Omaha daily bee., 1886-11-12

to knowledge temperance" That does
not mean abstinence from whisky. That
Is not Gods word. When God talks
abou; whisky he says Woe and when
God says "Woe" you had better stop.
"Woe unto him that putteth the bottle TO
his neighbor'5 mouth" That is
TIE WAY GOD TALKS on WHISKY.
What does he say to the man that
| drinks IT? He says to each one of them,
AT last it bteth like an adder and sting
| eth like serpent" Touch not, taste
not, handle not, that is Gods pronun.
ciatlon on whisky. There are q great
many people in this world who think this
| doctrine of prohibition is new, got mp by
| long haired men and short-haired
women over in the east. 1t was born
| two thousand years ago. Let
| me tell you, as old as this
| bible, this doctrine of total abstinence.
| will venture to assert that every man i'll
| town that drinks whisky, and every man
| that sells whisky, says,
JONES rs A CRANK.
On that subject he is crank, and l
| have said to .hc bar keepers OF m y town,
"when drank your whisky and when j
paid YOU my hard.carned money for II,
| and when dcbauchcd my soul and my
| body, and almost broke the heart OF the
| best wife man ever had, you didn't call
me crank then; no, no, was Il sensible
allied myself with the right, and | am
| living sobcrly and righteously and can
| didlv, deuounce all things that broke my
wiic's heart, then you call me crank,
| The first rock we lay down Is faith and
| then the next one right on that is cour-
| age, the next one is knowledge. Now,
then, we want the great regulating force
| of mans life, temperance. That is the
great regulating force of Il man S life.
that is doing every ything in the right way
| and at the right time; that is being Just
rs good on Wednesday rs you are on
| Sunday, and you don't have to be very
good on Wednesday here to be as good
as you are OH Sunday. don't want you
| to forget that. 1t means Just rs good one
time of the year rs another, and one
time of day rs another. Temperance
is the great regulating force that
| runs me on dead level to the good
world. Some people think heaven Is
above and hell is down here, but brother,
heaven is beyond and he'll is beyond, and
| they are on a dead level route and are at
| the Autipodcs. Heaven is around this
way and hell over that way, but we have
dead level road between the two places,
| and if you turn your back on hell you
are going heavenward, and if you turn
your back on heaven
| YOU ARE GOING STRAIGHT TO HE'LL,
and that is all there is about it, and | will
tell you all here day that we have got
| n great deal of outside matter mixed up
with our religion. Let me tell you used
| to think should an old sinner be careless
he would get in the road to heaven.
There is hui one road to this moral UNI
| verse. Heaven Is at one end of il and
hell the other, and il you are on the way
TO hell pou have nothing to do but turn
around in the road yon are in, and you
are IN the road to heaven. What does
conversion mean? Here it IS, Con, al.
together, 'verto," to turn. | will tell
you, If you old sinners want to get to
heaven, turn around, old fellows, and
move oil. 0Iaughter.)
Temperance is the great regulating
force that runs man on dead level
| everywhere. We want that sort or
Christianity, they are reliable anywhere
and reliable any place. You can trust
| them IN the business, you can trust them
in social life, trust them i'll your family
trust them in your church, trust them
everywhere. Temperance makes me
what i ought to be, every day every.
where. Here is the point, out here at
this point where the saw mill is running,
you saw that stationary engine sitting out
on side. and just over the end of the en-
| glne are the little governors, the two
little balls, you nave seen them turning
| Well, when the saw runs into log, the
great sixty-inclr saw runs into big log,
the little governors hold down, and the
steam is pressed against the piston head,
and now | see the saw cutting Its way
right along right through the log ana
| runs out on the other side, aud the little
governors lift up and shut the steam Oft,
and the saw runs in the same revolutions
to the minute whether in the log or out.
That is what we call temperance in the
best sense.
WE FIND A JOB IN PROSPERITY,
and the first thing we know the last dol
lar was swept away from him, with his
children, and then see tho temperance
force of his life He runs right into ad-
verslty and runs right out, saying, "The
Lord gave and the Lord taketh away.
Blessed be the lame of the Lord" He
was the same solid man that he was be-
fore he went into adversely and then he
runs into moro dire aff1ictOn, until at
last we see him on an ash bank scrubblng
himself, and his wife runs up 10 him and
says: "Job, your breath Is stencil in
my nostrils, and your body is curse
great to see,' but job ran out of the
aillicton and said: God may slay me, yet
in Him will | trust. - But when Job finally
ran out of his adversely he said, 81 have re-
tanned my integrity and have not done
wrong" and when he ran all through
this, then the Lord said, 81 will bless
your latter days as never blessed your
former days" That is the sort of a man
like, good anywhere and everywhere
! and under all circumstances. What rock
will tit down on that, add to your
temperance patience. Oh, what virtue
patience is. Sister, you would be the
best wife man ever had If you just had
Il little more patience. Mother, you
would be the
BEST MOTHER IN THE WORLD
il you just had a little more patience
Husband, you would be the best husband
woman ever had II you just had little
more patience. Look here, 1 have seen
men that had patience with everybody
in town except their wives. Have you
not seen a few of that sort? Why, sir, to
ladies down town ut tho store, why, they
will smile and bow and scrape all day tC
everyone that comes in, and when he
when he went home the first thing his
wife said to him he snapped her up and
cut her heart to the very core. Ii / can
be kind To but one woman III this world
will tell you which one that will be-my
wife. may be 4 sort of u curious fellow
think a heap of my wife.
Patience, patience, patience. Every
one in this house that never spoke an i'm
patient word TO his wife stand up, | want
| Ia Snn how lnuny thpre are Zone man