GOD'S WORK.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 45, 27 September 1884, Page 3

GOD'S WORK.

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There has never been a work of any description, carried on by humun instrumentalities, that has been more eminently a service and worship ot God than the Temperance reform.

When if. commenced, the world was under a full head of steam downward. Christianity was to peri>h. or destroy the iiquor traffic. Were the latter to continue undisturbed, or had the war u^aitibt it been finally abandoned aaj time during the past 50 years, wo can all now see that our candlestick of Christianity and civilization would have been removed, and our country been doomed to swift perdition. It was always aud is to-day God's work, whoever does it, saint or sinner. The end of God's work on earth is to make men pure, virtuous, healthy, holy. and happy, and fir them to be citiz ns of heavsn. The wine and beer aud strong- uriuk interest has a pur,.o.^e and a mission precisely the opposite — to subvert and di-stroy Christianity, root and branch ; to make men vile and 'bul, di-eased and wi ked, miserable aud accursed, to fit thf?m lor hell, and send them there in bulk.

And in various ways the leadership of (iod has been visible all along the toilpoine way. Although at every step the thinkers an<l workers of the reform have been accused of folly, error, falsehood, fanaticism ; every position they have taken, every step in advance, every new discovery proclaiu ed ; tho' it were assailed, nemed, and derided by tfc* schools ot divinity, medicine, science, by the pro.ss "ano the multit'iue ; tho' the Bible was twisted to disprove it. and the pulpit stood ajrhast at the novel heresy, in not a single instance have we been found on untenable ground or obliged to abandon a doctrine once adopted. To he continued.