The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-12-25

No, brother, the saloon is entrenched
in politics; and if we. its natural enc.
mics, pursu, it only thus far, it will
but take new lease Of life ind
throttle this nation at last. Years
ago the people learned that this is an
evil that calls for legislative suppress
si,n. LIS extinction . its absolute out.
lawry and extinction--as thoroughly
us other crimes are outlawed and ex-
tinguished, is the ultimate goal of de-
sire and purpose. And TO say that
the pulpit, whose mission is to lead,
shall not even Join in the effort, is to
emasculats and belittle the pulpit,
which, of God, is the freest and brav,
est thing on earth Out on such SER
yitude and bondage-a man unman-
ned by the gosplel Imagine Sam.
ael, or an Elijah, or Nathan, or q
Jeremiah, or Daniel, or a John the
Baptist or Paul, silenced bs the cry
of"hsnds off, it is a political ques.
ton" The truth is. these servants
of God only asked. What Is right! or
WHAT'S wrong? This settled, and duty
was plain. and existing evils were
handled heroically. The demands Of
the pew upon them may have been
helpful factors in determining what
they should preach. hut they were
helpful aud Determining onl, 10 ,Asy
led them to cleanr views of what is
right or wrong. To listen to the peo~
pies voice may be 10 listen, to meu, or
1t may be to listen to the voice of God.
Ill neither to be accepted nor spurned
1t may cry" Hosanna" to,dsy, and
Cruelty hlm" Tomorrow.
Nv. 49,
Prohibition must have place in
the pulpit because otherwise it dis.
The temperance movement. so far as
we have Temperance movement. is
largely the child ofthe pulpit. Rather
slow We may have been, and yet per-
haps We may justly assumed that
through Its agency mainly has the
cause been brought thus far on its
way. To abandon it now is to leave
1t 10 the tender mercies of mere agita-
tors who will strand it instead of car.
rying 1t on to power. Already is the
abandonment or hesitancy on the part
OF its proper champions revealing it,
self In repeated defeats. And unless
there be q speedy and determined
railylng Of these its natural friends,
it goes TO the wall. To preach tenn
perance merely to-day, without the
added or clearly understood plea for
prohibition, is but little better than to
have gone over to the enemy alto.
gether, 1t is battling the train ere it
reaches It's destination. Ii i we'll nigh
/ like calling "ffthe conductor, engineer
aud braAemen at mid-siativn and
t.aring up the rails beyond. is u
strike among high officials ON the tenn.
perance tram. In the Id, as the It.
suit, We may get down to better stead,
Ter AMI more reliable work; but IL
vii. bring no glory to the pulpit for
these, to whom this work is naturally
and diviuely committed, and to whom
1t has been q sorrowful burden fol
weary years, pause just now because
III its onward way, it har struck int
the currents Of political lightning, /.
TO betray an inequality TO the occasion
too hurnilisting to be borne without
protest, too ealamitous to be foreseer
without warning.
| Such, my brethren, are nv conyic,
lions. / could not be true TO mysel
and not give them expression. Gaea
was the shock when, some months ago
the news Of the Johnstown di.aste
flew along the wires. How genera
and generous the Sympathy aud aid
But month by month occurs a wors
slaughtes at the hands of the Ameri
can saloon. and the news does no
thrill along the wires awaking sue
response, but IN the broken heart
only, and the desoIated homes an,
ruined lives and lost eternities of il
, countless yictime. A pulpit unauthol
ized cfGod 10 speak for the prohibi
ton OF such q traffic? Kind Heauer
, save our holy Christianity frum sue
disgrace!
Il MRS. w. II. ROGERS,