Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-18

Then there Will be only one more OF
the three dissipating taverns left. |
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 its coun-
ter and put down his pennies for his
dram. It's 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 it's demolition will
close the long and awful reign of the
mightiest of earth S denominations. The
last of the dissipating three taverns Of
all the world will be as thoroughly
blotted out as were the three Caverns of
my text.
Cheer For Reformers.
With these thoughts l cheer Chris
tian reformers in their work, and what
rejoicing on earth and heaven there
will be over the contamination 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 dl-
rectly and indirectly saved hundreds of
thousands from drunkards' graves. See
ing the wharfs of Portland, Me-, COW
cred with casks of West Indian rum,
nearly an acre of it at one time, and
the city smoking with seven distilleries,
l,.o II bon
ness more than half century ago. The
good he has DONE the homes he has kept
inviolate, 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
a 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 o'clock in the after
noon of Oct. 2 he left his home ON earth
surrounded by loving ministries and en-
tered the gates Of his eternal residence,
L think there was most unusual wei
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, 81 long to be free. "
I think all the reformers of heaven came
out to hail him in, the departed legis-
lators who made laws to restrain intern
perance, the consecrated platform ora
tors who thrilled the generations that
are gone, with righteousness, temper
ance and Judgment to come" Albert
Barnes and John B. Cough were there
to greet him, and golden tongued patri-
arch Stephen Il. Tying was there, and
John W. Hawkins. the founder of the
much derided and gloriously useful
"Washingtonian movement" was there
and John Stearns and Commodore Foote
and Dr. Marsh and Governor Briggs
and Eliphalet Mott, and my lovely
friend Alfred Colquitt, the Christian
SENATOR and hundreds of those who la
bored for the overthrow of the drunken
ness that yet curses the earth were there
to meet him and escort him to his
throne and shout at his coronation.
The Departed Neal Dow.
God let him live on for near a CEN
fury to show what good habits and
cheerfulness and faith in the final tri-
umph of all that is good can do for a
man in this world and to add to the
number of those who would be on the
other side to attend his entrance. But
he will come back again. YES" say
some of you, with Martha, about Laza-
rus to Jesus, 81 know he will rise at
the resurrection of the last day" All,
do not mean that. Ministering spirits
are all the time coming and going be-
tween earth and heaven-the Bible
teaches it--and do you suppose the old
hero just assembled will not come down
and help us in the battle that still goes
on? He will Into the hearts of discour-
aged reformers he will come to speak
good cheer. When legislators are decid-
ing how they can best stop the rum traf
fic of America by legal enactment, he
will help them vote for the right and
rise up undismayed from temporary de-
feat In this battle will Neal Dow be
until the last victory is gained and the
smoke Of the last distillery has curled
on the air, and the last tear of despoil-
ed homesteads shall be wiped away
o departed nonagenarianl After you
have taken good rest from your strug-
gle of 70 active years come down again
into the fight and bring with you a
host of the old Christian warriors who
once mingled in the fray.
In this battle the visible troops are
not so mighty as the invisible. The Cos
pei campaign began with the super
natural-the midnight chant that woke
the shepherds, the hushed sea, the eye