Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-02
1euxnSI suN GOurisr.
TIesday, October 2, 1883.
west Haven.

 from his many hearers as one well worthy of publication. We give herewith full report of it.
 Ta14-Ioys worksth no i'll to his neighbor there Cora love ia the fulfilling the lawRonans IS, lO Whatever works i'll to our fellow men we are to oppose, because it is opposed to the nrineiple of Christian love- Whatever works oood to our fellow men we are to advocate and do, because Christian love demands It. The question which Cain asked with pre- tended disdain in the first epoch of our race' -AmI my brothers keeper 2-the gospel answers in the affirmative We are! Cam fornd to his sorrow in that early day that God did not license one man to destroy anotn CT. but prohibited such enormous crimes anu punished their commission Il The Christian church is the d1vtnely ap- nointed leader in everything good, and the leader must lead. The teacher must be Tn advance of those whom he teaches. We sometimes hear it said: It will not do to DC ahead of public sentiment, or 1t will nos oo to Ieeislate in advance of public sentiment. Good friends, how fast will the popular sen- timent advance unless somebody leads It! And who shall lead 1t, guide 1t, mold as' giVe if shape Church of Christ, the church or human Salvation and the church of divine ideas Sonnebodv must take the first advanced step John Brown was suppose, far in advance of public sentiment, and he got hanged for l it Yes but that hanging cost the sootn four millions of slaves, and John BroWns l soul goes marching on as the 1mpersonation l of every idea of liberty.
 Public sentiment is very, very advanced In | its demands of Christians, you may be sure | of that. It demands that the Christian shall ! be clean,-clean all through, from the inno- l through the whole range of medicinal stimu- l Iants and so called harmless beverages to the | Iiohtninp shafted whiskey and brandy, or his 1 influence falls dead as the delicate leaf under the bighting frost.
 | have no new commandment but that which is always new, the commandment to | love one another, and the golden rule on l which is threaded, as on strine of gold, the law of Christian love that works no i'll to his | neiphbor If the marriage at 'Cana Of Gall lee" is a favorite passage with anyone, II you 1 make 0 vast deal of ''a little wine for the stomachs sake" have no quarrel with any. have no new exegesis. Let the divine l record stand.
 But for moment look little nearer home l than 2,OOO years ago-see where we are and l what an age we live in. These are not prlm- tive times. We have outgrown sandals donkeys, handmills and handlooms, They ! did not have whiskey, brandy nor Jersey 1 liohtnine in those days. See what society ii now. See what injury our modern kinds o l Iiouor work among the subtle flores of oul 1 complex civilization. Look at American so | ciety! One incorporate man or woman Il every hundred! Sixty thousand drunkaro l dying every year! More than one hundret l thousand moderate drinkers behind them | But a recital of the evils belongs to the Ice turer and the orator.
 Deciding the question of 'license or no Ii 1 cense'' every true man will vote conscien 1 tiously, prayerfully; just as If his vote aion was to decide the issue, and it may. l am n mans conscience or judge, but as 1t looks t me and as it looks to the great mass 0 Christians all over our country the no icens side is the side of duty, of right, c God, of the love that works no ill to hi neighbor. And feeling so l must give yo
 this honest statement and in brief some C
 my reasons therefor. meet this objection
 First, that liquor will be sold, license or n
 license am afraid it will be, but 1t wi
 never be sold with my sanction. Licens
 means liberty to sell. You may restrict i . prescribe it, bridge it about all you pleas.
 but at the core it is Ebert
 to sell You cannot vote for the restriction
 without voting for the selling The count
 commissioners are your agents. You al
 responsible for what your agents do. Yo
 are responsible for what your ballot accon
 
 wherein citizen can express his will In
 free government. If you vote for hcen'
 YOU vote to throw around this traffic u
 sanctity and the protection and the author1t
 of the laws of this Christian State. Are ye
 ready to do that? If you vote for license, yo
 by so doing declare it to be your wish thl
 the commissioners shall license persons to sel Now, that is the ground which ever
 license vote covers I believe in the inspi
 ation of my text that 'love worketh no
 to his neighbor." So long as belong
 the Christian church, and love my feIlo
 men, it does not seem possible for me
 vote license. The man does not live who U a suitable person to be licensed" to sell il toxicating drinks in any community who | willing to be licensed. Such one woul
 sooner be burned at the stake than do an,
 thing of the kind. What, therefore, I cal , not do myself cannot conscientiously vol
 for another to do. Therefore cannot 70
 for anybody to be licensed to sell intoxica ,a ing liquors. But still there is the obje ,0 ,p tion, They'll sell without a license r Well but they sell with e. license, do they not2 You don't get rid
 of that way. All the virtue ef the icen
 system is in what little prohibition there is
 it But, granting that liquor will be sold, f ,i myself had rather that 1t should be sold
 violation of law than by it's sanction and U . der it's protection. It may not make nut v -,o seller I think it would. if you were icens' - your business would have certain leg t standing and responsibility. It would be '' honorable as it is possible to make it; b n without a license your selling would
 crime sh,a as yoa arrest ona nunisbe ra at any moment. It changes the status of tl a rumseller completely in the eyes of the la' = from being protected by the law, as wh' "' licensed, he becomes criminal in the ey
 of the law, as he always is in the eyes ad every moral and upright citizen. Would th 70 make no difference with you if you were he O No difference with your feelings when " ; | walked the streets, when men came in ns drink or went out into the street drunk x1 Would not a knowledge that
 majority of your own townsme
 them, had said, just as plainly as they cou
 say it, ''Sir, we do not want you to sell; V
 do not want to pay taxes to support the pa
 pers you make; we do not want you to ru of our sons; we do not want you to work 1 n. this wretchedness and woe in our town D, would not this fact have any weight wi
 you? It would most certainly, if you hi
 any conscience, any gentlemanly feehn 's, l about you Every rumseller is, of course, to gentleman. I think most any rumsell
 would feel little more comfortable to ha gS license neatly framed and hung up in -o l conspicuous place in his barroom as the Ia
 requires, with the good valid signatures | the county commissioners attached thereto. 'S When your son comes home to you stagge
 ing and ruined, when the poor wife cries O ch under the cruel blows of her drunken hu Sn band, when the hungry cries of his childrl = mingle with the wintry winds, when eve
 conceivable crime is committed under t
 frenzy of rum, he can point to that ncens
 And when he himself dies, as die he mu
 and Will he can, forsooth, have his licen
 put in his coffin between his cold fingers,
 can take it with him before the judgment
 God, and when vengeance is demanded e
 still say, ''The good people of my town vot
 it, and the Christian commonwealth of Go
 necticut protected me in doing all this evil
 No. no. God helping me, cannot vote for
 I could as soon vote to license any oth crime under heaven as this which is the pl
 ent of all crime. word more: '"They W
 sell anyway, and if we license; the town ge . something" Is there no moral or Christi i. principle involved? Gan 8 good citizen,
 Christian man, vote to license crime
 money? But those who have looked carefV
 ly into this matter are not so sure about t
 money profit after all. In my jud
 ment it would be economy, to s
 nothing of the moral questions- involved,
 vote no license, thus saving the cost of cril