Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-10-02

church should be broad. white desl,
before which the victims of stronp
drink could bow al the throne of groce
for mercy and then arise and with
trembling hand sign the temperance
pledge and blot 1t then and there with
their falling tears of penltence. The
church Of the Lord Jesus Christ must
and shall lead In this successful tenn
porance reform. The church of the
Lord Jesus Christ can destroy the 81
loon If she does her full duty. as the
prayer meetings of the country meet
lhE destroyed the political candidacy
OF Robert G. Ingersoll for the govern
orship of Illinois. The temperance
movement will fail, and surely fail. il
IL 10 carried on purely as a secular
movement. 1t will win, and surely
win, II it is carried on as divine
movement in which is enlisted the
strong arm of n church inspired of the
Holy Spirit. 1t is by you that the call
for gospel charge against the grog-
shops must first be sounded.
Lastly. and most important of all.
with the help of the church of God. we
should trysso kill the adder of strong
drink by making our civil laws so
stringent that the young should find II
almost impossible to get Mt the wine
cup even II they would. 1t is easier TO
heep 100 young men from acquiring
the evil habit of strong drink than it
Is 10 reform one debauchcd drunkard.
1t is easier to prevent than to reform
sin i suppose the chronic drunkards
who have been drinking for twenty or
thirty years will find their poisonous
serpent of the wine cup no matter
where they may be, But it Is possible
by law TO protect the young 1t is DOS.
sihle by law to keep liquor away from
the young mon and the young women.
1t Is possible to protect the rising gen
Grafton so that they may not he able
to find this adder's lair and to feel his
foul breath or his poisonous fangs.
And not only by stringent laws should
the destroying wine cup be kept from
the young. but the young should also
he taught why tho debauching infu-
ence of strong drink is kept out of their
reach. The evil results of indulgence
IN the wine cup should be taught in
our public schools MS we'll as in our
sabbath schools. They should be taught
upon the public platforms as well as
IN the private home. The evils of
strong drink should be presented so
clearly and vehemently to the young
mat the rising generation should some
Jay by the grace Of God be able to
stand up in their might and declare
that America must and shall forever
pc free from the evils of strong drink.
They shall be able TO declare il with
our help at the church altar; they shall
be able to declare it in the nominating
panks of our great political parties:
they shall be able to declare it at the
American ballot box; they shall be
able to declare 1t by Geographic com.
munications before sin cursed, alco-
hol poisoned world
Christian men and women, north. |
east, south and west. let us one and
all rally TO the temperance cause Let !
the ministers consecrate the pulpits to
this work. Let the laymen consecrate
the pews, May we one and all be
ready to die for the temperance cause. !
but never to surrender: never to cease
fighting the saloon and its intrenched .
power until we are summoned before
the great white throne of heaven.
Never, never, never let up in the strug-
Gle against this hemisphere evil until
the home and the church and the
kingdom of God shall forever be free.
May God give US one and all super
natural strength for the struggle which
is before the temperance cause of the
church Of America and of the world.
copyright. 1902. Louis Klopsch, N VI