The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-03-21

TEMPERANCE LESSON.
GOLDEN TExr.-Abstain from all appearance
of evil Thess. 5:2s r. w., Abstain from
every form OF evil Margin, or appearance.)
AurHoR-St Paul
DArE-The spring Of A. D. 5s, toward the
close Of Pauls third great missionary journey
PLACE.-Written at Corinth, toward the
close Of Paul's three months residence there
PLACE IN BIBLE HIsroRY.-Paul was Just
about to leave Corinth for Jerusalem, bringing
with him the contributions Of the GENTLE
churches for the poor saints in Jerusalem (Acts
20:2, 8; I Cor 18:6
TEMPERANCE NOTES
Love to One Another, Our Perpetual
Debt.-"The believer should keep no
other debt in his life than that which
man can never discharge, the debt which
isrenewed and even grows in proportion
as it is sdischarged-that of loving. In
fact, the task of love is infinite. The
more active love is the more it seeks it's
task to enlarge, for, inventive as it is,
it is ever discovering new objects for
it's activity. y."-Godet. Leave no debt
undischarged except "the undying debt
of love-" CBengeD, (which you must
always owe, because this alone holds the
debtor even after it has been dis
charged" (Augustine.) "He loves
not truly who loves for the purpose of
ceasing from loving" Philippi. -
American Commentary.
Applications to Temperance.-O The
law of love requires us not to drink in
toxicating liquors, because they injure
ourselves, and whatever Injuries our
selves Injuries others, (2.) The law of
love requires us not to sell to others in
toxicating drinks, and not to aid others
in the sale by furnishing capital or rent
ing buildings for the purpose. (S) The
law of love requires us to do all we can
to put down intemperance (a) by our
own example; (b) by temperance socie-
ties; (c) by efforts for the suppression of
the traffic; (d) by contributing our
money and our influence; (e) by person.
al consideration; C) by temperance
teaching in day schools and Sunday
schools.
nlustration.-The result of observa-
ton by Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew,
president of the New York Central
Railroad company, in talk to railroad
men: twenty-five years ago knew
every man, woman and child in Peeks-
kill. And it has been a study with me
to mark boys who started in every
grade of life with myself to see what
has become of them. was up last fall
and began to count them over, and it
was an instructive exhibit. Some of
them became clerks, merchants, manu-
facturers, lawyers, doctors 1t is re-
marlsable that every one of those that
drank is dead; not one living of my
age. Barring few who were taken off
by sickness, every one that proved q
wreck and wrecked his family did it
from rum and no other cause. Of those
who are church-going people, who were
steady, Industrious and hard-working
men, who were frugal and thrifty,
every single one of them, without an
exception, owns the house in which he
lives, and has something laid by, the
interest on which, with his house,
would carry him through many rainy
day. When a man becomes debased
with gambling, rum or drink he
doesn't care; all his finer feelings are
crowded out"
Illustration.-The other day it was
discovered that there had been scat
tered around the village of Moravia, N.
Y, boxes containing bottles of whisky
drugged with deadly poison. These
boxes were labeled; "This box is one
of several placed in various parts of
this village for the purpose of furnish
ing a sure mode of suicide for those
who prefer to die rather than face the
present hard times any longer. If you
are not tired Of this world, let this box
alone" This was signed "Philan-
thropist." Two men discovered one of
these boxes, did not read the label,
thought the fluid was whisky and
nothing else, drank it, and died In half
an hour. The incident would make
good text for a temperance sermon.
Every whisky bottle furnishes material
for suicide, no less sure because it is
slow. It would be well if every bottle
Of strong drink had upon it, in plain
letters, precisely the label of these
boxes in Moravis: "If you are not tired
of this world, let this bottle alone"
The fr1n-label, however, should be
"Misanthropist. Golden Rule.
Burning Words of Advice Had
100000 tongues and a throat for each
tongue, l would say to every man,
woman and child here tonight: Throw
strong drink aside as you would an
ounce of liquid hell. 1t sears the con-
science, it destroys everything il
touches. 1t reaches into the family
circle and takes the wife you had sworn
to protect, and drags her down from
her purity into that house from which
no decent woman ever goes alive. 1t
induces the father to take the furni-
ture from his house, exchange it for
money at the pawnshop, and spend the
| proceeds in rum. 1t damns everything
it touches. have seen it in every city
east of the Mississippi river, and know
| that the most damning curse to the
laborer is that which gurgles from the
| neck of the bottle. had rather be at
the head of an organization having
100000 temperate, honest, earnest men
than at the head of an organization Of