The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-11-27

nAu5 #Sue#C1 SMOKING Win seven %ulS-l
tilleries, he began the warfare against
drunkenness more than halt century
ago. The good he has done, the homes
he has kept inviolate, the high moral
sense with which he has infused ten
generations, is a story that neither,
earth nor heaven can afford to let die.
Der1ded, belittled, cayicatured, malign-
cd, for a quarter of century as few
men ,haYes 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 cathedral organ
sounding his requiem on the other His
whole life having been for God and the.
worlds betterment, swhen2at half-pasts
three o'clock in the afternoon of &Oc-l
tober second he left his home on earth
surrounded by loving ministers, and
entered the gates of his eternal resi-
dence, / think there was most unu-
sual welcome and salutation given
MIN. Multitudes enter heaven only be-
cause of what Christ has done for
them, the welcome not at all inten-
'sltled because of anything they had
dcne for him. But all heaven knew
the story of that good mans life, and
the beauty of his death-bed, where he
said, Il long to be free" I think all
the reformers of heaven came out to
hail him in, the departed legislators
who made laws to restrain intemper-
ance, the consecreated 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, pa
triarchs Stephen H. Tying was there,
and John w. Hawkins, the founder of
the much derided and gloriously use
full "Washingtonian Movement" was
there, and John Sterns and Commo-.
dore Foote, and Dr. Marsh and Gov
ernor Briggs and Eliphalet Mott, and
my lovely friend Alfred Colquitt, the
Christian Senator, and hundreds : OF
those who labored for the overthrow
OF the drunkenness that yet curses the
earth, were there to meet him and es-
cort him to his throne and shout at
his coronation.
God let him live on for near a CEN
tury, 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! eyes," say
some of you, with Martha, about Laza-
rus to Jesus, II know he will rise at
the Resurrection of the last day" All!
l do not mean that. Ministering spir-
Its are all the time coming and going
between earth and heaven-the Bible
teaches it-and do you suppose the old
hero just ascended will not come down
and help us in the battle that still
goes on? He will. Into the hearts Of
discouraged reformers hes will come to
speak good cheer. When legislators
are deciding how they can best stop
the rum traffic of America by legal
enactment, he will help them vote for
the right and rise up undismayed from
temporary defeat. In this; battle will
Neal Dow be until the last victory is
gained and the smoke of the last dis
tillery has curled on the air, and the
last tear of despoiled homesteads shall
be wiped away. O. departed nonage-
marian! After you have taken a good
rest from your struggle of seventy act
i've years, come down again into the
fight, and bring with you host of the
old Christian warriors who once
mingled in the fray. E..~
In, this battle the visible troops are
not so mighty as the invisible. The
gospel campaign began with the su-
pernatural-the midnight chant that
woke the shepherds, the hushed sea,
the eyesight given where the patient
had been without the optic nerve, the
sun obliterated from the MONDAY
heavens, the law of gravitation loosing
it's grip as Christ ascended; and as
the gospel campaign began with the
supernatural, it will close with the SUI
pernatural; and the winds and the
waves and the lightnings and the
earthquakes will come in on the right
side and against the wrong side; and
our ascended champions will return.
whether the world sees them or does
not see them. do not think that those
great souls departed are going to do
nothing hereafter but sing psalms and
play harps, and breathe frankincense.
and walk seas OF glass mingled with
fire. The mission they fulfilled while
in the body will be eclipsed BY their
post-mortem mission, with faculties
quickened and velocities multiplied:
and it may have been to that our dy-z
ing reformer referred when he said. st
long to be free!' There may be bigger
words than this to be redeemed. and
more gigantic abomination to be over
thrown than this world ever saw and
the discipline gotten here may only Ia
preliminary drill for "a campaign in
some other world, and perhaps soma
other constella alton. But the crowned
heroes and heroines, because Of their
grander achievements in greater
spheres, will not forget this old world
where they prayed and suffered and