The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-04-19
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Quarterly Temperance Lesson. April FL,
1907 atchfuIness-Matt. "a; Ae-51.

quarterly Temperance Lesson, April I'll,
1893 atchfuiness-Mat "a; 4s-51.
Especially Arranged from Peioubets Notesl
GOLDEN TExr-Take ye heed. watch and
pray.-Mark IS: So.
THIs SECTION OF our study includes the dis
courses OF Jesus To His disciples Tuesday
afternoon, after He had left the temple. on the
way To Bethany over the Mount OF Olives.
Matthew chapters "a and 25; and the parallels
Mark 10: l-37; Luke "a: $50
TIME.-Tucsday afternoon, April L. A. n 30.
The same day, and soon after the last lesson
PLACE-The Mount OF Olives. overlooking
Jerusalem. on the way to Bethany.
THE CIH,UMsTANCEs.-Itw was the Tuesday
afternoon before the crucihxion. Jesus had
spent most OF the day in the temple courts In q
final effort 20 persuade the rulers aud the peo-
pie TO accept Him as the Messiah. and So save
beth themselves ana the nation Before lie
leaves. He pronounces the most solemn woes
against them. not In a denunciatory manner.
but as a statement OF n fact and warming 1t
was the cry OF love itself, thrilled with tears
Leaving the temple, Jesus, with His disciples,
viewed the massive foundations as they passed
by, and as they climbed the heights Of Olivet
Ec looked into the future and saw all in ruins,
not one stone left upon another Then His
prophetic eyes took wider range into the
future and saw the DAY of Judgment. of which
the destruction OF Jerusalem awful
type Both arose from the same causes, be-
cause the people would not repent and believe
The destruction OF Jerusalem bore the same
relation To the Jews as the food did TO the
antediluvians. which was emphatically the
end OF the world to them, and this was but "a
miniature, en- "A much smaller SCALE" OF the
great last day
AN APPLICATION TO TEMPERANCE.
The Need.-In the troublous times
that precede the coming of Christ in
His kingdom, the battle with in
temperance has no small part. There
are.''wars and rumors of wars" There
are great tribulations" land great
distress upon the land, and wrath unto
this people
a magazine of facts, from the Ma
tional Temperance Almanac for 1894.
Direct cost OF intoxicating
liquors. 81 900 100000
INDIRECT COST.
Lost Jhor caused by drinking .... 4i0.0 900 600
Lost labor az liquor dealers. 100000 0O
Sickness caused by liquor. ......... i0oO,o.O00
Crime caused by liquor. @1,5Ul,O0O
Insanity caused l. liquor. ......... 1900 600
PauperiSln cauS ed by Iiq,lOr ........ 5000 00D
902.5O0OOO
COMPARISONS
Compare with this list of large expenditures
the follown, table. showing what is spent In
the United states for the ordinary necessities
Of life
Bread s505 900 600
Meat ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 30 100000
WOODEN goods. ................ -1li OJ'op
cotton goOdS 2lOuJ1,cu'
Boots AID shoes Observation-Disclosures. 10000 Dp
SuSa' ana molaSScS. loJ,OVUooV
Young man. has not your eye been
frequently attracted to sign hav-
ing the following ominous words on
it: Bar? Avoid the place; it is no
missioner. The experience of thou
sands has proved it to be: bar
TO responsibility; bar to honor; bar
to happiness: bar 20 domestic felicity;
a bar To Heaven.
Every day il proves tosbc the road to
Degradation: the road to vice: the road
to the gambling hell; the road to the
brothel; the road to poverty; the road to
wretchedness; the road to want; the
road to robbery; the road to prison; the
road to the gallows; the road to the
drunllard's grave; the road to hell.
The Horn OF Plenty.-A brand of
whisky is called "liorn Of Plenty" On
this temperance writer remarks that
they have chosen the name wisely, for
out of the thing designated shall come
Plenty of poverty, plenty OF pain.
Plenty Of sorrow, plenty o. shame.
Plenty OF broken hearts, hopes doomed and
sealed.
Plenty OF graves in the potter's Geld.
Loyal Legion.
low 20 Escape Perpetual Watch
ing-Against the enemies of temper
ance: against temptations; over the
young; for opportunities. If we watch,
temperance and all the train of virtues
will rule over all the house, over our
selves. and over our country.
An English temperance orator, when
speaking on the subject whether or not
it w i be possible to close the puolic
drinking saloo3s, said: This is diff
cult question, truly, my friends; but we
will do well to remember that:
There's little public house which everyone
may close;
1t is the little public house just underneath the
nose ,"
Linnaus said of alcohol that: MAN
sinks gradually by this fell poison; first
he favors it, then he warns to it, then
he burns for it, then he is consumed
by it"
The Consequences of Not Watching.
Destruction to ourselves, to our fam
lilies and to our nation.