The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-03
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such things rashly? And if you will not
listen 10 the reiterated warnings of the
Judges in their ermine, will you listen TO
tie noble-hearted missionaries " 10 veil us
what drink costs TO the glory Of England
IN the execratiou of her name over whole
continents. and the ruin Of her efforts among
whole populations9 Could | summon the
Maories OF New Zealand, once so healthy
that you might smite a man with a bread
axe and in a few days he would be well,
nov. in the language of a high govern
ment official. almost as bad as the English,
polluted and contaminated by their drink"
what would they say? If Icould summon
the Indians of North America, once not
unhappy. now degraded, maddened. exter-
minated by our accursed hre-wateT, what
would they say2 They have said that BE-
e2use OF It they spit al the name of Christ
ian. Ii we ask tic MohAmmed2nS, What
do they say Is there a Christian in
England with conscience 50 dead.
with heart so rough. with check 50
brazsn. Is BOT 10 blush when he hears
thar. II they see one of their number
drunk they haze been heard TO say, HE
has left Mzhonaet and gone to Jesns- III
We ask the HindccS, what do they say?
They have said By the lips oftheir eloquent
representative. Keshub Chunder Sen. that
all the splendid benefits Of cur English rule
in India have been nuilifed and counter
balanced By our teaching them use Of beer
and brandy; thai tie wailiHg al widows
Fends the air Of India with curses against
the British Government foz having intro
/ duced this thing. And again, from the
Southern Sea. the voice OF yet another
missionary says % as: IF you love mis-
sions. work. help-Eelp t dethrone this
demon Of -lntemperabce. Cur reproof before
the heathen, the blight Of our infant
churches AID oh. sirs, when you hear
| such things. are Re not-Ee, the sons of
free, proud, glorious E~ngIand-are we NOT,
20 our burning iufamy. what one has called
us. tie drunken Heliots of the world?
So much. then. for money and disease
and crime and colonization; and what does
drink cost in human misery Have you
hearts? If you have, l might say:
asft you down.
And / viii wiring your hear. for 20 / shall
If Ice made Of peHetr4ble stnh:
II damned eastom hath not brazed il 81,
| That IL is proof and buIwark against sense.
But all! | have no tongue to utter, no
Imagination to conceive. sno calculus 70
measure the immensely of this national
curse, this national calamity. It would re-
euire the vision OF the Angels of Record, if
they can gaze on it with eyes nublinded by
such tears as angels weep, to tell of those
miseries of millions for centuries; sto pass
as it we're from chamber to chamber OF the
prophets vision of abomination. and to
mark the crime in every form, the vice in
every shape, the disease in every aspect
that can make disease horrible" that has
been caused by the corrupted fruit of this
Tree of the knowledge of Evil. He alone
whose ears are open to the lions roar and
the ravens cry, can catch the numberless
accents OF that wall Of incurable anguish
and uncomfortable despair which has
/ Stltoiitu ApH AUS u SCltI dlfpils, lill tiit
vault of heaven has become zone vast
whispering gallery to prolOng and reyer-
beratc the groans Of those who have slain
their own peace by this voluntary en-
poisonmcnt." He alone by whom the
hairs Of our head are all numbered, can
count the widows who are widows because
of drink; the madmen Blo are mad because
Of it; the gray heads that it has made gray;
the sad hearts that it has crushed y it'll sad
ness; the ruined families that it has ruin
ed; the brilliant minds which it has quench-
ed; the unfolding promise which it has
~eankered: the bright and happy boys and
girls whom it has blasted into shame and
misery; the young and the gifted whom it
has hurried along into d%ishonored and
nameless graves.
ITS COST Is MISERY.
Is it not Shakespeare himself Who says
by the mouth Of his disgraced and ruined
Cassie, 20 thon invisible spirit Of wine. if
thou hast no name 10 b. known BIZ, let us
call thee Devil What dcas drink cost In
human misery? All low Gan I tell your
Can / count the leayes II the forest or the
sands upon the shorsg Ard sae D9ahsis u
this misery are Ike The CHING ofshe Gapea
Of IHEaitable @fsrssss, ard aae psasafsg ~
tie shores Of ahEzshoaa&o@e ae fe zlgae
whose ar ever oDep 70 f@e cry u 81 pDos
ard Destitute eaA hear tae mag u sa4s
ralslsa6e u nsserab5e. nsss2bs nea1
wao, raSIag q despair to sbe asaak wiki
ste.f hasaaasgs have s49gs sae@. ~ d@-
grad1gIg eaatens xaa lie stzry1ag aqsaIos
With theg cali t@f aam@-eza heas tAs
poor wretch via &z* gz1sly fsssope6 kss
dran<es tgsaEt ~ he fGbSAzsse gs1zA
10 sgoaea u eatrsasgs 'foaae baaoe, eosss
Aame, oF seq her aatea5ag asd szltlsg in
th&. foal HsDekey II hDnae, fI me sDs
rolls back a. rgidnIgf.ss aad with biebrziss
all Oh FIRE with th&s yisf1ol mgdne@. If4
against her unprotected womank0>i hls
~couaFdiy and brutal hand, ''fli TIE AIthy
by-lane rings 10 The yell n the trampled
wifc"-ab. can not 60 Oh, and you-yOn
can not bear - hear Of these thing; yet
these things are. and w0rse-if there be