The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-12-22
The Modern Plague OF the Destroy Ing
Angel.

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! Angel.
II shall continue my course OF sermons
Oh the ten plaques OF the Cities Of New
York and Brooklyn for several Sundays
dience in the Brooklyn Tabernacle last
Sunday morning. Exodus, eleventh
chapter, part of the sixth vcr.e There
shall be great cry through all the land
Of Egypt This, he continued, was
the worst Of the ten plague. The de-
stroying angel at mdnigh, tapped his
wng> over the land and there was one
dead in each house. That destroying
angel has fled the earth, but a far worse
Las come, and sweeps through these cities.
/, is The destroying angel Of stroug drink.
Far worse than the other. and worse n
America than in Egypt. Thousand, Of
slain. Millions Of slain am glad
tha, the decorations Of Thanksgiving
have been retained until to-day, but
shall use them for different purpose.
"Oncc upon tine four iniernal4 sat
brooding in hell hos they might work
destruction TO mankind. One said, i
will take charge Of the vineyards; : an.
other said, Il Will take the green field. :
and another, Il viii take ,hc dairy, and
the last laid, i will take the music 81
the world. The ir,, icni came into
vineyard and -at down on The twisted
root OF a vine, in sheer Encouragement. i
don't know how 10 bew,ch the world he
said He cIu,ched cluster AMI squeezed
it, and his hand was red with the blood
Of the grape. And he squeezed more ot
them into large vat. The peoplc dip.
ped up the blood Of the grape They
drank, and there they fell on the way
and when the fend wished 70 return TO
his home he stepped from body to body
on great caueeway to he'll. The second
fiend walked through the field Of golden
grain. He threw it into the water and
lct it rot and then he lit fire under it
by flame from his own mouth and made
the fiery liquor. The fiend was SO pleased
with il that he changed his residence
from the pit TO a whiskey barrel. The
Send Of the dairy saw the cows coming
home from the fields, aud he saw the
dairy maid- milking them. lie said,
81 will change that" He made milk
punch. The people all took it and gave
it 10 their children, and even some tenn
pcrance people took it too. The fiend
of music enters the grog shop and he
gathered there the musical instruments Of
the city. The people thronged in, each
with Il wine-glass in his hand. Then
they began the dance; the music played
more loudly then the dance became
wilder. The floor broke and they fell
into hell. Then the four iends returned
to hell, and Satan said it was ali right.
They filled tAeir glasses and clicked them
and said, Heres to the liquor traffic
"As soon ~ it is whispered Of ran
he drinks lie begins to go down. What
clerk can bc: 4 position with SUN rep
utation as, lie links Wien man is
three fourths gone on .!:c road he wants TO
impress you with the idea that he can
stop nj any time lie can't stop. | had
a dear friend who gave thousands Of dol
lars to Bible societies and asylums, but
he was slave 20 strong drink. lie had
two attacks Of delirium trenens. When
the doctor told him if he bad third at
tack he would die, he said: Oh; can
stop at any time He is dead. Rum I!
The last thing lie said was, Oh can
stop at any time. He could no. stop
| Sometimes Il nan is more frank. Such
n one said i, i. impossible for me To
stop. Ii you said couldn't have drink
till to morrow nigh, unless Ind my
fingers chopped off, would say, bring on
your ha,chet.' 1t is awful for man To
wake up and feel him,elfn captive. Who
will turgct that scene in this church u
few winters ago of a man who stood up
in the church The usher. led him to
the donr. Everybody saw that he WAS
drunk. His poor wife took his coat
/ and hat aud led him out. He was
formerly Il minister in II sister congrega-
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Don't tell the inebriate there j. no hell
He knows there is lie is i'll hell NOW
God only knows what the drunkard.
suffer. What reptiles crouch around his
shivering feet f! What demons stand by
his pillow. This is no fancy picture
1t went on las, night |. is n death
some ofyou will die unless you stop.
'When An inebria,c wakes up in the
other world he will be thirsty. No mat
ter how poor he WAS in this world ht
| could get the five cents for a drink Iln
where will he get II dr;Hs iii heii' Dive:
called for water, the incbriate calls f"I
rum. II n fcnd came here, went into :
drop on the end of his wing, what {
incbriates in hell will not suffer for Tho
| iVsS VI NiOu, oul iOl tuC lOSS VI iNluOI
81 don't like n sermon on generali,es
like personalities. said man could
not stop, but | do say God can stop him
! went in:o room in the Fourth Ware
in New York where n religious service
was held for reformed drunkarIs. Fiji
teen or twenty men were there giving
their experiences. God had not only
changed their mode of feeling, but hat
even taken away their thirst tell yor
fill n drunkard's grave. must tell yot
this or will have your blood upon my
soul. One hundred millions of inebratt
souls sill assemble on the judgmen
day, and want YOU to testify that gave
you warning whe3 the fiends rattl,
the drunkard's bones on wine cask
playing the dead march to hell"
THE CAUSE OF EARTHQUAKES DR.
X Won Eritisch m n ipfainu that tho t.aus,