Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01
r%ITRAvAGANCE OF RUN
nooNIsT CONSIDERED
WORSE THAN 4 LEPER.

WORSE THAN a LEPER.
,a,.rt Mcintyre, of Chicago, Makes
FeN..., Temperance Sermon-Some
Given About How to Dress for
church,
From the Chicago Globe.l
Thieves in Our Houses" was the sub
Of Rev. Robert McIntyre's SER
le,r in Grace Church. The text was
MOI in St. John K, 10, The thief CON-
founu mt for to steal and to kill and to
destroy. o,,,d .,+ar ro,dor a...
- h;s way down to you, and whisper
mani EAR that q thief was in your
III Wv 1ou would lose all interest in this
nous son and hurry to your home. The
setn nf does not always enter to steal
tnls aav but sometimes to steal persons,
mo ngldi Charley Ross, q beautiful
,lu r was stolen many years ago; although
BOY, abort was made for his recovery he
eSei, aver found, and the matter to this
was rsmains q deep mystery. The thief
aa !, steals a child is not always o human
Nno Sometimes the wolf. the lion, or the
. .iaer steals into the home and carries the
HE one away to the jungles, neve to be
lasn again. Birds have been known to
se such thefts, and I we'll remember
w. story told me in my native country,
scotland, by my father. A fond mother
had dressed her little boy in his prettiest,
hriohtest clothes, and left him playing
obont the cottage door. An eagle, whose
mast was on the summit of a beetling
arso in a n%eighboring mountain, swept
.hs nov. The mother heard the rush Of
.ho wings. saw the dark shadow cross the
.hrashold. heard the childish scream, and
saw tne bird bear her loved one away to
the nest on the mountain top. No human
ia could reach him, and for months his
hight mantle. with its brass buttons
listening in the sun, could be seen hut-
ftering in the wind.
u do not mean to speak of human
tbieyes. The greatest of all thieves is
balit, and first of these is rum. For
authority that run is q thief I will quote
rou Shakespeare, who said: Is it not
strange that man shall put an enemy in
his mouth to steal his brain?' Next to
the soul in importance is the brain. In
this day q young man who comes into
the city from q country town stands about
as much chance for escape, as q pigeon
fving from a trap before a circle of
narSsmen. Rum, like all thieves, has
many false names. beer, gin, brandy, etc.,
but its real name is rum. If o man steals
NY brain, he has brought on me a double
death; it were better for myself, better
for my family, that I were dead. Rum
steals one mans brains and leaves him q
grace to his children and o curse to his
patient wife.
Cleopatra powdered priceless pearls
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dyaught, but the man drinks a costlier
drinks it. A costlier cup is the one
which throws away the minds of his
children, and the home for the feeble
minded shows that three-quarters of the
children there are from parents who
drink rum. I have been taught to hate
lum as Hannibal was taught to hate
Rome. No drop of liquor, except the
communion wine, has ever crossed my
lips. I say to you that I abhor the man
who sells liquor to the poor laboring man
more than I do the leper, and 1 would
sooner touch the crusted lips of the latter
than shake hands with the former. Sta
tstics show that throughout the United
States the average paid for every man,
woman, and child for liquor is SO. There
is a saloon across the street from n fac
tory in this city which has a monthly ac-
count Of $4,000 against the laborers
which is settled out Of the payroll. 1t
is the great gigantic curse of the nation
the money that is spent Tor drink I would
set a school house in every plain and a
church on every hilltop, and in less than
four years would have a Bible in the
hands of every person on the globe. Last
of all, rum steals a mans good name and
he loses self-respect, he is out Of en-
ployment, his children uneducated, his
family poorly provided for, md he dies
in middle life.
Once the devil vets his hand in whisky
to get a grip on q man, he seldom lets
loose until he lands him in hell. The
whip is now charged, and the preacher
and editor who trembled before it's
strength, now WELD the lash. The low
est man is the preacher who stands Sun
day after Sunday in his pulpit and never
says one word about the liquor traffic.
Thieves work together. Rum and ex-
travagance go hand in hand, and many a
good man has been driven to drink or to
crime by the extravaganza of his wife or
himself. The extravaganza in the city is
overwhelming. People patroniZe the
theater who refuse to pay their rent.
Cash goes, but landlord may whistle. l
believe in adornment and think that a
man should look his best and a woman
her loveliest, but do not go beyond the
means. You do wrong when you wear
to church anything but plain dress,
something that will not make the poor
est woman in the congregation ashamed
IN comparison. I do not believe in OK
,eesslve simplicity. Debt is a twin
brother of Satan. Practice economy in
Inc home, aud if you want to lead a fash
ion, let it be in %elevating and assisting
me needy, and your reward will be watt
ing Your arrival in heaven"
THE TIDE HAS TURNED.