The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-03
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Gospel Temperance Meetings ia Thatch-
er's Hall, every Sunday, at 400 p NJ.

changed on account of the Sunday School
| prayer meetings in the different churches
after the regular sessions had closed, so
that some who did not hear of the change
were obliged to wait q little longer than
was perhaps pleasant. Rev. Mr.. Lynch
presided, and after the usual introduce
tory exercises, introduced as the speaker
of the day, Mr.. T. l.. Naylor, of New
Hope.
After complimenting the W. G. T. U.
upon their new hall and pleasant sur
roundings, he spoke of the Importance of
keeping the temperance work upon the
Gospel temperance plan.
The nature of the work is such that it
ought to enlist the sympathy and sup
port OF every Christian. The speaker
very appropriately grouped his remarks
about the central thought Gam l my
brothers keeper Z" This question so Of
ten asked since the days of Cain may well
be asked to-day by every Christian man
and woman.
We ought to realize the relation exist.
ing between ourselves and our fellow men
and be as ready to extend the helping
hand to them as to take the extended
hand of our Father God.
He illustrated his ideas with several in
teresting anecaetes. The address, of
which We have not even given an outline,
was full of earnest Christian words. He
closed with an urgent appeal to any who
have not yet learned of the great love OF
Jesus to accept this great Salvation so
| full and free.
Rev. G. Ii. Woolston spoke for few
minutes on the religious phase of the tenn
perance work. He also referred to his
work for and among the young aud to his
rejoicing at seeing SO many of them accept
ing Christ as their Saviour aud guide.
The chairman in closing, presented a
few earnest thoughts on tho subject of
personal religion.
One hundred copies of Gospel Hymns,
consolidated, Nos. /, 2, 3 and 4, have been
provided by the W. C. I. IT,, and were
used last Sunday for the first time. in the
afternoon meeting.
Gospel Temperance Meeting next Sun
day afternoon, at o'clock as usual. The
exercises will be. varied somewhat from
their usual character, but will be interest.
ing and profitable.
We were informed, recently, by gen
tleman well-known in this community,
that eighteen years ago-when people
were as honest as to-day--not barrel or
keg of beer was shipped from large
brewery outside of New York City, with
whose workings he was familiar, until 1t
had been ''doctored.'' The tricks of the
trade were probably less then than to- day
Could those who drink the lager of to. day
know Of all the poisonous and otherwise
abominable authorizations which enter its
composition we honestly belieye-to put
it mildly-that the amount of its sales
would diminish.
We make no apology for tho length of
the following. Read it and see If you can
cut any of it out as unworthy place in
our temperance column. can not:
~ am aware there Is prejudice against
any man engaged In the manufacture of
alcohol. believe from the time II issues
from the coilcd and poisonous worm in
the distillery until 1t empties into the hell
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demoralzing to everybody that touches
it, from the source to where II ends.
do not believe that anybody can contem-
plate the subject without being prejudieed
against the crime. All we have to do is
to think of the wrecks on either side of the
stream of death, Of the suicides, of the in
sanity, of the poverty, of the destruction,
of the little children Juggling at the breast
of weak and despairing wives asking for
bread, of men of genius 1t has wrecked,
the men struggling with imaginary SER
penis produced by this devilish thing; and
when you think of the jails, of the aims
houses, of the asylums, of the prisons and
of the scaffolds on either hand, | do not
wonder that every thoughtful man is pre-
JUDGED against this vile stuff called al
cohol.
'Intemperance cuts down youth in its
vigor, manhood in its strength, and age
in it's weakness.
"It breaks the fathers heart, bereaves
the doting mother, extinguishes natural
affection, grasses conjugal love, blots out
flial attachments, aud blights parental
hope, and brings premature age In sorrow
TO the grave. IL produces weakness, not
strength; sickness, not health; death, not
life. 1t makes wives widows, children
orphans, fathers fiends, and all paupers.
1t feeds rheumatism, nurses gut, vel
comes epidemics, invites cholera, imports
pcstilence, and embraces consumption. 1t
covers the land with misery, idleness and
crime. 1t engenders controversies, fosters
ouarrels and cherishes riots. 1t crowds
your penitentiaries and furnishes victims
, to the scaffold. 1t is the blood of the
gambler, the element Of the burglar, the
prop of the highwsyman and the support
of the midnight incendiary.
at countenances the liar, respects the
thief, esteems the blasphemer. 1t vio-
lates obligations, reverences fraud, honors
infamy. 1t defames benevolence, hates
love, scorns virtue aud innocence. 1t in
} cites the father to butcher his helpless off
, spring, and the child to grind the parri-
cidal axe. II burns up men, consumes
women, detests life, curses God and des-
pises Heaven. 1t suborns witnesses,
nurses perfldy, defiles the jury-bo and
: stains the judicial ermine. 1t brides
voters, disqualifies votes, cofrupts cleo
lions, pollutes our institutions and en-
dangers the government. 1t degrades the
citizen, debases the legislator, dishonors
the statesman aud disarms the patriot.
, 1t brings shame, not honor; terror, not
safety; despair, not hope; misery, not
! happiness; and with the malevolence OF a
fiend, calmly surveys its frightful desola-
ton, aud unsatiated with havoc, itpoisons
felicity, kills peace, ruins morals, wipes
out national honor, then curses the world
and laughs at its ruin. 1t does that and
more-it murders the soul. 1t Is the sum
of all villanies, the father of crimes, the
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