The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-01-26

the clouds. Or like thsm they move, All as
they play 10 the sunlight OF righteousness
ars transformed into beauty. whether II BE-
the beauty Of the dawn, prssaging what Is
10 come, or the beauty Of the sunset, pres
aging the glorious death towards when we
tend
"And We can make these boiies Of ours
reflect the light Of heaven. or they can have
the light Of heaven Withdrawn and he dark
and DISMAL aud foreDOdinZ as tbs storm
clouds from which the muttsrings OF heaven
come end roll the thunders OK agony that
spread destrnction anl death upon u And
10 these tnIplss He has placed ths Holy
Ghost IN spirit Tor u2 and we are its cusgo.
uiaus, ths priests of these temples; ami
when we degrade aud dsfile them. we are
degrading anJ defling the architecture Of
God and Ills chosen resting place IN Us.
"On, what a touching Instance it was
when the fayOrits son OF Iertnllian died.
His companions wers bearing his corpse 10
the cemetery upon their shoulders, aud as
they went along, occupied with their
thoughts OF sorrow ant grief tnaY STUN
bled by the way, when the grief-stricxen
father noticing IL callei out 10 them, Young
men, beware how you walk; you bear upon
your shoulders the temple of the Holy
Ghost.
80 with US We go about bearing with
US the temple Of the Holy Ghost, and we
are recrsant 10 our own creation, recreaut TO
our destiny, recreant to the great God who
fashioned VA, recreant 70 the great God who
made us when We detil9 these bodies Of ours
and ruin them with the licenses Of our baser
natures and our dsprayed appetites
"One time Dlogenes Saw young man go
ing to q place Of rsveiry where drinking
was the custom, and from which men who
went in sober and rational beings emerged
besotted ard not knowing their way. He
a. .al "a. IL
his friends, and Informed them that he had
rescued their precious boy from a great and
awful danger. so 1t would bs well if we
had friends who would thus rescue US. But
there are times When friends, gs | told you,
can have no influence, AMI no Diogenes, how
ever wise, however honest, however mind.
full Of his nelghbor, could restrain Us from
going into these places
But how many Diogeneses it would take
TO seize upon those that night after night
and day after day are going into these
places Of dan ger and ultimate death in the
city Of Cincinnati. Oh, let US seek to save
ourselves through thu only influences, the
only medicement aud tbs only physician
thrt this universe affords US.
What is incompetence doingi II Is not
necessary to marshal here before you the
figures; you can see them all about you
young man, you know that you started
In your incorporate habits Just as | did
You know what Influences have led you;
you know what ambitions you thought you
could cultivate by listening TO them; you
know how you have run out and gone into
those places with like ideas OF strength aud
ability to control yourselves just as / had.
And now yoa are buovant in the conscious
ness that you think that at any time you
can slap on the brakes of your nature aud
save yourselves from degradation that you
see upon the planes just below you
"BewaIe, beware of that fatal cup There
are fathers. middle-aged; they know what
me to- night, and they started on the road
Just as ! started, bat if they have not
reached the same legth TO which | went they
are on the high road to It, They can already
know that they are not received where once
they were welcomed guests; they know that
| they are passed every day on the streets OF
| Cincinnati by men who formerly regarded
them with esteem aud claimed them as
| friends They know that avenues were once
| open 10 them of usefulness, and which are
now closed upon them forever on account of
| their habits, their companionship aud their
| places Of resort They know that tue happi-
ness u their families, once complete, is now
gone, apparently forever. They know that
| the hlached cheak Of that wife, that the con-
slant redness OF eye when they enter home,
taat the fleeing children, are all evidences
| OF the stea " growth OF the evil; and they
grown just IN proportion as they have gone
deeper ~ I deeper into this besotted on
| dition.
There are old men here TO night who
have a long life, it seemed, ,lf modera-
ton, and who thought that they were ex-
employing the ability of q man to drink
and drink and drink, and yet preserve his
manhood and lis honest position; but they
can see that their excuses are rot only sap
ping the foundations OF their health; they
eau feel til It they are untimely. gray; they
can feel that they have diseases in them that
they would not have had but tor their in
temperance; and they can see before them
no life that is leading them on and brighten
ing their way as thsv 90 But they are sea-
ing upon the other hand-and il they are
honest with themselves they will confess it
TO their slus--that they are losing the
powers, aud that sooner or later they too
must sink into the lowest depths OF degrade
ton, and be untimely cut Off and &c to hell
to ever asting death
Families and individusls-cities pros
trated There is nothing that is so glaring
about them as intemperance, which sweeps
over them like the storm over forest. day
after day and night after night Thank
God that my city Of Atlanta has redeemed
herself under the white banner OF temper
ance, with the cross of Clrist on it, Thank
God she will shine as a city set upon a hill,
giving light to this nation Ohio to-day is
giving full liberty 80 the whisky dealers TO
debauch and damn the mos precious sons of
| your loins and your household,
God cannot bless a people who arc thus
recreant TO themselves and thus recreant to
their duties both to humanity and to God
Thank God that old Georgia is rapidly re-
deeming herself and that aftsr a while shs
viii still be lying in the very apron of this
nation, redeemed state from the tyranny
of alcohol, and that she will raise her banner
and commend it in its purity TO every state
in this nation, as it blazons with the legend
of w isdon, Justice and Moderation under
the broad and glitterins arch OF the consti-
tuition.
NEARLY twenty five years ago misguided
men in tns south heard the shot uppn Fort
Sumter that awakened the entire nation,
and led TO reform, and led to liberties, and
led TO the release of slaves from bondage,
led to what no man had contemplated of be.
ing capable OF realization. IL marshalei
the most impregnable arms Of this continent,
and that shot reverbrated all through civil.
ization. ! tell you that whatever were the
| iii sasters Of war, it struck the snackles from
| six million slaves; but to-day in holier and
grander cause, by the approving smile of
God, old Georgia has fired a gun upon the
| Sumters ef sin and intemperancs in this
country that will arouse this whole nation
and we will batter down these forts of in
+ temperance, whether they are in Cincinnati,
Chicago or New York Applause.
"Ths army 1f God in this nation is on the
| march, lament And You may listen here
but II YOU have not the courage and the
I Christian zeal, we will come and break
down tue barriers; we will pound the de-
/ mon OF alcohol, and we viii release YOU
from this terrible bondage. LAppause,l
I'm the midst Of influences like this, with