Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-03-07

Christendom marching shoulder to
shoulder! How very short time It
would take them TO put down this evil
II the churches OF God, transatlantic
and cisatlantic, were armed on this
subject!
Young men OF America, pass over
into the army OF teetotalism. Whisky,
good to preserve corpses, ought never
to turn you into corpse. Tens oil
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 1t! Donot
touch IT.!
In the front OF our church in Brook
lyn, few summers ago. this scene oc-
Cured: Sabbath morning young man
was entering for divine worship. A
friend passing along the street said:
''Joe, come along with me, l am going
down TO Coney Island, and we'll have q
gay Sunday" NO" replied Joe, Il
have started to go here to church, and
/ am going to attend services here"
30 Joe" his friend said, you can go to
church any time. The day is bright,
and we'll go to Coney Island, and we'll
have splendid time" The temptation
was too great, and the twain went to
the beach. spent the day in drunken
ness and riot. The evening train
started up from Brighton. The
young men were on it. Joe. in his
intoXication, 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 bleeding
his life away on the grass, he said to his
comrade: John, that was bad BUSH
ness, your taking me away from church;
it was very bad business. You ought
not TO have done that, John. l want
you to tell the boys tomorrow when you
see them that rum and Sabbath break
ing did this for me. And, John, while
YOU are telling them will be in hell,
and it will be your fault" Is 1t 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 itmoveth
itself Alright in the cup, for at last it bit
eth like serpent and seingeth like an
adder"
But this evil will be arrested. Butcher
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 Ponsonby and Pic
ton fallen. Sabres broken. flags surren-
dered, SCOTS Grays annihilated. Only
forty-two men left out Of the German
brigade. The English army falling
back and falling back. Napoleon rub
bed his hands together and said: AHA
aha. we'll teach that little Englishman
a lesson. Ninety chances out of hun.
dred are in our favor. Magnificent
magnificent He even sent messages
TO Paris to say he had won the day. But
before shutdown Butcher came up, and
he who had been the conqueror Of
Austerlitz became the victim of Water
loo. That name which had shaken all
Europe and filed even America with
apprehension: that name went down,
and Napoleon, muddy and hatless. and
crazed with his disasters. was found
feeling for the stirrup of horse, that
he might mount and resume the con-
flict.
Well, my friends, alcoholism is i'm
perial. and il is conqueror, and there
are good people who say the night of
national overthrow is coming. and that
it is almost nigh. But before shutdown
the Conqueror OF earth and heaven will
ride in on white horse, and alcohol
ism, which has had its Austerlitz OF
triumph. shall have its Waterloo OF de.
feat. Alcoholism having lost its crown.
the grizzly and cruel breaker of human
hearts, crazed with the disaster, will
be found feeling in vain for the stirrup
on which to remount its foaming charg-
err $50, o Lord let thine enemies
perish"