Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-22

our New Testament which was revealed
to Mohammed when in epileptic fits. and
resuscitated from these fits he dictated II
to scribes. Yet IL Is read today By more
people than any other book ever written.
Mohnmme1, tho founder Of that religion,
polygamist, with superhuity OF wives,
tho first step oSslis religion on the body,
mind and soul Of woman, and no wonder
that the heaven Of the Koran Is an ever
lasting Sodom. an infinite seraglio, about
which Mohammed promises that each fol-
lower shall have In that place 7s wives in
addition 70 all the wives he had on earth,
but that no old woman shall even enter
heaven.
When bishop Of England recently pro-
posed that the best way OF saving Moham-
medans was to let them keep their reli-
gion, but iugraft upon II some new prin-
clpes from Christianity, he perpetrated an
ecolesastical joke at which no man can
laugh who has ever seen the tyranny and
domestic wretchedness which always APP
pear where TINT religion gets foOthold.
II has marched across continents and now
proposes 10 set up It's filthy and accurzed
banner in America, and what Il has done
for Turkey IL would like TO do for our ma
ton. A religion that brutally treats wom-
anhood ought never to be fostered in our
country. But there never was religion
40 absurd or wicked that it did not get
disciples, md there are enough fools In
America 20 make large discipleship OF.
Mohammedauism. This corrupt religion
has been making steady progress for hun
dreds Of years. aud Notwithstanding all
the splendid work done By the Jessups
aud the GOodells, and the Blisses, md the
Van Dykes, and tho Posts, and the Misses
Bowens, and the Misses Thompsons, and
scores Of other men and women OF whom
the world was not worthy there II stands
the giant Of sin, Mobammedanism, with
one foot on the heart Of woman and tho
other Oh the henri Of Christ, while it mum
hles from its minarets this stupenduus
blnsphemy, God is great, and Moham-
med is his prophet" Let the Christian
printing presses ut BeyroOt and Constan-
tinople 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, rs yet I'M
seen. something stretched down out Of the
skies, something like an arm uncovered,
the bare arm Of the God Of nAtiuusl
Eyus or TEE DAY.
There stands also the arch demon of al
coholism. it, throne Is white and made
Of blelehod human skulls. On one side Of
TINT throne Of skulls kneels In obcisance
and worship democracy, and ON the other
side republconism, and the one that
kisses the cancerOus and gangrened foot
OF this despot the ottenest gets the most
bcncdictlons. There is a Hudson river, an
Ohio, 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
food u sickness RId insanity and domes-
tic ruin and crime and bankruptcy and
woe empties into tho hearts, and the
hOino8, aud tho churches, and the time
and the eternity Of IA multitude beyond
all statistics 20 number or describe. All
nations are mauled and scarined with
bnleful stimulus or killing narcotic. The
pulquo Of Mexico, the cashew Of Brazil,
the husheesh OF Persia. the opium OF China,
the gunyO Of Honduras the wedro Of Rus
sla, the soma Of India, the nguardlente OF
Morocco the nrnk OF Arabia, the mnstic
Of Syria, the raki Of Turkey, the beer Of
Germany, the whisky OF Scotland, the ale
Of England, the all drinks Of America,
nre doing their best TO Htupefy, inname,
dement,, impoverish, brutaligo and Stay
the human race Human power, unless re-
enforced from tho heavens, can never ex-
tirpate the evils / mention.
Much good has been accomplished by
the heroism and fidelity OF Christian 70
formers but the fact remains that there
arc more splendid men and MAGNIFICENT
women this moment going ovur the Mag
ara abysm Of luchrioty than mt any time
since the first grape was turned into wine
and the FIRST head of rye began TO soak Ia
u brewery When people touch this sub.
ioct, thoy are apt to give statistics as TO
how many millions are in drunkards'
graves or with quick tread marching ON
toward them. The land Is full OF talk Of
high tariff and low tariff, bus what about
the highest OF all tariffs in this country,
the tariff Of 5000 ,O0O, 900 which rum put
upon the United States ia 1891, for that is
what it cost us2 You do not trcmble or
turn pale when / say that. The fact IS we
have become hardened by statistics, and
thoy make little impression. But II some
one could gather into one mighty lake all
( the tears that have been wruug out of
orphnnage aud widowhood. or into one
organ diRpason all the groans TINT have
been uttered by the suffering victims Of
| this holocaust, or into one whirlwind all
the sighs OF centuries of dissipation, or
: from the wicket Of one immense prison
I have look upon us the glarlng eyes OF all