River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-04-26
Christian Temperance VS.. Political
Temperance.
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(BY JOEL POSTER

Y
One of the worst fruits of this false teaching
from the pulpit is the turning loose an i'm
mense army composed of men aud women,
political moral tranps, that are tramping
over our nation living high, laboring, they
say, in the cause OF poor suffering humanity;
i'll other words. stealing Tor their God and
keeping it all themselves for their fellow
man. They tell us we need higher order
of education; they speak OF book knowledge
and teaching the boy the nature of alcohol
as being that education. This will only make
the man worse member Of society He
particularly the young girl as she is to be-
come the future mother. And here comes in
the great crime OF the modern pulpit i'll cul-
tivating fashion instead Of instructing the
mother so that she could instruct her chill
dren in these fixed principles belonging to
our nature which she alone can teach. The
false training of the girl Is more fatal to the
nation than the false training of the boy
This false teaching shows itself in the mother
and daughter (uo matter how young) in their
passion to display themselves to the best adj
vantage in public. 1t has done away with
the modest, retiring young school girl once
so much admired. The mother requires
to hold the reins over his passions safely
than the father does to teach him to hold the
reins safely over his blooded colts; but
neither can give the knowledge with prohi-
biton. The father commences by placing
the child ON an old horse. He leads the
horse. Mother looks on and wants him to
be CAREFUL The child clinches hold OF the
name with both hands, bat after few les
sons he will begin to reach for the reins.
Now the reins must be given him just as fast
as you increase his ability to handle them,
and he will soon become perfect horseman.
Now adopt prohibition-have no horse, let
him learn the nature OF the horse from
tramps and give him book knowledge when
he is 81 wont he be like the sailor that had
never been on horseback, when the reins
were given to him and the horse started let
90 OF them and clenched the name like the
child, and when his brother sailors hailed
him and asked where he was bound replied:
"Blast me eys if l know. you had better ask
the horse" 1t will be the same with the
man at 81 raised under prohibition, when the
reins over his passion are given to him and
he starts off he will let go the reins, clinch
his passions, and it will be, "Blast me eyes
IL know, you had better ask my passions"
Now when the fruits of this false teaching Of
the pulpit comes home to us and shows itself
~, I. rtrIC 4ha, cfr hoy in he
saloon, the political preacher, true to human
nature, tries to lay the blame on the saloon
keeper, like the wolf and the lamb in the
fable. He happens to be on the stream above
the saloon, and if he had done his duty as
preachers did seventy five years ago there
would have been no saloons. He is a wolf in
sleeps clothing.
Lat us now turn to Gods plan in reyela-
ton and see which OF these two kinds OF
christians are ON the right side. It appears
that Tor ages man left to himself was not able
to discover the great principles that gov
erned him that were necessary for him to
know and live up to to be happy, and we
find by the Bible that until he found out
other things that were going to injure him
these great principles of self-government
were not revealed 70 him. The man that got
drunk first appears to have been Noah after
the food He had gone to farming, planted
vineyard and got drunk on the wine. But
we find no blame attached to him. He app
pears to have been treated by God like a
parent would treat child that had got hold
of something he did not understand the
nature OF. We discover nothing further in
the Bible on this liquor question until We
come down to the time of Moses. when they
have discovered strong drink or alcohol.
Now the child of man has discovered some
thing more dangerous than wine and it be-
came necessary to teach him how to use it
and not be injured by It. Tie first lesson is
self-denial, very important and very hard
one to teach child or man under the con-
troll OF his passions, and you must take care
to increase his freedom as fast as he learns
to control his passion until he is perfect
sovereign over all his passion, under perfect
freedom. There must be no political law in
this; this is Gods plan. We find this first
lesson in Exodus, chapter iii, verses 2s
and 80:
ssThou shalt not delay to offer the first OF
thy ripe fruits and of thy lq uors, the first born
OF thy sons shalt thou give unto me; likewise