Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-03-13


church OF Sardis. The Protestant and Ro-
man Catholic churches to-day stand side b.
side, with an impotent look, gazing on TIN
evil. which costs this country more than q
billion dollars a year 10 take care OF the S0O,-
600 paupers, and the Sis, 900 criminals, and
the 80, 900 idiots, and to bury the 75,00o
drunkards Protsgoras boasted that out OF
the sixty years Of his life forty years be had
spent in running youth; but this evil may
make the more Infamous boast that all Its
life il has been running the bodies, minds and
souls OF the human race.
Put on your spectacies and take a candle
and examine the platforms OF the two lend
ing political parties OF this country, and ses
what they are doing for the arrest Of this
evil and for the overthrow OF this sbomins-
tion. Resolutions-oh! yes. resolutions abo1
Mormonism! 1t 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 one
bestial 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 In
dustries, but not one word about protection
of family and church and nation against the
scalding, blasting, all consuming, damniug
tariff OF strong drink put upon every finan-
cial, individual, spiritual, moral, national
interest.
/ look in another direction The Church Of
God is the grandest and most glorious institu-
tion on earth What has it in solid phalanx
accomplished for the overthrow Of drunken
nessi Have its forces ever been marshaledt
No, not in this direction. Not long ago q
great ecclesiastical court assembled In New
York, and resolutions arraigning strong
drink were offered, and clergymen with
Gtrnny drink THAR fnhlag and gtr0n0
drink in their cellars defeated the resoiu-
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 today-not In
tie millennium, but to-day--the church
holds the balance Of power in America; and
il Christian people--the men aud the women
who profess TO love the Lord Jesus Christ
and TO love purity and to be the sworn enc
mics of all uncleanness and debauchery and
sin-it all such would march side
by aGe ami shoulder to shoulder
this evil would soon be overthrown.
Think OF three hundred thou
sand churches and Sunday schools in Chris
tendon marching should ar to shoulder! How
very short time it would take then to put
down this evil, IL all the churches OF God,
transatlantic ami c.satlaltic, were armed OH
this subject
Young men OF America pass over into
the army OF teetotalisn. Whisky, good te
preserve corpsas ou ght never to turn you
into a corpse. Tens Of thousands of young
men have been dra rg ID ont OF repectability
and out OF parity. AMI ou. Of good char
acter, AMI into darkness by this Internal stuf
called strong drink Do not touch 1t! DO
not touch It'll
In the front door o, our church in Brook
lyp, few summers agD. this 81 cans occurred:
Sahha a Nt1
for divine wIrsttD. A Iri"n pa sing along
ne street sail, Joe, COM aoIs with ma:
sus going down to C0aey Island and wen
have a gay Sunday" No" replied jos; II
have started n 80 he to church, and am
going TO attend service here" "Oh, Joe" bis
friend said, "you can so TO church
any time! The day is bright,
AMI we'll go to Coney Island, and
we'll have a splendid time The temptation
was too strong. aud ths twain went TO the
beach, spent the day IN drunkenness and
riot. The evening train started up from
Brighton. The Young men were on IL. Joe,
IN his intoxicaton, when the train was in
full speed, tried to pass aEound 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 COM
rade: "John, that was a bad business your
taking me away from church; it was very
had business. You ought not TO have done
that, John. want you TO tell the boys to-
me row when you see them that rum
AMI sabbath breaking did this for
me. And John while you are telling
them l viii bs in hsil, aud it will be your
fault" Is it 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 it is red, when 1t moveth
itself ar ght in the cup, for at last it biteth
like a serpent and Sttngeth like EN- adder"
But this evil will be arrested. Blucher came
up Just before night and saved the day at
Waterloo. At I O'Clock in the afternoon 1t
looked very badly for the English. Generals
Ponsonby and Pickton fallen. Sabers broken,
flags surrendered, Scots Grays annihilated.
Only forty-two men left out OF the German
brigade. The English army falling back and
falling back. Napoleon rubbed his hands
together and said: Aha! ahal we'll teach
that little Englishmau a lesson. Ninety
chances out Of huudrei arc in our favor.
Magnificent maguificentT' He even sent
messages to Paris to say he had won the day.
But befare suniown Butcher came up, am
he who had been the conqueror Of AusterL.~
became the victim OF Waterloo The name
which had shaken all Europe and filed even
America with apprehension, that name went
down, and Napoleon, muddy and hatless, and
crszed with his disasters> was found feeling
for the stirrup OF horse, that he might
mount and resume the c"nfict.
Well, my friends alcoholism is imperial,
and 1t is a conqueror, aud there are good
people who say tho night Of national over
throw is coming, and that 1t is almost night
But before sundown the Conqueror OF earth
and heaven will ride in on the white horse
and alcoholism, which has had its Austerlitx
Of triumph shall have its Waserloo OF de-
feat. Alcoholism having lost its Gro yn, the
grizzly and cruel breaker o; haman hearts,
crazed with the disaster. will re founl feel
ing in vain for tho stirrup in which to re-.
mount Its foaming CHARGE. 80 . Lord,
let Thine enemies perish