The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-16

dragged others into depths from which,
with all the good influences that may
be brought to bear, they will never be
able to extricate themselves. In many
ways you may have marred the image
of God and destroyed your own useful
ness. Step up now and be healed. Never
mind about making reparation Be
placed back, 1Uith the exception Of IN
jWrte8 done, where you were before
with power to lead sober life if you
will but" ah! with liability and power
to cultivate taste for it again and re
lapse into your former habits. Pinch
the tail of the serpent and go on strok
ing his glossy sides, but allow his fangs
to remain. 1t may be that when you
shall have TT ached his level he will not
disturb you further.
All Bro Bailey, will you not take
your gloves off and handle this subject
as its Nervousness demands2 Will you
not t, II the churches and every one
interested in real temperance" that ito
extend its patronage" is first to have
patrOnjzed the bar-rooms to bitter de
gree? Too true you say lit is doing a
grand work and its patronage is grow
ing" Who are it's patrons, pray9 The
hundreds and thousands of once noble
young men who have not only wasted
perhaps the best years of their life, but
have sunken into depths Of poverty,
misery and wickedness dragging in
their wake wife, mother, father, sister,
children. These are the patrons of
Kelley Institute and they must have
arrived at this stage before they be-
come patrons. In the interview with
Judge Dillard which you take pleas
ure in publishing" they are represented
as being well raised and qualified to
grace any social circle-in all other re
spects than by reason Of their unfor
tunate habits" Just so may be
burglar, horse thief or gambler, but
for reason of his mania. To say of the
Institution lit is clean and first class
in every respect, and its reputation
has never been touched by the breath
of scandal" ," is like a man with appli
cation in hand for license to sell liquor
proving a good moral character. Why
every single inmate is living, breath
ing, walking scandal in himself and
his life will prove it.
No, Bro. Bailey, to patronize Kelley
Institute is to click the hand that
slays me-" Would it not be better,
even if the happiness Of no one than
the victims themselves should be taken
into consideration, to remove the cause
rather than to make a miserable at
tempt at removing the effect? If you
will Danish all Intoxicating liquor from
| the country there can be no 0ruT1EdrdS
And if liquor is, as cur same Judge
! billiard thinks, and we all believe, ''the
greatest enemy of mankind" does it
not behoove every son of Adam to
strike a death dealing blow Gt once?
Are we not very unwise and inconsis-
tent men and women when we, having
the power, do not strike down our
greatest foe? Bu5 we are told that the
world is too wicked-it can't be done.
Then let every Christian man and wo
man show his colors. 'Come ye out
from the world and be ye separate and
| will receive you" Have no fellow
ship with the unfruitful works of dark
ness, but rather reprove them" 'Go
not with the multitude to do evil"
Will you please tell your readers
what the great bodies of representative
Baptists have said on this subject:
"ResoIUed, That we favor the speedy
and entire prohibition of the liquor
traffic; that we oppose license for this
traffic in any and all its forms through
which men buy the rights to destroy
human hopes and happiness and blight
human souls as an offense against pub
lie morals and sin against God. IN.
G. Baptist State Convention.
'ResolUed, That this Convention,
representing 1885, 900 Christians, re-