The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-03-26
.W. T.U.COLUMN.
CONDUCTED by MRS. NJ. 4. HOBBS.
THE CHURCH; TIE SALOON,
Keen Analysis Of the Relation Between
These Two Opposite Forces.
BY John Ratiih.
Continued I


Ilhe nquor traffic? On PAPER: st
cannot be lcgalized without sin.
There cannot be sin without a
sinner. If to legalize is a siu, the
llegaliziug power must be the sinner,
and lhat il the party to which 80
per cent OF Christian professors be \
long.
The Conference also said "lt l.
our deliberate judgment that no
political party ought TO receive the
support Of Christian men that re-
fuses to put itself on r cord in an
attitude Of open hostility TO the sa-l
loon. The Prohibition party IS.
the only party thus on record
Then it neces saTily and logically
follows that it was the deliberate
Judgment Of the Conference that
Christian men should support the
Prohibition party.
What is said Of the Methodists
may lie said Of mos other denomi-
, nations. The largest body Of Quak-
els on the globe mas said through
its Annual Conference: License
, exchanges souls for revenue. 1t Is
red with the blood of millions.
Then Why affiliate with a party
stained "with the blood OF mill
ions?"
The declarations Of the American
T. church, by It's various branches, are
SO nearly alike, that il may be said
that the concensus Of opinion OF the
American church is that the licens-
ed saloon is the enemy OF God and
n curse to humanity.
One hundred per cent. OF the llq-
uor power, composed OF distillers,
4 brewers, and saioon keepers, and
96 per cont. Of church voting mem
bers, composed Of bishops, elders
!, and laity, stand together on election
day and put in power and keep IN
power political parties pledged by
q forty years unhinching fidelity tc
the saloon interests. The Scribes
70 and Pharisees Of Jesus day we're
the protot, pc Of 96 per cent. OF OIL
Il. church voting members OF today
"The Scribes aud the Pharisees sli
= in Moses seat. All therefore what
- soever they bid ob. erve that and DO
bat do We not after their works tol
they say and do not" Matthew
nd 23 y 3 Just a. true today as II
was in A. d. 33 when Jesus uttered
the ab.ve.
Ne are told we use strong Ian
r. euaee. No controversy about that
;. The question l., are the statement
true? The nobility Of God s choseI
people have not always been true t
the best interests Of humanity Q
nd true godliness. When the chosel
people came to Kadesh- Barnea
preparatory to entering the promis
ed land, the great majority OF then
rebelled and they were Consigned I
the wilderness for life. Some III
teen hundred years ater, when Je
sus was psrsuing his mission
"Strsight-way in the morning To
chief priest held a consultation wit
D. the elders and scribes and boun
all Jesus and carried him away an
md md delivered him to Plate. Mar
all 1871.
.Ye men of Israel hear thes
words. Jesus Of Nazareth, a ma
approved OF God among you"
az e have taken and by wicke
hands have cruciiied and slain, :
Acts 2 :22-23. The plain words
Peter. II,
Pass over the prosecutions OF 1t
ther. Fox and others, and come
our time. We find in 1886 Il
Ouadrennial Conference OF u
| Methodist Episcopal church at Cil
| cinnati publicly censured two OF n
delegates, by a vote of 5 to /, 4
taking part il an anti-slavery NEE
| ing ia that city. About FIVE yea
| later the largest body Of Friends
/! the globe set her ecclesiastical -
down on the movement and displ :
= ed members from positions for aiif
n iating with that movement. histo
'N' has long since demonstrated I
wisdom of the anti-slavery NOV
ment A. the salt Of the nation, nc
nd viii standing il received co
any shoulder for years.
om- Church organizations az sucn
are not precipitate reform movement
al. An reform movements, in their
and cipient stages are unpopular. VIII
they become popular and accept
-iy they cease to be reforms. Chur