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• V? :1 you find f.e\n at a plain table, plain food. Well, it is mean if it only be for piling up a .miserly hoard; but if it bo to give abettor education to your children, if it be togive help to your wife when she is riot strong, if It bo-to Keep your funeral day from being a horror beyond endurance, because it.isthe annihilation of your homo-rthat is grand, that is magnificent. It depends Very much upon what you save for, whether it is: moan or grand. Iknow yctira; wbmen in this city wiio are denying themselves all luxuries to educate brothers, or to eive ayouugersister musical advantages. What dp you call that! Itis nest to the angelic. Now, I want to say to the workingmenof America, so far 1 as I can rea'jhthem, and I want to'say at the same tim\> the same things to all business men, men of all classes and occupations, the greatest foe of labor, the greatest foe of literature, the greatest.foe of religion, the greatest foe of ail classes of people,- is strong drink, and I want this morning in the name of God to implore you to quit the use of it. I warn you to take one square look at the suffering man who becomes the despoiler of the wine flask or the beer mug or the whisky bottle^ and understand that a vast multitude are running for that .goal. Some of you are running for it! When a man comes from under this influence he feels bemeaned. I do not care how reck- le-s he talks. He may say: \I don't care;\ Hedoes care. He cannot look you in the eye-without a rallying of his energies and 1 force of resolution. The Philistines have bound him hand 1 and foot and gouged his eyes 1 out and shorn his locks, and he has already started to grind ja the mill of aigreafc horror. Just as soonasa nian, whether he be a workihgman, or, as we:call him, a bust-, ness man, gets under the innuendo of strong drink, he will try to persuade you first of all that he canstop at any time: He cannot. I will prove it. Ho loves himself, he love3 his. body, he loves his mind, he loves his soul. He knows his habits are ruining all th3.se , yet he beeps right on. Why does he not stop? He cannot stop. He loves his family; he thinks the finest group in all the world is his, wife and children; he knows that he is, that hissoh and his daughter are going out under the baleful ihfluenceof having bad an inebriated father. Wiry does he hot stop? He cannot. I had a friend who for fifteen or twenty years was going down under this prccess. fie was a generous soul. Behad- f iven thousands oC dollars to Bible societies; raet societies, missionary societies, and you could not make dnappsatiribehalf of charity but he liberally responded: His ordinary mode with intimate friends was when applied to for help to say: \Put my name down on the subscription paper for what you think I ought! to pay, and I will pay it.\ Glorious soiil: Not many likehim: But strong drink ,piit\' its grappling hooks : upon him and 1 he went on, on^-dbwn, dbwii. He said': \I can stop any time I want to, don't \be. Worried,\ His pastor .grptestedj' and said: \Don't ybii . know 4*jJ6u ?vare ** A. ;-#• stop at. any time; i t is only a'questibfi otv 'time. I can stop as easily as turn'hgmy^ hand over.\ He had a second attack. His physician said:. \Now you niiis* stop. If you have another attack like . this I can't be any help to you, .nor can any doctor. You must stop.\ \0b he said, \doctor I could stop if I wanted'too, if I thought it best. I think you are mistaken, doctor.\ He is dead, my friends, dead. What killed him? Bum! One of the lasfcthings he did was to try to persuade his friends lie could stop- if he wanted to, if he .thought it : was best to stop^-deihonstratingthe factthat there is a pofut beyond which if a inan f ;o he cannot stop. A man said to a Christian rieiid: \If I Were told I could not get any strong drink before to-morrow night unlessl had my fingers chopped off, I would say: 'Bring a hatchet and chop them off.'\ I had a dear friend in Philadelphia who was chid- ing his nephew for yielding to this tempta- tion. The nephew said: \Why uncle, if there was a cannon and on the top,of the cannon Stood a wine glass, and the .thirst were on me and I knew as j advanced that cannon would be fired off, I would start for that wine cup.\ Oh, meii of the, working classes and men of all classes, do not get this grip on you. It is an awful thing for a man to wake up and say; \I couldhave stopped once, but I cannot stop now. I might have lived a useful life and died a Christian death. Bead but not buried. lam a walking corpse. I am only an apparition of what I oiicewas. I-arai caged immortal, and my soul beats-agaihstthewiresof the cage on this side and beats against the wires, of the. cage on the other side, but: cannot get out, and there is blood on the wires and there is blbod on my soul. Destroyed without remedy. Ayt& <!«• n there is.all the sorrow-that come trom the loss Of. physical health. Doctor . BewalWsome of the aged men in this congregation .may remember the time when he went through\ the country and electrified audiences. I am told by those who heard him that he had. eight or ten d'a- grams, which he displayed before the people, showing the devastation of alcoholism on the human stomach: There were thousands of people who turned away from these ulcerous sketohes swearing by the help of Almighty God' they would never again touch intoxi- cating liquor. Oh, what, the .inebriate suf- fers. Pain files on every nerve and travels every muscle, and gnaws every bone and burns with every flame, and stings with every poison, and pulls with every,tor- ture. What fiends stand by his midnight ! •pillow?, What horrors shive«> through his soul? What groans tear his ears? Talk of the rack, talkof the. inquisition/'talk of the, crushine.juggernaufc-he feels them -all at once. There-belies in one of the Wards of the Tiospital. The keeper comes up and says:. \You must be- still; you'vo got to stop this noise; you're disturbing the whole hospital.\ No sooner has the keeper gone away than the poor soul says: \Oh God, Oh God, keep met Take-the devils off of me; Oh God, give me rum, give me Sinn!\ And then when'th,e keeper comas he asks the keepor to loll him. \Stab me, slay me, smother me. Oh God, Oh God.\ It is no fancy sketch. That is going, on qit up and down this laud. Moreover, it is \the death some of you will die. Ti:en there are all; the sorrows of a de- stroyed home; I do hot care how much a man loves his wifeand children, if. this pas- sion for strong drink comes uponhim, aha he cannot get it in any other way, he will bo willing to selj them all into eternal bondage; Ihate that strong drink. Do not tell me a ltiancan be:hanpy whenheJdnows that he-is breaking his wife'sheart and clothing his chil- dren with rags. Ah! there are thousands of children to day on the streets Qf the city and on the roads of the country, unkempt, nuebmbed and unbared for. Want written oh every patch of their garments' and Pnevery wrinkle of their prematurity old face. They would have been in the house. bf God and as well clad:as any of you biit for the fact that their fathers were drunkards. They went down: and took their families with them, as they always do. There is not ah assemblage in the' United States to-day in which there are not woinen who are fighting the battle: for bread alone. The man who promised fidelity, tho man who was ordained as the head of tho household is destroying himself and destroying all those dependent.upon him. Oh Hum, thou foe of God; thou despoiler of the human race; thou recruiting officer of hell}, I hate thee. But thSnegle.t take3 a deeper tone when I tell yoii that it despoils-^-tnisevil despoils the soul. The Bible indicates again and again that if our hearts he unchanged dndwe go into the other world unregenerate,, bur evil appetites;and passions go with us and' there torment us. In, this world the mancould borrow or steal five cents tb get that which slaked his thirst for a little while, hut in eternity, where is the rum to come from? Dives wanted a drop of water, Theihebriate wants . rum. Where shall it' come from? Who will brew it? Who will mix it? Who will fetch it? Millions of worlds now for the dregs which the young man slung out on the sawdusted floor of the restaurant. Mil- lions of worlds now for tbe rind pitched.out from the punch bowl of the earthly banquet. Dives wanted water. The inebriate wants rtini: If a, spirit from the lost world should comeupforsohie' work in a grogshop and then go back, taking one drop on his infer- nal wing, and that one drop on the . Bend's wing could be put oh the tip of the • tongue of the lost inebriate, however small the drop, if it only have tho.smack of alco- holic liquor, that one drop on the inebriated tongue would: make Him cry; \Aha! aha! rtimt is rami\. It would wake up all.the iBchoesxjf the dammed,, as they .cry:. \Give me*um! give me rum!\ I do hot think, the f sorrow of ;,thb inebriate in-the next world will 'be-,the-.absence of Gbd or the- absence of tight. br:|hj absence of holiness; it will bb. jithjabssaceof jjim. Isayittethe_i«irJa.ne., ness classes,\-to \all thBSB'anerehants; 'fcffi-alr' thojemen whetherthey toi| for a living with jbrauvfir handler feet, ybu ought to quit yourjsfcrong drink, have-nothing to do with- it. \\Look not upon the wine whenitis red; when it inoveth itself \aright in the cup, for at the last it biteth like a sei'pent, and it stihgeth like an adder. \Ohj Ithinkitisabout time for another women's crusade., such as we. had seven.or eight years in Ohio, when thirty women went at and bleared all the giopshops outof a town' of a thousand inhabitants- thirty women surcharged with the Holy Ghost, their only weapons prayer and song, and many a grogshop was closed as they came up, the owners saying:; \Now don't come.here and pray and sing, we'll close up.\ If thirty women surchargeo with the Holy Ghost could clear out rum from a village .of a thousand inhabitants, three thousand consecrated wpnien of Brooklyn in the strength-of Almighty God banding to- gether and going forth, could in six months clear out at least three-fourths of the grog- shops, and if the three thousand should band together, and they had no other leader, I, a minister of the most high God; would offer my services, and I would come out in front of them and would say: \Come oil, come on with your prayers and your songs and your Christian entreaties, come on! Some of you will take this left wing of the enemy,, and others of you will take the right wing of the ;enerhy; {For- ward I the Lord of Hosts'is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge. Down \with the dramshops, down with the grogshops. (Ap- plause.) Ah! my friends, rather than your ; applause, let it be your prayers to Almighty God that this belo ved city, the pride of our resi- dence, may have the,awful curse of strong drink lifted. Not waiting for those mouths of hell} the grogshops, to be closed, start you on your duty,for if I said afew moments ago fcbatthere was a point beyond which if a man went he could not stop, I have to tell you that the Lord God Almighty by His rasseecaii help any man to stop, I WBCTK- m one of the meetings in New York wher* there was a large number of reformed drunk- ards, and I had a: revelation made, tome there that I never before understood. The substahca of thete3timbny of twenty or thirty people was this: . \We were the vic- tims of strong driulc We tried to quit. We couldnot. We made failure: We bslbhged to all sorts,of societies andwe tried tp^et oyer the habit, but we always failed. But after a while, we found God and gave bur hearts ,to Him. We have ;been greatly changed. Not only, have bur hearts been changed, but our ' bodies have been changed. We don't feel the thirst any more. We don't.HavetBetemptatlon.\ Not only can theigrace of Christ change the heart, but: it can recuperate and change the body, and though to-day you feel at the roofepf, your-tohgue.tbe cray- mgsof a mighty thirst, call on God. and He will rescue you; You cannot do it your- self. He.can. He can. And if. yija have only oejan nt go astray, if it is - a i nujttor or luxury to you: when the liquor poura into the cup, whellnr it tp a golden , ohalice or a pewter ihug, I want you, oh men, to readin the foam on th • ton of the undn whitest lottprs the word,, \Baware!\' But go rlgl}t on as some of youore going and in tph years you wiUas# yo-jr body lie down in adrunkard'sgravb, nni as toyburimmor- tal soul you will-lie dbwii in,a drunkard's : hell; It:is an awful thing tb say, but I am compelled to say it. Oh, when the books of 'udgment* are opened, and ton million drunk- ards come up to get their d om, I want you ib testify that this day, in all kindness and : loveftnd plainness,I Warheijyou'tb beware °t the influences which have already reached 5 \ our home and are putting out Some: o'f it's ghts, a premonition of darkness ; for- ever. Oh, that to-day, you might' hear intemperance with drunkards'bones on the top of the liquor cask drumming the dead march of immortal-souls. And thin fchesight : of a wine glass would make you shudder,, and'then the color of the liquor would re- mind you of the blood pf the slain, and the foarii on the cup would' make you think of the froth be the maniac's lip, and you would go.home from this service to kneel down , ahd pray- Almighty God that rather than your children should become victims of such : a habit you might carry them out to tha cemetery and put them down tb the las. Weep; until all over their grave would, come the flowers—sweet' prophecies of the \resur- rection. God hath a balm for such a wound; but tell.me, tell me, tell me, .what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted TiBath of a •• drunkard's sepulchre? He Asks His Constituents to Re- turn Him to Parliament. SrxTr New York car-drivers, have been .arrested for rioting during the recent tie-up of the various lines. EIGHT young men, while fishing on Long Pond Lake, near Hozeltori, 'Penn., were thrown intothe water by the capsizing of their boats. Two of them were drowned. AT a meeting of prominent, IrishrAiteri-; cans jn New York, heldfor the purpose of' raising money tp aid Parnell and, his Irish Home Rule followers, $14jQ0O was immedi- ately subscribed,, and an appeal \to all lovers of liberty\ was.issued.. OFFICES HANSEN, the seventh Chicago- policeman' fatally wounded by the bom!*- throwing Anarchists, has just died in-the hos- pital Dit MOBBISON MIIOTORP, editor of the Emisasi5lity\(Mp;) : leading paper between St. Lpjiisand San Eranciscb, was I shpti and seriously wounded; while riding in-a Street car at Kansas Gityby if. D. elariisle,' alawye'r. -Twootherpassengersiiil.thecar^ 'a promiiiont merchant -naned, Hale and a. f ,shoptmg;grew out of attabkss <hpofi i: Oarljsle': in the Times.. -'• \ THEgi-andsphof the Binperpr of Brazil, ; now oh a visit to this country, made a call upon the President' a few days since, and the following evening attended the Staterecep- tion. As-agreed upon in committee, the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill appropriates $31,- 053,822. The estimates aggregated $32,5M r 600. The appropriation for the present year was.$26,205,747. ADDITIONAL postmasters nominated by the President:—George L. Sleeper,. Natick, Mass., Edward P. Kimball, Ipswich, Mass.,; Charles Kieth, Greenfield, Mass.; Miner Samons,' Canisteo, N. Y.; Herman Baumer, Johnstown, Penn.; Thomas Brady, Bergen Point, N. J.; Edward McGlung, Fairfield, 111.; Julia t>. Young, Wright's Grove, III;' Henry W. Clendenuin, Springfield,- 111.; David W. Flours, Newton,, Iowa; ; John C. Logue, Central City, Neb.; H. H. \ Dolen, Brownsville, Neb.; Charles JS. Mor- rell, Kiirwin, Neb.; Isaac T. Garrj Neilsville, Wis.; Wilson O. Lyon, Elk Horn, -Wis.; Consider A. Stacey, Tecumseh, Mich.; An- drew Phlegar, Bodie, Calj;j B. F. Mahon, Anaconda, Mont.; William J. Brynan, San Francisco. ADDITIONAL riotous demonstrations, have occurred ,atf*SlIgp, Ireiand. The -British Government has put TJlster under martial law. . \ . A CHILIAN, bark was wrecked at Valpa- raiso during a storm, and thirteen persouson board, including the captain, bis wife and their three cKUdren,, were drowned; THE city of Vancouver, British Columbia, is, in ashes. Three thousand' people have been rendered hcmeless. BIOKBBEL shooting has become a f avoriti sport at Lake Whitney,,hear New Baven The spprtsraan witkhis rifle walks along th< bank,,and when a pickerel darts out fron: neafthe shore and stops an instant near th« surfacPhenresj and, if he isa good shot, kill the fish. - ilways PuM Mis mpts. \Jones what afooijt S'nVitu ? i)o ;you;, think he ishobiBst?,'' - * \<3hVyes i'thiuk, so; he paid me,\ \What did he' owe ybii ?\ 'A spnrid thrflshiijg. He paid it wiinpiit being, diitined for it, too.\-^- 'Nevi^ian \Independent A Clear Stat8iii8iit of His Mic^ on : the Irish Home Eiile ^Question! Mr. Gladstone has: issued a manifesto ,tc, the eloeeors of Midipthian, Scotland, He begins by saying; \In consequence of the defeat of the bill for the better BPverninehf of . Ireland, the Ministiy advised and Her Majesty was pleased to sanction the dissolution of Parliament for a deci- sion by thenatiphof the^a^6ii;undii2ewise the simplest issue that has been sunmitted'to it for half a century. It is only a sanse of the •, gravity of this issue which induces me; at a, period of life when nature cries aloud for repose, to seek, after sitting in thirteen Pa*;, liaments, a seat in the fourteenth, and with this view to solicit fpr the fifth time the_ honor pf your confidence. Attbe . ^ lastelection I endeavored in iny addresses.' •* and speeches to impress upon you the fact that a great crisis had arrived in the affairs of Ireland. Weak as. the Gby- ', eminent was for ordinary purposes, iti.had ••• great advantages for. dealing, with\; that ., crisis. A comprehensive: measure \ pro- ceeding froih that Government •_ would : . have received warm and - extensive ' support from within the Liberal party,, and would probably have closedthe Irish control , versy withih;tne' present session and have 1 left'the Parliament of ,1835 free 'to: ,prbE(ecut« the now stagnant work of; ordinary legisla- tion r with,the multitude of qujestibhs if ,ta% pludei My earhestihope was/to support the, late Cabinethjsuch a^courseof pblifey.\ Cohtihufajg, Mr. Gladstbhe T says' thaf'on the 26th of last January the opposite policy of coercion was declared: to, nave been the: choice of. the Gbyernmbrit\ the Eai'l of Carnarvon- alone refusing' to 'share in it. The Irish' .quStibn was thus placed in theforegrbiihd tbthe excluslonstff' every other. The ihour, as all felt, was come:\ Mr ; Gladstbhp goes on: to'say ;thst Kehad.undertakehtbiormahew CaBinet'bn: the'anti-cbercibh policy,, with the fullest ex-. .planatioh to those, whese aid hb had'sought as^cblleagues, and continues: ' \Will you:,govern Ireland by cosreionor willybuletIrelandinanage herown.af)fair8'ii -To debaieifcthis address this and that detail of the lately: defeated- ibill would ohb^be tb disguisethistissue, atidsvbuldbe aSfutileas to.aiscussithe Eeltihg, stumbling, bver-shift- • ing and'e.vbr-Yanisfiihe prpjbets-ofau^iat^r- '. ; mediateifc&'ss\wn'icji ii'ave proceeded' from the sececling Eiberais, There are two clear, poidi^£.^&na^-'intelii£ible,,»p]anW-< jiefbrls ^tfoht • ffg™fa(»^-«\S^rpoa*flthe:*orerninSn* - ;ari*Wei-p^tJie:pla*^,yibrd'Saisbury i -*OUr', .p^.isiithat: Brelanashbiiia; undei' w,elf ebri-t sidered cohditibhSjJranffliSt lief own afftira! ; His>plan.is to ask JPafiiamenti to renew\ rei pressive laws and enforce ifhem resolutely for twenty years, by'the end of: which time, he assures usjlrelandwill befit to acceptahy government in the way of a local: govern- ment, on the repeal of thb^coerbion la\Vs: you \ may wish to give her. _ ''\\[\'''. \Ileave this \Tory project toispeatt-for itself in its unadorned simplicity, and I turn tbthe proposed policy of the Government. Our opponents,,gentlemen, whether Tories or * seceders, have assumed the name bf Unionists. • I deny them the title to it. In intention, in- deed, we are. ail Unionists aliks, but the umpn they refuse to modify is in its present shape a paper union. Obtained by force and fraud and- never .sanctioned or accepted by'the Irish'hatibri. They are not Unionists,, but paper. JJIionists. Tnie union is to be tested by the sentiments of the human beings, united. Triedby this criterion, we have less union between Great Britain and Ireland how than we had under the settlement oi 1-782. .\ : . •'Enfranchised Ireland, gentlemen, asks through her lawful representatives for the- revival of heir domestic Legislaturei-not on the face of it an innovating, but a restora- tive, proposal She urges with truth that the centralization of .Parliament has been the division of peoples, but she recognizes* the fact that the Union, lawlessly asit was obtained, cannot and ought not to be re- pealed; She is content to receive her legis- ' laturp in a form divested of prerogatives which might have impaired ner imperial interests and better adapted than the 'settlement of 1782 to= secure to' her regular control of <her own affairs.. She has not repelled but has welcomed the stipulations for the protection bf tba minority. Tosuch provisions weJiave given and shall give.careful heed,, but I triistScpt- land will condemn the attempts so singularly made to impbrtinto the confroversy a ven- omous element of religious bigotry. Lather take-warnihgjbythb deplorable note in Bel- fast and other placesin the North. \Among the 'benefits, gentlemen, I antici' pate from your acceptance of our policy \are The consolidation of the united Empire and great addition tbits strength. • \The stoppage of the heavy, constant and! demoralizing waste of thephblic treasure. • \The abatement and gradual extinction of ignoble feuds^ in Ireland, and that develop- ment'of her resources which exDPiience shows, to bb a natural consequence of free and pr> derly government: \The redemption of the honor of Great Britain from the stigma fastened upon her,, ahnostfrom timeimmorial, in re^peet to: Ire- land, by the judgment of the whole,civilized' world; and, lastly, the restoration of Parlhy meht, to its dignity and efficiency and the regular progress of the business bfvth'e.couh- try;\ v -.; .'•'.
