Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-14
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
by Ladies of Washington temper
anca Union
BY SARAH K. BOLTON.


1t retail over the bar, all to support bus
ness that spreads the blackness in its
path; groaning under their burden OF
axes, while the money thus squandered
ought to make everybody so comfortable
that there would be no need for poor
houses, and everybody so order-loving
that there would be no need for jaiIs or
or prisons; with sc, 900 noble
boys falling steadily into the line of march
of the bloated drunkards, at the last their
rickety bodies thrown, like the paupers |
of Naples, into common pit; no wonder, |
as the stencil of the foul breweries and !
distilleries comes up among the good peo-
pie of the land, they cry, Oh, Lord, how
long!
DR.. Holland, in Scribner's Magazine,
says: sWe prophecy that within ten
years, if not within five, the whole coun-
try will be awake to it,
This is precisely what the liquor power
fears, and Is working through the ma
chinery of government, politics, to get all
the law it needs to throttle these wide
spreading total abstinence principles.
every jury, every judge, every legislator.
to be tried in the balances before nemina-
ton, and if found wanting on the liquor
side is to be discarded.
The leaders are not idle men. They
have large business interests, but they have
time for politics-time to visit legislative
assemblies and Congress. Strange that
Christian men are still, many of them, so
| indifferent-no time for anything but to
get rich, be respectable, and perchance,
help the prayer-meeting.
Nothing is eyer accomplished save there
is will back of it, and nothing we'll ac-
complished save brains help the will. 1t
is as futile to attempt to beat back the At
lantic ocean with broom as to endeavor
to repel the liquor power without organi-
zation, money, and self sacrificing per-
sistency. To relieve ones self of all re-
sponsibility as to the affairs of govern
ment is no indication that God relieves
one. A man may say, 81 have no inter-
est in who governs my boys, or how they
are governed;" but very probably at the
judgment he will ascertain that those
boys were given him to be taken care Of
and to be developed into useful citizens
Tens of thousands of mothers in this
country look to good men to see that sucE
cOuncilmen are elected as will keep the
saloons closed on the Sabbath, that theil
boys may not be tempted; and yet the
majority of those same good men feel NJ
personal responsibility about the matter
How long before America shall awake
Thirty years ago DR.. Armstrong, one O.
the few at that time who worked earnestly
for temperance, preached sermon from
these words; "And the serpent cast Ou
of his mouth water as a flood after tn
woman, that he might cause her to be car
ried away of the flood. And the eartl
helped the woman; and the earth openet
: her mouth and swallowed up the foo
n which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
> He believed that the serpent was the devi
: the woman, the church of God, fieein
0 into the wilderness, seekinga place wher
t liberty of conscience might be enjoyed
America! Satan's attempts to destroy tn
church with intoxicating liquors, com
|. pared to flood from its plentiful effusion
/ and because it poisOns the fountains {
q life and eventually browns men in peril
t. tion! ''The earth helped the woman.
II The instrumentality and combination {
The civil power and the chureh-co-opel
alton of the world and Christians in til
l. great temperance reformation of the MIN
teenth century.
When will the time of triumph come
III The Protestant reformation commence
'd with Luther and Calvin early in the si2
= teenth century, $50 years ago The owe
re- throw of Antichrist, when Popery sha
ye have fulfilled her 1860 years of ecclesia
We tical domination, when Mahometanis
n shall have fulfilled its 2, 300 days or year
re computing from the time when the grar
IN divisions of Alexander's empire we
~ settled among his four generals, 800 yea
+ before Christ Daniel, 9Th chap. 9Th vers
d. will probably occur about the year 20C
TX The Turkish power is already crumblin
ne Between the flight into the wilderne:
ed which was about the time of the Reform
re ton, and the fall of Anticrist, about
D. 1000, the flood is poured out upon t
church and is swallowed up. Distillati
II. was known years ago, but its Most dew
tating effects have been shown in the l;
,g' 300 years. If, as many believe, the NJ
w. lennium-that is, a grand spiritual
er- umph of the religion Of Christ-is to CO..
I'D at the end of the 2O0O years, have we
~ right to hope that in the next centu
T.. this power of Satan will be broker
ars ''swallowed up?''
Us, We have seen wonderful growth in I
nr Temperance cause in the last half Ct
nd tury. What may we not expect in t
; it coming century? Z? The above speculate
les of DIR. Armstrong will do at least to thi
I'D about.