The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-06-14
The EpWOrth League.
TOPICS AND SUGGESTIONS on MTEREsT ne rs MEMBERs


Epworth League topic for June Is:
Why Total Abstinence is Best Rom.
xiv:13-2s.
This Is question of vital importance
to each one Of us-one. too. which We
cannot afford TO ignore. We must be up
and doing The devil Of drink is very
active. and we must be no less active
If we are TO foil the tempter's power.
4 chain is just as strong as its weak
est link. If one link of our constitution
Is weakened by drink, then are We very
weak. No one can deny that drinking
Intoxicating liquors weakens the in
tciiect, deadens the power of resistance
to evil: in fact, changes ones whole be-
/ ing. The habit is not formed at once,
but is formed gradually Beware Of the
dFst sip-if everyone stopped az the fist
! drink there would be no d-unkardz;
but its temptation Is so insidious that
one cannot tell when the power to resist
| wss gone. Shun it as you would poi
sonous viper.
Reasons Why Total Abstinence Is Best.
Rev. DR.. James H. Potts says from
a sanitary standpoint it is best, and
gives 4 reason:
The history OF Asiatic cholera, in all
lands. and in all of it's past visitations,
| proves that the incorporate are It's
first victims. The Incorporate and what
| what are called moderate drinkers make
up nine-tenths OF its victims
From the standpoint of sciense, DIR.
y s Davis says:
BY all chemists and other scientific
men alcohol is cIassed as an active
poison; it destroys the vitality of the
| tissues with which 1t comes In contact
as readily as ereosote or pure carbolic
acid"
From social standpoint. Each one
knows that drunkard is a social out
cast; looked upon as little better than
an animal: given 10 recognition as
social equal. The saloon is the poison
pool IN which anarchists and assassins
are spawned like FISH,
From a mental standpoint. As has
been said, it weakens all cur intel
Iectual faculties. We have all seen
and Is there more pitiable ssght-a
man Of brilliant mental ability, who is
a perfect wreck mentally and morally
from drink Alcohol eonfuses. Clear
thinking can never be done by a con-
fused brain. intoxicating liquors are
responsible for the largest per cent Of
the imbeciIes and insane; also for the
inmates in the warehouses, jaiis and
penitentiaries. In nearly every case
those who expiate for their crimes on
the gallows owe their downfall 10 the
drink habit.
No more appropriate sign for q saloon
could be selected than the one which
was painted on the wall leading down
into a saloon in an Iowa town 3 few
years ago, which was as follows: 1.-THE
Road to He'll
Drink is satan's battering ram that |
breaks down character. It lets loose the
winds of woe on the temple OF manhood |
It lays deadly torpeeoes under the life |
boat Of every man that sails It's sea
Alcohol is as destructive OF human char
acter as 1t is of living tissues. For char
acter's sake abstain from alcohol.
In Cardiff. Wales. before the saloons
were closed On Sunday, with q popula-
ton Of so, 600. there were sixty-two con-
victions for Sunday drunkenness in 1881
Last. year, with a population Of 170. 900.
there were but nine cases.
That great railroad systems are be-
coming more and more stringent In the
demand that their employees use no +
liquor. is another very forcefuI and far
reaching fact The restrictions OF the
Burlington road have now been ex- 1
tended so as to apply TO all depart
ments, including track. bridge. and
building departments. The rule says: t
The use Of intoxicants by employees
while on duty IS prohibited Their
habitual use or freQuenting of places
where they are sold Is sufficient cause
for dismissal lions Herald.
The power OF great modern corpora
ton to effect great moral reform when
it conceives it to be to its interest to /,
urge such reform, receives q striking IL
iustration at Cheyenne, Wyo. Twenty
I've saloons have been obliged to close
their doors within the last month be- Il
cause Of the order OF the Unien Pacific Is
Company forbidding ali its en-
ployes TO frequent drinking places !
whether on or of duty. The city has ,
been practically forced upon q prohibi- :
lion basis. in spite OF the wishes OF the :
people, Now. some conclusions with re-
gard to the liquor traffic at Cheyenne
are SO patent that they need not be stat >
20 Every reader of the paragraph can
Fatne them Tor himself Pushed to their :
egllimate application, they would make
Tor the humiliation OF the liquor curse Q
upon economic grounds S
'olely-Midland Christian Advocate.
CONVENTION NOTES.
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