Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-23
Gettysburg of Anti-saloon Fight
To Be Fought in the Pine Tree
State, Says Rev. c. G. Mosher.

In Maine VIII the Gettysburg of the
anti saloon campaign be fought de-
#clared Rev. c. c. Mesher, pastor of
the Penney Memorial Free BAPTIST
church, Sunday morning, in q power
full sermon upon The StrongAolds Of
Sin The text selected By the pastor
vas Il Corinthians, x:4 FIR the
Weapons Of our warfare ere not
carnal. but mighty through God TO
the pulling down Of strongholds." He
said in part:
During the Mithradatie wars piracy
developed 10 alarming proportions in
the eastern part of she Mediterranean
Sea. The Romans paid little atten
ton 10 the pirate horde until some
grain ships intercepted by the pirate
fleet, failed to appear and famine con-
dltions prevailed throughout all Italy
in consequence. Then Pompey was
commissioned to deal with the
pirates; he proceeded with his under
taking with remarkable energy and
within three months he had swept the
Mediterranean Of the pirate horde
These pirates had been strong in
trenched on the coasts of Cilicia aud
the old fortifieatians remained long
after the destruction of the force once
occupying them. Back Of the CITY of
Tarsus were some of these old robber
forts, where the boys of the town used
te meet and play at mimic warfare
within the old fortiffcatfons. Paul
was one of the boys who had climbed
over the old ruins and knew the story
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Gent general against the pirate horde.
In later years he takes up the figure
and applies it To a sterner warfare.
SINS batteries are planted ON high
places he asserts: piraticaI forces
plumber society; mighty stronghoIds
rise on many a height, but as pompev
thrust 6out the Cilician pirates so the
forces Of righteousness are to march
against the strongholds of sin for the
weapons of our warfare are not carnal
but mighty through God to the pulling
down of strongholds."
The subject is a timely one for we
are now 90 years from a great war in
our own country. these days are ami
Fersary days of heroic deeds and noble
achievements. The great leaders of
the past are gone. The great names.
those the soldier loved to follow.
Grant, Sherman, Sheridan. Logan.
Hancock, Meade, these and hosts of
others have made their last march.
We have no military heroes in Amer
lea at the present time Yet these are
stirring times for the patriot, The
need of our time is as real as when
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a unit, as reals but different. The
patriotism of the present has not be-
fore it the same kind of service as the
patriotism Of the past but a. service as
actual.
1t is momentous era; If any young
men wish to show their souls, heroic
cast they need not go to the tented
hetd where carnage holds awful sway
out along the banks of the peaceful
kennebee find in this day plenty of
opportunity for real herofsm. There
are certain strongholds of orr dav
that must be overcome; there are
forces strong enough to overcome the
EVIL and impious troops. where are the
leaders who will win lasting fame and
renown by leading the troops to vie
tory? There is an opportunity for
hereism today such as the past never
saw.
There are strongholds that must be
destroyed. The Saloon must go. our
civilization will not much longer abide
the intolerable nuisance of the legal
lied saloon. This country cannot long
exist half slave and half free" said a
great modern prophet and it is no less
true that it cannot long exist half
wet" and half dry It must be one
thing or the other, it will inevitably be
one thing or the other. The situation
at present is unique. Right and
Wrong have always faced each other
in mortal combat, ever since the dawn