The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-10-07

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villainous spithet, and as he was
utteing it he fell. A physician was called,
but no help could be given After a day lying
with distsndsd pupils and palsied tongue, ne
passed out Of this world In a cemetery in
sesnss In Line aaA ~ aliks, aaA tAsss are H.
facts: In 1881 aiphshsria RACED in the village,
and physician was reenAxkahly Successful in
curing his patisntx- So confident did he BE-
come that he boosted that no case of diphthe-
ria could stand before him, and finally defied
Almighty God to produce a case of diphtheria
that he could not cure His youngest child
soon after took the disease and died, and ono
child after another until all the eight had
died of diphtheria- The blasphemer chal-
lenged Almighty God, and God accepted the
challenge.
But come later down and give you fact
that is proved by scores Ct witnesses This
LAST August of 1886 man got provoked at
the continued drought and the ruin Of his
crops, and in the presence Of his neighbors he
cursed God, saying that he would cut His
heart out il He would come down, calling
Him liar and coward, and flashing
knife. And while he was speaking his lower
jaw dropped, smoke issued from mouth and
noetrils, and the heat Of his body was SO IN
tense it drove back those who would come
near. iSCOTcS OI people nave VlStuSu Ule scene
and saw the blasphemer ia awful process of
expiring
Do not think that because God has been 81
lent in your case, o profane swearer, that He
Is dead. Is there nothing now ia the peculiar
feeling Of your tongue, or nothing in the
numbness Of your brain, that indicates that
God may come to avenge your blasphemies,
or Is already avengins thernf But these cases
have noticed, believe, are emily few cases
where there are hundreds. Families keep
them still to avoid the horrible conspicuity.
Physicians suppress them through profes-
sional confidence. 1t Is a very, very, very
long roll that contains the names of those who
died with blasphenlies on their lips, and still
the crime rolls on, up through parlors, up
through chandeliers with lights all ablaze,
and through the pictured corridors Of club
rooms, ETC., out through busy exchanges,
where oath meets oath, and down through all
the haunts Of sin, mingling with the rafting
dice and cracking billiard balls, and tho
laughter Of her who hath forgotten the cove
nant Of her God; and round the city, and
round the continent, and round the earth a
seething, boiling surge filings its hot spray in
to the face Of a long suffering God. And the
ship captain damns his crew, and the mer-
chant damIs his clerks, and the master builder
damns his men, and the hack driver damns
his horse, and the traveller damns the stone
that bruises his foot, or the mud that soils
his shoes, or the defective timepiece that gets
him too late to the rail train 1 arraign pro-
fame swearing and blasphemy-two names
for the same thing-as being one of the
gigantic crimes Of this land, and for it's e1tir-
patton it does seem as if it were about time
for God to arise
Then look a moment at the evil of drunken
ness. Whether you live in Brooklyn, or New
VO,~lyo
nah, or Boston, or In any Of the cities Of this
land, count up the saloons on that street as
compared with the saloons five years ago,
and see they are growing far out Of proper
ton to the increase Of the population. You
people who are SO precise and particular lest
there should be some imprudence or rashness
In attacking the rum traffic, will have your
son some night pitched into your front door
dead drunk. or your daughter will come home
with her children because her husband has, by
strong drink, been turned into a demon. The
rum ffend has despoiled whole streets of good
homes in all our cities. Fathers, brothers.
sons, on the funeral pyre OF strong drink
Fasten tighter tho victims! Stir up the
flames! Pile on the corpses! More men, wo-
men and children for tho sacrifice! Let us
have whole generations on fire Of evil habit:
and at the sound Of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery and dulcimer let all the peo-
pie fall down and worship King Alcohol or
you shall be cast into the fiory furnace under
some political platform!
Ilndict this evil as the fratricide, the patri-
eide, the matricide, the uxorcide, the regi-
eide of the century. Yet under what innocent
and delusive and mirthful names alcoholism
deceives the peoplel It is a cordial" 1t is
"bitters-" It is an "eye-opener" It is an
appetizer" It Is "digestsr." 1t is an Gin
vigorator." 1t Is settler" 1t il might
cap" Why don't they put on the right
labels Essence Of Perdition,n conscience
Stupefier," Five Drachms Of Heartache, n
Tears of Orphanage." BLOOD of Souls, !"
"Scabs Of Eternal Leprosy," "Venom of the
Worm that Never Dies!7 Only once in a
while is there any thing in the title of liquors
to even hint their atrocity, as in the case Of
sour mash. That see advertised all over It
is an honest name, and any one can under
stand 1t. Sour mash That is it makes a
mans disposition sour, and his associations
sour, and his prospects sour; and then It Is
good to mash his body, and mash his soul,
and mash his business, and mash bis family.
Sour mash! One honest name at last for an
intodcant! But through lying labels of
many Of the spothecaries' shops good people
who arc only little undertone in health, and
wanting of some inauguration, have I'M
Willingly got on their tongue the fangs of
ILLS CoDId, ILl1t SIluSS 10 uoaLn SO large
ratio of the human race
Others ruined by the common and all
destructive habit of treating customers. And
it is a treat on their coming to town, and a
treat while the bargaining progresses, and q
treat when the purchase is made, and a treat
as he leaves town. Others to drown their
troubles submerge themselves with this worse
trouble. Oh, the world is battered and bruised
and blasted with this growing evil. 1t Is more
and more intrenched and fortified. They have
millions of dollars subscribed to marshal anG
advance the alcoholic forces. They nominate
and elect and govern the vast majority of Tho
officeholders of this country. On their side
they have enlisted the mightiest politica
power of the centuries. And behinc
them stand all the myrmidons of The
neither world - satanic and Apollyonit
and diabolic It is beyond all human effor
to overthrow this Bastile Of decanters or cap
ture this Gibraltar Of rum jugs And whil'
approve OF all human agencies OF reform