Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-10-27

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aued from tho Standpoint Of Com.
mon Sense-Aleohoi 10 Deadly Poi
son, and It's Use Involves Moral and
Physical Death-Dispensary Is Only
Another Name for Barroom.
Pursuant to previous announcement
Rev. J. L. Stokes, D. D., pastor OF
Trinity church, preached last Sunday
morning on the subject Of the dispen-
sary and prohibition. He took his text
from Genesis iv, 9, and handled the
subject in a manner that was most
striking, especially to those who are af-
ter the plain truth. The sermon In
FULL was as follows:
Our text Is Gains impudent reply to
Jehoyah's question, Where is Abel
thy brother" 1 need not detail the
circumstances: will only say that II
is not at all in the nature OF a ra-
tional protest, but a flippant and angry
evasion Of responsibility, and such II
has ever been down to the present day
It is an old question, and yet one
ever new. And the subject Of respon-.
sibility for others deduced from 1t Is OF
universal application.
We limit its application today to our
responsibility touching the matter OF
temperance. The subject has TWO
arms--total abstinence and prohibitlon'
Observe we do not say, moral sua-
sion" and prohibition, as II we put
"moral suasion' in contrast with pro-
hibition; because the work OF tne
Christian and Of the church Is along the
line of IN oral suasion" all the time.
Moral considerations only are brought
by us to bear upon prohibition. We DO
not have to leave our old ground.
1.-The weapons of our warfare are not
carnal." Please note this correction
of a popular mistake.
Let us now notice:
|. Reasons For Total Abstinence.
I. The first reason for it Is the con-
sideration of physical health. Says the
United States dispensatory: las an ar
ticle of daily use, alcoholic liquors pro-
duce the most deplorable consequences
Besides the moral degradation Which
they cause, their habitual use gives
rise to dyspepsia, hypochondiasis, vis-
ceral distractions, dropsy, paralysis
and not unfrequently mania
The late DR.. Willard Parker says:
What is alcohol? The answer is-a
poison. 1t Is so regarded by the best
writer's and teachers on toxicology:
refer to Orfila, Christison, and the ike
who class it with arsenic. corrosive
sublimate and prussic acid. intro
duced into the system, 1t induces a
general disease, as well marked as IN,
termittent fever. smallpox or leao
poisoning.
2. But another reason for total alb
stinence Is the fIl-effect Of alcohol upon
the mind. DR.. Richardson says: LAS
I have moved among those who are
physically stricken with alcohol, and
have detected under the various dis
guises Of the name the fatal diseases,
the pains and penalties 1t imposes on
the body, the picture has been suf1-
ciently cruel. But even that picture
pales as I conjure up, without any
stretch of imagination, the devasta-
tions which the same agent inf!icts on
the mind. Forty per cent-the Learned
superintendent Of Colney Hatch, Dr:
Shepperd, tells us-forty per cent OF
those who were brought into that asy-
lum during the year 1876, were SO
brought because Of the direct or indi-
rect effects Of alcohol"
Nor are the evils Of alcohol here con-
fined to it's immoderate use. 1t Is a
very common mistake that this Is so'
says Joseph Cook, the famous Boston
Monday lecturer: "All physicians
know that poisons have local action
within the system, and that sometimes
a rifleball has no more definite I'M
pingement upon whatever 1t Is aimeo
at than a poison has In relation TO the
object against the welfare Of which It
Is directed. We must remember that
the special local affinity Of alcohol Is
So. hof ha
fibres which allows the heart to beat
faster is not a sign Of health, but OF
disease, and that the moderate drinker,
in ninety cases out Of hundred, is
thus honeycombed through and through
with this relaxation. It's effects are
seen first In a lack Of moral feeling.
But when fever strikes him down, when
cholera attacks him, when SUMS heat
and life's struggle come together, ne
breaks more easily than he otherwise
would In your remaining ten cases,
perhaps, there may be immunity for a
while; but in old age a man Is more
brittle than he would be otherwise, and
in the next generation what do you
get?" (and here Mr.. Cook speaks OF
heredity which we quote further on).
3. Still another reason for total ab.
stinence is the bunting of the moral
sensibilities by drink. This Is not. per-
haps, capable Of as exact proof as we
have given on other points; but 1t
must be sufficiently plain to every OBJ
serving, rejecting mind.
4. A fourth reason is the considera-
ton Of alcoholic influence in heredity.
Darwin says: 1T is remarkable that all
the diseases arising from drinking
spirituous or fermented liquors are ia
bic to become hereditary even to the
;,l tnnrooSinO
cause be continued, till the family be-
comes extinct" Dr. Brown, a we'll
known English writer on insanity, says:
1.-The drunkard not only enfeebles and
weakens his own nervous system, but
entails mental disease upon his fam
ily." Mr.. Joseph Cook says: When
there Is a confirmed and inveterate
habit of wine drinking, or other habit
ual and prolonged although moderate
alcoholic stimulation the succession or
generations differs in character usual
ly not far from what it was in Web
ster's family-colossal strength in the
father Of Webster, colossal strength IN
Webster, erratic strength in the son,
lack of control in the grandson-a boy
who made Of his grandfathers amuse-
ment his whole occupation: and what
the next generation would have been,
the law of hereditary descent will tell
YOU. Inexhaustible strength, eccen-
tricity, moral weakness, and then the
conditions which your Atlantic Month
ly,' choice about it's language. describ-
es by the adjective 'spoony.' Even
giants may deteriorate to this stage in
four generations
5. A fifth reason for total abstinence
Is that of Pauline charity. We find
this stated In Rom. xiv, 81: 1T is good
neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine,
nor anything whereby thy brother
stumbleth, or is offended, or Is made
weak" And closer and still closer to
our hearts does this admonition come,
as we realize our increased and ever
n.,d facilities