The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-12-17
THE DRAMA OF LIFE,
where Some VIA Applause, Macy Kisses
Cause Of The Failures.
Sermon Delivered In Hrookiyn Tabernacle
by the Rev, =, Dewitt Talmage,
ID, d., sunday, NoVem-
bsrss, 1888,
The opening hymn was'
NOur nOd, our help IN ARns past,
Our hope fur years 10 come

Hnhll clhp tHtli Hhnuh Nv hlh NHu ph"'i
hiss him out OF his place" Following
IN tho sermon In fnll:
This alluaiOn seems TO be dramatic,
The Bible more than once seems 10 make
such allusiOn. Paul says: 1--WE are made
q theater (Or speelacle) TO angels ana TO
men" The theater IL 40 old no one can
Ak the date OF ita BIRTH Archll0chns,
blmOnidea and Scion, who wrote Tor "
dithyramblca, lived about ak or seven
hundred yeara before Christ, II IL eyl-
dent from the text that some OF the
habits OF the theater g0eTs we're known
In Jobs time, because IN the text no de-
scrlbes an actor hlased of the stage. The
lmperaOnatOr comes on the boards, and
either through lack OF study OF the part
no Ia to take, or happiness or other inca
paclty, the audience are offended, and
express their diaapprObatlOn and disgust
1fat by Oyer-applause, attempting by
great clapplng OF hands TO drown out
what he says; and that falling 10 stop
the performer they put their tongue
against their teeth and make terrible
BibillatlOn until no disappears behind
the curtain. "Men shall clap their
hands at him and shall hiss him out OF
hla place"
THIS woRLD'sA sTAGR.
My text suggests that each one OF us
ia put on the atNgi OF this w0rli TO take
some part Mccullough, the actor re-
Gently buried, was no more certainly
appointed on any occasion 10 appear aa
"Spartacua," or Edwin Forrest aa king
Lear" or Charlotte Cuahman aa Meg
MeTrllles," or John Kem6le IN Mac
BETH" or Cooke aa Richard III, or kean
az "0lhello," than you and are OK
pectfd TO take some especial and par
tlcular part In the great drama OF hu'
man and immortal life Through what
hardship aud suffering and discipline
these aTliata went year after year that
they might be perfected In their parta,
you have often read. But we, put on the
stage OF this life TO represent charity
and faith and humility and helpfulneas
what little preparation we have made,
although We have three galleries OF
spectators, earth aud heaven aud hell
Have We not been more attentive TO the
part taken by others than TO the part
taken bp ourselves, and while wa needed
10 be looking NJ home and c0ncentrat'
Ing on our own duty, we have been crlti-
Ching the other performers and aaylug
shat waa too high or "too low, or
"tOO feeble" or 100 extrayagant,' or
100 tame" or too dem0nstraiiye," ;"
while we were making ourselves dead
failure, aud preparing 10 be ignOmini'
0usly hiased Of The stageY Each one IL
assigned place, no aupernumerafi les
hanging around the drama OF life 10
take this or that or the other part, ~ he
may be called upon, No one can take
our place. We can take no other place,
Aye, II ia not the impers0nati0n OF an
other; we ourselves are the real "Mer-
chant OF Venice" or the real "Shylock," I"
the real dial "COrdelia" or the real
cruel "Regan," the real "P0rtia,' or the
real Lady Macbeth The tragedlan OF
the play house, nj the close Of the third
scene OF the llfth act, takes Oft the attire
OF "G0nzil0," or edward Mortimer" or
"Henry w." and resigns the character In
which for three hours he app Jared. But
we never put of our character, and no
change OF apparel eau make us any ono
else than that which we eternally are.
MANY FAIL THROUGH DISSIPATION,
Many make failure OF their part In
the drama Of life through their dlsslpa.
tl0n. They have enough intellectual
equipment and good address Hnd genial
ity unb0unded, but they hHvsa wine
closet that contains oil the forces for
their social aud business ani moral
overthrow. So far back as $50 Klug Nj
gar Of England made u law that the
drink cup should have pins fastened at
q certain point In the side 30 that the
indulger might be reminded tD stop be.
fore he got to the bottom, But there
are no pms projecting from thu sides OF
the modern wine cup or beer mug, and
the frat y Int NJ which .milliOns stop is
at the gtayelly bottom OF their own
graves
DR.. Sax, Of France, has recently dis.
covered something which all drinkers
ought to know. He has found that alcO
hOl, In every shape, whether OF wine or
brandy or beer, c0ntdlns parasitic life
called bacillus p0tnman 10. BY u power
fnl microscope these living things are
discovered, aud when You take strong
drink you take then into the stomach,
and then into your blood, aud getting
Into the crimson canals OF lie they 10
into every tissue Of your tOdg, aud your
entire organism ls taken possession OF
by these nOxi0us in0uiteaimals, When
In delirium tremens "A man seea every
form OF feplilian life, II IN only these
parasites of the brain In an exaggerated
size, IL IL not halluCln0li1n that the
victim la suffering from, He only aeea
In the room what In actually crawling
and ri0tlng In his own brain. Every
time you take strong dflnk you swallow
these maggOts, and every time the i'm.
biber OF alcohol In any shape feels yertl.
20 or rheumatism or nausea II II only
the jubilee OF these magg0ts. Elforts
are being made for tho discovery OF some
germlcide that can kill the parasites OF
alcoholism, but the only thing that will
ever exlirpate them In abstinence from
alcohol and teetotal abstinence, TO which
| would, before God, swear oil these
young men and old.
America In a fruitful country, and we
raise large crops OF wheat and corn and
VnNFl buN NhV hNk kOuN NtbH WO ihlnO III
this country is the crop Of drunkards.
With sickle made out OF The sharp edges
OF the broken glass Of bottle and DENT
john they are cut down, aud there are
whole swathes OF them, whole winrows
Of them, and II takes oil the hospitals
and penitentiaries and grave yards and
cemeteries TO hold this harvest OF he'll.
Some Of you are going down under this
evil, and the never dying worm OF alco-
holism has wound around you one OF its
coils, aud by next New Years Day II will
have another coil around you, and 10
Will after q while put q coil around your
tongue aud n coil around your brain and
q coil around your lung and coil
aronud your foot and q coil around your
heart; and some day this never-dying
worm Will, with one spring, tighten ail
the coils at once, and IN the last Nv ist Of
that awful conyolu lon you will cry out:
"0h, my GodP aud be gone. The greatest
OF dramatists, Ia the tragedy of "remp-
aal ~ apnda aiauunrino aprnuu Aha uta !. A