The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-04-13

4. Then again this great evil goes
even farther than wreck the character.
It destroys the soul. No drunkaIu
shall enter the kingdom OF Co.. mere
is the ultimate end of the use OF stron9
drink. it destroys the soul. There are
two great agencies at work IN th'S
world to secure the souls or men, OLe
is the work of the Holy Spirit VINO
ic seeking to save men; the other IS
the work of the Devil, who is SEEKING
to destroy the souls of men. Both Vi
these agencies use means 10 dcconl'
nlish their work. God uses the Cos
mel to seek men; the Devil is using the
legalized liquor traffic to damn souls OF
men. This traffic with all OF us at
tendant influences is one OF the eStaD-
lished agencies of the Devil, and When
once It has fastened itself upon the
life of men, unless redeemed that soul
is doomed to death eternal. y the
power of this evil in the world, the
wreck and ruin which it has brought
and is still bringing to the world; the
DESTROYED homes, the wasted fortunes,
and the wrecked lives, which it is leaV-
ing in it's pathway as it sweeps over
this beloved country of ours.
With this view of this great evil
we stop and ask ourselves the queS-
ton, what ought to be the attitude
of Christian people toward this glgan-
tic demon?" There is no evil in all OF
this world however small and insignifi-
cant it may be. but what every indlvld-
ual is under obligations to God and
| his fellowman, to correct that evil OF
to remove it, whether it is in his own
life or the life of another, if in his pow
| er so to do. Whatever exist IN THIS
world that has become a menace to
morality and that threatens the we'll
being of our fellowman morally or tenn
| porally, God has placed the response
! biIitv upon each one of us to remove
that evil beyond the reach OF our
| brother. The temperance question is
| one of the living issues of the pres
ent day for Christian people to deal
| with. There is a diversity Of Opln-
ion as to how it should be dealt with.
Christian people are divided in their
theories of dealing with the liquor
question; why this is so have never
been able to find out. If this COM
munity was a victim OF some contag-
eous disease that was bringing death
to every one who became victim 10
it's power. I dare say there would be
no division of opinion as how to deal
with this evil. The first the last, and
the only thing that could and would
De done would be to remove every
germ of the disease out OF the COM
munity. The liquor traffic, legalized
or unlegaIized, saloon, blind tiger, or
dispensary is a deadly poison fasten-
ing itself upon every community
wherever it is allowed to come, bring
ing moral death and ruin wherever it
goes. There is but one way to deal
with this great demon of death, and
that is to get rid of it, and purge the
town. city, and state Of its power.
First of all. say that Christian PEG
pie should abstain from the use OF u
in any shape or form. How many dol
lars 20 into the Golfers of the liquor
! dealers from the pockets of protested
Christian people? Shame be on any
man who processes the name Of Jesus
and then keeps in his closet jug OF
whiskey. The man who drinks in am
form whatever has forever closed his
own mouth from ever cOndemning the
use of it by other people. But" says
| some one, cit may be prescribed by a
| physician as medicine" That may be
so, but | dare say that in nine-tenths
of the cases where whiskey is pre-
scribed, the patient would have gotten
well anyway
A man remarked to me some days
ago in speaking Of a man who died.
| He said that if that man had been al
| lowed to drink whisky he would have
lived longer. What a deception, Sta
tistics from two of the largest hospit-
ais in America, set forth by the most
eminent physicians, show that the aver
age life of people who abstain from
the use of Intoxicating drink in any
Of it's forms is fifty per cent longer
than those who drink. though it be n
q moderate form. Every drop of the
intoxicating beverage one takes into
Ihe.r system, they have taken just that
much poison. We are commanded by
the word of God to abstain from the
very appearance of evil. Who in this
world. among Christian people, will
say that whisky is not an evil; yea,
who will not say that it is one Of the
creates evils in all the world today?
Then, man of God, shall you dare IN
any shape or form lend your endorse
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