The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-11-01


Scriptures, the worldly business that
ntrudc themselves on that sacred day
plainly declare he low estimate which
we place upon it, And shall not God
visit the land for these things If
God punished his ancient people be
cause they tranprcssc1 his Sabbath BY
bringing in burdens onthc Sabbath, can
we expect less severity for orr sin in
this respect? Sabbath breaking was
REGARDED one Of our great national sins
before the war, i it less so now? Let
rs teach our children to hallow it-lct
rs set them the cxamplc-thcn shall
our peace be as river and our right
cousncs, rs the waves Of the sea-
IL. Again as Il people we Ii. vc not
clcanscd ourselves from the sin Of
drunkenness. 1t were useless to enter
into an elaborate condemnation of that
which every man S conscience tells
him is Il violation Of lcccncy and self
respect rs well as Of God law. There
Is no better temperance lecture in the
world than the sight Of man possess
ed Of all the features ofomanhood, yet
robbed Of all these in bcastly intoxi-
cation. Every trace Of divine and
heavenly origin is lost in the dcgrada-
ton. There can be no cxaggcration
OF the evil OF Drunkenness. The
amount Of intoxicants Of one sort or
another drank in this country is ap-
palling. 1t would pay all our school
taxes, all our gifts to the Church, to
pastors salaries, to home and foreign
missions. 1t would support all our
jails and penitcntiarics and then have
a large balance. There are thousands
who arc thus doubling the calamitics
OF our civil war, and adding to the
misfortune which broke their spirits
and paralyzcd their energies. 1t is
painful to see men Of age and infu-
cncc yielding to this ruinous habit,
but it is still more distressing when
we sec tlat it is robbing us Of
the very hope of the land, 80
many of it's young men. There is
some sort Of poor plea, not an cx-
cuse, mind you, for man who is left
without bodily or mental vigor in his
declining years to struggle with pow
crty, with the burden of household,
but one who has health aud strength,
who has all the promise Of years to
come, who has no lost fortunes to
mourn over, no bitter memories to vex
him, such one is left without even q
miserable plea when he seeks his com
fort in saloon. He is wasting life
which might be useful-hc is squan-
dcring earnings which might bless
others, and verso .han al this he is
bringing sorrow and disgrace to u
home of which he is the Joy and
pride. All over our land We see album
dant evidences Of the waste and ruin
of drink among our youth. But now
while we say this we thankfully ac-
knowledge that Christian sentiment
is asserting itself in our country, par
ticularly in our moral districts. We
rejoice to believe that right here in
our own immediate section aud neigh
borhood there is less drunkenness nov
than there was fifty years ago. By
constant discussion and agitation
quiet temperance reform has been at
work and drinking practices and css-
toms that we're largely ratronized by
respectable church people have been
seen to be harmful and have been
abandoned. And there is an obliga-
tion laid upon every lover of the
church, and evrry lover of his country
I to exert himself by precept and ex-
ample in checking aud abolishing an
evil more disastrous than war; If
ever there was time when we stood
in need of the virtues OF sobristJ
with it's plain, honest, homely clad sun
Drowned industry it is now. And this
suggests:
III. That we have not cleansed our
selves from the sin of an ungodly
worldlincss. This is the eating can
kcr of our time. Men make haste to
be rich. There is deep-scated aver
sion to the slow accumulations Of or
dinary industry. An observant
preacher says, There is swarm of
men bred in the heat Of adventurous
times, who scern to speak of dollars
and cents-hundreds and thousands
are their words. ''Evcrythingis done
at driving rate. They wish to reap
before they have ploughcd and sown.
Fortunes are to be made in day"