Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06

ehae Which, liter the long acquaintance
an" me careful scrutiny of character,
one hahd and the heart were offered and
accepted. What hell on earth wo-
man hNcs in who has u drunken hus-
oand! o death, how lovely thou art to
her' ana how soft and warm thy sllclc-
ton hand. The sepvlchcr at midnight in
winter is kings drawing-room con-
pared With that woman's home. 1t /,
not SO much the blow on the head tha'
hurts as the blow on che heart.
TIC rum iicnd comes to the door of tina;
beautiful home, and opencd the door ants
stood there and said: 81 curse thia
dwelling with an unrelenting curse.
curse that father into a maniac, curse
1hat mother into pauper. curse those
sons INTO vagabonds. | curse those
daughters into protligacy. Cursed be
bread tray and cradle. Cursed be couch
ana chair, and family Bible with records
OF marriages and births and deaths.
curse upon curse" Oh, how many wives
are there waiting to sec if something
cannot be done to shake these frosus Of
the second death off the orange blossoms!
Yea God is waiting, the God who works
through human Observation-Disclosures, watt
ing to see whether this nation is going to
oNcrthrow this evil, and il it refuse to do
SO God Will wipe out the nation as he
nid Phunica, as he did Rome, us he did
lhcGes. as he did Babylon.
Put on Your spectacles and take can
ale ana 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 Rcsolu-
tions-oh. yes. resolutions about Nor
monism! 1t is safe to attack that or
ganizcd nastiness 1000 miles away. But
not one resolution against drunkenness.
which would turn the entire nation into
one bestial Salt Lake City. Resolutions
against political corruption, but not one
word against drunkenness, which would
rot this nation from. scalp to heel. Reso-
buttons about protection against compc-
tltlon with foreign industries, but not
one word about protection of family and
church and nation against the scaldiug,
blasting, all consuming, damning tariff
OF strong drink put upon every financial,
individual, spiritual, moral, national in
terest
look in another direction. The
church OF God is the grandcst and most
glorious institution on earth. What has
1T in solid phalanx accomplished for the
overthrow of drunkenness? Have its
forces ever been marshaled? No, not in
this direction. Not long ago great &C.
cleSlaStlcal court assembled i'm New
York, and resolutions arraigning strong
drink were offered, and clcrgymen with
strong drink on their tables and strong
drink i'll their cellars defeated the reso.
lutions by threatening speeches. They
could not bear to give up their own
lustS.
tell this audience what many of you
may have never thought of, that to-day
not in the millennium. but to-day-the
church holds the balance of power il
: America: and if Christian people-tht
men and the women who profess to love
. the Lord Jesus Christ and to love purit,
! and to be the Sworn enemies of all un
8 clcanness and debauchery and sniff al
: such would march side by side and sho:l
der to shoulder, this evil would soon b.
y overthrown. Think of three hundre,
n thousand churches and Sunday-school
G in Christendom marching shoulder t
D shoulder! How very short time i
9 would take them to put down this evil
t if all the church of God, transatlanti
: and cisatlantic were armed on this sub
4 ject?
In the front door of our church ii
q Brooklyn, a few summers ago, this seen
t occurred: Sabbath morning u youn
d man was entering for divine worship.
S friend passing along the street said
y ''Joc. come along with me: am goin
9 down to Coney Island and we'll have
e gay Sunday" s'No," replied Joe, g
g have started to go here to church, and
| a To l,o.
r joe" his friend said, s'you can go t.
c church any time! The day is bright
1 we'll go to Coney Island, and we'll hav
, a splendid time" The temptation wa
l too strong, and the twain went to tn
beach, spent the day in drunkenness ant
t riot. The evening train started up from
: Brighton. The young men were on it
t Joe, in his intoxication, when the trail
1 was in full speed, tried to pass arouns
, from one seat to another and fell ant
) was crushed.
Under the lantern, as Joe lay bleeding
l his life away on the grass, he said to hi
: comrade: ''John, that was bad bust
: ness, your taking me away from church
, it was very bad business. You ough
not to have done that, John. l wan
, you to tell the boys tomorrow when yot
) see them that rum and Sabbath breaking
t did this for me. And John, while you
, are telling them will be in hell, and il
: will be your fault" Is it not time fol
!, me to pull from the great organ of Gods
E word, with its many banks of keys, the
9 tremolo stop? "Look not upon the wine
t when it is red, when it movcth itsel
g Alright in the cup, tor at last it biteth like
g a serpent and stingeth like an adder
But this evil will be arrested. Bluchel
, came up just before night and saved tho
: day at Waterloo. At o'clock in the
D afternoon it looked very badly for the
r English. Generals Ponsonby and Pick
S ton fallen. Sabers broken, flags sur
t rendered, Scots Grays annihilated. Only
/ forty-two men left out of the German
t brigade. The English army falling back
i and falling back. Napoleon rubbed his
} hands together and said: ''Aha! aha
, we'll teach that little Englishman les
. son. Ninety chances out Of a hundred arc
, in our favor. Magnificent! magnificent
, He even sent messages to Paris to say he
5 bad won the day.
But before shutdown Butcher came up
i and he who bad been the conqneror Of