The Newtown bee., 1889-08-30
souls in darkness and heap up sins against the day of judgment.

fool, ' (Jer. XVII, ID Think of how the blood, the nakedness, the want, the groans, the tears and the walls of women and children cry unto God for vengeance against all those that give their neighbor drink and make him drunken. Now | when the visitation of woe cometh, then | it will be that the cup of the Lords right | hand shall be turned unto them and they | shall drink ''the cup of the wine of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God" (Rev. XVI, 19.) Men may veil their foul deeds under fair words and plausible sentiments, but God by His word and judgments will unveil all their foulness and cause them to partake of their own evil doings, as it is written, ssFor i'll the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red, it is full of mix ture, and He poureth out of the same, but the dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wiring them out and drink them" (Psalms I.XNVlIi, S.) Thus the shame and woe that they put upon others shall be doubled upon themselves. Therefore it is woe, woe, woe, woe, a fourfold woe to them that give their neighbor drink and that put their bottle to his mouth to make him drunken.
 It must be clear and evident that it is a fearful crime in the sight of God, q crime
 which shall be followed with the sorest judgments. No honest man can hesitate for d moment to decide that, according
 to Gods word, it is great sin, a sin on
 which God has denounced a special wee,
 to give your neighbor drink, to put your bottle to him and make him drunken. The cup of fury, the cup of trembling, l the cup of the Lords right hand shall be 1 turned unto him that docth this and he
 shall drink thereof.
 | III. We come now to the third point
 of inquiry. Who are the guilty parties
 to this terrible sin and crime against God
 and man by giving their neighbor drink,
 making him drunken that they may look
 upon his nakedness?
 First, We should name all liquor mak-
 CTS and sellers, saloon keepers, etc., who
 make and sell intoxicants as beverages,
 that they may make gain thereby. All
 these are most grievously and criminally
 guilty of this most atrocious crime
 against God and man and they shall be
 visited with the fiercest wrath of an holy God.
 For it is part of their business to defy God. to trample under their feet the
 highest rights and the nobler principles of their fellow men. It is the very acme of their business to enslave men to the
 baser and lower passions of their carnal
 natures, thus roDbing them of manhood,
 of virtue and of life, that they may en-
 rich themselves. Therefore, through
 their business, they become murderers in
 the fullest sensr, killing first the moral
 and spiritual man and then the body The man is as fully murderer when he administers 100 or 800 doses of strych.
 nine to kill his victim, as when he gives
 one efficient dose. He is the murderer
 all the same, whether the man willingly
 takes the poison or when it is given SC eretly. Now there can be no question
 but that all makers and vendors of alec
 holic liquors for beverages are account
 able to God for this most terrible sin O
 giving their ncighbor drink, making hin r drunken, yea, of killing him by slow poison as much as if they gave him smal doses of arsenic. And some 10000 ar, annually thus killed in these United : States.
 , Now we may associate with these il ttI, I,..,. .II T - them in their wicked business. This vii : embrace all who loan them money, ren } property for their use, become bondsmel for them to aid in carrying on their busi : ness, or when arrested for violations o r the law, or signing their petitions for : license, all such become virtually in tn |. sight of God partners in their crime s wishing them a good speed in their wor - of defying God, robbing men, women an
 children of their homes, and in slaugI e tering their victims These silent partner 2 shall not escape the judgments of Goo l. who saith, "Whoso is partner with a thie 0 hateth his own soul, he heareth cursin I and bewrayeth it not, : Prov. xxx, 24 r Again, when the State licenses tn
 
 Il liquor traffic, it becomes positive par ;. ner in the wicked business. The tru I meaning of this license is, your bushes ], is bad, evil and only evil continual f and needs control; therefore let me, tn o State, have certain share of the prt 2 ceeds and I will give you permission t e go on with your work of killing the sou s and bodies of men and I will also protet r you in your crime of giving your neigl r. Dor drink. The very fact of giving 2 license declares that the State may giy c or withhold it's permission to the wicke Y traffic. So that license is in truth f permission, protection, nothing nor,
 nothing less, sugar coat the pill as muc ,, as you please.
 II For, if there were no license, a con | munity might become so incensed agains e the saloon as to rise and bring action LII f. der the common law, as q nuisance an d drive it away. but, with his license, u Il saloon keeper may defy any communit Ie Again, as liquor selling is at presel h conducted, it is grievous crime again ,e God and man and no license, high or To, n can make it right. It is no less sin It give your neighbor drink, to make hi d drunken, when you pay $10,0o0 for u r. privilege, than when you pay $50. lg either case, the State is partner in tl
 crime, and chiefly guilty before God, ] D cause, without it's consent, the oth SC could not commit the crime. Mark wh le God saith. Among my people are foul as wicked men, they watch, as fowlers