Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-06-15
w. c. q. u.
BY THE ". G. T. U. OF HOT SPRINGS.

VI 10 Os
BY ". G. I. u. OF HOT SPRINGS.
Foreign Missions and tho Liquor Trafic
BY JAMES B. DUNN, d. d.
Something of the terrible evils certain
to follow this expansion of the govern
ment saloon under the plea Of extend
ing u commerce, may be- learned
from the mission which brings to this
country that flaming evangel, Rev. DR..
John Patton, from the New Hebrides.
DIR. Patton comes to secure, IL possible,
from the American government an
order which will prohibit American
traders from selling fire arms and in
~toxicating liquors to the natives of the
New Hebrides. The English govern
ment has issued such an order. Why
should not Christian America? When
DR.. Payton comes from the ends of the
earth and beseeches the American
people not to sell fire arms and fire
water to the New Hebrides; when he
tells us that his son would have been
killed by a bullet from an American
gun, sold by an American trader to a
native, if a noble chief had not thrown
himself between the half drunken
native and the missionary, only to fall
dying with the bullet in his own body;
when he says with trembling voice, his
blue eyes ..blazing with indignation,
that natives maddened by American
rum had turned Americana rifles against
native orphans of the station who were
sporting in the tops of the trees and
had shot them down with as little COM
junction as if they we're monkeys, we
may feel ashamed that the expansion
of our commission could SO curse a
distant part of the earth and tremble
As we read in our gospel, "Shall I not
visit for these things, saith the Lord,
and shall not my soul be avenged on
such a nation as this?
The lamented DR.. Bushnell said to
the writer q short time before his
death: "Alcohol is the burning curse
of Africa, and the traders with scarce
an exception, are remorseless as the
grave. Some people wonder why the
coast tribes of Africa waste and dissa-
pear. 1t is no wonder to one who lives
there with his eyes open," and he add
ed: 'If 1 were an Apollo or Chrysosto-
mus I should like to go thru all the
churches of the land, persuading and
entreating every member for Christ's
sake to abandon the Intoxicating cup
and prohibit its manufacture and sale.
1 would call aloud to all friends of
missions: "If you love'the missions, if
you love the Church of God, help, help
to dethrone the demon of intemper-
ance-ourr eproach before the heather
the blight of our churches!"
Ex-President Harrison, in his ad-
dress at the opening of the Ecumenical
Missionary Conference, in speaking of
the ~hindrances in the way of missions
very %eloquently said: "The men who
like the message, I'VE seek not yours,
but you have been hindered by those
who, coming after, have reversed the
message. Rum and other corrupting
agencies come in with our boosted
civilization and the feeble races wither
before the hot breath of the white
mans vices. The great nations have
combined to suppress the slave trade.
Is it too much to ask that they shall
combine to prevent the sale of spirits
to men who less than our children
have acquired the habits of self-re.
straint? Ii we must have Consumers
let US give them an innocent diet"