The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-14


visited the scene and saw the blasphensr
in the awful process Of expiring.
Do not think that because God has beer
silent in your case, o, profsns sve.rsr
that he is dead l. there netting nov IN
the peculiar fsslisg OF your tongue, o.
nothing in the numbnsss Of your brain - al
indicates that God may come 70 avsng,
your blasphsmiss, or IL already avsng.
Ing them1 But these cases I have
noticed, I believe, are osly e
few cases where there are
/ hundreds. Families keen them still 70
avoid the horrible conspicuity. Physi-
clans suDuress them throuzh professional
confidence. Il IL . very, very, very long
roll that contains the names OF those who
died with hasphemies on their Fps;
and the crime rolls on, up th-CdE h parlors
up throagh chandeliers with lights all
sbisEe. and through the pictured corridors
( % club rooms, etc. out through b-sy eK-
Z changes where oath meet cath. AMI down
through ali TIE sa1nts Of sin, mingling
I with the railing dice and cracking bill
lard balls. and the laughter OF her who
/ has forgotten the covenant Of her God:
| and round the city, and round the earth
seething, boiling surge sings its hc' spray
/ into the face o; a lon=.s1E ering God.
And the ship captain damns his crew,
and the merchant damn. his clerks. and
! the master builder damns his me1, and
.he hack driver damns h:s borses; and
the traveller dsnl1s the stone that bruises
his foot, or the mud that soils his shoes,
q the def,:t!Te time piece that get him
TO late to the railroad .~ain. / arrange
profane swearing and blasphenY, two
nams. fcr the same thing, as being one Of
I the gigantic crimes OF this land, and for
| its extirpation it does seem as If it were
about time for God 70 arise
Then look q mcmsn. at the evil Of
I drunkenness. Whether YOU live in Brook
/ lyn, or New York. OF Chicago - Cincin.
/ natl, or Savannah. Or Boston, or in any
/ Of the cities u the land. c6unt up the
saloons On that street as compared with
the saloons five years ago, and see they
are growing far cut OF proportion. You
/ people who are precise and particular
lest there should be some imprudence or
rashness in at.ackr- the 70 traffic. win
/ have your son some nj Zht pitched into
your front dor dead drunk, or yo-r
I daughter will com ONE wi.h her children
because her husband las BY strong drink
heen turned into a dem5niac. The rum
J esri has despoiled whole streets q good
homes in our cities. Fathers trrth-rs.
sons, On the funeral r-rc oi strong drink!
Fasten tjgh'ef the victims. Sir up the
fans. Pile On the corpses. More men,
women and ca l lren for the sa.r fic.. Let
Us have whole generations On the fire Of
evil habit; and a. the souu Of the corret,
n j.
Jet all the recTls .2li DOWN and worsh
King Alcohol, Or you shsll be cast into the
Esry furnace unler some political plat
form
indct this evil as the tratriclde, the
! parricide, the matliciis, the uxorcide, the
regicide Of the cen ury. Yet under what
/ inn 1cent AMI delu,ive and mirthful names
/ alcoholism deceives the people. It is
I cordial" 1t is "hitters." l. is an "eye.
/ opener" II is an 'appetizer." It is a
/ "di-ester." It is an ".nvizorator." It's
"settler." It is a might cap" Why
don't they put on the right labels-"Es-
sence Of PeriitIon,p Conscience Stupe.
fer" "Five Drachms 1t Heartache,"
Tears Of Orphanag=," "B 9od Of Souls"
"Scab Of an Eternal Lepr5sy." Venom Of
4 Worm That N-ve- es." Only once in
awhile is there any thing in the title Of
liquors 70 even hint their atrocity, as in
the case d soar mash. That ses adver-
tised all over. II j. an honest name and
any one can understand It. Sour mash!
That ia, 1t makcs mans disposition sour,
and bis associations sour, AMI his pros.
poets sour: AMI then t. = ~nld - mash hii
Dody, and mash his soul, and mash his
business, and mash his family. Sour
mash! One honest name at last for an IN.
toxicant' Bat through lying labels Of
many OF the apothecares' shops good
people, who are only little undertone in
health and wanting Of some invigoration,
have unwittingly got on their tongue the
fangs Of this cobra tina. stinys 10 death so
large ratio OF the human race,
Others are ruined by the common and
all-destructive habit Of treating custom
ers And it is a treat on their coming to
town, and a treat while the bargaining
progresses, and treat when the pur-
chase is made, and treat as he leaves
town. Others, TO drown their troubles,
submerge themselves with this worse
trouble. Oh, the world is battered, ami
bruised and blasted with this growing
evil! 1t is more and more entranced and
fortified. They have millions of dollars
subscribed to mar shall and advance the
alcoholic forces. They nominate, and
elect and govern the vast maj GRITTY Of
the office holders of this country. On
their side they have enlisted the mighti-
est political pc wer Of the centuries. And
behind them stand all the mYrmidons of
the neither world, Satanic, and Apollyon-
&c, and diabolic. 1t is beyond all human
effort to throw this bastile Of deca ters or
capture this Gibralte- of rum jugs. And
while 1 approve OF all human agencies Of
reform, would utterly despair il we had
nothing else. But what cheers me is that
our best troops are yet TO cjme. Our chief
artillery is in reserve. Oar greatest Com
If all hell is on taeir side, all Heaven is on
our side. Now
Let God arise, and let His enemies be scat
tered
Then look at the impurities of thes .
great cities. Ever and anon there are in
the newspapers explosions of social life
that make the story Of Sodom quite re-
spectacle; for such things, Christ says,
were more tolerable for Sodom AMI CO.
morrah than for the Chorazins and Beth
saidas of greater light. 1t is no unu suaI
thing in our cities TO see men in high posi-.
ton with two or three families, or ref ned
ladies willing solemnly to marry the very
swine of society il they be wealthy.
Brooklyn, whose streets fifteen years 90
.uara fraa from all si0p Of tho al