The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-03-27
w. CT. u. DEPARTMENT.
For God and Home and Natire Land.

Quite furry was created in Gov
ernment official circles by report,
said to have been started by a mission
airy society, that we were exporting
great quantities of liquor to the Congo
Valley. 1t is creditable to the officials
that they were agitated by the report,
and prompted to make investigation.
The report was found to be untrue, as
respects the Congo, but it was found
that six hundred thousand gallons of
alcoholic liquors were sent into Africa
somewhere. The Chief Statistician,
however, who furnished the informa-
ton, explained that all this alcohol
was but small part of what is needed
over there for medicinal purposes. The
poor whiskyless natives have to de-
pend upon Europe for the balance of
the millions of gallons necessary for
their health. There are not many 50
unsophisticated as to swallow the chief
statistician's explanation unless they
are accustomed to swallow great deal
themselves of this sort of medicine
Christian Standard.
1 was spending the winter of 1874
at fashionable boarding house on
Madison Avenue, New York. The
newspapers teemed with accounts of
the strange and unheard of proceed
ings OF the women of Ohio. I can well
remember the sneers and derision that
were heaped upon them by fashion
able associates. ut was borne in up
on me-" however, that strange and in
sane as the action of those women ap-
peared, viewed from worldly stand
point, the work was of God, and my
impression was, if l were near them 1
would join their ranks. I had been
educated with the idea that little
wine was good for the stomach; my
observation, however, disapproved of
this. saw plainly that strong drink
was the curse of the world, but sup
posed it was an evil that had to be en-
dured. This strange uprising of god
ly women seemed to me the way out.
| read eagerly every word of their pro-
ceedings. The last of March saw me
in Chicago-the work had just COM
menced here. attended the meetings,
and was made vice-president of a uni
on which was started in my own church.
Three months later, the life was crush
ed out of my youngest darling, boy,
almost eight years old, by beer
soaked German running over him with
a wagon; from that hour my life was
dedicated anew to the overthrow of
the liquor traffic. No other call has
been able to win me from my allegi-
ance. The motive power within has
been This one thing I do"
MATILDA B. CARsE.
The hardest blows the temperance
reformation has had in this century
have been in the fact that some re-
formers have halted under the delu-
sion of this high license movement.
You know what it is. 1t is the white
flag of truce sent out from alcoholism
to prohibition to make the battle pause
long enough to get the army of decan-
tiers and demijohns better organized.
Away with that flag of truce or I will
fire on it. Between these two armies
there can be no truce. On the one side
is God and sobriety and the best inter
ests of the world, and on the other
side is the sworn enemy of all right
eousness, and either rum must be de-
featedo the church of God and civ
ilization.-DeWitt Talmage. .,
In this. the DAY Of great demand, u
Shall men before the error stand
With lips as dumb as the lips Of death7
In the hour of nations utmost pain
DO they wait the reckoning hand Of gain?
For paltry profit or petty fear
Do they turn from the path to the Cons cience
clear?
All they may not. dare not, hold their breath
Who on the conflict shuts his sivht, 80
Though his hands be folded and weaponless
Shall in Gods judgment. nevertheless.
Be bound in guilt for the murdered Right.
Union Signal.