Mower County transcript., 1891-06-10
Column.
mo license and total abstinence. y
MRS. c. ]. sHoRrr AND MRS. E. B. CRANE,
EDITORS.

More members of my church smoke
| than | could wish. Indeed I should not
be surprised if some members OF our
board Of deacons, or even the Sunday
school superintendent do. But never
thousht It quite necessary to bring up
before the church such deacons for dis
cipllne. One of the members of the
church. who is inclined to mind his own
business and also is inclined to mind
other peoples business, too, lately came
to me and said, My pew is right behind
Deacon Strongsmell. My wife and
children are especially sensitive to the
fumes of tobacco. Now every Sunday
morning the overcoat of Deacon Strong
smell Is so fragrant of tobacco that 1t
makes my wife sick" He gave me this
statement and waited apparently for me
to give some answer. simply asked.
well, what of it?' WHAT OF it," he
repeated, well, don't know" Several
courses of action, still further answered
"are open. First, you can persuade
Deacon Strongsmell not to come to
church at all: second, you may per-
suade him to give up smoking; third,
you can persuade him to change his
clothes after he has smoked, fourth you
may persuade him to change his pew;
fifth you may change your pew; sixth.
you may exercise the minds of your wife
and children so they will not be sick. !"
When I finished I saw the face Of my
friend broadening, and he was in proper
mood to discuss the question which lay
before US. We discussed the question.
1t is not five weeks since had an in ter
view, but I notice that last Sunday his
family had taken pew in another part
of the church. I think, however, when
Deacon Strongsmell speaks to me of his
sorrow in losing Mrs. Sensitive as a
neighbor. shall tell him the reason of
his loss. l shall also tell him he has no
right to befoul the atmosphere of the
church as he does.-Adyance.
| Those were only too true words spoken
by Archbishop Ireland at the reception
given by the National Temperance
Society, New York. and cannot be too
earnestly heeded: "The saloon to-day
is the source of rebellion against the law
of the land. Make laws whatever you
will, and the saloon-keeper boldly defies
them. Make laws for the observance
of Sunday-the one day of the week
which we have striven to hold sacred for
| God. one of the last vestiges of religion
in the land-and the saloon-k keeper open s
wide his doors and defes you. He cares
for nothing but for the vile profit which
he receives in exchange for the souls
which he damns in time and eternity.
The evil is frightful, and it has always
been somewhat of mystery to me why
it is that men who are known to have
many friends, and who are devoted to
country, to neighbor. and to religion,
did not JOIN with US in this war against
intemperance."
One of the clergymen of this place,
when he gave the announcement last
Sunday of the county convention of the
W. G. T. u, urged his audience to at
tend in order to become better acquaint-
ed with the work of the organization,
and added that it was much wider in it's
scope than the majority of people knew.
That is very true. and one of the best
things that it does is to labor for the
promotion of the proper observance of
the Sabbath. There is an instance of the
work accomplished in rural neighbor-
hood IN not far distant county of
our state by one of these little bands of
quiet, but resolute workers. The young
men of the neighborhood proposed to
form base ball club and engage in that
sport on the Sabbath, giving as reason
that they had no other time for recrea-
ton. Whereupon the good women of
the W. G. T. T., visited the employers
of these young men and secured for them
weekly half holiday in which they
could enjoy their game.
Not many may know that about year
ago there was danger in the Sandwich
Islands of unfavorable legislation IN re-
gard to Sabbath observance, and that
help from the W, G. T. U. of the United
States was asked for. It was Miss Jessie
Ackerman, I think who went there and
spent some time lecturing and working
in the interests of the cause, and through
her efforts the Christian Sabbath has
been preserved intact on those far of
islands of the Pacific ocean. If the
Apostle Paul we're at work in the nine
teenth century, would he not say "help
those women?"
And now the papers tell US of the
formation of new political party. It
came into existance at Cincinnati and
was christened ''The peoples party of
tho TInitod Cto%ac NJ nonpo1lv