. brandy, cognac,
GIN toddy. or any other Of our popular poisonous
drinks The only direct creation Of God and
the only immediate product of earth in this
| line is pure natural water, the healthiest bev-
| erage that ever existed and the only wine that
Adam ever drank in or out of Paradise.
| In point Of fact, the human race were Tee
totalers during nearly 1000 years; and yet they
lived, labored and thriNeds Waxed atrong and
of age, while our whisky-drinkipg men
and women are forever ailing, aching
aud sinking into premature graves. The
process of m Auufacturing wine was dis
covered by Noe only after the Deluge, when
the world had existed over 1900 years; and
this same Noe enjoys the privilege OF having
been the first drunkard on record. Beer and
other malt liquors were invented at a much
later period long after the world had lapsed
complete idSlstsy ana st aS aaops
Reformation of the sixteenth century,, and
| we're evidently the work and glory OF his
Satanic Majesty, if we may judge the cause
r from the effects and the tree by the Fruits.
r Hence these damnable drinks owe their exist
ence, not to the will of the Creator nor to the
Q necessities of His creatures, but to the cruel
9 ingenuity of Satan and the depraved appetites
i OF man. They are clearly the work and manu-
l. derer from the beginning. Satan is. therefore:
l. the real inventor of whisky and the beloved
8 patron of whisky drinkers. No don't you wih
i agree that the father and bis child, the patron
It and his customers are well worthy of each
other.
Y WHAT DO MEN SAY OF TOTAL ABSTINENCE
soCIETIKsf
o. few approve them, and great many con-
d denim them. some of the latter base their OPP
d, position on the following objection: Tho 1oes
le of Teetotalisn is ne w-fsngled one, unknown
ie favored outside Of gland, ireland, Australia.
Canada aud the United States. Who ever
SO heard Of it before Father Mathew's timef r
ss This charge is false. Mankind were Total Ae-
stainers during up wards of 1000 years after the
'u creation. Total abstinence was Pracsised BY
ms Samson, Samuel, Jeremias, St. John the Bap-
OF saints bermits and pentents in all ages OF the
th Church and of the world, Moreover, temper
en- ance is and has ever been cardinal virtue u
'es the Church, as you may read in any Catnohe
til oateohism or prayer-book and the same godly
ia. virtue is taught in every Catholic pulpit ane
err confessional, from the rising to tine setting
sed If individual pastors and oonfessofs IAN
ite practice aud inculcate this virtue. they simply
all neglect their bounden>dnty and give grea
ern scandal.
Ind of Total Abs1ainers are of modern DATE pa
se- it must be remembered that the 1nGroductlol
ty and intemperate use of spirituous liquors are
and essentially modern evils, entirely nnKnoMn v
ors our temperate and abstemions ancestors. AuSs
nj IS Aha rod frin
and called progress reformation and civilizstor
ngs Read the works Of the early and medisys
hui doctors of the Church. We still possess thei
her commentaries, homilies and sermons, begii
I'M ming with St. Paul the Apostle sud enain
8 IN with st. Alpbousus They inveigh repeated
you and vigorously against all the prevailing vic
sot, of the times; but drunkenness is rarely e "
INK touched, proof positive that it did NOT tne
the | prevail. During those much abused ddrE ags
lell. | SO called, we may find plenty OF ignorane
aith rudent So, barbarity, cruelty and ne9iece
wen practical religion, but VS. scarcely hnd ua
und of drunkenness, unless as an exception 20
ths general rule. For one drunkard then l q
very | show you ten thousand 8otn.
To Again you may read the Bible from cover
not cover; you will find therein incessant attac
'ous, upon every species of crime, but only an IN
Aele, dental warming against wine, and none ~
mt against beer or whisky among COOS sS SISs
v OF idolsters, adulterers and murderers, but NO
obi. single habitual drunkard. Even as late aS
ID of Iasf century intemperance seems to have b
man, but little known, at least in Catholic 9
and southern countries. have o striking proof
EFF, this notevorthy fact in the sermons OF 81;
snds; Dhonaus This fervent missionary and ard
his lover of souls preached sermons on all his m
outs sions upon the four principal roads OF 81
ooca- that lead to hell; namely. upon E"mttS' d.
auses Ihemu In;ustice and InlpuTity.
ouls SoIt would appear that InteJnperdnce was
1tion then, az it is now, principal gate that lei
Ike OF millions of immortal souls to hell. Their
Try of not the shadow of q doubt that had the 40
g the lived in our besotted age, he would have Q
+ you siderad drunkenness the frat the broadcast,
hem safest and the most crowded avenue to eter
e. IN perdition; and, whereas he never preacne
'lcnlc sermon against Iutemperance to an audie
,ntia- If the 18Th century he would scarcely b
n the nreferred anv other subiect in the cons gre
b the tionS and on The misSions of the 1osh oontT
s ght Ali these facts proye beyond q doubt that
lkard arnnkenness in a n,parntively new and rec
10 iE- aviI in the world new and extraordinary
NEEDLES like Total Abstinence Societies n
roRs9 hecome an absolute necessity,