IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 1.25 m 121 112.5 IM |||||Z2 m '""^ iti£ I 2.0 1.8 U nil 1.6 v] <9 /}. ^^ 'e^. e^ .> .^., ' *.^# c/- /% Photographic Sdences Corporation r'.;iv\;'. € REFACE. The object of this book is to present some of the most important aspects of the great Temperance Question, chiefly through the medium of vivid and telling illustrations. These have been collected from a variety of reliable sources. It is specially for the young, this book has been prepared ; the writer, however, has good hopes that many older folks may find both gratification and profit in reading it. May it prove a blessing to all. JAMES C. SEYMOUR. Markham, April, 1889. ^^ CONTENTS. Paoe. CHAPTER I. Needless Troubles 9 CHAPTER II. Where the Money Goes 16 CHAPTER III. Fools and Criminals 22 CHAPTER IV. The Death-Roll 29 CHAPTER V. Habit's Iron Chains 33 CHAPTER VI. A Slander on Christ 44 CHAPTER VII. No Harm in a Little 52 CHAPTER VIII. It's a Grand Stimulant gl CHAPTER IX. Here's the Medicine for You 67 CHAPTER X. ■ Our Glorious Rights 73 CHAPTER XI. There's Millions in it 78 CONTENTS. Pa«b. , CHAPTER XII. A Fig for your Laws ! 84 CHAPTER XIII. You Can't Get Along Without Us 89 CHAPTER XIV. What Folly ! 93 CHAPTER XV. No Compromises 97 CHAPTER XVI. It's Deadly Grasp 105 CHAPTER XVII. Supplies Cut Off 114 CHAPTER XVIII. On With the Armour 122 CHAPTER XIX. Don't be Stingy 127 CHAPTER XX. We'll Win the Day 135 CHAPTER XXI, What Boys can Do 142 CHAPTER XXII. The Hand that Rock's the Cradle 156 CHAPTER XXIII. The Best of Swords 162 CHAPTER XXIV. Look Upwards 173 CHAPTER XXV. The Almighty Helper 179 i ; Pam. S4 €hc "iEcinpn-aiuc Rattle- J[iclli ; AXD HOW TO GAIxN THE DAY. CHAPTER I. NEEDLESS TROUBLES. ^ MAN," said Rev. Plato Johnson, in the course of a very eloquent sermon, "is a very curus animule. He is de only animule dat don't have a s[ood time when he is a baby. Did dat idee ever cur to your mind before ? After he's dead he may go to hebben, but after he's born, an' till he gits able to take care of hisself, he has no comfort, an' he don't let nobody else hab any. Look at de dogs, wat a time de has togedder. Dey is born three or four at a time, so dey needn't be lonely, an' de minute dey get dere eyes open, dey begins to B 10 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. play an' fool wid each other, an' to 'joy deirselve Wen night comes de calf lies down quiet by dc side of its mudder, an' dats de last you hear of it till sunrise nex' mornin'. Did you ever hear of a calf havin' de chicken-pox or de mumps ? Now, how is it wid de human baby ? He ain't geneially in de world inor'n half an hour before he begins to let de whole neigh- borhood know dat he's come at last, an' intends to stay. He no sooner gets well started before he has to bite a rubber ring all day to get his teeth through, an' when dey's comin' through, de fader has to carry round de baby all nite, an' him yell in' all de time loud *nufF for a town-crier. No, de fac' is dat de human animule done have no happiness till he grows big 'nuff to have a home of his own, an' even den his misei-y has just begun. Brethren, dis complex problem has spiled my sleep a great many times." If the human " animule " were content with such things as chicken-pox and mumps and teeth -cutting and a good many other troubles he is sure to have, it would not be so bad, but the worst of it is he must make a great many more thp.t he ought never to have at all. Drinking liquor is about the readiest way to get into every sort of trouble. You wonder then why so many people learn to drink. One reason is that ill NKKDJ.ESS THOUBLES. 11 ;lve ide of in rise n' de id de liior'n leigh- ids to has to ^h, an carry le loud huujan 'g 'nuff misery leni has the sparkling ^dass and the jovial company appear to be very pleasant and attractive. But the decep- tion is something like what occurs in the sales that often take place in tin- marts of l^ondon. They take some old wretched hnite, wind-broken, spavined, vicious, and useN CHAINS. .SO ill toll " Was iT eyes. knew." u know (1 what [le home Ej to hiin nly l)f3(3n tie home s father. im in the [erecl him we never ot let us could (\o r he w^as e sitting ought it husband heard a Just go She said, "I went U) the door and there lie stood, more like a j^host than a youn^^ man. He looked at hie and I said : "'Willie!'" " ' Mother,' he said, ' will yon let me in ? ' " " ' Yes, my hoy, you should never have gone away, com(; in, come in.' And I had to lead him by the arm. " ' ])on't take me into the parlor — take me into the kitchen. I feel, mother, as if I were dying.' " ' No, my son, you shall not die.' ' Will you make me a hasin of barley broth, like you used to make me ? ' " * I wall make you anything you liRe, but you must come upstairs and lie down/ I called his father and he came, but he didn't say an angry word to him. We carried him upstairs and laid him down upon the bed, and after a moment's pause he said : " ' Father, the drink has killed me.' , " * No, my boy,' said the father, 'we shall bring you round yet.' " ' Never, father, — God be merciful to me a sinner, and his head fell back, and there was an end to our boy in this life. His father stood and looked at Willie as he lay there dead, and said to me, ' Mother, the drink has killed our Willie, and there shall never 40 THE TEMl'K RANGE BATTEE-FIELD. 1 1 li 2*6 anotlier drop of drink in this house while I am alive.' " The appeilto for drink is something terrible. A Chicago paper gives an account of a confirmed drunkard of that city, a boy only seventeen years of age. This boy was sent to the inebriate asylum, in New York. There he was confined for two • years, durino- which time he studied hard and showed re- marka])le cheerfulness and ability of mind. At the end of two years, the Superintendent of the Asylum allowed him to go out riding with one of the keepers, who had some business out in the country. On their way back, the driver stopped in front of a village inn to water his horse. The (juick eye of the boy darted through the half -open door- way of the inn, and saw a bar, behind which was a tempting array of bottles. Almost as quick as a flash of lightning, the boy jumped out of the waggon, dashed through the door, over the bar, and before the astounded bar-keeper could stop him, he had drained nearly a quart of brandy from a decanter standin<2: there. When caught, he rubbed his stomach, and fairly screamed for joy. " Oh, that tasted so good! I would give my life for more of it ! " With gro .t difiiculty the}^ got him back into the wagon. The keeper at once set out for the asylum, hoping to 'mt'^' HABITS IRON CHAINS. 41 I am Die. A ifirmed ears of lum, in ) years, wed re- At the Asylum keepers, On their llagc inn y darted nd saw a bottles. jumped over the )uld stop from a bbed his ih, that le of it ! " e wagon, oping to arrive there before the liquor could take effect upon him. He was doomed to disappointment. In a very short time the boy became literally wild from the effect of the enormous draught of brandy, and attack- ing the keeper, he succeeded in throwing him out of the waggon ; he then lashed the horse into a furious gallop, yelling like a demon, until he roused the coun- try round about. The waggon was smashed into a thousand pieces, and when caught, he was all bruised and bleeding, with his clothes stripped to rags, laughing wildly, as he exclaimed that he never had such fun in his life. Men have been known to drink alcohol out of bottles where it was used in preserving snakes, scorpions, and other viie things, and even to drink the whisky in which a corpse had been ivashed. There is nothing too mean for a drunkard to do in order to get liquor. And there is nothing too mean for some liquor-sellers to do, to make money out of their accursed business. Some years ago in a hotel not far from Boston, a poor felloT- who had been gambling r early all Saturday night, cut his throat in his room whicli vvas just over the bar. The group that was round the bar drinking on Sunday morning, were startled by heavy drops of blood D 42 THE TEMl'ERANCK HATTLE-FIELD. coming down from the ceiling on the counter. Looking up they saw a large red stain on the plaster from the centre of which the drops fell faster and faster, till they splashed on the floor. It was known that before the poor wretch's life-blood was cleaned from the floor, men were drinking, and the trade went on, though it was the Sabbath day. A drunken wretch cut himself to pieces in a bar- room, in Washington, and the saloon-keeper boasted afterwards that he had cleared over one hundred dollars by the operation, as so many people came in to see the blood-stains where the poor fellow had lain, and they could hardly come in without taking a drink. A woman, who had lost her husband by drink, was left penniless with four children. The tavern-keeper had got possession of his little home, and all that he had. The widow took in plain sewing which she found it hard enough to get. Some time after the loss of her husband, the liquor-seller called and asked her with apparent kindness about her prospects, professing his desire to serve her, and proposed that she should make some shirts for him. He wanted a dozen at fifty cents each, that would be six dollars. The widow was very glad to accept his ofl'er, and began to think the liquor-dealer was a humane man. She worked HABIT S IRON CHAINS. 43 loking mi the ^er, till beiorc iQ floor, ougb it L a bar- boasted hundred line in to had lain, g a drink, irink, was rn-keeper ^n that he rhich she ler the loss asked her [professing jhe should dozen at 'he widow n to think lie worked on, consoling' herself with the thought of six dollars, and how many little comforts she so much needed, that this sum would buy for herself and her half-naked children. When the work was done, she carried it to her employer who found no fault with it. After examining the articles he said : " Mrs, , I have always considered you an honest woman and anxious that all should have their dues. Now, I owe you six dollars, but I have a claim against you — that is, if you are the honest woman I take you for. I have a note of your husband's for five dollars, given me about a month before he died. Now, if I pay you one dollar that will make us square." And he actually returned her the note given by her poor besotted husband and the one dollar. i ) -I "I«M 'ill 111' ip.,,i ,i- ' I' CHAPTER VI. A SLANDER ON HKTST. |HERE is no sin that brings ^ ;eater disgrace on Christian people, and that is more offensive in the sight of God, than the sin of drink. A British officer in India after remarking that the Mohammedans, as a rule, are abstainers and do not drink intoxicating drink, says, '• The remark is often made by natives when they see a Mohammedan drunk. * He has left Mohammed and gone to Jesus' On one occasion while he was urging a native to examine the claims of Christianitj^ two drunken English soldiers passed along. " See," said the native, " do you wish me to be like that ? As a Mohammedan, I could not, as a Christian, of course, I might." It is only a short time since the execution of Swift Runner, a dee Indian, who was hanged for murder A SLANDER ON CHRIST. 45 and cannibalism, at Fort Saskatchewan, in the North- west. Some years before, Swift Runner was the head man of his band in that district ; and when the police came into that part of the country in 1875, he was recommended by the Hudson Bay officers as a trustworthy and intelligent guide. His contact with white men, however, ruined him. Although whisky is debarred the Territories, large quantities, neverthe- less, find their way in, in bottles disguised as patent medicines. Swift Runner became inordinately fond of it, and when half drunk he was the terror of the whole region. He was six feet three in heigh c, and of extraordinary strength, and when on a spree, he was an ugly customer to meet with. He was drunk for three months at a stretch, and turned the Cree camps into little hells. His family consisting of his wife, his mother, and seven children, remained with the band ; but on his promising to behave himself they went to the hills to live with him. After some time, a hunter brought word that Swift Runner had murdered his entire family, and was subsisting on their carcasses. After a long and fruitless search, the police captured him at last, and on being charged with the crime, he pleaded guilty, and offered to con- duct the police to the remains. He had camped in ■• fi ' < I ; I : il ' "■ "n n ent 46 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. i a hole or cave at the base of the mountains, and the bones of his victims lay scattered about the floor. They had been boiled. Hooking his finger in the eye of one of the skull? he picked it up and said in the most careless manner, "This is my mother," and so on, with the other skulls, nine in all. He said ivhishy had demoralized him, and made him feel like a ivolf. He had killed them all one night while they were asleep, and buried the bodies in the snow, Cut- ting them up and boiling them as he needed them. Thfe day he was hanged, he wj's asked if he would like be- fore he died, to see a " black coat," a Christian teacher. "iVo," he said, "the white hven had fvbined him^ and,, therefove, lie, didn't think their' Ood could amount to mitdA." After; he' had' mounted the gallows, one of the police oiffioeirs i kindly attempted to read a prayer, but iiisr voice -was drowned by the .je'eru 'mA shouts of the Indians, and: the sheriff gave the signal, and Swift ■ Runner went down "with fearful force. • ' " ' / ■ / The most dreadful thought of all is^ that they who fill drunkards' graves have no hope of hiappiness in the eternal world. It is written in heaven, and on earth that, " no dnmhard shall inherit the kingdom of aod:\ ' ■ ■ - ■ ' ' ^ - ' ^ ' • . ■ i A SLANDER ON CHIUST. 47 Here is an alphabet of drink worth conniiittin- to memory. : A is for adder, That lives in the cup, The drunkard don't see it, ' And so drinks it up. B is for bottle, /_ Mark poison thereon, Touch, taste not, nor handle, ' • Or you'll be undone. ' O is for cider, To drink it is wronff : Though at first very weak, "^ "' It is soon very strong. ' ■ D is for drunkard, . . . \ Just look at his nose; How red are his eyes, "• : t^ And how dirty his clothes. E is for evening. When he goes out to drink, " What he knows does him harm, If he only would think. :f ! %\ ! I| ^m 'w-'^,i^t0^gff,agM*iJM^''!*iuemx^^ 48 ]■■; :■ - .' THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. P is for fountain, So merry and clear ; Who only drinks water Has nothing to fear. G* is for gin, That makes people lazy ; Then cross to their wives, And finally crazy. II is for hard times, Which surely will come, When a man spends his money For notning but rum, X is for inn. Like a rat trap, no doubt. When once you get in . It is hard to get out. J is for jail, Where the drunkard is kept, Till the fumes of his liquor Away he has slept. S is for knowledge, Of which little remains. A SLANDER OX CIIIUST. When he puts in his mouth What runs off with his brains. X is for liquor, Whatever the name, The taste, or the odor, They all are the same. 49 is for monkey, Who wiser than men, If you once make them drunk You can't do it again. Wis for Noah, Who planted the vine; And how sad is the warning, Got drunk upon wine. O is for orphan, Of which thousands are made, Every month of the year, By the rumseller's trade. P is for pledge. All good people should take ; If you can't sign your name. Your mark you should make. i •aWMIMIMWM mmm )|ii{Ki 50 I Hi; ,11 .iiiyi! THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. Q is for quarrel, m-- Look sharp and you'll find, In 'most every quarrel There's liquor behind. XI is for rum. And for rumseller too; With one or the other Have nothing to do. S is for snow, Where the poor drunkard lies ; Overcome by the liquor, He freezes and dies. T is for tippler. Who grows worse and worse, Till he finds to his sorrow Not a cent in his purse. . ,i JJ is for union, In union there's strength ; With the young and the old We shall conquer at length. V is for viper, A venemous snake ; A SLANDER ON CHKIST. Like ruin he'll poison yon, Though your life be at stake. W is for wine, So sparkling and red. If you taste it at all It will Hy to your head. X, or double X, A name for strong ale, Means " three sheets in the wind," Then blown off in a gale. V is for yard. Where tombstones are seen; If the drunkard don't stop They'll soon carry him in. 2i is for zebra, A beast you can't tame ; If you meddle with liquor. You'll find it's the same. 51 • ( m CHAPTER VII. i I NO HARM IN A LITTLE. |HIS evil of drink and the liquor-traffic is cer- tainly one of the most terrible that ever the world was afflicted with, and yet, strange to say, there is no end to the excuses people are ready to make in its favor, and in order to con- tinue it. " Oh," say such people, "it is the drunkards, — the beastly sots, who cannot be content with the moderate use of liquor — they are the ones that bring disgrace on the whole thing. If liquor is used in moderation it won't do any harm." But the next question is what is moderation in drinking ? A gentleman, in the Highlands of Scotland, who thought himself a very moderate drinker, and, there- fore, entitled to reprove the drunkard for his excess, heard that one of his friends was intoxicated. Some- NO HARM IN A MTTLE. 53 time afterwards he saw him and undertook to rebuke him forgetting drunk. "I ken its wron^," said he, " but then, I dinna drink as meikle as you do." " Why, sir ! how in that ? " asked the other in sur- is cer- er the trange people con- kards, h the bring sed in next who there- lexcess, Some- " Why," continued he, "dinna ye tak a glass o' whisky and water after dinner ? " " Why, yes, Jemmy, to be sure I take a little whisky after dinner to help digestion." " And dinna ye tak a glass o'whisky-toddy every night before ye gang to Vied ? " " Yes, to be sure, I jast tak a little toddy at night to ^^elp me to sleep." ^ell," said he, "that's just fourteen glasses a week, or about sixty every month. I only get paid off once a month, and then if I'd tak sixty glasses it wad make me dead drunk for a week ; now ye see the only differ- ence is, ye time it better than I do!' Nobody ever talks about moderation in other vices. You never hear people say that it is no harm to do a little moderate lying, or swearing, or cheating. There can be no moderation in such things. To have anything to do with them at all is a great excess. And so it is with drinking alcohol, which leads to all these and a a* THE TEMPERANCE BATTl.K FIELD. '$1 great many more crimes. The only true moderation with Ii([uor is to let it entirely (done. ' . '. , . Those folks that lay so mncli stress on moderation do not always like to trust too much to their OAvn theory. If a merchant, who is himself H moderate drinker, wants a boy in his store, and a hoy offers him- self for the place and says to him, " T want to pfot the situation ; I drink a glass of whisky- now and then, but I am always very moderate." ])oes tiie merchant employ that boy ? No, indeed, he tells him at once he won't do for him. , ' Even the liquor-seller is afraid to engage a bar- tender to .sell his liquors who drinks himself, however moderately. . . . i Like a certain Irish judge, who once tried two most notorious scoundrels for highway robbery. To the astonishment of the Court, as well as the prisoners themselves, they were found not guilty. As they were being removed from the bar, the judge, addressing the jailor, said : " Mr. Murphy, you would greatly ease my mind, if you would keep these two ro^jpectahle (jentle- Ttien until seven o'clock, or half-past seven, for I mean to set out for Dublin at five, and I should like to have at least two hours start of them.' One of these moderate drinkers, whose moderation NO HARM IN A LITTLE. 55 sometimes ended in his coming home drunk, a thing that is very commonly the case, so provoked his wife that she determined to try some severe remedy to get him to ({uit his drinking altogether. She urged him in vain to reform. "Why, you see/' he would say, "I don't like to break off all at once, it ain't wholesome. The best way is always to get used to a thing by degrees, you know." " Very well, old man," she said ; " sec now, if you don't fall into a hcie one of these days, while you can't take care of yourself and nobody near to take you out." Sure enough, as if to verify the prophecy, a couple of days after, returning home the worse of liquor, the old fellow reeled into his own well, and after a deal of useless scrambling, shouted for his wife to come and help him out. " Did'nt I tell you so," said she, showing her cap frill over the edge of the parapet. " You've got into a hole at last, and its lucky I'm in hearing or you might have drowned." " Well," she continued after a pause, letting down the bucket, " take hold," and up he came higher at every turn of the windlass, until the old lady's grasp slipping from the handle, down he went to the bottom . i 56 THE TEMPERANCE HATTLE-KIEI.D. again. This occurring more than once made him sus- picious. " Look here," he screamed in a fury, at the last splash, " you're doing that on purpose — I know you are!" " Well, now / am'' responded the old woman tranquilly, while winding him up once more. " Did'nt you tell me it's hest to get used to a thing by degrees. I'm afraid if I was to bring you right up on a sudden, you would'nu Und it wholesome." The old fellow could not help chuckling at her ap- plication of his principle, and protested he would sign the pledge on the instant she would lift him fairly out. This she did, and packed him off to take the pledge, wet as he was. The respectable moderate drinker who manages to avoid ever getting beastly drunk, is, nevertheless, a very dangerous character in society. His example is a fatal temptation to multitudes to copy his drinking habits, without caring a straw whether they will be able or willing to follow his so-called moderation. A man who has got a very steady head, and is used to the business, may work with some degree of safety away up on a church spire, ono or two hundred feet from the ground, but there are thousands of people NO HARM IN A LITTLE. 57 lie is :ing lube who, if they attempted to follow that man's trade up there, would find their heads reeling, and they would be almost sure to tumble to the bottom. If there was a plank thrown across a gulf fifty feet high that would bear a man weighing one hundred and fifty pounds, and you weigh one hundred and twenty, it might be a somewhat safe plank for you to walk over. But here stands a man who weighs two hundred pounds, and he sees you walking fre- quently over that plank in safety. He says that plank is safe. I will cross over, too. So on he goes until he sets his foot on the centre, and crash goes the plank, and the man is dashed down to destruction. The example of moderate drinkers is leading thousands to destruction in just the same way. At a certain tov/n-meeting, the question came up whether any person should be licensed to sell rum ; those were the days when even church-going people and many ministers saw no great harm in temperate drinking, as they called it. The physician of the place, the leading deacon of the church, and the clergy- man, were all favorable to granting the license, only one man in the meeting spoke against it. The ques- tion was aljout to be put, when there arose from one corner of the room a miserable-lookintr woman. She E ■■>■••»' iMMKOT 58 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. was very thinly clad, and her appearance indicated the utmost wretchedness, and that her mortal career was nearly ended. After a moment's silence, and as all eyes were fixed upon her, she lifted up her wasted body to its full height, and stretched out her long bony arms, and raised her voice to a shrill pitch. " Look upon me," she cried, " and then hear me. All that the last speaker has said about temperate drink- ing being the father of drunkenness is true. Look upon me. You all know me, or you once did. You all know that I was the mistress of the best farm in this place. You all know, too, that I had one of the best husbands. You all know I had fine, noble-hearted, industrious boys. Where are they now ? Doctor, where are they now ? You all know. You all know they lie in a row, side by side, in yonder churchyard. All — every one of them filling the drunkard's grave ! They were all taught to believe temperate drinking was safe — that excess alone ought to be avoided ; and they never acknowledged that they went to excess. They quoted you, and you, and you, (pointing with her bony finger to the minister, deacon, and doctor), as their authority that it was all right. They thought them- selves safe under such teachers. But I saw the gradual change coming over my family, and I saw it with dis- NO HARM IN A LITTLE. 59 LOW may and horror. I felt we were all to be overwhelmed in one common ruin. I tried to ward off the blow. I begged, I prayed, but it was of no use. The minister said the poison that was destroying my husband and my boys, was a good creature of God — the deacon there sold them rum, and took our farm to pay for the rum bills. The doctor said that a little was good, and it was only excess that was to be avoided. My poor husband and my dear boys fell into the snare, and they could not escape, and one after another they were conveyed to the sorrowful ffrave of the drunkard. Now look at me again. You probably see me for the last time. My sands have almost run. I have dragged my exhausted frame from my present home — your poor-house — to warn you all — to warn you, deacon ! to warn you, false teacher of God's word ! " And with her arms flung high, and her tall form stretched to its utmost, and her voice raised to an unearthly pitch, she exclaimed: "I shall soon stand before the judgment seat of God. I shall meet you there, false guides, and be a witness against you all ! " The miserable woman vanished. A dead silence pervaded the assembly. The minister, the deacon, and physician hung their heads ; and when the Presi- dent of the meeting put the <|uestion, " Shall any ^imtfHmXiLim tmntatiMnammmtimtm 60 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. licenses be granted for the sale of spirituous liquors ? " the unanimous response was " No ! " l!i CHA.PTER VIII. it's a grand stimulant. ijf T is the great plea of many that liquor is a grand m stimulant, and helps people wonderfully to do \ their work. Stimulants are, certainly, sometimes very use- ful. A whip is sometimes not a bad thing for a horse, especially if he is inclined to be lazy. A newspaper gives the picture of a little household scene, where a certain kind of stimulant was said to be beneficial. It says, " The mother has made a lap. The boy is in the lap. He is looking at the carpet. What has the mother in her hand ? She has a shingle. What will she do with the shingle ? She will lay it on where it will do the most good." A day-school teacher of the olden time, used to have great faith in certain kinds of stimulants, and he took ^ —-^liifariMi^^lMiliMMI 62 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. ^if such an interest in their application that lie kept an ac- count of their numl)er. He boasted that in the fifty-one years and seven months that he taught school, he had given his scholars nine hundred and eleven thousand five hundred and twenty-seven strokes of the cane, and one hundred and twenty-four thousand of the large rod he had. With his ruler he had struck them twenty thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine blows. He had boxed their ears ten thousand one hundred and thirty-five times, besides giving them seven thousand nine hundred and five tugs at the same member; while with his knuckles he had come down on their heads one million one hundred and fifteen thousand eight hutdred times. This was say- ing nothing of seven hundred and seventy-seven of them he had made to kneel down on round peas laid on the floor. Whether his success as an educator of children was as striking as his stimulating powers were active, history does not say. We fear that is somewhat doubtful. It is very easy to overdo the stimulating business. A man who was very anxious to help his wife one day to get up the dinner, was rousing up his energies to do his best, but he got more stimulating than he bar- ITS A GRAND STIMULANT. ea gained for before it was all over. He took up a plato of beefsteak in one hand, a cofFee-pot in the other, and a dish of peas on the arm with the steak. As he was going along, the wind blew the dinincr-room door partly to, as he approached it, and putting out his foot to push it back, the dish of peas on his arm com- menced to slide, a cold streak flew up his spine, and his hair began to raise, and he felt a sudden sickness at the stomach, but he dodged ahead to save the peas, partly caught them, made a wrong move, lost them again, jabbed at them w4th the coffee-pot, and upset the steak-dish, and in springing back to avoid the gravy stepped on the cat that belonged to a neighbor family, and came to the floor with the steak and peas and a terribly mad cat under him, and an over-flowdng pot of scalding coffee on the top of him. Then he bounded up and stamped on the steak-dish, picked up the other dish and threw it out of the window, hurled the coffee-pot after the cat that was flying as if for its life. The end of the dinner was that he w^ent to his bedroom with a bottle of sweet oil and a roll of cotton batting, and his wife went over to her mother's to cry. Any kind of unnatural excitement may stir up a man's energies wonderfully for i while, but there is sure to be a reaction after. 64 THE TEMPERANCE FLXTTLE-KIEl.I). If a man has got " the blues " the poorest tiling he can do to get roused up, is to go to gu/zling hrandy- sinashes, gin cocktails, and other alcoholic stimulants. For every degree such things help a man up, they drag him down two. Let him try what a smart walk will do for him. Let him hurry up a steep, cragged hill, build a stone wall, swing an axe over a pile of hickory or rock maple, in short do anything that will stir his thick sluggish blood and start a healthy per- spiration. A man can endure far more fatigue of l)ody or mind ivithout alcoholic stimulants than with them. A brick- maker had a number of men in his employment, some of whom drank beer to help them to work, and others were total abstainers. He found that while the beer drinker who had made the fewest bricks made six hundred and fifty-nine thousand, the total abstainer who had made the fewest bricks made Sbten hundred and forty-six thousand, that is eighty-seven thousand more than the other. There was once a very exhausting time in the British Parliament. The session was prolonged until the six hundred and fifty-nine members were nearly all sick or worn out. There were only tivo that went through undamaged, and the}'' were total abstainers, ITS A GRAND STIMULANT. When the Russians go out to war, the corporal passes along the line and smells the breath of every soldier. If there be on his breath a taint of intoxi- cating liquor, the man is sent back to the barracks. He is not considered fit to endure the strain that will be put upon him. If young men are preparing for athletic games or boat racing, all alcoholic stimulants are rigorously excluded, and the young men who have won the greatest fame in such things are total ab- stainers. Many years ago Colonel Lemanowsky, who had been twenty-three years in the army of Napoleon Bonaparte, arose in a temperance meeting, tall, vigor- ous, and with a glow of health on his face, and made the following remarkable speech : " You see before you a man seventy years old. I have fought two hundred battles, have fourteen wounds on my body, have lived thirty days on horse-flesh, with the bark of trees for my bread, snow and ice for my drink, the canopy of heaven for my covering, and only a few rags for clothing. In the desert of Egypt I have marched for days with the burning sun upon my head ; my feet blistered with the scorching sand and with eyes, nostrils, and mouth filled with dust, and a thirst so tormenting that I have opened the THE TEMPERANCE nATTLE-FIELD. veins of my arms and sucked my own blood. Do you ask how I survived all these horrors ? I answer that, under the Providence of God, I owe my preserva- tion, my health, and vioor to this fact, that I never drank a drop of spirituous liquor in my life ; and," continued he, " * Baron Larry,' chief surgeon of the French Army, has stated as a fact, that the six thousand poldiers who survived to return from Egypt were all total abstainers." m CHAPTER IX. HERES THE MEDICINE FOR YOU. |HE time was when most people thought that alcohol, as a medicine at any rate, was a very good thing, and could not be dispensed with. There is a great change coming over the vxi'ld on that point, and it is well there is. When any great reformation is started, there are always people ready to sneer at it, and this stripping of King Alcohol of his grand medical robes, has made many wise heads to shake a good deal. When it was first determined to bring railroads into use in England, people declared that henceforth the T'ace of horses would soon be extinguished, and a caricature picture wa/s circulated entitled, "Horses going < the dogs." Another caricature represented a steam coach called ^ 68 THE TEMPERANCE UATTLE-FIELD. \ ■■ I 1*1,' "Wonder," passing along, crowded inside and outside with passengers who are gazing at a group oi" horses standing in an enclosure, and who appear very startle 1 at the strange sight. One blind horse is represented as saying — " A coach without horses ! Nonsense ! Come, come, dont think to humbug me because I am blind." Another exclaims, "Well, dash my wig! If that is not the rummest go I ever saw !" Two dogs are sitting in the foreground; one asks the question — "I say. Wagtail, what do you think of this new invention?" The other dog replies, " Why, I think we will soon have lots of meat." Even a first-class journal said in 1825, " We would as soon expect people to sutler themselves to be fired off" upon one of the Congress rockets, as to trust them- selves to the mercy of a machine going eighteen or twenty miles an hour." Dr. Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination, was stoutly opposed by the medical profession and the public, and the results of his vaccination remedies were shown in the picture of a large vessel pouring out the skulls and bones of his victims, with labels on them such as^ " Died HERES THE MEDICINE FOR YOU. 69 of vaccine eruptions, " " Scald heads," " Jennerian scrofula," and " Cow itch." It is easy to invent excuses about the fine medical virtues of drink, when a man vMrds it badly. It is like the Indian who had a sore toe and who asked for whisky to cure it. Instead of applying the whisky to the toe, he greedily drank it, and said, "Now, whisky, go down and cure my toe." "And ye have taken the teetotal pledge, have ye;"' asked somebody of an Irishman. "Indade I have, and J am not ashamed of it either," he replied. "And did not Paul tell Timothy to take a little wine for his stomachs sake ?" "So he did; but my name is not Timothy, and there is nothing the matter with my stomach." There was some honestv about that. ft/ Instead of alcohol being regarded as a good thing to cure diseases, it would be far more suitable to regar would it be a cause of boasting that the robbers were the best supporters of the nation's funds ? All the harm the brigands of Italy and Greece do, is a small affair, compared with the mischief the liquor traffic is working. Instead of bragging we ought to hang I : i < \ 82 THE TEMPERANCE RATTLE-FIELD. *W ! our heads in shame, that our so-called Christian nation derives the biggest part of its annual revenue from the toleration of one of the most wicked and injurious trades that ever existed. A certain Finance Minister of our Dominion said, at a Temperance Meeting, some years ago : " I have stated that the loss in the actual consumption of liquor to our country every year is not less than six- teen millions of dollars. But we all know — painfully know — that the indirect cost in its evil influence on society is infinitely greater. I would gladly see the whole of the sixteen millions thrown into the St. Francis river, if I could be sure we had in doing so, wiped out the dreadful evils that arise from ' these ' drinks. I have had a good deal to do with the ques- tion of revenue and the raising of taxation, and I am quite prepared to establish before this audience, that the Finance Minister who, by prohibiting the traffic in intoxicating liquor should save this direct and indirect cost, would have no difficulty, whatever, in raising all the amount now derived from the liquor trade." Who can doubt it ? It would be just the greatest saving to the country imaginable, and instead of losing revenue, there is no better way in the world of largely increasing the wealth of the country and !RWi THERSrS MILLIONS IN IT. 83 reducing its tacation than by getting a complete riddance of this most costly nuisance — the liquor traffic. V' 'If**"' . ! CHATER XIL A FIG FOR YOUR LAWS. jjUT, says the liquor-seller, you cannot enforce prohibitory laws, even were they enacted, and you may as well let that alone. We are too strong for you. There is no doubt the liquor traffic is strong, and quite as reckless and unprincipled as it is strong. A gentleman, who was travelling in a railway car- riage, was endeavoring with great earnestness to impress some argument upon a fellow - passenger who was seated opposite him, and who appeared rather dull of apprehension. At length, getting some- what irritated, he exclaimed in a louder tone, " Why, sir, it's as plain as A B C." " That may be," replied the other, "but I am D. E. F. '» It is very little matter what argument you advance, the liquor-dealers A FIG FOR YOUR LAWS. 85 nforce d, and re too (/, and |,y car- iss to ienger )eared Isome- jWhy, [eplied little lealers and those on their side are often intentionally D. E. F. They can wheel about, too, from one side of an argu- ment to another, with wonderful dexterity, when it suits them. A gentleman was visiting Ireland, and one day he was accosted by a beggar : " Oh, yer good-looking honor, have pity on a poor crature ! Ah , bless your handsome good-looking face." " No, I won't give you a farthing for your flattery," he replied. Immediately another woman said — " Oh, Judy, ye hear what the jintleman says to ye — go away. That's all ye'U get for yer blarney, butthfrino- people over that way. Sure, his honor knows he s as ugly a piece of furniture as I have seen for many a day. Now, yer honor, give me a penny for my honesty." The old cry was there's no harm in the drinking cus- toms, and now when prohibition is strongly threatened, the liquor-dealers say no doubt so much drinking is very bad; we are very anxious to help to put down the ugly business, and now let us have our licenses and you will see how we will help you. How much are such pretensions worth ? Not a straw. It is no wonder it is so hard to get or enforce, not only prohibition, but even the license laws, in regard to 'tim'' 86 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. the trar^.c in liquor. When the liquor-dealer who has broken the law is brought up for trial, what ingenious twisting there often is among the witnesses to get him clear. A trial was once going on in a court between a Mr. Jones and a Mr. Smith. Jones had loaned Smith a horse which had died while in Smith's possession. Jones brought a suit to recover the value of the horse, attributing his death to Smith's bad treatment. During the course of the trial a witness was called up to testify as to how Mr. Smith used to treat horses. The lawyer, with a pleasant smile, said — " Well, sir, how does Mr. Smith generally ride a horse ? " Brown, with a merry twinkle in his eye, replied, " Astride, I believe, sir." The lawyer with a slight flush of vexation on his cheek asked again, " But sir, what gait does he ride ? " "He never rides any gate, sir. His boys ride all the gates." The lawyer with his pleasant snule all gone, and with a somewhat husky voice asked, " But how does he ride when in company with others ? " " He keeps up if his horse is able, if not he goes behind." A FIG FOR YOUR LAWS. 87 The lawyer with a triumphant air and in a perfect fury put the question, " How does he ride when alone ? " "Don't know, never was with him when he was alone." " I have done with you, sir," gasped out the lawyer. The examination of witnesses on the trials of liquor- deajers is often just about as satisfactory as that. Plenty of rowdyism, too, is a favorite weapon to prevent prohibitory measures from being either passed, or afterwards carried into effect. A prominent temperance lecturer gives a sample of this sort of thing. At one of his meetings he says, " Simple disturbance did not suit the movers in this opposition to our efforts, they soon proceeded to active violence. A rush was made for the platform, which was resisted. Again, they tried it, and they came pouring up like besiegers to a fort. Our friends stood on the defensive, and one or two, losing their patience, met the attack with physical force. One seized the water pitcher on the table and broke it over the head of one of the assailants. I had placed my hat on my head (it w^as a new one) just as another of our friends raised a chair, and as he threw it back to give force to the blow, it came heavily m Mf ^ ' -^ i w im n ti t mm m 0et> a 88 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. against my hat, crushing it in. I had spoken some weeks before to the seamen, and several of them were there that night. One man in his blue shirt, said to me, * We'll help you — they shan't hurt you ;' and several of the good fellows struck out right and left. One of the riotors came rushing towards me, and striking the table it gave way, and down he went, table and all. A seaman caught him up by the collar of his coat, and someiuhere else, and threw him out into the audience. He looked very much like what the Irishman called ' a straddle • bug.' My wife, who was in the gallery, \vhen she saw the man going out into the crowd, sprawling in the air like a frog, thought it was me ; but her fears were allayed by seeing me still standing on the platform, with a ' shocking bad hat ' on." II CHAPTER XIII. on YOU CANT GET ALONG WITHOUT US. ^jHE liquor-sellers make a great ado about their ' '"^ usefulness in accommodating the travelling public, in fact thai the public cannot do without them and their places of entertainment. This reminds us of the Irishman's dinner. Pat had been listening to a very savory description of a grand dinner, consisting of plenty of roast beef and tine smiling potatoes. " Sure," says Pat, " an' isn't that what meself had for dinner, havrin the beef'' This talk about accommodation for the public might do very well, but for one little objection, and that is, that in very many such places tliere is little or no accommodation at all for the travelling public. What accommodation for travellers is there in thousands of saloons in cities and towns '. They are a 90 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. mere grog holes, -"nfyh plenty of horribly adulterated liquor behind the jar," and a bench or two for their wretched victims to sit on. These groggeries do, indeed supply a certain questionable kind of accommodation which could be well dispensed with. A gentleman travelling through England, visited one of the old style churches. He says, " We noticed a row of hard- looking benches — reminding me of the seats in old- fashioned New England school-houses. I asked, ' What are these benches for ? ' " ' Please, sir, they are for the school children, sir.' " ' And what do the school children do on these benches ? ' " ' Please, sir, they gets the colic, sir.' " * The colic ! What do they get the colic for ? ' "'Please, sir, they are obliged to, every Sunday morning, sir.' " ' Well, well, I never heard of such a thing; obliged to get the colic every Sunday morning ? ' " ' Yes, sir, all of them is obliged to get it.' I must confess that for a moment or two I had a vision of a set of wretched children, on hard benches, in a high state of bodily distress. When one of the party, laugh- ing heartily, said, ' She means they are obliged to learn the colled for the day every Sunday morning.' " The YOU CANT GET ALONG WITHOUT US. 91 ed lig' must of a high LUgh- learn The collect is a beautiful part of the Cluirch of England Service in tlie Prayer-book. There is no doubt that li([Uor saloons are the devil's churches, where he finds them accommodation for learning his collects too, swearing, filthy language, and every other bad thing. Hotels and taverns that do make provision to accommodate travellers, w^ould be far better vithout their liquor bars than with them. As it is, these places are the centres of nearly all the rows and rowdyism that go on all over the country. You can hardly take up a newspaper, but you will see an account of some dreadful crime committed, and it is almost sure to be connected in some way with drinking in taverns. There is no need at all, that all public-houses should be liquor shops as well. The liquor-seller likes to call himself a licensed victualler. Whisky is very poor " victuals," but milk would be " victuals " indeed. Why not have milk taverns !' Milk is one of the most nourishing articles of food in use. It is a very popular beverage among women and children, and there are few men but like it. Neither tea nor coffee serve the purposes of re- freshment so effectually as milk. It is cheaper, too. Wf' « ■ 92 THE TEMPERANCE I5ATTLE-KIELD. If 'Mi if: M mm\ XIMB iM- than any otlicr fluid of so nourisliing a character. In disease it is a(hnitted to bo a capital thing as a restora- tive, and one tliat can safely he employed very exten- sively. If milk taverns or saloons were opened hy enterpi'ising men, in good situations and in handsome, commodious, and tidily-kept houses, and one half the pains taken to make them attractive, as the ordinary li(iUor-sellers take with many of their whisky shops, a man miglit do a splendid business, especially, if bread and cheese were added, and the prices charged were moderate. If we had some such public houses, or at any rate free from liquor-selling and drinking, it would redeem the character of such places from the deep disgrace that justly belongs to them now. It would make them vastly more comfortable and pleasant places to stop at ; and the liquor-seller himself miglit become what he cannot be now, a respectable, useful, and Christian man, honored and trusted in the world, and in the Church of God. CHAPTER XIV. WHAT FOLLY ! jljj!|HIS whole business, of making, selling, and drinking intoxicating liquors, is just about the greatest folly that ever was in the world. A wealthy gentleman once visited a lunatic asylum, where the superintendent physician employed mostly water-treatment in endeavoring to cure his patients. The patients were forced to stand in tubs of cold water, those slightly affected up to the knees, others whose cases were worse, up to the middle ; while those w^ho were very bad, he immersed up to the neck. The gentleman got into conversation with one of the lunatics, who seemed to have some curiosity to know how the stranger passed his time out of doors. " I have A *^>-=^ 'k.. ^ r.%. ^ 0>. \^ 9>, IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) y y 1.0 I.I 1.25 '"'-- IM 111112.5 l!i IIIIM |||||Z2 136 ™l^ 2.0 1 1.8 1.4 IIIIII.6 v] <^ /a /. 'a c*. <^ '^^ "> VI (P c?/F C? / m '///, Photographic Sciences Corporation «v V ^^ O % V ^y .. ^: <^^ 6^ '<^ % g^^^ 23 WIST MAti'J iTR^.'T WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716)872-4503 % '^o £P: C/j 1 \ J KW^W mmt 94 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. '! I I K 'M m- ',& horses and greyhounds for hunting," said he, in reply to the other's question — " Oh, are they very expensive ? " " Yes, they cost me a great deal of money in the year, but they are the best of their kind." " Have you anything more ? " " Yes, I have a pack of hounds." " And do they cost much ? " " A great deal ; and I have birds for hawking." " I see, birds for catching other birds ; and these swell up the expenses, I dare say ? " " You may say that, for they are not common in the country. And then I sometimes go out with my gun, accompanied with a setter and a retriever, dogs who start and recover the crame." " And these are expensive, too ? " " Of course. After all it is not the animals them- selves that run away with the money ; there must be men, you know, to look after them, houses to lodge them in — in short, the whole sporting establishment." " I see, I see, you have horses, hounds, setters, re- trievers, hawks, men — all for the capture of foxes and birds. What an enormous expense they must cost you ! Now, what I want to know is this ; what return do they pay ? What does your year's sporting produce ? " :\\%''h'\. WHAT FOLLY ! 96 'V^y the in the them- ust be lodge ment." rs, re- :es and 3t you 1 urn do luce ? " " Why, we kill a fox now and then — only they are getting rather scarce hereabouts — and we seldom bag less than fifty brace of birds each season." " Hark!" said the lunatic, looking anxiously around him, " my friend, there is a gate behind you, take my advice, and get out of this while you are safe. Don't let the doctor get his eyes upon you. He ducks us to some purpose, but as sure as you are a living man he will drown you." The most costly thing we have got in this country is the liquor traffic. The drink bill can only be reckoned by millions. Thousands are wasting their life's energies in making and selling it. The prisons, poor-houses, and asylums are filled with people, sent there chiefiy by drink. The judges, juries, courts, and police are kept busy dealing with criminals, most of whom are made such by rum. Tens of thousands of valuable lives are cut off* yearly, long before the time. Whatever stagnation there is in other trades, the whisky trade is always brisk. No matter how scarce and dear food is, there is always plenty of grain for the distillery and brewery, to say nothing of the dreadful effects on the moral and religious life of the people, blasting all good out of their souls, and sending them in multitudes down into hell. And what o-ood i •i! I i 1 \ ] ; i i I ! ! i . w« 1;. •-■I 96 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. pi ''i. return or compensation do we get for all this ? None at all. Was there ever greater folly than this ? I, .j • II .': "h ( 1 i it if :i*f 4 II ill i CH^ATTER XV. i I NO COMPROMISES. T will be no easy matter to effectually uproot the liquor- traffic. The wife of a Scotch minister one day was walking along the streets of Edin- burgh; she was a very stout lady, weighing over two hundred pounds. She unfortunately missed her footing and fell heavily on the pavement. A. slim young fellow, who had some acquaintance with the lady, and who had witnessed the accident, ran up to lier and said — "Oh, Mrs. S , I am so sorry; allow me to lift you lip ?" "I will be veery glad for my part," she replied; "but hae ye ony notion o' what ye hae taken in hand ? " The thing has been going on so long, and growing like a great giant, that it will take many desperate battles to conquer it. li A'f< llifi: -I t 98 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. 'A -i .!ll^ kM 8'; ;' 11 It is of no use to try to compromise matters between temperance and intemperance. You cannot unite them, nor will they work together. Any attempt of this kind is like a wedding that once took place in Minnesota. The Justice of the Peace, in a certain small town in Minnesota, who was also empowered to perform the ceremony of marriage, one morning, after tidying up his little law office, heard a step coming, and then a smart knock at the door. Opening it a large-sized determined-looking woman entered. With a Portuguese accent, and in the worst possible English, she said — " You law man ? " " Yes, madam ; be seated," he re- plied. " Want paper to take man," she said. Just then a French half-breed entered the room. Ke was unable to speak half-a-dozen words of English, and looked either scared or bashful. The Justice believed at once that there was a marriage to come off, and said to the woman, who stood with compressed lips watching him closely. " You want paper to take this man ? " " Yes," said she, " want paper. Me teach him (nice woman thought the Justice). " Me take him so quick as can." Nu COMPROMISES. 99 veen luite pt of ce in jrtain red to rning, I step jening atered. ossible " he re- " All right," said the Justice, "I'll fix you up in a hurry." " You know this woman ; can you take her ? " The man shook his head and muttered some un- intelligible words. " Oh, I see," said the Justice ; " can't talk English. Well, never mind." He ran into the street and in- vited a few friends in, and on returning with them, said to the woman — " You want to take this man for better or for worse ? " " Yes, me want to take him. Me pay." " All right." Then turning to the man, who stood trembling — " You take this woman for better or for worse, and promise to keep her," &c. Umph, and several nods of the head. Then in the name of the law, and by virtue of the authority vested in me, I pronounce you man and wife. And he stepped forward before the woman could say a word and kissed her. Slap came her hand in his face, and she clutched his hair. The new husband jumped in to take the woman away, to protect her as the Justice supposed, when in self-defence he hit him a rap on the nose. The woman pitched into the ! i * H mmm If 1'; f 100 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. SI! new husband, who in turn pitched into her ; for about five minutes there was a general hustling. At last the pp.rties were separated, when the man and the woman took anothe. turn at each other, and the blood flew iu all directions. Down went the stove, over went the table, clatter went the chairs, and into the street like a madman went the Justice, with a black eye, and the bosom of his shirt like a deed covered with red seals. The newly- married couple were separated, when through the aid of two interpreters, it was discovered that the parties were neighbors, who had got into a quarrel over a stove-pipe the night before ; each had claimed it, and from words they had come to blows. In the morning each had hurried to the Justice's office for a warrant for the other, and the result had been that our Justice had buckled them together as man and wife. It is just as absurd a blunder to attempt uniting together temperance and intemperance in the line of compromise, whether people attempt it with their eyes open, or as the Justice did, thinking it is all right. There is nothing for it but to take an out and out stand on the total abstinence and prohibition side, and declare vigorous war against the entire drinking customs of society. And the earlier in life we begin to do this the better. for At man )ther, went t the t the i shirt ewly- lie aid )arties )ver a t, and )rning rrant ustice [niting line of ir eyes right. id out le, and [nking begin NO COMPROMISES. 101 It is a good thing for young folks to learn to despise all conceited fancies about its being manly for boys to smoke cigars and drink liquor. If those who strut and swagger about, full of these ideas, only knew how ridiculous and contemptible they appear in the eyes of others, it would take them down wonderfully. It would be a good deal as it was with a young swell in one of our large cities. He had come out from London, England, and he was proceeding along the principal street of thecit^ with a measured, consequen- tial stride, such as the gentleman of high degree likes to show off with. Every now and then he cast sly glances behind him to observe the effect which his appearance was producing on the pretty young ladies whom he passed. And peeping around on one occa- sion, he observed a couple of young ladies fairly convulsed with laughter, which, however, they were trying their best to suppress. For the life of him the swell could not imagine the reason of this merriment; but he quickly understood it all, when a friend gently tapped him on the shoulder, and told him that every time the wind separated his coat tails, it reminded him very forcibly of what had happened on one occa- sion to the old bottles when the new wine was put into '11 ^! I i ! ' •> »"" *" VI 102 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. I i It 11 ^/igm / With his hands closely clasped behind him, the gallant swell darted into the nearest opening, breath- lessly exclaiming that he would give his kingdom — not for a horse — but for a stout needle aiid thread. The least meddling with liquor or tobacco should be avoided. A famous temperance lecturer, who once in a while indulged in a cigar, tells us that; on one occasion, he had engaged to attend a meeting of child- ren. Before he went, a friend said to him. " I have some first-rate cigars; will you take a few ?" " No, I thank you. ' " Do, take half-a-dozen." " I have nowhere to put them." "You can put half-a-dozen in your cap." I wore a cap in those days, and I put the cigars into it, and at the appointed time I went to the meeting. I ascended the platform, and faced an audience of more than two thousand children. As it was out of doors, I kept my cap on, for fear of taking cold, and I forgot all about the cigars. Toward the close of my speech, I became much in earnest, and after warning the boys against bad company, bad habits, and the saloons, I said — " Now, boys, let us give three rousing cheers for temperance and cold water. Now then, three cheers. Hurrah ! " NO COMPHOMTSES. 103 And taking off my cap, I waved it most vigorously, when away went the cigars right into the midst of the audience. The remaining cheers were very faint, and were nearly drowned in the laughter of the crowd. I was mortified and ashamed, and should have been relieved could I have sunk through the platform out of sight. My feelings were still more aggravated by a boy coming up the steps of the plat- form with one of those dreadful cigars, saying, "Here's one of your cigars, sir." It is hardly possible to taste liquor or have anything to do with it, without being found out, indeed all secret sins sooner or later come to light. Those who think they can take a little on the sly and escape detection, are not likely to practice that sort of thing long, vdthout being discovered and disgraced. The president of a college once had reason to suspect that some of the college boys had planned to rob his hen-roost. Near the hennery were two largo apple trees, so he went quietly out at night and waited near the trees. And after a while two of the boys came, one went up a tree while the other remained below. When they commenced operations, the doctor made a slight noise, and the one below ^took to his heels. The one in the tree asked in a whisper — M 1 i I! 104 THK TKMPKRANCE RA1TLE-FIKI.D. , )? 1 ■ :i. I ' *i i " What's the matter ? " To which the doctor replied, also in a whisper, "All's ri^dit." "Here, catch hold," said the upper oins handing down a rooster. " Here's old Prex." And handing down a hen, " Here's Mrs. Prex.' " And here, handing down a chicken, ** Here's Miss Prex; I guess that '11 do." The doctor quietly got over the fence with the fowls and went to his house. The poor robber of the hen-roost descended to find his companion gone. The next (hiy the two young gentlemen received a polite invitation to dine with the president — an honor they could not very well decline. When they sat down at the table, they saw three roasted fowls, and we can imagine their sensations when the doctor said, " Now, young gentle- men, ivill you have a piece of old Prex, Mrs. Prex, or Miss Prex .? " 'All's down f \ Miss ! fowls 1-roost itation l1(1 not .-entle- *rex, or CHAPTER XVI. ITS DEADLY GRIP. T is very easy to learn to drink, but the haLit once formed, takes hold with such a deadly grip, that it i6 the hardest thing in the world to shake it off. A little boy was once attacked by a big goose. The goose knocked him down, and stood hissing over him. The boy's father came down and wrung the goose's neck. The next day, the father looked out of the window and saw the little fellow take up one gosling after another and wring its neck. The father ran down in a great passion, and cried out, " How dare you go and kill the goslings that way ?" The little fellow looked up in surprise and said, "Dey he big gooses by'mby." If a boy or girl takes a little sip of wine or beer once in a while, it looks like a very small 106 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. matter, but that little sip is foil wed by bigger ones, then there is a liking for it, and so on, till it ends in all the horrors of drunkenness. In certain parts of India, the natives have a very clever way of catching the tiger. In that part of the country they manufacture a very sticky kind of bird- lime. As soon as they have discovered the tiger's den they take several hundred of the large tropical leaves, that are plentiful there, and cover them on both sides with the bird-lime, and then spread them about, a short distance from the den. The hunters then retire to a safe distance and await the coming of the tiger. By-and-by, he comes sauntering along to where the bird-lime leaves are strewn. Presently a big leaf sticks to his paw. He gives it a vigorous shake, but the clammy thing won't go, and he tries what a whisk at the side of his head will do, and he succeeds in smearing his eye. By this time he has a leaf on each paw, like a slipper, and probably several sticking to his tail. He now loses his temper, becomes furious, bites at the limed leaves, and rolls among them till both eyes are blinded, and his body all covered over with them. He roars dreadfully, and the hunters know that now is their chance, they rush in and despatch him with a shower of bullets. ITS DEADLY GRIP. 107 3r ones, ends in i a very •t of the of bird- crer's den al leaves, »oth sides about, a len retire the tiger, (vhere the leaf sticks but the whisk at cceeds in taf on each ^ticking to IS furious, them till ered over ters know Lpatch him I I It H 108 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. i^l i i ■■■•: Hi ■■1 li^' m 111 1: Boys and girls, never, NEVER taste intoxicating liquor ; then, and only then are you safe from its treacherous and fatal power. If you have ever learned to take a little, ever so little, have courage to give it up now, and have done with it forevermore. It may cost you an ettbrt, but it is well worth your while to try. A few years ago, a boy, who was left without father or mother, went to New York, alone and friendless, to seek a situation as an errand boy, until he could get some better position. This boy had been in bad com- ])any and had got into the habit of using liquor and cheap cigars. On looking over a newspaper, he noticed that a merchant in the city wanted a lad, he called on him and offered himself for the situation. " Walk into my office," said the merchant. The boy took off his hat and sat down ; but the gentleman observed a cigar in his hat. " My boy," said he, " I want an honest and faithful lad, but I see you smoke cigars ; and in my experience I have found cigar-smoking lads to be connected with various evil habits, and if I am not mistaken, you are not an exception to the rule. You will not suit me." John hung down his head, and left the store, and as he walked the street, a stranger and friendless, the ITS DEADLY GRIP. 109 r[Uor; erous little, with & it is father ndless, M get i com- or and noticed lied on ^tleinan counsel of his mother came forcibly to his mind, who upon her death-hed, had called him to her side, and placing her hand upon his head, said to him, " Johnny, I am going to leave you. You well know what misery your father brought upon us, and I want you to promise me, before I die, that you will never touch one drop of the poison that killed your father." The tears trickled down Johnny's cheeks. He went to his lodgings, and throwing himself upon his bed, gave vent to his feelings in sobs that were heard all over the house. But Johnny had moral courage, and before an hour had passed, he made up his mind nevei' to taste another drop of liquor, nor smoke another cigar. He went back to the merchant, and said — " Sir, you very properly sent me away this morning for habits that I have been guilty of ; but I have neither father nor mother, and although I have done what I ought not to do, I have now made a solemn promise never to drink another drop of liquor, nor smoke another cigar ; and if you will please try me, it is all I will ask." The merchant was struck with the decision and energy displayed by the boy, and at once employed him. That boy was a hero. There is little fear of a boy who, with the blessing of God, makes and keeps such noble resolutions. :t i mm ^ rw I I I Hi'SililU 'fl'i' liji Ii t ■ 110 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. Admiral Farragut, the great United States naval commander, said to a minister with whom he was talking one day : " Would you like to know how I was enabled to serve my country ? It was all owing to a resolution I formed when I was ten years of age. My father was sent to New Orleans with the little navy we then had. I accompanied him as cabin boy. I had some qualities that I thought made a man of me. I could swear like an old salt, could drink a stiff glass of grog, and could smoke like a locomotive. I was great at cards, and fond of gaming in every shape. At the close of dinner, one day, my father turned everybody out of the cabin, locked the door, and said to me — " ' David, what do you mean to be?' " * I mean to follow the sea,' I replied. " * Follow the sea ! Yes, be a poor, miserable, drun- ken sailor before the mast, kicked and cuffed about the world, and die in some fever hospital in a foreign clime.* " * No,' I said, ' I'll tread the quarter-deck and com- mand as you do.' •' * No, David ; no boy ever trod the quarter deck with such principles as you have, and such habits as ITS DEADLY GRIP. Ill laval was id to ion I r was then some I glass I was shape, burned id said drun- about foreign |r deck Lbits as you exhibit. You'll have to change your whole course of life, if you ever become a man.' " My father left me and went on deck. I was stunned by the rebuke, and overwhelmed with mor- tification. * A poor, miserable, drunken sailor before the mast, kicked and cuffed about the world, and to die in some fever hospital ! That's my fate is it ? I'll change my life, and change it at once. I will never utter another oath, I will never drink another drop of intoxicating liquor, I will never gamble again.' And as God is my witness, I have kept these three vows to this hour. Shortly after I became a Christian. That act settled my temporal, as it settled my eternal destiny." There are none in the world that suffer more from intemperance than many boys and girls ; and there are none who can do more to put a stop to this dreadful curse, if they will, thdn they. A man who had once been a terrible drunkard was relating some of the early scenes of his life to a gentleman, as he was driving him to a temperance meeting. " If you had seen me eight years ago," he said, "you'd have thought I was a hard enough case. Everything I possessed in the world was carted out in a one-horse cart ; wife, children, furniture — mum m H 112 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. a, ' «?■ isikiiLie! i'iiiii|ii AH' 1 1 1 1 1 H i * 1 |! iPlf 1 1 m i ; . 1 what there was of it — and all. A man lent me the horse — and such a horse — you couldn't see his head more than half the time. I knew he had a head 'cause when I'd pull the rein, he'd kind of come round — and so slow; why, the only effect of leathering him was to make him go sideways, but not a bit faster. Now, I am driving you to my native town with a span of horses ; they're mme — I own this team. That off horse is a good traveller, (get up there, g'lang)," and we spun along at the rate of twelve miles an hour. Slacking his speed, he turned round and said — "Do I look like a brute?" " No, certainly not," the other replied. " Well, everybody said I was a brute, but I am not a brute. And yet — well, I will tell you. I came home one day, irritated with liquor, ready to vent my anger on anything. My boy, about ten years old, came to the door, and as soon as he saw me he darted off." "'Dick, come here, come here !' I said. When he came, his face was bloody and bruised, his lip cut, and one eye swollen. "I asked, * What have you been doing, Dick ?' " ' I've been fighting,' he answered. " * What have you been fighting for ?' lorse than nl'd 3I0W ; make I am jrses ; e is a spun ,cking 'i I "M I am came vent years Ime he len he Lp cut, ITS DEADLY GRIP. 113 " He said, * don't ask me, father, I don't want to tell you !' " 'Tell me this instant, what you have heen fighting for.' ' I don't want to.' Full of rage I caught him by the collar of his little jacket, and roared out — " ' Now tell me what you have been fighting for, or I will cut the life out of you.' " *0h, father!' he cried out piteously, * don't beat me, father, don't beat me, I struck him with my fist on the side of his head,' — " * Now tell me what you've been fighting for.' "Wiping the blood and tears from his poor swelled face with the back of his hand, he said, 'There was a boy out there told me my father was a poor old drunkard, and I licked him ; and if he tells me that again, I'll lick him again.' " Oh, sir, what could I say ? My boy, ten years of age, fighting for his father's reputation. I tell you it had like to kill me. But, oh, oh, the drink ! the cursed drink — my love for that was stronger than my love for my child." I ii.t I ! CHAPTER XVII. SUPPLIES CUT OFF. |HY should a thing that does so much mis- chief as intoxicating drink he made at all ? Is it not a great sin to permit men to make it by the thousand l^arrels, and allow others to sell it and tempt people to drink it all over the land ? If some man with a great deal of money, were to start a large establishment for manufacturing ■poisoned bread, that nobodj' could eat without being made sick, and that would be sure to kill hundreds every week, would it be right to give such a man permission by law, to go on making as much bread of that sort as he liked, if he only paid in to the Govern- ment a large sum of money, every year, for the privilege ? Would not every man, woman, and child, 33 !' SUPPLIES CUT OFF. 115 cry, "Shame on such conduct!" No matter how many foolish people there might be who were fond of the poisoned bread, would there not be a stern demand that such a murderous establishment be j>ut dotvn by latv. Now, such a manufactory as that would be no worse, nor even as bad, as the distil- leries and breweries that are sending out floods of poison, that is killing tens of thousands both body and soul. Should not such manufactories be stopped by law ? Yes, every one of them. There was once a superintendent physician in a lunatic asylum, who had a plan of his own of testing his patients who were recovering, to find out whether they were fit to be discharged from the asylum. He had a good-sized water trough supplied with water through a pipe from above, with a stop-cock by which the water could be turned off or on, as was desired. He brought his patients out to this trough, and asked them, one after another, to empty the water out of the trough. Some of them would seize a pail and begin to bail out the water, not paying any attention to the fact that all the time they were bailing out the water with the pail, it was coming in through the m 1 i ;l 116 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. pipe above, about as fast as they were throwing it out. These patients he sent back to the asylum, as far from being cured. Others would at once notice the pipe, and would go the very first thing and turn off the supply of water coming in, then they would very soon have the trough empty. These he considered fit to leave the establishment. Now, that is about the way it is with this liquor traffic. As long as the distilleries and breweries are allowed by law, to send out liquor in streams into the com- munity, it seems almost like foolishness for temper- ance people to try to do away with the evils of intemperance. If a few drunkards are reformed, the taverns and saloons are always making plenty more to take their place, and thus the great army of inebriates is kept full, and the horrible iniquity goes on. Let the stream of alcoholic liquors he cut off at its source; let the manufacture of these liquors be branded by law, as it ought to be, as an infamous nuisance ; and if men dare to make or sell any more, let them be put in prison, like other criminals, and there will be some chance to empty society of this overflowing curse. Boys and girls, what say you to that ? When you grow up, will you not, in the name of the Lord, determine as far as you can help, that this shall be done ? SUPPLIES CUT OFF. 117 Wherever this plan, of prohibiting by law the making and selling of liquor, has been tried, or has had the ghost of a chance to work, it has done an immense good. Wherever it has been tried, too, it has met with every sort of opposition from the liquor traders, whose favorite plan is first to do everything they can to prevent the prohibitory law from working, and then turn round and say, the laiu itself is no good — it won't work, nor never will. That is just the same as if all the thieves in the country were to say, what is the good of all your laws against robbery? You are not going to extinguish o?« 7' busi- ness. There are plenty of thieves in spite of all your laws, and there always will be. You may as well repeal your laws. But we are not going, for all that, to repeal our laws against stealing, and vje are going, we hope very soon, to make rigorous laws against the biggest thief of all — the liquor traffic. In a certain town in New Jersey, containing ten thousand inhabitants, no liquor is allowed to be sold. Compare the record of that town with that of another in New England, with a population of five hundred less, in a single year. In the New Jersey town there was one indict- ment for a trifling case of assault, one house was u' ■; 118 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. [i i K.I .1 it liji ^]!il ! burned ; the cost of the police seventy-five dollars ; for the relief of the poor almost nothing at all. In the New England town there were forty liquor shops 5 there was a jud^e, city marshal, four night-watchmen, and six policemen, all kept busy. It cost three thou- sand dollars for a fire department, and for the support of the poor, huo thousand dollars. Every man and woman, every boy and girl, ought to make up their mind that the liquor traffic must be stopped. It is certainly the most frightful danger that our country is threatened with. It threatens our destruc- tion. It is said there is a marvellously large subterranean cavern in France, where an immease lake stretches out for unknown lengths. King Francis the First, when he was a reckless, adventurous vouth, deter- mined to explore this cavern. Floating on a barge, brilliantly illuminated and attended by some of his bravest courtiers, the gallant Francis boldly struck out, a very Columbus of the caverned deep. ±Ie landed on the opposite shore, after sailing two miles over this sheet of water. He then turned his bar^e in another direction, resolved to fathom all the mysteries of the lake. By-and-by, an experienced boatman declared that the boat was no longer on a l-'IW' !! \m SUPPLIES CUT OFF. 119 stagnant lake; but in a current that was perceptibly increasing in strength, and one of the courtiers called the attention of the monarch to a hollow noise, heard in the distance, which, like the current, was every moment growing stronger, and even swelling in hor- rific thunder. They rested on their oars while a plank, with several flaming torches tied to it, was committed to the water. It floated rapidly away became agitated, tossed w and down in the distance, and finally plunged down the unknown cataract to which the explorers were so ignorantly hastening. " Back oars," was the cry, and rowing for their lives, they escaped. That was a frightful hazard — that is the hazard of our country to-day, through this awful liquor-traflSc ; its tendency is to hurry us to certain destruction. It is high time to shout, " back oars," and escape, through God's help, by the total overthrow of the liquor trade. This is indeed about the only correct view of the matter — one of two ruins — either the ruin of the liquor business, or the ruin in the end of most of that which makes our country happy, good, and prosperous. They were putting up the frame-work of a very large grist mill, in a certain place, and when it came I I ''IWWWMK^HI 120 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. i| ' |i ! Ill f:i Mm to raise one of the big bents to its proper position, the foreman of the squad of men at work, found himself short of hands sufficient to hoist it to the top. As he shouted " yaw, he," every man strained every nerve to the utmost, but it would not go. There was not strength enough to lift it to its place. There it hung, half way up, and not a foot furtlier could all their efforts raise it. It was a terrible moment. The foreman, in despair, despatched a messenger to tell the wives and daughters of the men, of the perilous situation they were in. The women rushed to the spot and stood in to the work, each grasping a lifting pole. The foreman shouted, " yaw, he, lift or die." Every man and woman lifted with the energy of despair, and the great bent swung up into its place. It is " lift or die," too, with us, in regard to this evil of intemperance, and it will require all that every good and true man, woman, and child can do, with God's merciful help, to accomplish our deliver- ance. This is no dream of imagination. Some of the greatest nations of ancient times were overthrown through drink. It was in the midst of a great drunken debauch that mighty Babylon fell. While the Persians kept to water-drinking, they were all SUPPLIES CUT OFF. 121 m, the limself p. As every There There r could noment. nger to , of the rushed isping a lergy of ilace. to this Jl that can do, ideliver- ome of thrown la great While ere all powerful ; but they became tremendous wine-drinkers, and they, too, went down. Alexander the Great, after a career of conquest, the most wonderful ever seen in the world, was himself slain by wine while still he was a young man, and all his vast conquests scattered to the four winds. No nation could stared before the Romans, while they preserved their simple temperate habits ; but they became rich, luxurious, and drunken, and they too fell to rise no more. Intem- perance is quite capable of overthrowing the might- iest empires of either ancient or modern times, so let ours heiuare. ! I m CHAPTER XVIII. ON WITH THE AEMOUR ! |HE most powerful help in fighting the giant of intemperance has always come from good Christians — Christian ministers, and pious men and women of the Church of God. It is true, at the same time, that the churches have never yet done as much for this cause as they might, and as, we trust in God, they will in the future. It is a very good proof of a real revival of religion among a people, when they immediately go to work to give more money, and work harder for the temperance cause and other good causes. A colored preacher was once holding revival services among his people. One evening he said to them : " Breddern, we'se had a berry * freshin ' time in dis church. It look like de good Lord was here fur shure. ill' H ON WITH THE ARMOUR. 123 ; \ H le giant >m jy;ood d pious >od. It 7e never ;ht, and It is a ^mong a to give Lperance services lo them: Le in dis ir sbure. But I can't say for sartin' till I see w'at comes of it all. You'se been shoutin' loud 'nufF for the Lord to heah ef He'd been off on a vacation, 'an you'se been tumblin' roun' dis church floor like you was wrastlin' wid de Debbil. But jest you listen while I talk to de centre of de mark fur a minnit. Dar ain't none of you con- warted unless you're conwarted fur de whole week, as well as fur Sunday nite. Sunday nite 'ligion's well nuff, fur as it goes; but it don't go fur as salvation un- less it lops over on Monday mornin.' I kin tell 'bout de strength of dis 'vival when de contribution plate cums back. Lots of men has 'ligion every day else 'cept in dar pocket. Nodder ting I wants to bring to yer notiss. In my goin' round I hab 'bsarved dat while dar's lots of hen roosts in dis yer neighborhood, der's mitey few chick'ns onto em. Now, if by dis time nex year dar's more chick'ns dan dar is now, and if dose chick'ns don't have to roost so high as dey do now, I shall 'elude dat dis present 'vival am a big success. But if I hear de same noises after nitefall dat I heard last nite, jess as tho' some chick 'n was in trubble, I shall 'elude dat de 'vival didn't go fur 'nuff." A Vice-president of the United States, just a short time previous to his death, was making a speech in Washington, in which he said : " Probably, we have uir 124 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. ••! I sixty thousand churches in the land, fifty or sixty thousand clergymen, and eight millions of church members. Now all these profess to believe that God has placed us here to prepare ourselves for a higher and better life. They profess to believe that they have consecrated themselves, all they are and all they hope to be, to the cause of the Divine Mv„ster. Now we have in the United States hundreds of thousands of poor drunkards. Thousands of the young men of this country are going headlong to ruin. The human mind cannot fathom the evils and the sufferings, the habitual use of intoxicating liquors brings upon its victims. I say to-night, then, that I have little hope of the triumph of the temperance cause, until the ministers and professing Christians rise up in their might to the duties of the occasion. I call upon every Christian mini jter of the land, and upon every member of the Church of Christ, to come up and aid this work by precept and example." A gteat interest is taken by Christians of all de- nominations in sending the Gospel to the heathen in foreign lands, and it is one of the noblest and grandest things that the Church of God can do ; but should we not feel, at least, as 7nuch interest in saving the wretched drunken heathen, that we have in thousands ON WITH THE ARMOUR. 125 iixty urch God igher have hope w we ids of )f this I mind bbitual ms. I pf the nisters to the ristian of the ork by all de- bhen in randest \\x\d we |ng the nisands at home. Drink has made multitudes of men and women among us as degraded, vicious, and brutal savages, as any to be found in any part of the heathen world. Why should not our most intense sympathies and generous efforts be put forth for those at home, as well as for those abroad ? A score or more of ladies had organized a Foreign Benevolent Society. They had met at the house of a Mr. Johnson, who was a good-hearted man, and a re- spectable citizen, but rather sceptical in some things. He was at once appealed to, to give a few dollars to the society, as a foundation to start on. Mrs. Graham, one of the members, said to him — " It would be so pleasant in after years for you to remember that you gave this society its first dollar, and its first kind word. ' He slowly took out his purse and brought out a ten dollar bill. The ladies smacked their lips and clapped their hands. He asked — " Is this society organized to aid the poor of foreign countries ? " " Yes, yes, yes," they chorused. " And it wants money ? " "Yes— yes." " Well, now," said Johnson, as he folded the bill in a tempting shape. 126 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. " There are twenty married women here. If there are fifteen of you who can mal^e oath that you have combed your children's hair this morning, washed the dishes, blacked the cook-stove, and made the beds, I'll give the ten dollars." " I have," answered two of the crowd ; and the rest said, " Why, now, Mr. Johnson ! " • " If fifteen of you can make oath that your hus- bands arc not wearing socks with holes in the heels, this money is yours," continued the wretch. " Just hear him ! " they exclaimed, each one looking at the other. " If ten of you have boys without holes in the knees of their pants, this X goes to the society ! " said Johnson. " Such a man ! " they whispered. " If there are five pairs of stockings in this room that do not need darning, I'll hand over the money," he went on. " Mr. Johnson," said Mrs. Graham, with great dignity. " The rules of this society declare that no money shall be contributed, except by members ; and as you are nor •. ■.. riber, I beg that you will uthdraw and let us i:rr. .f 1 with the routine of business." tiere lave [the s rest hus- heels, oking knees ' said roorA >> oney, ccreat loney I as you iw and CHAPTER XIX. DON T BE STINGY. |E ought, certainly, to give money as liherally to help such a work as the temperance cause as any other good work that is being carried on ; but we are afraid with a good many people, that this is not the case. There are grasping people in the world that grudge giving a dollar to almost any good cause. They seem to think that happiness lies in gettinsf hold of every cent they can, and keeping it with a dreadfully tight grip. They are as likely to find happiness in this way as a Scotchman once was in catching fish. He had been out fishing all day in a loch in Selkirkshire, and had never had a bite. A shepherd had been watching him all the time, and as he was turning to go home in a very desponding mood, the shepherd said — 'if 128 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. " Ye'll no hae killed mony trout the day ? " " No ; I've had no sport at all — not a nibble." " I dare say no," replied the shepherd, " for it's weel kent there was never a trout in that loch since the beginning of creation." A man who seeks happiness in mere mnoney, is fish- ing where there has been no fish since the creation of the world. " I've been a member of this church for twenty years," said a man in a social meeting, " and it has only cost me twenty-five cents." The minister, who was present, said to him, " The Lord have mercy on your poor stingy soul ! " A man once was noted for his loud " A mens" in prayer-meetings. He would shout and respond at a great rate, and sometimes rather disturbed the quieter portion of the worshippers. One evening he was unusually demonstrative. The leader of the meeting requested a brother to try and stop him. In a few moments the exclamations all ceased. " How did you succeed so quickly ? " aske^ the leader afterwards. " Oh, I just asked him for a dollar for foreign missions, and that stopped him ! " A temperance lecturer gives us a little of his ex- don't be stingy. 129 was H the )reign s ex- 130 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. 4i i perience on one occasion: "At one place I had spoken on three evenings, when the Committee of Management told me they had no funds in the treasury, and did not like to take up a collection, but if I would come again and give them three more lectures, they would pay me. I made the arrange- ment, and sometime afterwards went again. At the close of the second lecture, a gentleman rose and said — " * I believe the gentleman who has addressed us left this town on the occasion of his last visit with no remuneration for his services. I propose that a collec- tion be now taken for the purpose of paying him.* " Another gentleman rose and said, * I dislike col- lections ; but if we must have one, I propose that it be postponed till to-morrow evening, when we will come prepared.' The third evening was. very rainy, and the collection was taken up, amounting to one dollar and eighty cents. A gentleman standing near the table when the money was being counted, re- marked — " 'It is very small ; I do not mind making it up out of my own pocket to two dollars,' and as he laid down two ten cent pieces on the table said, with a great deal of emphasis — DON T BE STINGY. 131 " 'For the laborer is worthy of his hire.' "My expenses had been jive dollars, and I refused to take two dollars for six days' work, and I left. The next morning three liquor-sellers sent me a note with five dollars enclosed, as they thought I had worked hard enough to be paid." As a contrast to that, there was a poor woman in England whose name was Harriet Stoneman. She was afflicted for thirty-nine years with a most dis- tressing disease. Her sufferings at times were dread- ful. It was just as if her bones were being ground to pieces or burnt up in her body. At first she was the most miserable creature that you could imagine. But after a while she became a Christian and learned to love Jesus. Then she was a neiv creature, indeed. Her religion did not cure her disease or take away her pains, but, oh, it gave her wonderful support and com- fort under them ! She never murmured nor complained, but always seemed cheerful and* happy. She had always some pleasant word to speak of Jesus, and the joy she found in Him. Three shillings a week was all she had for her support, yet out of this small sum she regularly laid by a penny a week for the mis- sionary cause, for t^venfy-eight years. Money given from right motives to helo on any part 132 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. of God's work is never lost, but is sure to have good results in the end. Some years ago a gentleman in England died, leaving a widow and two sons. They were quite well oflf, but the sons turned out wild and dissipated young men, and they soon spent most of the property left them. The mother ha 166 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. 'f ii li'-^ri what abated, and some one had discovered the colored angel, who had caused the alarm, quietly perched on a limb of the old spruce, and wanted to get him down to whip him. Dow then resumed his discourse saying, " I forbid all persons present from touching that boy up there. If a colored boy with a tin horn can frighten you almost out of your wits, what will you do when you shall hear the trumpet thunder from the Archangel ? How will you be able to stand the great wrath of God ? " , It is conscience that makes cowards of us all, and it takes very little to scare the guilty consciences of liquor-sellers and drinkers, who know well the iniqui- ties of their doings, notwithstanding their absurd appeals to Scripture in self -justification. The Biblo is the deadliest of enemies to intemper- ance and every other sin. There was once a little boy, who went to Sunday- school regularly, and had learned his lessons so well, that he had a great many Bible verses in his mind. He was a temperance boy. He was once on a steam- boat making a journey. One day as he sat alone on deck, looking down into the water, two ungodly gentlemen agreed that one of them should go and try to persuade him to drink. So the wicked man THE BEST OF SWORDS. 167 colored ched on ^et him iscourse ouching :in horn lat will thunder able to all, and ences of 3 iniqui- absurd itemper- Bunday- so well, is mind. 1 steam- done on ungodly go and ;ed man drew near to the boy, and in a very pleasant voice, and manner, invited him to go and drink a glass of liquor with him. " I thank you, sir," he said, '' but I never drink liquor." " Never mind, my lad, it will not hurt you ; come and drink with me." Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, whoso- ever is deceived thereby is not wise,' was the boy's ready answer. " You need not be deceived by it. I would not have you drink too much. A little will do you no harm, and will make you feel pleasantly." '"At last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder,' " said the boy; <^ I think it wiser not to play with adders." "My fine little fellow," said the crafty man, putting on a most flattering air. " I like you, you are no child, you are fit to be a companion of a gentle- man. It will give me great pleasure if you will come and drink a glass of the best wine with me." The lad looked him steadily in the eye, and said, " My Bible says, y.^ T..M ii«> 174 THE TEMPERANCE BATTLE-FIELD. i there sat a Christian mother rocking her babe to sleep. The husband and father liad been called suddenly oii on business, and there had been no defence provided for that house that night in the wilderness. As the mother sat there in the cabin, rocking her babe to sleep, glancing to the floor, she saw a ruffian's foot projecting from under the table. Having rocked her child to sleep, she then knelt down and said — "Oh, Lord, keep this child, keep me! Oh, Thou who never slumbereth, watch over our cabin to-night! Let no harm come to us. If there be those abroad who wish us ill, bring them to a better mind. The Lord have mercy upon all wanderers, all who do deeds of violence and death. Bring them to Thyself — bring them to pardon and to heaven." As she rose from prayer the ruffian came out from under the table and said — " There will be no harm to you to-night. Pray for me. I am the wanderer that you .spoke of. Pray for me." Years passed on, and that Christian woman sat in a great temperance meeting. There was a great orator that day to be present, and as he preached righteous- ness, temperance, and a judgment to come, his eye fell upon the countenance of that woman. His cheek grew r.ooK rf'WAHDS. 17o pale, and he almost failed in his speech. He was the converted robber whom her fervent prayer had saved. At the close of the meeting they joined hands, and a few words of conversation passed, and some one said : " Why, where did you form the acquaintance of that orator ? " " Never mind," she said; " I have known him many years." Has not the temperance cause failed for want of more prayer ? Have we not been criminally neglectful of this mightest of all weapons, in this deadly struggle ? There is a legend about a place in Cornwall, Eng- land, called Tintagel. In the church there they had a fine set of bells, whose music excited the envy of the folks in the neighboring village, called Bottreaux, whose church had none. The Bottreaux people were determined to have a chime of their own. The bells were ordered from London, and as the legend runs, the vessel containing them was nearing the coast, and the pilot, who was a native of Tintagel, and a pious man, upon hearing the Tintagel bells ring, devoutly thanked God they were so near home, and prayed they might soon safely land. The captain, who was a prayerless, ungodly man, said, " Thank the ship and the sails — thank God ashore." J 70 THE TEMI'EHAN'CE BATTLE-FIELD. " Nay," said the pilot, " we should thank God at sea as well as on land." " Not so," said the captain, " thank yourself and a fair wind." The pilot persisted, and the captain grew angry, swore, and blasphemed. The ship, meanwhile, was drawing nearer land, and the rocks were seen crowded with the inhabitants eagerly waiting for their much- loved bells. Suddenly a heavy bank of clouds gathered and darkened the entire sky. A furious wind arose and lashed the sea into mountain-billows. The vessel became unmanageable, and driving towards the coast, capsized and foundered, when all on board perished, except the pilot, who, supported by a piece of the w^eck, was washed ashore unhurt. 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