The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-15

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And he drank OF the wine and was
drunken and was uncovered within his
tent"
At the time when this scene transpired
Noah was something like six hundred
years old, and the traits of character here
described, or rather illustrated, show that
although men do not, in these modern
times, attain so great an age, the change
in human nature has been scarcely per-
ceptible. Noah was "a good man, and
walked with God" When the Divine
Father became displeased with the earth,
and the creatures living therein, and de-
cided to drown the while affair, he chose
Noah as the only desirable piece Of man.
kind to be found on the face of the earth,
and he and his family were saved from
the food. God safely kept Noah and his
sons through the flood, and at last safely
established them upon the land. God had
had some experience with Adam, in plac-
ing man upon the earth with dominion
ever every living thing, yet he knew Noah
for having been just man, and he there
fore made covenant with him, deliver
ing into Noah's hands all the creatures
that moved upon the earth. This cove
nant bore the token of the bow in the
cloud, which the Father assured Noah
he would look upon and remember his
covenant with Noah.
When Noah beheld the token in the
cloud, he did not Immediately go down on
his knees and pour out his gratitude to
God in prayer. He did not do just as
some of our little Sunday School pupils
would expect truly good man who had
walked with God to do. But he manifest
ed his joy at the token just as many man
of the world in these later days manifests
his joy in the bow of promise in the clouds
that gather around him. He went and
got wildly, gloriously drunk. AS the
young men of the present day would say,
he 'got full" in fact, too full for utter
ance or action. and crawled into his tent
and tumbled in an ungainly heap upon
the floor thereof not even taking the
precaution to cover himself up.
While the old man was thus rolling in
his drunken abandon, his son Ham espied
him, and like a great many SONS of the
present day, he was ashamed of the old
man, and went and told his brothers, Shem
and Japheth, about it, These took gar
ment and walked backward until near
enough to cover the drunken father with
it. But the old man awoke, and learned
what Ham had done, and was very angry
that Ham should have had him covered
up. He pronounced a curse upon Canaan,
son of Ham, and blessed Shem and Japh-
eth. The same trait of character exhibit
ed by Noah on that day is manifest from
time to time in these days. Attempt to
do adrunken man kindness, and you
receive curses for your pains. That pic
ture, of the drunken father, and the hui
INFLATED sons has come down as sort of
precedent, unto this time, especially the
fathers part of it, and we cannot but de-
plore the lack of wisdom on the part of
the sons. 1t will occur to many a prac-
teal minded man that as the old man lay
there naked and drunk, there was splen-
did opportunity for teaching him vigor-
GUS lesson, lasting in its effects The sons
OF the drunken man were ashamed of him
then-the sons of the drunken father are
ashamed of him now.
1t is not strange-in the light of Bible
history-that the mercy of the Divine
Father is something the magnitude of
which is far beyond the range of our
comprehension. Gods first venture in
creating man, Adam, disobeyed the Di-
vine command and ate of the forbidden
fruit. The man afterward chosen by Him
as the best of earth, as soon as he discov-
cred how much God was doing for him,
got drunk and made public nuisance of
himself
These facts are referred to only to point
out the similarity Of human frailties in
the different ages. Men now do as Noah
did-but they do wrong. The father who
would expose even his own wickedness
for the humiliation of his childfen, is a
criminal. And, on the other hand, the
son or daughter who would willfully or
carelessly bring sorrow to the heart of a
parent, is a criminal. A man may plant
a vineyard without getting drunk; a man
may be, joyous, without spewing out his
| joy at the neck of a bottle; a man may
| receive good news, or see rainbow, with
| out standing on his head; a man may lie
down and sleep without taking offense
at any one who may see fit to cover him
with garment. There has been in this
wicked world in which we live, too much
waywardness. and abuse of the love and
mercy of the Divine Parent. A man has
no right to lie drunk when he can be do
ing good in the world, building himself
up, and clarifying the power that
gave him being. God created mankind
for a noble purpose, and he who would
debase all the nobility of character with
which he is endowed by Divine Love, is
certainly possessed of a heart wicked in
it's ingratitude. Let no man see a prom
ised joy through drunken eyes. Rather
let temperance, uprightnesss, and nobility
of character be the ruling influences OF
every life. God does not covenant with
a man to get drunk, or to commit sin of
any description. Let every life praise
Him by it's purity and beauty.
1t was not James 4. Lackey's horse
that Maxwell rode the night he was killed
although it was the lackey horse he was
trying to mount when Steele ran him
away from Sternherger's corner. This
horse Mr.. Lackey found united when
church was out. 1t was young horse,
and no one would stick on him very long
after firing a pistol.
The once fiery little black mare once
rode by DR.. A. B. Monahan, and which
paced at the County Fair here some years
ago, may be seen almost daily at some
one of the hitching places in town. She