The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-05-15

Up una uOWn Jno urdWlnY-foOm. D10 0Fok
avessel launch on such o bright and beaut-
ful seat The scene changes. Dingy gar
ret No FIRE. On broken chair sorrow,
full wife. Last hope gone, Poor, forsaken,
trodden under foot, she knows all the sor-
row OF being drunkard's wife. 10" she
says, ''he was the kindest man that ever
lived, he was SO noble, he was 80 good God
never made grander man than he was, but
the drink did II, the drink did IT," Some
day she viii press her hand againsther tenn
pies and cry: 20 my brain, my brainl" or
she will go out upon the abutment Of the
bridge some moonlight night and look down
on the CLASSY surface and wonder if under
that CLASSY surface there is not some rest
for broken hesrt.
A yonng man, through the intercession Of
metropolitan friends, gets place in bank
or store. He is going to leave his country
home. That morning they are up early in
the old homestead. The trunk is on the
wagon. Mother says: my son, put a
Bible in the trunk, hope you will read 1t
oftrn.n She wipes the tears away with her
apron 20" he says, ''come, don't you be
worried, know how TO take care Of my
self. Don't be worried about me-" The
father says: my son, be good boy
and write home often; your mother will
be anxious to hear from you" Crack
goes the whip, and over the hills goes the
wagon. Five years have passed on, and
dissipated life has done its s>work for that
young man. There Is hearse coming up In
front OF the old homestead. The young men
Of the neighborhood who have stayed on
the farm come in and say: 'Is II possiblei
Why, he doesn't look natural, does hei Is
that the fair brow we used TO knowi Is
that the healthy cheek we used TO knowi II
can't be possible that is he" The parents
stand looking at the cash In the forehead
from which the life oozed out, and they lift
their hands and say; 20 my son Absalom,
my son, my son Absalom; would God had
died for thee, o Absalom, my son, my sonp'
Lorenzo de Medici was very sick, and some
Of his superstitious friends thought II they
could dissolve o certain number Of pearls In
cup and then he would drink them 1t would
cure him Of the disease. So they went
around, and they gathered up oil the beauti-
full pearls they could find, and they dis
solved them in cup, and the sick man
drank them. o, IL was an expensive
draught. But tell you Of a more expensive
draught than that Drunkenness puts into
its cup the pearl Of physical health, the
pearl Of domestic happiness, the pearl Of
respectability, the pearl OF Christian hope,
the pearl Of an everlasting heaven, and
/ presses It TO the hot lips 44
j tell you the dramshop is the gate Of hell
The trouble is, they do not put up the right
kind OF sign. They have q great many
different kinds OF signs now onp places where
"a. l,.fx l. al tbfl lt,rao
taurant,n and another is called the 'sa-
loon," and another is called the "hotel,"
and another Is called the swine cellar"
and another is called the sample room"
What name to give one Of those places
| A "sample roomn l saw man on the
steps Of one Of those "sample rooms" the
other day, dead drunk; said to myself: ~
suppose that is sample!' tell you II Is
the gate Of hell.
"O,n says some man, ~ am kind, am
indulgent 10 my family, am right In many
respects, / ON generous. and have too
/ grand and generous moral nature to be
thrown in that way" Let me say that the
! persons who are in the most peril have the
| largest hearts, thebest education, the bright
est prospects. This sin chooses the latest
lambs for It's sacrifice. The brightest gar
lands are BY this carbuncled hand Of drunk
enness torn on the brow Of the poet and
orator Charles Lamb, answerl Thomas
Hood, answer! Sheridan, the English orator,
answerl Edgar A. Poe, answerl Junius
Brutus Booth, answeri
o, come and look over into It while draw
of the coyer-hang over IL and look down. in
10 IL, and see the seething, boiling, loath-
some, smoking, agonizing, disappearing hell
of the drunkard. Young man, be master Of
your appetites and passions. There are hun
dreds-might- / not say thousandsi-of
Young men in this house this IN rn-
ing-voung men Of fair prospects.
your trust in the Lord God and all is v ell
But YOU win be tempted. Perhaps
you may this moment 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 ayounger
his day and commend you TO Jesus Christ,