News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-07-02

Eu6ElCdu anu LuSIlsu OnIlStidulJy ana
raise on the ruins stalwart, wide
awake, missionary church that can take
the full meaning of that command, $50
into all the world and preach the gospel
tn every creature. "
Spiritual Archers.
remark, further, if you want to sue
coed in spiritual archery you must have
courage. If the hunter stand with trem-
bling hand or shoulder that flinches
with fear, instead of his taking the cat
amount, the catamount takes him.
What would become of the Greenlander
if, when out hunting for the bear, he
should stand shivering with terror on
an iceberg? What would have become
Of Du Chaillu and Livingstone in the
African thicket with faint heart and
a weak knee? When a panther comes
within 20 PAGES of you and it has its eye
on you and it has squatted for the fear
full springs Steady thereP'
Courage, o ye spiritual archers!
There are great monsters in iniquity
providing all around about the commu-
nifty. Shall we not of the strength of
God go forth and combat them? We not
only need more heart, but more back
bone. What is the church of God that
it should fear to look in the eye any
transgression? There is the Bengal tiger
of drunkenness that prowls around, and
instead of attacking it, how many of us
hide under the church pew or the COM
munion table! There is so much invested
i'll 1T we are afraid to assault it; millions
of dollars i'll barrels, in watts, i'll spigots,
i'll corkscrews, in gin palaces with mar
BILE floors and Italian top tables, and
chased ice coolers and in the strychnine
and the logwOod and the tartaric acid
and the nux vomica that go to make up
our pure" American drinks. | looked
with wondering eyes on the Heidelberg
tun. 1t is the great liquor vat of Ger.
many, which is said to hold 800 hogs
heads of wine, and only three times in
100 years it has been filled. But, as [
stood ana looked at it, said to myself:
THAT is nothing-800 hogsheads. Why
our American vat holds 2, 500, 900 bar
rels of strong drinks, and we keep 200,
600 men with nothing to do but to see
that it is filed" Oh! to attack this
great monster of intemperance, and the
kindred monsters Of fraud and unclean-
ness, requires you to rally all your
Christian courage Through the press,
through the pulpit through the plat
form, you must assault it. Would to
God that all our American Christians
would band together, not for crack
Drained fanaticism, but for holy Chris
tian reform.
think it was in 1898 that there
went out from Lucknow, India, under
the sovereign, the greatest hunting
party that was ever projected. There
were 10, 900 armed men in that hunting
party. There Were camels and horses
and elephants. On some princes role
and royal ladies under exquisite hons
ings, and 800 coolies waited upon the
train, and the desolate places Of India
were invaded by this excursion, and the
rhinOceros, the deer and elephant fell
under the stroke of saber and bullet
After awhile the party brought back
trophies worth $4,000 rupees, having
left the Wilderness of India CHASTITY
with the slain bodies Of wild beasts
Would to God that, instead Of here and
there a straggler going out to fight these
great monsters of iniquity in our coun,
try, the million membership of our
churches would band together and hew
in twain these great crimes that make
the land frightful with their roar and
are fattening upon the bodies and souls
Of immortal men! Who is ready for such
party as that? Who will be a mighty
hunter for the Lord?