The Press., 1891-11-19
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
Strong Words Spoken at the Ecumenical '


 H Council.
 Rev. A. B. Leonard, D. D., mission ary secretary of the M. E. church, after enumerating the various obstacles in the way of the spread of the gospel, said: "One more enemy to the progress of evangelical Christianity remains to be mentioned legalized traffic in alcohol for beverage purposes. It Is sad and humiliating reflection that almost every where throughout Christendom civil gov ernment Is in league with the traffic in strong drink for the sake of the revenue 1t produces, Not all the enemies to the progress of the Christian religion have named, combined, are to be compared in their evil effects to the one now under consideration. It attacks the individual poisons his blood, dethrones his reason and debauches his soul. It attacks the home, robs itof its happiness and tenn poral con fort, and throws it's inmates upon society for support. It attacks so- ciety and produces poverty, vice and crime; 1t damages all legitimate forms of industry and turns millions of money away from honest lines of business. It increases taxation far beyond the revenue 1t produces and takes the heavy balance out of the pockets of the taxpayer. It assails the Christian Sabbath and threat ems to banish 1t from the earth. If turns the masses away from the house of God and opens wide the gateways to he'll It is thief, robbing the people of their money; murderer, taking the lives of millions in cold blood and in the most cruel manner. MT. Wesley said of lia- uor dealers more than century ago: Those who sell this poison murder his majesty's subjects by the wholesale. Neither does their eye pity nor spare. They drive them to hell like sheep And what is their gain? Is 1t not the blood of these men3 Who, then, would envy their large estates and sumptuous palaces? A vvurse is in the midst of them, the curse Of God cleaves to the stones, the timber and furniture of them; the curse of God Is in their gardens, their walls, their groves; a fire that burns to the norther- most hell. Blood, blood is there, the fountain, the floor, the walls, the roof are stained with blood. And canst thou hope, O man of blood, though thou art clothed in scarlet and fine linen, and farest sump- tuously every day, canst thou hope to de- liver down thy fields of blood to the third generation? Not so; for there is God in heaven, therefore thy name shall be rooted out. Like as those thou hast de- stroyed body and soul, thy memorial shall perish with thee.'"
 The bishops of the M. E. church in their quadrennial address to the general conference of 1888 ftly described this mon
 ster, when they said: "The liquor traffic is so pernicious in all it's bearings, so in- imical to the interest of honest trade, so repungant to the moral sense, so danger ous to the peace and order of society, so
 hurtful to the home, the church and tlle
 body polite, and so utterly antagonistic
 to all that Is precious in life that the only
 proper attitude toward it for all Christians Is that of relentless hostility. It can
 never be legalized without sin" All
 Methodist bodies on this side the water Ioccupy substantially this same position.
 At summer school here in the United , States church dignitary of high stand ing is reported to have spoken of a cer-
 tain class of people as ia lot of foreign rascals in our midst who hate everything
 American" No doubt there are foreign rascals in our midst, but there are not 6
 few native rascals as we'll, and both the foreign and native 1ascals are largely the product of the legalized saloon. The sa.
 loon breeds and educates rascals just as
 the swamp breeds and produces malarial Q fever. To get rid of the fever, drain the
 swamp; and to get rid of the rascals 5 foreign and native, destroy the saloon.
 Many of the rascals of Christendom would be honest and God-fearing Christians but
 for the liquor saloon now legalized by o Christian governments. Methodists all
 round the world should stand in the front
 line of battle against the legalized liquor r. traffic"
 A recently published census bulletin e which gives the total assessed valuation Il of real and personal property in each O h the states and territories for the census r. lyear of 1890, as compared with the census lyear of 1880, contains some interesting fig d ures, as bearing upon the question O r. temperance. Maine, New Hamshire, anC l. Vermont, among the eastern states, show $ the largest increase per capita in valua ,e tion, and all three of them have prohibit
 ory laws. Connecticut, where the run in power has full sway, shows decrease il e valuation. Of the western states, pro 5. hibitory Iowa shows an increase, whil, D free-rum Indiana and Illinois show de ,s rease. Kansas, with constitutional pro 1t hibition, shows an increase of 26.06 pc
 cent. of wealth per capita, while high d. 12.86 per cent. per capita. All of thi ,n difference Is not due to the liquor polio ts of the states named, but the policy con B. cerning the liquor traffic Is an importan it factor in determining the wealth of a state
 Dollars saved by temperance count agains Q dollars squandered for liquor every time v Concord Monitor (Rep.) Oct IF.
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