The Newtown bee., 1895-11-29


And palm q. peace our battle-fag.
-(James Buckham in Congregationalist.
Law AND ORDER
A SERMON PREACHED ON TEMPERANCE
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER II, AT ST JOHNS
CHURCH BY REV o. Q. WRIGHT.
Text, Proverbs 8. ITO receive instruction
In wise dealing. In righteousness and
Judgement and equity" R. v.
The following letter from Bishop Will
liams explains why this subject is pre-
sented at this time.
ssMy Dear Brethren: The late Pastor
al Letter from the House Of Bishops
contains these words: aWe exhort you,
dear brethren, in no opportunity that
may be presented to decline battle with
the insatiate greed of the liquor traffic
and the growing desire for popular
pleasure and amusements, which, with
increasing boldness, claim all days alike
for their uses.'' In accordance with this
counsel, and at the request of the Exec
utive Committee of the Church Temper
ance Society | request you to urge upon
the attention OF your people the threat
ening evils and dangers Of intemperance
and especially of the Sunday liquor traf-
fic, on the twenty-third Sunday after
Trinity, November II, of the present
year." sE
In connection with this circular letter
addressed to the clergy the Secretary of
the Church Temperance Society says:
There never was time in the history
of the nation when the claims OF the
liquor dealers were in such direct hos
tility to the religious sentiment of the
people as now. In this emergency the
earnest, temperate discussion of the iiq-
our problem, and especially its bearing
on Sunday observance, in the pulpits of
our Church would be power for good.
The Society is in touch with and speaks
for the Church on this question. 1t, has
large work before it, and would urgent
ly but respectfully ask for an offering
before the close OF the present year"
THERE Is NOT ONE OF US IN THIS COM
MUNITY,
probably, that does not suffer in some
way, directly or Indirectly, because of
the drink business. We may not be con-
scious of our loss and inconvenience re-
sulting from the evils of the saloon, be-
cause we have not thought of it in par
ticular, perhaps. We may not realize
now much we do really suffer as to our
personal rights and liberties and social
happiness simply because we have &C.
cepted the situation to . great extent
and have become accustomed to the
abuses which dominate our public opin.
ion and take the law into their own
hands. II we do not suffer in heart and
conscience because OF the waste and sin
and crime and misery which may be
be to us that we can be 80 at ease, and
so Indifferent to such folly and the de-
struction of all that OF right belongs to
our social life and health and happiness.
| Indeed there is great danger that the
drink business will become so promi.
nent, and drinking habits so prevalent
that the people simply accept the situa.
ton as being Inevitable and hopeless, il
not indeed the very condition OF things
we ought to expect. Little by little We
| auhnoif RI thu ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - 49, -
ious and lawless and for the sake Of
peace we yield our rights and privileges
to those who have no respect for our so.
cial and moral standards, or the institu.
items we are seeking to build up. The
evil habits and customs Of people, who
make the plea that the saloon ia necessa.
~ to their happiness, are SO insiduous
and persistent that at last we settle
down into state Of non-resistence al
least, making but the feeblest protest
while the abnormal conditions Of life
prevail and vice is insolent and tyrannic.
al and triumphant. We are simply over.
come Of evil when we know and feel
that we ought be overcoming evil with
Il 6OOAs AuA oO ~ lhSG VIC AIC IUlGu Uy
the vicious and the criminal, we submit
to it, we accept the situation with only q
show Of protest, we may even patronize
the business directly or indirectly, and
cater to it and encourage it because II
becomes SO inter-related to everything
else in the community that we do not see
how we can conveniently do otherwise.
There Is many community that is sold
under bondage, body and soul, to this
Emonstrous drink business and apparent
" there is no redemption for such places
except BY the influences Of agencies out.
side themselves. We get into the whirl-
pool and we have no power Of ourselves
to escape from 1t, and sometimes it looks
rs though people did not care to take
the trouble even to be pulled out Of the
pit and mire into which they have fallen.
II makes one think Of what the poet
Pope says:
"vice II monster Of such hideous mien,
That to be hated needs bnt to be seen:
Yet, seen too oft familiar to her face,
We drst endure. then pity, then embrace
We are all familiar with the facts.
We know very well that
THE ALTERNATING BUSINESS or THIS
TOWN - THE DRINK BUSINESS.
We know that It dominated everything
to ! great extent In this community.
We are we'll aware % the abuses and
kindred evils which attend upon this
business, and The habits and manners
which are induced ~ II. we know TIE
waste and want and woe which follow