Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-09-02
W. c. 7. U. NOTES.


with calm aud solemn footsetps the
rising tide bears against the rushing
torrent up stream, and pushes back the
hurrying waters. With no less calm
aud solemn fontstcps, does great mind
bear up against public opinion and
push back its hurrying stream. -
Longfellow's Hyperion.
We give the following selections from
an address by John q. Wooley before
the National Convention OF the Young
People's Chriatian Union of the United
Presbyterian Church:
Among all the voices which have
come to me 10 the toll and stress of the
great reform, thero has been none Of
truer ring or clearer resonance than that
of the United Presbyterian Church.
The glory of young men is their
strength. | preach TO that. | come to
call you to the field of glory, not to
some merry jousting of adventurous
gentlemen in knightly lists laid out be.
tween long lines OF silk pavilions car
peteu with cloth OF gold.
No! No! This is the year Of our
Lord that lie to say, the year of God
| like manliness--eighieen hundred and
| nInety-seyen. Here ia our Holy Land
and the ambiiDg chivalry of those old
days has never even landed on these
shores. American nobility refuses TO
| answer to a horse derivatiye, hut calls
| itself manhood, and walks the earth in
majesty and beauty, with the simple
iustice of human rights thrice armed
to fight the paynim forcos nf this age.
come from the front of the hardest
battle field that cruelty ever cramped
upon to call you to the mnrcilsss rough
and tumble OF rodhot war, against the
ruler OF the darkness of this world and
the hetrayers of your own land.
would not have you enlist as the
horse rusheth into battle. Strength is
the theme. and strength is thought,
first OF all. Stand still study the field +;
count the cost The clear headed are
the strong. plea'l with you not that
yon will be loyal or moral or liberal
you intend TO he. you will be. But l
beg Of you to he strong. For / call you
to a service where each SUCCESS will
look like new kind of failure. Where
there will he rarely cheer but such as
come from the blue lips OF HOPELESS
agony, and where the brightest thing
in SIGHT for years to come may he the
tears that glisten on the haggard
VI WlfBB duu
and the most inspiring music you shall
hear will be the wills OF little children
crying in "a night that has no dawn.
leave the NON voting public sentiment
to hold the centre. The women and
children will kill the saloon whenever
there is manhood enough to guard the
TANKS 1t takes the straight uncom
plicated faith of the Son OF Gud tc
make man or woman stand fire.
Race Degeneration In Inebriety, ~ il
an interesting publication by T. d.
Crothiers, NJ. ID. All authorities agree
that from GO to so per cent of all inc
hriatos have drinking parents or grand
parents. In very large number o.
cases the ancestors were excessive usert
of spirits. and poisoned to the extent o.
intoxication often. While ii is difficult
to explain exactly what is transmitted
to the next generation, and what con
ditions make the children of inebriatel
more certain to use spirits, there is on,
general fact overlooked 10 all thesi
cases. That is family and race degen
GRAFTON. The practical question il
every case Of inebriate is this: Did th,
degeneration of the present inebriatt
begin in the ancestors?
This great drink problem" which
we are go anxiously trying to under
stand is veritabe disease and an or
ganized march of dissolution. which il
not checked by will power, or mean
, that are not radical and thorough. Th,
men and women who are baukrupts il
health and intellectual power. find il
} alcohol most grateful "nepenthe'
, covering up the discomfort of uncom
ing dissolution. The young man ant
, woman of low-grade vital power ant
defective unstable brain control
! although brilliant and prccocious
, find in alcohol the most delusive relic
} from the strain and exhaustion Of life
No drug deteriorates go quickly thes
3 faulty, low grade, irregular brair
powers as alcohol. Practically, preven
tiun is tho highest possible attainmen
! of science. Next, to halt this doomed
class, and help them back to leyels O
right living.
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