Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03

enough? was there ever L1Ine Wnen
ain was so defiant? Were there ever
before so many fists lifted toward God
telling Him to come on if He dare?
Look at the blasphemy abroad! What
towering profanity! Would 1t be pos
sible for anyone to calculate the num-
Der of times that the name of the AL
mighty God and of Jesus Christ are
every day taken irreverently on the
lips? Profane swearing is as much for
hidden by the law as theft, or arson, or
murder, yet who executes it? Profan-
ity is worse than theft, or arson, or
murder, for these crimes are attacks
on humanity that is an attack ON
God.
This country is preeminent for bias
phemv A man travelling in Russia was
supposed to be clergyman. "Why
do you take me to be clergyman p
said the man. "Oh," said the Russian,
''all other Americans swear" The
crime is multiplying in intensity. God
very often shows what He thinks of 1t,
but for the most part the fatality Is
hushed up. Among the Adirondacks |
met funeral procession of man who
two days before had fallen under q
fash of lightning, while Boosting. aft
er 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 helpless invalid, under the
same flash.
Years ago, in Pittsburgh prison,
two men were talking about the Bible
and Christianity, and one of them,
Thompson by name, applied to Jesus
Christ a very low and villainous cpl
tibet, and, as he was uttering it, he fell,
A physician was called, but no help
could be given. After day lying with
distended pupils and palsied tongue he
passed out of this world. In GENE
terry in Sullivan county, in New York
state, are eight headstones in line
and all are alike, and these are the
facts: In 1861 diphtheria ragged in the
village, and a physician was remark
ably successful in curing his patients.
So confident did he become that he
boosted that no case of diphtheria
could stand before him, and finally de-
fed Almighty God to produce case
of diphtheria 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 diphtheria. The blasphemer
challenged Almighty God, and God &C
copied the challenge. Do not think
that because God has been silent in
your case, 0 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 blasphe mies, or is already
noticed, I believe, are only a few
cases where there are hundreds. Fam
lilies keep them quiet to avoid the hor-
rible conspicuity. Physicians sup
press them through professional con-
fidence. 1t is a very, very, very long
roll that contains the names of those
who died with blasphemies on their
lips.
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 saloons five years ago, and see
they are growing far out of proper
ton to the increase of the population.
You people who are so precise and
particular lest there should be some
1Io,o
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
fiend has despoiled whole streets of
good homes in all our cities. Fathers,
brothers, sons on the funeral pyre of
strong drink! Fasten tighter the VIC
Tins! Stir up the flames! Pile on
the corpses! More men, women and
children for the sacrifice! Let us have
whole generations on fire of evil habit;
and at the sound of the cornet, flute,
harp, sackbut, psaltery and dulcimer
let aN the people fall down and worship
King Alcohol, or you shall be cast into
the fiery furnace under some political
platform!
[ indict this evil as the regicide, the
fraticide, the patricide, the matricide,
the uxoricide of the century. Yet IN
der what innocent and delusive and
mirthful names alcoholism deceives the
people! It is "cordial." 1t is chit
ters" It is an 'eye-opener." It is an
appetizer" It is "digester." It is
an ''invigorator." 1t is settler" 1t
is might cap" Why don't they put
on the right labels-"Essence of Perdi-
tion," conscience Stupefer,' give
DRAINS of Heartache," clears of Or
phanage," "Blood Of Souls" "Scabs of
an Eternal Leprosy,' Venom of the
Worm That Never Dies?" Only once
in awhile is there anything in the title
of liquors to even hint their atrocity,
as in the case of "sour mash" That
[ see advertised all over. 1t is an hon
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