Connecticut western news., 1894-01-25

work or our missionaries m 1Orelgn lands. But notwithstanding all that these men and women Of God have achieved, they feel and we all feel that if the idolatrous lands are to be Chris tianized there needs to be power from the heavens that has not yet con descended, and we feel like crying out in the words of Charles Wesley:
 Arm of the Lort awake, awake!
 Put on thy strength, the nations shakei
 Aye, it is not only the Lords arm that is needed, the holy arm, the out stretched arm, but t1o bare arm!
 AN ECCLESIASTICAL JOKE.
 There, too, stands Mohammedanism, with its 176, 900, 900 victims. Its Bible is the Koran, book not quite as large as our New Testament, which was re- vealed to Mohammed when in epileptic fits, and resuscitated from these fits he dictated it to scribes. Yet it is read today by more people than any other book ever written. Mohammed, the founder of that religion, a polygamist, with superAuity of wives, the first step of his religion on the body. mind and soul of woman, and no wonder that the 
 Sodom, an infinite seraglio, about which Mohammed promises that each follower | shall have in that place 73 wives, in I addition to all the wives he had on | earth. but that no old woman shall ever enter heaven. When bishop of Eng | land recently proposed that the best way of saving Mohalnmedans was to let them keep their religion, but engraft upon it some new pinciples from Chrs- | tianity, he perpetrated an ecclesiastical | joke, at which no man can laugh who has ever seen the tyranny and domestic wretchedness which always appear where that religion gets foothold. It | has marched across continents and | now proposes to set up its filthy and ac- | cursed banner in America, and what it | has done for Turkey it would like to | do for our nation. A religion that bru- | tally treats womanhood ought never to | be fostered in our country. But there never was a religion so absurd or wick | ed that it did not get disciples, and | there are enough fools in America to make large discipleship of Moham- mechanism. This corrupt religion has been making steady progress for hun- dreds of years, and notwithstanding all the splendid work done by the Jessups, and the Goodells, and the Blisses, and the Van Dykes, and the Posts, and the Misses Bowcns, and the Misses Thomp- sons, and scores of other men and wom- en of whom the world was not worthy, there it stands, the giant of sin, Mo hammedanism. with one foot on the heart of woman and the other on the heart of Christ, while it mumbles from its minarets this stupendous blasphemy; God is great, and Mohammed is his prophet" Let the Christian printing presses at Beyroot and Constantinople keep on with their work and the men and women of God in the mission fields toll until the Lord crowns them, but
 what we are all hoping for is something supernatural from the heavens, as yet unseen, something stretched down out of the skies, something like an arm un- covered, the bare arm of the God of ma
 tions
 | THE NIAGARA OF NEBRIETY.
 There stands also the arch demon oi
 alcoholism. Its throne is white an6
 made of bleached human skulls. On
 one side of that throne of skulls kneels
 in obeisance and worship democracy
 and on the other side repubhcanism
 and the one that kisses the cancerou'
 and gangrened foot of this despot tht
 ottenest gets the most benedictions There is Hudson river, an Ohio, a Mississippi of strong drink rolling through this nation, but as the rivers from which take my figure of speech empty into the Atlantic or the gulf this mightier flood of sickness and insanity and domestic ruin and crime and bankruptcy and woe empties into the hearts, and the homes, and the churches, and the time, and the eternity of null titude beyond all statistics to number CT describe. All nations are mauled and scarified with baleful stimulus, or killing narcotic. The pulque of Mexico, the cashew of Brazil, the hasheesh oi Persia, the opium of China, the guavo ! of Honduras, ihe wedro of Russia, the soma of India, the aguardiente of Mo rocco, the arak of Arabia, the mastie of Syria, the raki of Turkey, the beer l qt Germany, the whisky of Scotland
 the ale of England, the all drinks oi
 America, are doing their best to stupety
 iuf1ame, dement,, impoverish, brutalizt
 and slay the human race. Human pow
 CT, unless re-enforced from the heavens
 can never extirpate the evils mention
 Much good has been accomplished by
 the horoism and fidelity of Christian re
 formers, but the fact remains that there
 are more splendid men and magnificent
 women this moment going over the Nj
 agara abysm of inebriety than at any
 time since the first grape was turned
 into wine and the first head of rye be
 gan to soak in a brewery. When peo
 pie touch this subject, they are apt tt
 give statistics as to how many million.
 are in drunkards' graves, or with quicl tread marching on toward them. Tn,
 land is full of talk of high tariff ana low tariff, but what about the highes , of all tariffs in this country, the tariff of $900, 900, 900 which rum put upor |, the United States in 1891, for that 1. , | what it cost us? You do not trembl.
 or turn pale when I say that. The fac
 is we have become hardened by statis
 tics, and they make little impression But if some one could gather into on, mighty lake all the tears that have beer E wrung out of orphanage and widow
 hood, or into one organ diapason all th, , groans that have been uttered by thu , suffering victims of this holocaust, ol into one whirlwind all the sighs of cen , turies of dissipation, or from the wicke
 of one immense prison have look upor f us the glaring eyes of all those whom , strong drink has endungeoned, ",
 might perhaps realize the appalling desolation. But, no, no, the sigh , would forever blast our visiop tn, sound would forever stun our souls. Gt , on with your temperance literature; gc on with your temperance platforms , | go on with your temperance laws. Blu , we are all hoping for something iron above, and while the bare arm of sui fering, and the bare arm of invalidism | and the hare arm of Doyerty and th,