The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-02-10
W. c. 7. q. COLUMN.
Timely Talks.

turns, and when honesty, at least,
shall have the counting of the ballots;
when lust shall no longer be able to
crawl his Shiny length from the hot
bed of unclean thought to the arena of
political power. but when the secret
whisper in the closet of prayer shall
be published on the housetop of legal
| enactment.
At first, in our work we only saw the
| saloon, and the man who went to ruin
in it, and the broken hearts that chung
to him, so all our efforts were expend-
ed in the work of trying to save the
the man, destroy the saloon and bind
up the broken hearted. This led US
| into strange places, made us familiar
with the spectacle of want, unclean-
ness and sorrow in many forms We
found our way into saloons, jails, pris-
ons. almshOuses, were forced into
courts and often brought face to face
with counterfeit law. Appalled, at the
hideous deformity of that creature
which had taken Gods place, we
asked that an immediate end be made
of the unsurper; that license be strick-
Ell from the statute, and Thou shall
not be substituted, then began the
war between the home and the saloon
and the end of which is not yet.
At present the imperative need of
the home is a majority. There are
many trHe men, conscientious men,
but not enough of them. and we are
forced into the work of making them
out of crude material to be found in
the boys in our homes, schools, and
even in the slums of the street. Vot-
ers are wanted, Legislators, magis-
trates, men, and ours is the high call
ing of God by the processes to which
the w. G. I. U. has eonsecrated her
energies, to develop a majority which
shall snow the liquor traffic under
With the clean ballots of pure men, so
deep that it will never know resur-
rection.
We have become solemnly conscious
of the fact1hat to do this we must call
in the forces of heaven. Science must
he our servant, our faith must venture
to take Jehovah at His word, when He
said: Concerning the work of My
hands, command ye Me-" We must
take the kingdom with reverent yio-
t lence, and open all its treasures of
, wisdom and grace. The mighty en-
CINE of the Holy Spirit must be made
to run all our machinery, for without
HIM we can do nothing, and there is
so much to do, if Gambrinus is ever
made to lay aside the ermine and step
J down from the place of supreme power
in this nation, and Christ elected to
his seat. Our evangel claims the
world for Him. We honestly believe
it is His own; that he not only bought
the souls of men with his blood, but
, the earth, its territory, its mines, its
highways by land and sea, its vineyard
slopes, its grain fields. its forests and
every ounce of animal strength, as
we'll as the finer stores of intellect and
/ spirit.
; We do not believe that He consents
that the juices OF fruits OF grain shall
be converted into alcohol; that tobacco
t shall be made into an article for hu.
man consumption; that trees should be
manufactured into lumber or quarries
be made to yield their stene for the
t building of distilieries, breweries. sa-
looms or tobacco stores; that the great
arteries of commerce should be pros
tituted to the traffic in these products
of vice. or that the precious metals
, should be coined and invested in the
business of changing men into beasts,
, homes into heils. law into license. JUS
> tice into puppet pulled by a string.
! And we believe He calls upon ali men
and women who dare call themselves
I by His name. to come out from among
all who do such things, and uniting
: together il the cause of Christian gov.
; eminent, destroy His enemy out of His
+ heritage.
When we come to men with this
cause. and ask for their votes, we are
doing just as religious thing as when
we ask for their prayers and one
= which just as truly concerns the sal
= walton of the world; and more truly
as matters are today. The church
may stay on her knees saying prayers
p while dtunkards stagger out of hel
portals, away flom her affairs, hel
= Sabbath schools and even pulpits, into
8 eternal ruin; when, if she would arise
and cast one good, round. consecrateC
ballot for Christ against all the world
she would have time for the work o
. gathering in those who might b'
\ nursed back to life, who now lie help
less. dying in the ruins. waiting whit;
the prayer is struggling for an answe