The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-24

having lighted his pipe, threw the match
away, and il fell into pot OF camphene
The whole building was in flames. Five
blocks went down, 2 900 employees thrown
out of work and mure than II, 900, 900 OF
property destroyed.
But am speaking OF higher values TO day.
Better destroy whole city OF stores than
destroy one man. Oh, my young friends, liz
you will excuse the idi0m will say stop be-
fore you begin. Here is a ss-fdom- which has
q sbackle that IL is almost impossible 10
break. Gigantic intellects th-t could over
come every other bad habit have bsen hdns
Of this and kent down. Some one IS seek
ing TO persuade a man from the habit, the
reply was: ASK me TO DO an7thiDg under
the canopy of heaven but this. This l cal
not give up and WON'T give up, though Il
tske seven years Off my life"
l must have a Word also with all those o.
roy friends whom IL does not hort, who eau
stop any time they want 20. and Who can
smoke NEST expensive cigars. Ny Christian
brother, what is your influence in the mat
yourself for the good OF Others? 1t was
great mystery to many people why Governor
Briggs, OF Massachusetts, Wore a cravat, but
no collar. Some people though. it wss an
ABSURD eccentricity. All. no! This was the
secret. Many years before he was talking
with III inebrase. aud telling him that his
HABIT WAS UNNECESSARY,
ard the inebfiats retorted upon him and
said: we do great many tnings that are
not necessary. II ia rot necessary for you
to wear that collar' Well said Governor
Briggs, 81 will never wear collar sgsin il
you won't drink" agreed, " said the ine-
bri6te. Governor Briggs ne YER wore O collar.
They both kept their bargain for twenty
years. They kept it to the death. That Is
collar. Thas is the Gospel Of the Son of
God. Self-denial for the good and the rescue
of others,
take step further. In all ages the world
has sought out some flower or herb or weed
to stimulate It's leshargy or to c0mposa its
grief. A drug called nepenths was widely
used among the ancient Greeks and the al.
cisnt Egyptians for narcotic purpo es. The
Theban women knew now 70 compound it.
You had bat to chew the leaves aud your
sadness was whemed with hilafity. Bat
ne psntt 9 passed ont from the consideration
OF The World. Next came hzsheesh, watch
snade from Indian hemp. 1t is mann
fsctured from the flowers at the top. or work
men IL leathern clothing walk through the
fields of hemp and the exudati0n from the
hemp adheres to the leathern garments, and
then this oxidation "a tcraped OF and PIE.
pared with aromatics and becomes an intox-
icant for the people. Whole nations have
been stimulated, narcotized and made imbs.
Gle with this aCcursed hasheesh. The Wis.
ions kindled by that drug are said to DO gor-
geous and magnificent beyond all descrip.
ton; but 1t foally takes down body, mind
and soul in horrible des.b.
knew Que of the NEST brilliant men of
bis day. Whether BE- appea ed In magazine
or in book or in newspaper columns, he was
an enchentment. He could, in the course
Of Oh hours conversation, produce more Wit
ard strange information than any man /
ever cODversed With, bat he saeWed hasheesh.
He did go first es matter of curiosity. to
VIII ff,o 70
be oDged 70 it BE put his hand into
Cockstrice's den to see whether it would bite,
and he found out to his complete ind hing
His father, who was minister OF the GoIpel,
prayed tor him and counseled HIM, ana
Obtained fo1 him the best medical pre-
scrirtion OF tina best physicians in New
York, Philadelphia, Paris, London, Edin-
burg and Berlin. He sald he could not stop.
A large circle of friends put their wits TO-
gether to try to rescue him, but ia weat
down. First his body gave way in pangs
and coDvulsions OF suffering; then his mind
gave way and he
BECAME A EAvIHG MANIAC;
| then his immortal soul went, Disappearing
| Gud. into starless eternity. He was only
| about thirty years OF age. Behold the raw
ages of the Persian and Egyptian weed called
hasheesh.
Opium demands emphatic recognition. It
| is made. as you know, from the white poppy.
LII u QOt u u6W uleCOfclY. we IcaU ~ ofO
| years before Christ; but it was not until the
| seventeenth century that it began its death
mt rch, passing out from the medicinal and
| the cur alive, and by smoking and mastica-
on becoming the soourge OF nations. In tbs
| year 1861 there were imported
ito this country - lO7'p 1880 p pos oa Is
| pour DIS OF opium. it is estimated that in the
| year 1876 there were in this country 225.000
| opium consumers; but saw statistic more
recent that said there are probably now In
| the United States at least SOC, 600 opium con-
| sumers. The fact is appalling. Do not think
| that they are merely barbaric fanatics who
! go down under that stroke. Read the great
| De Quipcey's Confessions OF an opium eat.
| err Re says for tho frs. tea years il gave
| him the keys of paradise; bat ii takeJ his
| own powerful pen to describe the horrors
| consequent. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, after
| cOnquering the world by his pen, was con-
| ouered by opium. The most magnetic aod
/ brilliant lawyer OF this century fell victim
| to It's 6trokeb2nd there are Thousands Of men
| and women-bnt more women than men
| who are being bound, body, mind and s9ul,
| to this terrible habit.
| There is great mystery about some faml.
| lies. You do not know why they do not get
| on. The opium habit Is so stsalGhy, SO &c.
| ceitful and so deathfui. You can cure a
| hundred drum kards ca Ter than you "a c1re
one opium eater. ! have heard of csses Of
| reformation, but l never saw any. / hope
there are cases of genuine reformation.
have seen men who TOR
| forty years had been tee victims of
strong drink thoroughly reformed, bat tha
| opium.eaters that have seen, go On and 60
down. Thar cry in the last hour of lite is
| not for God nor for prayer nor for tue Bible,
but for opium. Perhaps there are only tEo
| persons outside the household who hnov
| what is the mstter-ihs physician and the
| pastor; the physician called Ii for physical
relief tie pastor called in for spiritual relief ;
but they both fail. The physician ecknowl-
edges his defeat. The minister OF religion
acknowledges his defeat for il eeems as il
| TIE LORD does not answer prayer for opiu e.
| eaters. o man, woman, are you tsmpeT.
| ing with this habit? Have you just begun?