The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-04-08
The WhiSkev Devil.

the commissioner of internal revenue,
recently presented to congress, the to-
tai production of distilled spirits for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1896,
, was 09,275,92S gallons; the total
, production for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1889, was S9,35S, $40 gallons,
making an increase of l9,917,41S gal
Ions.
AS Christian minister, I oppose
drink because it opposes me. The
work I try to do, it undoes. Ny
charge against it is single and simple.
1t is an obstacle to the spread of the
gospel. Nay, it is ali enemy which
assails the gospel, and whose COM
plete success would drive the gospel
from the earth There is not a sin.
ner On the face of the earth so un-
likely to be saviugly affected by the
influences of the gospel as the habit
ual drunkard. The salvation of
thorough drunkard is one of the
mightiest miracles of Almighty grace.
-BAIlop fos$
Ought not the following calcula-
tions to make us ashamed of ourselves.
With the money spent on drink in
Great Britain there could b, main
tained 100000 missionaries at $3.50 a
year, 100000 schoolmasters at fl00,
5000 churches at $4,000, 5000
schools at $500. 1t would give to
the world 200,000,000 shilling bibles,
5O0,0O0,000 tracts at four shillings
hundred, would give 100000 widows
e2O year, and 100000 poor families
s1O year. Which do we value
most-our glasses or our bibles p
Belfast FITNESS.
A Fort Worth (Texas) minister has
drawn the ridicule of the papers of
that city by refusing the 6ve-hundred-
dollar contribution of saloon-keeper
toward the payment of his church
debt. He declared that his Church
should never be free from debt if its
obligations had to paid with the mon
ey of saloon-keeper" His action is
characterized as "bigotry, supercil-
liousness, etc. The Christian Courier,
however, replies: "If the saloon-keep-
ers and the papers that bask in their
favor think such preachers scarce,
they may as we'll undeceive them
selves: There are hundreds of them
to whom five hundred dollars would
seem a great sum who would not
recognize the saloon business nor
place themselves under obligations to
it for its ill-gotten possessions"
There is great need Of revival of
old-fashioned temperance. The an
tique IN other things has become fash
ionable; old-fashioned houses are in
great demand, and oid-fashioned fur
niture is much sought for. Old fash
ioned Temperance laid great stress
upon individual appeal for total alb
stinence. One by one the pioneer
temperance army was recruited as
pledged total abstainers. These
pledged recruits were obtained in
large numbers in meetings held In
churches, halls, school houses, and
lodge rooms, wherein the reason for
total abstinence was given by care
ful and thorough analysis Of the evil
nature and effects of strong drink
itself. In this respect the old fash
ioned temperance meetings We're a
most helpful school of education to
multitudes by whom they were at
tended. Let them be reyived.-1ena-
pelunce 4drocae.
A Roman Catholic Bishop writing
to secular journal joins in the con-
demnation of the dram-shop in this
forcible strain: 'rIhe drink demon
lies at the bottom in every effort Of
social regeneration. mocking at the
philanthropist and the religionist
alike. You may spend hundreds Of
thousands of pounds for refugees,
shelters, and colonies, but if we plant
a drink shop in the midst of every
forty families, refugees, shelters, ana
colonies will be needed for many a
generation to come. To say nothing
of Catholic children in work-houses,
I have actually over 1900 children in
industrial schools and homes here
and in Canada, and I am looking
anxiously to the time when this num-
Der will diminish and disappear; but
there is no hope of closing such in
stitutions so long as that corrupter
and destroyer, the drink-shop, is sys-
tematically established within the
sight and hearing of almost every
poor mans house, while perhaps the
poor mans house is unfit for a hu-
man habitation."