Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-02
TIE ARCH FlEND OF NATIONS.

TIE ARCH FIEND OF NATIONS.
Strong Drink and its Curse upon Amer
ica.--The Liquor Traffic ard its Ruin.
DIR. Talmage on Temperance.
At the Brooklyn Tabernacle, on the
10th Of October. DR.. Talnnage preached
the following sermon, taking as his
text, Job l.. Is: awake, We drunkards.
and weep and howl, ye drinkers Of
winc!!"
Noah, the ship builder. said Or. Tai
mage, did the best and worst thing for
the world. He built an ark against a
idelugsof water, but introduced adeluge
against which the world has cver since
been trying to build TN ark-a de!uge
of drunkenness. We hear his stagger-
ing step in the opening chapters OF
Genesis. Shem and Japhet tried to
cover him UP. but there he is, drunk on
wine, al a time in the history Of the
world, when, to say the Least, there was
no lack Of water. lnebriation. once in
PRODUCED inro Bible times, never r..
treated. abigail; the fair and heroic
wife, goes home after saving the ilocks
OF her husband, Nabal. from Contisca-
ton hy invaders, and finds him too
drunk that night to tell him about his
BARROW escape. Jriah came to see Da-
Md. ard David got him drunk. anl
paved Che way for the de~poilation of -
household. Even tho church bishops
in I'aui's time needed charging TO b.
sober and not given to much drink, and
so familiar Was the s"aying and falling
movement OF the inebciale that Isaiah.
describing the final dissolution OF
worlds, says the earth shall reel TO and
fro like a arunkard. Ever since apple,
and grapes and wheat grew the worl'
has been tempted 30 excessive stimu-
liant.
But the i%ntoSicant of the ancicnls
was an innocent beverage. Il harmless!
soda water, Il Ueeble Crangeaye, 4 quiet
syrup comnared tothe liquids employed
lNE iiibt.StLl lllEJi .iAfoIi, lIto HilIti 6
madness, q fury, Il fire, Il gloom, q SUI.
eide, rrtributiOn are mixed ami melt
ed. Fermentation Was always known
but it was not until abonron Thousand
wears after Christ that distlllation wa:
invented. And while W. have to con
fess to mary Of the ancient arts as lost
the Christian era surpasses all its pred
ecessors in the bad emlnence of wis
ky, gin, brandy, and rum. The moder1
drunk is a hundred fold m!ghtier THAI
the ancient drunk. Noah's inrbriatiol
led him to imbecile behavior, out mod
ern alcoholism sets its victims to strug
Cling with m%enageries OF Kissing rep
tiles, and jungies OF growing tigers
and perditiuns Of disappearing demons
An arch fend has landed in Oh
world and he has built an Invisible cal
: dron Of temptation. He has made j
@staunch and strong, and he has filed j
70. all nations and I'll ages. First h
suueeZes into it the Juice of the forbid
den fruit of Paradise. Then he put
into it u distiilatiOh from all the han
vest fields and orchards of the heml
spheres, then adds 20 il larger quaint!
ties Of capsicun., copperas, Mo!;lsse:
). logwood, deadly nightsnaoe, assault
and battery, vitriol, tobacco, sulphur
4 acid. opium, murder, %pokebevry coch,
neal, indigo, red carrots, potash. pove1
ty and death. and hops. But still it
a dry mixture, and SO to inoisten an
liuuefy it he pours into it the tears c
many centuries Of o~rphanage and VIC
owhood and the blood OF twenty thol
!, sand demonstrations; then he takes hi
great shovel which he brought alon
with hlm from the neither world, tn
shovel once used for filling the furnace
lbeneath. And now he begins to ST
the great caldron, and as he stlrs it til
awful lia~uefaction begins to heave an
sputter and boil and hiss and smok
a and men and women gather aroun
this mammoth caldroi With cups M
pitchers and kegs and demijohns all
bottles, and all nations get their shar
And the Arch Fiend laughs as +
= says: "Ha, ha; what champion fen
/ am !, Who does more for collins al
;, y~raveyardS, shipwrecks and prison
% and insane asylums, and fer populatil
the neither world, than | dog Whe
- this caJdron is empty | will fiji il aga!
and Stir it again till the smok" OF
Joins the ether smoke, the smoke Of t.
torment. that ascendeth forever al
y ever? Ia, ha; l drove fifty ships {
the Banks Of Newfoundland ard t!
Goodvins. ] defeated the NQrthel
arm les at Fredericksburg. / slew f.
.; times as marty senators as will ne
winter assemble ut the American Cal
tai and Eve tunes as many lorIs as "
this season gather in the I1otiua.