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one, they assemble in their own name, they have no aliass, and they gather for the purpose of satisfying the cravings of ft natural appetite, while the others are preparing to tan the fires of an unnatural one whose tendency is to brutalize them and dTag their manhood down into the dust.In the afternoon of the same day I saw a young man still in his teens, the son of a recently widowed mother, passing my house in a beastly state ol intoxication. As I looked upon the sad sight, I thought of the pangs of that mother’s heart when she should hear of the dis-frace of her boy, and I could not elp but ask, ‘ How long, oh Lord, how long,” will these human vultures be permitted to pray upon society, breaking hearts and desolating homes.I learned yesterday that there was a jug at the express office that had been waiting a claimant for about two years, the man who ordered it having died before it arrived. I remarked to my informant that if all who ordered jugs for yesterday had died before their arrival there would not have been preachers enough in the country to have buried the dead. The only •effectual way of dealing with this evil, and breaking the grip of Rum’s Apollyou, is to lav the axe at the root ot the tree and cut it down. Yea, dip it up by the roots and cast it into the lire.Bro. W. J. Cocke writes that “Fiske received 239,700 votes against 15,200 for St. John four years ago,” and then asks, :‘Gainiug, is it not?” Yes, it is growing slowly, but surely growing, and it will continue to grow until the cause is obliterated and the people set free, for “a nation is in motion for a land without a slave.”“Thenawake! arouse, ye freemen! for our chains shall disappear:Oh, the land we love to honor shall l»e free!And a new emancipation shall re-echo far and near; %Tn the dawning of this glorious jubilee.”
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Richmond Missionary Weekly
Richmond, Virginia, US
Thu, Jan 03, 1889
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