Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-09-23

neral procession of a man who two days
before had fallen under a flash Of light
ming while boasting after Sunday Of
work in the fields that he had cheated
God out of one day anyhow, and the
man who worked with him on the same
Sabbath is still living. but a helpless
invalid, under the same flash.
God Rebukes.
Years ago, in a Pittsburg prison, two
men were talking about the Bible and
Christianity, and one Of them, Tbomp-
son by name, applied to Jesus Christ a
very low and villainous epithet, and, as
he was uttering it, he fell. A physician
was called, but no help could be given
After a day lying with distended pupils
and palsied tongue, he passed ont Of
this world. In a cemetery in Sullivan
county, in New York state. are eight
headstones in line and all alike, and
these are the facts: In 1861 diphtheria
ragged in the village and a physician
was remarkably successful in curing
his patients. So confident did he become
that he boasted that no case of diph-
iberia could stand before him and final
ly defed Almighty God to produce a
case of diphtheIia 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 diDhtheria. The blasphemer
Almighty God, and God ac-
cepted the challenge. Donot think that
because God has been silent in your
case, O profane swearer, that he 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 bias
phemies or is already ayenging them?
But these cases have noticed, believe,
are only few cases where there are
hundreds Families keep them quiet TO
avoid the horrible conspicuity Physi.
clans suppress them through profess
sional confidence. II is very, very,
very long roll that contains the names
Of those who died with blasphemies 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
launts of sin, mingling with the rat
Ting dice and cracking billiard balls,
and the laughter Of her who hath for
gotten 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
If a long suffering God. And the ship
captain curses his crew and the master
builder his men and the hack driver his
lorse, and the traveller the stone that
bruises his foot or the mud that soils
lis shoes or the defective timepiece that
yets him too late to the rail train. | ar
,aign profane swearing and blasphemy,
-wo names for the same thing, as being
,ne of the gigantic crimes of this land,
md for its extiIpation it does seem as
f it were about time for God to arise.
Wine When Red.
Then look for a moment at the evil OF
Whether you live in
or New York or Chicago
II Cincinnati or Savannah or Boston or
n any Of the cities of this land. count
ID the saloons on that street as COM
pared with the saloons five years ago
md see they are growing far out Of
to the increase of the popu-
alton. You people who are so precise
md particular lest there should be some
and rashness in attacking
he rum traffic will have your son some
light pitched into your front door dead
Trunk or your daughter will come home
With her children because her husband
las, by strong drink, been turned into
lemoniac. The drink fiend has despoil
ID whole streets of good homes in all
,ur cities. Fathers, brothers, sons on
he funeral pyre Of strong drink Fasten
lighter the victims Stir up the ilamesl
Pile on the corpses! MoIe men, women
md children for the sacrificed Let us
iaye whole generations Oh fire Of evil
lablt, and at the sound Of the cornot,
lutte, harp, sackbut, psaltery and dGlci-
ner let all the people fall down and
King Alcohol, or you shall be
'ast into the fiery furnace under some
platform
indict this evil as the regicide, the
ratricide, the patricide, the matricide,
he uxoricide of the century Yet under
what innocent and delusiyo and mirth-
'ul names alcoholism deceiyes the peo-
Die! 1t is "cordial. " 1t is "bitters. "
It is an "eye opener. p" 1t is an "appe-
izer. " tits "digester. " 1t is an in
iigorator. 1t is "settler. 1t Is a
'nightcap." Why don't they put on
he right labels: Essence Of Perdi-
ion. " Conscience Stupefer" Five
DRAINS of Heartache, " Tears of Or
,hanage, " BLOOD Of Souls, " "Scabs Of
m Eternal Leprosy, " venom Of the
Worm That Never Dies?" Only once in
while is there anything in the title of
iquors to even hint their atrocity, as
II the case of "sour mash. " That l see
Idyertised all over. 1t is an honest name
md any one can understand it. "Scur
nash |" That is, it makes mans dis
position sour, and his associations sour
md his prospects sour, and then it is
,ood to mash his body, and mash his
oul and mash his business and mash
lis family. "Sour mash - One honest
lame at last for an intoxicantl But
through lying labels Of many Of the
Ipothecaries' shops, good people, who
ire only little undertone in health
md wanting some invigoration, have
got on their tongue the
'angs cs this cobra that stings to death
20 large q ratio of the human race.
Satanic Sips.
Others are ruined by the common and
N destructive habit of treating custom
,rs. And it is treat on their coming
10 town, and treat while the bargain
ng progresses, and a treat when the
purchase is made, and a treat as he