The mirror., 1895-08-15

There is no use in praying for the
conversion of sinners in the street while
no preaching is being done to the sin.
ners in the church.-Howard R. T.
Times.
The young men who stand round the
church doors on earth, watching the
people come out, and smiling on the
girls in an emetic sort of way, will some
day hang around the gates Of heaven
While the decent people 60 in, and the
first thing they know the gate is shut
forever, and they will have to get ac-
commodations elsewhere.-St. Peter
Herald.
1t is stated that not one of the self
made milionaires is a drinking man.
Not one uses tobacco or profanity. The
statement is not at all surprising to any
one who has noted the effect of alcohol
and narcotics on the human system
Even the moderate drinker and tobacco
user SO weakens his mental abilities as
to unfit him for concentrated thought
And Furthermore, SO closely dependent
on each other are the moral and mental
natures, that a prOfane man cannot be
strong man intellectually Redwood
Falls Reveille.
1t is astonishing how many people
there are in the world who do not know
intuitively what common politeness
dictates, do not seem to reflect that in
disregarding the rules of politeness
they indirectly stultify themselves by
ignoring rules deduced for the COM
fort of all from the experience of man
kind; for the purpose, first of all, of
preventing mankind treadlng on each
others toes, and then, in the higher
grade, making their pathway through
life pleasant. Trifies, it is said make
up the sum of life: but paradoxically
nothing is a trife that goes to make
up sum, which for the most favored
of mortals, may indeed be in excess of
his deserts, but which is for anyone
never absolutely great. 1t is only by
making the fund of comfort a great
Tontine that men, women and children
can secure the full amount of what
ever life has in it Of possible enjoyment.
Minneapolis Weekly Mirror.
The action of the sheriff of Jefferson
County, Alabama, and of his deputy
will go far toward assuring those who
contemplate emigration to or invest
ment of capital in that State. Law is
a rule of action that cannot be broken
without damage to the community in
which it is broken. Serious breach of
law by mobs is much more calamitous
than serious breach by solitary crimi-
nails or by conspiracy of few. Hence
the successful assertion of the suprem-
acy of law in the Brookside mining
camp is matter upon which the people
of Alabama are to be congratulated.
There is the greater cause for rejoi-
cling because the persons saved from the
vengeance Of the mob are negroes, and
because, SO far as first accounts go, the
arrested negroes were the aggressive
parties of the riot that has been sup
pressed promptly. When law in Ala
bama is made protective of negroes,
and when it secures to negroes fair
trial for crimes Of which they presuma-
bly, are guilty, there is no cause to doubt
the readiness and willingness of it's ex-
ecutive officers to make it protective
of white people. Chicago Inter Ocean.
peace on the earth is because there is
so much sin. A Christian is not
worthy Of the name if he does not
strive to fight against sin, and that is
the object of the temperance society.
Intemperance is one of those evils that
takes terrible hold on the appetite
and is an evil by which temptations
are multiplied. So the church and the
civil authorities regard its traffic as
most dangerous to the welfare of
virtue and morality, and as Christians
and citizens we ought to try to dimin-
ish it's traffic. There are few sources
which equal the rumshop for crime.
Intemperance destroys health, weak
ems the morals and debases the indi-
vidual and causes general demorali-
zation in the community. The statis-
tics of every state show that there is
more crime and misery caused by the
saloon than any other source. We
have seen thousands of lives that were
at one time shining lights ruined. We
have seen fathers and mothers whose
pride were their children, grow gray
and their days shortened by this evil.
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