Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-02-20
G. T. u. COLUMN.
GOSPEL TEMPERANCE.
to: "God and Home and Native Lant


!, at the Minneapolis convention,
day, July II:
am to speak about Gospel tenn
lnce. 1 intend to consider the
ect in the most elementary view
That is easy enough intrinsic
but practically difficult. The
BILE is there is such variety of
hitions. The phrase is lexico-
Phical ghost, visible, vocal, volu-
volatile, vanishing.
ere is danger that the confusion
bngues, among the workers, will
las Babel ended. The blunder of
FL was at the bottom of it, not at
top, and I propose that in this
berance reform we stop building a
bn it and dig for the foundation
was laid in Jesus Christ. What
Fant is to focus on the center of
ubject, and then we shall be able
ork on broad lines and get the
K of putting our hand to every
that's Christlike in temperance
avor. We can not all play the
instruments, but we can all be
e right key.
woman here in Minneapolis
ped at the CUTTERS side and
I'D her handkerchief over a
ken mars face. He was a stran-
nd repuisive enough, but she did
Jesus sake. call that gospel
erance. A woman in this city,
hvalid, a total stranger to me,
who had never seen me, and
n had never seen, prayed every
at twelve O'Clock for three years
e before I was saved. I call that
el temperance. When, four years
said that religion was lie and
bonn the wreck of a fair name
good estate, Edwin Sidney Will
put money in my pocket and a
for Christians and officers and
ne keepers, signed with his
like this: SIN the name Of Je-
hrist, the Saviour of man." I
pat gospel temperance.
walked the streets of New York
Pne August day, starving; but
ober. 1t is sometimes an awful
to be sober. The play Of my
as over; the light was burned
l was ruined man, goddess and
ess, and that is hell, whether it
to a man in this world or an
saw the three witches, starry
beggary and crime, stirring
broth for me on the bleakest |
of life that ever the fanged |
s of appetite and remorse hunt
han over. But was sober.
ooked back upon the wreck of |
bat day. All was lostl Father
led calling me to come to him
the saloon and see him die.
r had died calling upon me to
put of the saloon and see her
Wife was worse than widowed,
bn worse than orphaned, shell
but for the grace of creditors
od's canopy that shelters all,
e future was an infnity of pitch
vas sober.
had said l had left off drink
Z, no man who knew me would
elieved me. If had been able
graph my wife that I was going
she would have answered, tho
e her heart, ''You must come
If I asked for employment,
would trust me. The asylums
not receive me, for l was sane;
hospitals, for I was not sick;
morgue, for | was not dead; l
been to bed, for had no bed.
nber nothing of the night be-
of the morning, but I was So
thought wat going mad. 1 ,
my face at the fountain in S
Square and crossed over to I
Avenue; at the corner of i.
first street l saw the sign of >
Merritt. You know him, f
you; all the angels know him T
had never seen him, but had
4 him. 1t was not food [ tho't
an overwhelming desire had
b to touch the hand of a good i
entered. A man with the Joy v
ord in his face came to meet f
h his hands extended, and as f
ped mine. I said, "I don't know c
Pame-" The sentence was Y
hished, for 1 burst into tears, i
n / told him who and what I p
said not a word about money s
Pr; l had forgotten both. a
a, "You need the woods. Did a
go to camp-meeting? I have t
% the Hudson at the camp h
There's boat at one o'clock a
can catch it. Go out and rest II
APPS you'll enjoy the sermons, b
be out in three days" Then r.
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