Year: 1874




to German beer house in Cincin


natl, 'sall of which I saw and part o
which I was. The story was told fol


the purpose of enforcing a moral


not in spirit of defiance, or from


willingness to offend the good tast'
of those whose views are different


from mine. Idrank beer, and candol


required me to make full statement


or if you please, a full confession


Vain is the labor which is wasted


in sneaking or clandestine efforts tc


conceal our faults. The great crime


of stealing consists in the act itself


not in being caught at it, and "there
is nothing hid that shall not be
revealed"


There are two interesting boys.


who have me under promise to pay
them fifty dollars each if they will
abstain from tobacco and intoxicating
drinks until they attain their major
ity of twenty-one years. I mention
this fact, though it savors somewhat
of self-praise, partly becauseI find my
self the on defensive, and it is well
to make known that lam no friend of
and partly as sug-
gestion to other persons to follow my
example if they think it good one.
These boys have faith in me, and I
have now no fears that they will go
astray. Their motive for abstinence
may be selfish, but it will serve the
purpose until their nationality be-
comes developed, when they may go
alone with safety, without having
bad habits to overcome.


The means relied on for Temper
ance reformation are like founda-
ton of stones that crumbles by ex-


posure to the atmosphere, on which
no safe superstructure can be reared.
Men cannot be made better through
thd influence Of fear or denunciation.
Pause here, my reader, and ponder
on this idea. Each man has the
to fulfil, and he is in the con-
stant effort to fulfil it, either con-
sciously or unconseiously, to maintain
and defend his individuality. Legis-
lative enactments in Ire nature of
force must necessarily be violated or
evaled. Mr.. Nichols, of the Spring
field Republic, whom you have re-
Gently quoted approvingly, is en-
inently right in saying that no man
can be pushed into the kingdom of
heaven, but he must enter in, if at all,
voluntarily. The only outside press
ure that is proper or expedient,
should be applied to the inebriate,
when he becomes a nuisance, "talk-
ing fustian with his own shadow"
reeling in the streets, or lying pros
trate on the highway.


But can nothing be done towards
removing the great evil of 1ntenper-
ance? Must our children become
Now that the public
mind is walked up to the Importance
of the subject, with what unutterable
anxiety may these questions be asked.
The young of the birds of the air and
the beasts of the field are. provided
for, but unhappily the education of
the sons of men is miserably neglect
ed. Parents must study to use their
energies with increased diligence and
care, in making home agreeable to
their sons, and storing their minds
with rational and manly thoughts.
Help must come from within, not
from without, and all our trust in
Leagues or Associations or in State
is vain and futile. More
time and attention must be bestowed
on rearing and educating the family.
comprehensive efforts are
necessary. 1 know how the cares of
this world and the pursuits of riches
with duty. I know indeed
that avarice is the root of all evil, the
giant wrong of the present time.


There is daily beauty in the life
Of a conscientious minister of the
Gospel, whose duty is to show the
''steep and thorny way to Heaven. "
When he bows down before the Lord
in his holy temple, his earthly ma
ture is silent-his pride, his love of
contention, and his lust of domination,
are subdued, and the peaceful spirit
that is ever ready to descend from
above finds a congenial habitation in
his bosom. There are scme men,
however, who, when they have il
cense to preach, think it is charter
to violate the rules of propriety with
right has any eler
gyman to scold his congregation be-
cause some of them sell corn, the pro
duce of their farms, at the still-house?
1t is vulgar impertinence. He in
suits his hearers directly by so doing.
He stirs up the worst passions on the
lowest plane of the mind. He con-
verts the house of worship into a
beer garden. And when his hearers
go out from the exhibition, instead
Of meditating on glowing truths that
should have been revealed in the SER