The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-20

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disease and died, and one child after an.
Dther, until all the eight had died Of
The -blasphemer challenged
Almighty Goa, and God accepted the chal.
lepge.
But como later down and give you
fact that Is proved by scores Of witnesses
This last August Of 1885, man got pro-
voked at the continued drought and the
ruin Of HIS crops, and in the presence Of
his ineighbors he cursed God, saying that
he would cut his Heart out II he would
come, csiling him liar and a coward, and
a knave. And while he was speaking his
lower jaw dropped, smoke issued from
mouth and nostrils, and the heat Of his
body was so intense it drove back those
who would come near. Scores of peoplo
visited the scene and saw the blssphemer
in the awful process Of expiring.
Do not think that because God has been
silent in your. case, O, profans swsarsr!
that he is dead. Is there nothing now In
the peculiar feeling Of your tongue. or
nothing inthe numbnsss Of your brain that
indicates that God may come to Avenge
your blasphemies. or 10 already aveng-
ing them! But these cases l have
noticed, believe, are only q
few cases where there are
hundreds. Families keep them still to
avoid the horrible conspicuity. Physi.
clans suppress them through profess ional
confidence. 1t is q very, very, very long
roll that contains the namss of those who
died with blasphemies on their lips;
and the crime rolls on, up through parlors,
up through chandeliers with lights all
abloze, and through the pictured corridors
Of club rooms, etc., out through busy ex-
changes where oath meets oath, and down
through all the haunts Of sin, mingling
with the rattling 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 g
seething, boiling surge filings its hot spray
into the face Of a long suffering God
And the ship captain damns his crew,
and the merchant damns his clerks, and
the master builder damns his men, and
the hack driver damns his horses; and
the traveller damns the stone that bruises
his foot, ors the, mud that, soils his shoes
or the defective time.piece that gets bin
too late 10 the railroad train. ! arrangt
profane swearing and blasphemy, two
names for the same thing, as being one Of
the gigantic crimes Of this land. and fol
its extirpation 1t does seem as II it were
about time for God to arise.
Then look q moment at the evil o.
drunkenness. Whether you live in Brook
lyn, or New York, or Chicago, or Cincin
natl, or Savannah, or Boston. or in any
of the cities Of the land, count up tn
saloons ON that street as compared with
| the saloons five years ago, and see they
are growing far out of proportion. Yo,
people who are SO precise and particular
lest there should be some imprudence o.
rashness In attacking the rum traffic, will
have your son some night pitched int
yoursfront door dead drunk, or you
daughter will come home with her childrel
because her husband has by strong drinl
been turned into, a demoniac The run
fiend has despoiled whole streets of goo
homes in our cities. Fathers, brothers
sons, on the funeral pyre Of strong drink
Fasten tighter the victims! Stir up tn
flames! Pile ON the corpsesl More men
women and children for the sacrifice I lie
us have whole generations on the fire o
evil habit; and at the sound of the cornet
flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery and dulcime
let all the paople fall down and yershi
King Alcohol, Or you shhllsbe cast INTO "a
fiery furnace under some political plat
form!
indict this evil as the fratricide, ID
parriclde, the matricide, the uxorcids, ID
regicide of the. cen Jury. Yet under whs
innocent and delusive and mirthful name
alcoholism deceives the people. It Is
"cordial" 1t is ''bitters." 1t is an "eye
opener" 1t is an appetizer" 1t is
"digester." 1t is an ''inyigorator. ~ 1T
a "settler." 1t is a "night-cap." VIII
don't they put on the right labels-"Es
sence OF Perdition,n "Conscionce Stupe
fer" "Five Drachms Of Heartache,
"Tears Of Orphanage," BLOOD Of Souls,
"Scab of an Eternal Leprosy," "venom q
Worm That Never Dies" Only once |
awhile is there any thing IN the title {
liquors to even hint their atrocity, as
the case Of sour mash. That see adver
tised all over. tits an honest name an
any one can understand It. Sour mash
That is, 1t makes mans disposition SOU
| L. hia
poets sour; and then 1t is good to mash h
body, and mash his soul, and mash b
business, and mash his family. Bot
mash! One honest name at last for an II
toxicant! But through lying labels I
many of the apothecaries' shops GOO
people, who are only little undertone
health and wanting Of some inauguration
have unwittingly got on their tongue Il
fangs of this cobra that stings to death {
large ratio of the human race.
Others are ruined by the common an
all destructive habit Of treating custom
ers. And it is treat on their coming
town, and treat while the bargainin
progresses, and treat when the pur
chase is made, and q treat as he leave
town. Others, to drown their trouble.
submerge themselves with this wors
trouble. Oh, the world is battered, an
bruised, and blasted with this CROWN
evil! 1t is more and more entranced an
fortified. They have millions of dollar
subscribed to marshal and advance Il
d alcoholic forces. They nominate, an
elect, and govern the vast maj GRITTY ,
the office-holders Of this country, Q
their side they have enlisted the might
est political power OF the centuries. Al
behind them stand all the nYrmidons
the neither world, Satanic, and Apollyol
ic, and diabolic. It is beyond all hums
effort to throw this bas>iie- OF ocean ters