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There are many prophecies in the Word of God which seem to teach that there are better days in store for the inhabitants of rliis world than have ever yet been enjoyed by any age or nation, prophecies which seem to promise the universal prevalence of justice and truth, of . ighteousness and peace among men. Take, (or example, some portions of the 72nd Psalm, which is allowed by all to be a prediction of the ultimate universal reign of Christ in this world : " He shall judge the poor of the peo- ple. He shall save thi children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the op- pressor. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends ot the earih. They that dwell in the wildernesi shall bow before Him, and His enemies shall lick the dust. The kmgs of Tarshish and of the isles shall l)ring presents. The kings of Mieba and Sebti shall offer gilts yea all kings shall fall down before Him, all nations shall serve Him." So in the prophecy of Isaiah, SSth chapter, " The parched ground shall become a pool, and thirsty land springs of water. In the habitation ol dragons where each lay aiiuii be gruss with reeds hnd rushes." No one will doubt that these and many similar predictions have not yet been realieed in the history of Christ's Kingdom on earth. AH kings have not yet come to serve Him. Indeed, no one nation has ever yet served Him in such a way as He ought to be served. The most Christianized nations of the globe have never yet enjoyed such a measure of righteousness and peace as seem to be anticipated in the Word of God. And there are many earnest Christians who sometimes stand almost paralysed in view of the wickedness and crime walking abroad in the earth and are ready to ask whether it is pos- sible that the race, so long immersed in darkness, sorrow, and crime, is yet to enjoy universal righteousness and peace? If we look at the problem from the standpoint of human weakness and human tendency to evil we could not hesitate for a moment to answer. It can never be. IJut then let us not for- get that evil, .hough mighty, is not supreme. Let us not forget that God reigns in the universe, and that Ho has said, "Thus far shalt thou go, but no further." One thing is certain, as certain us if it hud already come lo pass, numeiy, that all the good that God liui promised in His Word THE EVIM OV THE will yet be realized by the nations of the earth. We may err in our interpretation of His promises. It may be that He has not promised us as much as we under- stand His promises to mean, but we stand on solid ground, even on the eternal rock, when we affirm that not one of His promises shall ever fail of complete and perfect fulfilment. How- ever impossible it may seem to us it is as sure as the oath and power of God can make it. It is said that the world is growing worse, and perhaps it is, but even if that fact could be" demon, strated it would not shake our confi- dence in God, nor yet in His power "to destroy the works of the devil." Has He promised and will He not per- form ? Heaven and earth may cease to be, but His promise shall never fail. What then? Does this assurance that God will ultimately triumph over the powers of darkness give us a license to lessen our energy in the struggle against evil and crime ? No, He gives us these promises not that we may be idle, but rather that we may be nerved for the conflict, and fired with holy zeal in the struggle against every form of iniquity. The Millennium will come. God has promised it. But when and how ? One thing is certain, it will not be contem- poraneous with the monster evil Intem- perance, whose crushing hoof is now upon the neck of the civilized world. It will not come while honest men are afraid of those who have the impudence to ask for their support in carrying on the infamous traffic in strong drink. It will not, it cannot, come while we con- LIQtrOR TRAFFIC, tinue to "justify the wicked for reward." The text describes the liquor traffic s^ as it exists at the present day so exactly that it needs not one word of enlarge-' ment in order to shew its bearing on that iniquitous business, I f the prophet bad sperit the forenoon in walking the j streets of this town counting the liquor shops, and the afternoon in the Town Hall reading the names on the license petition?, he could not have described the traffic, and the part which the bet- ter thinking portion of our citizens take in it, in more fitting words than those ot the text, " Who justify tha wicked for reward." The stand which many take in reference to this great evil cannot, it seems to me, be justified by any show of fair reasoning. No one will hesitate to j.ronounce the traf- fic not only an evil, but the greatest evil that aflJicts the civilized world at the present day. Those who sell it, those who drink it, and those who do neither, are agreed in pronouncing it evil, noth- ing but evil. Why, then, do all con- tinue in the business ? It is easy to an- swer the question for the first iwo classes mentioned Those who sell it do so to make money, they will tell you that they have no other motive, and if any of them should have the boldness to deny that to be their only motive you would know that they were speaking falsehood. Those who drink it do so to giatify a craving which is not natural but acquired, but which * seems in most CHses to get the complete mastery over the impulses of the better nature. But what of those who neither sell nor drink, yet give their voice and ^ wicked for liquor traffic or beffging for a crust of bread. Is it possible for such to escape falling into temptation and sin ? Can we wonder if many of them shall, in a lew years hence, be found looking out through the iron bars of the prison in yonder city .' Shall we look upon them and despise them when in a short time we shall see them steeped in the same vices and hardened in the same crimes which have overtaken their wretched parents ? Who then, I a k, will be res- ponsible? These eight rumsellers onlj.? Every man who has given his name to a petition for the granting of a license; nay, mote, every man who has not, in ev. ry legitimate way, given the full weight o( his influence against the curse. Oh, the wretcledness and woes which follow in its trt n as it goes stalking throu^lh the earth, the very embodiment of evil and crime, the essence of every iniquity. Wretched homes all over the lind, Hlj.d with broken-hearted women and starving children. Pauperism, in- s.ibIe. Think of if, a law on the one hand prohibiting vagrancy and crime, a law which fines the vagrant, imprisons and executes the criminal; and on the other hand a law to protect the rumseller in his infernal business of making vagrants and crim- inals. I say it is a system of legalized rob- bery, ai a I can make good the state- ment. How much money has each one of our eight rum^ellers taken during the year ? I do not know. But there are a few things I will say, without fear of contradiction. I will ventur !'« statement that each rum?eller in ilie town takes more cash in a year than any honest merchant we have. I know that if a rumseller takes one thouj.and or five thousand dollars in a year his customers are just that much poorer, as he has given them absolutely no valu« in return. I know that all our honest merchants lose money every year be- cause their customers give •© the rum- seller the motiuy with which they nLould have paid their grocer and tailor. I know that in hundreds of cases families have suffered hunger and cold for want of that money which went to make the rumselier's surroundings magnificent and luxuriant. And have we given men a legal right to carry on a business which robs hundreds of women and helpless children of their bread ? Then I hold to it that we have legalized robbery. I am met here with the worse than weak argument by which the traflSc ^dek3 to justly itself. It is that the rumdrinker is a free agent, and if he goes into a saloon and pays five cents for a glass of rum, drinks it, and falls down before he gets outside of the door and breaks his neck, the rumseller is not in the least responsible, he only complied with the wish of one who was a tr< e agent, and solely responsible for his act. If he murders the first man he meets — the rumseller is not at all responi-ible, he only complied with the wish ot one who was a free agent. Suppose the tree agent instead of asking (or a glass of rum, had assked for H ylrtss of poison, would the rum seller give it to him ? No. Why not ? because he would be hanged. Why hanged ? He only complied with the request of a free agent who was .-olely re,-ponsible for his act. Why is not even law consistent ? If it were what would become ol rumsellers ? A man goes into a rum-salcon, aska for a glass of poison, the rumseller gives it to him, the man dies. The poison-seller is h