Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-10-01
w. C. T. u. COLUMN.
EDITED By THE LADIES.


The W. G. T. 0. will meet at the
Presbyterian church next Monday
night at 7:30 p. N. Come everybody
and by your presence help in thus
great work.
think see q shoreless sea
OF woe at every corner,
Where swings the sign OF rum and wine,
And oongregates the Rcorner-
And when hear men UfEer prayer
That God this curse Wsuld Danish,
And then with vote the curse promote
What marvel IL faith vanishf
And what amaze il hurried phrase,
And speech at times unclassic,
Should wing the thought home where 1t ought
To those who build the trafhcg
Rev. Sam Small appears to have be-
come a convert to woman SUFFRAGE.
In recent lecture on American Civ
ilization" he said: I have travelled
all over this land, and hence have suf-
ficient basis for sound Judgment upon
the question of woman's sphere. I
have a decided opinion. I believe
that if a woman has a husband who is
worthless and prohigate, she should
have a right to step up to the polls
and deposit a vote that would off set
his. And if the man be pnre and up
right, then his ballot should be
doubled. in order to place In Office
men who would grace it, and not po-
litical tricksters."
The Pulpit and the Liquor Trafic.
Rev. DIR. @. II. Payne said in an
address delivered at the Temperance
Congress last month:
The pulpit is the legitimate and di-
vinely ordained agency to mass the
forces of the Christian Church and to
lead them on to victory in this holy
crusade against the liquor traffic. It
would be stultifying to affirm that
the Church could and should under
take any work in which the pulpit
might not properly act its part of
helper and leader. Its voice must
ring out clear and strong and unequiv-
ocal, the rallylng cry calling the forces
of Christ to battle. To deny this
function and this duty TO the pulpit is
to affirm that the pulpit must be dumb
in presence of society's greatest curse;
must be helpless in presence of mans
greatest need; must be the slave of
custom rather than its liberator. If
it be said that the pulpit should preach
temperance to the individual but leave
unrebuked the traffic; reform the
drunkard, but spare the drunkard-
maker, then you ask the pulpit to be-
little its own work in the eyes of all
manly men by openly confessing its
puerility and pusillanimity. You ask
the pulpit torescue the sufferers from
lncendiary fires, but be careful to
speak no word against the incendlaries
themselves; to bury the slaughtered
victims of drink, but be silent con-
corning the murderous traffic and the
respectable power that fosters and
legalizes it. If the pulpit were to
listen to this council it would invite
the wrath of God and the contempt
Of all true men. It would be shorn
of its strength and robbed of its re-
spect- No, it is the plain and palpB-
bic duty of the pulpit to discuss and
to conserve every interest of society,
to antagonize every wrong, to encour-
age whatever is right.
But how shall this duty be perform
ed7
Like any other duty-with fidelity
fearlessness and Christly love. The
pulpit must keep before the people
the true standard of total abstinence
for the individual and total, legal
prohibition of the traffic. 1t must
encourage the use of all proper meas
ures to promote the temperance cause
educational moral and legal 1t must
put the responsibility for perpetual
ing the sale and use of strong drink
where it belongs, in the family, il
society, in Legislatures and Congress
in politics and ia the sovereign voters
who make the nations laws.
But this will awaken antagonist
in the pew. And so will faithful
preaching always awaken antagonism
So the master foretold; so we must
expect
Preaching against the liquor traffic
will cause antagonism from three
sources-business interest, social Gus.
toms and political affiliations.
With the first two of these antag.
onism in the pew, the pulpit of today
would acknowledge itself to have but
small trouble. The ordinary minister
would despise himself and be despiseC
by his Church and the community Il
he allowed his lips to be sealed for
fear of offendidg the seller. and tbs
drinker of Intoxicating beverages.
But the other and far larger class
of hearers, those whose political affili
atoms make them sensitive to the
utterances of the pulpit, how can tbs
minister do his duty in this work o
massing the Christian forces and no
give them offence7
Perhaps he cannot; but if he can
not, then the time has fully COM
when this unhealthy and unnatura
and n-Christian condition of thu
Church needs prompt and vigorou
treatment. The disease has reached
a crisis; the faithful pastor, who /
also a true physician must, with al
skill. yet with all fidelity, apply tn,
probe before the whole body of tn
Church becomes gsngrened.