Milford chronicle., 1891-03-06
Deadl deadl deadi 'Oh, ADsalom, my son,
my son, would God that had died for thee,
oh, Absalom, my son, sonP"


stood there and said: 81 curse this dwelling
with an unrelenting curse. curse that
father into a maniac, curse that mother
into pauper. curse those sons into
/ vagabonds. / curse those daughters into
! profigacy. Cursed be bread tray and
cradle. Cursed be couch and chair, and
/ family Bible with record of marriages and
4 births and deaths. Curse upon curse" "
l Oh, how many wives are there waiting
! to see if something cannot be done to
shake these frOsts of the second death OF
! the orange blossomsl Yea, God is waiting,
/ the God who works through human iu-
! strumentalities, waiting to see whether
this nation is going to overthrow this evil,
and il it refuse to do so God will wipe out
the nation AS he did Phoenicia, as he did
Rome, as he did Thebes, as he did Babylon.
Ay, he is waiting to see what the church
Of God will do. If the church does not do
its work, then he will wipe it out as he did
the church Of Ephesus, church of Thya-
tira, church of Sardis. The Protestant and
Roman Catholic churches today stand side
by side, with an impotent look, gazing on
this evil, which costs this country more
than billion dollars year to take care OF
the 10000 paupers, and the 3l5,O0O crimi-
mails, and the 30OO0 idiots, and to bury the
*, 900 drunkards. Protagoras 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 it has been running the
bodies, minds and souls OF the human race.
THE POLITICIANS ARE DOING NOTHING.
Put on your spectacles and take candle
and examine the platforms Of the two lead
ing political parties Of this country. and
see what they are doing for the arrest Of
this evil and for the overthrow of this
abOmination. Resolutions-ohl yes, reso-
lutions about Mormonisml It is safe to
attack that organized nastiness two thou
sand miles away. But not one resolution
against drunkenness, which would turn
this entire nation into one bestial Salt Lake
City Resolutions against political cor
ruptiOn, but not one word about drunken
ness, which would rot this nation from
scalp to heel Resolutions about prOtec-
tion against competition with foreign in
dustries, but not one word about protec-
tion Of family and church and nation
against the sealding, blasting, all consum-
ing, damning tariff of strong drink put
upon every financial, individual, spiritual,
moral, national interest.
1 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 drunkennessS Have its forces ever been
marshaledg No, not in this direction. Not
long ago a great ecclesiastical court assem-
bled in New York, and resolutions arraign-
ing strong drink were offered, and clergy
men with strong drink on their tables and
strong drink in their cellars defeated the
resolutions 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 the millennium, but today-the
church holds the balance OF power in
America; and il Christian people-the
men and the women who profess to love
the Lord Jesus Christ and to love purity
and TO be the sworn enemies Of all unclean-
ness and debauchery and sniff all such
would march side by side and shoulder to |
shoulder, this evil would soon be over
thrown. Think of three hundred thou |
sand churches and Sunday schools in |
Christendom marching shoulder to shoul- |
derl How very short time it would take |
them to put down this evil, If all the |
Of God transatlantic and cisat- |
lantic, were armed on this subiectS
Young men Of America, pf.,s over into /
the army OF teetotalism. Whisky, good to |
preserve corpses, ought never to turn you |
into corpse. Tens of thousands Of young 4.
men have been dragged out of respecta-
bility, and out Of purity, and out OF good /
and into darkness by this in
fernal stuff called strong drink. Do not
touch i'll Do not touch It'll
LOOK NOT UPON THE WINE.
In the front door Of our church in Brook
lyn, few summers ago, this scene oc-
Cured: Sabbath morning a young man
was entering for divine worship. A friend
passing along the street said, Joe, come
along with me; am going down to Coney
Island aud Wen have a gay Sunday" /
mo" replied Joe; 81 have started to go
here to church, and am going to attend
service here" "Oh, joe" his friend said,
you can go to church any timel The day
IS bright, and we'll go to Coney Island, aud
we'll have a splendid time" The tempta-
lion was too strong, aud the twain went to
he beach, spent the day in drunkenness
and riot. The evening train started up
rom Brighton. The young men we're on
t. Joe, In his intoxiestiou, when the train
vas in full speed, tried to pass around from
me seat 20 another and fell and was
rushed.
Cnder the lantern, as Joe lay bleeding
lis life away on the grass, he said to his
'omrade: John, that was a bad business,
our taking me away from church; it was
very bad business. You ought not to
lave done that, John. want you to tell
he boys tomorrow when you ses them
hat rum and Sabbath breaking did this
or me. And John, while you are telling
hem / will be in hell, and it will be your
ault." Is it not time for me to pull out
rom the great organ of Gods word, with
many banks Of keys, the tremolO stopf |
Look not upon the winefyhen it is red,
fhen It moyeth itself aright in the cup,
or at last it biteth like a serpent and {
tingeth like an.adder."
But this evil will be arrested. Blucher
anne up just before night and saved the
lay at Waterloo. At 4 o'clock in the after
ioon it looked very badly for the English.
Generals Ponsonby and Pickton fallen.
iabers broken, flags surrendered, Scots
rays annihilated. Only forty-two men
eft cut Of the German brigade. The En-
ish army falling back and falling back.
Napoleon rubbed his hands together and
aid: "Ahal ahal We'll teach that little
,nglishman lesson. Ninety chances out
( a hundred are in our favor, Magnli1-
enti magniiicentp He even sent mes
ages to Paris to say he had won the day.
But before sundown Blucher came up,
nd he who had been the conqueror Of 4
.usterlitz became the victim Of Waterloo, i
he name which had shaken all Europe c
nd filled even America with apprehen-
ion, that name went down, and Napoleon, !.
muddy and hatless, and crazed with his dis
sters, was found feeling for the stirrup Of 4
horse, that he might mount and resume t
he conflict s
Well, my friends, alcoholism is imperial. e
nd it is conqueror, and there are good
eople who say the night of national over
lrow is coming, and that it IS almost
iglt. But before sundown the Conqueror c
earth and heaven viii ride IN on the 4
.hite horse, and alcoholism, which has a
ad its Austeflitz Of triumph. shall have
S Waterloo Of defeat Alcoholism hay-
ie lost its crown. the ErizzlY and eruel