The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-05-28
What WILL
YOU GIVE NE =?
"And I Will Deliver Him
Unto You"
WILL WHISKY TRAFFIC PAY

WILL WHISKY TRAFFIC PAY
If 1he HelIish Liquor Traffic Ever
Flourishes in Lexington Counsy It
Will Do So at the Expense OF Her
Boys, SaYeth the Preacher.
..Then one Of the twelve. called Ju-
das I.carios, went unto the Chle1
Priests. and said unto them. What WILL
We give me, and l will deliver him unto
yous And they covenated with him
for thirty pieces of silver. .'-Mat1
XVI: l4-15. Paul spoke for his time
and for all times when ne said, For
the love of money is the root OF all
evil. Perhaps it would be fairer to put
is as the revised version does, 1or tne
love of money is the root of all kinds
of evil, Not every specific act or
estate of sin is directly tracable TO
the love of money, but many of them
are. This love is the roos OF all
kinds of evil. But money gotten oy
evil methods never pay. Ill gotten
gain curses the man that gets 1t. 1t
pays neither in this world, nor that
which is to cone. 1t often curses the
generation that gets it; most certainly
il will to the third and fourth genera
tion following. Take some instances
ia sacred history: Achan, contr-1y 10
Gods command, took the Babylonlsn
garment and wedges Of silver and gold
snd on account Of his sin, Isreal suffers
a shameful defeat before Al, and ne is
put to death. He got the money, but
he got it wrongfully, and it was
curse 30 him and all Israel. 1t didn't
paw, Another instance: Genaz!'
Esisha's servant, by lying, obtaint d
two talents of silver, and two
changes of garments from Naaman'
Captain of the hosts of the klnR
of Syria. But, as curse 0'o
transferred to him Naaman's leprosy.
Ii didn't pay. Take the instance OF
the verses of this heading. Judas
loved money. When a woman peI-
formed one of the most unseltsh and
1cgarI. deeds on rec X. - a; tise II
amounting the blessed Master with an
alabastsr box of precious ointment, ne
snearingly asked, ITO what purpose Is
this waste. For this ointment might
have been sold for much and given to
the DOOR, The Master said in refer
ence TO this comment, 'This ne SAID,
NOT that he cared for the poor; but be-
cause he was thief, and had the bag,
and bare (stole) what was put there
I'M (The modern word, especially in
d:spensary circles, is ''graf5.") linen
comes the climacteric test OF JUDAS
character. He was cne of the chosen
twelve. He had received many ia
yors at the Savior's hands, being made
the treasurer of that little band. But
the time came when he saw an opl Or
tpuitv to make money out of his Mas
ter,s blood (horribleD TIE question
wss not whether this would be right.
He afterwards acknowledged that he
had sinned in that he had betrayedthe
ianocent blood. But here is an op'
portunity to make money, and rlghtor
he resolves to make it. So lie
sneaks to the enemies Of our Lord
with the proposition. "What will ye
Give me aud will deliver him unto
yons'' And they gave him the price
Of 3 slsve-thirty pieces OF silver.
But did it pay? On the awful morn
ing of Jesus cruxci6ction and death,
Judas brought back thirty pieces of Sill
yer. threw them before the Chief Priest
and Elders, with the confession, Il
aaye sipned in that I have betrayed
the innocent biood,o and went cut
and hanged himself. We ask, Did 1t
pay?
: Nor does it ever pay to sin. Lex
ington county has suffered from blind
tigers, social clubs, bank failures snd
many other evils due to sins she has
allowed. And the just have suffered
with the unjust.
About the only argument the advo-
Rates for che establishment of the
dispensary have put is that we will
nave or make, or get money by 1t.
We do not believe this is their real
reason. but it is the only one they are
not asha ned to present publicly. we
sre ..Ss prepared to argue that it will not n,
nav financially, but grant that 1t WIZ
It will not pay in the long rum II the
ho,,;sh linuor traffic eyer hourlsnes In