A Discourse Embodying Facts Connected With the Early Settlement And Growth of Mo
A Discourse Embodying Facts Connected With the Early Settlement And Growth of Mo
Darwin Chichester
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Duncan, a pious Methodist woman, died, and no one could be found to offer prayer at the funeral. Such incidents help ^^^ """^^'dsm k\ iX^»P.^ J^^l ^\\ DISCOURSE. 15 to show what trials Christians who came in had to meet, a. S well as to reveal the moral condition of the place. The two prevailing sins of those days were intemperance and sab- bath-breaking. Not long after this time the smoke of five dis- tilleries might be seen ascending from this town, and most of them in sight of the village — ...and, be it remembered, the population was very small compared with the present. Ardent spirits, in those days, if not the lai-gest article of consumption, was certainly the most important article of export. This was years before the great temperance reform, and good men engaged in the manufacture of, and traffic in, alcohol. The wonder is, not that so many were des- troyed by it, but that so many escaped. To the poor Indian it proved a scourge more destructive thnn the ])lague. How sad a picture to see an Indian with all the refinement of feeling and native politeness of "Tall Chief, " bowing to the power of this destroj'er.
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