Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-02-24
Christian Temperance Band.

| written for the INDEX by members of the
Christian Temperance Band.
The women Of this organization have
a mission school every Sunday after
noon at 3 O'Clock In the court room. AL
so sewing school for girls, who will,
after this, meet in the Gobielle build
ing on north Main street, where the
Catholics hold services. The room was
given to them free of cost by MIR. A. l..
Noble.
Our Notices: keep our Heavenly
Father in the midst" Never be dis
couraged, ""Not by might, not by pow
er, but by my Spirit saith the Lord
Our work is to point you Heaven
ward.
Jesus answered them and said
MANY good works have 1 showed you
from my Father; for which of these
do We stone me?"
If our foreign brother had been list
ener to any of our ministers, he woulu
have recognized christian temperance
work as development of their teach
ing. These ministers had rather have
him for listener than to accept of his
sympathy in this cause Our merchants
are the bone and sinew of our town;
their welfare is our own. May the Lord
bless them in collecting their dues, and
their patrons in paying their debts
They have been good Samaritans to
many of our poor. Our officers are the
guardians of our peace. The book of
Divine Truth commands subsection to
magistrates. One chapter, Rom. Is. is
devoted this. One verse reads thus:
For he is minister to thee for good.
But if thou do that which is evil, be
afraid, for he beareth not the sword in
vain, for he is the minister OF GCd
revenger to eXecutewrath upon him that
dOeth evii.''
The men Of America take the lead.
ahead of all men of the earth in accord
ing to women the place God intended
them to have,by their side, helpmate,
not an inferior. This is due to the I'm
iYersal prestige Of christianity.
The christian temperance women of |
America are the mothers, wives and
daughters of her great men.
MOnarchies of the earth force, but
do not educate the American citizen. |
The democracy of our republic is an
atmosphere peculiar to itself. Ameri- |
cans are arbitraters of their own inter
ests. The language Of our constitu- |
ton is an unknown tongue to many |
foreigners, who speak good English.
Christian temperance work is the off |
spring OF those who fled from the land |
of their birth to establish the standard |
of Him who said whatsoever you |
would that men should do unto you. do |
ye even so to others.'
Prohibition against making drunk
ards is as laws against other crimes.
We do not let the thief go free, al
though for five or six thousand years
the law has not been enforced against
stealing. Do our statutes prohibit the
acts of theft? Just here we quote the
language OF an illustrfous man who
knew just how to use the English, as a
medium of noble thought:
Who is here so base as would not
love his country, her laws, and best
good? If any speak; for him have we
Who is here so rude as would make
his mouth the cavern of foul smoke. to-
bacco juice, repulslve breath and nause-
ating appearance: if any speak, for him
have we offended.
Who is so vile as would gain a lively
hood by the sale of those poisons that
destroy and cast both soul and body into
He'll? If any, speak! for him have we
offended.
We close by subscribing ourselves the !
.. L. B. sisters to our foreign brother
and fellow traveller to that bourne from
which no traveller returns.