The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-07-08
TOTAL ABSTINENCE.
4 NEW REMEDY FOB A MODERN EVIL.
Splendid Address by Father Nelthart.
. DISCOURSE THAT ALL SHOULD READ, sfoDA
AND REMEMBER.

Last Sunday evening, at the earnest sonci-
tation of the State Union OF the Catholio 10 =
tai Abstinence Societies, Very Rev. b. a.
Neithart, Rector of the Redemptoriste In tpiS
oity. delivered an address on Total Aostinsnoe .
in the church of st. John the baptiss' rev &
T. j. Kenny, Pastor. Notwiths.ahaihE ."o
great heat. the church was well filed with
,ivaa conversation of ladies and gentlemen,
total abstainers, auti-total abstainers' ana
+amnarance men, Catholics and non-Catholics.
Father Neithart said in substance:
Drunsards shall possess the Kingdom OF Cod.
| I. Cor. 6. 10.
Ia,near before YOU, dearly beloved in Christi
>. ~ pnrSent reouess of the Total Abstinence
| Union Of Louisiana, q body of men whom 1
| would be disposed to oblige even wnen
| might feel tempted to disoblige my healosS
md Searest kindred. 1 feel indeed fattered
and gratiG ed at my large attentive, ana f ln
teligent audience at the same tiIn o., , not
somew hat awed and alarmed, lest may nos
bs able to do justice either to my audience OF
to my subject. regret that am nos aa a, ora o.
tor, poet, or saint; Sannos Int am
now here, and you must take me as am, l9r
: wea, or woe for success or failure, for gooa'
had or indi fsrent success.
Nv subject s one which conoerna; directly OF
Indirectly, every man, woman and cniio, ior
1NTEMrERANcE is the prevailing ana crying
evil , o. Howsyer as this peculiar field for the
display of z sal and eloquence has been entered
upon and trodden down by an innni1e EMU con
r, 6ne myself this evening to proposing ana an.
swerine few popular questions ana oolecSSioGis
concerning Temperance anu once asked: "What
d do men say of me ." SO will also ask
ID WHAT DO MEN GENERALLY IaISA AMI
ABOUT INEXPERIENCED
ar To listen to some Christian ano olvizsu p;EES
OK ME talking about drunkenness, simple colio
&c nr an untutored savage, who had never nearu,
e. read. or known of this a6ominabie CRIME
arsinst God and nature, would most assure diy
% fenoy il WAS bat q trifing fault, pardonaoie
d. waaInsss. or rather, an innocent pastime, o
re piece of drollery, an exhibition Oh nasmess
ei Ia nrssented in SCORES of humorous Journals,
and in hundreds of conversations %n h ro 9Uu
Ok hear every day on street CORNERS III
no ana neonie cannot relate or hear of cases OF
ne intoxcation without actually shaking VIE
ng laughter: 'tis a real comedy to them. Ever
de isctnrers and preachers far forget themselves
~ | as to make whole congregatlons foat VA" s;
'n laughter at their droll Descriptions o, tne a
md holcal pranks of q wretch Keeling and stagger
inc crawling and bawling under the lpnoe
49, | of liouor. The sad result is that TINS enpPose'
pastime and frolic has grown 10 ne q ls Of al
ole practice among thousands and miillons OF al
ella ages sexes conditions, apd stages OF mooer
Ale society. To-day you find drunkards IN ever
~ city town, and hamlet, in every sooleGy ao
the street and almost in every house and mousse
and hold You meet them in all classes of society
g.. amono farmers and feldhands, laborers an
"s mechanics merchants and artisans, professor
lists and scholars oficers and soldiers, Judges an
dis lawyers senators and governors, lords an
III mol
't'' nd emperors men. women, and children, tn
ing wide world over. In fact, one-tourtn OF n
acii- mapity appeer to be drnnksrds air sl'n
habitual or occasional. If the evil spreads VI
. checked in the next generation as 1t does
t"o the present, 1 fear that every second man yo
emily meet will be confirmed, irredes nsble 30
land that the human race wall be oLeea oi Ia ~
a. ards and demons in human shape, ano u
whole earth veritabe pandemoniuIi ot nc nc
o be But what is drunkenness in the hght OF lai
and reasons What do God and man, heav'
Adv aud earth, the Catholic Church and soul
, sense, the moral and the revealed ia~, 49,, -
in- history of ages, and the experience OF eve
ould dav. teach and testify the subjecti
state and sum it briefly: Drunkenness is n
q light, venial, ordinary sin it is griev91
'eted hei6ous, horrible, abominable, unutterae
lame dabolicsl crime. 1t is not one SIN only, ou
atch hundreo ana n sn5 ontross everV law
mum God, every precept of the Church, every op
ton of nature, of conscience; OF family, ana
,cbad society. He sins against God, agalnst mf
49, ~. and against himself. He is shame =
o be scandal to the Church and society; THIEF
liged brute, and murderer to his family ana rien
Gold | q fend and satan to bis body ana SOUL
health and wealth, his character and repu
ton. No other sin gives more scandal oo
lid be sions more misery, ruins more iameSi eau or
- Hence believe and assert that the invent
ever of Intoxicating liquors was master stroke
even Satan, and the greatest triumph and glory
Tim a he'll. For further particulars concerning
"a 49,, sin and evil effects of IutemPerence re1er
to the ouEsing TsekiDg fGttlng Victims IN:
, the the coffee house, in street cutters, on pic
fairly IN falons calls. in untimey graves, in
It the dungeons Of hell, and on the gallows with
the halter dangling from their neoks: If the Ell
If the Gad, oImigbtv noWer alone will suffice to
round press and convert him.
18th of WHAT DO MEN SAY ABOUT sP1RIrUoUs IoUo
Irtless Their views are various, and often erro
whole ous. 1t was but rev Gays sgo UnsS a ne
blind h,;stion 1eII read man. and Something
10 dis philosopher but sadly deficient in experier
ather in common sense ana IN inc erooKe 49,, Ways
u other Iquors-said this wouldbe philosop
lite of are genuine products of nature, and tn
COM fore truly, gifts OF Cod They are 6
"a +hs in themselves, and were intended by
- Creator for mans use and conf
IGsed' Hence tits unnatural, upgratefnl, and