The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-11-04

At the Brooklyn Tabernacle last
Sunday morning, DR. Talmaee
preached on the subject, The Arch
fiend of Nations" Before the SER
mon he read and expounded a chap
ter In regard to the destroying angel
passing over Egypt, leaving one dead
In every house. The opening hymn
was:
ssRefore Jehovah's awful throne,
We nations bow with sacred joy.
Know that the Lord is God alone,
He can create, and He Destroy.
rhe text was Job is: "Awake,
We drunkards, and weep and howl We
drinkers of winel
Noah. the ship-builder, said DIR.
Talmase, did the best and worst thing
for the world. He built an ark
against deluge of Waller, but intro
dueed a deluge against which the
world has ever since been trying to
build an ark-a deluge of drunken-
ness. We hear his staggering step III
the opening chapter of Genesis. Shem
and Japheth tried to cover him up;
but there he is drunk on wine at a
time In the history OF the world when
to saw the least, there was no lack OF
water. Inebriation, once introduced
into Bible times, never Tetrea ed
ABIGAIL. the fair and heroic wife g'es
home after saving the focks of her
husband Nabal, from cOntiscatlon by
invaders, ard finds him too drunk
lastnight to tell him about his mar
row escape. Uriah came to see David,
and David got him drunk, and so
paved the way for the despolIatloD OF
a household. Even the church Dish,
OBS In Paul's time needed charging to
be sober and not given too much drink.
And so familiar was the swaylng and
falling movement of tine inebrlate thai
Isaiah. describing the final dissolu
ton of worlds, says the earth shall
reel to and fro like drunkard. Evel
since apples and grapes aud whea'
grew the world has been tempted tt
excessive stlmulant.
BUT THE INToXICANT
of the ancients was an innocent
beyerage-a harmless soda-water, &
feeble orangeade. quiet syrup-com
pared to the liquids employed fol
modern inebriations, into which
madness, fury, fire, a gloom,
suicide, q retribution are mixed anC
melted. Fermentation was always
known. but it was pot until about one
thousand years after Christ that dis,
tiIlation was invented, and while W.
have to confess to many OF thu
ancient arts as lost, the Cristian era
passed all its predecessors in the bao
eminence of whisky, gin, brandy anC
wine. The modern drunk is a hun
dred fold mightier than the ancien
drunk. Noah's inebriation led him t
imbecile behavior, but mOderl
alcoholism sets its victim to strug
Cling with menageries of hissin!
reptiles, and jungles of growing
tigers, and perditions of disappearing
demons.
AN ARCHTIEND HAS LANDED
In our world, and he has built al
invisible caldron of temptation. ID
has made it stanch and strong, anC
he has filled it for all nations and al
races. First, be squeezed into 1t tn
Mace of the forbidden fruit of Para
disc. Then he puts into a distilla
ton from all the harvest fields an
orchards of the hemisphere; then add
co it larger quantities of capsicum
copperas, molasses, logwood, deadl,
niehtshade, assault and battery
yitriol, tobacco, sulphuric acid, opium
murder, pokeberry, cOchineal, indigo
red carrots, potash, poverty and deaf
and hops. But still it is a dry mix
ture, and so to moisten and liquery
he pours into il the tears of man
centuries of orphanage and widow
hood and the blood of twenty thOus
and assas sinations. Then he take
his great shovel which be brOugt
along with him from the nethe
world, the shovel once used for I'll
ing the furnaces beneath. And no
he begins to stir the great caldroI
and as he stirs it, the awful liquefat
ton bes ins to heave and sputter an
boil and hiss and smoke, and men al
women gather around this mammot
cauldron with cups and pitchers ar
mugs and demJohns and bottles, ar
all nations get their share.
AND THH ARCHFIEND LAUGHS
as he says: "Ha, ha! what chan
MON fend am l!Wbo does mere Fl
collins and grsve-yards, and ship
wrecks, and prisons, and insar