The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-06-13

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great beauties Of holiness. Husband
yielding to wife, wife 10 husband;
brother to brother; sister to sister;
friend to friend; in great things, but in
small, especially. Fist aud formost
see that the spirit Il with you 1t home;
then carry it abroad INTO the world. It
ia spirit that will sweeten happiness
and brighten troubles; and when the
soul is ready to wing 1t. flight to it's
eternal home. it will have the unspeak-
able consolation Of knowing that 1t 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 bly, mission.
"Womau can make man better, but 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 sll countries, her deadliest
foe. destroying her home and loved ones,
and the susceptibilities of the race of i'm
provement. The present. activity Of women
IN the temperance reform is, without
exception, the most hopefu! sign OF the
times. But wish they appreciated more
than is yet apperent the necessity Of pre-
serujng the fruits Of their LAHORE. For, say
| what you will, temperance reforms have
been spasmodic. Reformed men arouse
4 community and, for awhile, it is a
cauldron ofrepentancea and reform. So far
50 good. But, during that time the liquor
seller retires to bis den aud shuts the door
only waiting till the excitement SUBJ
sides, and he can come forth again
A few days ago = petition was filed in
= Texas court, il which the plaintiff was
an old Mexican woman. The Court, ~
usual, wanted security fer 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.
81 know she has got nothing now"
retsrted the lawyer.
Have you collected your fee in
advanced"
"You bet l did"
"1t's all right, then; I 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.
1bhment 1t Elk Garden and had been much
annoyed by thieves stealing butter To
stop it, she put strychniue in all the rolls
of certain 6rkin, placed it in a con.
,enient 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, a prominent
planter, purchased some of it and it
was at once placed on the supper table
and was partsken of by-a present, four
Of whom-Andrew, Joseph and Jsmes
ackson, brothers, and Miss Alice Gate
Scod-died in few hours. Three Others
we're taken dangerously Ill, but were
Awe at latest accounts.
When does the sin commercially
drink deeply--to be drunk, is u sin; this
is not denied. At what point does the
taking Of strong drink become sin?
The state in which the body is when not
excited by Intoxicating drink IL its prop
er and natural state; drunkness il the
furtherest removed from it. The state Of
drunkenness is a state of sin: at what
stage does it become SIM 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,
third fires his eye, loosens his tongue,
inflames his passions; Il fourth increases
all this; fifth makes him foolish and
partially insane; sixth makes him say.
age; a seventh or eighth will make him
stupid, senseless, degraded mass: his
reason is quenclled, faculties are for
the time destroyed. Every noble and
generous aud holy principle within him
withers, and the image Of God is polluted
and defiled. This is sin; awful sin; for
" drunkards shall not inherit the king
dom OF Cod But where does the sin
begin? At the first glass, at the 6rst step
towards complete intoxication, or at a
seveth, OF eighth? Is not every step from
the natural state Of the system towards
the state of stupid intoxicatien an i'd
vance in sin, aud a yielding to the un-
wearied tempter OF the soul? John
RrtqAt.