The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-19
DBEOUNCED A DIVE.
|sernon Against the Plague-Spot
OF Black Diamond.
where HE'LL REALLY EXISTS.
- Aissss Tells Why Levysss DhsaIA
% Christisss-spsesal Services
for Pssesen Week.

nloon in Black Diamond, where an &C.
s.mpt had been made 20 run . dance hail
81 /. connec,lon With the bar, was q In
ha;ehth and before thu county ccmmis-
s;opers had revoked. after an inyssties.
y DOC. the license under which the pisco
,sss being conducted, the following ser
non was preached At Black Diamond BY
] aes. n. 7. Shepard, one Of the leader in
ths 6sht against the saloon danes hail:
SIT II sometimes the ChYistian's dufv IN
shsmsisss sin, and this seems TO me % be
ops OF those OCCASIONS. There are two
elsssss OF hearers In every common au-
dixnce. One class requires plain and
heavy language 10 convey the speakers
thought and the other 10 quick TO catch
! bis meaning from the mersst hint. I an
are tina. | shall have your sympathy to-
1 elssr 10 both these classes. have often
epoken plainly TO you and / wish 70 speak
| With still more emphasis tonight upon an
evil whose presentation 70 - dilacust and
! 1siica.s - itself Is heinoua.
first, / wish 10 say that our war upon
| this evil Is not personal var. Many OF
lhe men who are opposed to VI In our at
isek upon the infamous busines, which
.has sprung up just outside our village
have come 10 US and said they appreciate
Cur position and do not biasnc az for our
hostility to their house. and on our part
car snmity ID toward the firm Keeping the
saloon and against the grossly wicked
trsds, not against individuals in any
oeuss. The evil before m typifies one ex-
trsms Of social wrong. There - class OF
people who believe in no pleasure. In
their eyes social amusements are oil sin
fol. Dancing, card playing. thsater going.
Sunday riding, and even music, arc cone
demped. Nothing Is allowed that giveD
bodily enjoyment. 1t il readily admitted
that these recrea,ions are sadly mixed
with error, but their Wholesale copdemua-
ton BY those who have no sufficient sub
stitnte to Offer In their place 10 not rem
sdy for the harm they do.
Il have often stood arraysd against the
spirit that calls all pleasure SIN. Tonight
] wish to take my stand against the oppo.
ute mistake and to sympathixs with the
passion. wish to speak against the lib.
srsine and those who profit by his indui-
Essce. Do not misundcrstsnd me. Dur.
Ing the two or three years that have
spent with you have tried TO preach love,
and this Is still my aim. believe that
the poor besotted hariot who drags out
her few short years Of pain. and want. and
shame, may be reached by tenderness or
not At all. Some Of a. heard man whose
silvercd locks were tokens Of his age, say
Yesterday that all the best and purest I'm.
duences OF his life we're due to love; and not
soul that felt his presence was nnmoved.
No ideal could be nobier than this. be.
heve In the words Of Jesus whom ne said,
Let him that 10 without sin among you
times when tenderest love must speak
with plain severity lest justice be de-
frauded and love diagraced; and at this
time wish to speak In strongest condem.
nation OF the infamous prairie SALOON. IL
any one in his foolishness must uphold
ouch institutions as necessary evil in the
eity. let the institutions hide their heads
In secret shame behind the city walls, but
In the name OF common deceDcy do not
couptenance their cancerous life In our
quiet village where they will fly their pes
tilentiai flag IN shameless insoienee.
One Of the proprietors of this honss
said 10 me on the train the other day. that
he did not believe in life after death. He
believed that death vas the end OF man.
To him the kingdom Of heaven and the
reign OF satan In another world conveyed
no meaning. We may admit his position
for arguments sake. and then Say that
We need not cross the river Of death to find
hell and heaven. Near Jerusalem WAS the
valley of Hinnom, the Gehsnna Of the
Bible. where the dead animals and oflal Of
the city were thrown and where fires were
continually kept burning to consume this
refuse. This is the figure whence we have
our thought of tho hell OF another state.
We need not die TO find il. We have
simply to go TO tho Prairie saloon at
Black Diamond. The offai Of Whitecha pei
Is unioaded there and bad whisky IL the
fire that is continually burning il up. You
know my views OF hell. do not believe
In a literal physical fire but In punish
ment which you may call remorse Of con-
science or what you please, beside which
mere material fire ~ rather relief than
suffering. Would TO God that death
might end nil for the poor degraded
prostitute whose few years of shame end
the infinitely worse fate of moral hell. Ii
hell means anything. II Is time to say hell
II heaven means anything, II 10 time TO
cay heaven. The one with its impurity.
it, idleness, its hate: tho othe. with purity.
Industry In goodness, and love. The con-
irast is very PLAIN. The reality of the two
earthly conditions needs no faith in n
hereafter to gain credence. Two roads are
open to you. You may cast ycnr influence
Tor this saloon or against IL: and In your
choice lies not your safety alone. but the
honor and integrity of our young men and
the purity OF our homes"
Ar. Shepard closed by speaking OF the
sneeFlng way in which the movement
against the >aloon had been spoken OF by
those who opposed it. saying that II was
led by preachers aud women. This MAS
exactly The kind of movement which ought
to he considered In such a case, Mr.. shep-
ard sad