The Taney County republican., 1902-08-21

/ '.aUf''unr equal 'ugflr,, ou .tnndard ~ nor
lHI. uuhuu ul about l"'',r public sentiment
/ ,uf Mafri Hrl. NHiUl't. Do. 1t' Ofvanltr
Pre- iufslth q Nn. liza llo,w 'll
riIUS..
hereby ,rlmi.r Gud h'Iping me-, Ia abstain
irm lb" ~" u all alcoholic drinks, inrluIiug
/ ~iut, bHof bud cider, aud g. employ all proper
mems ip discourage ih" ~" ~ nhI tfhnir w the
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Following l. Il paper read by Mrs,
/ Eva Dane at IA" sunday School conScn'
ton at Forsyth, July ~, l9O2:
TEMPERANCE ~ THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
In coming before such q gathering ~
| this. one does not need 10 spend any
time, perhaps, in proving that iLicm-
pcrancc is n monster evil. That truth
has been aid home like n burden upon
your hearts. lo, thr-" many ycurs. sun
day school teachers -upcriulcuGonls,
preachers, .nymru, c.n-s leaders, church
worker, Christians all, II this fact has
never impressed sou very seriously, If II
seems To- you u matter Of but little I'M
pOrtauCc, or vice 80 great II j. useless
for N to try 10 bnfilu II, you need an
Inwnkcring. yOu need light upon this
subject, you need bitter experience,
uu--ihiy. uur thnt comes right INTO your
heart ana hur, aud ,ouchc. all tina, is
nearest ANA dearest 10 You. God forbid
though that such an ordeal should ever
be- necessary nriur" you may he led T."
grasp thu gmiulf .s- oi the drink CURSE
Pcrhup. sou have heard Statistics only
rcad uuu their cold figures meant but
little to you. You need 10 hear Glad
|.llur. who could make aHtI-tlcS-cl0-
Igu'ut. The ruuh,r who die yearly ol
,urrk In the United state, alone, sixty
ihnu~nud "a, the lowest estimate, the or
uhJns ir!t hy drunken, mproyIloht par
culs, thc vast .ums Of money expended
Tor state prisons, poor farms iuchrlato
la-g.um, aud all IA, heavy burden OF ,N-
lpcuso buruu by tnr government OF town
Ior. county or state nr,au-u OF drink, all
thi, annual lsuiu. hn- mlcd To move
You perhaps. over ana over again you
nave heard ii stated that iutcmpoanrc
has clu,,u NOR, disaster ana misery
tnlu all the war, ana ~cuurgr- that have
iyl-itrd TIC human race. lhi- question
has been argU,u ln private, ucbat' u
,uu m lyr-um-, pr,arhcd uH from the
l.un,. u4l Sc nnI" become - accus.
lu 1t tnat, fear, Ia many 1t nus Iost 'is
force. NON Hud then SOMEONE arlses 10
disprovc Il, aud attempts 10 attribute
ia" great majority ui crimes ANA power
I, Ia some other cause: bat When hear
q man like Gladstone: Gindslunc, ia"
Christian. G,uu,;uuc, the scholar; G,ud-
stone. the statesman: say that Great
err raami'lcs have been caused hy IN
temperance than 10y the combined
-cuurgrs ul all history war famine and
pr-iiicucc:" when such man lnyestl-
gates. weighs aud gives the result al his
researches. ii IL time We accept the fact,
bcslll ourselves, and sce II there isn't
something We can do.
All, but, you say, the vice Of intcm'
lpurcucc u as old as man. Plans have
been devised, war has been waged
against it, but still the deadly work
goes on. Yc,, ,but let mt tell you, fol
long, long ages the only method used
was that of reformation exclusively
Methods Of REFORM ! hear you say
what il there To do but To try 10 max,
II man over, to get him back To sobrietl
and dcccncy,h That is good. Get ever!
one back you can. Reform every stag
gcriug, bloar.oyed drunkard, brutal hus
band, inhuman father, dobauched son
Possibly you can. God bless every re-
form club. My brother was secretary u
the Massachusetts Reform club 10
ycars.) God bless the W. &. Il. U. In II
department, Of reform. God bless ever
preacher who tries 10 reform u drunk
ard: every wife who adopts measures
bring her husband 10 his home and I
his old love, every sister who seeks
y. lead her brother back to his once nobl
n manhood: hut why wait till man ha
IN gone long and far on the wrong roat
- aud thon struggle TO rescue him. VIII
ID not warn him before hand and put hii
ID on the right track at the start Gettin
I'd a man to stop drinking utter he has one
formed the habit isa stupcndous undo'
taking: and oft times, when we thin
we have made convert, effected r.
form, the next thing we know, min
times out Of ten, he is back TO his cui
again. Such is the power of the torribl
appetite. Which, then, think you,
the better policy and the more sensibl
nlop shut fust the ontp from whiC