of the gambler, the element of the burglar, the prop of the highwayman, and the support of the midnight incendiary. It countenances the liar, respects the thief, esteems the blasphemer. It violates obligation, reverences fraud and honors infamy. It defames benevolence, hates love, scorns virtue and slanders innocence It incites the father to butcher his helpless offspring, helps the husband to massacre his wife and the child to grind the parricidal ax. It burns up men, consumes women, detests life, curses God, despises heaven. It suborns witnesses, nurses perjury, defies the jury box and stains the judicial ermine. It degrades the citizen, debases the legislature, dishonors statesmen and disarms the patriot. It brings shame, not honor; terror, not safety; despair, not hope; misery, not happiness; and with malevolence of a fiend calmy surveys its frightful desolation and unsatiated havoc. It poisons felicity, kills peace, ruins morals, blights confidence, slays reputations and wipes out national honor, then curses the world and laughs at its ruin. It does that and more. It murders the soul. It is the sum of all villainies, the father of all crimes, the mother of all abominations, the devil's best friend and God's worst enemy.
AT WATERLOO, IOWA.
The Presbytery adopted the following resolution unanimously and with enthusiasm:
Resolved.—That the Presbytery of Waterloo is in favor of the entire destruction of the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and to secure this end we pledge our hearty support to those men and those measures which will secure the legal prohibition of said traffic throughout our State.
The Ladies Presbyterial Missionary Society held a very interesting meeting Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday evening a praise Missionary service was held. Addresses were made by Revs. T. S. Bailey, State Superintendent of Home Mission work, Wm. Bryant, of Grundy Center, Andrew Herron, of Albion, and Mrs. Van Hook, missionary from Persia. All the addresses were excellent. Mr. Herron made the last address, and roused the audience to the highest pitch of enthusiasm in closing with the sentiment that we shall have, in Iowa, a school house and a church on every hilltop, and no saloon in the valley. The music led by the fine choir of the church was most excellent, and the singing was joined in heartily by the congregation, which completely packed the house.—(October 10, 1883.)