Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-03-02


sepulcher at midnight in winter is
kings drawing room compared with
that woman's home 1t is not so much
the blow on the head that hurts as the
blow on the heart. The rum fiend
came to tile door Of that beautiful
home, and opened the door and stood
there and said; Il curse this dwelling
with an unrelenting curse. Icurse that
father into a maniac, | curse that
mother into pauper l curse those
sons into vagabonds. l curse those
daughters into prohigacy. Cursed be
bread tray and cradle. Cursed be couch
and chair and family Bible. with record
of marriages and births and deaths.
Curse upon curse"
Oh, how many wives are there wait
ing to see if something cannot be done
to shake these frosts of the second
death off the orange blossoms! Yea,
God is waiting, the God who works
through human instrumentalities wait
ing to see whether this nation is going
to overthrow this eva and if it refuse
to do so God will wipe out the nation
as he did PhGnicia, as he did Rome, as
he did Thebes, as he did Babylon.
Aye, he is waiting to see what the
church of God will do. If 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 and Roman Catholic
churches today 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 100000 paupers, and the 315, 600
criminals, and the 80, 900 idiots, and to
bury the rs, 900 drunkards. Protagoras
boasted that out of the sixty years of
his life forty years he had spent in ruin
ing youth; but this evil may make the
more infamous boast that all its life it
has been running the bodies, minds and
souls of the human race.
UNFAITHFULNESs OF POLITICAL PAR
TIES.
Put on your spectacles and take |
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-
lutions9 Oh, yes, resolutions about
Mormonisn 1t is safe to attack that
naStiness two thousand miles
away But not one resolution against
which would turn this
entire nation into one bestial Salt Lake
City. Resolutions against political cor
upton, but not one word about drunk
'nness, which would rot this nation
rom scalp to heel. Resolutions about
against competition with
oreign industries, but. not one word
bout protection of family and church
md nation against the scading, blast
ng, all consuming, damning tariff of
trong drink put upon every financial,
ldiyidual, spiritual, moral, national
interest.
l look in another direction. The
hurch of God is the grandest and
lost glorious institution on earth. ,
Vhat has it in solid phalanX accom- [
lished for the overthrow of drunken
essl Have its forces ever been mar
laledl No, not in this direction. I
lot long ago a great ecclesiastical court {
ssembled in New York, and resolu- |
ons arraigning strong drink We're Of
sred, and clergymen with strong drink
n their tables and strong drink in s
heir cellars defeated the resolutions
y threatening speeches. They could
OF bear to give up their own lusts. {
III this audience what many of you 5
lay never have thought of, that today ,
not in the millennium, but today-the
lurch holds the balance of power in
merica; and if Christian people-the
en- and the women who profess to '
We the Lord Jesus Christ and to love /
Irity and to be the sworn enemies of I
uncleanness and debauchery and s
l-if all such would march side by d
le and shoulder to shoulder this evil o
ould soon be overthrown. Think OF Fl
rec hundred thousand churches and il
lnday schools in Christendom march il
z shoulder to shoulder! How very II
ort time it would take them 10 put o
,wn this evil if all the churches of Il
I'd, transatlantic and cisatlantic, were y
med on this subject a
Young men of America, pass over II
10 the army Of teetolism. Whisky, t'
cd TO preserve eorpses, ought never Il
turn you into a corpse. Tens OF IA
of young men have been
agged out of respectability, and out al
purity, and out of good character, Il
d into darkness by this Internal stuff 81
He'd strong drink. Do not touch il! hi
, not touch it! q
In the front door Of our church in It
ooklyn a few summers ago, this W
ne occurred: Sabbath morning OF
lng man was entering for divine IL
rship. A friend passing along the su
Get said, Joe, come along with me n'
IN going down TO COney Island, and dr
II have a gay sunday" mo, " Ne pt
d Joe; II have started 10 60 here 70 81
Irch, and am going TO attend ser
o here" ''Oh, Joe" his hiend said,
ou can go TO church any time The .
, is bright, and we'll go TO COney Isl Oh
/ and we'll have a splendid time.
e temptation was too great, and the pa
lin went 20 the beach, spent the day eu
and riot, The evening co 20
IN started up from brighton. The all
ing men were on il. Joe, In his in on