The Monitor., 1891-05-01
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. inc
MISS 4 E MACALTIoNER READ AT TIL
SALEM COUNTY, w. con-
vENT1oN. APRIL %, 1891.

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SALEM COUNTY w. C L con-
vENTIoN APRIL 22, 1871.
There is probably no greater hindranee
t, the cause of temperance and signing
the pledge than cider. When asked 10
" Srite thls paper was told that it was an
easy task. Not So, my friend. Should l
picture to you the evils Of intoxicating
liquors, it is probable that | shonld have
the support of all present, but upon
the subject of cider we are divided, and
perhaps in the minority. The subject.
as it appears upon our programme, is the
receptire influence of cider, which have
preferred to change Make the ''r'' 'd''
and we have the deceptire influence OF
cider. SO many people, aud some seem
ipgly good ones. see no ha: m in sweet
cider. 1t is because they have never care
fully studied this matter. Ia the sacred
word we are commanded to search and
see If these things are true" So in this
great work we are to search and test and
see if these things be so. Let US not be
wilfully deceived. Paul, the man of God,
said: "If meat cause my brother to offend,
I will cat no meat, so even though We
b, not harmed by drink, We should be
willing to sacrifice to save our fallen ones.
No matter how much we defend cider ano
Try to believe it harmless, we cannot do it.
This stumbling block contains alcohol,
aud what difference whether you take ii
from the bottle labeled alcohol, or drink
it under another namt? There are those
who say II do not believe it; have drank
cider all my Lille, and my parents before
me, SO if there is alcohol in cider it musi
be a very harmless kind These people
are sincere in their belief oftentimes, but
deceived. They have paid no attention t.
the character of chemical action to know
how it changes the nature Of things. We
read Nc matter how much we like straw
cellar all the year, should We put basket
fal away for that purpose they would de
cay and change. So if you put apple juice
IN a barrel, that, toe, will decay and pro-
the same kind that is found in all alcoholic
lqlorS WHAT more Of a ltsson dors
Nuodstown need than the one it has just
sad, V here one has died victim of s. ron.
drink. | am told he did not visit saloons
where liquor was sold. because he had
been denied the sale, but rather went
here cider was. | have seen him go ny
town walking straight. seen him go to the
saloon, heard that he drank cider. What
then. do yon ash? He would go home
reeiDg drunk TO abuse bis family. Tbs
hardshps aud the broken heart of dying
" life are too painful for me to relate. Then
do you tell me cider will not .ntOxicatt? !?
BE not deceived, " hatsoever a man SOW
eth that shall he also reap" But" you
say, that is not sweet cider" No, my
friend, but it is cider, aud We cannot tell
just when the alcohol is formed. The
juice of the apple is SO sweet that it can
not stand the heat and light, il changes it;
1t may be that the process OF death To the
drinker may be slow, but its aim is to de-
stroy the soul. | was reading some time
since of a gentleman who was a Christian,
but W ho thought it harmless to drink cider,
as many Of our good people to-day do, aud
| yet he had been known to ask the blessing
at the table when his tongue was so thick
| that enc could scarcely understand the
! IA or : 10 for Lee v
to be kept from sin during the day. and
walk right out to his cider barrel. He
scorned Intoxicating liquors, but cider
soon became his master, SO lie gave up his
| church and became drunkard openly.
l heard as an argument recently, in refer
ence to cider drinker, that he was not
| drunk because he did not stagger. So it
it nth some men who drink liquor.
have ia my mind now man who is hard
| drinker, whose conversation is at times,
| " hen under the influence, absolutely silly,
whose look is idiutic, but by these v hO
knew him, aud were often with him, never
knew him to stagger but once. Its fleets
are not always the same. Cider Las the
reputation vi making those who dIilk it
sour, morose and qaarres ONE, as mut h.,
if not more, than most Intoxicating
liquors. SO man may be drunk
and not show it in his walk
AS much as We would like to believe that
cider isl not intoxicating, We must take
what those tell us Who have the appetite to
fight against Some time ago went to a
young man " no is slave to strong drink,
and asked him il sweet cider would have
any tendency TO awaken the desire for
strong drink. "Yes," said he, "lf had not
been blinking for months aud you offered
me glass Of cider you mightas we'll give
me liquor" "Oh,"I said, but that surely
would be hard cider" mo, " said he, with
saddened lo1k, sweet cider " ould do it
just as quick" Do you think he must be
an exceptionally weak man? He was once
where the cider dfinker to-day is, lie
thought it would do no harm, now it is his
master, he its slave. i;ev. II. II. Murray,
late Of Boston, speaks in strong terms