The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1891-03-05

side, with an impotent look, gazing on this
evil. which costs this country more than q
billion dollars year 10 take care OF the 800
600 paupcrs, and the 31s,000 criminals. and
the so, 600 idiots and to bury the 1900
drunkards. Protagoras boosted that out OF
the sixty years Of bis life forty years he had
spent in running youth; but this evil may
make the more infamous boast that all its
life II has been running the bodies, minds and
souls of the human race.
Put on your spectacles and take n candls
and examine the platforms OF the two lead
ing political parties Of this country, and SO,
what they arc doing for the arrest OF this
evil and for the overthrow OF this abomina-
tion. Rcsolutions-ohi yes, resolutions about
Mormonisml IL is safe to attack that or
ganized nastiness two thousand miles away.
But not one resolution against drunkenness,
which would turn this entire nation into QUO
bcstial Salt Lake City. Resolutions against
political corruption, but not one word about
drunkenness which would rot this nation
from scalp to heel. Resolutions about pro-
lection against competition with foreign H.
dustries, but not one word about protection
OF family and church and nation against the
ecalding, blasting, all consuming, damniug
tariff OF strong drink put upon every finnn-
cial. individual spiritual, moral, national
interest.
4 look in another direction. The Church Of
God is tho grandcst and most glorious institu-
tion on earth. What has Il In solid phalanx
accomplished for the overthrow OF drunken
nessi Have its forces ever been marshaledt
No, not In this direction, Not long ago
great ecclesiastical court assembled In New
York, and resolutions arraigning strong
drink were offered, and clergymen with
strong drink on their tables and strong
drink In their cellars defeated the rcsolu-
tions by threatening speeches. They could
not bear to give up their own lusts.
tell this audience what many OF you may
never have thought Of that to-day-not in
the millennium, but to-day the church
holds the balance OF power in America; and
II Christian people--the men and the women
who profess to love the Lord Jesus Christ
and TO love purity and 10 be the sworn enc
mics of all unclcanness and debnuchery and
sin-it all such would march side
by side and shoulder 20 shoulder
this evil would soon bo overthrown.
Think OF three hundred thou
sand churches and Sunday-schools in Chris
tendon marching shoulder to snoui ter! How
very short time IL would take them to put
down this evil, IL all the churches of God,
transatlantic and cisatlantic, were arme1 on
this subjectg
Young men OF America pass over into
the army Of teetotalisn. Whisky, Cooi 10
preserve corpscs, ought never to turn you
Into corpse. Tens Of thousands uf young
men have been dragged out OF rcpectabiity
and out of purity, aud out of good char
hcter, and into darkness by this Internal stuff
called strong drink. Do not touch It! DO
not touch i'll
In the front door of our church in Brook
lyn, few summers ago, this scene occurred;
Sabbath morning young man was entering
for divine worship. A friend passing along
the street said, Joe, como along with me;
am going down TO Conoy Island and wen
have a gay Sunday "Non replied Joe; III
have started to go hero 10 church, and am
going to attend service here" "Oh, joe his
friend said, 'you can go 10 church
and we'll go to Conoy Island, and
we'll have n splendid time" The temptation
was too strong. and the twain went 10 the
beach, spent the day III drunkenness and
riot. The evening train started up from
Brighton. The young men were on IT, Joe,
In his intoxication, when the train was III
full speed, tried to pass around from one seat
10 ano other and fell and was crushed.
Under the lantern, as Joe lay bleeding his
life away on the grass, he said to his COM
rade; John, that was bad business, your
taking me away from church; IL was very
bad business. You ought not 10 have done
that John. want you to toll the boys to-
morrow when you SOC them that rum
and Sabbath breaking hid this for
Inc. And John while you ar" telling
them will be in hsll, and 10 will be your
fault Isit not time for me to pull out from
the great organ OF Gods word, with many
banks OF keys, the tremolo stopf Look not
upon the wine when IL is red when IL moveth
itself Alright in the cup, for at last 1t bteth
like n serpent and stingeth like an adder"
But this evil will be arrested. Blucher came
up just before night and saved the day ut
Waterloo. AT o'clock in the afternoon II
looked very badly for tho English Generals
Ponsonby and Pickton fallen. Sabers broken,
flags surrendered, scots Grays annihilated
Only forty-two men loft out or the German
brigade. The English army falling back and
falling back. NAPOLEON rubbed his hands
together and said: "Aha! aha! we'll teach
that little Enghshman lesson. Ninety
chances out OF "a hundred aro in our favor.
Magnificent magnificent lie even sent
messages TO Paris 10 say he had won the day.
But before sundown Blucher came up, and
he who had been the conqueror OF Austerlltz
became the victim OF Waterloo. The name
which had shaken all Europe and filed oven
America with apprehension, that name went
down, and Napoleon, muddy and hatless, ana
,crazod with his disasters, was found feeling
for tho stirrup of horse, that he might
mount and resume the conflict.
Well, my friends, alcoholism is imperial,
and IL Is a conqueror, aud there are good
people who say tho night OF national over
throw Is coming, and that IL is almost night.
But before sundown the Conqueror or earth
and heaven will ride IN on tho white horse,
and alcoholism, which has had It's Austerlitz
OF triumph, shall bave Its Waterloo OF dc
feat. Alcoholism having lost its crown, the
grizzly an1 cruel breaker of human hearts,
crazed with tho disaster. will be found feel
ing in vain for the stirrup in which 10 re-
mount its foaming charger. 80, q Lord,
let Thine enemies pcrish|
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