River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-06-13

The spirit of self-sacrifice is one of the
great beauties of holiness. Husband
yieloing to wife. wife TO husband !;
| brother to brother; sister to sister;
friend to friend; in great things, but in
small, especially. First and formost
see that the spirit is with you at home;
then carry it abroad into the world. 1t
is spirit that will sweeten happiness
and brighten troubles; and when the
soul is ready TO wing its flight TO its
eternal home, it will have the unspeak-
able consolation Of knowing that it has
not lived TO itself; that it has left the
world happier and better in some de-
gree than it found it, that it has been
aithful 10 its cart hly mission.
"Woman can make man better, bur sh
has no special power over brutes; hence
she must first destroy whatever brutalizes
her companion, or she can have over him
little influence for good. Intoxicating
liquors are, in all countries, her deadliest
foe, destroying her home anu loved ones,
and the susceptibilities of the race OF inn
provement. The present activity ofwomen
in the temperance reform is, without
exception, the most hopeful! sign OF the
times. But wish they appreciated more
than is yet apperent The necessity Of pre-
serctng the fruits IF their ldbors. For, say
what you win, temperance reforms have
been spasmodic. Reformed men arouse
a community and, for awhile, it is a
cauldron of repentance and reform. So far
so good. But, during that time the liquor
seller retires to his den and shuts the door
only waiting till the excitement sub
sides. and he can come forth again
A few days ago petition was filed in
! a Texas court, in which the plaintiff was
an old Mexican woman. The Court, as
usual, wanted security for cost.
Said the lawyer, +" She is not required
to give cost-bond. She is pauper, and
will make an affidavit to that effect"
Why, she used to own real estate
observed the clerk.
Il know she has got nothing now,"
reterted the lawyer
Have you collected your fee in
advance2n
You bet | did,"
It's all right then; am satisfied she
is pauper now" sight the clerk.
A horrible case of wholesale poisoning
recently occurred in Russell County, Va.
Mrs Martha Micalitor keeps dairy estab-
lishment al Elk Garden and had been much
ANNOYED by thieves stealing butter. To
stop it, she put strychnine in all the rolls
! of a certain firlin, placed it In a con-
1enient place and the thieves took it..
Instead of thieves eating the butter, as
Mrs. Micalitor believed they would, they
sold it and it went broadcast through
the county. Mr.. Jackson, prominent
planter, purchased some of it and it
was at once placed on the supper-table
and was partaken of by all present, four
of whom-Andrew, Joseph and jones
ackson, brothers, and Miss Alice Gate
yood-died in few honrs. Three others
we're taken dangerously i'll, but were
Awe at latest accounts.
When does the sin commemorate
/ drink deeply--to be drunk, is sin; this
is not denied At what point does the
taking of strong drink become sin2
The state in which the body is when not
excited by intoxicating drink is lis prop
er and natural state; drunkness is the
furthcrest removed from it. The state of
drunkenness is state of SIM at what
stage does it become sin? We suppose a
man perfectly sober, who has not tasted
anything which can intoxicate; one glass
excites him, and to some extent disturbs
the state of sobriety, and so tar destroys
it, another glass excites him still more,
a third fires his eye, loosens his tongue,
infames his passions; fourth increases
all this; a fifth makes him foolish and
partially insane; a sixth makes him saw
age; a seventh or eighth will make him
stupid, senseless, degraded mass; his
reason is quenched, faculties are for
the time destroyed. Every noble and
generous aud holy principle within him
withers, and the image of God is polluted
and defled. This is sin; awful sin; for
g drunkards shall not inherit the king
dom of Cod But where does the sin
beginl At the first glass, at the first step
towards complete intoxication, or at a
seveth, or eighth2 Is not every step from
the natural state of the system towards
the state of stupid intoxication an adj
vance in sin, and a yielding to the I'M
wearied tempter OF the soul! John
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