Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-05-26

enter the Kingdom OF Heaven ,dt.
Ta.nage in commenting on thesolo1ime
drinks says they were a mere soda water
drink, a mere lemonade or orangeade,
compared to the drinks Of to-day!
Now ]. ask in The name of all that is
sacred if the drunkard of to-day does
commit a more bastard, a more revolving
or heinous or more nnflial o. unseemly
deed than Noah, a preacherof righteous
ness, or righteous Lot, the farmer,
cursing bis son with this awful curse,
the servant of servants" the latter,
stincestuous father~
Now, dear brethren and sisters of this
grand august assembly, whose work for
thy sskingdom Gomez has caused the
largest assemblage ever assembled in the
capacity Of a Southern Baptist Conven-
ton, if in my hurried preparation of this
hand bill the best mode of reaching and
appealing to your sympathies in behalf
of prohibition and the upbuilding of
moral integrity, pure thoughts, pure
blood and pure acts. All yes, that clean
illness that is next to Goodness, I have
adduced any reason or pretext for insist
ing for an unfermented wine at our COM
munion tables to show forth, ETC., theLt
my object is accomplished and your hum
BILE servant has been well compensated
for labor.
All religious creeds are moving in this
direction, and many of the Baptist Asso-
Citations around Philadelphia have adopt
ed the sweet wine instead of a "bar-room
beverage" A ssotish'' reckoning de-
| cides a beverage is not wine unless it
intoxicates. Wine is not a generic term
and hence we have different kinds of
wines. Isaiah says: "The new wine is
in the cluster, a blessing is in it! When
| Divinity pronounces a blessing 0 give us
the blessing" Tons of grapes can be
raised all over the States, and by express
ing the pure blood of the grape and her
metically sea-ing for future use, it re-
quires no art, save as the art of canning
! fruit. to have always a fit emblem to rep
resent Christ's pure blood with a parallel
pure grape juice, which in my humble
opinion is a better representative than
the bar-room beverage, the fermented
product. l venture the assertion there
is no father or mother in this enlightened
age throughout this vast assemhlage of
intelligence that is willing to see such
wine come to the temporal table, much
less the spiritual table, 80! consistency
thou art a jewel" Let us be consistent
for one time We beg, plead and pray.
One of the greatest auxiliaries the church
ever had is the Sunday school! This
institution has got all the little children
into the church. Now to require these
little ones in their tender years and sus-
capabilities to come to the Lords table
and vitiate their taste for intoxicants,
while we know a little leaven leavens the
whole lump is unwise, is unchristian.
"Vice is a hideous mien. To be hated,
needs but to be seen. But often seen,
familiar.grows her face. We first fear,
then pity, then embrace" Let US quit
embracing vice. There are thousands of
young men, stout, ruby checked, ruddy
faced, that have never tasted whiskey.
o the Christian at work, let Us do every
thing we can to swell the tide of young
men, until whiskey has the black flag
raised against it, which means "no quar-
ter" Very respectfully submitted,
3. F. KEEsE.