Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-08-07

what a change it would make in your home
Do you see how everything there is being
desolated? Would you not like to bring
back Joy to your wifes heart, and have youI
children come out TO meet you with as much
confidence as once they showeds Would yot
not like TO rekindle the home lights that ione
ago were extinguished? 1t is not too late 70
change. 1t may not entirely obliterate from
your soul the memory of wasted years and 8
ruined reputation, nor smooth out from your
anxious brow the wrinkles which trouble has
plowed. It may not call back unkind words
uttered or rough deeds done; for perhaps IN
those awful moments you struck herl II
may not take from your memery the bitter
thoughts connected with some little grave
But it is not too late to save yourself, and
secure for God and your family the re-
mainder of your fast going life.
But perhaps you have not utterly gone
astray. l may address one who may not
have quite made up-his mind. Let your bet
ter nature speak out. You take one side or
the other in the war against drunkenness.
Have you the courage to put your foot
downright, and say to your companions and
friends, II will never drink intoxicating
liquor in all my life, nor will l countenance
the habit in othersr Have nothing TO do
with strong drink. It has turned the earth
into place of skulls, and has stood opening
the gate to lost world 70 let in its vitims,
until now the door swings no more upon its
hinges but day and night stands wide open
TO let in the agonized procession Of doomed
men.
Do / address one whose regular work in
life is to administer to this Appetizer For
Gods sake get out of that businessl If a woe
neighbor drink, how many woes must be
hanging over the man who does this every
day and every hour of the dayi
Do not think that because human govern
ment may license you that therefore God
licenses you. ] am surprised to hear you
men say that they respect the Original
package" decision by which the SUI
preme Court Of the United States allows
rum to be taken into States like Kansas,
which have decided against the sale of intoxi-
cants. have no respect for wrong deci-
sion. care not who makes it. The three
judges Of the Supreme Court who gave min
GRITTY report against that decision were right
and the chief justice was wrong. The right
OF State to defend itself against the rum
traffic will yet be demonstrated, the supreme
court Notwithstanding. Higher than the
judicial bench at Washington is the throne Of
the Lord God Almighty. No enactment,
national. State or municipal, can give you
the right to carry on business whose one
effect Is destruction.
God knows better than you do yourself
the number of drinks you have poured out.
You keep list, but more accurate list has
been kept than yours. You may call it
Burgundy, bourbon, cognae, Heidsieck,
sour mash, or beer God calls it strong
drink Whether you sell it in low oyster
cellar or behind the polished counter of a
first-class hotel, the divine curse is upon
you. tell you plainly that YOU will meet
your customers one day when there viii be
no counter between you. When your work
is done on earth, and you enter the reward
Of your business, all the souls OF the men
whom you have destroyed will crowd
around you and pour their bitterness into
your cup. They viii show you their wounds
and say, "You made them" and point 10
their unquenchable thirst and say, you
klndled it and rattle their chain and say,
''You forged it," Then their united groans
will smite your ear, and with the hands out
Of which you once picked the sixpences and
the dimes, they will push you Off the verge
Of great precipices, while rolling up from
beneath and breaking among the crags OF
death will thunder, "Woe to him that Civ.
9TH his neighbor drink