The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-08-01
TEMPERANCE NOTES..
RUM AND ExTRAVAGANCE.
4 Chicago Minister'S Eloquent and Logi-
zeal Temperance Sermon.

"Thieves In Our Houses" was the
tyres recent sermons. The text was
found in St John K, 10: the thief
cometh not but for to steal and to kill
and to Destroy"
''1f man should enter yonder door,
make his way down to you and whisper
in your ear hat thief was in your
house you would lose all interest in this
sermon and hurry to your home. The
thief does not always enter to steal
money, but sometimes to steal
persons, individuals. Charley Ross,
beautiful boy was stolen
many years ago; although every
effort was made for his recovery
he was never found, and the matter to
this day remains deep mystery. The
thief who steals child is not always
human thief Sometimes the wolf, the
lion or the tiger steals into the home
and carries the little one away to the
jungles, never to be seen again. Birds
have been known to commit such thefts,
and l we'll remember the story told me
in my native country, Scotland, by my
father. A fond mother had dressed her
little boy in his prettiest, brightest
clothes, and left him playing about the
cottage door. An eagle, whose nest
was on the summit of beetling crag
in a neighboring mountain, swept down
upon that homo and carried away the
boy. The mother heard the rush of the
wings: saw the dark shadow cross the
h cbO1 Nd hn ohi1Jich
and saw the bird bear her loved one
away to the nest on the mountain top.
No human aid could reach him, and for
months his bright mantle, with its brass
buttons glistening in the sun could be
seen luttering in the wind.
81 do not mean to speak of human
thieves. The greatest of all thieves is
habit, and first of these is rum. For
authority that rum is n thief l will
quote you 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 young man who
comes into the city from country town
stands about as much chance for escape
as pigeon flying from a trap before a
circle of rnarksmen. Rum, like all
thieves, has many false names, beer, gin,
brandy, ETC., but its real name is rum.
If a man steals my brain he has brought
on me double death; it were better
for myself, better for my family, that
were dead. Rum steals one mans brains
and leaves him maniac; another it
leaves maudlin, disgrace to his chill
dren and curse to his patient wife.
cleopatra powdered precious pearls
into a cup of wine and drank the costly
draught, but the man drinks a costlier
cup who puts his brains in his glass and
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-ouarters of the
children there are from parents who
drink rum. | have been taught to hate
rum as Hannibal was taught to hate
Rome. No drop of liquor, except the
communion wine, has ever crossed my
lips. / say to you that l abhor the man
who sells liquor to the poor laboring man
more than do the leper, and L would
sooner touch the crusted lips of the lat
ter than shake hands with the former
Statistics show that throughout the
United States the average paid for every
man, woman and child for liquor is So.
There is saloon across the street from
factory in this city which has month
ly account of S. 900 against the laborers
which is settled out of the payroll. 1t
is the great gigantic curse of the Nation
ID h1at 60 i1+N haI
the money that is spent for drink
would set school-house in every plain
and a church on every hill top, and in
less than four years would have Bible in
the hands of every person on the globe.
Last of all rum steals mans good
name and he loses self-respect, he is out
of employment, his children unedu-
Gated, his family poorly provided for,
and he dies ip middle life.
"Once the devil vets his hand in
whisky to get grip on a man, he
seldom lets loose until he lands him in
hell. The whip is now changed, and
| the preacher and editor who trembled
before its strength now WELD the lash.
The lowest man is the preacher who
stands Sunday after Sunday in his pull
pit and never says one word about the
| liquor traffic.
Thieves work together. Rum and
extravaganza go hand in hand, and
many good man has been driven to
drink or to crime by the extravaganza
of his wife or himself The extrava-
gance in the city is overwhelming.
People patronize the theater who refuse
to pay their rent. Cash goes, but land
lord may whistle. l believe in adorn-
ment and think that 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 any
thing but plain dress, something that
will not make the poorest woman in the
congregation ashamed in comparison.
/ do not believe in excessive simplicity
Debt is twin brother of Satan. Prac.
tice economy in the home, and if you
want to lead fashion, let it be in ele.
waiting and assisting the needy and
your reward will be waiting your arrival
in Heaven. Chicago Globe.
A SEvEN-HoOPED CASK.