Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-05-23

could dissolve certain number Of pearls in q
cup and then he would drink them it would
cure him of the disease. So they went
around and they gathered up all the beauti-
full pearls they could find, and they dis
solved them in cup, and the sick
pensive draught. But tell you Of a more ex-
pensiye draught than that. Drunkenness puts
into its cup the pearl Of physical health, the
pearl of domestic happiness the pearl of re-
spectability, the pearl of Christian hope the
pearl of an everlasting heaven and presses
it to the hot lips.
/ tell you the dram shop is the gate of
hell Tho trouble is they do not put up the
right kind Of sign. They have great many
differeDt kinds of signs now ON places where
strong drink is sold Ono is called
the restaurant and another is called
the saloon and another is called the
''hotel," and another is called the ''wine
cellar" and another is called the sample
room.n What name TO give one of those
places a sample room r / saw man on
the steps of one Of those sample rooms the
other day, dead drunk. l said to myself: II
suppose that is a sample" l tell you it is
the gate of hell.
''Oh," says some man. 81 am kind. am
indulgent to my family, am right In many
respects, am very generous, and have too
grand and generous moral nature to be
the persons who are in the most peril
have the largest hearts, the best educa-
ton, the brightest prospects. This sin
chooses the latest lambs for its sacrifice The
brightest garlands are by this carbuncled
hand Of drunkenness torn off the brow of the
poet and the orator. Charles Lamb, answers
Thomas Hood, answer Sheridan, the Eng
lsh orator, answer Edgar A. Poe, answer !
Junius Brlitus Booth, answer
Oh, come and look over il while draw OF
the cover-hang over it and look down into
it, and see the seething boiling, loathsome,
smoking, agonizing, disappearing hell Of the
drunkard. Young man, be master OF your
appetites and passions. There are hundreds
might not say thousandss-of young men
in this house this morning-young men of
fair prospects. Put your trust in the Lord
God and all is well. But you will be
tempted. Perhaps you may this mo
ment be addressed ON the first Sabbath
of your coming to the great city, and ] give
you this brotherly counsel. speak not in
perfunctory way. / speak as an older brother
talks TO younger brother. ] put my hand
on your shoulder this day and commend you
10 Jesus Christ. who himself was young man
and died while yet young man, and has
sympathy for all young men. Oh, be master,
by the grace Of God, Of your appetitcs and
passions
close with peroration. Ministers and
speakers are very apt to chose with peroFa-
ton, and they generally roll up some grand
imagery TO express what they have 70 say. l.
close with a peroration mightier than was
ever uttered by mere human lips. Twoquo-
tations- The first is this; who bath
woe, who hath babblingl who hath wounds
without causel They that tarry long at the
wine, they that go 70 seek mixed wine Look
not upon the wine when n Is red, when it
moveth itself Alright In the cup, for at the
last it biteth like serpent and stingeth like
an adder" This is the other quotation.
Make up your mind as TO which is the more
impressive. | think the last is the
mightier: Rejoice, o young man. in thy
youth, and let thy heart cheer thee In the
days of thy youth, and walk thou in the
sight Of thine own Dyes; but know thou that
for all these things God viii bring thee into
iudgmentn