The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-07-08
w. G. T. u. N.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. L. HOBBS.
saooath Observance and Temperance
Rise and Fall tcgether.

Us MISC hnu fdi tcgetner.
Wherever the Sabbath is observe,
0. and remembered as holy day th,
saloon is little patronized or entirel,
outlG"ed A certain writer has de
nominated them "twin evils" anC
c he has named them well for so they
are.
J. History teaches US that Rome
p Greece and Spain died, not o.
wounds, but of a moral cancer
brought on by hsbitual Sabbath de.
secration and over indulgence. Ii
: may be said there could be no better
barometer of public morals than is
the Sabbath day. Upon its obser-
: vance or desecration we can see the
decline or progress of nation.
Unless America shall cling to her
Lords day, and abolish her saloons,
she must suffer the inevitable penal
ty. With nations as with men the
record is that punishment and de-
cline always follow disobedience TO
tue law OF God.
The liquor business in its struggle
Tor supremacy in this country, has
not only stolen the natural products
and perverted them to base uses,
but it has with equal success captured
the heart, and consciences OF men,
80 that they are no longer suscepti
BILE to the higher and nobler truths
and aspirations which the Creator
intended; and now it is laboring TO
destroy one OF the very foundation
stones of Gods building, the holy
Sabbath day, given by the great Gre
ator for the benefit OF man.
To connteract the evil effects of
Sabbath desecration il is necessary
to strike at the very root of the mat
ter aud outlaw and abolish the liquor
business and its teachings, and sub {
stitute for them the great principles I
Of the Christian religion.
The natural law is the law OF God,
and the Sabbath is Of Gods choos-
ing. Let us therefore drive from our i
midst all such institutions and agen e
cies as are calculated to place man :
'ut OF harmony with God. One has
'aid, "Observe the Sabbath fully I
md you cripple the saloon greatly !"
'ut we say, observe the Sabbath as o
iod commands, and strike the most
elling blow He will enable you to n
i've against his deadly enemy, the ca
liquor traffic. al
The relation between Sabbath de- cC
ecration and intemperance is we'll u
Illustrated by drawing Of a gallows, u
1hich a young man placed upon the n,
'all Of his cell the afternoon before
g was executed. The inscriptions
8 he placed them, tell pituble but "
'ue story. On the first step ascend St
,g to the gallows he placed "Sab- Iei
ath Backing" on the second -. -.
Stealing" and on the third "Mur an
or. On the side OF the structure err
ere the words "Strong Drink" pr
Liquor drinking and Sabbath de- SCI ei
cration go hand in hand, az is wa wa
lown 10y the statistics Of our jails snl
I'd peniteNiaries. of
Or the men admitted to the Massa. =.
usetts state prison in one year bri
ne out OF every ten have been hab- de,
lal violaters of the Lords day and !
glecters Of public worship. The y'
eper afiirms that hundreds Of con- rio, o,
It's have lsmented their desecra- sor
N OF the Sabbath as the first and thr
al step OF their downward course tlal m
". j. G. Bass, chaplain for twenty fro, ,i
ars at the Kings county peniten- 7
ry in Brooklyn, gives testimony poil
the same truths, and many others ana and
ght be mentioned who have OBJ ers sD
we'd similar conditions elsewhere tisfa
MEL Webster has rightly said, at tage
J been found that where the Sab the :,
b is perverted to mere pleasure "ITI TT
l recreation, more drunkenness ever
'ps up the orgies OF hell, more foul beau
rot into society, more peoI
elry and carousal and fighting de- have
9 mankind, more crime riots and finis
re blood reddens the earth on way
I day that God commands TO be tram tram
t holy than on any other Of the pUbT pUbIj
*. Tn
We believe therefore that the ga. est n
q is the greatest enemy of the ana
istian Sabbath, since it is in the
'on that Sabbath desecration is
yht. Judge Robert G. Pittman, "T