The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-09-27

And tie good wife sat and pondcred,
THAT e'er such things should bep
Temperance Banner.
THE MENACE OF ALCOHOL.
Tho Rev. Melancthon Woolsey Stryker nd
tireSsed n very earnest sermon to the congre-
cation of tho Fourth Presbyterian Church
upon the Menace of Alcoholic His text was:
"He that hath no sword, let him sell his cloak
and buy one"
The time had come, the minister said, for.
all good men to take sides upon this deadly
evil of the nge. He that had no sword should
sell his cloak and buy one. The day was pass
ing away for vice to buy responsibility by
joining the church. The church was begin
ning to see who it was that wanted the lights
extinguished upon tho awful reefs Of intem-
perance. -. ..' - s
''This is the day." cried the preacher, ''for
every man who is manly, every man who is
righteous, to take his stand against this vice.
Wemay be sure the fight is on, and the
church must clear itself; Society is soaked
to the lips in this thing. The rivers of sorrow
nre flowing by our very doors. The morals OF
our people arc being twisted and the hideous
thing is coming tofbe regarded as of Gods
ordination. We have builded our palace Of
prosperity above an open sewer, and the
fumes rise and permeate every apartment.
We have become seduced by desire for gain.
and we must cleanse our spirits, and let every
man who hath not sword sell his cloak and
buy one.
that is rousing to a sense of the wickedness of
this thing and enforcing the laws that already
exist. l simple say tonight that while the
church has nothing to do with politics OF par
speak out against this evil which strikes at
life. How long can nation exist half-drunki
Oh, IL the conscience of this city were only
reused, wo would not find it hard to find
has its hand ut the very throat Of executive
and the legislative power. The truth Is that
the men are elected to protect and defend this
Tf Who ped p t6er banas
ened by an aroused public conscience. am
thankful to God that some CT the great tnewc.
papers of this city are trying to do what Is
right about this matter. Chicago Ne,cs.
TOTAL ABSTINENCE IN NORWAY.
A letter from Norway TO the New York
Voice says: am an interested reader Of the
Voice, which is known to us here as the chief
America, end venture to send to your read
ers a few words of information about the
movement in Norway.
This country has about 95, 900 teetotalers,
according to the estimates made at our last
general conference held at Skien in July of
this year. I do not know how many adher
ents of total abstinence there are In the
United States, but have heard that some two
or three millions are claimed. Certainly, how
ever, Norway stands very near tho frontrank,
abstinence nation when relative population
statistics are considered. In Sweden there
are GO, 900 and in Denmark 80. 600 teetotalers.
OF the 85, 600 Norwegian total abstainers
women and 5000 nre minors. Many influences
have combined to advance the cause. First
must be mentioned the deep Righteousness Of
our people Then the evils of the drink traffic
are seen in the concrete In Norway; great
numbers Of the inhabitants of this country
are engaged in fishing or follow seafaring
lives, and the results of liquor-drinking are
necessarily very clear in a nation OF which
this can be said: Tho farmers also learn to
hate drink from the object-lessons set before
ance leaders and the general sympathy felt
for their work have contributed powerfully to
the production Of good results.
CURIOUS INCIDENT.
a curious incident is related by Mrs. Mary
E. Griffith, in Womun's Home Missions.
Last October several Osages OF Indian Ter
ritory bought and drank a quantity of
whisky and straightway proceeded to CONF
twenty-four hours from the effect of the
poisonous beverage. One of the latter was
Little Bear, a prominent chief. His body
was bolstered with several others in the top
of a high and rocky bluff, and enclosed by u
played above. Whether this flag was un-
furled as kind Of grim joke upon Uncle
Sam to remind all visitors of bis relation to
the great drink tragedy, or whether 1t meant
to suggest that true patriotism may at last
conquer cupidity, remainsa a mystery. ~
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Melbourne, Australia is to have a temper
nnce hospital
The man who is always in his cups is sure
to bring up in the jug sooner or later.
Baltimore has $500 saloons and $50 churches
nn1 Hftaan SaInnnS fpra ach mn blic crbnpI
Cardinal Manning has writton letter
warmly approving the Irish Sunday-closing
bill
Lady Guinness, the wife of the we'll
known brewer, has given an order Tor q
diamond necklace to cost s125, 900!
In Switzerland seventy per cent. of tho
young men are said to be untitled, by the use
of alcohol and tobacco for military service.
Thomas Carey, of Columbus. Ind, took
home keg Of beer, and made brutal Mt
tack upon his mother, seriously injuring her
and destroying the sight of one of her eyes
Frank Leslie's Magazine says that rum In
the United States makes more than 1900
funerals of inebriates every day, and that
the people have to help to pay for the collins
and grave-digyers. 3
A prominent physician states that ont Of
623 moderate and immoderate drinkers with
whom he has conversed, 16i acquired the de-
sire for wine and other alcoholic poisons by
their use in articles of diet.
DR. BoUGHARDA IL of the opinion that the
slight mental exaltation consequent upon
drinking single glass Of champagne, is usu-
ally accompanied by corresponding "obfus-
cation" ''The mind scars, but 1t scars into
clouds"
Bechuanaland, country I'm South Africa,
lying to the north of Cape Colony, has no
distiiIeries or public houses end consequently
no drunkenness. Khama, the chief, has Off
cially forbidden the traders to sell or give
strong drink to his people.
A judge in Chicago court Is reported as
saying: 'Of all the boys in the reform school
at Pontiac and in the various reformatories
children of parents who died through drink
or became criminals through the Same
cause"