Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-17

ming while boasting after a 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 Pittsburg prison, two
men were talking about the Bible and
Christianity, and one Of them, Thomp-
son BY name, applied to Jesus Christ a
very low and villainous epithet, and, as
he was uttering 1t, 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 cemetery In Sullivan
county, in New York state. are eight
headstones in q line and all alike, and
these are the facts: In 1851 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 defied Almighty God to produce a
case Of diphthe1ia 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 ao-
cepted the challenge. Do not 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 avenging 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. 1t 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
haunts Of sin, mingling with the rat
thing 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
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 timepiece that
gets him too late to the rail train. ar
raign profane swearing and blasphemy,
two names for the same thing, as being
one Of the gigantic crimes Of this land,
and for its exti1pation it does seem as
If it were about time for God to arise.
Wine When Rcd.
Then look for 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 on that street as COM
pared with the saloons five years ago
and see they are growing far out of
proportion to the increas' OF the popu-
lation. You people who are SO precise
and particular lest there should be some
imprudence and rashness in attacking
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 q
demoniac The drink fiend has despoil-
ed whole streets of good homes In all
our cities. Fathers, brothers, sons on
the funeral pyre of strong drink! Fasten
tighter the victims! Stir up the fames!
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 duloi-
mer let all 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
fratricide, the patricide, the matricide.
the uxoricide, of the century. Yet under
what innocent and delusive and mirth.
full names alcoholism deceives the peo.
plel It is q "oordial. 1t Is "bitters ="
1t is an "eye opener. " 1t is an "appe-
tizer." Iii "digester. 1t is an Gin
,igorator. 1t is "settler. 1t is a
"nightcap." Why don't they put on
the right labels: Essence of Perdi-
ton. "Conscience Stupefier, Five
DRAINS of Heartache, clears of Or.
MANAGE, BLOOD of Souls, "Scabs OF
m Eternal Lep1osy, 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 honest name
and any one can understand it. "Sou1
mashr' That Ia, it makes mans dis
position sour, and his associations sour
and his prospects sour, and then it IL
good to mash his body, and mash nit
soul and mash his business, and mash
his family. "Sour mash!' One honest
name at last for an intoxicant! But
through lying labels of many OF the
apothecaries' shops, good people, VINO
are only little undertone in health
and wanting some inauguration, have
unwittingly got on their tongue the
f.nes of this cobra that stings to deatl
go large a ratio Of the human race.
Satanic Sips.