The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-05-11
LIQUOR frame ana llissions.

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The following excellent paper was
cad by Mrs. X. W. Mcbride, of Green.
ield, at the meeting of the w. @. 7.
j. at Centerfeld on April q and 2S,
1906;
Everyone who has read and thought
upon this subject has seen that the
LIQUOR traffic is most destructive to
the spread of the Gospel. Do we ever
half understand what is really com.
pretended in this fact of the enor.
nous traffic in strong drink which
our own country and England carry
on with heather countries?
"There is a distillery in Massachu-
setts-the largest in the world, says
the eyewitness who gives the account
and the amount manufactured aver.
ages ninety barrels per day. Some
for home consumption, but the great
er part for export to the coast OF
Africa. Not gallon can leave Bos-
ton Harbor until the tax Is paid to
the Christian government, which IL.
censes and protects that brew of fate.
Miss Willard, in speaking of the aw-
full fact, said The curse of Cain was
not 90 deep as shall be Gods curse
upon the nation that in the light of
Christ's gospel curses the barbarians
of Congo with the crazy drink
1--WE are told of single gallon Of
Ohio drink causing fight, in which
fifty persons were killed In one day.
Shall not visit them for these things
sayeth the Lord Shall not my soul
be avenged upon such nation as
this? Rev. Mr.. Robson, of Africa,
says: Il can testify from my own ex.
perience that drink makes the heath
en- ten times worse than BEFORE The
same voice comes from DR.. Day, Of
Monrovia, as he tells us of a vessel
that went all the way to Africa to
carry himself and his wife, the only
passengers to the continent, and over
one hundred thousand gallons of New
England rum. At another place one
missionary and 10000 gallons of rum.
One more missionary and 10000 gal.
Ions of rum, and so on and on 1t goes
rum and missionaries missionaries
and rum.
"One convert to Christ-one hum
dred drunkards. One more convert
a hundred more drunkards.
"Sir Gilbert Carter, in West Africa,
expressed the hope that the traffic in
spirits would give place to other sorts
of commerce. There could be no
doubt that the importations of spirits
into the interior did great harm.
Wherever he had found drinking
chief there also we're signs of neglect
and destitution. Of the whole import
trade with British West Africa, it is
said, that one.ffth consists in spirits
plus the duty paid by the native con.
sumner about one-third, but subtract.
ing that portion of the trade which
is created by the wants of theI white
population, it is undeniable that fully
one-half of the produce brought to
market by the natives is bartered in
exchange for spirits.
"In darkest Africa, whatever may
be the case in Europe, spirits are dis.
tinctive of the body and soul of the
much-sinned against African. Those
who are acquainted with the effect of
drink on the negro declare that the
moral guilt of the white importer,
whether in Boston, Liverpool or Ham.
burg, who makes profit out of this
hideous degradation and deeper bar
barism, is no less than that of the
slaves; while to some 1t seems that
the drink traffic in Africa to-day is a
greater curse than the slave trade.
Therefore from many lands:
"Give prayer and purse
To stay the curse;
Whose wrong we share,
| Whose shame we bear
Whose end shall gladden. heaven.
"The opium traffic in China has
been one of the greatest hinderances
to the spread of the gospel In that
country, Ii Hung Chang, China's
great statesman, once said If 1t be
thought that China countenances the
import for the revenue 1t brings, 1t
should be known that my government
will gladly give over all such revenue
in order to stop the import of opium.
My sovereign has never desired his EN-.
pire to thrive on the lives or infrmi.
ties of his subjects. For one house In
England that has been desolated by
the opium curse there are at least a
thousand in India and ten thousand in
China. The well-known heather phi
lantropist, Kesbub Chincler Sen, says
that all the moral and political bene-
fits of English rule In India have been
nullifed by the introduction of strong
drink. One Hindoo remarked to
missionary. do not like your peo-
pie; the followers of Jesus Christ
drink whiskey.'
"Here wish to relate little of my
own experience; by heather peo.
pie, all Americans and English are
judged by the few. From every land
and isle of the sea comes the same