Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-26

Was Olt' roughly UhA justly - iAtA N..'f
and he would write home to the realms pau
demoniac. his correspondence published IN
DiabOlOs Gazette or ApOllyOnlc News. about
what he had SEEN he would report the
temple OF God and the Lamb rs broken
down church, and the house Of many
mansions as disreputabe place, AMI
the cherubim as suspicious OF NOR
ais Sin mover 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 notYIth-
standing all that these men and women oil
God have achieved they feel and we all feel
that II the idOlatrous lands are 10 bee Chris
tanned there needs to be a power from the
heavens that has not yet condescended. and
we feel like crying out in the words o. Charles
Wesley
Arm Of tine Lord, awake. awake.
Put on Thy strength, the Nations shake,
Ave. it is not only the Lords arm that is
needed. the holy arm the outsirotche1 arm,
but the bare arm
There. too. stands Mohammedanism with
its l76 900 900 victims. It's Bihlcistho Koran. q
book not quite as large as our New Iesta-
ment. which was revealed o. 'MOhammeI
when in cpileptic fits, ami resuscitated from
those ITS he dictated it 10 s-ribes letit Is
read -lay by more people than any other
book over written. Mohamnei, the fouA Ter
OF that religion. q pOySamist. with superd1-
itv Of wives. the first step oi MS religion on
the BODY. mind and soul of woman. AMI mo
wonler that the heaven OF the Koran is lh
everlasting soon. au indnu" serlgilo,
about which MOhammcd promises that el"l
follower shall have in th9t piac" ,evsuty-.wo
wives. in addition 10 all ihc wives he hal ON
earth. but that no OIL woman shall eyer
enter heaven. When bishop ID England
recently proposed that the best way ID.
saving MohammeIans was to let thcn
keep their religion but cnyraft upon
it some new principles from Cars.
tilnity. he parpetrltrl an ecclesiastical JOKE.
at which no man c1n laugh who has eyer
seen the tyranny aa domestic wretche lno--
which Away. appear where that religion
gets f0Othold 1t has marched across CONT
nents and now proposes 20 set mp us hllhy
AMI ac'ursed banner in America ami What
II has done for Turkey it would Ike 10 40
for our Nation. 4 religion that brutally
treats womanhoo1 ought neyerto De iosterad
in our country Bat there never was re-
li,ion 30 absurd or wicked that il dill not eet
disciples. and there are enough fools lu
America 10 make large dis-lple,hip o.
M0hamms ianism. This corrupt religion h'f
been making steady progress FOR hundreds %
years. AMI n0twitbstanl an the splendid
work done hy the Jes5ups, and the Go)leN~,
ana the Blisses and the Van Dykes, AMI the
Posts. and the Misses Bowens. and the Misses
Thonpsons. and scores OF othermen AMI WOO
men of whom the world was not worthy.
there il stands. tho giant OF sin, Mohamme-
dani,m. with one foot on tn heart oil Wo-
man and the other on the heart OF Christ,
while it mumbles from its mlnarets TINS stu
penduous bl1sphemy: God IS great. am
Moaammed His is prophet. LEI the ,nri'-
tian printing press az Beyroot AMI Jof'taht.-
monte keep on with their work AMI the men
and women Of Got in the mission fields toll
until tho Lord crowns Thorn, but what we
are all hoping FOR is some sup,rnhurll from
tho heavens, as yet unssrl something
stretched down out OF tho skies, something
like an arm uncovered, the bg-" arm o- tho
God Of Nations
There stands also the arch demon OF alco-
holism. IT, throne is White AMI made ol
bleached human skulls. on one side OF that
throne of skulls knces I'm obeisanoo and
worship democracy. aud on the other side
republicanism. and the one that kisses tho
generous and gancrened foot of this despot
the oftenest gets the most boncdictions.
There is n Hudson River. an Ohio. Missls-
sippi OF strong drink rolling through this
Nation. but as the rivers from which taSo
nv figure OF speech empty into the Atlantic
or the Gulf this michtier food OF sickness
and insanity and domestic ruin an crimo
and bankruptcy and woe enptics into the
henrts. and the homes. and the churches.
and the time. and the eternity Ola multitude
beyond all statistics to number or describe.
Ali Nations are maulel AM scarillei with
baleful stimulus. or killing narcotic. The
pulaue Of Mexico. the cashew Of Brazil, the
hasheesh OF Persia. the opium OF China, the
guavo OF Honduras, the wedro OF
Russia. tine soma Of Indin. the agulriientc
OF Morocco. the arak OF Arabia. the mastic
o. Syria. the rakl OF Turkey the beer Of Ger
many. the whisky Of Scotland. the ale OF
England. the all drinks OF America, arc do
ing their best TO stupefy. inflme. dement,.
impoyerish. brutalize and STAY the human
race. Human power. unless REINFORCED
from the heavens. can never cxtirpate the
evils l mention. Much COOL has been ac-
complished by the heroisn AMI fidelity Of
Christian reiormers. but the fact remains
that there are more splendid men ani mag
niacent women this moment going over tho
Niagara abysm OF inebricty than at any timo
since the first grape was turned into wine
and 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
millions are in dru l,-ar1s 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 Oiall tarift'
in this country, the tariff OF 5000 900
which rum put upon the United States In
1891. for that Is vat il cost us? You do not
tremble or turn pale when ! say that Tho
fact is we have become hardened by sta
tistcs. and they make little impression.
But II some ono could gather into one
mighty lake ali the tears that hav, been
wrung out Of orphanage and widowhood. or
into one organ diapason all the groans that
have been uttered by the suffering victims
OF this holocaust, or into one wnirwlnd all
the signs Of centuries of dissipation, or from
the wicket OF one immense prison have look
upon US the garing eyes OF all those whom
strong drink has en1ungeonel, We might
perhaps realize the appalling desoiation.
But. no. no. the sight would forever blast
our vision the sound would forever stun
our souls. Go on with your temperance
literature 20 on with youf temperlncepla
forms 20 on with your temperance laws
But we are all hoping for something from
above. AMI while the bare arm OK SUFFERING
and the bare arm OF invalidism. andthe bars
arm OF poverty, and the bare arm Of domes-
tic desolation, from which run bath tornth9
sleeve are lifted no in b3gylry an | supple
cation and despair, let tks bare arm OF Col
strike the brawsries. ant the liquor stores.
AMI the corrupt politi>s. AMI the licenis
laws, and the whole infeFh0,ol grogsaops al