Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-09-22
The Church VS.. the Saloon.
Gospel Bugle.l

I'VE have taken the pains to
gather the following extracts from
various sources and hence we give a
kind of symposium on ssThe Church
VS.. The Saloon" We are sorry that
we were delayed in presenting them.
However, they will be interesting
and we trust helpful.
Christians cannot manufacture, sell,
or use ardent spirits, without sin and
infamy.-N. Hewitt, D. D.
A church silent on the question Of
temperance discredits itself as much
as church silent on the question OF
dishonesty.-Josepb Cook.
Exer8.true aud timely moral
>ss4o.n. s..5ald be born and named,
reared and supported by the church
of Jesus Chfzvsr< Il. cayler, D. D,
The Christian church has it in its
power in the United States to drive
the traffic in ardent spirits from the
land.-Lyman Beecher, D. D.
On the one side are God and So
briefly and the best interests of the
world, and on the other side Is the
sworn enemy of all Righteousness,
and either rum must be defeated or
the church of God and civilization =
T. Dewitt Talmage, d. D.
Christian men, who were not total
abstainers, must be taught that they
are hoand by every principle OF honor
and Christian integrity to remove
temptation out OF the way of others
moving in the higher circles, and
then they might hope to succeed in
their efforts to reform the lower
classes.-Hon. Wm Z. Dodge.
have little hope for the triumph
of the temperance cause until a large
proportion Of the clergymen and Of
the protesting Christians of this land
rise up to the duties of the occasion
and speak words that shall touch the
hearts of the people, and 1--we lives
that shall blossom i, fruit.-IIon.
Henry Wilson.
Members of the church of God
most pure, bear it in mind that IN
temperance in our land and the
world ever stands in the way OF the
Gospel. It-o~5oses the progress of
Jhrist in every village
in every city, and at
,rner of the street. 1t
IN the way OF revivals of re-
.lgion, and of the glories of the mil
-eorn. Every drunkard oppo-
'ennium; every dram
the way OF it; every
.a.n-, ss,..,us N ,inc way oi ii.
= Barnes, d. D.
For Alrty-fiye years | have been
priest and bishop in London, and l
now approach my eightieth year and
have learned some lessons, and the
first is this: The chief bar to the
working of the Holy Spirit of God
in the souls OF men and women is in
toxicatlng drink. know of 70 an
tagonist to that good spirit more
direct, more subtle, more stealthy,
more Ubiquitous than intoxicating
drink. Though have known men
and women destroyed for all manner
OF reasons, yet l know of no cause
that efff,.4ssman, woman, child and
home with such universally OF steady
power as intoxicating drinIk.-Car-
dinal Manning.
The church OF today, much more
the church OF the future, must take
to its heart the duty OF combining
;a.ild mass;ng its forces against that
gigantic atrocity of Christian civili-
.zation that. mothers nine-tenths of
the woes and sorrows that blight and
cnrSe our modern aye-the traffic in
intoxicants, which hides It's defQrmity
under laws. Are we rcduced-1 to the
shame OF admitting that ciyifiza-
ton TAT has grown up around OUT
altars is impotent to cure the evil.
Il ever the pulpit had the right, the
duty to flame with unsparing rehuke,
it is here.-Bishop r. S Foster.
Temperance is part OF the Chris
tian religion. The Biblcteaches that
The body is the temple Of the Holy
Spirit, and tina, ,G,,.' VII. ;,li,' s7t.>lf0s. ,1fm
that defles it.-Juha Colman.
We do not believe that the church
should leave the field entirely alone
to the saloon-keepcr to champion our
laws. We believe thst as long as
the saloon dares, with bra1en effron-
terry, to demoralize or : politics, that
the church, with upris,htness with
clear and serene countenance, should
enter the political arena to purify it.
Rev. Father J. NJ. Cleary.
The liquor traffic exists in this
country to-day only by the suffer
ance of the membership OF the Chris
tian churches They are masters OF
the situation so far as the abolition
of the traffic is concerned. When
ote $50" it
~ IN saying that
vas anti-Christ; it was
=. 20 the principles of Christ