Smyrna times., 1889-12-18
Temperance Service at the Presbyte
rian Church.

As announced in our last issue, Rev.
w. G. Handy preached a temperance
discourse at the Presbyterian church
on Sunday evening. Members of the
Good Templars and the w. CT. U. were
present, and a good audience other
wise. His theme was, mo Drunkard
shall enter the kingdom of Heaven"
| In calculating his subject he said the
moral law implies we should be tenn
perate in all things, but since the
Washingtonan temperance reform
movement, it applies to the restricting
of the use and abuse of intoxicating
liquors. The habitual drunkard COM
mits not only crime, but is afflicted
with physical disease more deadly
than contagious fever, more virulent
than small pOx.
The drunken man breaks at least
four of the ten commandments-the
Fourth Commandment, Sabbath break
ing: the Sixth Commandment, muir
der; the Seventh Commandment, adul-
terry; the Eighth Commandment,
theft. All the different ways and
modes of treating this evil, are more or
less good at times and under certain
circumstances. Moral suasion is good
, in the early stages of this fearful dis
ease, but when the malady has reach
ed that stage of vice and fearful wick
edness, then the state authority with
I its severe laws has an absolute prerog-
atiye to assert its rights and not only
prevent crime, but also to punish the
| criminals-the drunkard as we'll as the
= seller of Intoxicating liquors.
y The punishment from a civil stand
), point should fall upon the drinker
: equally with the one who sells to the
= drunkard, and from a moral view it il
= clear from our text, mo drunkarC
. shall inherit the kingdom Of God
Therefore he is being prepared fo
eternal destruction, and ''wOe to tn
= one who causes his brother to fall.
- Again, there is not civilized natiOi
10 but what regulates the sale more o
N less of all poisonous drugs and liquor
- either from license to total prOhibi
- - ton. And can we not as q State o
= ~ q Nation provide for the best interest
y OF our own body polite and save on
/ young men to our Nation, that the
- =. may be blessing to pOsterity?
- All good citizens must answer in th
40 affirmative again, most medical al
-. thority of the present age, admits h'
er bitual drunkenness to be a wonder
- fully fatal disease, and must be treate
" as such by removing the cause. an
" then by keeping the individual ava
= from the contagion. One drink eve
80 after an apparent cure renews the ol
sn condition, brings back the lost desir
and the latent appetite springs into !
full virulence to overwhelm the will
the beloved son, brother or husban
lot and he loses the heavenly way, an
Al the clouds of darkness gather arour
,OO him and he may sink into untold W.
ct forever.
NO The minister stated that he believe
nj there was no cure for the drink hal
ors but total abstinence. The climate
ro North America is alarmingly fatal
rk relation to those who drink intoxica
,he ing liquors. behold the sudden deaf
~ and suicides mostly traced TO drum
18th enness.
sed America has the most poisonous al
a vile liquors Of any in the world. Why
vii Because the brewers are after n
money that is in il, and the adulter
me tion is alarming. Hardly gallon
,. pure liquor is sold,