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conclude to throw their influence will decide
our national destiny.
In speaking as said i would in this brief
course of Sabbath morning sermons about
the things that threaten the destruction OF
American institutions, could compass the
subject without speaking Of drunkenness?
Is it State evil or national evilf Does
it belong to the East or the West to the
North or to the South. Alas, me- There
is not a river of America in which its tears
do not flow and its suicides have not
plunged.
How long 0 Lord, how long, before
these internal solicitations shall be re-
moved?' Mothers are waiting to see il
something can be done; their boys onc'
with honest breath, that breath now Away
disguised Their eyes once clear, now
filthy or bloodshot, the good hours they
kept exchanged for rafting OF the nigh
key long after the city wstchman has gone
by TO see that everything is safely locked
up. And the high expectation that thr
son would do something as artisan or mer
chant or professional man, and would bc
an honor TO the family name long after tn"
mothers
wrinkIed Hands
had been folded from her last toil-this ex
recitation exchanged for startled look a.
night when the doorbell rings lest some
thing has happened, and the wish that thr
scarlet fever Of twenty years ago had beer
fatal, for then he would have gone safely 10
the Savior's arms But poor old soul, shc
=, l,r, he tr,,kb Of tvhaf SnlnDN ~
said; "A foolish son is the heayiness OF his
mother
What a funeral it will make when thai
boy is carried home deao! She will say
is this the boy used to fondle and sing to
all night long when he was sick? Is this
The boy held to the altar of baptism? Is
this the boy for whom toiled till the blood
came out of the tips of my fingers that he
might have good starting and home?
Lord why hast thou kept me alive to sex
Ibis? Surely those swollen hands are no
The bands that used to wander over my fac
while | rocked him TO sleep. Surely tina
bloated brow is not the one that | so raptur
ously kissed Poor boy How tired hc
looks! wonder who struck him there OF.
he templesl wonder If he uttered dy
ing prayer Wake up, my SON Cant yo;
near me? No! no. dead dead! dead
% Absalom, my son, my son. would to God
! had died for thee! o Absalom, my son
ny SON.
Yea, God is Waiting:
The God who works through human instru
,uentalities and who gives every nation an
),a ortunity, and if it is not improved, dc
wipes it out of existence and lets another
nation try. God is also waiting for the
church and if it do rot do its work He will
wipe out the church as he did the church o.
"pbesGs the church or Thyatira, the church
# Ssrdis. The Protestant and Roman Cath
bic churchhs to-day stand lmpotent before
mis- great evil of intemperance. Why
,i,caUse men love their partisanship more
Ian they love their God. They would
;her have the Democratic or Republican
party in authority at Washington than have
drunkenness thrust off the doorstep of this
nation. 1t seems they dare not move
hough God shows clear path to victory
over the mightiest evil of all the ages
What is the state of things this hour? W."
have an evil that costs the nation NOR
han billion dollars year to supper
55O,sOO criminals $4,000 idiots, 10000
2aupers and bury $4,000 drunkards, Pro
'agoras boosted that of his so years of lit'.
ne spent 10 in despoilng youth. The arch
iend of the nations, alcohol, can boast tina
nj his years have been spent in that wa
aud without any exception.
Now, what is being done 70 confront thi .
evil1 Take a lighted candle and put on
gouc most powerful spectacles and loot
through the two great political platform
and find one word if you can deploring thi !,
evil Something against Mormoni5m. Oh
yes; it is safe to depounce that
Organized Nastiness
1000 miles away But not one word against
drunkenness, which, if it go on, will turn
this whole nation into beStial Salt Lake
lily. Resolutions against political corrup.
lion. Oh, yes; but nothing against drunk
enness, which, unarrested, will rot the na-
ion from scalp to heel Resolutions about
protection against foreign competition, but
not one word about protection of families
and churches and nations against the evil
which puts scalding, blasting, ill-cousum.
ing, damning tariff on all individual, fnan-
aial, moral, religious, national interests
The Democratic party were in power most
If the time for fifty years. What did they
10 as party to arrest this evil? Nothing,
.bsolutely nothing, appalingly nothing.
The Republican party has been IN powet
nearly quarter OF a century What haye
hey done to arrest this evil? Nothing, a,
solutely nothing, appsl!iugly nothing.
look in oae more direction The churc
IS the mightiest, most magnificent organ;
alton ever knoRn Has L moved in soil /
phalanx on this subject? No. Not ion
40 at meeting ofonc OF the cccjesissticr
bodies r solutions were offered demaudiU :
lie arrest of this evil, aud some minister
with vine in their cellars aal on their t,
IlCs defeated il by
Threatening speeches.
They did not want TO give mp thire own lustS.
Today mark you not in the millennium
nut to-day, the church of God holds the
balance of power and could extirpate tn
evil if they would march Solidly to the from
Over three hundred thousand churches an
Sunday schools in Christiandom VIII;
might they not DO if they would marc
,houlder to shoulder tor God and Sobriety
And that day of gospel consolidation Is
coming. Before another four years have
passed the best men of all parties will b.
organized for such campaign as has never
struck the earth. IOu cannot tell Trhr,
small beginnings what wiz "a The orandn.,
= fesi i,.e The Christian church, ,whict
shall vet conquer all nations was born in 4
cattle stall of Bethlehem. Jesus Chris
after hundred years his name had been
preached had not half as many followers in
all the earth as this present temperance
movement. Men and women of America
. courageously do your duty. Go from YOU,
knees to The ballot box Ask God how vol
shall vote and then obey him. Some Of
he clergy of America and some OF the
religious newspapers have this summer an !
autumn made pittable spectacles of them.
selves BY announcing themselves now on
This side, now on that, not remembering the
TACT that there is but one issue in this
:sHpaign--shsll the grog shops Of America
rule or shall
Christian SchrIe,,
Never in a national election has such
variety of choice been put before the people
as this autumn. You can have almost any