The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
In the Religious World
What the Church Folks IRE Thinking
AboUt and Doing. Religious NeWS
From Everywhere.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON AND YOUNG PEOPLES roPIo
LLOlL IL tyNeLe.

ID YOUNG PEOPLES TOPIC.
is the passage OF stringent pure Food
laws which make impossible the pres
ent lucrative sale of impure liquor,
which are more hurtful than those
which they initiate
The hygienic argument for temper
ance is beng pressed with added vigor.
Sir Frederick Treavess the most emil
nent London surgeon has unequtvo-
cally expressed his views as to the eff
feet Of drink upon the British soldiers
In South Africa. as he witnessed IL at
first hand. Secular papers are pointing
out that the victory Of Japan over
Russia may ia one aspect be said to
have been victory OF temperance over
intemperance. The remarkable sobri-
ETY. Of the Japanese troops was in strik-
ing contrast with the intemDerance of
the Russians. One good feature of the
present athletic craze is that 1t makes
clear to the mind of the young man
that he cannot excel in athletics If he
INDUCES in intOXicants-
The economic argument also has
weight ia this materialistic day. Bust
ness men are finding that they cannot
drink and prosper. The strain Of mod
ern commercial life is too terrific to
permit a man to weaken his intellect
by Indulgence in liquor. He needs
every ounce of grey matter he pos
sesses. and at its freshest for the daily
struggle for success.
All interesting recruit 10 the temper
ance agencies is the social taboo. LIZ
quor dealers, wholesale and retail, are
growing exceedingly FESTIVE under the
stigma which attaches to their business.
A wholesale liquor dealers convention
recently passed indignant resolutions
upon the subject. Philadelphia was
interested not long since by the public
announcement Of saloonkeeper that
ne would no longer continue in a BUSH
ness that disgraced his name and fam
flW and injured his fellows asked
/ the court to cancel his license. Once
leading families could engage in the Ii
quor business without a blush; now 1t
is far otherwise, happily for the tenn
perance cause.
Time was when the joke-makers
found drunkenness a fertile source Of
squfbs. This practice is decreasing. In
stead, they are turning to the support
Of temperance, as witness the follow
! ing Catholic Abstainer."
Pronounced alike-spe1t differently
meaning the same:
Ale-ail.
Beer-bier.
Wine-Whine
Liquor-lick her.
The most dangerous letters of the al
ph3bet-xS.
A Hero and a Banquet.
The whole continent was thrilled a
few weeks ago by the story of how
/ little fishing schooner at Atlantic City
I
on the stranded steamship Cherokee.
Mark Casio, the captain of the sloop,
has been hailed as hero and reCOg-
nized by the Carnegie Hero Fund.
One of the many attentions paid him
was a dinner rendered by the Philadel-
phia Clover club a famous Orgdniza-
ton with many celebrities in its MEM
bership. It was noticed that when the
plain little fisherman, in his sack coat,
sat at the right hand OF the president
of the club, amid brilliant surroundings
such as he had never witnessed before,
he still had the courage Of his cOnvic-
lions and declined to drink wine, thus
proving himself hero in moral Drin-
ciple as well as in deeds of daring. At
that dinner. as on every other big pub
! lie occasion Of a similar nature, many
glasses could be seen turned down. 1t
is no longer necessarily the thing for
a man to drink at public dinners. This
applies on both sides Of the water. En-
/ peror William, of Germany, has OFF,
cialIy given his sanction to the drinking
OF toasts in water instead of in wine.
Facts ike these should be pressed
1 home upon the attention of the boys
and young men who are likely to start
/ drinking, II at all-and this is the rea-
/ son for the majority of young mems
1 learning to drink-because they want
! to be big and strong and good fell
/ lows" They should know that drink
] ing is not essential to good fellowship
] The Pennsylvania Grand Lodge of Ma
sons whom nobody would accuse of
being weaklings or sentimentalists.
/ have decreed that at their annual ban
quets henceforth liquor shall be ia
/ hooed- The achievers among men no
/ longer ind 1t necessary or expeditions
| to indulge in intoxicaats.
The Man Who Is Down.
A few weeks ago there occurred a
/ real loss to the forces of temperance
when Samuel H. Hadley, superintend-
ent of the Water street mission, New
York. passed away. He was IAN apos-
tie to the buns" Not only was he a
I splendid brother to every man who
had fallen to the gutter, but he was
also a witness to the power OF the Cos
pei Of Jesus to save men from the ap-
petite Of strong drink. He was one of
those who had come to love drunkards
better than he had ever loved drink,
although he had been as low in drunk
kenness as mortal can get. The thou
sands OF drunkards who have been re-
deemed through his instrum entality
are living monuments to the power Of
a devoted personality and of a sufficient
gospel to save men to the utterrn ost
AS strong drink is the enemy of relig-
ion, so pure religion is the only hope Of
the Incorporate. Christianity does
more than picture the woes of intern
perance; all great human literature
does that. The gospel is peculiar in
that it presents sovereign cure for
this worst of ills. It reaches down to
the most wretched, guilty man who has
abdicated his manhood, and drowned
his self-respect in the flowing cup. anc
it restores him, by the help of a Power
2 | divine, to noble, kindly manhood anu