The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-06
w. C.. 7. U. COLUMN.

Build on resolve. and not regret
The structure of the future. DO not groPe
Among the skeleton of thy old sins, but let
The light of Faith shine on the path of Hope
And disSipatc the darkness. Waste no tears
Upon the blotted record of lost years,
But turn the leaf and smile,
Oh smile to see
The fair white pages that remain for thee.
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A late issue of the Philadelphia Record
contained upon its first page in heavy head
lines these words, 'FIigh License a Com
plete Failure-Povertv. Bloodshed and
Crime Steadily on the Increase"
Then followed IA well authenticated and
carefully prepared table of statistics, prov
ing beyond doubt the dismal failure of
the Brooks high license law in the city of
Philadelphia.
This is gratifying candor in journal
that has hitherto advocated license, and has
sought in every way to belittle the aims
and objects of prohibition. Now in its
own columns is the policy which it has so
long and so ardently advocated, condemned
in unmeasured terms
''We expect to criticise the church until
its actions agree with it's utterances, until
women within its walls can answer the
divine call to preach His holy word as
as revealed by His spirit to their spirits.
until James NJ. Buckley is born again, or
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chair of the christian idrocatc. Failure to
so criticise is not meek and lowly spirit,
is not christianity, but cowardice. Extract
of speech by Mrs Quigley, State President
of New Jersey w. {. T. L.
The Philadelphia W. c. r. L. is to he
congratulated npon the fact of having pur-
chased and paid for handsome ''homeo
at 1921 Arch street, for the sum of $40, 600.
1t is "A handsome brown stone structure,
originally private residence. Here are
conducted industrial classes in all useful
trades and occupations for the training and
instruction of poor and ambitious young
women. Lodging is furnished deserving
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twenty-five cents per night, and rates Of
board correspondingly low. Cooking is
carefully taught.
Among the notable sermons preached in
Philadelphia during the month of March
that of Rev. Frank p. Parkin, First NJ. T..
| Church, Germantown, was the most not
able. SIS the Liquor Traffic Invincible 2"
was the title of the discourse The text
was taken from Isaiah 81, iii, "Now the
Egyptians are men and not God; their
horses flesh and not spirit. When the
Lord shall stretch out his hand both he
that helpeth, and he that is helppn shall
fall down, and they shall all fall together. :"
Is the liquor traffic so powerful that it can
never be oycrthrown? Is it SO strongly
entrenched with social, political and tinan-
cial influences that it will forever resist the
attacks of its enemies?
True its power to day is startling when
we consider the moral, religious and edu-
cational agencies brought to bear against
it. Three times the amount OF malt and
spirituous liquors are sold in this country
as in 1873. Lord Churchill recently said
Of the liquor trade: at is an organization
as powerful as a Prussian army, and it can
be modified at any moment and its power
brought to bear on any threatened point.
1t has already overthrown two governments,
1t is IA fruitful field for the political econo-
mist and the wisest craftsmanship and far
exceeds in vital importance the questions
of free silver, free trade etc.
What can Christian patriots do? They
should brand the traffic as IA curse to society
and refuse to help legalze it by any system
of license remembering the declaration Of
the Methodist bishops: The liquor traf-
tic is so pernicious so inimical to honest
trade, so rcpugnant to moral sense, SO hurt
full to home and church, that it can never
he legalizcd with sin. They can use all
their influence against any engaged in it,
and increase the power of that public SEN
timent which has caused the saloon to be
oStracised by all respectable society
On the same day in Philadelphia, an
other preacher said from the pulpit: IF
men would stop pouring their money into
the saloon Keepers till, and devote that
money to the providing for their families
in eases of sickness, accident or death
through the agencies of beneficial organiza-
tions, even these things would be to many
less painful, and death ITSELF would be
robbed of half it's terrors, and many
widows and orphans, in their SORROW would
have ray of sunshine"
Another said: "At twenty the young
man says, oh, have no fears for me, ] can
stop at at any time. am not in the least
danger of becoming a drunkard.' But
what is the picture at sixty? 1t is that of
a physical and mental wreck, bound with
the iron chains of an awful appetite ready
to barter his immortal soul for the gratif-
cation thereof"
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