The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-04-12
TAIMAeEs TALK ABOUT RUM
How Inebriates Will Spend Their
Time in He'll

Time in He'll.
The Easter flowers beaped upon the
platform Of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
Sunday were superb AMI cast a glory
Absut MIR THImage when he rose among
them at the evening service to preach u
sermon entitled, "Shall Il e Bottle Rule
Br5oklyn?" The preacher took his text
from Proverbs xiii %, 30-"Who hath
wo'; who hath sOIrow; who hath con-
tention; who hath abiding, who hath
wounds without eaus who hath redness
Of eyeS2--they that tarry long at the
wine" nbrandt's pictures, he said,
were exceedingly powerful compositions,
but none of tbs IN was better than this
fuller 9Th PORTRAIT of an ine briate bv
So'omOn-aRd Mr. TalmaGe d, scribed
the def crirticn, thu rowing in some little
Tantcm; NJ Of delirium tremens, by NaF
of mCre striking illustration. Statisti-
cans, be went on to say. could tell Us
how many men were in the German
army. for tho French. or the English or
the American, but it would be q fiji u
60 say how many were in the great army
of drTnkards. thousands tumble every
year into the drunkard's grave, WAS his
word, land they tumhled so hard that
they break through the bottom Of it and
drop into the drunk Ord's hell. Oh fOI
come thUnderoHs command of hall! con
tinued Mr.. Tnlmage, resuming the figure
If an inebriate army, that the great pre-
cession might be arrested
Mr.. Talmage then 'scussad the value
of temperance seru Ons and efforts Of
ether kinds to stem the tide ef inebritr,
and concluded that no work of salvation
ever failed. In this cor nection he told
. story Of good-leoking gentleman
md ragged little boy. The gentleman
ased to frequent place where he could
get somslhing to drink, and the boy used
60 stand outside and watch him, mourn
folly through the window. After the b y
had continued this con duct for some
time, the gentleman ooe day offered him
some money. The boy drew himself up
and said Indignantly, am no begghr."
The gentleman then asked him if he
wanted something to drink, or If he
would sit by the fire. TIE boy said no,
be was interested in none of those
things Well, what do YOU want then?
said the gentleman. 'Oh, sir, replied
the boy, "mv father was once a GOO d.
looking gentleman. just like you and he
used to drink that red stuff, just like
YOU. Ii kilUd bin. sic, and he left
mother and me all alone and wi bout u
penny. Oh, sir, wanted to ask you
not to drink that rod stuff, for it wi
kill you just as it killed father. That is
Rhv / locked in at the window.
1.-THE gentleman" said Mr.. TalmagN,
dashed dowI the glass upOn the floor
and went for h to be Christian man.
1.-THE druI kard," MIR. Trlmace pur-
sued, 'sufeIei great de; in losing a
good name. The papers may lombard n
Saan and it don't hurt him-that wOh'
take away q good name. But be careful
lesB you excite suspicion by hanging
around gin shop. In the name oil
God stand up and do not surrender your
sobiety."
or drunkards Mr.. Talmage said: 81
have nothing but sorrow for these, ard
nothing but sOrrow for the men who sci
strong drink; but for the establishment;
themselves the groGeries-may the Lore
God blast them by the lightnings of hi,
wrath"
Mr.. Talmage said it wasn't easy for ,
drinker to stop. "The Philstines have
bound him hand and foot and tut hi'
oyes out, and made him grind in the mil
Si big house An apparitipn of wha
he once wns. A Gagged immortal Hi
soul 1utters against the wires; there il
blood Oh the wires and blood on the
wings Of his soul, but he cannot get out
Don't tell that nan there il no hell; he
knows there is; he is there nowl Wha
flames play along his nerves, what rep
tiles crawl over his creeping flesh, wha
phaDtoms stand at his pillow Talk o
che rack, the guilotine e, the garrote, the
.iuggernaut-why he suffers them all
BE quiet, the attendant says. 'Oh
Godl Give me ruml Take EN- off of me
Give me rum, give me rum! Oh, God
Kill me, kill mel This is no picture; j
is in the hospita tonight This is your
death-bed; ] see it comiDgi"
Another thing the drunkard mus
suffer is the loss of his home. MIR. Tai
mage pictured the recklessness of tht
inebriNte in parting with all his effects
and led up to a violent apostrophe
'Oh rum, Iuml" he said, thou recruit
ing officer of the 2 it, hate thee! | hat
th ee with perfect hatel May God assis
that hate"
The torture Of the drunkard hereafter
he continued. would be not darkness no
fire nor the rack of conscience, but 9Th
absence of rum" lie pictured the re
turn of the iend upon an occasion ate
q journey to fetch q drunkard. TIL
fend by accident gets a drop of run
upon his wing, and the scent drives new
madness into the souls of the tOrmented
''One les out, Hal hal that's RUM
and the chorus arises from all the damn
ed, Give me ruml give me rumr
Mr.. T'almage thought "H we could SCI
Intemperance drumming with the bone
OF dead DIR nnkard upon the bottom o
a wine cask the dead march Of immorta
souls" it would startle US sufficiently
and he called upon his hearers to tax
warning in time, for 'what flower eve
grew upon the blasted heath of a drunk
ards sepulchre1
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