The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1903-08-07
II. of II. Replies.

christian although some four or five
letters have been written severely crit
cising my position on the subject.
cannot spare the time TO reply 10 each
one at length, but taking the letters
seriatim i'm inverse order as they APP
peared in your pages, will have a few
words for each, and this will close the
discussion on my side.
First lor last comes "Teetotum' adj
vocailng and very sensibly champion
ing total abstinence. have nothing
but praise for such course, for 10 i'm
sures absolute and complete safety; all
risk or danger Of inebriety il removed
and the "teetotaller" il a. safe a. little
Mary, who said
Mother, may go ONT Co swim 81
Eyes, my darling daughter.
Hang Your clothes ON hickory limb.
But don't go near thc water.
As. l.. is so profuse with quota
tons To prove that alcohol is poison,
nv only reply to him will be that II !
had the time | could hunt up just a.
good authority TO show that tea and
coffee are poi-ons. make one quota
ton: alcohol is food. "-Atwaier
| But A. :. LIS wicked sleer on the med
zeal fraternity when he says "the poor
woman should have called in christ
/ ian docforn and then spirits would
not have been prescribed for her II
Pharasaical and outrageous, a gratui-
tous insult 90 that noble profession.
For Mother" have only respect
and sympathy, but maintain that
every mother who brings up son to
loving obedience, who Grains "a son 10
the way he should 20" and comments
that son, by ferveut, sincere prayer To
God. will in % cases out Of every lUo
find her boy grow up into "a good man,
and sooner or later the erriug will
return like the prodigal, saved from
eternal death by sainted mothers
prayers. In all my life know Of no
case to the contrary.
And now ] come to "Airuist" lie
must be- a very small Altruist, but
great big Pcssimist lie comes with
sneers, and iibes, and udicule, but this
is not argument. lie does not, for he
cannot abate or uullify my contention
that prohibition is Unchri-tian.'
His quotation from the Apostle, 81
will not eat meat if it cause my broth
er To stumble has given many man
i'm difficulties the chance TO plead the
same old Adamic plea uttered in Eden:
"The woman tempted me and ] did
'eat.u II was lie on Adams part a
contemplate effort to shift RESPONSE
|bilty, and in tens Of thousands Of in
stances 1t has been the plea Of craven
man since then, when in "A vast major
ity of cases the woman has been more
siuned against than SHINING.
Altruist Says: 81. Of B's exegesis of
the Scriptures is JrWcd' 1.-THE trans
position Of the names jew and Samar-
itan in my letter j. attributed by him
To ignorance, not accident, then must
bear the odium Of his criticism.
The Bible j.. the guide Of my liie'
and on its teachings my belief is
grounded that have Gods sanction
to use aH his gifts to man temperately
and m moderation, and 10 is outside the
province Of my fellow-men to prohibit
this use. In China and Turkey the
whim Of the despotic ruler is absolute
but i'm all Christian countries the basic
I principle of all law is the law Of the
Decalogue. God i'm his foreknowledge
J saw adown the ages yet 10 come the
. illicit intercourse that would follow hi'
s own implanted affinity between the
sexes, and yet he sanctioned the mar
S riage tie, and prohibited any breach
I thereof: with like foreknowledge he
D saw the rich man aud the beggar, anC
7 vet he forbade the beggar from coyet
+ ing anything the rich man had ano
Y "a plainlv he saw the drunkard, ant
, vet i'm that Gailean home he not only
O., sanctioned but lin the person of hh
0 coequal som created that "wine ina
q maketh glad the heart Of man. an'
t to my mind evidently partook of 1t
d for later on he said: "I Will drink ne
# more Of the fruit Of the vine until
e drink il in my Fathers Kingdom"
h "No druukard shall inherit the King
dom Of Heaven" but Chou shalt no
|, drink was no command Of His
d Altruist with covert sneer intimate
d that the home / describe is too ideal
j. istlc and cannot be real. Poor man;
j. pity him. He asks in scorn: "Wha
IS has been the effect Of my exam
% ple ?" &c. can only refer him to m.
d neighbors for answers, aud ] am Will
d ing To abide their decision. My nom
is a counterpart Of my fathers home
i'm 80 far a. could make 1t 80, ana l
emphasize my point will have To z
back to my village home in the wave
, washed Isle across the seas. In tina
- village Of 800 people were some ~
:, 30 boys and young men Of my own SC
u cial position-sons of merchants, doc
tors. farmers and preachers. We play
" ed cricket, foot ball, quoits, DC,
> Young men do; we would send to I'll
y "Pubs" for our beer and our grog,
taste chose. Those 20 or 30 boys al
scattered-some dead, but mostly li'
~ ing. but if ever any one Of them va
ever insbriated then, or since, ! nev'
~ saw it. or heard Of it. ! can con
closer-to old Buckingham, and aye,
w Farmville too, and cite instances whe
ie such homes as mine have, and do eXis
We aud probably Altruist will begin To fe
L rttrIA than