The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-22
A SERMON ON
TEMPERANCE.
Delivered by Rev. George
r. Stuart,
COWORKER OF REV. SAM JONES,
At the Recent Jones Meeting in the Tab
ernacle at NashVille.-A Fearful Ar
raignment of the Liquor Traffic.
COwORKER OFREv. SAMP. JONES,
TCoNTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.


have heard so much and read so
much along this line that l hardly
know what is original. The truth is,
| don't care much about originality,
anyhow. There is so little of it in
the country. Laughter. If the
bishop should be standing at my
front gate with his gold headed
walking stick, and a mad dog was
to run up, l would jerk that cane
out of his hand and break it into
pieces over the mad dog; and if he
should say, George, you have used
my cane" | should say, "Thank
God, have killed the mad dog"
In fighting this mad dog of he'll,
whose poisonous fangs are piercing
our homes, | don't ask where l have
gotten the stick; pick up anything
/ come across that will do the work.
But let me give you this illustration:
Here are four American machines.
Look at them. The first is saw
mill, the second grist-mill, the
third paper-m mill, the fourth gin
mill. Let me ask them some ques
tions. "HellO, saw-mili, what is
your pOwer?" "Steam or water" :"
Turn it on and let the wheels buzz
What is your material?" Logs" "
"What is your manufactured arti-
cle?" Lumber" Lumber worth
more than logs?" "Yes sir.' "Then
you take the raw material and
manufacture it into an article worth
more than the raw material?"
Yes" "Tben you create values?"
"Yes." "You are good machine.
We will put our arms around you,
and preserve you as an American
industry with honor" "HellO.
| little machine, what are you?' ~
am a grist-mill." "What is your
power?" "Steam or water" Turn
on the power. Let us hear the
music of the wheels, the creak, and
the creaking old mill, Maggie
What is your raw materially
wheat and corn "What is your
manufactured article?" Flour and
meal" Flour and meal worth
more than wheat and cOrn?' "Yes.
"Then your manufactured article /:
worth more than the raw material?'
Yes" "Then you create values
and we will put our American arms
around you and protect you as al
American industry Of honor
"Hello, little machine, what arr
your" lam paper mill "Wha
is your power" "Steam or water.
"What is your raw material?'
"Old rags "What is your manu-
factured article?n Linen paper.
Linen paper worth more than ole
rags?" Yes" Then take you
place with American industries.
Hello, machine, what are you?'
Il am a gin-mill." Look here,
have not much confidence in you
You may have to have witnesses t.
what you say. What is your pow
er?' "The votes of the Church peo
pie of this country" shut up.
Great applause "Yes, Stuart
that's right" says the gin-mil
"YOu ask some of these men Tn
very day that all the MethOdists ant
all the Baptists, to say nothing G
, all the other denominations, shaI
cease to vote for me, that day stoI
stock still, never to go again" Ar
plause and cries from the audience
"That's SOL Mr.. Stuart turned o
the platform and asked all the min
: listers: Brother, is this SOP" "Ye,
sir" He turned to the audienc
and said: Every one that say
this is so, answer yourself" And
great cry of Yes! yes! yes!" cam
from all parts of the tabernacle. "
had to have a great deal of evidenc
to believe what you say. But the
have put it down on me. 1 must be
lieve it," The power of the saloo
is the votes of the Church people /
this country; they hold the balanC
of power. Turn on your power, Y
3 members of the Church of Chris
Start your internal machine. Ru
o it day and night, week day an
Sabbath. But what is your ra
material?" Mr.. Stuart called thrt
little boys to the platform, put h
arms around them, and stood a mt
ment while the audience appluded
"What is your raw material, ask?
> "Our American boys,
A young man was shot down
the streets of Atlanta some time ag
He was drinking. The man wi
. shot him was drinking. In h
n pocket was found a list containir
o the names of eighty-five young me
On the paper was written: "The,
young men, to my knowledge, durir
y the past few years have gone
n their graves by liquor in Atlant
= Ga" Why are these little boys be
ter than the eighty-five? They we
mothers boys, once as sweet aud
> innocent as these. How much d
d pends upon whose boys you take!
# When preaching in Austin, Tex
. called little boy to the platforr
After my sermon was over, the pa
tor of the Methodist Church sal,
= George, do you know whose b,
q you called to the platform for yo
: illustration" mo" said I. II
4 was the boy of the bookkeeper of Il
!. biggest wholesale liquor house
N town" That night in our gosp
~ meeting, man came weeping to q
altar, and said: II am the m,
whose bOV Won had on the nIatfor