The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-10-14
Sobriety n Virtue.

One OF the greatest difficulties the cause
OF temperance has to contend with to-day
Is the multitude of people who are allied
against it,. Notice right here that it was
so in the days of Moses. The whole con
gregaton murmured against Moses and
Aaron two fanatics against majority.
Strong arguments this majority used
too; just as they do to-day. They began
by blaming all their personal discomforts
on the enforced temperance that Moses
acting. for God, had established for them
They harked back continually to that old
Egypt OF theirs, ignoring its troubles out
OF which they were come, forgetting Ca.
naan, which had never seemed to weigh
materially with them
The. longing of souls not given up to
God for that which they desire is un-
quenchable except by God. The poor chill
dren OF Israel wished to be continually
feasting. for that was their idea of happi.
ness, Of all that had been told them con.
cerning Canaan they seem but to have
grasped dim idea of constant pleasure,
and that it was to begin at once, No
more have we to-day true perceptions and
estimates OF the heavenly Canaan. Prin-
ciples we may have when we start out
from our lands OF Egypt. but how many of
us abide by them when it comes to a mat.
ter OF personal indulgence? Some. indeed,
do. and thank God for the Moses and
Aaron IN our midst who fret not for lux
dry, but are willing to abide by the law
God has set, feeling that God knows best
even about so small a matter as diet
there are several points OF striking like
ness between the murmuring children OF
Israel and the people who ought to be
earnest temperance workers and are not
They ignore the evils OF Egypt. the njus.
tlce, the oppression, the cruel taskmasters,
for the sake of the fleshpots, which, after
all, were but meagrc for the starving
creatures bowed beneath many burdens.
Our land Is in slavery to rum. a curse
that is crushing out the manhood of its
people. Every year the chains grow
stronger, and yet for the sake of a little
personal indulgence, a little so.called free.
tish lawmakers cruel as Egyptian task.
masters, regulate and make respectable
the sale OF the deadly enemy OF our fair
land
One sells his Canaan for daily morsel
OF meat, and away down through the
ages the other barters it for the deadly
wine cup.
And so God gave that people what they
asked: rained it down upon them as free.
ly as He had given plain mama, and they
took it greedily and never saw what they
were doing nor how they had abused their
loving Fathers graciousness. Because they
saw not His love and yielded not them
N''~S ~ iilS IitllS lDI lHeIll, lIelr uungTN
souls unfed by the true nourishmert God
would have given. grew lean and starved.
The poor souls who will not believe in
the, dangers OF alcoholic liquors, and who
will not give them up. grow lean in like
manner They know that bacl; of liquor
turks danger slavery. sin; still each think.
he can escape them and cries out for that
WHICH will satisfy the craving OF his heart
And he gets it il he goes after it, Goo
will not keep a man from sin il he is de
termined to have it, The liquor clouds hi.
BRAIN and keeps him from a clear visor
may not be that all who touch, taste OF
handle the accursed cup drop immediately
into drunlyards' graves, but Just as surely
ii more slowly, do they die from wilfu
starvation because they would rather sat
lsfy the immediate cravings of anpetit,
than go to live with God forever in Iii.
fair. new !and.-Gracc Livingston Hill, in
the New York Mail and Express.