The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-16
BROOKLYN CHURCHES.
TALMAGE'S TABERNACLE.

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Views OF Rev. II. De witt Talma ge-The
Imprscticabiiity of q Women's War ON
Whisky In New York and Brooklyn
No Woman with Enough Faith and
Courage to Lead-A Surprise for the
Temperance People.
At the Brooklyn Tabernacle yesterday morning
Rev. I. De Witt Talmage preached sermon upon
the present temperance crusade at the West and
the impracticability Of its being carried on here,
for the reason that there seems TO be no woman
with SUFFICIENT faith to lead forth the hos.- This
reason Is different from any heretofore given, and
among the vast congregation that filed the Taber-
nacle. The text Of the sermon was awake,
awake, Deborah; awake, awake" found in the
fifth chapter o; Judges, which refers
to the avenying Of Israel under Deborah
and Barak. After briefly speaking of the incidents
mentioned In this chapter, the preacher said:-
An army Of Canaanitlsh and Internal influences
has come down TO destroy this lair land OF ours.
This army comes on armed with the decanter and
demDohn, and legislative enactment, and brewers
tank and apothecary's bitters and the dstilers
"worm, that never dieth To meet these influ-
ences some very brave men have gone out and
have tried to break TO pieces iron charots of
destruction; but for the most part the land has
the West, the Lord Almighty raised Ills voice
until it rang through the churches and the homes
and the gin palaces and of upon the prairie, say
ing, "Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, awaken
And now this moment, while speak, this great
Austerltz goes on, While earth. heaven and hell
await
THE sTUPENDoUs ISSUE.
Before proceed to discuss the modes and poll
cies by which the great sin OF drunkenness is to be
assaulted, want to tell you two or three things
which think will bear me out in the statement
that something RADICAL don't say what-needs
to be done. The first TACT want to put before you
is this-that there are coming up vast multi
tude Of children In this country who have from the
very day OF their birth thirst for strong drink.
Whether 1t be developed in early life 1t Is there
they have got 1t. There are young men in this
house to-day who have had two lnherltances-
one an inheritance Of dollars they have nearly
spent that the other Is the Inheritance OF q
thirst for strong drink. They have not spent
the lower haunts OF society an uncounted thrOng
OF children who have peen familiar with the Odors
time they started Ia life. Another TACT want to
show u the multiplicity OF drinking houses all over
our cities. There never has been much reason tor
mans being thirsty great while. Where 1t was
only ike an eruption the BODY OF the city, it has
now become multitude OF carbunces, that
threaten the very lie OF the community. What is
the use OF our assaulting these things by mere
preachingf 1t don't reach the men who are en-
gagged IN the drinking. We might
STAND TALKING UNTIL THE DAY OF DOOM
about the beauty OF sObriety; 1t would not touch
them. We can't even have the Liquor law exc
in power they dare not execute the law lest they
lose votes, and when the democrats are in power
they dare not execute the law lest they lose votes.
Meanwhile, between dlscOntentiOn or political par
ties, the virtue and religion of The city die.
Mr.. Talmage then referred to druggists as liquor
sellers. Instead Of being the means OF help they
mad often become the means OF dissipation. In
some forms OF disease stimulus was needed,
alcohol had an important work to DO;
but what was to be said about the de-
ceptions practsed upon the people OF this day by
bitters OF all sorts : The preacher spoke of the
immense amount of money spent Tor liquor
and then devoted the balance OF his sermon
first. "Do you approve OF the assault made by the
women OF the West upon the liquor buslnesss'
and in the second place, "Would you have the same
assault and the same scenes mere at the Easts''
answer, first, that there nave been some things
done there that have no sympathy with, ana
also assert that so long as we have SO many fools
masculine we ought to be willing to have a few
tools feminine: Naughter.) Then l go further,
and aver tnat consider the campaign against the
THE GRANDEsT AND MOST MAGNIFICENT THING
that has been done on earth since the day when
hurled ruin and death on the armed Oppressor OF
Israel. Great applause.) 1t seems that by the
force OF prayer and Christian song there were in u
little while 800 saloons shut up, and IN some OF the
villages all the drinking places were abandoned.
You tell me they will open again very soon. l
six weeks IL seems that these men engaged in
that business did not know how to cope with that
warfare. They knew how to fight the Maine
Liquor law ana temperance societies, but not how
TO contend against prayer and coronation" and
sold Hundred" and "Brattle Street" In one
brought out to dispense the women. They
with what poor success For that German
regiment was made up OF gentlemen, and gentle
men don't like to shoot women with hymn books IN
their hands. They found that cunning for female
prayer meetings was very poor business. laugh
there has been threat after threat of violence
all over the land Let US give fair warning TO all
military companies to all mayors TO all courts OF
tan women engaged in this holy war shall, under
OF police club, fall down wounded or slain, that
day there will be a fire klndled IN this country
FIRE OF INDIGNATION AND NATIONAL WRATH
that all the waters OF the Mississippi and Ohio and
Hudson can never put out; and 1t will keep on
that influence VIII keep on rolling as with
besom OF destruction, over all this country, until
the last liquor snop and the last dstilery and the
last gin store and the last brewery shall be
trampled out under the feet of an indignant PEG.
OF the Lord God Almighty is on that business, lor-
ever and ever. Amen. They say 1T is not
be- home crocheting or Watching the Ioaves
OF bread in the oven to see that they
don't get too brown and hard. Naughter.) Oh,
my soul which would have been the most digni-
fed, to have staid In houses already desOlated by
rum shivering amid hall clad children, waiting for
the staggering step of father or son or brother or
to put on the only nat and shawl that had not been
pawned by their companions, ana go out under
the leadership OF some great-sOuled Deborah, and
with the whole lamshed family at the back, and
to attempt with the
ARTILLERY OF PRAYER AND SONG
to put an end to those Institutions where their do
nestle ruin mad been lnaugurated9 Who are you,
seated in your homes OF plenty and sObrlety,
that you should be so severely critical of these
women at the Wests bid them Godspeed in the
work.
Now come to answer the second question:
"Would you have the same kind OF war made upon
the liquor establishments at the East and in our
midst as at the WestY" l say most emphatlcally,
mol but for different reasons from what have ever
heard given. IL Is not because think the women
of the West were undignihed unchristian or
that the women OF Brooklyn are too good Tor such
holy iconoclasm; but 1t is because there seems
to be
NO DEBORAH WITH SUFFICIENT FAITH IN GOD
to lead forth the host Here at the East we are all
watching to see what somebody else will say, and
we are bound hand and foot by the