The morning news., 1891-03-02


wives waiting for domestic rescue. II
promised something different from tha
~nen, alter the long acq aintance aud tn
careful scrutiny Of character, the hand anS
the heart we're offered aud accepted. VIVA
hell on earth a woman lives ia who has
drunken husband o death. how lovely
thou art to her, and how soft and warm
thy skeleton hsndl The sepulchel
at midnight in winter IS king:
drawing~room compared 18th that woman'i
home. II is not so much the blow on the
head that hurts as the blow on the heart
The rum fend came to the door Of that
beautiful home, and opened the door aud
stood there, and said: 81 curse this dwell
| ing with an unrelsntiBg curse. curse tlal
father into a maniac. curse that her
/ into pauper. ] curse those sons into vaga-
bonds. i curse those daughters into prof.
igacy. Cursed be breei tray aud cradle.
Cursed be couch and chair, and famil y
Bible with record Of marriages and births
and deaths. Curse upon CURSE o! how
/ many wives are there waiting to
see If something cannot be done to snake
these frosts Of the second death on the or
anRe blossoms Yea. God is waiting, the
God who works through human instru-
mentalitIes, waiting to see whether this
nation is going to overthrow this evil; a. d
If 1t refuses TO do 80. God will wipe OUT the
nation as he did Phoenicia, as he did Rome,
as he did Thebes, as he did Babylon. Ay,
he is waiting TO see what the church of
God will do. II the church does
not do its work. then he Will wipe
it out as he did the church OF
Ephesus, church Of ThyatIra, church
Of Sardis. The Protestant Land Roman
Catholic churches to-day sand side by
side with an impotent look, gazing on this
evil, which costs this country more than a
billion dollars q year to take care Of the
800, 900 paupers, and the 3l5,000 criminals,
and the 80, 700 idiots, and TO bury the n, 900
cruukards. 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 ii has been running the bodies,
minds and souls of the human race.
Put OF your spectacles and take a candle
and examine the platforms of the two lead
Ing political parties Of this country, and
see what they are doing for the arrest of
this evil and for the overthrow Of this
abomina tion. Resolutions-Ol yes, reso>
lutions about Mormonism 1t is safe to at
tack that organized nastness 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
Resolutions about protection against COM
petition with foreign industries, but not
one word about protection of family and
church and nation against the scaldlng,
blasting, all~oonsuming, damning tariff Of
strong drink put upon every financial, in
dividual, spiritual, moral, national interest
look in another direction. The Church
OF God is the grandest and most glorious
on earth. What has it In solid
Ia. 1sak
drunkennessi Have its forces ever been mar
shaledl No, not in this direction. Not
long ago a great ecclesiastical court assem-
bled in New York and resolutions
strong drink were offered, and
clergYmen with strong drink on their tables
aud strong drink in their cellars defeated
the resolutions by threatening speeches.
They could not bear to give up their own
lusts. 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 bal
ance Of power in America; and II christian
people-tne men aud the women VINO pro-
fess to love the Lord Jesus Christ and to
love purity and to be the sworn enemies of
all uncleanness and dehauchery and sin-if
all such would march side by side and
shoulder to shoulder, this evil would soon
be ovsrthrown. Think OF three hundred
churches and Sunday schools in
Christendom marching shoulder to shoul-
derl How very short a time It would take
them to put down this evil, if all the
churches of God, transatlantic and cis-
Atlantic, were armed on this subject
Young men of America, pass over into
the army Of teetotaism. Whisky. good to
preserve corpses, ought never to turn you
into o corpse. Tens of thousands of young
men have been dragged out of respect
ability, and out OF purity, and out of good
and into darkness by this in.
fernal stuff called strong drink. Do not
touch It'll Do not touch it
In the front door of our church in Brook
lyn, few summers ago. this scene oc-
CURED: Sabbath morning a young man
was entering for divine worship. A friend
passing along the street said: Joe, come
along with me; am going down to Coney
Island, and we'll have a gay Sunday"
mo" replied Joe; 81 have started to go
here TO church, aud | am going TO
attend service here" 30, Joe,n his friend
said, "you can go to church any time! The
day is bright and Wen go to Coney Island,
and we'll have splendid time" The temp
tation was too great, and the twain went to
the beach, spent the day in drunkenness aud
riot. The evening train started up from
Brighton. The young men we're on it. Joe,
in his intoxication, when the train was in
full speed, tried to pass around from ona
seat to another, and fell and was crushed.
Under the lantern, as Joe lay bleed
ing his life away on the grass, he
said to his comrade: John, that was
a bad business, your taking me away
from church; it was a very bad
business. You ought not to have done that,
John. Iwant you to tell the boys to-mor-
row when you see them that rum and Sab
bath-breakiug did this for me. And, John,
while you are telling them, will be in hell,
and it will he your fault" Is it not time
for me to pull out from the great organ OF
Gods Word, with IN any banks Of keys, the
tTemolo stops "Look not upon the wine
when it is red, when it moveth itself Alright
in the cup. for at last it biteth like a serpent
and stingeth like an ADDER
But this evil will be arrested. Blucher
came up just before night and saved the
day at Waterloo AT o'c ock in tue after
noon it looked very badly for the English.
Gems. Ponsonby aud Picton f.llen. Sabsrs
broken. flags surrendered, Scots Grays
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!
ahal we'll teach that little Eng ishman a
lesson. Ninety chances out of a
hundred are in our favor. Mag
nificentl Magnificent" He even sent mas
sageS to Paris 10 say that he had won the
day. But before sInGown Blucher came
up, and he who had been the conqueror Of
Austerlitz became the victim Of Waterloo.
That name which had shaken all Europe
and filled even America with apprehension,
that name went down, and Napoleon, mud
dy and hatless aud crazsd with his disasters,
&c. IL.