Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31
A JUST REBUKE.

ana salvation are words
which can never be associated. They
are the antipodes Of each other. If the
grace of God does not save a man from
tobacco, it does not do much for him.
w. II. Alger, of Boston, widely known
as a leader of the liberal wing of Uni
tarianism, in a lecture delivered in
Music Hall, administered a justrebuke
to all tobacco chewing and smoking
christians. He says; Here comes a
man who claims to have been regener-
ated, born again, sanctified, taken out
OF the world, washed and made clean,
so as to be fit for Heaven; and yet he is
saturated with tobacco, smells so strong
OF it you can not bear him within
twenty feet of you. Out upon such
san%ctiication. such publication. It's
a farce. He fit for HeavenY Why.
the doorkeeper would turn up his nose
and say, nothing unclean can enter
here.'n
And yet what hosts of professed
christians are saturated with tobacco.
expending more money for this filthy
indulgence than for the spread of the
gospel of Jesus. How can such men
answer to God for their conductY-Se.
lected.
Amen, and Amen.-Editor of Gem
sUPPosING.
Surprising the electors of a town
should say, For and in consideration
OF five hundred dollars license money
we will permit liquor to be Sold"
Surprising the officers elect, obedient
to the public edict, should grant LICENSE
for such sale.
Surprising several men prefer their
five hundred dollars, receive legal per-
mission, and begin their legal business.
Surprising a man with the awful
appetite for rum should yield 10 the
craving within.
Surprising the man, frenzied by the
vile poison, should go home and griev-
ously abuse, maltreat and wound his
wife.
Surprising the wife, in company with
sympathetic Christian ladies, should
visit a magistrate, and showing the
woman's wounds and bruises, desire
the hands of the law laid upon the
party guilty of the offense-supposing
all this, for whose arrest and appear
ance before the magistrate should the
warrant call?
For the man himselfY Oh, no.. He
was only the agent; whisky did the
work.
For the man who keeps the saloon.
Oh, no. His license, given in due form
of law, exempts him.
For the town officers who granted the
license2 Again no. They carried out
the expressed will of the sovereign
power. They are only agents.
For whom, then, should the warrant
call? For the voter, who by his bal.
lot said, Let there be license" and
there was license.
He is the sovereign, his word is law,
from his will there is no appeal; and
when the great books are opened and
the voter is asked, ''Why did you NAL
treat that woman?" any plea that the
saloon keeper did it., will be fruitless
OF the law maxim. HE that doeth a
thing by his agent doeth it himself"
will still hold good, and the unhappy
voter will at last realize that the blood
guiltless is upon his head.-The Con-
stitution.
HOW ALCOHOL WARNS.
A patient was arguing with his doc
tor on the necessity of his taking a
stimulant. He urged that he was weak
and needed it. Said he: but doctor |
must have some kind of a stimulant.
am cold, and it warns me.n
Precisely, !" came the doctors crusty
answer. See here. This stick is cold"
taking up a stick of wood from the box
beside the hearth and tossing it into
the fire. Now it is warm, but is the
stick beneftedp"
The sick man watched the wood first
send out little puffs of smoke and then
burst into a flame and replied: "Of
course not, it is burning ITSELF"
And so are you when you warm
yourself with alcohol, you are literally
burning up the delicate tissues of your
stomach and brain"
ANOTHER VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN.
In next falls legislative campaign
the question of the prohibition of the
liquor traffic for beverage purposes
will be one of the leading and irrepres.
sible issues. Already hundreds of the
ablest ministers and men of hastings
power have booked themselves to make
from two to twenty speeches during
the campaign. The police of Roanoke
are making determined efforts to break
up the so called clubs. A few days
ago Police Justice Williams fined
Children Cry for
Rifchep,s Hacforia