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CHRISTIAN HERALD.
pecially the higher grades, smoking,
commencing with the cigarette, is
alarmingly prevalent with general
dissipation on the part of some of
the students. One form of this
dissipation*relates to mere pleasure­
seeking in games and matches, or
the development of the physical,
close connection between temper­
The Prohibition Banner.
ance and successful life insurance
The manufacture and sale of in­
business. In fact, the life compa­
nies are the only class of purely toxicating beverages has become an
financial institutions touched by evil of such extensive ramifications
the temperance question directly. and gigantic proportions, that it
And the recent speech of President threatens to dominate cities, par­
Greene, of the Connecticut Mutual ties, and the nation. All the re-
Ltf^fisurabce conipany, at a 1 farfTStrictf^¡ efiofts of the ^State tiave
weed, the wine-cup, the boat-race, ford temperance meeting, was not failed to correct or check it. The
the base-ball game, etc., more than only timely and instructive, but voice of God in his word, and the
they do science and mental culture, very suggestive as to a needed new denunciations of his ministers from
will not succeed as students, even if departure in life insurance manage­ the pulpit, have been alike unheed­
it were true that these amusements ment touching the temperance ed by drunkards, liquor sellers,
Witt, ef Uartisan politicians, or time-serving
and games constitute true physical
development, such as is needed as a the Union Mutual Life, did some* church u embers. Total abstinence
basis for symmetrical mental useful pioneer work, we remember, societies, Sons of Temperance organ­
growth. Those who care more for some years ago. But, in the light izations, the temperance, religious,
mere sensual gratifications, will care of later experience, it appears to be and better class of the secular press,
dws'fbr'invntat and moral enjoy­ a gooif“time *T>r tbe c^ijianTes to -hamtid pTOVea^hA^aHiiigTn even“
ments. Their time will be squan­ move unitedly in exploring the field curbing this hydra-headed monster
dered, their powers dissipated, pas­ and making temperance a stringent of intemperance. Ann all experi­
sing off in “ smoke.”— Sei.
condition of the life insurance con-: ence observation have shown that
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-—-- -- tract.— New York Commercial Bul- the liquor business cannot be regu­
lated, but must be destroyed.
Temperance and Life Insur­ letin.
ance.
“ Every tree that bringeth not forth
A Giant Evil.
good fruit, is cut down and cast in­
Two months ago we printed a
The c unbintd devastation of war, to the lire.” Therefore, the advo­
paragraph to this effect: “Life in­
surance statistics are said to show famiue and pestilence, have never cates and supporters of temperance
that in Ohio, the largest consumer inflicted such deadly blo»vs on -our mustrinseribe prohibition upon their
of lager beer and malt liquors, the naHonnl. prosperity, ha^n nt VeF ex­ "banner, and rally under it as one
deaths are sixteen in 1000 annually; acted such luinous taxes,- have man, and never Ixy down their
never slain so many of our brave weapon until every State and Ter­
while-in Canada, where they suck
whisky straight and often, there youths and maidtns, have never ritory in the Union has abolished,
brought so much wretchedness and by constitutional provision, the
are but six. In Kentucky, Tennes­
woe and <!• sola mn to our homes, as manufacture and. sale of ardent
see, . Illinois and Indiana, where
the single vice of intemperance. It spirits from the face of our'whole
more whisky than beer is used, the
is, indeed, a giant evil, and one country.— Lutheran Observer.
rate is eleven in a thousand. This
wh’ch is almost appalling in its
upsets the claim made for the
For the “ Public Good.”
combination of foices alike destruc­
health-giving properties of beer."
z
Will any rumseller tell us of one
Not many days afterwards we an­ tive of present'and eternai well be­
ing.
good thing that has come to our
nounced the withdrawal of one ol
But one of the saddest features of
our most conservative and substan­ the case is the apathy with jvhich commonwealth as a result of rum­
tial life companies fiom Indiana, on many good men look upon thè rav­ selling ? Rumsellers are licensed
the common-sense.ground that the ages of tills vice. In fact, they al­ for the “ public-good what public
mortality in that State exceeded together refuse to recognize its oft good have they ever done ? They
the company’s table of expectation, demonstrated enormity, and they live without work. Is that a pub­
and, consequently, it did not pay to will not accept the proof that it is lic good ?’ They consume our sub­
do life insurance business there. to-day most to be feared in all the stance and produce nothing. Is
that a public good ? They live on
And now comes a private letter
lami. But there are others whose
from one of the most experienced eyes are opened, and whose ears the money that of right belongs to
and level-headed life insurance have been unstop ped, and they the wives and children of drinking
presidents in the country, in which have hearts to feel, and the question men. Is that a public good ? They
he tells us that recently be received now ¡9, What shall be done to free impoverish the community. Is chat
a report of a very careful and com­ our nation of this dreadful curse ? a public good ? They cause eighty
prehensive examination he had The remedy is at hand. Train the per cent, of all the crime that is
made of Indiana, with a view to a youth in the principles of totu| ab­ committed. Is that a public good ?
correct discrimination as to thelo stinence, labTF for the reclamation The -above questions may be an
calities where his company could of the victims of drink, and make swered by‘any friend of the liquor
profitably continue business, and and execute law's which will secure traffic. Bloomsburg Journal.
which localities should be avoided. the suppression of the sale of intox
Temperance Fable.
* The closing paragraph of the report i cants as a beverage as thoroughly
The rats once assembled in a
is this: “ The beer drinking counties as thieving and robbery are sup­
large
cellar, to devise some meth<,d
of Indiana are—and—and—And pressed. To secure these results wt
of safely getting the bait from a
as it happened, these were precisely
must have the prayers of the pious,
steel-trap which lay near, having
the counties in .which the life com­
the labors of the philanthropist, the
panies have lost their money. It is moral insti action' of the Sabbath-* seen num tiers of their friends and
evident that the managers need to school, and the votes of all the relatives snatched from them by its
keep their eyes open as respects the | good.— Zion's Watchman.,
merciless jaws. After many long
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■gas*
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speeches, and the proposal of many ,
elaborate but fruitless plans, a hap­
py wit, standing erect, said :
“It is my opinion that, if with
one paw we can keep down the
spring, we can safely take the food
from the trap witn the other.”
„„Jlll_, tha.. .rata....... jaresen t .loudly—
squealed assent. Then they were
startled by a faint voice, and a poor
rat, with only three legs, limping
into the ring, stood up to speak :
“ My friends, I have tried the
method you propose, and you see
plan to escape the trap.
alone."—Ex.
Let it
Y oung L adies as R eformers .—
young man to smoke in the presence
of a lady friend, but it rests with
that lady friend to make him con­
scious of it. So long as you say,
<* I enjoy the odor of a good cigar,”
or “ don’t throw away your cigar on
my account. I wouldn’t for the
world deprive you of your evident'
enjoyment of the fragrant weed,”
and kindred remarks of at least
implied approval, just so long we
shall have the odor of stale tobacco-
smoke clinging to the lace curtains
in the parlor; we shall see young
men on the front porch in company
with mother and sister, feet elevat­
ed, and the whole group enveloped
in a cloud of cigar smoke.' And, ï”
worst of all, we shall encounter, on
the street, young ladies and gentle­
men together, the latter puffing
away at that ever-present cigar.
Forty Year’s Experience of an OI<1 Nnrse.
Mr». Winslow’s Soothing Syrup in the prescrip­
tion of one of the best female physicians and
nurses in the United States, and has been used
for forty years with never failing success by
millions^of mothers for their children. It re­
lieves the child from pain, cures dysentery and
diarrbrna, griping in the bowels, and wind­
colic. By giving health to the child it rests the
mother. Price twenty-five cents a bottle.
12-20-ly
“I find the doing of the will of
God leaves me no time for disput­
ing about his plans.— George Mc­
Donald.
A slight cold, if neglected, often at«
tacks the lungs Brown’s Bronchial
Troches gives sure and almost immedi­
ate relief. Sold , only in boxes. Price
25 cents.
Love the Scriptures, and wisdom
will love thee.— Jerome.
After vainly spending five hundreddol-
lars for other remedies to relieve my
wife, I have no hesitation in declaring
that St. Jacoba Oil will cure Neuralgia,
says M V. B. Hersom, Esq., (of Pink­
ham A Hersom,) Boston, M¿ss., an en­
thusiastic indorser of its merits.—
Chambersburgh, (Pa.) Herald.
Nobody can come between us and
God but ourselves.— Maclaren,