Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1878 — Temperance and the Bible. [ARTICLE]

Temperance and the Bible.

Take down your Bible and hunt up the following: Who was the first drunkard? —Genesis ix., 20, 21. Who took the first temperenee pledge?—Judges xfiL, 13, 14. Who first pledged himself ?—Daniel 1., 8* Was he My wiser thereby ?—Daniel L, 15, 20. Can a drunkard enter the kingdom of heaven?—First Cor., vi„ 9,10. Where was the first temperance society held ?—Jer. xxxv., 6, 8. What blessings did God pronounce upon the first temperance society?— Jer. xxxv., 81,19. Is temperance a vice?—Gi. v., 23. When is it a virtue?—Second Peter, 1., 5, 7.

Cincinnati Enquirer: We have read with care the speech of Governor Hendricks before the Democratic State Convention at Indianapolis, and with pleasure we can say that it is an open, straightforward, manly expression of principles, and is fully in aceord with the glorious democracy of Indiana. Ohio and Indiana are now In harmony on the only question that divides the people of the United States into parties. The platform of principles announced by the Indianapolis convention speaks the real voice of the people of the West and South and will soon be taken up by the plundered and oppressed masses in the East. Now, it is in older that the organs of the British capitalists and their brethren in crime ih the East should begin to denouced and blackguard Tom Hendricks as a swindler and repudiator.

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