Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-04-19
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THE EVE EsE.rST.

Rev. 7. ID. Talmagc preached a stirring
temperance sermon Few weeks ago. from
the text in Genesis: at is my sons coat
an evil beast hath devourcd him" W.
make these liberal extracts from its pam.
| phlet publication by the National Temper
ance Society:
Joscph's brethren dipped their brother
coat in goats blood, and then brought the
dabbled garment to their father, cheating
him with the idea that a ferocious animal
had slain him, and thus hiding their inla-
nous behavior
But there is no deception about that
which we hold up TO your observation to-
night. a monster, such as never ranged
African thicket or Ilindoostan Jungle. hath
tracked this land, and with bloody nav
hath strewn the continent with the mangIed
carcasseS of whole generations and there
are tens of thousands of fathers and moth
crs who could hold up the garments of their
slain boy, truthlully eXclaiming, at is my
sons coat; an evil beast hath devourod
him."
There has, in all ages and cimes, been a
tendency TO the improper use of stmu-
lants. by this vice Alexander the Con-
queror was conquered. The Romans at
their icasts fell Off their seats with intoAi-
cation. -Four hundred millions of our
race are opium eaters. India, Turkey,
and China groan with the dcsolation, and
by it have been quenchcd such lights as
HALEY and De Quincy. One hundred
millions are the victims of the bete-nut
which has especially blasted the East Indies
Three hundred millions chew hashisb, and
Persia, Brazil and Africa suffer the deiri-
um. The Tariars employ murowa; the
MeNicans the agave; the people at Guara-
po, an intoxicating quality taken from sug-
arcane; while great multitude, that no
man can number, are the disciples of alco-
hol. TO it they bow. Under it they are
tramped. In its trenches they fall. On its
ghastly holocaust they burn.
Could the muster-roll of this great army
be ca led, and they could come up from the
dead, what eye could endure the reeking,
fostering putrefaclion and beastliness?
What heart could endure the groan of ag-
ony?
Drunkenness: Docs it not jingle the
burglars key? Does il not whet the as
sassn's knife? Does it not cock the high
wayman's pistol? Docs itnot wave the in
cehuIary loren has IL not sent the phy-
sician reeling into the sick room; and the
with his tongue thick into the pul-
pit? Did not an exquisite poet, from the
very top Of his fame, fall eibbering sot
INTO Tue gutter on MS way 10 be married to
Of ct
one OF the lalrest daughters OF New Eng
lahu, ana at tue very hour the pride was
decking hersell ior the altar ana did he
ho' ule oi ueiir'uih tremehs' ann 1st unat-
'enueu, III hosPitaiF
NO Ohrlstlah man can dc indifferent to
wnM' every hour oi every day, goes on at
peachheht 'riai ADVANCED some ol the men
"no WIRE 10 re"uer 'helr so'eiIh Nerdiet on
tne suDlect were reeiihg III ana out oi the
9eha'e eohainper-the lh'oAlca'eu represeh-
ta'iNeS oil lree Ohrlstiah people IL was
great question "hcther seFerni members
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