Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-05-15

There il SO much invested in it we
are apaid TO assault it. Millions of
dollarsEn barrels, in watts, in spigots,
in corkscrews, in gin palaces with
marble floors and Italian top tables
and chased ice coolers. and in the
strychnine and the logwood and the
tartaric acid and the nux vomica that
go TO make up our ''pure" American
drinks. looked with wondering eyes
on the heidelberg tun." II is the
great liquor vat of Germany. which is
said TO hold 500 hogshcads of wine.
and only three times in 100 years IL
has been filed But as | stood and
looked at it | said TO MYSELF THAT
is nothing-s00 hogsheads. Why, our
American vat holds 10000 900 barrels
of strong drinks and we keep 800, 600
men with nothing to DO but TO see
that IT is filed"
Oh, TO attack the great monster of
intempcrance and the kindred mon
sters of fraud and unclcanliness re-
quires YOU TO rally all your Christian
courage. Through the press. through
the pulpit, through the platform you
must assault it. Would to God that
all our American Christians would
band together. not for craell-brained
fanaticism. but for holy Christian re-
form. / think il was in 1913 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 deec and elephant fell
under the stroke Nof the sabcr and
bullet. After awhile the party
brought back trophies worth 10000
rupees, having left the wilderness of
India CHASTITY with thu slain bodies of
wild beasts. Would TO God that in
stead of here and there a straggler
going out to 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 men!
Who is ready for such party as
that? Who will be mighty hunter
for the Lord?
| remark. again. If you want to be
successful in spiritual archery YOU
need not only 10 bring down game,
but bring it in. | think one of the
most beautiful pictures of Thorwald-
sen is his Autumn" II represents a
sportsman coming home and stand
ing under grapevine. He has
STAFF over his shoulder, and on the
other end Of that staff are hung n
abbit ANA brace of birds. Every
hunter brings home the game. No
one would think of bringing down
rocbuck or whipping up stream for
trout and letting them lie in the
woods. At eventide the cam1 is
adorned with the treasures of the
forest -beak and fin and antler.
If YOU 80 out 20 hunt for immortal
souls. not only bring them down un-
der the arrow of the Gospel. but bring
them into the church of God. the
grand home and encampment we have
pitched this side the skies. Fetch
them in: do not let them lie out i'm
the open field. They need our
prayers and sympa thies and help.
That IS the meaning of the church of
od-hclp. o We hunters for the
Lord. not only bring down the game,
but bring il in.
If Mithridates liked hunting so we'll
that for seven years he never went
indoors, what CT thuSiasm ought we
to have who are hunting for immor-
IA souls! If Dorntian practiced arch
cry until he could stand boz down
in the Roman amphithcater with
hand out, the fingers spread apart,
and then the king could shoot an ar
row between the fingers without
wounding them, to what drill and
what practice ought we to subject
ourselves in order to become spirit
nal archers and "mighty hunters be-
fore the Lord" But let me say Won
VIII never work any better than YOU
pray. The ola archcrs took the bow.
put one end OF it down beside the
foot. elevated the other cud. and il
was the rule that the bow should be
just the size o. the archer II ii were
just his size. then he would 90 into
the battle with confidence. Let me
say that your power to project good
IN the world will correspond exactly
TO your own spiritual stature. In
other words. the first thing in prep
aration for Christian work is person.
al conservation.
oh for closer walk with God.
calm and heavenly frame.
a light 20 shine upon the road
That leads mo 60 the Lambi
There is in forest i'm Germany ,
place they call the deer leap TWO
crags, about IS yards apart between