The Cairo bulletin., 1907-11-04
THE SALOON AND MURDER.
Subject of Strong Sermon BY Rev. L.
D. Bass D. o. at Calvary Bap-
tist Church.

y. Bass y, d. at Calvary Bap-
tist Church.
Rev, L. D, Bass D. D., in his ser
mon at Calvary Baptist church yester-
Gay to a good congregation said in
part: There must be a new educa-
ton in the American people in regard
ito the drink evil ana murder. II must
be carried in the homes, in the Sun
day school, in the public schools and
frem the pulpit. We have witnessed
this week in our fair little city the
murder of worthy man by a saloon
keeper and murderer. Could you read
| the saloon keepers ledger what would
! ii reveal? 1t is a book of results. Its
! balance sheets are the accumulated
harvest of day-book and journal. The
| people of Cairo have had business
with the saloon good many years.
The day-books of everyday occur
FENCES have passed into the journal
OF the years and these have crystal
lied into a ledger of public knowl-
edge. The liquor saloon, like any
other business must stand or fall by
its ledger.
! The saloon is the mother of nearly
all the crime in Cairo 1t is curse
from which there is no mitigation.
The fact is. that the liquor saloon is
at heart an outlaw. The only effec-
tive way to deal with it is to take it
for what it is. a criminal. and deal
with it as criminal When You can
tame a gambling hell and make it
sefe resort for men; when the ETH
opian can change his skin. and the
leopard lis spttc-ther ynu may
hope to draw the teeth of the liqror
saloon. Nothing but the hard fist of
the Ten Commandments, with the
police power of the city and the
state and nation penind It, can deal
with such an institution. Are we
rot, as citizens. responsible for allow
ing this murderer with his saloon, in
cur fair city? Not only is he a MUIR
derer, but he has been dealing out the |
damnable stuff that may make your
boy and mine a murderer.
We have the picture of the muir
derer before rs. The victim lies in !
his blood and the murderer with !
clenched pistol is stalking away Over
the victim poises the Angel of VEN
geance with drawn sword pointing to
the disappearing william. the symbol /
of divine assurance that crime shall (
not escape punishment at the hands ,
of God Where is thy brother"
asked the Almighty of Cain: and
thus we see the purpose of Gcd that
Nc guilty man shall escape
Behind the counter stands the Devil
who instigated the crime and who
now mocks the murderer as he points
to the pistol the evidence of his guilt.
and by the side of the criminal walks
the skeleton OF conscience. and wfo
will lie under his cot. and stand be-
hind his door the balance of his life
This IS the fate of the murderer: and
though he may escape from the law
Of man, yet he cannot get away from
God and conscience. himself nor the
Devil. Conscience may sometimes or
'or awhile be dead; but even then
here is a silent. sullen and inert
sense of despair WHEN settles down
lpon the blood-stained and ruined
soul. There may be no pros 2at or
poignant regret, but there is no hope
md no peace The darkness and
tread of midnight lowers forever upon
he dead heart even when conscience
eases to throb through its blood for
4 season. Often the murderer can
sleep soundly after his crime. but it
5 the sleep OF death, BE sure your
iin will find you out +" II conscience
has 10 wiring the confession from
your lips: and thus thousands of
rurderers have brought themselves
o judgment
Again the criminal bent on evil
,ften convicts himself By the reck-
essness Of his conduct. Men pur-
uing evil become blinded by desptra-
ion or infatuation: and a short ca
Ger of successful evasion oftca en-
bles vice or crime 50 that It be-
ONES an easy prey to detection Sin
Without method IS madness in a null
itnde Of eases Cautious at the stat
grows daring and reckless by &c
rees. and sometimes vice and crincl
re so infatUating as to become caro-
ess of exposure. Thorsanus when ,
hey come TO themselves b. detection
r reformation wonder and shudder a.
heir inadveftency and recklezsnCs-.
I is only the cool-headed and cold
hooded villain uho sehccls hlz.zelf