The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-11-05

ised at the marriage altar fidelity nm.
til death did them part, were 6rougn'
By you to an early and CHASTITY separa-
ton; how many mad houses have you
filed with maniacs; how many graves
have you dug aud filled in the Gene
~teries; how many ragged and nun
pry children have you Deg
CARED through the fathers whom
YOU destroyed. If the skeletons
of those whom you have sam
were piled up on top OF each other,
how high would the mountain be' II
the tears OF all the orphanage ana
widowhood that you have pressed OUT
were gathered together how wlde
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, uu'
there are millions OF hearts that throp
with most vehement condemnation,
and many of them would SO Us far as
the mother in Oxford, Mass,
whose son had been long
absent from home and was returning,
and at the tavern on the way he was
persuaded to drink, and that II drink
aroused a former habit, and again n
again he drank, and he was found 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 brokcn-hearted mother.
afterwards telling about it, said; 1T
was wrong, but l cursed him; l did it.
Heaven forgive him and me-"
One of the most advantageous move
ments in the right direction is taking
this whole subject into the education
of the young. On the SAINT school desk
with the grammar, the geography, the
arithmetic are books telling the lads
and lasses of 10 and IL and 10 years OF
age what are the physiological effects
Of strong drink, what it does with the
tissue of the liver and the ventricles OF
the brain; and whereas other
generations did not realize the
evil until their w bodies were
blasted, we are TO have q
generation taught whatthe viper is be-
fore it stings them, what the hyena Is
before it rends them, how deep the
abyss is before it swallows them. Oh!
boards OF education, teachers in
schools, professors in colleges, legisla-
lures and congresses, widen and aug
ment that work, and you hasten the
complete overthrow of this evil. 1t
will go down. l have the word OF
Almighty God for that in the assured
eXtirpation of all sin. But shall
we have a share in the universal vie
The liquor saloons will drop
the hundreds of thousands into
the score OF thousands, and then from
The thousands into the hundreds, and
from the hundreds into the tens,
ind from the tens to three. The first
the last three tayerns will be where
he educated and philaeophlc and the
will take their dram, but that
lass, aware of the power OF the ex-
lmple they have been setting, will
urn their back upon the evil custom
nd be satisfied with the two natur-
| beverages that God intended for
he stimulus of the race-the Java
plantations furnishing the
OF the one, and the Chinese tea
ields the best of the other. And some
lay the bar o will be crowded with
people at the vendue and the auction
GERS mallet will pound at the sale of
the appurtenances.
The second of these last three tav.
,rns 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 W wives and daughters, instead
Of providing the distillers, the brewers
and liquor sellers with wardrobes and
and carriages. And the next
that second tavern is opened
it will be d drug store, or a bakery, or
a dry goods establishments, or a school,
Then there will be only one more of
The three taverns left. l don't know
N what country, or city, or neighbour
hood it will be, but look at it, for it is
he very last. The last imbreiate will
have staggered up to its counter aud
put down his pennies for his dram,
Its last horrible adulteratiou will be
mixed and quaffed to eat out the yitals
md infiame the brain. The last
drunkard will have stumbled down it's
front steps, The last spasm OF delirium
caused by it will be struggled
through. The old rookery will be torn
iown, and with its demolition will
close the long and awful reign OF the
of earth's denominations. The
last OF the dissipating three taverns OF
all the world will he as thorouphlv
out as were the three taverns
Of my text.
In this battle the visible troops ara
so mighty as the invisible. Tho
Iospei campaign began with the super.
h~atural-the midnight chant that
woke the shepherds, the hushed sea-. the
eyesight given where the patient had
oeen without the optic nerve, the sun
from the MONDAY heavens.
law OF gravitation ~loosing its grin
as Christ assembled, aud as the Gosnal
campaign began with the supernatural
u will close with the supernatural: and
the winds and the waves aud.the l;gh,.
nlngs and the earthquakes win come
IN on the right side and against ~
wrong side; and our assembled cbsm.
plons will return, whether the wor,a
them or does not see them. I d.
think that those great souls den.r.
are going to do nothing henraf,s.
sing psalms, and play harps. and
breathe frankincense, and walk san.
glass mingled with fire. The MI.
they fulfilled while in the hob
WIZ be eclipsed by their post ortsm
mission with faculties quickened M
veiocitles multiplied; and it NAV h..a
been to that our dying reform.r
ierred when he said: II lone ~
free!" There NAV be ,;on..