The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-02-09

lhe stewards. and the deacon's. and the
urunharus son are all alike subject to
we wrath of God, If today they are out
Awake, thou that sleepest." said 1
peleNe that God points out this text to
the church. | want the church TO look
az It, TO consider It and 10 do some
thing.
ON, Church hear the voice of Gods
providence Read these cad lessons, writ
ten In blood. Mayhap tina, thy thoughts
may be the more earnestly fixed upon
thom'
Tho church sleeps. Sin lies at her door.
says God Ny people do not consider"
can the church Of God bo held ac-
countable, In any degree. for such crimes
as that committed here Tuesday, January
~ az 800 Of the clock in the afternoon
rms Is ques ion FOR the preacher and
the member
There are certain factors that figure
IN such crimes as this. there are things
leading up to and resulting, II not neces.
sarliy, at least quite logically. quite nat.
urally, In such as this. A dead man. a
prisoner. widowed woman. n shocked
community. fearful. degrading influence.
no language can depict the horror Of
| TINS tragedy II is there In It's fearfulness.
| a pistol shot, man rushing out with
| INC weapon in his hand surrender.ng TO
! me OFFICER OF the law; a felow-bcing lying
! dead. Oh this might have been worse,
| but II WAS bad enough
| Now. rs one OF the factors that figure
| 80 often and 80 prominently In such as
| this point you to-
| J. The Snloon--And | say. In the name
OF God, let us fight that thing more vieor-
! ously. What have the churches in Hous-
| ton been doing along this line for these
| many years? There are in this city some
| thirty churches among tho white peoplc
! a l..Nf II.
! nearly, II not quite as n any The number
| ~ church members ~ large. Now. here IA
! a city OF some f0o01 people There arr
! about 200 saloons here-ono salo7n to
| every 200 inhabitants. Form the people ot
! Houston In n long line; row take out
| every two hundredth man For every
| man thus taken out you hive one OF these
dcns OF iniquty Allow these saloons an
average Of fifteen feet front Uhs Is per-
! haps too small an average), aud you
| have one side ~ n street some three
! fourtha Of milo long every house on
! that side saloon and they are closely
packed in. Counting sixteen blocks 10 the
| mile, and you have every house OF one
| side Of tho street from. say Dallas avenue
| to Commerce street. n saloon. There are
1 no vacant lots between.
| Three hundred Of these he'll traps In
! this fair city, one side of he busiest por-
| ton Of the busiest street OF this city so
vie and ,o,,r daughter walk on fine other
sido Of the street.
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ious'on VIM ahe pl9' ,'
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Han rcad ue snrh7 Now. tnor, are In
! IIoneton about nve caloon 10 every chu c.
/ A church is a mower for good aud | eni-
! nt.,e,le thnt "A saloon IS a power for evil
/ Nav. these sal,on all institutions -
| ,bc dSvin ore su,por ed mostly by tie
/ communities in which they exist. This l.
/ ,ius nnauciauv and morally. So that
/ hore thore IS quite a heavy drain on TIE
moral and financial resources Of this city.
/ 10 Won s1rrose that these lar rooms
| co,lj cxist I'm Houston un,oss the moral
scntincnt Of Houston nodIed assent 10
,bcir request to live and make drunk
ords2 And am going to lay tho blame