The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-21

and no prayer Is uttered over the grave
into which they sink.
Then there Is L. alcoholism, Its piled
up demijohns and beer barrels, and
hogsheads of fiery death, barricade
high AID long as the Alleghenies and
Rocked and Sierra Nevadas, pouring
forth dAy and night their ammunition
of Indebtedness and woe. When q
German wants to take drink, he takes
beer. TShen an Englishman wants to
take "A drink, he takes ale. When
Scotchman wants to take drink, he
takes whisky. But when an Ameri-
can wants to take drink, he takes
anything he can lay his hands on.
Plenty of statistics tell how much
money is spent in this country for rum,
and how many drunkards die! But who
will give US the statistics of how many
hearts are crushed under the heel OF
this worst demon of the centuries?
How many hopes blasted? How many
children turned out on the world, ac-
cursed with the stigma of debauched
an cestryp Until the worm of the dis
tillery becomes the worm that new
er dies, and the smoke OF the
heated wine watts becomes the
smoke of the torment that ascendeth
up forever and ever! Alcoholism,
swearing-not with hand unplifted to-
ward Heaven, for from that direction
it can get no help, but with right
hand stretched down toward the perdi-
ton from which it came up-swearing
that 1t will not cease as long as there
are any homesteads to despoil, any
magnificent men and women to de-
stroy, any immortal souls to damn,
any more nations to balk, any more
civilizations to extinguish.
Then there is what in America we
call socialism, in France communism,
and In Russia nihilism-the three
names for the same thing-and having
but two doctrines in its creed: ~
There is no God; (2) there shall be'no
rights of property. One of their chief
journals printed the sentiment: "Dyn-
amite can be made out of the dead
bodies of capitalists as well as out of
hogs" One of the leaders of COM
munism left inscribed on his
prison where he had been just
ly incarcerated, these words: when
once you are dead, there Is an
end of everything; therefore, ye
scoundrels, grab whatever you can
only don't let yourselves be grabbed.
Amen." There are in this country
hundreds of thousands of the lazy
scoundrels. Honest men deplore it
when they can not get work, but those
of whom l speak will not do work
when they can get it. tried to en-
ploy one who asked me for money. l
said: Down in my cellar | nave
some wood to saw, and / will
pay you for it." For little while l
heard the saw going, and then l heard
it no more. / went downstairs, aud
found the wood, but the workmen had
taking for company both
buck and saw.
Socialism, communism and nihilfsm
mean, TOO wicked to acknowledge
God, and too lazy to earn living"
and among the mightiest obstacles to
be overcome are those organized c]e-
ments Of domestic, social and political
ruin.
There are also the Businesses of inf
deity, and atheism, and fraud, and
political corruption, and multiform,
hydra-headed, million-arIned abomina-
tions all over the land. While the
agencies for Righteousness
on earth are good and healthful news
papers and good and healthful books,
and our chief dependence for in
telligence and Christian achieve
ment is among them, what word
among the more than one hum
ured tho usands words in our vocabu-
larry can describe the work of that
archangel of mischief, corrupt litera-
ture? What man, attempting anything
for God and humanity, has escaped
stroke of filthy wing? What good cause
has escaped it's Underwent? What 9TH
er obstacle in all the land SO appal.
ling?
Our leader, like most great leaders,
was born in an obscure place, and it
was an humble home, about five miles
from Jerusalem. Those who were out
doors that night said that there was
stellar commotion, and music that
came out of the clouds, as though the
front door of Heaven had been set
open, and that the camels heard His
first infantile cry.
Then He came to the fairest boyhood
that mother was ever proud of, and
from l2 to 80 years of age was off in
India, If traditions there are accurate,
and then returned to His native land,
and for three years had His pathway
surrounded by blind eyes that He
illumined. and epileptic patients to
whom He gave rubicund health, and
tongues that He loosed from silence
into song, and those whose flu
nerals He stopped that He might
give back to bereaved mothers their
only boys, and those whose fevered
pulses He had restored into rhythmic
throb, and whose paralytic limbs He
had warmed into healthful circula-
tiod-pastor at Capernaum, but fam
ing evangelist everywhere, hushing
crying tempests and turning rolling
seas into solid sapphire, and for the
rescue of a race submitted to court
room filled with bowling miscreants,
and to n martyrdom at the sight
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