The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-03-22

TEMPERANCE LESSON.
f:ospxx Trxr.-Abstain from al appearsec9 VI
OF evil Thcsx- 3D. ". Abstain 49, NJ
every form of evil Margin. or appesrsn0S
AuInoR-sl Paul
DATE Tho spring OF A. ID o. toW~Su - Y.
close az Paul's third great missionary journey
prAcE-written At Corinth. toward me
close OF Paul's three months residence 'n@
ptAcr IN BIBLE HIsToRy--Paul WAL
about 10 leave Corinsh for Jerusaicm prns.
With him the contributions OF the o@ns
churches for the poor saints In Jerusalem 60
eO.2 .. Cor. ie.d
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
Love to One Another, Our Perpetn0
Debt.-"The believer should keep p
other debt in his life than that which
man can never discharge, the debt which
| i renewed and even grows in proportion
as il is discharged-that of loving. n
fact. the task OF love Is infinite. Inc
more active love is the more it seeks 10 i,
task to enlarge, for, inventive as IT -,
II is ever discovering new objects ior
it's activity.--Godet. Leave no deps
undischarged except 1.-The undying dept
of love- (Bengell. (which you must
always owe because this alone holds the
debtor even after It has been dm-
charged" (Augustine.) He loves
not truly who loves for the purpose OF
ceasing from loving" Philippil
American Commentary.
Applications to TemperanceVp Inc
law Of love requires us not to DRINK m
tox;catinp LIQUORS. because they injure
ourselves and whatever Injuries our
selves in lures others. CO. The law OF
Love requires ms not to sell to others i'm
tox;catinc drinks. and not to aid others
I'm the sale by furnishing capital or rent
inc buildings for the purpose. 90 The
.. law Of love requires us to do all we can
"a mt down intemperance ta) by our
own example: (b) by temperance socie-
ties: (c) by efforts for the suppression or
the traffic; fd) by contributing our
money and our influence; (e) by person
n consecration; ~ by tempersnce
teaching in day schools and Sunday
schools
Illustration result OF OBSERVE
ton by Hon. Chauncey M. Depew:
!, president Of the New York Central
!, Railroad company, in q talk TO raiiroao
!. men: twenty-five years ago knew
= every man, woman and child in Peeks-
kill. And it has been q study with mo
10 mark BOYS who started in every
grade of life with myself to see what
! has become Of them. i was up last faLl
and began to count them over. ana y
= was an instructive exhibit. Some Oh
- them became clerks, merchants, manu-
]. facturcrs, lawyers, doctors II Is re.
- markable that every one OF those tnas
:. drank is dead; not one living OF my
~ age. barring a few who were taken on
- nv sickness, every one that proved z
=, w&eclx and wrecked his family did y
from rum and no other cause. OF
- who are church-going people, who wers
~ steady, industrious and Woodworking
- men. who were frugal and thrifty
= every single one Of them, without Al
exception. owns the house in which n
80 lives. and has something laid by, tn
interest on which, with his house
~ would carry him through many a rain
day When a man becomes debase
with gambling, rum or drink u
~. doesn't care: all his finer feelings ar
;nr, crowded out"
'is Illustration. other day 1t wa
80. discovered that there had been sea-
tered around the village of Moravia, \
Y boxes containing bottles of whis<
drugped with deadly poison. Thes
80 boxes we're labeled: This box Il on
| OF SeTeral Dl1ttu al voAao r. =
hat this village ior ,ne PurIss 80 49,.
e. who prefer to die rather than face Il
ana present hard times any longer. yo
are not tired Of this world, let this be
y. alone This was signed fnhal
eco tbropist.- Two men discovered one
The these boxes dld no' taa M =.
4, thought the fluid was whisky M
ASx.sNi In M
ude nothing else. drank H. anu WV -
an hour. The incident would make
the GOOD text for a temperance sermo
. in Every whisky bottle furnishes mstcrl
eve for a suicide, no less sure because ~
om. slow. It would be well II every bot'
and Of strong drink had upon II, IN pla
AGO let tiers. precisely the label OF the
boxes in Moravia: If you are not tir
Of this world, let this bottle alon'
Lo~ The firm-label. however. should
ho,v "Nisanthropist.-- Rule.
arm Burning Words Of Advicc.-"Had
,allv 10. oOo. 900 tongues and throat for ca
been tongue, would say to every mi
a 50 woman and child here tonight: Thr
any strong drink aside as you would
con- ounce Of liquid hell. 1t sears the G
heat, science, 1t destroys everything
iods. touches. 1t reaches into the fam
circle and takes the wife You had sw
usheL to protect, and drags her down II
s liz her purity into that house from wh
n 1T no decent woman ever goes alive
\. ~ ~ induces the father to take the III
- ~ turc from his house. exchange y
ulsla- money at the pawnshop, and spend
g IN proceeds in rum. 1t damns everyth
II touches. have seen IL in every
east OF the Mississippi river, and XXI
gan. that the most damning curse 10
aving laborcr is that which gurgles from
was neck Of the bottle. had rather Q
e Chi the head of an organization ha'
G late 100. 900 temperate. honest. earnest
1t the than at the head Of an organizatio
hood Il. 900. 900 drinkers, whether mode
rod re- or any other kind Every dime 81
paign. in the rumshop furnishes pa
ut and stone for hell. In one Pennsylv