| Show rev br bf beecher and the traffic has not god connected with all lawful avocations I 1 tile welfare of the life that now is and tt which is to come and can we lawfully amass property by a course of trade which fills the land vr with th beggars and widows and orphans and crin crimea les which peoples the graveyard grave yard with premature mortality and the world rid of woe with victims of despair 7 could all the forms of evil produced iu in the land by intemperance gome come apon us in one horrid ar ariy riy it would the nation and put an end to the tha traffic efin if in every dwelli dwell idt rf built by blood the atone from the wall should utter all ill the theories cries which be bloody traffic extorts and the beam of the timber should echo them back who would build such a house aud and who would dwell in it what if in every part of the dwelling from the cellar upwards all the halls and cli ambers babb lings and contentions and vice and gro groans atio aad d shrieks gh rieks and wailing were heard by day and I 1 night what if the cold blood oozed put out and stood in drops upon the walls and by preternatural art all the skulls and aad bones of the victims destroyed by ui temperance intemperance should stand upon the walls in horrid scull sculpture I 1 tare within and without the building who wound would rear such a baldin building 7 what if at eventide and at midnight ae the airy forms of men destroyed by intemperance were dimly seen haunting the distilleries and stores where they received the llie bane fol following lowin the track of the ship engaged in commerce waling walking upon the waves flitting athwart the deck sit ing upon the rigging and sending up from the hold within and from the waves without groans and loud laments and gaitings wai wail tings lugi who would attend such irto tores resT who would labor in such each distilleries who would navigate such ships oh when the sky over our heads one great whispering gallery brings down about us all tile the lamentations and woe which intemperance creates and the firm earth one sonorous medium of sound sends up from beneath the failings wailings wai tings lings of those the commerce of ardent spirit had sent thit thither lier these tremendous realities awaiting assailing our sense would invigorate our conscience and give decision to our purpose of ie formation but these evils are as real as it if the stones did cry out of the wall waif and the beam answered it as real as if day and night failings wailings wai tings lings were heard in every part of the dwelling and blood and skeletons were seen upon every wall wallas as r real e h 1 as it if the ghostly forms of departed victims flitt flirted flitted e d about the ship as she passed over the billows and showed themselves slightly lightly about stores and distilleries band and we may add breweries and with unearthly I 1 voices screamed in our ears their loud joud lament I 1 they are as real as if the sky over our heads collected i and brought down about us all the notes of sorrow in the land and the firm earth should I 1 open a passage for the walling wailing of despair to come 1 up from beneath |
