The record-union., 1897-06-28


that theater and saloon. Lessee after
lessee failed.
AT length the furniture, including sew
eral hundred choice opera chairs, was
offered for sale The colored Baptists
had just built a new church, which
they We're not able to occupy for want
of seats. Generous white brethren
helped them buy these chairs. So the
very seats which had been provided
for the service of the devil against the
protest of the church are now used for
the reverent worship of the God who
heareth prayer.
The word of God declares that drunk
ards shall not enter the kingdom of
heaven. Yet every seven minutes in
this country a drunkard dies. over
four millions of the best people of our
land, and the most noble social people,
have yielded to the influence of liquor.
Since the signing of our declaration of
independence there have sunk under
the stars and stripes three millions
of victims to the worst form of slavery
ever known on earth. Let us declare
that, from this time forward we will do
what we can to stem the tide of cor
ruption. The Anti-Saloon League,
whose working was described by DR..
Russell last Tuesday night, presents
the most effective plan in sight for the
accomplishment of this purpose. Let
us hold ourselves ready to respond to
every call of this league. Let each of
US throw himself, herself, into this
work of prayer and faith and action.
Thus shall we find that the salt is
working. Let US see that no drunk
ard goes down to hell because we have
been too inactive to save him from the
corruption.
There are fathers and mothers here
tonight whose boys are being polluted
by the saloon. The saloon must have
boys, or it must shut up. It is a great
factory and unless it can get about two
millions from each generation for raw
material some of these factories must
close out, and its operatives must be
thrown on a cold world" and 1.-The
public revenue will dwindle." So the
Government of the city, the State and
the nation, practically sends out the
notice, Wanted, 1000, 600 Boys" One
family out of every five must con-
tribute a boy to keep up the supply.
Shall we sit still and let our boys be
drawn in?
The Minotaur of Crete had to have
a trireme full of fair maidens each year
that he might devour them. But the
Minotaur of America demands a city
full of boys each year Should 1 tell
this audience the number and the ages
of the boys who, night after night, are
visiting the deadfalls of the city, there
being corrupted by gambling, drinking,
vulgarity, profanity and obscenity,
should l present to your gaze a ster-
eopticon view enlarged from a kodak
snapshot of the interior of one Of the
most popular Of these resorts at mid
night, l think there might be an arous-
ing of healthy sentiment and declara-
ton that all the salt of Christian
zeal for purity, which lies dormant in
our hearts, shall be put into active
exercise for saving the boys of Sacra-
mento homes from the vile contamina-
ton of these cesspOOls of deviltry.
And if such should be the enthusiasm,
the intensity of fervor, that our noble
city officers should say, These tenn
perance fanatics have run mad''-why,
we would only be in the line of
Paul, for they said he was mad Should
up, we could only be followers of Jesus
Christ, of whom the same thing was
said Tomorrow morning the pastors
of this city will meet to plan for agi-
tation, for calling the attention of the
citizens of Sacramento to the necessity
for action.
The medical directors of the life
insurance companies of the United
States held their annual meeting in
New York last month. Several years
ago they unanimously deplored drink
ing habits, as making risks on life more
hazardous for their companies. This
time they made special study of beer
drinking. 1t was shown that it is
ruinous to the human system. By the
way, one of the liquor organs made
a very frank admission the other day.
1 quote from the Wine and Spirit Ca
zette." THE Wine and Spirit Gazette"
has always maintained that pure
whisky, moderately consumed is less
injurious to health than beer moder-
ately consumed. So it seems that this
liquor champion admits that pure
whisky, moderately consumed, is injur-
tous to health. The quarrel between
the advocates of beer and those of the
distilled liquor is to determine which
is the worst. They are all bad They
are a curse to the world The Epworth
Herald, speaking of the execution of
murderer in Chicago, remarks: "This
Christian community authorized the
sale of the damnable poison which con-
verted McCarty into a madman He
killed his wife. Then We killed him.
That is all there is to it,
That may be all there is to the argu-
ment, but, friends, that is not all there
is to the responsibility. Judge Johnson
of this State remarked, after sentenc-
ing a criminal to death: Il would not
be the owner of a groggery for the
price of this globe converted into gold
For the pitiful sum of dime the poi
son was furnished in one of these ante
chambers of hell which made the de-
ceased a fool and this trembling cul-
prit a demon
In concluding I want to speak to
any victim of sinful appetite who may
be here. Jesus Christ is a perfect Sa-
vtor. Come to Him. Take His yoke
upon you and learn of Him. Through
Him you shall find forgiveness of sins.
In Him you shall find one who
Breaks the power of Cancelled sin
And sets the prisoner free
There shall come into your soul a
new affection. 1t will have expuIsive
power Often it so affects the BODY
that old appetites disappear in a mo-
ment. Christ in the soul fashions the
germinal soil into his own likeness.
This is the embryology of the new life.
Auction Sales.
Bell & Co., auctioneers, will sell at 331