The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-11-04

winter midnight is kings drawing
room compared with what she now
suffers. The blow on her head does
not hurt SO much as the blow on her
heart. The rum fiend opened the
door of that once beautiful home and
said: II curse this dwelling with
unrelenting curse. curse that hus-
band into a maniac. L curse that
wife into pauper. l curse those
sons into vagabonds. | curse those
daughters into profigacy. Cursed
be bread-tray, and cradle, and chair,
and couch, and family Bible with It's
record of marriage and birth. Curse
upon curse; curse upon curseE How
many wives are waiting to see II some
thing can not be done to shake the
fros!s of this second death OH the
orange blossoms!
Yes, God is waiting, the God who
, works through human instrumental
ties and who gives every nation an
opportunity, aud if it is not improved
he wipes it out of existence and lets
another nation try. God is also wait
:, ing for the church, and if it do not
do its work he will wipe out the
church AS he did the church OF
Ephesus, that of Thyaiira,. the church
of Sardis The protestant ana Roman
Catholic churches to-day stand Im-
potent before this great evil Of intem-
perance. Why? Because men love
their partisanships more than they
: love their God. They would rather
have the democratic or republican
. party in authority at Washington
:, than have
) DRUNKENNESS THRUST OFF THE
DooRsTEPs
I of this nation. 1t seems they dare
not move, though God shows a clean
4 oath TO victory over the miehIies:
: evil of all the ages. What is the
? state of thi gs this hour? We have
- AN evil that costs the nation more than
i 81 600, 900, 600 year to support $50 :
!" 600 criminals. $4,000 idiots, 100000
n paupers. and bury 70 DOC drunkards.
Protagoras boasted that OF his sixty
- years of life he rad spent forty In de,
spelling youth. The archfend of thu
d nations, Alcohol, can boast that al
D. his wears have been spent that way
81 and without an exception.
:. Now, what is being done to confront
y this evil? Take lighted candle anc
g put on your most powerful spectacies
ir and look through the two gre,t
ID pulitical platforms. and find one word
ID if you can, deploring this evil
i SOMETHING AGAINST MoRMoNIsM?
|, Oh yes; it is safe to denounce ths
W organ,zed nastiness two thousan'
ns miles away. But not one wore
70 AGAINST drunkenness, which if it 90 OIL
\, will turn this whole nation into ;
:, iestial Salt Lake City. Resolution
!. against political corruption? Oh, yes
20 but nothing against drunkenness
rs which, unarrested, will rot the nation
IF from scalp to heel Resolutions abou
tv pro. ection from foreign competition
1T but not one word about protection o
"A families and churches and nation
against the evil which puts scaling
- blasting, all-consuming, damnlng
w tariff on all individual, financial
a moral religious, national interests
ne The democratic party was in powe
r most of the time for fifty years. VIVA
ID did they do as party to arrest thu
: :. evil? Nothing, absolutely nothing
hi appallingly nothing. The republican
e party has been in power nearly
at quarter of a century. What hav
go thew done to arrest this evil =? Moth
Id ing, absolutely nothing, aPpalllngl
- nothing.
ee I look in one more direction.
n THE CHURCH Is TIE MIGHTIEsT,
most magnificent organization eve
on known. Has it moved in solI
phalanx Oh this subject? No. Nc
long ago, at meeting of one OF IN
great ecclesiastical bodies. resolution
! we're offered demanding the arrest
h, this evil. and some ministers VIII
he wine in their cellars and on thel
o? tables defeated it by threatenin
i'll speeches. They did not want to Civ
he mn their own lusts. To-day, mar
cd YOU not in the millennium, but I,
by day. the church of God holds the bal
s? ance of power and could extlrpal
ot this evil If it would march solidly
er the front. Over three hundred thou
p. and churches and Sunday schools
he christendom. What might they ne
'or d. if they would march shoulder
Ter shoulder for God and sObriety!
es. YOUNG MEN OF AMERICA,
er. mass over into the ranks of teetota
ar ;sm Let whisky, good for preser