The Penn's Grove record., 1891-03-13

of family and caurch and nation against ths
scalding, blasting, ali consuming, danntng
tarin OF strong drink put upon every finan.
Interest.
1 look in another direction. Tbs Chnrrh nj
GOD Is the grsndest AMI most glorious institu.
ton on earth. What has it Ia solid paalsnx
accomplished for the overthrow Of drunken
nessf Have its forces ever bsen marsha ear
No, not In this direction. Not long ago .
great ecclesiastical court assembled in New
Yor4, and resolutions arraigning strong
drink were ofsrs5, q cleryymen with
strong drink on Their tables n strong
drink In their cellars defeated the rssofu.
lions by threatening speeches. They could
not bear to give up taeir own lusts.
tell this audience q many OF you may
never have thought OF, that to-day-not In
the millennium, but to-day--ths church
holds the balance OF power In America; and
II Christian people--the msn and the women
who profess TO love the Lord Jesus Christ
and TO love purity and to be the sworn enc
mics OF all uucleanuess and ~deoauonery and
tin-n all such would march side
BY side u shoulder to shoulder
Think Of Tires S'A hundrss ssoa.
sand churches AMI Suniav-schools In Chriss
tendon marching shoulder to saoulierl How
very short q time ID would take them to
dow this evil, il all the churches OF God,
Transatlantic and c~isatlantic, were arms1 Oh
this subject
Young men OF America pass ovsr into
the srmy OF teetotalisn. Whisky, good to
preserve corpSss, ought never to turn you
Into q corpse. Tens OF thousands of young
men have been dragged out Of rspectability
and out OF purity, and out OF good char
acter, ami into darkness by this Internal stun
called strong drink Do not touch iti Do
not touch tti
In the front door OF our church In Brook
Ign, . few summers ago. this seems occurred:
Sabbath morning a young man was entering
for divine worship, A friend passing along
the street said, 'Joe. coms along with me;
l In going down to Coney Island and we'll
have q gay Sunday" mo" replied Joe: II
soins ' e assss sSs ser VSss s +. s"0s "os. ' Jo.." s lis
. .ry s sa,S' "'f Ts. can day 60 is, S SsssSs
and we'll so to Couey Island, snf
we'll have 9 splendid time" Tns temptation
was too stronr, AMI the twain went TO the
beach, spent the day IN drunkenness AVID
riot. Tbs e,sning tgaia started up from
Brighton. Tbs young men were on t. JoA.
In his intoxicstiou, when the train was 10
full speed, tried TO pass around from ons seae
10 smother and fell and was crushed.
Under the lantern, es Joe lay bleeding bis
life away on the grass, be said to bis COM
radsi John, that was a Dad business. -FOUR
taking me away from church; - was . very
bad business You ought not 60 have done
that, John. want you to tel the boys to-
morrow when you see them that rum
and Sabbath breaking cid this for
ma And John while you are telling
thsm / will be in hsii, and 10 will be pour
fault" Is IL not time for me to pull out from
the great organ Of Goi's word, with many
banks Of keys, the tremolo sto2s Look not
upon the wins when it is red, wien 1t movsth
itself ar ght In the cup, for at last it biteth
like q serpent and stingeth like an adder"
But this evil will be arrested. Bluchsr came
up Just before nigat and saved the day at
Waterloo. At 1 o'clocS In the afternoon 70
looked very badly for the English. Gensrsls
Ponsonby aud Pickton fallen. Sabers broken,
days surrendered, Scots Grays anuihilatsd.
Only forty.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 Enghshman a lesson. Ninety
chances out Of Q ~nunirsl are In our favor.
Magniacsntt m~agniHc:nt" hs even sent
But before sun Town B.uchsr came up, ana
he who had been the conqueror Of Austsrlits
became the victim OF Waterloo. Tbs name
which had shaken g.! Europe and hiisf even
America with apprehension, that name went
down, and Napoleon, muddy and hatlesA n
erased with his disasters, was found feeling
Tor the stirrup Of a horse. chat he mighs
mount and resume tbs conflict.
Wei, my friends, alcoholism 10 fmpertaI
and IL Il Q ~.conQueror, and there are good
people who say The night Of national over
throw Is coming, and that il Is almost ntsha
But before shutdown the Co't4~srSs' " EARN
and heaven will ride il on th, white bora
md alcoholism, which has had Its Austsrilts
Of triumph, snail have its Waterloo oil de-
eeat. Alcoholism having lost Its crown. the
1riysly and cruel breaker OF hunan hsareH
Srassd with the disaster, will TO U tsel.
mouus is foaninz clarSsr. "So, Q Lord,
lSe Thtus enemies perish"