The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-08-17

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Do you not recognize, the fact that many
of those who are now captives of strong
drink only a little while 4 were fore
most in the churches and in reformatory
institutions? Do you not know that some-
times they knelt in the family circle? Do
you not know that they prayed in public
and some of them carried around the holy
wine on sacramental days? o, yes, they
stood in the very front rank, but they
gradually fell away. And now what do
o suppose is the feeling of such a man
as hat when he thinks of his dishonored
lows and the dishonored sacrament
when he thinks of what he might have
been and of what he is nowf Do UGH
men laugh and seem very merryp All,
there is, down in the depths of tn eir soul,
a very heavy weight Do not wonder
that they sometimes see strange things
and act very roughly In the household.
You would not blame them at all if you
knew what they suffer. Do not tell such
as that there Is no future punishment.
Do not tell him there is no such place as
hell. He knows there is. He is there now.
go on and say that the inebriate suf-
fers from the loss of physical strength.
The older men in the congregation may
remember that some years ago DIR. Sewell
went through this country and electrified
the people with his lectures, in which he
showed the effect of alcohol on the human
stomach. He had seven or eight diagrams
by which he showed the devastation of
strong drink upon the physical system.
There were thousands of people who
turned back from that ulcerous sketch
swearing eternal abstinence from every
thing that could intoxicate.
Gnd Onlv EnOyva what tho drnnGar1 Onf-
fers. Pain q es on every nerve, and
travels every muscle, and gnaws every
bone, and burns with every flame, and
stings with every poison, and pulls at him
with every torture. What fiends stand
by his midnight pillowl What groans
tear his earl What horrors thrill through
his soul! Talk of the rack. talk of the in
QUESTION, talk of the funeral pyre, talk of
the crushing Juggernaut-he feels them
all at once. Have you ever been
in the ward of the hospital where
these inebriates are dying, the
stencil of their wounds driving back their
attendants, their voices sounding through
the night? The keeper comes up and says,
Flush, now. be still. Stop making all
this noisel" But it is effectual only for a
moment, for as soon as the keeper is gone.
they begin again: 20, Godl o, GodI
Help! help! Rum! Give me rum! Help!
Take them Off mel Take them off mel
Take them of mel o. God"
And they shrek. and they rave, and
they pluck out their hair by handfuls,
and they bite their nails into the quick,
and then they groan, and they shrek,
and they blaspheme, and they ask the
keepers to kill them. 'Stab me! Smother
me! Strange mel Take the devils off
mel" o. it is no fancy sketch. That thing
is going on in hospitals, aye, it is going
on In some of the finest residences of
every ne~ighborhood on this continent. 1t
went on last night while you slept, and l
tell you further that this is going to be
the death that some of you will die. 1
know il. 1 see it coming.
o, is there any thing that will so destroy
a man for this life inc damn him for the
life that Is to come? | hate that strong
drink. With all the concentrated energies
of my soul, / hate it. Do you tell me that
a man can be happy when he knows that
he Is breaking his wife's heart and cloth
ing his children with rags? Why, there
are on the streets of our city to-day little
children barefooted, uncombed and I'M
kempt; want on every patch of their
faded dress and on every wrinkle of their
prematurely old countenances, who 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. 1 abhor theei
But my subject takes a deeper tone, and
that is that the inebriate suffers from the
loss of the soul The Bible intimates that
in the future world, IL we are unforgiven
here, our bad passions and aLpetites, I'M
restrained, will go along with us and make
our torment there. So that 1 suppose
when an inebriate wakes up in this lost
world he will feel an infinite thirst claw
ing on him. Now, down in the world,
although he may have been very poor, he
could beg or he could steal five cents with
which to get that which would Stake his
thirst for a little while; but in eternity
where is the rum to come from? Dives
could not get one drop of water. From
what chalice of eternal fires will the hot
lips of the drunkard drain his draught?
No n to brew it. No one to mix it. No
IL to pour it. No one to fetch it. Millions
of worlds then for the dregs VIII ich the
young man just now slung on the saw
busted floor of the restaurant Millions
of worlds now for the rind thrown out
from he punch bow of an earthly BAN
quet.
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exasperating, everlasting thirst Of the
drunkard in HE'LL Why, II a fiend came
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think it will be tho absence NJ strong
drink. OF "L,ook not unon the y;ne
when IL ia red wben n movatb itsaIf
Alright In tho cun for ~ the loo. ~ h;tath
lila a sarnar. and ~ sti,na,h ill., an "a
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pu+ rant &, oo,o,
thing nersonal for T do NOT Iike n sermon
that has no nersonaIitie in n Parbans
this hos not had That fault o,raalr 7
want IN saw N those who ara tba %victins
of stropo ir;nk that wbiIo 7 dac,ora thara
was a noint bevond which n man couId
not stop I want to tell Won hat while a
man con mot ston in HE ovrr s,rarn,h tha
Lord God. Inv His groce. can baIn him 70
stop at any time. Years ago 7 was In a
room in New York where there were
many men who had been reclaimed from