Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-06-01

There Is so much invested ~ ~ We
are afraid TO assault Il. Millions OF
dollars In barrels. I'm watts. in spigots.
in corkscrews. i'm gin palaces with
marble floors and Italian top tables
and chased ice coolers. and in the
stryehnine and the logwood and the
tartarie acid and the nux vomica that
GO to make up our pure" American
drinks. looked with wondering eyes
on the Heidelberg tun." q is tbs
great liquor vat of Germany. which Is
said to hold 500 hogsheads Of wine.
and only three times m 100 years il
has been filed. But as I stood and
looked at IL said to myself: THAT
is nothing-S00 hogsheads. Why. our
American vat holds 10000. 900 barrels
of strong drinks and we keep 100000
men with nothing to do but &c see
that it is filed"
Oh. TO attack the great monster OF
intemperance and the kindred mon
sters of fraud and uncleanliness re-
quires you 90 rally all your Christian
courage. Through the press. through
the pulpit. through the platform you
must assault il. Would TO God that
all our American Christians would
band together. not for craek-brainedI
fanaticism. but for holy Christian re-
forml 1 think IL was in 1893 that
there went out from Lucknow, India
under the sovereign, the greatest
hunting party that was ever project
| ed. There were 10000 armed men in
that hunting party. There were cam
/ els and horses and elephants. On
some princes rode, and royal ladies
under exquisite housings. and 500
coolies waited upon the train. and
/ the desolate places of India were in
vaded by this excursion, and the rhi-
noceros and deer and elephant fell
under the stroke Of the sabcr and
| bullet After awhile the party
! brought back trophies worth $4,000
! rupees having left the wilderness Of
India CHASTITY with the slain bodies of
wild beasts. Would TO God that in
stead OF here and there straggler
going out 70 fight these great mon
sters Of iniquity in our country the
| millions Of membership in our
churches would band together and
hew in twain these great crimes that
make the land frightful with their
roar and are fattening upon the
bodies and souls of immortal menl
Who is ready for such a party as
that2 Who viii be a mighty hunter
for the Lord?
remark. again, Il you want 20 be
successful in spiritual archery you
need not only 70 bring down game,
but bring IL in. 7 think one of the
most beautiful pictures of Thorwald-
sen Is his Autumn" IL represents a
I sportsman coming home and stand
ing under n grapevine lie has n
) | staff over his shoulder, aud on the
r other end Of that staff are hung a
? rabbit and brace of birds. Every
; | hunter brings home the game. No
p ore would think of bringing down a
r roebuck or whipping mp "A stream for
e | trout and letting them lie in the
I woods At eventide the camp is
{ adorned with the treasures of the
% | forest-beak and fin and anfler.
P II YOU 20 out 10 hunt for immortal
e souls. not only bring them down un-
q der the arrow Of the Gospel. but bring
e | them into the church OF God, the
e grand home and cncampment we have
G. | pitched this side the skies. Fetch
e them in; do not let them lie out in
{. the open field. They need our
n | prayers and syrnpathies and help
t. That is the meaning Of the church OF
e GOd-help. o We hunters for the
p Lord. not only bring down the game
n but bring il in.
" II Mithridates liked hunting so wei
e that for seven years he never went
10 indoors, what enthusiasm ought w
e 10 have who are hunting for immor
r tai soulsi IL Domitian practiced arch
IL cry until he could stand boy down
i? in the Roman amphitheatcr with
10 hand out. the fingers spread apart
10 and then the king could shoot an ar
TO row between the fingers withOu
IL | wounding them, TO what drill am
es what practice ought we Ia sublec
ir ourselves in order 10 become spirit
IN ual archerS and mighty hunters be
Is fore the Lordi" But let me say yo
o. will never work any better than yo
Il | pray. The ola archers took the bow
pc put one end of IL down beside tn
D. foot, elevated the other end. and
nd was the rule that the bow should b
nd just the size OF the archer. If il wer
as just his size. then he would go int
" the battle with confidence. Let M
,e- say that your power 20 project goo
he in the world Will correspond exaotl
sh 10 your own spiritual stature.
a other words, the first thing i'm pre-
nv aration for Christian work is person
m al conservation.
10 | oh. for a closer welk with God.
-, | calm and heavenly frame.
&c light to shire upon the road
tn That leads me 10 the Lamb!
'ut There is in a forest IN Germany