Sharp County record., 1891-03-19

bodies, minds and souls of the human
race.
Put on your spectacless and take
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 abomination. Reso-
lutions-oh, yes, resolutions about Nor
monism! 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 cor
ruption, but not one word about drunk
enness, which would rot this nation
from scalp to heel. Resolutions about
protection against competition with
foreign industries, but not one word
about protection of family 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.
l 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 marshaled? No, not
in this direction. Not long ago great
ecclesiastical court assembled in New
York, and resolutions arraigning
strong drink were offered, and cler-
gymen with strong drink on their ta-
bles 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 to-day-not in the mil
lennium, but to-day-the church holds
the balance of power in America;
and if Christian people-the men
and the women who profess to love
the Lord Jesus Christ and to love puri-
ty and to be sworn enemies of all I'M
>cleanEess and debauchery and sin-if all
such would march side by side and
shoulder to shoulder, this evil would
soon be overthrown. Think of three
hundred thousand churches and Sunday
schools in christendom marching shoul-
der to shoulder! How very short time
it would take them to put down this evil
if all the churches of God, transatlantic
and cisatlantic, were armed on this sub
ject!
Young men of America, pass over into
the army of teetotalism. Whisky, good
to preserve corpses, ought never to turn
you into corpse. Tens of thousands
of young men have been dragged out of
responsibility, and out Of purity, and
out of good character, and into dark
ness, by this internal stuff called strong
drink. Do not touch it! Do not touch it!
In the front door of our church in
Brooklyn, few summers ago, this
scene occurred Sabbath morning a
young man was entering for Divine wor-
ship. A friend passing along the street
said: 'Joe, come along with me; | am
going down to Coney Island, and we'll
have gay Sunday" "No," replied
Joe; 81 have started to go here to church
and am going to attend service here"
80, joe" his friend said ''you can 90
to church any time! The day is bright,
and we'll go to Coney Island and we'll
have splendid time" The tempta.
ton was too great and the twain went
to the beach, spent the day in drunken
dess and riot. The evening train start
ed up from Brighton. The young men
were on it. Joe, in his intoxication,
when the train was in full speed, tried
to pass around from one side to an
other and fell and was crushed Under
the lantern, as Joe lay bleeding his life
away on the grass, he said to his COM
panion: John, tha! was bad business
your taking me away from church; it was
a very bad business. You ought not to
have done that, John. Iwant you to tell
the boys tomorrow when you see them
that rum and Sabbath breaking did
this for me. And, John, while you are
telling them, l will 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 stop? Look not upon the
wine when it is red, when it moveth it
self Alright in the cup, for at last it biteth
like a serpent and stingeth like an ad.
DER
But this evil will be arrested. Blu
cher came up just before night and
saved the day at Waterloo. At four
o'clock in the afternoon it looked very
bad for the English. Gems. Ponsonby
and Picton fallen. Sabers broken, flags
surrendered, Scots Grays annihilated.
Only forty-two men left out Of the Ger
man brigade. The English army fall
ing back and falling back. Napoleon
rubbed his hands together and said
"Aha! aha! we'll teach that little
Englishman lesson. Ninety chances
out of hundred are in our favor.
Magnificent! magnihcentw He even
sent messages to Paris to say he had
won the day But before sundown
Blucher came up, and he who had been
the conqueror Of Austerlitz became the
victim of Waterloo, That name which
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