The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-02-01

port the temple of God and the Lamb
as a broken down church, and the
house Of many mansions as disrepu.
table place, and the cherublm as sus
picious of morals. Sin never did like
holiness, and you had better not de-
pend upon satanic report Of the sub.
lime and multipotent work Of our mis-.
sionaries In foreign lands. But not.
Withstending all that these men and
women of God have achieved, they feel
and we all feel that II the idolatrous
lands are to be Christianized there
needs to be a power from the heavens
that has not yet condescended, and we
feel like crying out in the words Of
Charles Wesley:
Arm Of the Lord awake, awake!
Put on thy strength, the nations shake
Aye, it is not only the Lords arm
that is needed, the holy arm, the out
stretched arm, but the bare arna.
There, too, stands Mohammedanism
with its 176 100000 victims. Its Bible
is the Koran, = oook not quite as large
as our New Testament, which was re-
Vealed to Mohammed when in epilep.
tic fits, and reSuscltated 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 polygam.
ist, with superhuity of wives. the first
step of his religion on the body, mind
and soul of woman, and no wonder
that the heaven of the Koran is an eV-
erlasting Sodom, an Infinite seraglio,
about which Mohammed promises that
each follower shall have in that place
72 wives In addition to all the wives ne
had on earth, but that no old woman
shall even enter heaven.
When bishop of England recently
proposed that the best way of saving
Mohamme6ans was to let them Keep
their religion, tut graft upon ltsome
new principles from Christianity, be
perpetrated an ecclesiastical JOKE ar
which 40 man can laugh who has ever
seen the tyranny and domestic wretch
edness which always appear where that
religion gets foothold. It has marched
across continents and now proposes to
set Up It's filthy and accursed banner IN
America, aud what 1t has ne for
Turkey it World like to dn for our nd
tion. a religion tha. brutally treats
Womanhood ought never to be fostered
in our country. But there never was
religion so absurd or wicked that 1t
did rot get disciplrs, and there are
enough fools in America to make a
large disclpleship of Mohammedanism.
This corrupt religion has been making
s.eady progsess for hundreds of years,
ano notwithstanding AL the splendid
work doue by the JesSups, and the
GDode]ls, anG the Blissss, and the Van
! DYKES, and the Posts, and the Misses
! Bowens, and the Misses Thompsons,
| aud scores Of other men and women pf
whom the world was not worthy there
it stands, the giant of SIN. Moham ned
apism, with one foot on the heart of
woman aud the other on the heart of
Christ, while it mum bles from its min
arets this stupendous blasphemy, "God
is great, and Mohammed is his pro-
phet." Let the Christian printing
presses at Bevroot 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 some
thing supernatural from the heavens
as yet unseen, something stretched
down out of the skies, something like
an arm uncovered, the bare arm of the
God of nationsl
There stands also the arch demon of
alcoholism. Its throne is white and
made of bleached human skulls. Oa
one side Of that throne of skulls kneels
in obeisance and worship democracy,
and on the other side republicanism,
and the one that kisses the cancerous
and gangrened foot of this despot the
oftenest gets the most benedictlons.
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 food of sickness and insanity
and domestic ruin and crime and bank
ruptcy and woe empties into the hearts,
and the homes, and the churches, and
the time, and the eternity OF multi
tude beyond all statistics to number or
describe. All nations are mauled and
sacrificed with balefuI stimulus or kill
ing narcotic. The pulque of Mexico.
the cashew of Brazil, the hasheesh of
Persia, the opium of China, the guavo
of Honduras, the Wedro of Russia, the
soma of India, the aguardiente OF Mo-
rocco, the arak of Arabia, the mastic
of Syria, the -aki of Turkey, the beer
of Germany, the whiskey of Scotland,
the ale of Eaglard, the all drinks OF
America, are doing their best to stupe-
fy, infame, dement,, impoVerlsh, bru-
talize and stay the human race. Hu.
man power, unless REINFORCED from the
heavens, can never eXtirpate the evils
I mention.
Much good has been accomplished By
the heroism and fidelity Of Christian re-
formers, but the tact remains that there
are more splendid men and magnlh-
cent women this moment going over
the Niagara abysm of inebriety than at
any time since the first grape was
turned into wine aud the first head Of
rye began to soak in brewery. When
people touch this subject, they are apt
to give statistics as to how many MIL
lions are ID drunkards' graves or with
quick tread marching on toward them:
The land is full Of talk of high tariff
and low tariff, but what about the
highest of all tariffs in this country,
the tariff OF ss00,0O0,000 which rum put
upon the United States in 1891, for that
is what it cost us? You do not trem-
BILE Or turn pale when I say that. The
fact is we have become hardened by
statistics, and they make little impres
sion. Buff some one could gather in
to one mighty lake all the tears that
have been wrung out of orphanage and
widowhood, or Into one organ dlapa-
SOD all the groans thst have been Ut
tered bv the suffering victims of this