The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-22

extraordinary service ana prepare them
selves for other service. have called en-
the spirit of wine for il piration, and
in few years have been sacrificed on
the altar of Moloch who sits OH a
throne of human carcasses. 1t would
not te wise or kind or Christian to call
their names i'll public, but you call Them
out of your own memory. Oh, how
many splen6fd men could not get past
the three tavernsl
Notice that profound mystery is at
tached to these Italian hostelries. No
hotel register tells the names of those
who stopped at those taverns, there is
no old account book as to how many
drank there, there is no broken chalice
or jug to suggest what was the style of
liquid which these customers consumed
So an awful mystery hangs about the
barrooms OF the modern taverns. Oh, if
they would only keep book upon the
counter or a scroll that could be unroll-
ed from the wall telling how many
homesteads they have desola;>d and
how many immortal souls they have
blasted You say that would spoil ehcir
business Well, | suppose it would, but
business that cannot plainly ttll its
effect upon it's customers is husint IS
that ought to be spoiled All, yor vs.
FERROUS barrooms, speak cut and tell
how many suicides went out i1l M you
to halter or pistol or knife or ccadly
leap from fourth story window how
many young men, started we'll in LIFE,
were halted by you and turned on the
wrong road, dragging after them bleed
ing parental hearts; how many people
who promised at the marriage altar
fidelity until death did them part were
brought by you to early and CHASTITY sep
aratlon; how many Warehouses have you
filled with maniacs; how many graves
have you dug and filled in the cemeter-
les; how many ragged and hungry chill
dren have you beggared through the ia
theirs whom you destroyed. If the skel-
etons of all those whom you have slain
were piled up on top of each other, how
high would the mountain be? If the
tears of all the orphanage and widow
hood that you have pressed out were
gathered together, how wide would be |
the lake or how long the river? All,
they make no answer. On this subject
the modern taverns are as silent as the
oriental three taverns, but there are
millions of hearts that throb with most
vehement condemnation, and many of
them would go as far as the mother in
Oxford, Mass, whose son had been
long absent from home and was return
ing, and at the tavern on the way he
was persuaded to drink, and that one
drink aroused former habit, and again
and again he drank, and he was found
the next morning dead in the barn of
the tavern. The owner of the tavern
who gave him the rum helped carry
his body home, and his broken hearted
mother, afterward telling about it, said:
1t was wrong, but cursed him. l did
it, Heaven forgive him and me.
The Rock of Safety.
But what glad time when the world
comes to it's last three taverns for the
sale of intoxicants! Now there are SO
many of them that statistics are only
more or less accurate guess as to tlls+4.>ii
number. We sit with half closed eyes
and undisturbed nerves and hear that
II 1879 III the United States there were
|, 984 breweries, ,349 distilleries and
III, $50 retail dealers, and that possibly
~ this time these figures may be truth
ully doubled The fact is that these es-
are innumerable, and the
discussion is always disheartening, and
he impression is abroad that the plague /
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'e cured, and the most of sermons ON I
his subject close with the book of Lam
ntations and not with the book of
revelation. Excuse me from adopting
my such infidel theory. The Bible re-
terates it until there is no more power
n inspiration to make it palmer that ,
he earth is to be not half or three ,
quarters, but wholly redeemed On that {
ock take my triumphant stand and
DIN in the chorus of hosannas s
One OF the most advantageous move I
nents in the right direction is taking /
his whole subject into the education of {
he young. On the same school desk :
With the grammar, the geography, the I
are books telling the lads
ge what are the physiological effects 3
# strong drink, what it does with the {
issue of the liver and the ventricles of q
he brain, and whereas other genera G
ions did not realize the evil until their i
WIN bodies We're blasted we are to have {
generation taught what the viper is y
efore it stings them, what the hyena r
S before it rends them, how deep is the {
byss before il swallows them oh, 7
'oards of education. teachers in schools, $
Professors in colleges, legislatures and G
congresses, widen and Augment that g
york, and you hasten the complete over {
brow of this evil 1t will go down. i
ave the word of Almighty God for that Q
n the assured extirpation of all sin i
But shall we have share in the uni +
ersal victory2 The liquor saloons will :,
rop from the hundreds of thousands
nto the score of thousands, and then n
rom the thousands into the hundreds, r
nd then from the hundreds into the r
ems, and from the tens to three |
The first of these last three taverns 6
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