Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-10-19
OF DEATH AND DEsTucTloM.
Fresh From the Region Of Eternal
Despair, Wah Arts Infer
nal and Malice
Deep He
WAGES WAR AGAINST THE WORLD
Death Is His Servant, He'll His
Home.

VIII lVcoSu On bnC SuUySSN luz niSo ioou
and erpound chapter in regard to the
OF Nations" Before the sermon he viii read
destroying angel passing over Egypt lesv-
ing one dead in every house. The opening
hymn viii be:
"Bssor JehovsAs awful saroas
lenations bsg Sith sse>~i Ioy~-
Know that the Lord Is God sieue.
He ssn create snd lie dcssoy,"
The text is Job sri: Awake We drunk.
ard, and weep and howl ye drinkers Of
winer
Noah. the shipbuila.r. did the best and
worst thing for the wora. He built an Ark
against q deluge Of water. but introduced
deluge against which the world has ever
since been trying to build an ark delage
OF Drunkenness We hear his staggering
step in the opening chapters Of Genesis.
Shen and Jape,h tried TO cover him up. but
there he 10, drunk on wine at = time in the
history of the world when,o say the least
there was No, lack Of wafer.
But the intoxicant Of the snoients was
an innoce,t beverage, a harmless soda
water. feeble orange-ade, y quiet syrup
compared TO the liquids employed Tor
modern enebriation, into which madness
q fury, n fire, a gloom. a suicide rctribu-
ton are mixed and melted Fermentation
was always hnown bu, il WAS not until
about one thousand years afler Christ that
dis,illation was invented. And while we
have 10 confess TO many OF the ancient arts
as lost, the Christian era surpasses all it,
predecessors in the bad eminence Of whisky.
yin. brandy and rum The modern drunk
is hundred fold mightier ,kan the ancient
drunk. Noshs inebriation led him toi i'm
beetle behavior, bat modern alcoholism sets
its victim TO struggling with menAgeriea oi
Kissing reptiles and jungles Of growing
tigers and pcrditiens Of disappearing de-
mons.
An Archasnd
has Tended in our world and he has built
an invisible caldron Of temptation. lie has
made il staunch and strong and he has
filed it for all nations and oil ages. First
be squeezed into il the Juice Of the forbidden
frui, Of Paradise Then he puts into il
distillation from all the harvest fields and
orchards OF the hemispheres, then Odds 10
it larger quantities OF oApsicum. copperas,
molasses, logwood, deadly nigh,shade, -.
sault and battery, vitriol, tobacco, sulphur.
acid, opium, murder, pokeberry, cochineal,
indigo, red carrots, potash. poverty and
death and hops. BG, still it is dry mix.
,ure, and so to mOisten and liqniiy II hs
pours into il the tears OF many centuries Of
orphansge and widoshood and the blood Of
10000 assassinations; then he takes his
great shovel which he brought along with
him from the neither world, the shovel
once used for filing the furnaces
beneath. And now he begins to stir the
great caldron and a. he stiB Il the awful
liqueiaction begins to hesye . splutter and
boil aud hiss aud smoke and msn and 70
men gather around this mammoth caldron
with cups and pitchers and kegs and demi.
ohns and bottles and all nations get their
share.
And the Arch Fiend laughs ~ be says:
"lls, hA! what u companion 6end An u
Who does more for cotiins and graveysrds
and shipwrecks and prisons and insane
asylums and tor populating the neither
world than do' When this csldron .
emit will fll il again and stir il again in
the smoke Of il joins the Other smoke. ths
smoke of the torment that sscendeth forever
and everi Ha, hal Idrove so ships On he
banks of Newfoundland and The Gsodvins.
Ideieatsd the Northern armies at Fredercks-
burg. slew Eve times Is many Senators
as will next winter assemble 1t the Amer
can capitol and five times ~ many lords -
will this season gather in the House Of
Peers.
Let me thrust the shovel again Into The
caldron and stir il again snd make Il smoke
again Champion fend an ~ ] have
kindled more hres, wrung out more agonies,
stretched out more m!dnigh, shadows. litcd
more Golgothss, rolled more Juggernsn,s
and damned more souls than any other oi
the
BrsiLsrhssd Dtabsiie.
The frs, remarks have 10 make il that
the evil is not snbsiding not on the stand.
still but on the forward march. Beginning
close By remark ,ha. have seen mos.
drunken people in Brooklyn and Eev Yosk
within six weeks than have seen 10 any
year Of my Lifetime. There 4 in this coas-
try more liauor drank, and that Of . ~ore
Mind. than since the FIRST di.,illery began IL
devastation, Where there wa one grogsery
there are i've groggefies. Where there
was one ruined home there are ten demo'-
ished According 10 governmental figures
there were % 10000 gallons Of beer sold
in 1870; there we're 5Sl 900 900 gallons
.old in Iss3, and the FIVE million gallons of
wine have become twenty-five millioos.
Moreover. notice that the evil is - thos-
oughiy Organized ss vas ever any armS.
with comm snderin cbief, and staH ohoess.
and infantry and calvary and batteries. sad
advance guards. aud standards. hnd
syery man vho bereaf,s4 rms for sSce
will be compelled 70 commit himself either
az the friend OF the foe d the liquor ks6bc.
hold IN ny hand circular Of . bsev.
err associstioa which bas been sen4 os viu
be sent TO every candidate for oales. All
the present nominees fos the Hfpsidsse1
and fiee Presidency have received it, n
firss resolution rssds ~ followr
Resolved.
That ss menbsrs of . cssf Slieh u aReor
liZh,ened countries Ia considered nesdGsl
and beneficial industry. and one vhich coar
tributes 10 the force and ieor q nas1sd
BY producing . cheeshg. - nsas'sA
drink food, We recognize ths GGSty -
usefulness Of our cs6ag, sad 81 desiesss
Of confirming il sti1 moss IN tAe good -
TEEN of the intelliesst ths Ne sad u As-
name
In this circulss the easlias,s foe eihes
is called upon 10 sil hla.k lselAsisg him
elf fnendfy 10 tie liquor traf6e. u b Do
not gil il arisAs and sign H. b b dooaed,
o far - tAs Brewers Assosistica esn 900
him, and n be do NOT return The circulaf
The silence il aiken Tor negstive,
Toe evil OF the time advances, ana ths
| 6f.seu million church nsoben - Anence
| ,<;II have to take s;des in this oeaaiet. u
il going TO bs IN outsndsut b.stls oetvss.
nn .nd sobisty, between Hssves ssd
he'll b.tyeen God and the dsyii Better
,,Le ids before ve have any inrthe as
."..j dsc.dssee Better tske Sides before
-. .oo. Ar. s,csi6eed Or yew