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the thorn of suffering OH the rose of sin,
but men heed not the pain or the blood.
Neither Israel nor America could be
moved by the clear monitions Of God
regarding drunkenness. Were we not
assured that the drinking customs OF
the day are diminishing, instead of
increasing, we should have to predict
for the great Christian nations of the
present, the fate of Ephriam Of old.
Isaiah became most OutspOken and
intense when ne dealt with the chosen
people, his own Judah. Even the priest
and the prophet were not spared. His
picture Of the unclean environment of
"A drunken debauch CRATES on the nerves
of those who dislike evil less than they
dislike the plain truth about 1t. AS Il
matter Of fact, i~ntoxication is never SO
disgusting and pitiable as when in
dulged in by persons of breeding. In
the slums Of many great cities l have
seen the drunkard fulfilling the part
of n beast, but in none of these has
drunkenness appeared so loathsome
and sickening as i once saw 1t after
Il wedding breakfast on West Spruce
street, Philadelphia. when the cham
payne had done it's work with both
men and womcn
A drunken preacher is almost un-
heard OF in this and n day, though
Isaiah's fierce condemnation of such Is
quite comprehensive: The people ex-
pect better of their religious leader than
they do Of themselves. There were no
UNCONVENTIONAL lines, and no secular
or religious. in the recent cutlery from
all parts of this continent over the
well-meant action Of a conspicuous
prelate sanctioning a new saloon. Daily
newspapers We'd with temperance or
gans in holding h action up to
scorn.
For the most part, the pulpit has as
sumed advanced ground on the tenn
perance question. Not only does 1t
practice and preach total abstinence,
but 1t is. quite generally, committed to
the crusade for the total extinction Of
the liquor traffic. Still it may be said
that the greatest need of. the present
day temperance is a clear CON-
sistent, persistent and unequivocal
message from the Christian pulpit. I'm
less the prophets Of God warn the peo-
pie. they themselves share the sin. Put
an Isaiah in every church In America,
and the conditions with respect to
strong drink. which are little short Of
a national disgrace, would be changed
within Ave years.
LINE UPON LINE"
The familiar words. 'Precept upon
precept, precept Upon precept; line
upon line. line upon line: here a little.
there a little" are employed In this
lesson by the prophet to express how
Jehovah had been teaching. his people
in endless and varied way. The n
great truth. Possibly it will not be
amiss to indicate here Zine upon line,"
some modern instances directed toward
the one end.
General Vodka appears to be a Japa-
nese ally" comments one great paper,
upon the disasters due to Russian
drunkenness.
TT is forever true that the fairest
flower watered with alcohol soon
fades."-Alexander McLaren.
The good times Of the drunkard
make the bad times of his family.
The great Presbyterian church In the
United States Of America has employed
a temperance evangelist to arouse it's
members to a keener interest in the
temperance cause.
l have e boys swimming on the
edge of the Niagara whirlpool, and /
have seen young men with an inherited
appetite for liquor playing moderate
drinker."
Paris has been placarded with bill
boards showing the evil effects of alco-
hol. The situation in France is 30 SER
ious that Urgent measures are being
adopted to ave the nation from q
drunkard's grave.
During u period in which the popula-
ton of Scotland a increased 40 per
cent. the number Of alcoholic lunatics
has increased 1870 per cent.
Hundreds Of thousands Of persons
during h past year nave seen placard-
ed on the mast of q ship wrecked Just
off Atlantic City, the suggestive words
"Whisky-that's ALL" And the sign was
put up. not by temperance people. but
by q we'll known whisky concern. Al
a New York brewery whose wagon !
saw on broadway a few days since
marked "Hell-gate Brewery"
Every man who knows life UNDER
stands that intemperance Is linked to
every other vice, n IL the handmaiden
Of them all.
Every druY1kard was once an innocent
child. A percentage Of today's inno-
cent children must be sacrificed II the
next generation IL to have an average
crop Of d~runkards.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Unions Of America open their national
convention In Philadelphia on the day
after this lesson Ii studied.
Lord Robert says: THE period Of the
drunken. diss0lute and improvident
soldier 10 past: It q never come back.
The modern soldier u steady, self re.
specta6ie. painstaking and clean
One Of Boston's newspapers estimates
that enough liquor 10 consumed In that
city annually to make a lake a mile
long. q hundred feet wide, and one foot
deep. II II were put into quart bottles.
they would make q pyramid as high az
Bunker Hill monument. II Il were put
into one bottle that would need be as
large az b greatest ocean steamer
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