Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-03-03
Temperance.
BIT THE W. c. T. U.
Four Foul Fiends.
THEIR woEK ON EARTH DESCRIBED BIT DR..
rALMkGE.

From his sermon last Sunday.
-Four fiends met In the lowest world and
resolved that the people of the earth were
TOO happy, and they sent forth their inhu-
.ences to the earth, ambitious of mischief.
One was the tiend of the vineyard. He came
one morning into grape field, and sat down
on the root of a twisted vine in sheer dis
coursgement. The grapes were ripe and
luscious, and there seemed life and health
in every bunch. While the fiend sat there
he clutched a cluster and squeezed it. Lo
his hand was red. Ii was the blood of the
vineyard, emblematic OF the blood of bro
ken hearts. And he squeezed all the grapes
OF the vineyard and fermented the juice,
and the people came and drank and drank,
and when the fiend went out OF the vineyard
he stepped over carcass after carcass of dead
men.
And the second fiend went to the grain
field. And the people came and dipped up
the fiery liquid that he made, and drank, and
blasphemed, and staggered and fought, ard
robbed, and murdered, Andthis arch fend
was so much pleased with his work that he
changed his place Of abode to a whisky bar
rel.
The third fiend went into the pasture and
saw the full udder, and as he MIXED he
thought of something that would lure peo-
pie to destruction. He made milk punch.
The children drank it, aud the Temperance
people drank il. And the fiend OF the dairy
leaped upon the shelves and danced until
the long, bright rows of shining milk pulls
clIt;ered.
The fourth fiend entered the grog shop
ed gathered up musical instruments. The
trombones played, the cymblls cl1shei, the
drums beat, the bugles called and the peo-
pie crowded and jciaed in the dance, each
one with glass in his hand. The glasses
cracked, the floor broke, and the crowd
dropped into hell
These fom feuds then went back downto
helPs high carnival Decauss their work had
been done. And the iends filled their GAS
ses and clicked them and cried, "Let us
drink, drink, drink everlasting prosperity
to the liquor traffic. Here is the way to
darkness, to murder, ard 10 death
Drink ~
DR.. Talmage spoke of the various suffer-
ings of the inebriate. First came the loss of
good name. Next was the loss of the best
society aud the approval Of the good. He
spoke of strong, wril-to-do men who
thought they could stop the Use of strong
drink whenever they choose, hut who final
Is found themselves slaves of dcbIsing
passion.
DR.. Talmnge drew thrilling picture Of
dying drunkard in the hospital suffering
| from delrium rre:nens. Al the ent ~ Ich
I paragraph NJ uttered. n n, iIoI-sa yhis-
per of an imaginary drnnkard the despair
ing cry, sDrink On. God Drink :" At
/ the climax he stood with his long white fin
/ gers outs;retched at the end of his long,
bony, upliited arm, and with sudden vigor
I of voice and gesture Shrr;,i, Help! Oh,
God HeIpp
DIR. Talmage believed the chief punish
mont of the drunkard in eternity would be
the want OF the drop of liquor. The wailing
CRY, he Thought, wonld be for rum. He de-
scribed the possible delight of the damned
il he avcnging ang,i coulG only carry on
his wig one drop of rum TO spill into hell.
How rhe unfortunate wIetches would scram-
Bile ard fight for it and cry. '.Th1t's it :
More, Rum RUM
Hswas in favor of oil agencies for ridding
the two cities OF the evil, and said that one
or two thonsaui women could clean out the
grog shops In conclusion he asked
"W hat flower OF comfort ever grew on the
blasted health Of drunksrd's sepul-
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