The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-01-11

testant Churches, and one in six OF
the Roman Catholic Church, as voters,
conservative estimate places the
Christian vote Of the nation at not
less than $3.50, 900.
Admitted.
Then in the name Of our God OF
holiness and for the sake Of ruined
souls and their weeping, despairing
kindred, why do we not arouse our
selves and seek to put stop to this
work of the destruction?
What strange paralysis has taken
hold upon the Christian citizenship
When we are sleeping in fancied Sc
curity, what has the enemy not
done?
He has subjected us to q tyranny
worse than that which any other page
OF history records. He has bound us
in bondage worse than any other
human slaves have endured. We
have licensed hell. For a price we
have given the devil permission to
produce poverty, profigaoy cruelty,
wretchedness and death. We submit
while he transforms heirs of heaven
into felons, harlots, paupers, madmen,
and murderers. We permit an or
ganized, devlish despotism to be
reared at our doors which possesses
money without limit and andacity
without bounds. This giant oIigarchy
moves forward with gigantic strides,
infiames society with all the passions
of the pit, robs its victims, tears out
their manhood, brushes out hope, and
finally pushes them downward to an
awful doom. This institution is the
school of anarchy, the prolific breed
ing place Of crime, the nursery of
every human woe, the irreconciled and
the iIreconcilable enemy of the
Christian church!
How long is this sleep of indiffer-
ence to 60 on? Who will sound a
trumpet call loud enough to arouse
the drowsy disciples of our Lord?
Shall not the church of God get
ready to fight the whisky demon as he
has never fought before?
In theory we are against the saloon.
That is what our conference and con-
vention resolutions say. That is the
doctrine with which our pulpits ring
But the rum people grow sick and fat,
and are increased in money and goods,
while we do almost nothing.
The great God yearns to save this
world. And he will do it just as
soon as the church will lend it's CO.
operation.
! But we do not look for a great,
sweeping, all-pervading, all-conquer.
ing, revival of religion in this
country until the Christian church
shall arise in its might and to it's ut.
most spite, hip and thigh, the mon.
strons, inurderous, legalized liquor
traffic.
If we really mean to help crush
this rum power, it means war.
Speeches are good Denunciatians
are good. But all these combined are
powerless to rout our altogether
vicious enemy. We must fight We
must fight hard. We must fight with
a strength born Of desperation. It il
a war into which we propose to 60,
young men and maidens, not q picnic.
In the name of God and Righteousness
and of besotted men and suffering
women and starving children, we call
upon You to get ready
This means war! The distiller il
against us, The brewer is against
us. The respectable citizen who
rents his property for whisky purposes
is against us. The politician il
against us. The week-kneed mer.
chant and professional man who think
more of their business than their
/ principles are against us. The time
serving Christian who thinks more of
his party than his fealty to Christ is
against Us. All the satanic forces
which are operating to pull men and
women down to hell are against us.
This means war! The day of
resolution is past. What does the
devil care for resolutions? While we
have resolved and 'arraigned'
and denounced" he laughed. Our
words have ''made us reproach to
our neighbors, scorn and a derision
to them that are round about us, q
byword among the heather, and a
shaking of the head among the
people,
Enough of this sort Of campaign
The specific work, then, which the
church has upon its hands is to make
/ trouble for the rum power. That
will mean trouble for some of us.
Before we get through with the cru
SADIE good many Of US will suffer.