Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-22


come that lie boasted that no case Of
| diphtheria could stand be- fore him. and
finally deted Almighty God TO produce
n case of diptheria that he could not
cure.
His youngest child soon after took
the disease and died, and one child
after another, until all the eight had
died of dirhthcria. The blasphemer
challenged Almighty God, and God ac-
ceptrd the challenge. DO not think
that because God has been silent In
your case. profane swearcr. that lie
is dead. Is there nothing now in the
peculiar feeling of your tongue, or
nothing in the numbness of your brain,
that indicates that God may come to
avenge your blasphemies, or Is already
avenging them? But these cases
have noticed, believe, are only a few
cases whrr there are hundreds. Fami-
lies keep them quiet to avoid the hor-
rible conspicuity. Physicians sup
press them through professional con-
fidencc. 1t is a very, very, very long
roll that contains the names of those
who died with blasphemics on their
lips
Still the crime rolls on. up through
parlors, up through chandeliers with
lights all ablaze, and through the pic.
tured corridors of clubrooms, out
through busy exchanges where oath
meets oath, and down through all the
haunts of sin, ningling with
the rafting dice and cracking billiard
balls, and the laughter of her who
hath forgotten the covenant of her
God; and round the city, and round
the continent, and round the earth a
seething, boiling surge filings its hot
spray into the face of long suffering
God. And the ship captain curses his
crew, and the master builder his men,
and the hack driver his horse, and the
traveller the stone that bruises his foot
or the mud that soils his shoes or the
defective time piece that gets him too
late TO the rail train. l arraign pro-
fame swearing and blasphemy, two
names for the same thing, as being
one of the gigantic crimes of this land,
and for its extirpation it docs seem as
if it were about time for God to arise
Then look for a moment at the evil
of drunkenness Whether YOU live in
Washington. or New York. or Chicago
or Cincinnati. or Savannah. or Boston,
or in any of the cities of this land
count up the sa looms five year ago and
see they are growing far out of pro-
portion to the increa>e of the popula-
ton. You people who are so precise
and particular lest there should be
q, 1,
lacking the rum traffic will have your
son some night pitched into your front
door dead drunk, or Your daughter will
come home with her children because
her husband has by strong drink been
turned into demoniac. The drink
tend has despoilcd whole streets of
good homes in all onr cities. Fa-
theirs, brothers, sons on the funeral
pyre of strong drink. Fasten tighter
the victims. Stir up the flames, Pile
on the corpses! More men, women and
children for the sacrificed Let us
have whole generations On fire of
evil habit; and at the sound OF the cor
net, flute, harp. sackbut, psaltery and
dulcimer, let all the people fall down
and worship King Alcohol, or you
shall be east into the fiery furnace
under some political platform!
indict this evil as the regicide, the
fratricide, the patricide, the matricide,
the uxorcide of the century. Yet
under what innocent and delusive and
mirthful names alcoholism deceives
the people! 1t is cordial" IL is
'bitters." 1t is an "eye-opener 1t
is an appetizer" 1t is 'digester."
1t is an ''invigorator 1t is set
tier" 1t is a might cap" Why don't
they put on the right abels"-Essence
of Perdition," Conscience Stupe fer, A."
Five DRAINS of Heartache," Tears
of Orphanage," Blood of Souls. >
"Scabs of an Eternal Leprosy,"
! .aEnUm 81 the Worm That Never
Dies?" Only once in while is there
nything in the title of liquors to even
hint their atrocity, as in the case of
''sour mash" That l see advertised
all over. 1t is an honest name, and
any one can understand it Sour
mash." That is, it makes a mans dis
position sour, and his associations
sour and his prospects sour; and then
it is good TO mash his body, and mash
his soul, and mash his business, and
mash his family. "Sour mash.' One
honest name at last for an intoxicant!
But through lying tables of many of
the apothecaries' shops, good people,
who are only little under tone in
health, and wanting some invigora-
ton, have unwittingly got on their
tongue the fangs of this cobra, that
stings to death so large n ratio of the
human race.
Others are ruined by the common
and all-destructive habit of treating
customers. And il is n treat on their
coming to town. and treat while the
bargaining progresses, and a treat
when the purchas is made. and n
treat as he leaves town. o hers to
drown their troubles, submerge them
selves with this worse trouble. On,
the world is battered and bruised and
blasted with this growing evil 1t is
more and more entrenched and forth
fled. They have millions of dollars
subscribed TO marshal and advance the
alcoholic forces They nominate
and elect and govern the vast
OI inc
of the country. On their
side the have enlisted the mightiest
political power of the centuries And
behind them stand all the myrmidons
of the neither world, Satanic, Appel.
lyonic and Diabolic. 1t is beyond all
human effort to overthrow this Bastille
of decanters or capture this Gibraltar
of rum jugs. And while | approve of
all human agencies'of reform, would
utterly despair if we had nothing else
But what cheers me is that our best
troops are yet to come. Our best artil-
lery is in reserve. Our best command
err has not yet fully taken the field. If
all hell is on their side. all Heaven is
on our side. Now LET God arise,
and let his enemies be scattered"
Then look at the impurities of these
great cities. Ever and anon there are
in the newspapers explosions of social
life that make the story of Sodom
quite respecta BILE; for such things. ="
Christ says, ''were more tolerable for
Sodom and Gomorrah" than for the
Chorazins and Bethsaidas of the greater
light. 1t is no unusual thing in our
cities to see men in high positions