Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-23
KISSED OFF THE. STAGE.
A Dramatic Discourse by the Rev.
DR.. TaImage.
THE GREAT DRAMA OF HUMAN LIFE.
Various Causes Why Actors on the Worlds
Stage Miss Their Parts
and Fail.
SERMON OF WARM HUMAN INTEREST,
Special 10 the RegiJteT.

BRooKLYy, November 22.-Dr. Tai
mage preached this morning in the Brook
| " Tabernacle on the subject, Kissed of
the Stage Before the sermon he ex-
pounded the twenty,ffth chapter of Acts,
concerning Panis appeal unto Caesar. The
opening hymn was:
Our God, our help in ages past
Our hope for years to come.
The text was from job q, %: Men
shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss
him out Of his place" Following is the
sermon in full:
This allusion seems to be
DRAMATIC.
The Bible more than once makes such al
lusion. Paul says: "Whe are made a
theatre (or spectacle) 10 angels and TO
men" The theatre is so old that no one
can fix the date its birth. Archilochup,
Simonides and Scion, who wrote for its
ditbyrambics, lived about six or seven hun.
dred years before Christ. 1t is evident
from the text that some of the habits of
the ,heatre-gcers we're known in Jobs
time. because in the text he describes an
actor hissed off the stage. The impersons.
tor comes on the boards and either through
lack of study Of the part he is TO take or
inaptness or other incapacity, the audience
! are offended and express their disapproba-
ton and disgust first by overapplsuse, at
tempting by great clapPing OF hands to
drown out what he says; and that tdihug,
to stop the performer they put their tongue
against their teeth and make terrific
sibillation until he disappears behind the
curtain. Men shall clap their hands at
him and shall hiss him out Of his place.
Nv text suggests that each one of US is
put on the stage OF this world to take some
part. Mccullough, the actor recently
buried. was no more certainly appointed
on any occasion to appear as Spsrtacus, or
Edwin Forrest as King Lear, or Charlotte
Cushman as Meg Merrilies, or John kem-
ble as Macbeth, or Cooke as Richard Ill,
or Kean as Othello, than you and are
expected to take some especial and partic-
ulsr part in the great
DRAMA OF HUMAN AND IMMORTAL LIFE.
Through what hardship and suffering and
discipline these artists went year after year
that they might be perfected in their parts,
YOU have often read. But We, put on the
stsge of this life to represent charity and
faith and humility and he)pfulness-wbAt
little preparation have we made, although
we have three galleries OF spectators, earth
and heaven and hell Have we not been
more attentive to the part taken bY others
than to the part taken by ourselves, and
while we needed to be looking at home
and concentrating on our duty we have
been criticizing the other performers and
saving that was too high, or too low, or
100 feeble" or too extravagsnt, or too
tame" or too demonstra'ive, while We
were making ourselves dead failure and
preparing 10 be ANONYMOUSLY hissed of
the stage? Each one is assigned place,
no supernumersries hanging around the
drama of life to take this or that or the
other part, as he may be called upon. No
one can take our place. We can take no
other place. Aye, it is not the imperson-
alton of another, we ourselves are the real
Merchant of Venice or the real Shylock,
the real filial Cordelia or the real cruel
Regsn, the real Portia or the real Lady
Macbeth. The trsgedian OF the play.
house, at the close of the third scene OF
the fifth act, takes of the attire Of Coma.
lor, Edward Mortimer or Henry V, and
resigns the character in which for three
hours he appeared. But we never put of
our character and no change Of apparel
can make US any one else that which we
eternally are.
Many make failure Of their part in the
drama of lie through
DISSIPATION.
They have enough intellectual equip
ment and good address and genislity I'M
bounded. But they have wine closet
that contains all the'torces for their social
and business and moral overthrow. So
far back as $50 King Edgar, Of England,
made q law that the drink cup should
have pius fastened at q certain point in
the side, so that the indulger might be re-
minded to stop before he got to the bottom.
But there are no pins projecting from the
sides of the modern vice cup or beer mug,
and the frat point at which millions stop
is at the gravelly bot.on Of their OWE
grave.
DR.. Sax, Of France, has recently discov
cred something which all drinkers ought
10 know. He has found out that alcoho
in every shape, whether OF wine or brandy
or beer, contains parasitic lifa called bacillus
potumsnie. By powerful microscope these
these living things are discovered, and
when you take strong drink you take then
into the stomach, and then into you
blood, and getting into the crimson canals
OF life they go into every tissue OF you
body and your entire organism is taken
possession of by these noxious infitesi
mails. When in delirium tremens nal
sees every form of reptilisn life, il is onl.
d these parasites of the brain in exsgger
!, ated size. 1t is not hallucinstion that tn
/ victim is suffering from. He only GEES il
D the room what is actually crawling snt
= rlOUng III DIS own OIbiD' Every tliuO lO'
take strong drink you swallow these mag
J, gots, and every time the imbiber Of alec
: hol in any shape feels vertigo or rheuuat
ism or nausea, it is only the jubilee Q
:. these maggots. Efforts are being mad
t for the discovery CT some germicide ths
can kill the parasites OF alcoholism, bu
e the only thing that will ever extirpst
5 them is sbstinsuce from alcohol and teetc
tai sbstinsnce. to which / would befor
e God swear sll these young men aud old
6 America is q fruitful country aud "
n raise large crops Of wheat, and corn, an
oats, but the largest crop We raise in thi
e country is
THE CROP or DRUXEARDs.
e With sickle made out of the sharp edgt
J. OF the broken glass OF bottle and demijoh
I. they are cut down, and there are who
Ie swsthes of them, whole wiDroWs Of then
and it takes all the hospitals and penitel
Il tiaries and grayeyards and cemeteries
O. hold this harvest of hell. Some Of you al
going down under this evil and the neve
le dyiDs worm of alcoholism has vouu