The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-01-31

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shall even enter heaven.
When q bishop of England recently
proposed that the best way of saving
Mohammedans was to let them keep
their religion, tut ingratt upon 1t some
new principles from Christianity, he
perpetrated an ecclesiastical joke at
which no man can laugh who has ever
seen the tyranny and domestic wretch
edness which always appear where that
religion gets foothoid. 1t has marched
across continents and now proposes to
set up its filthy and accursed banner ID
America, and what 1t has d line Tor
Turkey it would like to do for our q!
ton: a religion that brutally treats
Tomanhood ought never to be fosterei
in our country But there never was
religion so absurd or wicked that 1t
did not get disciples, and there are
enough fools in America to make
large discipleship of Mohammedanism.
This corrupt religion has been making
steady proposes for hundreds of years.
and Notwithstanding all the splendid
work done Dy the Jessups, and the
Goodells. and the Biissss, and the Van
Dykes, and the Posls, anG the Misses
Bowens, and the Misses Thompsors,
and scores Of other men and women ct
whom the world was not worthy there
it stands, the giant Of sin. Mohammed
anis,o, with one foot on the heart or
| woman and the otner on the heart OF
Christ, while it mumb!.s from its min
arets this stupeudous blaSphemy, "God
| is great. and NJ: ilammet is his pro-
PHI" Let the Christian printing
presses al BevToot ard ConSrantin2ple
keep on W.Ja their work, and TIE wen
and wonen OF GlG IN the mission
| fields toll Until the Lord crowns t1en,
nut what we are ell hoping for Is sorne-
thing supernatura! from the heavrns
as vet unseen, something stretched
| down out of the skies. something iik~
An arm uncovered, the bare arm Of nc
| God Of nations!
There STANDS also the arch demon OF
| alcoholism Its throne Is white and
| made of bleached human skulls. y,
| one side of that throne of skulls kusels
| in ob-isance and worship democracy,
and on the other side repubncanlsm,
and the one that kisses the cancerous
| and ganerened f,ot Of this despot the
oftsoes5 gets the most benedlctlons.
| There is q Hudson river, an Onlo,
Mississippi of strong drink rolling
through this nation, but tie rivers
from which take my figure of speech
empty into the Atlantic OF the guif this
mightitr food of sickness aud INSANITY
and domestic ruin and crime and hank
ruptcy aud woe enpties into The b arts,
and the homes, and the churcnes, aad
| the time, aud the eternity OF multi
tuoe beyond all statistics to lumber or
| describe ALI patiouS are mauled and
sacrificed with bAlefuI stimulus or kill
ing narcotic The pulque of Mexico.
! the cashew of Brszil, the hasheeSn 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 mastlc
of SYRIA, the raki of Turkey, the beer
| OF Gs.inaav, the whlskey of Scotland,
tue ale Of E gland, the all drinks OF
America, are doing thsis besc to stupe-
fy, infdme, dement,. ImpoVerlsh, oru-
| tallze and slay the human race. HUI
man power, unless REINFORCED from the
heavens, can never extlrpate the evils
I mention.
Much good has been accomplished by
| the heroism and fidelity of Christian re-
formers, but tie tact remains that there
are more splendid men and magn1h-
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 IN 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 SS0O,OOO,000 which rum put
upon the United States in 1891, for that
is what it cost us2 You do not. trenl-
BILE Or turn pale when / say that. The
fact is we have become hardened by
statistics, and they make little lmpres
sion. But if some one could gather In
to one mighty lake ali the tears that
have been wrung out of orphanage and
widowhood, or into one organ dlapa-
son all the groans that have been Ut
tered by the suffering victims of this
holocaust, or into one whirlWind all
the sighs of centuries of dissipation, or
from the wicked Of one immense prison
have lock upon US the glaring eyes OF
all those whom strong drink has en-
dungeoned, we might perhaps realize
the appalling desolation. But no no.;
the sight would forever blast our Vis-
ion; the sound would forever stun our
souls. Go on with your temperance
literature; 60 on with your tenn perance
| platforms; 90 on with your tenn mperance
laws. But We are all hoping for some
| thing from above, and while the bare
arm of suffering, and the bare arm OF
invalidism, and the bare arm of po7-
erty, and the bare arm of domestic des-
olatlcn from which rum hath torn
tie sleeve are lifted up in beggary
and supplication and despair let the
bare arm of God strike the
breweries, and the liquor stores,
and the corrupt politics, and tha license
laws, and the Ghold inferno OF grog1
shops all around the world. Down,
thou accu-sed bottle, from tue throne.
Into the dust, thou king of tue deml-
john! Parched be thy lips thou vine
cup. with fires That shall never be auen-
ched!
But have no time to specify the
manifold evils that challenge Christi M
itY. And I have see3 in some Chris
tiaDs, and read in some newspapers,
and hesrd from some pulpits dlshesr-
renmeut, as through Chrjstianlsy We're
so worsted that it is harc,y worth while
to attempt to win this Serld for God,
and that all Christian work would col.
lanse, and that it Is no use for you to
teach q Sabbath class OF distribute
tracts or exhorC in prayer meeungs or
preach in d pulpit as satan IS gaining
ground. To rebuke that p-sslm!sm,
the gospel of smashup, I preach this
sermon. showing that you are on the
winning side. Go ahead! Fight on!
Wha, l want to make out today Is that
our ammutiod Is not exhausted; that
all which his been accomplished has
heen onjv fha skirriShinp before The