Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-08-16
WEDNESDAY MORNING.

Rev. Il. Morgan presided and Rev. -
- offered prayer. Rev. DR.. A. J. Cor
don, Clarendon street Baptist church, was
the speaker. and took for his theme. "Con-
stitutional prohibition" 1t was the part
of practical wisdom he said, to consider
the foes we must fight He then spoke of
the binding, brutalising and barbarising
effects of alcohol. Among the many fala.
cics popularity believed with regard to
alcohol is the one that it is nourishing
Baron Leibig says that we can hold on the
point of penknife all the nourshment
obtained from nine gallons of Bavarian
beer. Alcohol stimulates but it stimulates
in the same way that spurs stimulate a
horse. The real effect of alcohol was
simply robbery, taking something from
the tissues ef every organ of the body with
which it came in contact. There may
seem to be an exception in the case of beer
as men then grow healthier, but that is
because, rs the llues from stoves and fur.
naces are sometimes shut off and SCOT ac-
cumulates, So beer stops some of the
passages and the system fills up 1t is on
the same principle that room will grow
fuller if never swept This is simply a
popular statement of u well known scien.
tihc fact. Alcohol makes man below the
brute. This is in accordance with the
Bible, which says, "The OK knoweth his
owner and the ass his master crib; but
Israel doth not know" AS II rule, if an
animal is persuaded to take liquor aud GET
drunk once he will never touch it again.
To accomplish anything men must take
advance positions. Every reform has
around it the germs of extinct half way
reforms. An ensign once, with few
brave followers, carried the flag to a
dangerous position in the midst of the
enemy. His superior shouted, Bring
back your Colors.n mo, no. said the
ensign, bring up your men, 50 we
should not hail advanced reformers as
fanatics, but advance to the positions they
occupy. We need constitutional prohibi
ton in the man first. We should begin
with the children and not wait for them
to make doubtful choice when older. A
friend of Coleridee thought people ought
not to prepossess children in favor of re.
lgion, but let them choose for themselves
when able to judge. When this same
friend reproved Coleridge for having n
garden full of weeds the poet replied, 81
don't want TO progresses my garden in
favor of flowers, but l let it choose for
ITSELF" Every home should be temper
ance society, every public school should
have its pledge and every Sunday school
should teach total abstinence. A little
boy of the doctors Sunday school would
not take brandy even though the physician
told him it was the only thing that would
save him. The boy, having been taught
total abstinence in the Sunday school
bravely refused the cup and pulled through
without it. There are some things which
we call organic and some functional
Constitutional prohibition is organic, lega
enactments are functioned. The beat o
the human heart is organic while the cul
of the hair is functional, and the difference
between the results of organic and funo.
tional prohibition is no less. No man
ought TO be in fellowship with church
whose members engage in the traffic
Men of wealth in the congregation become
brewers and they demoralize the pulpit
The clergyman will be silent on the sub,
iect of temperance in order that he may
not offend some, and it is q known fac
that church will rise no higher than q
pulpit house, etc. A church which /.
underpnned with beer barrels, either liter
ally or figuratively, is a shame and dis.
grace to the cause, hence we need consti
tu:ional prohibition in tho churches
Prohibition ought to be part of the creot
and one Of the tests OF membership.