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Show FISHIR -TALKS ON LIQUOR WHC ''No character-In history- l Mo typical typi-cal of the hold liquor traffic as Go liath of Gnlh, the world's typical typi-cal bully, as be" cried: 'I . defy the armies of Israel!'" said Frederick VI-Dlng VI-Dlng Fisher, as he opened his sermon ser-mon at the Methodist church yesterday yester-day morning, on th liquor traffic from the standpoint of tho Uible. Continuing, he said: "The sane time for a man to decide the stand to take on the liquor n.iostion is not in tho heat of a political campaign, but in sober hours Pl.e these. So I come to face this TVdiath of the liquor from the standpoint of that basis of a Christian people the Mible. "In the face of thV claim often made thai the P.ilde upholds the 11-o.uor 11-o.uor traffic. I call tho attention of every Christian man to the following stand Of Almighty God on this question: ques-tion: "First God stands for total abstinence. absti-nence. He says. 'Wine Is a mocker; strong drink is raging, and whomsoever whomso-ever is deceived thereby is not wise.' 'Woe nuio thctn that are mighty to drink wine.' 'No diunkard shall inherit in-herit the kingdom of heaen.' "Second God Is a prohibitionist. He says. 'Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink and putteth the bottle to him and rnakcth him drunken drunk-en also.' "Woe unto him that justi-fieth justi-fieth the wicked for a reward ' "'Woe to him that bnlldeth a town with blood and established a city by iniquity." No man can accept these words nnd support for a moment the license system that curses this city today. No blood money can ever repay re-pay a city for licensing sin." In closing Mr. Fisher, quoting the prophecy of Christ iu Matthew's gospel, gos-pel, "Every plant that my Father has not planted shall be rooted up," viv-cdly viv-cdly portrayed the sure and posit I vo doom of the liquor traffic In America Amer-ica and called on men. regardless of business, to lisk all and stand by God in Ills work of unrooting the curse of intemperance. |