Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-03-21

he church of Ephesus, church Of Thyatlra,
church Of Sardis. The Protestant and Ro-
nan Catholic churches to-day stand side by
side. with an impotent look, gazing on this
evil. which costs this country more than a
Dillon dollars a year to take care Of the 800
600 paupers. and the 31s,00 criminals. and
The 80, 600 idiots, and to bury the s5.OU
drunkards. Protagoras boasted that out of
the sixty years OF his life forty years he had
spent in running youth: but this EVIL may
make the more Infamous boast that all Its
life it has been running the bodies, minds and
souls Of the human race.
Put on your spectacles and take a candle
md examine the platforms OF the two lead
'ng political parties Of this country. and see
what they are doing for the arrest Of this
evil and for the overthrow OF this abomina-
.ion. Res~olutions-oh. YES. resolutions about
Mormonism' 1t is safe to attack that or
canized nastiness two thousand miles away.
But not one resolution against drunkenness,
which would turn this entire nation into one
bestial Salt Lake City. RESOLUTIONS against
political corruption, but not one word about
drunkenness. which would rot this nation
from scalp 10 heel. Resolutions about pro-
lection against competition with foreign H.
dustries, but not one word about protection
of family and church and nation against the
scalding, blasting. all consuming, damnlng
tariff Of strong drink put upon every finan-
10is III AAA
interest.
Hook in another direction. The Church Of
Goo is the grandest aud most glorious lnstltu-
ton on earth. What has it i'll solid phalanx
accomplished for the overthrow Of drunken
lesss Have its forces ever been marshalei.
No, not in this direction. Not long ago a
great ecclesiastical court assembled in New
York, and resolutions arraigning strong
rink were offered, and ~clergymen with
%.~~- 1r,~I ~, $hoir foh1oc anA cfrnnn
drink in their cellars defeated the resofu-
lions by threatening speeches. They could
not bear to give up their own lusts.'
l tell this audience What many Of you may
never have thought Of, that to-day-not in
The millennium, but to-day--the church
holds the balance of power in America; and
if Christian people-the men and the women
who profess to love the Lord Jesus Christ
and to love purity and to be the sworn enc
mics of all u~ncleanness and debauchery and
sniff all such would march side
by side and shoulder to shoulder
this evil would soon be overthrown.
Think of three hundred thou
sand churches and Sunday-schools in Chris
tendon marching shoulder to shoulder! How
very short a time it would take them to put
down this evil, if all the churches of God,
transatlantic and cisatlantic, were armed on
/ this subject?
Young men of America pass over into
the army of teetotalism. Whisky, good to
preserve corpses, ought never to turn you
into a corpse. Tens of thousands of young
men have been dragged out of repectability
and out of purity, and out of good char
acter, and into darkness by this Internal stuff
called strong drink. Do not touch it! Do
not touch it!
In the front door OF our church In Brook
Ign, a few summers ago, this scene occurred:
Sabbath morning a young man was entering
for divine worship. A friend passing along
the street said, "Joe, come along with me:
1 am going down to Coney Island and Well
have a gay Sunday" NO" replied Joe; II
lave started to go here to church, and l am
going to attend service here" ooh, Joe" his
friend said you can go to church
any timel III DAY is bright;
we'll have a Splendid time" The temptation
was too strong, and the twain went to the
beach, spent the day IN drunkenness and
riot. The evening train started up from
Brighton. The young men were on it. Joe,
in his intoxication, when the train was in
full speed, tried to pass around from one seat
to another and fell and was crushed.
Under the lantern, as Joe lay bleeding his
life away on the grass, he said to his COM
rade: John, that was a bad business, your
taking me away from church; it was a very
bad business. You ought not to have done
CAot, oCdA. L "ou Jou oOiA IL OoJo ~
morrow when you see them that rum
and Sabbath breaking did this for
me. And John. while you are telling
them I will be in hell, and it will be your
fault" Isit not time for me to pull out from
the great organ of Gods word, with many
banks of keys, the tre,nolo stop? Look not
upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth
itself Alright in the cup, for at lastit biteth
like a serpent and stingeth like an adder
But this evil will be arrested. Butcher came
up just before night and saved the day at
Waterloo. AT 4 O'Clock in the afternoon il
looked very badly for the English. Generals
Ponsonby and Pickton fallen. sSabers broken,
flags surrendered, Scots Grays annihilated
Only torty-two men left out of the German
brigade. The English army falling back and
falling back. Napoleon rubbed his hands
together and said: "Aha, aha, we'll teach
that little Englishinan a lesson. Ninety
chances out of a hundred are in our favor
Magnificent! magnificent" He even sem
messages to Paris to say he had Won the day
But before shutdown Butcher came up, anC
he who had been the conqueror of Austerlit;
became the victim of Waterloo. The nam'
which had shaken all Europe and filled ever
America with apprehension, that name wen
down., and Napoleon, muddy and hatless. anl
crazed with his disasters, was found feetin:
for the stlrrup of a horse, that he, Nigh
mount and resume the conflict.
Well, my friends, alcoholism is imperial
and 1t Is a conqueror, and there are gooc
people who say the night of national over
throw is coming, and that it is almost night
But before shutdown the Conqueroriof earth
and heaven will ride in on the white horse
and alcoholism, which has had its Austerlit1
OF triumph. shall nave its Waterloo Of de
feat. Alcoholism having lost its crown, tn,
grizzly and cruel breaker of human hearts
org VaH with thu 1i~ac$ar u,,n - 800 g.
ing in vain for the stirrup in which to re
mount its foaming charger. $500 Lord
let Thine enemies PERISH"