The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-01-25

w. CT. U. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. L. HOBBS.
The True Friends Of The Church.

Editor Patriot PHALANx:-The
post election comment that appear
ed in the columns of the Phalanx
over my signature, has occasioned
some criticism from frisnds who ev-
identity did not give the article in
question a close reading.
said: 81 know not what Others
may DO, but as for me and my
house, license voting ecclssiastics
and lay men may run the church,
our time and money will be laid up
on the altars Of the Prohibition par
ty, in full consciousness that IN so
DOING, WE ARE RENDERING OUR BEST
SERVICE TO THE CHURCH"
One w. G. I. U. sister said was
"sour" toward the church. She
misunderstood my motive. In
face of all the indifference aud open
deposition Of the organized church
and lis high dignitaries toward the
Prohibition party, | have persist
emily maintained, in public speech
and private conversation, that our
only hope Of success lay at the door
of that same church. When earn
est Prohibitionists, weary Of the
struggle to line up the church
against the saloon, have said, ut
is no use; let us appeal to the rab-
,ble. Let us appeal to the pocket
of the common people instead Of
the fruitless appeal to the hardened
conscience of the church," ! have
replied, we must build upon con-
science, at least until we have a
nucleus large enough to afford US q
fighting chance for victory, then an
: appeal to dollarology of the citizen
might avail, but not until then. |
have always believed and still have
faith that we will win a sufficient
number Of the voting church to in
sure our success.
While all this is true, l know al
so that 100000 souls 60 to perdi
ton every year out Of the saloons
I. of this country, know that ths
! complicity of Christian men will
this soul destroying business is rob
bing the church of the presence anC
power OF God. Zion languisheth
The word is preached but souls arr
: not saved. Money is laid upon hel
;. altars, but the best results are no
! achieved. The average increase o
all the churches in America last
year was just one per cent. Th'
saloon is recruiting for hell tel
times faster than the church is re
: cruiting for heaven. With all tn
epossible intensity Of conviction,
believe that unless the churcl
: speedily throttles the saloon, it vii
throttle the church.
: To kill the saloon, entrenched q
:. it is today, will necessitate a tire
: mendous expenditure Of time ant
money, far larger than the averag
Prohibitionist has vet realized
There are upon conservative esti
mate over four and a half million
men in the church who lend no ait
!, 20 the battle against the liquor traf
' fic. There are only about 300, ,OO(
: men to furnish the time and none,
: to kill the saloon. The four and
: half million are sufficient to bu,
: cushions and carpets and pipe or
: gans and build fine steeples tina
y point heavenward and pay preach
. ers who point nowhere. The 800,
900 Prohibitionists, with ALL thel
time and money are but Gideon
band against the mighty force tha
, Opposes US.
al While the saloon continues 4
!. people hell with the souls for whom
Christ died; while wives and moth
ers and innocent babies suffer an
sguish unspeakable, because OF thi
: : iniquity; while the liquor traffic ha
= the church by the throat and i
J choking out her life, her faint gasp
Z for help shall meet with respons
I. from mo that shall carry with it al
!. !. that I am and all that possess I'm
J. til that hand is removed FROM he
throat, her foul assailant struc
: down to death. When freed fror
such contamination she shall bs
o come indeed the bride Of Christ
j ! without spot or blemish.
!. QUINCY l.. Morrow.
:. Indianapolis,