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

lime that second tavern is opened II
will be drug store, or a bakery, or 6
Try goods establishment, or a school
Then there will ibe only one more Of
the three dissipating taverns left.
don't know in what country or city Oh
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. Its last horrible adulteration
will be mixed and quatfed to eat out
the vitals and infiame 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 denominations. The
last Of the dissipating three taverns Of
all the world will be as thoroughly
blotted out as were the three tayerus OF
my text.
Cheer For Reforihers.
With these thoughts | cheer Chris
tian reformers in their work, and what
rejoicing ON earth and heaven there
will be over the contamination With
in a 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 di-
rectly and indirectly saved hundreds of
thousands from drunkards' 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 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
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. he left his home on earth
surrounded by loving ministries and en-
tered the gates of his eternal residence,
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 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, II long to be free "
| 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
ince and Judgment to come" Albert
Barnes and John B. Cough were there
20 greet him, and golden tongued patri-
Srch Stephen H. Tying was there, and
John W. Hawkins, the founder of the
much derided and gloriously useful
'Washingtonian movement" was there,
md John Stearns and Commodore Foote
md Dr. Marsh and Governor Briggs
md Eliphalet Mott, and my lovely
riend Alfred Colquitt, the Christian
enator, and hundreds of those who la
,ored for the overthrow of the drunken
less that yet curses the earth were there
o meet him and escort him to his
hrone and shout at his coronation.
The Departed Neal Dow,
God let him live on for near CEN