Connecticut western news., 1897-10-21

his body home, and his broken hearted mother, afterward telling about it, said: "It was wrong, but cursed him. I did it. Heaven forgive him and me-"
 The Rock of Safety.
 But what glad time when the world comes to its last three taverns for the sale of intoxicants! Now there are so many of them that statistics are only 8 more or less accurate guess as to their number. We sit with half closed eyes and undisturbed nerves and hear that in 1872 ill the United States there were 1864 breweries, 4,349 distilleries and 1869 retail dealers, and that possibly by this time these figures may be truth fully doubled. The fact is that these es- tablishments are innumerable, and the discussion is always disheartening, and the impression is abroad that the plague is so mighty and universal it can never be cured, and the most of sermons on this subject close with the book of Lam- entations and not with the book of Revelation. Excuse me from adopting any such infdel theory. The Bible re- iterates it until there is no more power in inspiration to make it piainer that the earth is to be not half or three quarters, but wholly redeemed On that rock I take my triumphant stand and join in the chorus of hosannas.
 One of the most advantageous move ments in the right direction is taking this whole subject into the education of the young On the same school desk with the grammar, the geography, the - %a11 @lr 1al and lasses of 10 and 12 and 15 years of age what are the physiological effects of strong drink, what it does with the tissue of the liver and the yentricles of the brain, and whereas other genera tions did not realize the evil until their own bodies were blasted we are to have a generation taught what the viper is before it stings them, what the hyena is before it rends them, how deep is the abyss before it swallows them. Oh, boards of education, teachers in schools, professors in colleges, legislatures and congresses, widen and augment that work, and you hasten the complete over throw of this evil! It will go down. I have the word of Almighty God for that in the assured extirpation of all sin. But shall we have share in the uni versal victory? The liquor saloons will drop from the hundreds of thousands into the score of thousands, and then from the thousands into the hundreds, and then from the hundreds into the tens, and from the tens to three.
 The first of these last three taverns will be where the educated and philo- sophie and the high up will take their dram, but that class, aware of the pow CT of the example they have been set, ting, will turn their back upon the evil custom and be satisfied with the two natural beverages that God intended for the stimulus of the race-the Java coffee plantations furnishing the best of the one and the Chinese teafields the best of the other. And some day the barroom will be crowded with people at the vendue and the auctioneer's mallet will pound at the sale of all the appur- tenances. The second of these last three taverns will take down its flaming sign and extinguish its red light and close it's doors, for the working classes will have concluded to buy their own horses and furnish their own beautiful homes and replenish finely the wardrobe of their own wives and daughters instead of providing the distillers, the brewers and liquor sellers with wardrobes and mirrors and carriages. And the next time that second tavern is opened it will be drug store, or bakery, or dry goods establishment, or a school. Then there will be only one more of the three dissipating taverns left. I don't know in what country or city or neighborhood it will be, but look at it, for it is the very last. The last inebri- ate will have staggered up to it's coun- ter and put down his pennies for his dram. Its last horrible adulteration will be mixed and quaffed to eat out the vitals and inf1ame the brain. The last drunkard will have stumbled down it's front steps. The last spasm of delir- ium tremens caused by it will be strug- gled through. The old rookery will be torn down, and with Its demolition will close the long and awful reign of the mightiest of earth's abominations. The last of the dissipating three taverns of all the world will be as thoroughly plotted out as were the three taverns of my text.
 Cheer For Reformers.
 With these thoughts I cheer Chris tian reformers in their work, and what rejoicing on earth and heaven there will be over the consummation With in few days one of the greatest of the leaders in this cause went up to en- thronement The world never had but one Neal Dow and may never have an other. He has been an illumination to the century. The stand he took has di- rectly and indirectly saved hundreds of thousands from drunkards' graves See- ing the wharfs of Portland, Me. cov- cred with casks of West Indian rum, nearly an acre of it at one time, and the city smoking with seven distilleries, he began the warfare against drunken ness more than half 8 century ago The good he has done, the homes he has kept inyiolate, the high moral sense with which he has infused ten generations, are story that neither earth nor heaven can afford to let die. Derided, belittled, caricatured, maligned for a quarter of century as few men have been, he has lived on until at his decease universal newspaperdom speaks his praise, and the eulogiums of his career on this side of the sea have been caught up by the ca thedral organ sounding his requiem on the other. His whole life having been for God and the worlds betterment, when at half past 3 o'clock in the after noon of Oct. he left his home on earth surrounded by loving ministries and en- tered the gates of his eternal residence, I think there was 8 most unusual well come and salutation given him. Multi tudes enter heaven only because of what Christ has done for them, the welcome not at all intensified because of any thing they had done for him. But all heaven knew the story of that good mans life, and the beauty of his death bed, where he said, 1T long to be free. , think all the reformers of heaven came