Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-01


Christ, each labelled with letters of gold, on
polished surface. Juvenile work. bible read
lngs, eVangellstic meetings, temperance litera-
ture, young ladies' unions, work in prisons and
jails misunderstanding the use of fermented
wine at the table of our Lord, introduction of
systematic study and text books in colleges
seminaries, Sabbath and week day schools,
work among sailors, Indians, colored
people and Chinese. friendly inns, restaurants,
reading rooms, and many others, until twenty.
Elk standing committees direct in as many
channels of labor, the women of twenty seven
States and Territories. Among the stones
given was temperance legislation, and as no
woman could give her own, or her neighbor's
son to the death fiend, it was labelled prohibit
ton of the liquor traffic, and could We give 1t
other name? Forcibly to our minds came the
fact that in a republic, national responsibility
cannot be seperate from individual action, and
while We might not bring our power to bear
in Legislative halls or at the ballot box from
whence the edict of determination will surely
yet go forth, in our wide realm of influence there
| must rest upon us responsibility to God and
man. We looked upon the golden grain sway
ed by each zephyr, full of life and strength
for man, and realized that from that swaying
poem upon Gods forethought for his children,
came that which destroyed taen. Not of God
however; not until man aid his hand upon the
golden life giving grain did alcohol appear.
We saw the luscious grape il royal purple,
nesting on its throne of eTl en-, containing the
wine of God, bottled, seale1 and branded by
the sunshine, naught brd life within its beau
| tious globe, but 10! man plucked it from its
| took the product all of God, and placing it
| where the atmosphere might hold
high carnival, fermented the juice, until the
| purity once sealed within was gone, and alco-
hol, Satan's prime Minister, held sway. And
why all this? To satisfy appetite; not alone
for drink-of ambition, of pride, for gain, for
honor, for position. God condemns the pro-
duct, and he that drinketh it, and he that sell
eth it, and he that gaineth thereby, and upon
| them all alike pronounces woe. "Woe unto
| them that are mighty to drink wine; and men
of strength that miDgle strong drink; which
| justify the wicked for reward, and
| take away the righteousness of the
voureth the stubble, and the fame consumeth
the chaff, so shall their root be as rottenness,
and their blossom shall go up as dust" Yea,
| our Lord would that we look not upon the
| temptation. Look not then upon the wine
when it ia red, when it giveth its color in tbs
| cup, when it moveth itself Alright; at the last
it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an ad.
der" And from million graves on the hillside
| and in the valley we have heard the agonizine
l cry, ''Thy word, o, Lord, is sure the serpent
has bitten, the adder has stung. and we are
shut out from thy face forever" And from the
| homes from whence these victims have beer
carried another cry has assembled, for mercy or
| other women's sons, on other dying souls, ano
| for victory over the foe.
! We have read the record of crime and of death
and over against it all has been written, al
cchol! We have entered the homes of the poor
and ignorant, and the foul odor has met us or
| the threshold. We have looked upon boys Just
entering manhood; boys around whom the
! arms of mothers have been folded to the last
hour of home life, boys who have been brought
to the morning and evening altar; boys who
| have gone out with warm baptismal blessing
| in an unwary hour overcome by temptation
and borne down by chagrin and modification
from thenceforth seeking forgetfulness in con-
tinued debauch, and gone down, down, down
| to death! Or Others gifted with kinglier will
| indulging in the moderate use of intoxicants
| have taken from our homes the best and
| brightest of our jewels, but when surrounded
by the cares and responsibilities of life, which
| inevitably come, found their will had lost its
| kingliness, and moderation was thing of the
| past, and misery and want were household
companions; and the wives, who had plighted
for veal or for woe, were either pitiable vic
Tins of the same passion, or sitting broken
hearted in bitter despair, and we could but
| believe that alcohol, such a desolator of home
| was the malignant foe of all mankind, and
| should be exterminated. We took a more ex-
pansive view, and looking out upon society al
/ iaiSC, 4Ouuo COL1AuulSs huu uIulliSG D8QQll0
together In secret conclaVe, plotting
the assassination of rulers, and the
overthrow OF government. The labor
ing classes forming themselves into
Unions against capitalists, as if they were Their
| natural enemies. and the employers combining
| in self defence against employees, as if Their
| interests were antagonistic. We entered courts
of so-oalled justice, and looked upon prisoner
| in the box, and witness on the stand; heard
| the excited or stupid pleading; looked upon
| jurors sleeping in their seats, and listened to
| the sentence of death pronounced in incoher-
| emit tones by the judge, and learned all alike
| were in the bonds of this sin. We have listened
to Legislative discussions on many political
questions, tariff, and finance, labor and wages
class dissension, and internal strife, but
scarcely reference to the liquor traffic. We
bave read many able articles on these topics
| from able writer's. OF late the reading public
has been presented three collGtions of such
| from scholars, and statesmen on both sides
| of the Atlantic, but not one discusses the most
| important of sill moral questions. What is
| all this but discussing the pivotal questions of
humanity, aud emitting the pivot upon which
all turn?
The bitter agitatons of the past few wears
from Maine to California, aud throughout all
Europe have revealed the fact teat these CUES
tions cannot be settled by trades unions, Or
plOtty communists, by labor bureaus, or
Congressional committees, by votes of senates,
| or fats of kings. while at all times and in all
places, and plans, the question of the liquor
traffic is ignored. Even some ministers
| searching the word of God for the feeding of
the people fail to find, or to present those pas
sages which clearly show why the seed taketh
so little root, and why the word of the Lord is
| not glorifed. Ali this and much
| more has been considered by
a fsithful few in the time past, but is now as
familiar to US all as household words and has
led US to the conclusion that as God indissollu-
bly, united moral and civil law upon Sinai,
| what God hath joined together man must not
attempt to put asunder, and while we do not
for moment lessen our hold on the
gospel, or the Christ of our redemption, while
| in every channel of Christian work there is
| continually increasing activity, we believe up
| on our statute books, as upon the statute book
| of God, must appear a law prohibiting the
liquor traffic, that the gospel may be preached
| to the poor and the Redeemer brought to all
people; that the reign of Satan may be over
| thrown, and Christ's kingdom ibe established
forever.
1t is said that Sabbath after Sabbath Is 600
people frequent the beer gardens of the city of
st. Louis. their hands reeking in whisky or
| beer, Celtic or Teuton as the case may be, and
plot against the government which has opened
| wide its arms to receive them. Should not the
law put an end to such action?
The legion hordes of Cincinnati have defied
God and man until the institution of the Sab