The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-24

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Ge5T cslFzBse. perfectly ~reaed@ble, sin
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fore you, with tie solemn agony not yes
faded from Lis noble features, tie figure 81
him
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~tryraza. that s'ths accused vbcc has
changed INTO 2sg1sz the laurel crown around
TIE lead of genins and-the wings Of the
poet nsorchsd in Ia heli-hre fanaez-hs
who ore Played ia the light Of sunbe4ms
bzs crzxlei bzs4ly ia the DIST Do yo1
not sse IN Jour Own Streets the drzmshops
there moet ~ab0anding nhe-e the maximum
Of poverty leaves men With tie minimum
of force 70 resist temptation Have you
not marked ia rzy4ges IN fzlien eornpan-
ioas, Ia depps@a ministers. in fair lives
bligbted as By z f1rys breath? Have you
not. heard u mothers carsad By their sons
because ofit2 Of husbands and wives beat
ing e2eh osfer 70 death because Of liz Of
parents sinking into tue grave broken
hearted because Of il OF eTery sznctitF Of
life rnade. because Of it, bankrupt Of bless-
ing and prolific Of bitterness9 Our jails
choked to the door By drink; our asyiums
crowded By drink with the maniac and the
idiot; cur churches enptied; our schools
defeated; cur missions rendered frnisless;
cur people made poor, diseased, brutal,
reckless. wicked, by this inexcus&ble scan
dal. this horgible source Of degradation and
pauperisnn. Is all this nothing? is it
nothing TO yes, al ye that pass by" Tn
les yon haze purposely closed your eyes.
you know these things; and If yea know
them, ara you q man? are you , Christian?
hare you a heart? have you any human
pity? have you n spark Of nobleness left
in you, If you can look On them with in
different @cquiescenee9 And If you are not
Indifferent. what can you do? Be tenn
peratc. Ny brethren, / should not think
that worth saying 70 you; should not have
been asked to como four hundred miles to
tell you that. In this particular struggle,
temperance IS worth nothing. Temperate.
Of course you are temperate, if you be
even gentlemen. No Christian, | hope,
would feel a spark Of pride in saying that
he did not know what intoxication was.
It is no matter Of pride for a man to be
able to say that he has not, by greedy
drinking. reduced himself TO bestial degra-
dation. MOI / colne to ask you for m
thing much more. come to plead with
you for a perfect, a certain, a final remedy.
come to ask you TO take stronger part in
that struggle, which even the calm, wise
voice Of Richard Golden told us years ago
lies at the basis of all moral aud social re-
form.-CanoH Farrar.