The Monitor-register., 1897-10-22

weakness, ana moving caused ny miscarriage,
and was very weak when l commenced taking
your medicine"
The unfailing, never gripping cUte for
constipation-Dr. Picrce's Pleasant Pellets.
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
arithmetic, are books telling the lads
and lasses of 10 and 12 and Is 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 genera
tions did not realize the evil until their
own bodies We're blasted we are to have
q 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! 1t will &C down. !
have the word of Almighty God for that
in the assured e~xtirpation of all sin.
But shall we have a 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
er 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 a~uctioneer'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 e%xtinguish its red light and close
its doors, for the working classes will
have concluded to buy their own horses
and furnish their OWL 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 a drug store, or a bakery, or a
dry goods establishment, or a school.
Then there will be only one more of
the three dissipating taverns left. l
don't know in what country or city or
ne~ighborhood it will be, but look at it,
for it is the very last. The last inebri-
ate will have staggered up to its
ter and put down his pennies for his
dram. Its last horrible adulteration
will be mixed and quaffed to eat out
the vitals and in1ame the brain. The
last drunkard will have stumbled down
its 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 denominations. The
last of the d~issipating three taverns of
oAA ohO nOA1o WILL U0 d5 buOIOuSuly
blotted out as were the three taverns of
my text.
Cheer For Reformers.
With these thoughts l cheer Chris
tian reformers in their work, and what
rejoicing OIL earth and heaven there
will be over the consummationl With
in a few days IL 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 n
other. He has been an illumination to
the century The stand he took has di-
rectly and indirectly savN hundreds of
thousands from d~runkards' graves. See-
ing the wharfs of Portland, Me-, Gov
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 a century ago. The
good he has done, the homes he has kept
lnvlolate, the high moral sense with
which he has infused ten generations,
are a story that neither earth nor heaven
can afford to let die. Derided, belittled,
caricatured, maligned for a quarter of
- NIoo1 eo WV AAiNA idf DCCh, hO 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 Oh
the other. His whole life having been
for God and the worlds betterment,
when at half past 8 O'clock in the after
noon of Oct. Q he left his home on earth
surrounded by loving ministries and en-
tered the gates Of his eternal residence,
l think there was a 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 my
I 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, II long to be free. -
l 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 H. Tying was there, and
John W. Hawkins, the founder of the
much derided and g~loriously 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 Ia
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 q cen |
fury to show what good habits and
c~heerfulness 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, II know he will rise at
the resurrection of the last day" All, j
do not mean that. Ministering spirits
are all the time coming and going be-
tween earth and heaven-the Bible
teaches it-and do yon 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-