The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-03-06

something can not be done to shake
these frosts OF the second death of the
orange bIossomsl Yea, God is waiting,
the God who works through human in
strumentalities, waiting to see whether
this nation Is going to overthrow this
evil; and if it refuse 70 do 50, God viii
wipe out the nation as He did PhOenicia,
as He did Rome, as He did Thebes, as
He did Babylon
Put on your sPectacles and take
candle. and examine the platforms OF
the two political parties OF this country,
and see what they are doing for the ar
rest of this evil and for the overthrow
OF this denomination ResOlutions-oh!
YES, resolutions about MormOnism. It
is safe TO attack that organized nasti-
ness two thousand miles away. But
not one resolution against drunkenness,
which would turn this entire nation
into one bestial Salt Lake City. ResO-
Iutions against political corruption, but
not one word about drunkenness. which
would rot this nation from scalp to
heel Resolutions about protection
against competition with foreign in
dustries, but not one word about pro-
lection of families and children and
nation against the scaIding, blasting,
all consuming, damning tariff of strong
drink put upon every financial, indi-
vidual, spiritual, moral, national inter
est
look in another direction. The
church of God is the grandest and most
glorious institution on earth. What has
it in solid phalanx accomplished for the
overthrow of drunkenness? Have its
forces ever been marshalled? No, not
in this direction. Not long ago a great,
ecclesiastical court assem- bled in New
York, and resolutions alraigning strong
drink We're offered, and clergymen with
strong drink on the tables and strong
drink in their cellars defeated the resO-
| luton by threatening speeches. They
could not bear to give up their own lusts.
I tell this audience what many of you
have never thought of, that to-day
not in the millennium, but tO-day-the
church holds the balance of power
in America, and if christian people
would march side by side and shoulder
| to shoulder, this evil would soon be
OverthrOyvn. Think of 500, 600 churches
/ and Sunday schools in ChristendOm
marching shoulder to shoulder! How
very short a time it would take them to
/ put down this evil if 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 a corpse. Tens of
| thousands of young men have been
dragged out of respectability, and out
| of purity, and out of good character,
and into darkness by this Internal stuff
| called strong drink. Do not touch it!
! Do net touch it!
| In the front of our church in Brook
! Ign, few summers ago, this scene Oc-
CURED: Sabbath morning a young man
| was entering for divine worship. y
| friend passing along the street said:
Joe, come along with me; 1 am going
down to COney Island, and Wen have a
gay Sunday" Mo- replied Joe;'' I have
started to go here to church, and I am
| going to attend services here" so,
| joe his friend said, you can can 60
to church any time. The day is bright,
! and Wen go to COney Island, and We'll
! have q 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 INVESTIGATION,
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 business, yOu1
taking me away from church; it was q
very bad business. You ought not to
have done that, John. 1 want you tC
tell the boys tomorrow. when you see
/
did this for me. And, John, while you
are telling them viii be in hell, and il
will be your fault F"
But this evil viii be arrested. Butcher
came up just before night and saved the
day at Waterloo. At + o'clock in the
afternoon it looked very badly for the
English. Generals 1'OnsOnby and PictoI
fallen. Sabres broken, flags surren
dered, Scots Grays annihilated. Only
fOrty-tNvo men left out of the German
brigade The English army falling
back and falling back. Napoleon
rubbed his hands together and said
AHA! ahai Wen teach that little En-
glishman a lesson Ninety chances ont
OF a hundred are in our favor. Mag
nificent! magnificent He even sent
messages to Paris to say he had wOr
the day But before shutdown BlucheI
| came up, and he who had been the con
querOr OF Austeritz became the victim
of Waterloo. That name which had
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