The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-03-04

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church Of God Is the grandest and most
glorious institution on earth. What has
1t In solid phalanx accomplished for the
overthrow of drunkenness? Have Its
forces ever been marshaled? No, not in
this direction. Not long ago great ec-
clesiastical court assembled in New
York, and resolutions arraigning strong
drink were offered, and clergymen with
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 balance Of power
in America; and II Christian people
the men and the women who profess TO
love the Lord Jesus Christ, and TO love
purity, and to be the sworn enemies Of
all uncleanness and debauchery and sim
II all such would march side by side and
shoulder to shoulder, this evil would
soon be overthrown. Think of three
hundred thousand churches and Sunday
schools in Christendom, marching shoul-
der to shoulder! How very short a time
1t would take them to put down this
evil If all the churches of God, transat-
lantic and cisatlantic, were armed on
this subject
Young men of America, pass over into
the army of tetotalism. Whisky, good
TO preserve corpses, ought never To
turn you into corpse. Tens Of thou
sands of young men have been dragged
out of respectability, and out Of purity,
and out of good character, and into dark
ness by this internal stuff called strong
drink. Do not touch til Do not touch
It'll f1
In the front door Of our church in
Brooklyn, 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-
l am going down to Coney Island, and
we'll have a gay Sunday" NO" re-
piled Joe, 81 have started to go here tc
church, and am going to attend service
here" 30 joe" his friend said, "you
can go to church any time! The day Is
bright, and well go to Coney Island
and we'll have a splendid time" The
temptation was too great, and the twain
went TO the beach, spent the day in
! J,.,,,,I.onnoe, ooJ .;nt The ayapip 70 fro m
started up from Brighton. The young
men were omit Joe, in his intoxication
when the train was in full speed, tried tc
| 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 bad business
you taking me away from church; Il
/ was a very bad business. You ought
not TO have done that, John. want
you to tell the boys tomorrow wher
you see them that rum and Sabbath
breaking did this for me. And, John
while you are telling them will be ir
hell, and IL will be your fault" Is i
not time for me to pull out from the
/ great organ Of Gods Word, with many
banks of keys the tremolo stop? "Lool
not upon the wine when it is red, wheI
II moyeth itself Alright in the cup, for a
last 1t biteth like serpent and stingetl
like an adder"
But this evil will be arrested. Bluche
came up Just before night, and save'
the day at Waterloo. At four o'clock II
the afternoon IL looked very badly for tn,
English. Generals Ponsonby and pictol
had fallen. Sabers broken, flags surren
dered, Scots Grays annihilated. Onl.
forty-two men left out Of the German
brigade. The English army falling bacl
and falling back. Napoleon rubbed hi
hands together, and said: "Ahal aha
we'll teach that little Englishman les
son. Ninety chances out Of hundred
are in our favor. Magnificent! magniti
cent? He even sent messages 10 Pari
TO say he had won the day. But befor'
sundown Blucher came up, and he WHIT
had been the conqueror of Austerliti
became the victim Of Waterl o. Tha
name which had shaken all Europe ant
filed even America with apprehension
that name went down, and Napoleon
muddy and hatless. and craZed with hi
disasters, was found feeling for tn,
stirrup OF horse that he might noun
and resume the conflict.
Well, my friends, alcoholism is i'm
perial, and II is a conqueror, and there
are good people who say the night o
national overthrow is coming, and tina
II is almost night But before sundowI
the conqueror OF earth and heaven viii
ride in on the white horse, and alcohol
ism which had its Austerlitz Of triumph
shall have its Waterloo OF defeat. AL
coholism having lost its crown, tn,
grizzly and cruel breaker Of human
hearts, crazed with the disaster, will b,
found feeling in vain for the stirrup oi
which 10 remount his foaming charger
$50, o Lord, let thine enemies perish.