The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24

should be taking every where snoh marked
altruistio form indicates the movings of
the power that makes for righteousness.
Humanity and the Surging Sin.
BY j. DHU HUGHES.
The world hates the drunkard and
laughs at him. The world loves the
drunkard maker and laughs sosM him.
The outcast and the drunkard are
bracketed together in the same police
pigeonhole. The drunkard. maker and
the bishop receive equal fame in the
archives of humanity. There is little
difference in their death, but much in
their funerals. To all of them eternity
is the same.
Hatred of any man, be he drunk or
sober, is unchristian. Mookery of a
drunkard is demoniac. Yet, the butt of
the humOrist, the model of the press
artist, is the drunkard. He is treated as
joke, as a laughable man, and humanity
laughs with the joker. The drunkard is
joke even in police court, and the
magistrate sensible of his own thirst,
finds humOr in the common ''drunk."
Women fear to rustic their skirts
against his loathsOmeness. Children flee
from his tortuous approach. The
drunkard- maker welcomes him with the
grin of satyr. And-the world laughs
at him. And Jesus weeps again!
Where lies the greater sin ? The mock.
ing world is sober, and therefore respon-
sible. The drunkard is as a sponge of
alcoholic pollution, and therefore irre-
sponsible. Which ia the greater sinner
the drinker or the joker?
"
Edward Phillips was charged with
intoxication, and arraigned before the
august majesty of the law as represented
by city magistrate, who addressed the
oulprit in these words: 81 will send you
to the workhouse on the charge of intox.
ication. and you can imagine yourself
Tom Platt or Chauncey Depew, and the
time will pass more pleasantly"
The world laughs at the drunkard, and
aosth the magistrate. much the same as
they laughed when Peter the Great
chopped off the head of a sleeping
drunkard that he might awake In Para
disc! Some people consider it funny to
drink whiskey out of fleshless skull.
The drunkard joke is on par with the
death joke.
Here is another instance of the way in
which the same magistrate regards
drunkenness: Edward King was charged
in the police court with intoxication.
"Are you guilty ?" asked the court.
eyes, l am very guilty." replied the
prisoner. His brother told the judge
that the defendant was a hard working
man. "Do you think great deal Of
him ?" asked the mag istrate. "Yes, sir,
do" Then you can take him home
for three dollars. We have a mortgage
on him for that amount" The three
dollars were paid.
Such is the attitude of thoughtless
humanity toward the greatest evil in our
midst. The man who can coin a joke
upon the Holy Scriptures or parody
hymn is sanity compared with the one
who c,-n mock a sinking soull And that
is why refrain at this point from quot
ing any more that savors of the popular
attitude.
Let us contemplate the drunkard with
alright and horror and then extend the
Christ like hand toward his salvation.
The following paper was recently read
by the author before the Woodstown
Union, together with the poem, "Nature's
Teachings" from Lyrics Of Quakerism.
Natures Teachings.
BY IzETTA B. ALLEN.
Nature does not always teach by gentle
methods, sometimes there come great
waves Of sorrow which break upon the
shore-and make great burrows 10 the
heart-where falls the seed of truth
watered by tears and healed by the rains
and dews of Heaven.
Grief is the plow which plows up the
sopsoil OF the stagnant heart breaking
the crust OF past years-that the new
life may have birth.
Every thought of spring gives us
renewed faith In the resurrection, when
the old has passed away, and all things
become new. We're no seed planted In
the spring time Of life there would be no
blossoms In the summer, no fruit In the
autumn of life. Let us live near to
natures heart that our own may yibrate
In unison to the music of her voice. She
never will betray the heart that loves
her. and tits her privilege through all
these years this one life to lead from JOY
to joy. Be true to your own Iife-which
God has given you-to bud and bloom
into perfect flower.
All the works OF nature move in Der.
feet harmony to the order of God, 80
should individuals live In peace with the |
law OF their own being. There is an
abiding piece which no outward circnm.
stances or work Of man can destroy.
Charles Dickens says, strength of
character is not merely strength of feel
Ing, but nnyielding resistance to what.
ever disconcerts MS from without, OF
unsettles ns from Within"
Let us press upward and onward until
we gain the prize, then we will be able to
say that life is indeed worth living. !