The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-09

Carolina who sent to the late war more
men than she had voters. -,
IL want every man or woman In thls
conrre ation who endorses the action or
the Board of Aldermen in opening the
saloons during Fair week to stand up:
fNobody stood up.] Now l want all
/ who condemn their acton to stand up.
! [About thu ee-fourths of the congrega-
| ton stood up.l
Pointing to those in the rear OF the
church who had voted neither way the
preacher said:
81 wouldn't give two cents for you'
men over there who didn't have the
backbone and bravery to stand up. In
no policy maj, and l want to tell you
men that no man ever got to Heaven
riding on a denijohn. And you young
sisters if YOU are not married. 1t may
he that when you do marry, il this thing
goes on. you'll get good old dose Of
drunkard for a husband; and you moth
ers who didn't stand up, you may have
70 shed tears over a son in the ditch.
don't care whether you stand up or not.
/ don't care whether you endorse me or
not. The Bible does endorse me, and
I know I'm right. God Is on my side
and the saloon keeper Is on yours.
Which of us Is In the more respectable
company?
"Do you know what a acknowledges
is? He ia a man without heart. He
will do anything. He has become hard.
He doesn't care II husband is ruined.
He doesn't care if a mothers heart Is
broken. He doesn't care IL a home is
sold from over the children's heads. He
doesn't care il the pistol ball does crash
through the brain. He washes up the
blood and continues to measure out the
fury liquid. And yet you have not the
rage to stand up here and denounce
It.
"Wbiskev debauches men, 1t ruins wo-
men: 1t blights lives. 1t brings death:
il fills jails and asylums. 1t has been in
dicted for every offense In the black
catalogue OF crime Put you are afraid
not to defend the traffic.
Srecret drinking and other secret sins
were denounced In the strongest lam
guage. "Put you can't hide them. Peo-
ple will find you out. There are some
of Won husbands here tonight, that IL
your wives knew Of some things you are
doing thew would not live with you and
7 wouldn't blame them. Your sin will
find You out God Is not Knocked. What
soever You SOW, that also shall you reap.
you may do it In midnight darkness. vet
It will out. You can't hide your sins
from God. You'll have to give an ac
count of them. Every sinful action is
somewhere. some way punished. Many
man would give all he possesses If he
could obliterate from his memory some
deeds of the past; if he could undo some
sins that were committed years ago.
Your sins will find you out. The reaping
time is coming. Don't forget that. The
Nemesis of conscience never sleeps. Re-
tribution is certain.
'You tell me there is no hell. There
are men in Raleigh to-day that have a
hell in their own bosoms.
"But says young man, I must sow
my wild oats and have a good time
Beware these wild oats, my boy. There's
not one good seed in thousand bushels
of them. They produce nothing but
nettles and thistles and briars, and sor-
row and tears and sickness and damna-
ton. There is not one star of hope
throughout it all. nothing to brighten
your last moments.
$50 on with your wild oat sowing:
have a good time! eat drink and be
merry, for tomorrow We may die. You
must give an account of every moment
Of this, sometime. The harvest dav is
coming, and it won't be long. Life
passes mighty quick. Soon the reckoning
day will be here, and what will the har-
vest be? What use are you making of
your talents, your time. your fortune?
ASK TIE inmates Of Wake county
Jail. question the convicts In the State
penitentiary. look into the life history of
the mad man in yonder insane asylum
what brought you here|
"They will answer, I've sowed my
wild OATS
stalk to the tramp on the road. the
nrodigal feeding the swine-'What
broneht you here?'
"We sowed our wild oats
"Ask the condemned man on the gal-
lows-'What brought you herer
~ sowed my wild OATS
"Ask the damned In hell-'what
brouoht You here?
"sWild OATS
"Oh. thn harvast time IL coming"
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE.
Last night he set his coulter even
deeper. He called the names of the
aldermen who are said to have voted for
allowing the saloons to be opened Fair
week, and the names of those who say