The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-25

country and electrified the people by his lee
| lures. in which he showed the effects 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 system. There were thousands of people
| that turned back from that ulcerous sketch
swearing eternal abstinence from everything
that could intoxicate
God only knows what the drunkard sui
fers. Pain files on every nerve, and traVel
every muscle, and gnRws every bone, anc
burns with every flame, and stlngs VIII
every poison, and pulls at him with eyerI
| torture. What reptiles crawl over his creep
ing liubsl What iiends stand by his mid
night pillow What groans tear his ear
! What horrors shiyer through his soull IaIk
! of the rack. talk of the InquisitiOn, talk o.
| the funeral pyre, talk of the crushing jug
gernaut-ha 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 night? The keeper comes VI
and says: ''Hlush, now, be still. Stop max
/ ing all this ncisew But it is effectual only fcl
/ a moment. for as soon as the keeper is gone
| they begin AGAIN. ooh, Godl oh, Godl Help
| helpl Ruml Give me ruml Holpl Tax
| them of me- Take them off me! Take then
| off mel Oh. Godm and then they Shrek enc
| 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 me. Smother me,
! Strange me. Take the devils off mep' Oh,
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 neighborhood on
this continent Invent on last night while you
slept, and I tell you further that this is going
to be the death that some of you viii die, l
know it. 1 see it coming
4 AGAR lf6 rrfe45i isfr, .lltess tlil Jts Il r7s
loss Of his home. do not care how much he
loves his wife and children If this passion
for strong drink has mastered him, he will
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 anything that will so destroy
a man for this life and damn him for the life
that is to Gomez I hate that strong drink.
With all the concentrated energies of my
soul, l hate it. Do you tell me that man
can be happy when he knows that he is
breaking his wife's heart and clothing
arc on the streets Of our cities
to-day little children, barefooted I'M
combed and unkempt; want on every patch
Of their faded dress and on every wrinkle Of
their prematurely cid couutenances, 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. Oh, rumi thou foe Of God, |
thou destroyer of homes, thou recruiting |
officer of the pit I abhor theel
Bat 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, if ]
we are unforgiven here, our bad passions /
and appetites, unrestrained, viii 60 along
with Us and make our torment there. So /
that l suppose when an inebriate wakes up
in this lost world he will feel an in /
finite thirst claWing on him. Now, down
in the world, although he may have been /
very poor, he could beg or he could steal .
1--WE cents with which to get that which Z
would slake his thirst for a little while; but .
n eternity, where IS the rum to come from? /
Dives could not get one drop of water. From /
what chalice Of eternal fires viii the hot lips I
IF the drunlard drain his draught? No one /
% brew it. No ono 10 mix it. No one to pour
t. No one to fetch il. Millions of worlds f
hen for the dregs which the young man
Just now slung on the saw-dUsted
loor of the restaurant Millions
If worlds now for the rind
brown out from the punch bowl of .
IN earthly banquet Dives cried for water
4
exasperating, everlasting thirst
If the drunkard in hell Why, if a fiend .
anne up to earth for soma internal work in a |
,r0g shop, and should go back taking On its
wing just one drop of that for which the
nsbriate in tho lost world longs what ex-
,itelnant it would make there. Put that one
lrop from off the iend's wing on the tip of
he tongue Of the destroyed inebriate; let
he liquid brightness just touch it,
ct tie drop be very small if
t only have in it the smack of alcoholic
rink, Jet that drop just touch the lost me
lriate in the lost world and he would spring
o his feet and cry: THAT is ruml shal that
5 rumW and it would wake up the echoes Of .
he damned: Give me RUM Give me rumi .
five me rumw In the future world, do
lot believe that it viii be the absence Of God F.
hat will make the drunllard's sorrow: do
lot believe that it viii be the absence of
ight; do not believe that it will be the alb
ence Of holiness; [ think it viii be the alb
ence Of strong drink. Oh! look not upon
he wine when it is red, when it moveth it
elf Alright in the cup, for at the last, it biteth
Ike serpent and it stingeth like an adder
But want in conclusion to say one thing
PERSONAL, for do not like a sermon that has
10 personalities in it. Perhaps this has not
nd that fault already want to say to
hose who are the victims Of strong drink
tl.-- ..ali4. .ta-i4tr t-4eiu q point
beyond which man could not stop, I want
10 tei! you that while 4 man cGnnot stop in
his own strength. the Lord God,
" His grace, can help him to
i room in New York where there were
many men who had been reclaimed from
I heard their testimony, and
.or tic first time in my life there flashed out
/ truth ] never understood. They said: I'VE
we're victims of strong drink. We tried to
give it up but always failed; but somehow,
ince We gave our hearts TO Christ, He has
aEen care OF u.s. l believe that the time
viz soon come when the grace of God will
how its power here not only to save mans
oGl but his body, and reconstruct, purify,
elevate and redeem It. verify believe that,
Though you feel graphing at the
outs of your tongues all almost omnipoten6
birst, if You viii this moment give your
lesrt 20 Goo He viii help you, by His grace,
o conquer. Try it. It is your last chance.
have looked of upon the desolation. Sit
ing under my ministry there are people in
.wful peril from strong drink, and, Judging
rom ordinary circumstances, there is not
ne chance in five thousand that they viii
ret clear Of it. 1 see men in this congre-
.ation Of whom | must make the remark,
hat il they do not change their course,
within ten years they will, as to their bodies,
lie down in drunkards' graves; and as to their
QNl6. ia 0UWn III u Ni HhhdtuS !
now that it is AN awful thing TO say, but
ant help saying it. Oh, bewarel You have
lot yet been captured. Bewarel As ye
pen the door of your wine closet to-day,
nay that decanter flash out upon you.
}eUsrol and when you pour the beverage
nto the glass, in the foam at the top, in
White letters, let them be spelled out to your
oul: sBewarer' When the books of judg-
aent are open, and ten million druhkards
ONE up to get their doom, l want you to
car witness that 1, to-day, il the fear of
iod, and in the love for your soul, told you
With all affection and with all kindness, to
sware Of that which has already exerted its
lfuence upon your family, blowing out
ome Of its hghts-a premonition Of the
lacliness Of darkness forever. oh,
you could only hear this
lomsnt, Intemperance, with drunk
rds bones, drumming on the head of tho
Inc casll Che Dead March of immortal souls,
letbiuks the very glance Of a vino cup
'ould make you shudder and the color Of
he liquor would make You think OF the
lood Of the soul, and the foam on the top OF
ne cup would remind you of the froth on
le maniac's lip, and you would go home
'om this service and kneel down
nd pray God that rather than
our children should become captives
this evil habit, you would like to carry
lem out some bright spring day to the GENE
Try and put them away 20 the last sleep,
ntil as the call Of the south wind the flowers
ould come up all over the grave-sweet
rophecies of the resurrection. God has
aim for such a wound but what flower OF