Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-07-20
TEMPERANCE VS., PROHIBITION
Zeal without knowledge Is n Waste
Of Strength.
Lecture by Rev. J. l.. Scott at the NJ.
Is. Church, Sunday Evening.

reformatorv movements among men, IL
becomes all those who wonld accomplish
permanent good in temperance reform,
not only to have all the zeal born Of phi
lanlhrophy, but all the wisdom brought to
light In the Gospel. Intemperonce is one
OF Sims most fruitful chebrans; and until
the root stalk Is lifted from its native soil,
the human heart, that branch win bud, BIOS
som, and bear fruit. God has decreed the
death OF the branch, ms OF the stalk, not by
human, but by divine legislation. lie
mistakes the province of human legislation,
it's entire mission, who thinks to uproot
free.will evil by it. "rhe strong arm of
the law" is absolute weakness in turning
the hand Of man from himself. Its acme
OF power is the suppression Of imposed
evils; to keep man from in,ruding on the
rights OF his fellow man. When it reaches
beyond that domain il becomes usurper,
foe to human rights, and Its overthrow Is
decreed. God has ordained all the powers
that be, from the most barbarous to the
most civilized but He has ordained them
as He has ordained the state OF the atmcs-
phere, subject to the influences brought 10
bear upon them. As marches, mountains,
hills, valleys, indicate the probable state
Of the atmosphere, so the statute law OF any
government is a fair representative of the
morals OF that government. Bat mars hes
do not produce marshes, nor mountains,
mountains. 1t is the heat generated in the
heart oil the earth neither Is 1t law which
produces law, but the moral force behind
IL. Mountains and valleys remain the
same until the great underlying forces
operate. So statute law remains unchang.
ed until the power behind II becomes sulIi-
ciently strong TO burst asunler old codes,
when its subjects have mn enlarged liberty.
Statute law is not reformatory; il DEGREES
alike against advancement and retrogres
sion but moral force gathers strength with
its strength, and 30 moving powerfully on
ward sweeps all impediments before it. A
patriotism which does not reach univer-
sal brotherhood, must he expanded to that
reach, before universal peace can be es
tablished. Christ gave the Interpretation
TO ile whole matter, when he said of His
mission to the earth: 81 came not to bring
peace, but a sword" His kingdom moves
powerfully onward against the kingdoms
of this world, revolution succeeding revo-
luton, and this state of things is 10 contin-
ue until mankind is educated to a genuine
liberty. As the sun sends forth power,
which analyses, sets free, or returns matter
to its simple state, as we'll as a synthetic
power which combines and germnates new
life. SO the Spirit of Christ by the opera.
ton OF moral forces is infused into mans
nature, and that nature illuminating and
expanding enforcesa more liberal legisla-
tion.
, To what secular power must give atten
: lion If she would have duration and
strength, Is the moral growth of her sub
jects. See to it that the door of liberty
opens ms her adherents are prepared for it,
and guard with sleepless vigilance against
the obnoxious liberty, perverting intru
sions of the sectarian.
Is not the privilege to traverse the land
from pole to pole, the privilege to pene
trate all the dark recesses and haunts oi
men, the privilege to go any where and
every where to sow the precious seeds o.
truth, all that Christians should and more
than they need ask? To the leaven OF th,
8 Gospel we are indebted for the far rench
;. ing privilege we already have. In it center
, our hope for the future. Every time ma,
Q has attached to it the "strong arm of th
!. law" to speed it on its marvellous marcl
OF reform, that "strong arm" has trailet
g her honor in the dust, and heaped obloquy
shame and crime of the deepest dye on ii
n pure, innocent and omnlscient head. AM
shall we, occupying the plane OF liberty RI
i far above that which our fathers occupied
/. repeat the same great folly? The mistake
# which Israel oil old committed in number
=, ing her forces. ever remains the same fata
!. mistake. IL brings no addition OF dignit
v ana strength to ihe Gosrel, that 1t ha
n attached To man-made law.
= Mri machu,ey Uttered proionhu lru,
d Wien a; ns ~ nes mno 'hrns' 'ehpnli :;
Is sosele,sn's % upon ner, ue"l her as .nt'
i io.o..es nt,'eu nei au.n1ri uey pom ".
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sn,,e "er u" .ne oneek lhey Pu. SceP'e
III her mann, ou' u ID iragie reeu tue
crown ;, ner p"t IT,, =. 10 WIN thnrns' 'ney cove
,s WIN .P'e 'nn mos"us WHICH 'ne'r oM
n 'lunus na'e ,.n'o'eu VI, ner, an" i''sIr.l
N m"sn.ncen: i .,tieA over .ne cross on wnic
~ lney nase hAeo her 10 perish III 'g"o"'h
l. ""u pun. an.
r, 90 soon aS 'egislat,oh assumes tne re
A rpons.p.'y on u'ctaling !" HS su"Jec
~ I.y n'"'i e",' "i'"n VI "e"', NAM
&c OF msena pnsy'9ouy' provoca.or 10 r
!, oel,'oh. wen nus lhe great Jourhaii
ii .nW anu S'a,esnian es reIerieu 10 aoove, sa,o
Of We ooma "aNe sun 'o ,ise uhuer 'yra
at vi aeoancnes, pn. 70 oe rnieu py puSy.pou
e- no'e m';,;.: ,:u" nu"an nature c"h s'"nu
ce Iroh'9,',oh'''s :. ., Propnesy war II. lhe ne,
d ,n.ue, ,;n, II ..e n.Gnl1uu,no"s .r"'no
D nquoIs ~ no. over.nro"h ny INV. Du.
er sat OUT uoor, 80 soon as .ne nhpnnen
al pe:n'.n'' i"na'Ica' spirit y. .nN party pr
a, 'e ~ nos"s ."e i"w haNInE Powe.
er Iii III, na.'on ,N " n.' pie"sere aau .as W.
n WI 'uo" "o. W VIC ii'eie'' VI tempe
en- ""oo "u' W ''s 'oes'
a, The ground work oil thirty thousand
II. looms, bespeaks very large number, al
0 (; add to that yet, by foolish legislation, q
K. very basis ol liberty, on which to ground
&c war, and victory VIII be perched upon the
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