Those who are counted worthy to enter into the delights of that heavenly land are those who have had their “fiery trials,” tried and made white.  Man would have no credit and could not hear:  “Good and faithful servant;” if he had no temptations to do otherwise, man would be but a mere machine.

God has never used for his work, any but those who prohibit evil.  The pilgrim fathers were forced from the mother country because this principle of prohibition burned in their hearts.  When England would oppose the colonies, it was prohibition that smashed the tea, over in Boston harbor.  George Washington was put at the head of the colonial armies that prohibited, by much bloodshed and suffering, the oppression from the mother country.  Our Civil War was the result of the principle to abolish or prohibit the slavery of the colored race.  Now we have a worse slavery than England threatened us with or the poor blacks suffered at the hands of their taskmasters.  This slavery of soul and body, is one that leads to eternal death.  The forces of God are with the abolition, or prohibition of wrong.  The forces of darkness and death are with those who are willing to be led captive by the Devil at his will, and to lead others under this grievous yoke of those who are trying to perpetuate the cause of evil.

There are men who desire to be loyal, who are voting for license or in license parties, because they do not stop to think.  The people are generally right on all questions.  They go wrong more for lack of thought, than for lack of heart.  Edmund Burke, the greatest English stateman, said:  “The people have as good government as they deserve.”  Because the people have always had the power, and in America especially, they are sovereign.  The president and all others in office, are but servants of the people.  In another chapter I have given what the supreme court says about the impossibility of licensing wrong by law, or according to law.

Hear the language of the Declaration of Independence:  “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created free and equal, that they are endowed by their creator, with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”  The licensing of intoxicating drink results in suicide and murder, whether or not the saloon-keeper or state be held responsible.  Some one is.  Who?  The man who consents to or aids by his vote is most criminal.  It is said that drink kills a man a minute.  Suppose that we had a war that killed a man every five minutes.  Would there not be howling for an end of bloodshed.  This is more than ten times worse, for the soul is more valuable than the body.