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CHRISTIAN HERALD un, the head I HOW TO MAKE DRINKING must not only forgive seven times need of you ; nor, again, should be carefully studied by but till seventy times seven; and UNPOPULAR. to the feet, I have no need of you. ” those interested in the investigation also when we have the many tem- THv muse oL temperance. J jas , Why may' not uhe memb er iiny.to pCTMitfr1 "Societies n and“-TTTOTi-Tmrl of this subject. ' . another, Keep still, I have no need been before the world for thousands women spending their money, time There is but one Spirit of God, of you? Because God, who has of years, and yet the amount of and lives to stop drunkenness ? We called the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of supreme authority, lias placed each money squandered annually is on answer because most every man in . Christ, the Spirit of truth, the member in the body, prescribing the increase — fifteen hundred a high place drinks. President Comforter—Advocate, Helper, etc., their functions, as he saw proper— millions per annum. The number Grant is held up as one of the but his power is so vast and diver consulting his own will, not the of lives lost per annum is on the greatest men of his age, and he is sified, that having entered any one, will of the members, as in this they increase, 180,000 lives last year, known to be an indulger in drink, he can impart much or little, as he and the question comes up; What and our .Senators, Legislators, •wiUs ; in no case, however, does he had no say. “ Now, you are Christ’s body, shall we do, as Christians, to stop Governors and the majority of the impart without special regard to man drink? So the Trtrewwsiiiw of aM-uimiLcn in particular And these, indeed, God has placed in the that the young will shun“YHU man reasons that he must learn to the case, for the good of all, and in congregation : first, apostles; drunkard’s ways ? I do not feel drink or he can not become a Presi harmony with the will of God, who secondly, prophets; thirdly, teach myself more competent or wiser dent, Senator, Legislator or*Govern sent him, and whose agent he is- ers ; next, powers; then, gifts of than others to make laws to stop Therefore what he does God does. or, or hold any office of trust. Go healing ; helpers,”, etc., all of which, men from selling or drinking than We will now hear Paul, through to work and punish every man, be ■ ’ as'TnemWrwftftk e taken, t h u u s an d swlt+t gone. Lef orcx. the Living Oracles. “Now there” he WgtTDr’lmvrYor ge together. Does not Paul here but looking at the lives lost, the are diversities of gifts, but the and you will stop the popularity of clearly teach that one member can money worse than squandered, and same Spirit; and there are diversi dram drinking and drunkenness, not degrade another ? That an the amount of .misery and woe ties of ministrations, but the same and eventually stop the profits on apostle cannot siteem a pr t on innocent humanity, we Lord ; and there are diversities of manufacturing' afid setting strong nor a prophet a teacher ; nor one are forced to the conclusion that operations, but it is the same God, drink, and thus men will see other who speaks with tongues, one who drinking and drunkenness can who works all in all; and to each means of making a livelihood, and interprets ? I ask earnestly. I so never be stopped, and that the is given this manifestation of the the world will become temperate. understand him. Then it follows manufacturing of alcoholic liquors Spirit, for the advantage of all? C raigie S harp , J r . that when he said .of a class of will be continued ' as long as men Let M be here noted, that each •member hail a charge, involving members, “ Let thorn- lie silent-in rnn makc money by-«o-doing. It L Thanksgiving Proclamation. responsibility—some spiritual gift the congregations,” he had not the never can be done by the present ( tate of O r , E xecutive O ffice , 1 for the good of all the others, “ For least reference to their exercising system. It must be dealt with by S S alem * N qk . 5, 1883. j toone/ indeed? Is* given,, by -the the .spiritual gifts God had confer- -law,.anil that.laHrMecLthe^guilty^ ------ red upon them by his Spirit — ex You can never stop stealing by In accordance with a long estab * Spirit, the word of wisdom ; and to ercising them in the congregation making the man who has goods to another, the word of knowledge; custom, and in accordance ^11 pay a licenseto^ll good«, the | lished with the — mmend>tion of th> for mutual benefit, for, for this pur and to another, faith ; ami to an other, the gifts of healing; and to pose were they given. This Is in thief cares not for that; but we president of the United States, I, another, the operations of powers; harmony with what we have seen punish the thief for taking that Z. F. Moody, governor of the state and to another, prophecy; and to of their duties and privileges as which is not his, yet it does not of Oregon, would recommend that another, discerning of spirits ; and priests. No priest was proscribed ; stop stealing, but it disgraces the Thursday, the 29th day of Novem- anff'“ iTigrade^ him, and the | ^ to another, divers kinds of foreign air ^rr pcrmitted- to _jr, 1»»3, De ooservea Dy an citizens temple — the holy place, and there oftener he is caught the more he is tongues ; and to another, the inter of the state as a day of praise and bum incense, and trim the lamps, degraded in the eyes of men by re pretations of tongues. Now, all thanksgiving to the supreme ruler as well as eat the showbread. One ceiving more severe punishment. these does the one and the same of the universe for the many bless could not say to another, You may Yet the punishment may only make Spirit effectively work; distribut- ings vouchsafed to us during the not burn incense in this place, for the thief worse when he gets a past year; and would further re ing^to each, (every member, re God haxl made it his right and chance, but the young and innocent commend that all secular pursuits gardless of nationality or sex) res pectively, as he pleases." The duty. There was no power in the will be restrained by seeing what be suspended upon that day, and principles, promulgated here, are in Mosaic institution that could inter- the thief brings upon himself, and that our people resort to their usual deadly hostility to the proscription vene between a priest and his God, will shun his ways. So we sug- and respective places of worship for of any individual or caste. Paul to hinder him from the perform gest in regard to selling and drink the purpose herein set forth. cannot antagonize what he has here ance of one priestly act. His office, ing. Make the sale of it free, the Witness my hand the great seal having been conferred by the high use of it free, and we believe with taught. est authority in the universe, could Paul; use a little wine for medicinal of the state hereto attached this 5th Paul proceeds to speak of all, as not be interfered with, by any in purposes, but we say make a law day of November, 1883. one body ¿w^en united, “ By one Z.F. M oody , ferior power. Thus the same con to punish every one who gets { i SEAL ) J Governor. ___ Spirit, we have all been immersed clusion is reached^ whether we-con~ drunk, and increase the punishment Attest P. E arhart ? into one body; whether Jews or template the children of God as the oftener he gets drunk ; by this Secretary of State. Greeks, whether slaves or freemen; members of the body of Christ, or -----------------♦ « we do not plead that it will stop and all have en made to* drink of as priests—one may not proscribe the man who gets drunk from A portion of the old Roman wall on Continuing, he speaks another—all being on an equality drinking, but it will disgrace him which formerly surrounded the city of individuals, separately, as an officially, sustaining the same rela so that the young and rising of London has been discovered sev eye, an ear, hand, head, foot, etc., tion one to another, and to God. generation will not want_to follow enteen feet below the level of Pa and say, “ But, now, God has placed in his footsteps. Men ask us why ternoster Row. All traces ~ol the members, every one of them, in Whether we are to be a thorough is drunkenness on the increase, wall had long since disappeared, the body, as he has pleased. Be- - sides, if all were one member, ly Christian nation, or to decay and when we have churches that turn except in one or two spots, notably where were the body. But now, lose our political forms,«Jepehds on their members adrift on the world in the street called London Walt indeed, there are many members, our ability to dteep «family life pure for getting drunk, v’ithout doing as Tradition points to a few ancieDt but one body. Therefore, the eye and simple.— Ex-President Theo Peter did, forgiving them seven stones as a remnant of the famous times. Now the Savior said we i. barrier. yamwi say to the hand, I have no dore D. Woolsey, « • w