The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-06-25
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he loves his wife and children; If this pas
sion for strong drink has mastered him,
he win do the most outrageous things and
if he could not get drink in any other
way he would sell his family into eternal
bondage. How many homes have been
broken up in that way no one but God
knows. Oh. is there any thing that win so
destroy man for this life and damn him
for the life that is to come? I hate that
strong drink. With all the cOneen-
trated energies of my soul I hate
it. Do not tell me that man can
be happy when he knows that he is
breaking his wlfe's heart and clothing his
children with rags Why, there are on
the roads and streets of this land to-day
little children, barefootsd and unkempt-
want on every patch Of their faded dress
and on every wrinkle OF their prematurely
old CONFERENCE.-The would have been
in churches to-day and as well clad as you
are but for the fact that rum destroyed
their parents and drove them into the
grave. o rum, thou foe Of God, thou
despoiler Of homes, thou recruiting officer
of the pit, hate theel
But my subject takes deeper tone, and
that is that the unfcrtunate OF whom
speak suffers from the loss of the soul. The
Bible intimates that in the future world,
IL we are unforgiveu here, our bad pas-
sions and appetites, unrestrained, win go
along with us and make our torment there.
So that, I suppose, when an inebriate
wakes up in the last world he win feel an
infinite thirst clawing on him. Now,
down in the world, although he may
have been very poor, he could beg or he
could steal hve cents with which
to act that which would slake his
thirst for little while; but in eternity
where is the rum to come fromf Dives
could not get one drop of water. From
what chalice Of fire will the hot lips Of the
drunkard drain his draughtg No one to
brew it. No one TO mix 1t. No one to
pour IL. No one to fetch it. Millions Of
worlds then for the dregs which the young
man just now slung on the saw-dust floor
Of the restaurant. Millions Of worlds now
for the rind thrown out Of the punch-bowl
OF an earthly banquet. Dives cried for
water. The inebriate cries for rum. Oh,
the deep, exhausting, exasperating, ever
lasting thirst of the drunkard IN hell
In the future world do not believe that
It win be the absence of God that win
make the drunkard's sorrow. do not be-
Heve that it win be the absence Of Light.
do not believe that it will be heabsence OF
holiness. 1 think it viii be the absence Of
rum. Oh,
Look not upon the wine when 70 IS RED,
when It moveth itself Alright in the cup, for
at the last II biteth like q serpent and 10
stinReth like an adder.
1t is about time that we have another
woman's crusade like that which swept
through Ohio ten or twelve years ago.
With prayer and song the women went
into the groggeries, and whole neighbor-
hoods towns and cities were redeemed by
their Christian heroics. Thirty women
cleared out the rum traffic from a village
of 1000 inhabitants. If thirty women sur
charged of the Holy Ghost could renOvabe
a town Of a thousand, three thousand con-
secrated women, resolved to give them-
selves no peace until this crime was extir-
pated from this city, could in six months
clear out three-fourths of the grog-shops
Of Brooklyn. If there be three thousand
women now In this city who will put their
hands and their hearts to the work viii
take the contract for driving out al these
moral nuisances from the city---at any
rate three-fourths Of them-n three
months. If, when that host Of three thous
sand consecrated women Is marshaled,
there be no one to lead them, then. as a
minister of the Most High God, I win offer
to take my position at the front OF the
host, and will cry to them:
"Come on, ye women of Christ with
your songs and your prayers Some of
you take the enemy's right wing and
some the left wing. Forward The Lord
of Hosts is with us; the God OF Jacob is
our refuge Down with the dram shops 70
But not waiting for those mouths Of he'll
to close, let me advise the working and the
business classes, and all classes, to stop
strong drink, While declared some time
ago that there was a point beyond which
man could not stop, I want to tell you
that while man cannot stop In his own
strength, the Lord God, by His grace, can
help him TO stop at any time. I was ia q
room in New York whore there were many
men who had been reclaimed from drunk
enness. ! heard their testimony, and for
the first time ia my life there flashed out q
truth / never understood. They said
eve were victims Of strong drink. We
tried TO give IL up, but always failod; but
somehow since we gave our hearts to
Christ, he has taken care OF US"
believe that the time viii soon come
when the grace of God viii show its power
not only to save mans soul, but ais body,
and reconstruct, purify, elevate and rec
deem IT,
verify believe that, although you feel
graphing at the roots Of your tongues an
almost omnipotent thirst, if you will give
your heart to God He viii help you By Ills
grace to conquer. Try It. It Is your last
chance. have looked off upon the desola-
tion Sitting In our religious assemblages
there are a good many people in awful
peril, and Judging from ordinary circum-
stances, there is not one chance In FIVE
thousand that they will get clear Of
It. There are men IN my congrega-
| tion from Sabbath 70 Sabbath uf whom I
must make the remark, that II they do not
change their course, within ten years they
will, as to their bodies, lie down In drunk
ards graves; and as TO their soulslis down
IN drunkard's perdiction. I know this ig
an awful thing TO say, but / can not help
saying It. Oh, bewarei You have not yet
been captured. Bewarel Whether the
beverage be poured In golden chalico or
pewter mug, In the foam at the top, in
white letters, let there be spelled out 20
your soul; Beware"
When the books Of Judgment are open
and ten million drunkards come up to get
their doom, ] want you TO bear witness
that 1, this morning, In the fear Of q od
and IN the love for your soul, told you,
with all affection and with ali kindness, TO
beware Of that which has already exerted
its influence upon your family, blowing
out some Of lts lights-a prenlonitlon Of
the blaclEness and darkness forever.
Oh, II you could only hear this morning,
Intemperance with drunkards' bones
drumming on the head OF the liquor casE
the sd cad March" Of immortal souls, me-
thinks the very glance Of wine-cup
would make you shndder, and tie color of
the liquor would make you think Of ho
hlood Of the soul, and the foam on the top
Of the cup would remind you II the froth
On the maniac's lip; and you would 90
home from this service and kneel
down and pray God that. rather
than your children should become