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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.” _
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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
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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
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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
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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
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grade to the top, wide enough for
carriages to pass over, which is said
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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
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