The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-26


and the cherubim as suspicious of NOR
ais. Sin never did like holiness, and
you had better not depend upon satanic
report of the sublime and multipotent
work of our missionaries in foreign
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 Lord, awake, awake!
Put on thy strength, the nations shakel
Aye, it is not only the Lords arm
that is needed, the holy arm, the out
stretched arm, but the bare arnl
AN ECCLESIASTICAL JOKE.
There, too, stands Mohammedanism
with its 176, 900, 600 victims. It's Bible
Is the Koran, book not quite as lalg,
as our New Testament, which was re-
vealed to Mohammed when in epilep,ic
fits, and resuscitated from these fits be
dictated it to scribes. Yet it is read
today by more people than any other
book ever written. Mohammed, The
founder of that religion, polygamlst,
with superiority of wives, the first str
of his religion on the body, mind AID,
soul of woman, and no wonder thst a
heaven of the Koran is an eveilasti
Sodom, an infinite seraglio, about whl |.
Mohammed promises that each folloNei
shall have in that place 7s wives, IL
addition to all the wives he had on
earth, but that no old woman shah ey.'
enter heaven. When bishop of Ens
land recently proposed that the bf@t
way of saving Mohammedans wss to
let them keep their religion, but engrNii
upon it some new principles from CHRIS.
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. 1t
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 Bowens, 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, hut
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 IN
covered, the bare arm of the God of ma
tons!
THE NIAGARA OF INEBRIETY.
There stands also the arch demon Of
alcoholism. Its throne is white and
made of bleached human skulls. On
one side of that throne of skulls llneels
in obeisance and worship democracy,
and the one that kisses the cancerous
and gangrened FOOT of this despot the
ottenest gets the most benedictions.
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There is 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 of sickness and insanity
and domestic ruin and crime aud
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
or describe. All nations are mauled
and scarified with baleful stimulus, or
killing narcotic. The p1lque 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 raki of Turkey, the beer
OF Germany, the whisky of Scotland,
he ale of England, the all drinks Of
America, are doing their best to stupefy,
infame, dement,, impoverish, brutalize
and slay the human race. Human pow
er, unless REINFORCED from the heavens,
can never extirpate the evils / mention.
Much good has been accomplished by
the heroism 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 brewery. When peo-
pie touch this subject, they 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, but what about the highest
of all tariffs in this country. the tariff
of 5000. 900, 900 which rum put upon
the United States in 1891, for that is
what it cost us? You do not trembla
or turn pale when say that. The fact
is we have become hardened by statis-
tics, and they make little impression.
But if some one could gather into one
mighty lake all the tears that have been
wrung out of orphanage and widow
hood, or into one organ diapason all the
groans that have been uttered by the
suffering victims of this holocaust, or
into one whirlwind all the sighs of CEN
turtles Of dissipation, or from the wicket
of one immense prison have look upon
us the glaring eyes of all those whom
strong drink has endungeoned, we
might perhaps realize the appalling
desolation. But, no, no, the sight