The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-25


way hs would sell his family into eternal
bondage. How many homes have been
broken up in that way no one but God
knows. Oh, 10 there any thing that win -
destroy . man for this life and damn him
for the life that il to come! I hate that
strong drink. With al the concen.
trated energies Of my soul hate
IL. Do not tell me that . man can
be happy when he knows that he 10
breaking his wife's heart and clothing his
children with rags. Why, there are on
the roads and streets of this land to-day
little children, barefooted 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 thee!
But my subject takes . deeper tone. and
that is that the unfortunate Of whom
speak suffers from the loss Of the soul. The
Bible insimates that in tho future world,
IL we are unforgiven here. our bad pas
sions and appetites, unrestrained. will go
along with US and make our torment there.
So that, I suppose. when an inebriate
wakes up in the last world he will feel an
infinite thirst clswing on him. Now,
down in the world, although he NAV
have been very poor, he could beg or he
could steal five cents with which
to get that which would slake his
thirst for q little while; but in eternity
where is the rum to come from? Dives
could not get one drop of water. From
what chalice of fire will the hot lips of the
drunkard drain his draught? No one to
brew it. No one to mix it. No one to
pour it. No one to fetch it. Millions Of
worlds then for the dregs which the young
man just now slung on the ssw-dust floor
Of the restaurant. Millions of worlds now
for the rind thrown out Of the punch howl
Of an earthly banquet. Dives cried for
water. The inebriate cries for rum. Oh,
the deep. exhausting. exasperatiug. ever.
lasting thirst Of the drunkard in hell!
In the future world I do not believe that
It will be the absencs Of God that will
make the drunkard's sorrow. I do not be-
lieve that it will be the absence Of light. I
do not believe that 1t will be the absence Of
holiness. think il will be the absence Of
rum. Oh,
Look not upon the wine when it II red.
when IL moveth itself Alright in the cup. for
at the last IL biteth like . serpent and is
stingeth like an adder.
1t il 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 vent
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 900 inhabitants. If thirty women sur.
charged of the Holy Ghost could renovats
town Of 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. II there be three thousand
women now in this city who will pu. their
hands and their hearts to the work will
take the contract for driving out all these
moral nuisances from the city-at any
rate tbree-fourths Of them-in three
months. II, when that host Of three thou.
sand consecra:ed women is marshaled,
there be no one to lead them, then. a. q
minister Of the Most High God. I will offer
to take my position at the front Of the
host. and 1 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? Tie 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 hell
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
q man could not stop, l 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 in =
room in New York where there were many
men who had been reclaimed from drunk
enness. heard their testimony, and for
the first time in my life there flashed out .
truth / never understood. They said:
1--WE were victims Of strong drink. We
tried to give it up, but always failed: but
somehow since we gave our hearts to
Christ. he has taken care of u.s."
1 believe that the time will soon come
when the grace of God will show it's power
not only to save mans soul, bu. his body,
and reconstruct, purify, elevate and re.
deem it.
Iverily 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 will help you by His
grace to conquer. Try it. It is your last
chance. have looked of upon the desola.
ton. Sitting in our religious assemble es
there are q 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.
ton from Sabbath to Sabbath of whom
must make the remark. that il 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 soulslie down
in drunsard's perfection. know this is
an awful thing to say, but can not help
saying it. Oh, beware! You have not yet
been captured. Beware! Whether tine
beverage be poured in golden chalice or
pewter mug, in the foam at the top, in
white letters. let there be spelled out to
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 God
and in the Low. for your soul, told you,
with all affection and with ali kindness, to
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its influence upon 'your family, blowing