Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-22

fire it of Just as came up and took
the glass, would start for I must have
itp Oh, il Is q sad thing for q man 10
wake up in this life and feel that he
is q captive He says: II could have got rid
Of this once, but can't now. might have
lived an hoaorable life and died a
Christian death; but there is no hope for ma
now; there Is no escape fer ma Dead, but
not buried. am q walking corpse. / am
an appaFAtion Of what / once was. ] am q
cagsd immortal, beating against the wires Of
nv cage In this direction and in that direc-
ton; beating against the cage until there Is
blood on the wires and blood upon my soul,
yet not able to get out Destroyed, without
remedyp
I 20 further and say that the inebriate
suffers from the loss OF his usefulness. Do
YOU not recognize the fact that many Of those
who are now captives OF strong drink only
little while ago were foremostin the churches
and in reformatory institutions? Do You
not know that sometimes they knelt in the
family circle. Do you not know that they
prayed in public and some Of them carried
around tho holy wine on sacramental daysi
Oh, yes, they stood in the very front rank,
but they gradually fell away. And
now what do you suppose Is the feeling
of such man as that when
he thinks Of his dishonored VOWS and the
dishonored sacrament-when he thinks Of
what he might have been and Of what he is
now2 Do such men laugh and seem very
merryf All, there is down In the depths Of
their soul, very heavy weight. Do not
wonder that they sometimes see strange
things, and act very roughly in the house,
hold. You would not blame them at all il
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 he'll.
Helrnows there is. He is there nowl
Igo on, and say that the inebriate suffers
from the loss of physical health. The older
men in the congregation may remember that
some years ago DR.. Sewell went through this
country and electrified the people by his lee
lures, in which he showed the eIfects OF alco-
hol on the human stomach. He had seven
or eight diagrams by which he showed the
devastation of strong drink upon the physi-
| cal svstem, There were thousandsof people
that turned back from that ulcerous sketch
swearing eternal abstinence from everything
! that could intoxicate.
! God only knows what the drunkard sut.
| fers. Pain files 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 reptiles crawl over his creep
/ ing limbs! What fisnds stand by his mid
! night pillow! What groans tear his earl
| What horrors shiver through his soull Talk
of the rack, talk of the Inquisition, talk OF
the funeral pyre, talk of the crushing Jug
gernaut-he feels them all at once: Have
you ever been in the ward OF the nos
pital where these inebriates are dying,
the stencil Of their wounds driving
back the attendants, their voices sounding
! through the nighti The keeper comes up
| and says: Hush, now, be still. Stop max
ing all this foisoF' But it is elfectual only for
moment for as soon as the keeper is gone,
they begin again: "Oh, God! oh, God! Helpl
help! Rum! Give me rum Help! Take
them off mol Take them of me! Take them
off mai Oh, Godm and then they Shrek, and
they rave, and they pluck out their hair by
handsful, and 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 mo. Smother me.
Strangle me. Take the devils Off mop Oh,
it is no fancy sketch. That thing is going on
in hospitals, aye, isis going on in some of the
this continent. Invent on last night while you
slept, and tell you further that this is going
to be the death that some of you will die,
know it. see it coming
Again: the insbriate suffers through the
loss Of his home. do not care how much he
loves his wife and children, il this passion
for strong drink has mastered him, he will
90 Gne InoSb Outrageous InlngS, anu IL ile
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 anything that will so destroy
a man for this life and damn him for the life
that is to come? I hate that strong drink.
With all the concentrated energies of my
soul, hate it. Do you tell me that man
can be happy when he knows that he is
b,,aa Eino hic IvifnIc haart and nlothino
his children with rags? Why, there
are ON the streets of our cities
to-day little children, barefooted, un-
combed and unkempt; 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 a:
well clad as you are, but for the fact that
into the grave. Oh, rum thou foe of God
thou destroyer Of homes, thou recruiting
officer Of the pit, 1 abhor thee
But my subject takes a deeper tone
and that is, that the inebriate suffers
from the loss of the soul. The Biblt
intimates that in the future world, il
we are unforgiven here our bad passions
and appetites unreStrained, will go alons
with us and make our torment there. 81
} that suppose when an inebriate wakes VI
; in this lost world he will feel an in
) finite thirst clawing on him. Now, dow
/ in the world, although he may have beel
: very poor, he could beg or he could stea
| five cents with which to get that whicl
t would slake his thirst for little while; bu
t 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 lip
Y Of the drunkard drain his draught? No on
b to brew it. No one to mix it. No one to pou
it. No one to fetch it. Millions of world
then for the dregs which the young MAJ
just now slung on the saw-duste
floor Of the restaurant. Million
of worlds now for the rim
! thrown out from the punch bowl Q
2 an earthly banquet. Dives cried for water
! The inebriate cries for rum. Oh, the deer
7 exhausting, exasperating everlasting thirs
! of the drunkard in hell! Why, if fen
a came up to earth for some Internal work in
a grog shop, and should go back taking on it
. wing just one drop of that for which th
= inebriate in the lost world longs, what ez
a citement it would make there. Put that on
drop from off the flend's wing on the tip c
, the tongue of the destroyed inebriate; Il
4 the liquid brightness just touch il
2 let tho drop be very small
! it only have in 1t the smack Of alcohol
8 drink, let that drop just touch the lost ins
: briate in the lost world, and he would sprin
. to his feet and cry: "That is ruml aha! tbs
: is rump and it would wake up the echoes G
: the damned: 'Give mo rum! Give me rum
Give me rumw In the future world,
!. not believe that it will be the absence Of Go
!. that will make the drunkard's sorrow; d
> not believe that it will be the absence
y light; ! do not believe that it will be the al
!, sence of holiness; think it will be the al
ssnce Of strong drink. Oil 'look not upo
!, the wine when it is red, when it moveth i
self Alright in the cup, for at the last, it bitet
. like serpent and it stingeth like an adder