The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-10

God NOTED OUT tho churches Of Thya'
tira and Corinth and Laodicea, because
OF their sloth and stolidity, ne WI
blot out American and English Cnris-
tianity, and raise on the runs 2 scar
war. wlde-awake, missionary churcn,
that can take the full meaning OF that
command: Mo into all the world, ana
preach the Gospel to every creature.
/ remark, further, If you want TO
succeed in spiritual archery you muso
have courage. If the hunter stand
with trembling hand or shoulder tnat
Ainches with fear, instead OF taking
the catamount, the catamounS lakes
him. What would become OF the
Greenlander if, when out hunHng Ior
the bear, he should stand shivering
with terror on an iceberg? what
would have become of Du Challlu ana
Livingstone in the African thlcket,
with faint heart and weak knee9
When panther comes within 70 PAGES
Of YOU and it has its eye on you and ~
has souatted for the Ecarful spring.
STEADY there!"
Courage, o 70 spiritual archers!
There are great monsters in iniqulty
providing all around about the COM
munity. Shall we not of the strength
| Of God 60 forth and combat them.
We not only need more heart, but
more backbone. What is the church
| of God. that it should fear to look in
| the eve of any transgression? There IS
| the Bengal tiger of drunkenness that
prowls around, and instead OF attack
| ing it. how many OF us hide under
| the church pew or the communion
tablet There is SO much invested in 1t
we are afraid to assault it; millions OF
dollars in barrels, in watts, in spi2ots,
| in corkscrews, in gin palaces with mar
BILE floors and Italian-top tables, and
chased ice-coolers, and in the strych-
nine, and the logwood, and the tar
taric acid, and the nux vomica, that
| 20 to to make up our pure American
| drinks l looked with wondering
eyes on the heidelberg tun." 1t is
the great liquor vat OF Germany,
which is said to hold 500 hogsheads OF
wine, and only three times in 100
wears it has been filed. But, as !
st God and looked at it, said to my
self: ''That is nothing 500 hogsheads.
Why. our American vat holds 2,50O, 900
barrels of strong drinks, and we keep
zoo. 900 men with nothing to do but to
see that it is filed"
Oh, to attack this great monster OF
intemperance, and the kindred mon
sters of fraud and uncleanncss, re-
uuires you to rally all your Christian
courage. Through the press, through
the pulpit, through the platform, you
must assault it. Would to God that
all our American Christians would
band together, not for crack-brained
fanaticism, but for holy Christian re-
form. | think it was in 1913
i that there went out from Luck
, now. India, under the sovereign
the greatest hunting party that was
, ever projected. There were 10000 mer
} in that hunting party. There were
} camels and horses and elephants. On
, some princes rode, and loyal ladies
I under exquisite housing, and 500 coolies
} waited upon the train, and the desolatt
T places of India were invaded by this ex
cursion, and The rhinoceros, the deel
. and elephant fell under the stroke O.
saDer anu uuii pa i. .aoah ;as ,rnrtb so
party orouRn. oaon 9. t.; darnass ~ :
e India CHASTITY with the slain bodies Q
v wild beasts. Would to God that in
= sceau % hele anu 49, 90 $50 49, :.
: ing ou1 70 nsns .aese s az ua;I,;o,
. Oh inquiry ~ ou' eo'n ,a,. ,na,,1,
!. memoership ~ ~ - - twain thss
u Dana 1oge.hel auu ne" an ~ 800, ,"ad fr;rI,t
. great crimes 1nao u"No s'e - $3.50,
lul WIN 'nei, roal' "n 20 ;.,,ssa e... !,
: upon one oooies anu 'ouis - !"