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and set the child an example that the victim^ -of strong drink, and I heed lest by any means this liberty
would harmonize with his precepts, that our cities and towns are bur­ of yours becorhe a stumbling block
Oftjeerx and nleufbern of Temperance organ­
and also save the poor, little one dened with taxes caused'zby in­ to them that are weak.” 1 Cor.
izations, and frien'da of Temperance generally
are invited to contribute to this Department. from the.temptation of picking up temperance. As to the distillers i viii. 9 ; and, in the same chapter,
Address, Monmonth, Oregon.
the filthy quids that he had ejected and wholesale dealers, you think 13th verse, he said, “ Wherefore if
from his own mouth, and left in there is'some excuse for them, on meat make my brother to offend, I
Willie’s Philosophy.
some place where the child might the plea that there, is just so much will eat no more flesh while the
“ Woe unto
giveth his neighbor
— him that
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as ho did demand, and if one man does not world standfetb; lest 1 make my
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brother to offend.”
supply it, some other man willT^
iuakesthim drunken also !” Hob. ii. 15. . z
more than once.
And is approving this law, all
I do not know whether Willie
You may be right in part, per­
I once knew a little boy who had
0 so strong an appetite for t&bacco, had ever raided such a plea in His haps ; but do you see that man, , that you-have ever done to place a
that, though very fond of sweet­ own behalf, but I doubt if he would blear eyed and bloated, who, at the stumbling block in your brother’s
meats, he would take tobacco in be many years older, before his bar across the street, is calling for way? What has your example
preference, whenever fie had an reason would haVe found, and something to drink? The bar­ been to those who are weak ? I low
opportunity of 'choosing. At the grasped , this idea as firmly as he keeper there, might make the same many times have you offered a
social glass to some one
time that I first knew him, he was, did the other one. And who is argument that you make in defence harmless
I think, less than four years old, there who would not agree with of the distil lei. If he should refuse who needed yeur help to sustain
' and was Jiving with hiM mother’s Willie that “ it was Mr. T-—- who to let him have what he wants, them, instead, if incitement to par-
relatives;. and his uncle, although had ought to be punished, because there is another saloon but a short take of that which “at the last
And yet T” “distance away, and he would have biteth like'a serpant and stingeth
himself a slave to-the poisonous he gave it to him
weed, determined to break Willie doubt not that many who might no difficulty in procuring it. If he like an adder.” Prov. xxiii. 32.
find good' philosophy in Willie’s docs not do, it some other'man will.1’ J My , brother, think of these
of the filthy and injurious habit.
At^first they tried to keep it argument, believe in punishing by And so the law has left all of the things. But it is not to you, alone,
from him, but as he would get it by law, persons who are.disordei ly and responsibility as to whether tins -that I speak, but to every mother
begging it of persons who/nsed it, commit crimes ; and yet believe in man shall drink that which-shall whoTias a son or a daughter whose
and by any other means tljat he’ having a law that shall license limn keep him down in lhe depths of ’life may be ruined or made miser-,
could devise, he forbade his using' to sell to their fellow-men, and net* sin and degradation, cause him to able -by , in temperance ; to every
■ to meh alone, but to boys, like Wil- bring still greater misery and shame maiden who has a brother, that is
it under-penalty of punishment.
One day as I had just finished lie, or a little older, that which "Upon' parent, sister, wile or child, deaf to her, br a lover, that she, in
telling of .Willies remarkable appe­ shall take from them their money, ■ind withhold from him all hope of her fond pride'would, see noble and
tite, to a gentleman who was visit- their l\6nor, their self-respect and anything better throughout all honored ; to every wife, whose life
ipg-at our house; Willie Came in, their reason and cause them to eternity, and imposed it upon the iq united with one to whom she
and the gentleman,(who, 1 am sorry commit all manner of crimes and shoulders of the poor, weak man, looks for love and protection, not
to say was not free fttun the habit outrages in the community, /and who is even hqw scarcely able to only for herself, but forthose Whom
God lias entrusted to them for care
r- himself, called • Willie to him and upon the innocent and helpless ones sustain his own tottering frame.
asked him if he was the little boy who should have their care and
Do you think that that alone is ami teaching; and to everyone,
who loved tobacco. “ Yes, sir,’’ protection; instead of being a i where it should rest ? I do not,Tor young or old, in whatever station,
said Willie, with an earnestness prey-ip the deiiionatic passions let ' ’ ‘although 1 agree with you, that no or circumstances, who has any
loose and fostered by that which a man, no matter how much license desire to win for themselves the
that left no room for doubt-
fellow-creature
has, without break-? lie nmy have, should allow himself approval of God, or any wish to do
.Mr. T
then gave him a pieee,
which the poor child lost no time«.
to yield to intemperance even once» good in the world.
M ay E. B ean .
in conveying to his mouth.
yet the past and the present have
Lowell, Mu«.. '
conclusively proven, that while
I said, Why, Willie I have you
forgotten what uncle Harry told was- made by men; not to the divine there is-Wensc there will be drunk­
Woman’s Work.
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you ? Supposing 1 tell him, are one that says: “Woe unto him I ards. But though “ no drunkard
Rend by L. Rosenthal before the Blue Ribbon
you not afraid that he will punish that giveth his neighbor drink, that shall inherit the kingdom of God”
Society of East Portland, on the evening of
May 21», 1882.
you
The child fixed his bright puttest thy bottle to him, and (1 Cor. vi. 10), yet, it was not upon
dark eyes earnestly upon my face makest him drunken also.” And him that the woe of Hab. ii. 15,
It has always been conceded that
for a moment, and then said de­ rfid you ever think who are par­ was pronounced ; even though from women hold an important position
cidedly: “Nd, he hadn’t ought to takers of that woe/ Of course you Uur present laws it might be sup­ in relation to the temperance cause,
punish me.1 It is Mr. T—— that have, who are professed followers of posed that it was so.. Nor docs it so important, that it will be im­
he ought to punish, for he gave it him by .whose inspiration it was all rest upon him who deals out possible ever to overthrow tlw
pronounced. Perhaps you think liquors by the glass ; neither upon liquor traffic without their sym­
to me.”
I tried to explain to him that he that it is for him who deals out the brewers and distillers; but it is pathy and cooperation.
had disobeyed in taking that which maddening stuff by the glass, across shared by you who make, and ap­
1 he grounds for this concession
had been forbidden him, and there­ the bar. But, is that all? Is not prove laws, that commission men are obvious; they mould society in
fore deserved to be punished ; but the distiller, and the wholesale to give their neighbor drink ; and, its very beginning; they are the
he was firm in his belief that if dealer, guilty also ? Arc not those by you, who, by voice or action, en­ natural educators of the young; for
there was anything wrong, the who make, or advocate laws favor­ courage such unholy traffic. It is the' first ten years, they hold, as
greater fault was in Mr. T----- , be­ ing distillers, brewmrs and bar­ you, with theip, who have (helped mothers, almost unlimited sway
cause he gave it to him. bethought keepers, also culpable? Do they to “give your neighbor drink,” and over the race by the power of love.'
so too, and after the child had left not come under the woe ? -
it is you, with them,' who' “ had Who shall measure a woman’s love?
Vou say that a man had ought to ought to be punished because you It sweeps from the cradle into the
the room, I could not refrain from
expressing my opinion to my friend. know better than to' rhakc a beast gave it to them.”
eternities, with tireless wing. It
■*^But before uncle Harry should pro­ of himself, and if he will do so, that
You may profess to be followers shields under its protecting Aegis
ceed to punish, cither Willie or it is his own affair and not youis.
of Christ, but he said, “ This is my the errors, follies.and weaknesses of
Truly he hadAoirgfit to know bet- commandment, that you love onc- our impetuous and • thoughtless
Mr. T----- , I thought that it'would
be a very good plan for hir an,’ to ter, but that does not hinder the another, as 1 have loved you.” youth with a pardoning and concili­
himself abandon both pipe an< d cud, fact that our streets'are filled with John xv. 12p and Paul said, “ Take ating smile, and intercedes with in-
— Temperance Department.
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