The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-02-03
a Terrible Indictment.

Referring 10 the devastating ruin brought
upon native tribes by the introduction OF
Intoxicating liquors on the part OF Chris.
tian nations. the Rev. Mark Guy Pease
says:
I'VE Englishmeu so proud OF our coun.
try must bow down with an awful shame
at the thought OF it. All that England has
done and is doing to advance the welfare
of the nations, is undone. and worse than
undone, by the curse OF strong drink. lt
hurts one, indeed, to think OF IT, but 1t
is Just the awful and terrible truth that
in spite OF our Bible societies and oil all
our great missionary societies, the world
would be better to-day If there were no
England.
Tn India it Is said that for every native
converted to Christianity, 100 natives are
made drunkards. When the natives see
a drunken man, they are accustomed to
say: He has left Mohammed and gone to
Jesus Now that Burmah is annexed
says a missionary, it has become place
of cheap drink and great crimes.
II have only once been near a Moham.
medan town. aud this is what | saw: ]
had not landed five minutes before | was
surrounded by group OF Arab boys car
ryiug bottles OF spirits-Mohammed
lads, whose religion forbids them to drink
strong drink-and we were assailed with
cries in broken English; Master, buy
bottle Drandy--three.si Miss, nice bot,
tie brandy-three-si My heart prayed
God that these lads might be kept sober
Mohammedans rather than become such
Christians as they are accustomed to
see. Little wonder that one OF the most
enlightened Brahnins cried: oh, that Wa
had never seen n European tace; oh, that
We had never tasted the bitter sweets ol
your civilization. rather than that it should
make us a nation ol drunkards and
brutes.
Thus writes Arnold White, who has livcd
among the natives:
The Indians oi America and Hindo
stan, the wild races OF Australia, the kaf
frs. the debased Hottentots, the Yves
Coast negroes. the effeminate Cinga.esc
and the sinewy aborlglneS of Canada, hav'
bitter reason to rue the first day OF thei
communication with the Ang o-Saxoi
race. England has polluted with drinl
and honeycombed with foul disease th'
lives of those races who still survive
contact all unsought by them. When ou
countrymen return from Eastern land
they tell US that for every missionary sen
ont there go also some 5000 gallons o
rum; that 1t is better to carry ont Mo
hammedanism than Christianity, because
Mohemmedanism is temperate and Chris
tianity is not
Mir. Mackay, oi the Nyanza Mission
writes
"'Ob. how often shall | write in my
journal as | pass through many tribes
Drink is the curse OF Africa Go where
you will, and you viii find men, women
and children reeliug from the effects oi
alcohol. The vast West of Africa Is ru'
ined with rum
Few men had such opportunities oi
seeinc the world as Sir George Grey. His
life has been spent in constant contact
with savage races in Africa, with Zulul
and Katfirs, in New Zealand with the Ma
oris. He declared that when he came
home 10 London he saw in single week
sights more shameful than he had seen
during all those years among the savages,
and it was all through strong drink.
Rev. p. j. Ritchie. OF Queenstown, IN
an address delivered as chairman OF the
Congregational Union. said:
'ls IT not Gear that the spread OF
drinking habits among the natives must
inevitably tend to render them unht for
any useful service, to deprive them OF the
means OF honest livelihood, and consequent
~ to drive them into criminal courses,
until they are good for nothing but TO DE
cast out and trodden under feet OF men?
The voice OF their blood will cry from
the ground unto heaven against their
white destroyers. Our boasted civill2a-
tion has given them the Bible with one
hand and the brandy bottle with the 9TH
er. II brings all heaven before their eyes
in the mission church. and opens hell Tor
them in the canteen. 1t gives the ms
sionary the opportunity to put upon them
the pressure OF moral suasion Tor Their
salvation while it gives its legislators
power to take off the excise duty on e
irandy for their damnation.