Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-03-07
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ing youth; but this evil may make tho
moro infamous boast that all its life it
has been rnining the bodies, minds and
souls of the human race.
UNFAITuEULEEss OF POLITICAL PAIR
TIES.
Put on your spectacles and take a
candle and examine the platforms of
the two leading political parties of this
country, and see what they are doing
for the arrest of this evil and for the
overthrow of this determination. Reso-
lntions2 Oh. yes, resolutions about
Morrnonisln! 1t is safe to attack that
organized nastiness two thousand miles
away. But not one resolution against
drunkenness. which would turn this
entire natio. into one bostial Salt Lake.
City. Resolutions against political cor
.ruption, butsnot one word about drunk
senness. licll:swoulds rot this nation;
|SsfrolI. seal ito. heel Reso buttons about;
i l5roteetion gajnst compctiti with,
But
about protection Of f;lnlify and church:
and nation against the scalding, blast
ing. all consuming, damning tariff of
strong drink put upon every financial,
individual. spiritual, moral. national
! interest
look in another direction. The
church of God is the grandest and
| most glorious institution on earth.
| What has it in solid pllalanx accom-
plished for the overthrow of drunken
ness2 Have its forces ever been mar
shaled2 No, NOT III this direction.
not long ago great ecclcsiastical court
assembled in New York. and resoIu-
tions arraigning strong drink we're of
! fered, and clergyinen with strong drink
/ on their tables and strong drink il
(! 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
-notin the millennium, but today-tho
church holds the balance of power in
America; and if Christian people-ti,o
| men and tho woInca who profess TO
love the Lord Jesus Christ and to love
purity and to bc the sworn enemies of
| all unclcanness and debaucllery and
sniff all sncll would march side by
side and shoulder to shoulder this evil
would soon be overtEsown. Think of
three hundred thousand churches and
Sunday schools III Cliristcndom march
ing shoulder to shoulder! How very
short time it would take tllein to put
| down this evil If all the churches Of
God. transatlantic and cisatlantic, were
armed on this subiectl
Young lien of America, pass over
into the army Of teetoiisin. Whisky,
gooI to preserve corpses ought never
to turn you into a corpse Tens of
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 it!
Do not touch it'll
lii the front door of our church in
Brooklyn few summers ago. this
scene occurred: Sabbath morning
young nll; was entering for divine
worship. a friend passing along the
street said, Joe, corac alon; with me;
| AM going dowa to Conay Island, and
well lave Il gay sunday" NO, :" re-
pied Joe; II have started to go here to
church, and aiu going to attend ser
VICE here. 'OIl, Joc," his friend said,
you can go to church any tinel The
day is bright, and we'll go to Coney ISL
and and we'll have splendid time"
The temptation was too great, and tho
twain went to the beach, spent the day
in drunkenness and riot. The evening
train started up from Brighton. The
young men were on it. Joe, in his in
toxication, when the train was in full
speed tried to pass around from ono
seat to another, and fell and was
crushed.
Under the lantern, as ZOO 10y bleed
Ing his life away on the grass, he said
to his comrldc: John, that was a bad
business, your taking me away from
church; it was very bad business.
You ought not to have done that, John.
I want you to tell the boys tomorrow
when you see them that rum and Sab
bath breaking did this for me. And,
John, while you are telling them win
be in hell, and 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 stopa
''Look not upon the wine when it is
red, when it moveth itself Alright i'll the
cup, for at last it biteth like q serpent
and stingeth like an adder.
ITS WATERLOO AT HAND.
But this evil will be arrested. Blu
cher came up just before night and
saved the day at Waterloo. at 4
o'clock in the afternoon it looked very
badly for tine English. Generals Pom
sonby and Picton fallen. Sailors broken,
flags surrendered. Scots Grays annihi-
lated. Only forty-two men leftsout 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 Englishman q lesson. Ninety
chances out of hundred are in our
favor. Magnificent! magnificent" He
even sent messages to Paris to say he
had won tho day.
But before shutdown Butcher came
up, and he who had been the conqueror
OF Austerlitz became the victim OF
Waterloo. That name which had
shaken all Europe and filled even
America with apprehension-that name
went down, and Napoleon, muddy and
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