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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1883)
1 1 i - CHRISTIAN HERALD. --- ------------------ - Temperance Propositions. a partner in the nefarious business. will of him that sent me, and to 8. The ultimate responsibility finish his work,” also said, " Ljft up 1. It is scientifically established r your eyes, and look M * the^eMs; that alcoholic beverages are poison law must rest upon the people who for they are whito already to har ous and highly injurious to both elect both the makers and the exe vest.” _ . / body and mind. cutors of the law. Legislators and All we have to do is to look, and 2. Observation and statistics officers are their servants. we behqld all around us work, prove that the sale and use of in- . .. 4C-A vote-for license involves to work ,- WORK ! the ffeids “"are toxicants is the most prolific source some degree, the one who casts it white already to harvest." In this ol • OTiffiOj - •mMiBwy and “fa the riio7aT reHp()nsibTTity for the lair land, this Christian land, at pauperism. iniquity and suffi. ring caused by the your doors, under the shadow of the 3. Any use of intoxicants as a liquor traffic. house of God, in your company, beverage is intemperance, since 10. One whose vote and influ among your associates, everywhere temperance strictly means modera ence are always for the prohibition in city, in country, even in your tion in the use of what is gcod and of the liquor traffic cam never be own family there are the perishing, lawful, together with entire abstin held accountable for the evils flow in want of the bread of life, the ence from the hurtful and unlawful. ing therefrom. bread of heaven. 11. A voter is responsible, not Are you working for them? 4. Drunkenness is a crime. One who intoxicates himself, voluntarily for the effect of ballots cast by We read of one lady who exercised abdicates the throne of his man others, but for his own : not for a her talent to educate a class of hood and submits to be controlled contingent and remotely possible young men tor usefulness, when her by blind impulses and passions. To result of his vote, but for its direct own children needed that very labor bestowed upon them to keep them thus convert a man into a fiend is and intended result. from the vices that they were daily 12. To protest against a great criminal, even if it happens fol* ---- —m a ny times that-the fiend does not- -evil byballot even-in a hwpefesr surrounded—with-—they—needed a~ destroy and slay in accordance with minority, is better than to follow a mother’s love and a Christian’s care and watchfulness ; and work his fiendish nature. There is hardly multitude to do evil. 13. No price paid for the privil ing for them might have beenfar a crime in the calendar the intoxi cated man is not liable to commit. ege of being a criminal can make it more useful here, and perhaps a The burglar who ’ robs a house of right for us to grant such privilege. soul saved hereafter. Through the its jewelry and plate is a venial Dollars have nothing to do with influence of a Christian character offender compared with the fathei morals, though morals have much and words save your children. The snares are all around them on every who through habits of drunkenness to do with dollars. 14. Granting such privilege— hand, and the emissaries“ of Satan reduces his family to poverty and Bhame, and covers his home with literally, private law—is a specie» are ever on the alert to catch the the blight of a drunkard’s cruelty of class legislation contrary to the unwary. The gilded saloon, the cigar that makes a man, the yellow and wickedness. But the crimin genius of our government. 15. That we have no right to do back devil’s trash and obscene ality of drunkenness consists notin I its results, but in the act of a free evjl that good may come, is a truth literature that is poisoning the moral agent destroying the self just as applicable to the granting young mind, and tending to make restraining power of the man while of high license in order to bring libertines of members of your giving rein to the animal; in the about prohibition as to any thing household, are subtle and common enemies. else. • self-incitement to other crimes. Mothers, watch ; fathers, be care 16. “As between evils choose the 5. If self-intoxication is criminal, it is a thousandfold more so to least” is a righteous principle only ful of your example, or bye-and-bye make a business of persuading, as it concerns natural evils. We a wreck will be on the breakers at helping, encouraging men to become are not* at Jibcity to choose oi your very doors, and then a broken Heart, and hairs unseasonably such criminals. The liquor traffic accept either of two moral evils. 17. Decent starvation is prefer blossomed for ‘the grave. Work, is the crime of crimes. The en slavement of human beings was not able to a “ half loaf” obtained by then, for your child; work for so bad. That deprived of bodily becoming accessory to crime.—E. others ; work, for the night is com ing, when no man can work. Work liberty, this enslaves the will itself; C. A rnold , in N. W. C: Advocate. for Christ amid trials and discour that imposed physical and mental Work. agements.—C. H. S hepherd , in / suffering, this causes not only equal suffering, but also the spiritual and An old man said to his aged Domestic Journal. eternal ruin of multitudes; that friend, when about to do a certain A Recently Discovered Lost tore a child from the mother’s arms piece of literary work, “ Come, let City of Mexico. and consigned him to slavery in us engage in this work.” Said tht another place- this separates the aged friend, “ Wb are now old Ancient ruins have recently been son from his mother’s home and enough to rest.” “ Rest!” said the discovered in Sonora, which, if re sends him to a drunkard’s hell. first, “ we have got all eternity to ports are true, surpass anything ol 6. A license to sell intoxicants is rest in.” the kind yet found on this contin a legal indulgence, granting in ad This is a world of work, and to ent. The ruins are said to be vance permission to commit crime, fulfill the true mission of- life, it about four leagues south-east ol - with a guarantee of the law’« pro will not cease until we lay our Magdalenas There is one pyramid tection. weary bodies down in the dust, ot which has a base of 4,350 feet and 7. The license fee is blood money earth, or the herald of the coming rises to the height of 750 feet; paid into the public treasury, by One shall say,-"It is done.” He there is a winding roadway from receipt of which the public becomes who said, “ My meat is tn do the the bottom leading up on an easy „. i"Honre;. ¿lAVfS'.'. non -AiMjpa /» •___ • •» - e ■n" '""W—'-M W 9 grade to the top, wide enough for carriages to pass over, which is said tobetwentyWwW^ the outer walls of the roadway are laid in solid masonry from huge blocks of granite in rubble, and the circles are as uniform and the grade is'regular as could"be made at Ibis ” date.. The wall, however, is only oc casionally exposed, being covered over wiith the debris and earth, and in many places the sahuaro and other indigenous plants and trees — have grown up, giving the pyramid the appearance of a mountain. To the east of the pyramid a short dis tance is a small mountain about the same siz3, which rises to about the - same height, and, if reports are true, will prove more interesting to —- the archaeologist than the pyramid. There seems to be a heavy layer of a species of gypsum about half-way up theimyuntaln, whteft ts aa white------ as snow, and may be cut into any conceivable shape, yet sufficiently hard to retain its shape after being cut. In this layer of stone a people of an unknown age have cut hun dreds upon hundreds of rooms, from 5 by 10 to 16 or 18 feet square. These rooms are cut out of the solid stone, and so even and true are the walls, floor and ceiling, so plump and level, as to defy varia tion. There are no windows in the rooms and but one entrance, which is always from the top. The rooms are but eight feet high from floor to ceiling, the stone' is so w’hite that it seems almost transparent, and the rooms are not at all dark. On the walls of these rooms are numerous hierogvpphies and representations of human forms, with hands and feet of human beings cut in the stone in different places. But, strange to say, the hands all have five fingers and one thumb, and the fdet have six toes. Charcoal is found on the floors of a any of the rooms, which would indicate that they built fires in their houses. Stone implements- of every de scription are to be found in great numbers in and about the rooms. The houses or rooms are one above the other, three or four stories high ; but between each, story there is a jog or recess the full width of the room below, so that they pre sent the appearance of large steps leading up the mountain. Who these people were and what age they lived in must be answer ed, if answered at all, by the " wise men of the East.” Some say they were the ancestors of the Mayos, a race of Indians who still inhabit Southern Sonora, who have blue eyes, fair skin and light hair, and are said to be a moral, industiioias and frugal race of people, who have a written language aud know some thing of mathematics.— Rural Home. < - I .■* p 4^ Ì75 -V. ; I i • 5 -