The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-19
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VICTIMS OF LUST.
Wine Prohibited, but Women Permlttsd-A
Daniel Come to Judgment,

Daniel Come to Judgment,
Rev. DR., Payne, Of Ann Arbor, Mlcl
preached the following remarkable Sc
mon;
"There are some points in regard
drink in which all will unite, No mi
defends drunkenness. For WhRteV
may be our practices we will assert
that,
Drink Is not the first evil in the Ian
Drunkenness never ruined nor destroys
a nation, Amongs. all that have bee
overthTown, no people ever psrlshe
through strong drink alone. The drinl
ing Germans were chsste and true, {
Tacitus informs US, They fought wit
Valor for freedom, and never ceased Ii
strife with Rome until the legions OF Ii
empire were ovOrthrown, Our drinkiu
English ancestors won on hard tough
6elds with stubborn courage. Gu
drinking revolutionary fathers wo
our Independence What has killed ns
tions2 Lust has done It again an
again, 1t destroyed Persia. 1t over
threw Rome, Mohammed prohiblteC
wine, but permitted women, He woult
much better have given the wine cuy
and forbidden the harem. There Is nj
commandment Of the ten which says
"Thou shalt not drink" but there is ont
that says, "Thou shalt not kill" and an
other, "Thou shalt not commit adultery
Our women are fond Of calling the fearful
roll Of druukArds-sixty thousand a year
Go into your bell tower, sister, Watch
the Keeling, trembling line. Sec tho bleaI
eyes, the swollen features, But the great
evil hides tts brutal face Ia the presence
OF lust and its ravRges, You cannot
gather the statistics, It will not open its
grave under the sunlight, but 1t burrows
everywhere and buhes It's victims so
fondly slain. l am told by many medical
friends that my computations are mod.
crate, when ! charge that twenty thous.
and die 10 this land each year, slain by
the poisoned hand OF lust, Bodies rot
away with horror that eclipses the most
fearful power Of the final delirlum which
drink brings. Little children who should
be 30 pure and sweet tester and purify
beCause.oi the guilt Of others. The wan,
demented victims oil hidden vIco stagger
to their graves. Pass your long process.
sion through the streets. Mount liz bsl.
fry tower. Take the day for this process.
sion, for the night must be reserved for
greater horrors, Every two minutes,
every two minutes OF the twelve hours OF
the day, Lust has already killed two
where drink slew one, But what OF the
innocent babes who never saw the light,
slain by their own mothers' hands, deli.
cate hands, ieweled hands, aristocratic
bands, not In the novels 80 much % In
mansions-hands spotted through all
eternity with their own chidren's blood.
MOunt your beliry tower Toll Tor the
dead WHO never saw the light. I am told
that am exceedingly moderate when
say that twenty -four thousand babies are
slain each year by their own murderous
mothers. They never saw the light. The
drunkard has grave. Sweet litllG onea
whom the angels would cherish have not
aven grave 10 lie In, Oh! tender
woman, climb 10 the bellry tower Make
strong your hands to strike. For
very moment every night Of all the year
you must toll tho bell Of death. Let the
ost Bpirit shriakl the four devils laugh In
Dalelul unison over these holoCausts.
Since camo TO Ann Arbor eight years ago,
here has been no murder done through
lrink. Unless my medical friends strange
y mistake, three hundred children have
been slain in their Own homes, on the
altar OF life by their mothers hands.
Mothers who wreath the fairllowers around
the fairer faces Of your children, children
wing in white CaGkets robed Tor the grave.
You often think Of the reunion not iardis.
tant, when your children will welcome
you to homes Of light. Mothers who slew
our little ones, what will they say when
they see you, when they recoil from You
from you who tried in vain to keep them
from life, and light, and love?
Drink sometimes causes disease. II
wrecks life. To some extent 1t hands
down evils to posterity. Yet there Ia no
law OF lie that insures unsoundness 10
tho drunkard'B children. Often thoy rise
to honor aud strength aud feel no letters
from the past. But not so with the chill.
dren and the household Of the polluted
man. Your puny, scrawny children,
your broken, invalid wives are largely the
result OF what we mildly term youthful
indlsCretions, but arc awful crimes, not
indiscretions and very often do not cease
with youth.
Wait the graves Of your suicides, search
the records Of your mad houses. I'm.
hallowed passion, hellish lust keeps the
books laughing with demons
triumph at the slow steps OF imbruted,
idiotiC drink. Any woman can forgive
her husband hundred libations upon
the altar Of jolly Barchus, with vastly
more ease than ono foul sacrifice at the
shrine Of lustful Venus. Our good
women have formed a home protection
party ! do not wonder at It. But 10
there not another home protection party
noeded2 You may by and by suppress
the traffic In strong drink. You may
reach every house, stand guard over
every hWbeb UlueT ukItSlI AIItbt efeIy ISI.
menting wine cask, establish Gordon oil
police among your borders, and open
every innocent looking soap box and
cider barrel, but you cannot stop lust by
law; you cannot prevent Its importation
nor prohibit liz practice. While sex re.
mains and the heart 10 corrupt, dangers
abide wherever humanity 10 found in
society, and even seCluSion has its temp.
tations.
Moro charity 10 needed in the temper.
snCe work. The motto "MaliCe toward
none aud charity 10 all" 10 in danger Of
being transformed into charity for none
and malice toward all, Our workers are
80 earnest that they make no allowance
Tor those Of different education and views
who are perhaps az honest as themselves.
Witness the assaults upon Howard
Crosby. do not defend his views,
though few men have done more for tenn.
perAnCe than be. But ! dare not impugn
bis motives.
No man living believes In absolute pro.
hibItion Of the manufacture and sale Of
alcoholic drinks. Every sane man admits
their place In the numerous lines Of indus
tries and medi1lne, Maine and Kansas