Connecticut western news., 1891-03-04


 ing youth; but this evil may make the more infamous boast that all it's life it has been running the bodies, minds and souls of the human race. .g..
 UNFAITHFULNEsS OF POLITICAL PAR - TIES. --.. ,.-.
 Put on your spectacles and take a candle and examine the platforms of the two leading political parties of this country, and see what they are doing for the arrest of this evil and for the overthrow of this abomination. Reso lutions? Oh. yes, resolutions about Mormonisinl It is safe to attack that organized nastiness two thousand mile away, But not one resolution against drunkenness, which would turn this entire nation into ono bestial Salt Lake City. Resolutions against political cor ruption. but not one word about drunk enness, which would rot this nation frop sqAlp to heel Resolutions about protection against competition with foreign industries, but not one word about protection of family and church and nation against the scalding. blast ing, all consuming. damning tariff of strong drink put upon every financial, individual, spiritual, moral, national interest.
 look in another direction. The church of God is the grandest and most glorious institution on earth What has it in solid phalanx accom- plished for the overthrow of drunken ness2 Have it's forces ever been mar shaled2 No, not in this direction Not long ago a great ecclesiastical court assembled in New York, and resolu tions arraigning strong drink were of. fered, and clergymen with strong drink on their tables and strong drink in their cellars defeated the resolutions by threatening speeches. They could not bear to give up their own lusts. l tell this audience what many of you may never have thought of. that today not in the millennium, but today-the church holds the balance of power in America; and if Christian people-the men and the women who profess to love the Lord Jesus Christ and to love
 
 all uncleanness and debauchery and sin-if 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 march short time it would take them to put down this evil if all the churches of God, transatlantic and cisatlantic, were armed on this subjectl
 Young men of America, pass over into the army of teetolism. Whisky, good to preserve corpses, ought never to turn you into a corpse. Tens of thousands of young men have been dragged out of responsibility, and out of purity, and out of good character and into darkness by this internal stuff called strong drink. Do not touch it Do not touch it! ....-.
 In the front door of our church in Brooklyn A few ssrm,ners ago, this scene occurred: Sabbath morning q 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 gay sunday No" re pied Joe; "I have started to go here tc church, and am going to attend ser vice here" ''Oh, Joe," his friend said ''you can go to church any tilne The day is bright, and we'll go to Coney Isl and and we'll have q splendid time. The temptation was too great, and the twain went to the beach, spent the day in drunkenness and riot. The evening train started up from Brighton. The young men were on it. Joe, in his in toxication, when the train was in full speed tried to pass around from one 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 co1nrade: "John, that was bad business, your taking me away from church; it was a very bad business. You ought not to have done that, John. I want you to tell the boys tomorrow when you See them that rum and Sab bath breaking did this for me. And, John, while you are telling them I will be in hell, and it will be your fault" Is it not time for me to pull out from the great organ of Gods Word, with many banks of keys, the tremolo stop! Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup, for at last it biteth like a serpent and stinoet!: Ei:.. ~.lI.""
 ITS WATERLOO AT HAND.
 But this evil will be arrested. Blu cher came up just before night and saved the day at Waterloo. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon it looked very badly for the English. Generals Pon sonby and Picton fallen. Sabers broken, flags surrendered, Scots Grays annihi lated. Only fortytwo men left out of the German brigade. The English arny falling back and falling back. Napoleon rubbed his hands together and said: Aha! aha! we'll teach that little Englishlnan lesson. Ninety chances out of a hundred are in our e