Morris tribune., 1895-09-11
MIME SOTA HYMN.

State where thousands waters play!
From thy breast the Mississippi
Rolls its ieweled tide along;
At thine ear sweet Minnehaha
Sings her never-changing song.
Land of Waters!
Shall we let suffer wrong:
Shall thy sons sons defile thy fairness!
Soil thy crystal purity?
To curse turn gifts God given:
Pearls to tears of misery?
Bane or blessing
Shall thy beauty be to thee?
God of love! withhold thy judgements,
Thine we are, our work is thine;
Thine our country, it's salvation
Resteth on thy heart divine.
Bless thy landmarks,
Fitting Want and Woe and Wine!
The Church and the Liquor Traffic.
In respect OF the attitude Of the
church relating to this question, it
would not be true TO say that, as a
body, the church has surrendered to
the liquor oligarchy. 1t is true to say
that it is SO seriously crippled as to
prevent any successful warfare. Let
us, however, be just; the church is
the greatest foe the liquor dealers
face to-day; the deliverances of its
chief councils are strong and UNI
equivocal; its ministry as body is by
no means tonguetied or paralyzed,
but it's weakness lies in its want of
unity and in the application of prac-
teal remedies. When it attempts to
marshal it's forces to attack this great
est foe of society, these forces scatter;
they have not yet learned the art Of
Christian soldiery, nor the full mean
ing of Christian citizenship. Practi-
cally the interests of the kingdom
yield to the demands of party. It is
much easier to put into the ballot box
the printed party ballot than it is to
put in the Sermon on the Mount, or
even the resolutions passed by eccle-
siastical councils.
What is most wanted is a sturdier
type of Christian men. We need
Christian men with Christian princi-
pies practically applied. The church
and its members Individually must
be raised to that high level, Rev. G..
III. Payne, D. D.
In recent article Judge Daniel
Agnew, of Beaver, Pa, gives this tes
timony: eff life of Sc years can
confer experience, and give some
knowledge, perhaps mine in and out
of courts of justice and public affairs,
may entitle me to a small share.
Mine is not the gush of sentiment or
cratic effusion. The first homicide
case tried before me was that of a
brother killing brother in a drunk
en- quarrel while driving cattle. The
second, of a college student fresh
from a whisky chicken roost killing a
poor young Irishman. The third,
that of an Englishman stabbed in a
drunken broil in the street of vii
lage, and the heart of the victim pro-
duced in court to show the cut the
drunken knife had made. So the
calendar of crime in the daily press
will show homicide from drunken
ness for every day in the year. All
judges testify that nine-tenths of the
crimes of violence and bloodshed have
their origin in drunkenness"
The report on temperance of the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
church contained declaration that
the 'unfermented fruit of the vine
fulflls every condition in observing
the sacrament" Also recommen-
dalton that everything be done to
keep drinkers out of government,
state and municipal Offices, and res
olution declaring that, "The time has
now come to make our influence felt
directly and with power, and voters
are urged to vote against the granting
of licenses
The g.. A. r.. came to the rescue of
the Soldiers Home bill in Wisconsin
and sent in to the legislature petit
tions which secured the passage of
the bill forbidding saloons within two
miles Of any Soldiers Home in the
state.
Children Cry for
Pifnhar,s Gaefnria-