The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-07-30
Intenperance.

incompetence.
! The following is an essay real Y
Mrs. James A.Joncs before the Pleasant
! Hill Alliance high convened az ID tn
ell Sunday, the 1871:
Intemperancc i - al ! subject and
has been discussed 10y 80 many able
minds that for one 90 weak and isno-
rant as myself to nj II G m assault on it
appears almost prrsumpii ItstandS
living witness to the tr'iih that per-
secution cannot kill Had any other
subject fallen into the hands a! the
manv who have given time and talent
, to this, the last trace of its eXisten ce
would long ago have been blot ell on t.
Long after its advent into tho world
the walls of Solomon, temple lifted
their heads and went dnW n; the hang
ing gardens of Babylon, the temple OF
Diana and the statue OF Jupiter have
gone to decay, leaving imIemp rance
| the greater wonder oi he world. No
doubt its name- was IiSped aruun | the
| fire-side OF Lots family ANA sung nc
the threshing lioor OF b mz, wrote its
decree on the walls Of Belshtzzar's
palace and stood guard at the death
| bed Alexander the CIR, AT. Ir blew its
! fetid breath in the lace oI the antede-
| luvians and spread its bloody trail
on the CrusadeS. lt has WithsioOl the
waters and fires, the wars aud storms
of ages and has never known def .ntand
] so the monster is here in all its horrid
| forms, sucking the very lite blood of
the world. It is solling the parlors of
christians homes and laspheming the
house OF God. 1t steals alike the happi-
uess of the tabernacles of the poor aud
the citadels of kings. When the wicked
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| of man, intemper 4nee is always ready
to arm him tor the fight; it loads the
assassin's pistol, it whets the dagger of
revenge and washes its hands in the
blood of unsusp cited victims; it arms
the highway rObber, ties the hangman's
knot, applys the torch of the incendia-
ry and eXtOrts the cry of anguish from
the mothers heart. When that weary
mother lays her aching head down on
her couch at night to rest and thinks
of her once noble boy, the pride OF her
life, the darl ny OF her heart, the one of
whom of all the earth she had mostly
depended for comfort and support in
declining life, now sinks into the
meshes of degradation, led willing
captive by the fiend OF night, o., the
anguish of that heart has never yet
been told. The midnight sobs that es7
cape from that heaving breast, the
scalding tears that stream from those
once lustrous but now sunken eyes are
but faint representatives OF the anguish,
torture and despair that fill that break
ing heart.
Some may say. |. am not uneasy, for
my son will never be overcome that
way. But | warn you not to be too
confident. There are scores of mothers
to-day standing on the verge of the
grave with nothing but the religion of
Jesus Christ and the hope OF future
rest to keep them from utter despair,
who were once as sanguine as you are.
Should there be no danger of yours
being led off, come with the sympa-
thies of wOman's heart and let US do
! everything lin our power to stay the
| reign OF this monster and save others
from falling under his oppressive yoke
Mother, when you hear the h. avy
footballs OF your sons ascending the
stairway late at night you may Stud
der, for the demon l. lurking in the
walls of your home Young ladies
when the message of love comes to
you periumed with spices, beware, the
dark tiend is near you. Neither
wealth, blood nor honorable position j.
a safeguard against is attack. The
young man Who eXhales it is on the
way to rain; do not go with him but
ask him to resist ard il he will not
then turn from him as you would from
your most deadly Toe. CoBe and en-
list under the banner of temperance and
use your influence to save your homes
and dear ones from everlasting destruc-
| ton.
Intcmperance walks hand in hand
| ysSI
jury and every other infamous crime
known to mankind. 1t enters our col
! leges and legislative halls and lays
IFS hand onathe law, and the pr, SIS
and sneaks into The ministers saRctum.
| Seven hundred millions of dollars are
spent every year in the United States
! for spirituous liquors. o, the amount
of good that might be accom- plished
with that amount in building churches,
endowing institutions OF learning, re-
lieving the suffering gEa sending TIE
gospel to the 6enigRted heather. But,
instead of this it is spent for misery
poverty, despair, horror, degradation
and every other evil to which humani-
| ty is heir, Not only that, but it sends
seventy-tive thousand immortal souls
to ruin annually from this christian
land of ours. Taking into considera-
ton the untold evils brought upon our
race by intemperance, it behOoves us to
make powerful effort to remove it
from our land. We should let no OPP
pOrtunity pass unimproved, but go for
ward with zeal and energy in this glO-
rious work, causing every influence to
be brought to bear on the minds OF the
dear youth of our country that they
may escape the awful catastrophe.
There are so many floating on the
stream OF intempeTance saying 'just as
soon as see it Injuries me, I'll stOp,"
but before they are aware they are car
ried over the rapids and are gone, eter-
naliy gone.
My dear young friend-the hope of
the church and the future supporter
and governor of this great country of
ours-let one who loves and feels a
interest in your welfare for time and
eternity plead with YOU 20 touch not,
taste not, handle not anything that will
intoxicate. Total abstinence is the
only safe plan. Some may and will
say women have no business in this
matter, but we think differently. 1t is
true women in this country de not Of
ten drink to an excess, but so long as
men drink women will be miserable.
We are the suffering party, therefore
we feel deep Interest in our own as
well as their walfare.
"Some talk about q woman's sphere
AS though it had limit;
These is not place in earth or heaven,
There is not task to mankind given,
There is not blessing or a woe,
There is not whisperel yes or no,
There IS not life or death on earth
That has feathers weight of worth,
Without woman in it."
Better Than Represented.-I
have tried Chillarine and found it to
be good if not better than it
represented. w. S. Mitchell, Ma
riOn, Fla, Sept, Is, 1884.
Cures PrOmptly,-I bought one
bottle of Chillarine and it cured me of
chills very promptly j. L. Jackson,
Auburn, Tex, June 8, 1884.
Best Medicine SOld.-M. A.
Simmons Liver Medicine sells well.