Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-07-03

line marked out between the North and
the South. The Southern men 1T the g
North all came back South and the North
ern men at the South all went back North,
and then there was the bloodiest war for
four years the world ever saw. That is
the sort of line to be drawn between the
church and the world Each should be on
its own side of the line. But there is al
ways somebody wants to compromise. IN
whiskey High License is the compromise
line. Every compromising man IN the
church wants High License and every COM
promising whiskey man wants High Ii
cense An honest man always takes sides.
If thing is right he does it. Directly he
starts in to do right somebody tells him it
you do that you will lose friends OF you
will lose money. Then l II do it, says the
honest man, would rather have God with
me than friends Or money Where is the
line between the church and the world?
The Church goes to theatres and card par
ties with the World. and the World goes
to meeting with the Church, until
the line has been crossed and trampled on
so often that you can't see it at all. A
Christian husband is afraid to ask God to
turn his guns on the World for fear his own
wife will be shot, and Christian wife IS
afraid to ask Him for fear that her own
husband will be shot.
MINISTER'S THAT CAN'T TAKE A STAND.
I have ten times more respect for bull
| vIi cd
have for a minister that is afraid to take
his stand against whiskey.e [ have more
respect for the red-nosed drunkard that
votes fol- Whiskey than have for a church
member who takes no stand against it.
ca Voce-'Amen.) You pusillanimous
little puppy who are afraid to take your
stand against whiskey-I would call you
dog but you are not big enough. When
you go down the street tomorrow abusing
Sam Jones every red-necked bar-keeper and
gambler will pat you on the back. When [
am praying and shouting I look around to
see who is praying and shouting with me,
and if I find the bar-keepers and gamblers
shouting with me | just tuck my tail and
go home. 1 expect you have five hundred
members of the church in Stanton that
the Devil brags on, and when the Devil is
Dragging on a church member he ought to
take him to himself. 1t is the old story
!, wherever go. They first say l can't get
q crowd here. Then when the crowd comes
they say | can't make any converts, and
: then when the converts are made they say
$ they won't stick. That is the old story
e that I have heard everywhere. You find
Methodlsts preaching on infant Baptism.
$ Grown people going to hell all around them
and they preaching infant baptism! Then
l the Presbyterians are preaching on final
: perseverance. The Baptist preachers are
preaching Oil water, and thousands are
Il going every day where they can't get a drop
y of water at any price. The Episcopal
!, preachers, are preaching on apostolic sue
; ce5sion-trylng to tell the people where
l. they came from, when what people want to
|. know is where they are going to.
STANTON IS SENSE OF PROPERTY.
: You people of Staunton hear are very
:, particular. You are afraid Sam Jones
i. ', may say something that will offend your
y sense of propriety. Any community like
. ;, yours that support, near twenty low-fung,
= ll-deserving saloons can't afford to put
on any airs. I wouldn't put on any airs if
l [ was you till / cleaned up the saloons.
$ Before you say you can't stand Sam ] ones ,
: slang, you had better clean up your saloons
y first. You may not like this medicine, but
: if it makes you sick it is because your
u system is out of order. If the medicine
!, does you pretty badly you may be sure your
system is badly out Of order. Y ou needn't
worry over Sam Jones slang. One Of the
10 best and most refined women in the world
IL has lived with him for twenty-five years and
y cries every time he goes away. Now if
III one of the lest and purest women in the
IL world can stand me for that long and cry
ID when leave her, | should think you old
u gals might stand me for Il week. If you
IN will give me a first-class congregation l
ID will give you a first sermon. But
= look at this congregation. Among it | can
~ find whiskey drinkers, gamblers and liars.
Why first-class sermon wouldn't come in
~ a hundred miles Of them. [ have to fit my
sermon to my audience. and so l have to
~ scatter my fodder so anything can pick it
y up, from q giraffe to Il Billy goat.
nj L used to be Democrat ana 1t was NIGH
ho ty hard to stop being one, but [ did stop
IN and now am q Prohibitionist. If | am a
nj Prohibitionist and get to heaven l can
10 keep on voting my ticket there. But if
A. you die in either the Republican OF Demo
ke cratic party you have to go to hell with
bo your party. ID rather see the Devil Pres
e ident of the United States and no whiskey,
of than to seea Republican or Democrat Pres
~ ident with waiskcy. We Prohibitionists had
- hoped that the Republican party would be
- defeated last time and we could swallow
les Cilehl up DoV W. neNei n"Su ,'nS 'eli lo'''
III Of the Democratic party. That party has
. come here to stay. 1t will never die and OF
VI Judgment day they will be burning red
= nosed Democrats.
On Somebody told me that Staunton was tx
IL have q Local Option Election. Well you
people will be divided into just four kinds
,., of men, Prohibition lists, whiskey sellers
Nh whiskey drinkers and men who will vote t.
r, continue the sale of Whiskey. A man tina
oh votes for whiskey because he wants to sci
W. it OF drink it, have some respect for, bu
the man that votes for its sale withou
1,s wanting to do either, I have no respect fol
His excuse that to stop the sale will inJur
the town, Just shows That he is governed by
.,,s avarice and greed and nothing higher. IN
spirt that makes Rube Burrows get on
,on train and put a pistol to the head OF the
-. passengers is the spirit that governs tn
~ ,1ao, mon Ruha Burrows is the better