The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-12-04

hear the good part, SO you II y
man or rather "A minister wants To be
popular, he must not always obey
God and denounce wrong. | heard
a minister once say he never said
ANYTHING against the saloon men,
and they all liked him, and when he
left a certain town that the saloon
men met and serenaded, him and
made up quite a purse OF money io'
him (and of course he voted to per
petuate their business.) OF course
they liked him, why shouldn't they?
Are we not commanded to cry aloud
and spare not? Will not those
saloon men appear in judgment
against that minister? o, God give
us men, or rather ministers, who
fear Thee rather than man We
have in the nation fifteen thousand
slperintendents of departments; "A
great deal has been accomplished
in closing saloons and closing places
of business. The ministers too,
are more ready to denounce the
crime than ever before before An
other good institution is the Hadley
Industrial school for girls. have
not time to tell you much about 1t.
lOf course YOU all know that MIR.
Addison Hadley and wife donated a
farm of one hundred and sixty
acres in Hendricks county 10 the
w. c.. T. U. OF Indiana, providing
they would erect a building for the
above named purpose, which they
have done, and now have twenty
worthy poor girls in it, all happy
and doing well. But as the build
ing cost about $25, 900 they have
not vet been able to meet the ex-
penses of the building and other
work. Each county is requested to
raise a free will offering in any way
that they see fit, and for ward to
them by the first of January. Fol
this purpose we have appointed a
committee, composed Of one from
each union. Each is to getall she
can and we will forward the same,
giving the union, church or individ-
ual the credit. We trust that no
one will refuse to aid those that
have been appointed, for there is no
more worthy cause, none that will
accomplish greater good. | have
not time to dwell on all the depart
ments, but we certainly should try
to do more the coming year than
we have done in the past. Cast in
our mite, yield not to discourage
ments. How often do we have it said
to us that we are doing no good, not
accomplishing anything, or but
little. We should try the harder,
rem embering that God is our Judge
He knows better what we are doing
than our enemies do. We as a
state have accomplished much, and
Dubois county has helped in that
for which we should thank God and
more fully trust him. This has
been a hard year for our cause bu,
we have won many victories. Oul
state organization is in better con
dition socially, Intellectually, and
financially than it has been for
many years. Our state deft has
been cancelled this Fall by our ener-
getic and efficient treasurer, so she
has been promoted to the highest
office we have the power to bestow
All the rest of our state officers die
equally as well. We felt loathe I,
give up our state president, but sh,
thought she could not serve us long
er and declined rejection. We hav'
a new treasurer but we believe
|, very able one, and fully alive to on
, cause, SO we have no fears on he
,part. / hope that our county an,
/ local treasurers viii! do all in thei
: power, for they arr the key-bean
, upon which she has to stand. Dea
Sisters let us begin a new year wit
| a full determination not to give u
1.-THE ship. And if the Master spare
US may we each prove faithful, or
: we are called home may we be read
to hear the welcome plaudit, owe.
g done.' We are fighting sin in a
Q its forms, but the leading sin Of on
nation to-day is the liquor traffic
and the liquor traffic to-day has bt
ncome a political question. TIL
olliquor traffic is dominating tn
American parties to-day, it predict
1.-THE election, rules or misrules 0,
q beloved nation. What is the Chril
Itians duty? Our bible teache
. that there must be no comprc
|, mise with evil. Duty then is oil
70 vious; we must come out fro
4 among them. The reproach of t.
d christian church to-day is that /
/, united action, she a supprei
the liquor traffic and does not. I'll
church stands to-day with gapir
;smouth and idle hands, wonderir