The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-04-18

wives waiting for domestic rescue. II
promised something different from tina
when, after the long acquaintance and tn
careful scrutiny of character, the hand an
the heart were offered and accepted. Wha
, q hell on earth a woman lives in who has
drunken husband! o death. how lovel,
thou art to her. and how soft and warn
thy skeleton hand! The sepulcher at mid
night in winter is a kings drawing-roon
compared with that woman's home. 1t Is no
so much the blow on the head that hurts q
the blow ON the heart.
Tie rum fiend came to the door Of tina
beautiful home. and opened the door AM
stood there and said: II curse this dwellin,
with an unrelenting curse. / curse tina
father into a maniac, / curse that mother
into pauper. l curse those sons into vaga
bonds. / curse those daughters into proflig
acy. Cursed be bread tray and cradle
Cursed be couch and chair, and family Bibl.
with record Of marriages and births ant
| deaths. Curse upon curse" Oh, how many
wives are there waiting to see if something
cannot be done 20 shake these frosts of the
second death of the orange blossomsl Yea
God is waiting, the God who works through
human instrumentalities, waiting to see
whether this nation is going to overthrow
this evil and if it refuse to do so God will
wipe out the nation as He did Pheuicia 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. If the church does not dc
its work, then He will wipe it out as He did
the church of Ephesus church of Thyatira.
church of Sardis. The Protestant and Ro.
man Catholic churches to-day stand side by
side, with an impOtent look, gazing on this
evil. which costs this country more than a
billion dollars year to take care of the 300
600 paupers, and the 31S, 600 criminals. and
the ~, 900 idiots, and to bury the 5000
drunkards. Protagoras boosted 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
lie 1t has been running the bodies minds and
souls of the human race.
Put on 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-oh! yes, resolutions about
Mormonlsm! 1t is safe to attack that or
gained nastiness 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
which would rot this nation
from scalp to heel Resolutions about pro-
tect,on against competition with foreign in. |
dustries, but not one word about protection |
)f family and church and nation against the |
'calding, blasting, all consuming, damning |
tarif OF strong drink put upon every fnan- |
'iai, individual, spiritual, moral, national
interest.
l look in another direction. The Church of
iod is the grandest and most glorious institu.
ion on earth. What has it in solid nhalanx
for the overthrow of drunken
hess? Have It's forces ever been marshaled?
No, not in this direction. Not long ago a
yreat ecclesiastical court assembled in New
ork, and resolutions arraigning strong
rink were offered, and clergy men with
trong drink on their tables and strong
ions by threatening speeches. They could
ot bear to give up their own lusts.
tell this audience what many of you NAV
ever have thought OF, that to-day-not in
he millennium, but to-day the church
Odds the balance of power in America; and
Christian people-the men and the women
Tho profess To love the Lord Jesus Christ
nd to love purity and to be the sworn enc
lies of all uncleanness and debauchery and
n-if all such would march side
= side and shoulder to shoulder
us evil would soon be overthrown
hink of three hundred thou
md churches and Sunday-schools in Chris
'ndom marching shoulder to shoulder. How
cry short time it would take them to put
|
ansatlantic and cisatlantic, were arme1 OH
lis subject?
\ Dung men of America pass over into
e army of teetotalism. Whisky, good to
'eserve corpses, ought never to turn you
to corpse. Tens of thousands of young
en- have been dragged out of repectability
Id out of purity, and out of good char
ter, and into darkness by this Internal stuff
lied strong drink. Do not touch it! Do
It touch it,
in the front door of our church in Brook.
n, few summers ago, this scene occurred:
Ibbath morning young man was entering
divine worship. A friend passing along
e street said, Joe. come along with me;
I'm going down to Coney Island and we'll
We started to go here to church, and am
ing to attend service here" "Oh, joe" his
end said, you can go to church
y time! The day is bright
4 well go to Coney Island and
I'll have a,splendid time" The temptation {
Is too strong, and the twain went to the ,
ach, spent the day In drunkenness and
It. The evening train started up from
lghton. The young men were on it. Joe,
his intoxication, when the train was in ,
u speed, tried to pass around from one seat
another and fell and was crushed.
Under the lantern, as Joe lay bleeding his 4
2 away on the grass, he said to his COM
ie: John, that was bad business, your
ling me away from church; it was a very
business. You ought not to have done
1t, John. want you to tell the boys to-
brow when you see them that rum {
d Sabbath breaking did this for
And John. while you are telling y.
I'm will be in hell, and it will be YOUR I
lit" 1sit not time for me to pull out from '
, great organ Of Gods word, with MANY r
nks Of keys, the tremolo stopf "Look not
on the wine when it is red, when it moveth
elf Alright in the cup, for at last it biteth c
9 serpent and stingeth like an adder.n .
5ut this evil will be arrested. Butcher came
just before night and saved the day at q
aterloo. At o'clock in the afternoon it
ked very badly for the English. Generals :.
nsonby and Pickton fallen. Sabers broken. i!
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