The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-03-04
w. C. T. u. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. l.. H0BBs.
The Wicked Rule.

, not the wicked RUE. W no VIII ue-
2 ny it? l. this not true of Boone
township. After the close OF a
wonderful revival only behold how
(; triumphant the wicked are? Were
: they at the revival? Did they take
part in il? Were they converted?
+ OI Were they PLANNING other work
= God alone knows the most secret
thought. What are churches and
school hoGses for? Who can tell2
What was the object of those grand
: old pioneers OF the Lennon settle
ment when they toiled and sacrificed
to build that church? God knew
th' ir motives and plospered them.
Did they not build that house for
the good of the community? Was
ii not, and the school houses, too,
built for the some purpose? They
were built TO educate the people,
the church for the ood of both old
and young, the school houses more
Especially for the young. But are
those principles being carried out?
If so, then why should a young
man be fined for teaching the young
the principles of truth and righteous
ness? What more was young Abel
doing? Who can prove otherwise?
Who was it thai put their home
made law into effect to do such an
ungodly act? Why was this done?
%, some one says, "because some
boys at pie Sc cial at the Miley
school house had fipht." Why
should the inn )cent suffer for what
those boys did? Did not the Trus
tee advise the teachers to hold
Socials to raise funds to buy reading
circle books? Did he not propose
to 90 in with the teachers and fur
nish as much money as they would
make? But please tell Us what was
wrong about that? O, you say,
"some soys went there and had a
fight f" Well, what if they did,
was it any worse to fight there than
any place else? They were mad be-
4 re they went, and if they had not
fought there they would have done
SO some place else, perhaps at
church, or where it suited them [
best. Was that any reason why
they should stop having socials? ,
Why did they not deal with the
boys? OF course, they were not to :
blame and consequently they must /
20 free thus encouraging them in :
the act. But you say they would !
light anyway. All right, then, if Z
they must fight, why not license |
them, and make it respectable, and 4
make money out of it? We think it c
no worse for boys to fight when mad h
than for men to get drunk and C
abuse their families. The drunkard C
IS no worse than the man who sells
20 make him drunk. The man
hat sells the accursed stuff is no :
worse than the man that votes to
license him to sell TO make men G
trunk, be he saint or sinner, minis .
.er or bishop, church member or =
not. Reader, please tell us who is c
he guilty one. would rather take o
he licensed mans chance for an t
,ther world, for he pays for the L
privilege to make drunkards, but
when and where does the christian Il
nan pay? o, my friends, he pays Il
It the judgment bar of God; he il
will have to render an account. D
las no. one of the great bishops of u
he NJ. 4. church said that it can o
lever be licensed without sin, (That d
5 the whisky traflic) Then what Il
$ the Bishop, Minister, layman or n
ny one doing when he is voting for IL
he party that legalizes the traffic? h
: he not SHINING, and what does al
he bible say? Does it not say in
lain words, that the sinner cannot OF
nter heaven. Then, if the bible is OF
rue, what will become of all those II
oting sinners? o, my friends, SC
here is a God, and a just God, be a
,re whom all some day will appear, &C
nd if young Abel did not get jus 81
ce before the courts Of Boone town al
hip he will before a just Judge. Ifs,
II the school houses in Boone have w
, be closed against the Women's of
christian Temperance Union and ii
he medal work, which the women
re called Of God to do (because the D,
zen are too cowardly to do IT'D tren b,
'hy not close the churches. stores cl
nd saloons, they all have fighting W
But then if the boys m
ill fight, you should license them, a
D that they can do it lawfully. gl
But why close the doors on the to
vomen's Christian Temperance ey
Tnion? They are only fighting the m
quor traffic. One says, ., they
ill hurt our party; they may per- III
nade some of the men or boys to pl