The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-08

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then come out and give us your hand,
your vote, your prayers, your SYM
pathies. Do that, and 1 will promise
three things: First, that you will
find unspcakable happiness in having
done your duty. Secondly, you will
probably save neutrality-suspicious.
your own child. Thirdly, you will
not, in your last hour. have q regret
that you made the sacrifice, if sacri-
fee it be.
AS long as you make drinking re-
spectacle, drinking customs will pre-
vail, and the plow share of death,
drawn by terrible disasters, will 60
on turning up this whole continent
from end to end with the long, deep,
awful furrow of drunkard's graves.
I call upon those who are guilty of
these indulgences to quit the path of
death. Oh! what q change it would
make in your home! Do you see
how everything there is being DESC
lated? Would you not like to bring
back Joy to your wife's heart and
have your children come out to meet
you with as much confidence as once
they showed? Would you not like
to rekindle the home lights that long
ago were extinguished? 1t is not too
late to change. It may not entirely
obIterate from your soul the memory
of wasted years and ruined reputa-
tion, nor smooth out from your anxi-
Gus brow the wrinkles which trouble
has plowed. 1t may not call back
9nkind words uttered, orrough deeds
ments you struck her! It may not
take from your memory 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 remainder of your fast-go-
ing life.
But perhaps you have not utterly
gone astray. may address one who
may not have quite made up his mind
Let your better nature speak out.
You take one side or the other in the
war against drunkenness. Have you
the courage to rdt your foot down
right, and say to your companions
and friends: II will never drink in
toxicating liquor in all my life, nor
will I countenance the habit in others. !"
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 to let in it's VIC
tins, until now the door swings no
more upon it's hinges, but, day and
night, stands wide open to let in the
agonized procession of doomed men,
Do l address one whose regular
work in life is to administer to this
appetite! For Gods sake get out
of that business! If a woe he pro-
nounced upon the man who gives his
neighbor drink, how many woes must
be hanging over the man who does
this every day and every hour of the
day!
Do not think that becaus human
government may license you that
therefore God licenses you. I am
surprised to hear you men say that
they respect the Original package"
decision, by which the supreme court
of the United States allows rum to be
taken into States like Kansas, which
have decided against the sale of in
toxicants. l have no respect for a
wrong decision. care not who makes
it. The three Judges of the supreme
court who gave minority reports
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 demonstrat-
ed, the supreme court notwithstand-
ing. 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 your
self the number of drinks you have
poured out. You keep a list; but a
more accurate list has been kept than
yours. You may call it Burgundy,
Bourbon, Cognac, Heidsieck, sour
mash, or beer God calls it strong
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counter of a first class hotel, the di-
vine curse is upon you. I tell you
plainly that you will meet customers
one day when there will be no coun-
ter 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 will
show you their wounds and say,
"You made them" and point to their
unquenchable thirst and say, "You
kindled it," and rattle their chain
and say, "You forgedit." 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 giveth hisneighbor drinkl'