The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-03-11

tiiGJ 1 once 50 l"DlulCuSlS hiSSIo !.
Ioor boy. how tired he does look. /
wonGer who struck him that bio "
across the temples? l wonder if he
uttered a diving prayer: Wake up, my
son: d0n't You hear me? wake up. Oh:
he can't hear me. Dead. dead. dead
.Oh. -AoSalom, my son, my son, would
God that l had died Tor thee, oh, Alb
salon, my son, son.
am not much OF a mathematician
and cannct estimate 1t. but IS there
any enc here quick enough at figures TO
estimate how many mothers there are
wa!tiGg for something to be done: Ay,
there are many wives waiting for do
meStic rescue. He promised some
thing different from that when, after
the long acquaintance and the careful
scrutiny OF character, the hand
and the heart were offered and
accepted. What hell on earth wo-
man lives IN who has drunken huS-
band. O death, how lovely thou art to
her. AID how soft and warm thy SKele-
ten hand. The sepulcher at midnight
III winter lSa kings drawing room
| com pared with that womane hone. IL
IS no. SO much the blow en- the head
that harris as the blow Oh the heart.
The rum iieLd came TO the door Oi
that beautiful home, AMI opened the
door and stood there ant SAID: Il curse
this dwelling with an unrelentlng
curse. l curse that father into ma
mac. curse that mother into q pauper.
| curse those S0nS into ragabondS. l
curse tGose daughters into proiilgacy
Cursed be bread tray and cradle
Cursed be couch and chair, and family
Blole with record OF marriages and
births and deaths Curse upon curse.
Oh, bow many wives are there Waiting
to see il something cannot be done to
shake these 1rostS Of the second death
OF the orange blossoms. Yea, God is
waiting. the God who works through
human instrumentalitieS, waiting TO
.e2 whether this nation IS going to
overthrow this evil, and II 1t refuse to
60 so Gcd will wipe out the nation as
he cid Pn9nicia, as he did Rome, as ne
did ThebeS, as he did Babylon.
Ay, he IS waiting to see Wnat the
church OF God will do. If the church
does not do its work, then he will wipe
!; out as he did the church Of Ephesus,
church of Thyatira, church of Sardis.
The Protestant and Roman Catho!lc
churches to-day stand side by side, with
an impotent look, gazing on this evil,
which cost this country more than 4
billion dollars a year to take care Of
tire 100000 pauperS, and the $4,000
crialiI ais, and the $1,000 idiots, and to
bury the 5000 Grunkards. Protagor@s
boasted that out of the sixty years OF
his life forty .5ears he had spent IN
running youth; bat this evil may make
the more infamous boast that all It's
life it has been running the bodies,
minds and souls of the human race.
Put on your spectacleS and take a
candle and examine the platforms oI
the two leading political parties OF this
country, and See what they are DONG
for the arrest Of this evil ana Tor the
overflow Of this abominatIon. Reso-
iutionS-oh. yes, resolutions ABOUT
MormoniSm. 1t is safe to attack that
organized nastiness two thousand
miles away. But not one resolution
against drunkenness, which would turn
this entire nation into one bestlal Salt
Lake City. Resolutions against polltl'
Ca; corruption, but not one word a0oGt
drunkenness, which would rot this ma
ton from scalp to heel. Resolutions
about protection against competltlon
with foreign industries, but not one
word about protection Of family and
church and nation agai ost the scalding
blasting, all consuming, damnlng tarlii
of strong drink put upon every hnan-
cial, individual, spiritual, moral, Nd
tlonal interest.
| look in another direction. The
Church of God is the grandest and
most glorious institution on earth
What has it in solid phalanx accom-
plished for the overthrow of drunken
ness? Have its forces ever been mar
shaled No, not in this direction. Not
long ago great ecclesiastical court as
sembled in New \ Iork, and resolutions
arraigning strong drink were offered
and clergymen with strong drink on
their tables and strong drink in their
cellars defeated the resolutions by
threatiug speeches. They could nol
bear 10 give up their own lusts.
I tell this audience what many OF you
may never have thought of, that to-day
not IN the millennium, but to-day
| the church holds the balance OF power ID
America; and If Christian people-the
men and tie women who profess tc
| love the Lord Jesus Christ and TO love
purity and to be the sworn enemies OF
all uncleanness and debauchery and sln
If all such would march side by side
and shoulder to shoulder, this eVl!
would soon be overthrown. Think OF
three hundred thousand churches and
SUNDAY schools III Christendom march
ing shoulder to shoulder. How very
short time IL would take them to put
down this evil. il all the churches OF
GOD, transatlantic and cisatiantlc, were
armed on this snbJect?
Young men Of America, pass over
into the army Of teetotalism. Whlskey
good to preserve coTpses, ought never
to turn you into corpse Tens OF thous,
ands of young men have been dragged
out of pectability, 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.
Gather up the money that the work
ing classes have spent for rum during
the last thirty years. and Will builo
for every workingman a house, and lay
out for him garden, and clothe his
sons in Dg0adcloth and his daughters
in silks, and stand ct his front door d
praaciag span OF sorrels or bays, and
Secure him policy Of life insurance SO
that the present hcme may be well
maintained after he is dead. The most
persistent, most oTerpoweTing enemy
of the working classes IS Intoxicating
hquoc L: is the anarchist OF the Cen
tur;eS, and has boycotted anG is now
boycctting the body aud mind and soul
CT American labor. 1t annually swim
dies industry out of a large percentage
of its earnings. 1t holds out its blast
ing solicitations to the mechanic OF
operative on his way to work, and at
the noon spell, and on bis way home at
eyentide. On Saturday, when the
wages are paid, it snatches large part
pf rb. ,noDey that MIGHT coma RI tls