Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-30

could dissolve a cersain number Of pearls IN q
cup and then he would drink them It would
cure him Of tho disease. So they went
around and they gathered up all tho beauti-
ful pearls they could find, and they dis
solved them in a cup and the sick
man drank them. Oh, it was an ex-
pensivo draught But / tell you of moreex-
pensive 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
pesrl Of an everlasting heaven, and presses
It TO the hot lips.
l tell you the dram shop Is the gate Of
hell. The trouble is they do not put up the
right kind OF sign. They have a great many
different kinds Of signs now on places where
strong drink is sold. One is called
the restaurant and another is called
the saloon and another is called the
''hotel," and another is called the "wine
collar and another is called the sample
room" What name to give one Of those
plecesi A sample roomp l saw a man on
the steps Of one Of those sample rooms" the
other day, dead drunk said to myself: "I
suppose that is a sampler tell you it Is
the gate of hell.
"0h," 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
overthrown in that way" Let me say that
the persons who are in the most peril
have the largest hearts the best educa-
tion, the brightest prospects. This sin
chooses the fattest lambs for its sacrifice. The
brightest garlands ore by this carbuncled
hand of drunkenness torn OF the brow Of the
poet and the orator. Charles Lamb, answer
Thomas Hood, answerl Sheridan, the Eng
lish orator, answerl Edgar A. Poe, answer !
Junius Brutus Booth, answerl
Oh, come and look over it while draw OF
the cover-hang over it and look down into
it, and see the seething, boiling, loathsona,
smoking, agonizing, blaspheming hell Of the
drunkard. Young man, be master of your
appetites and passions. There are hundreds
might not say thousands9-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. l speak not in a
perfmctory way. speak as an older brother
talks to younger brother. l put my hand
on your shoulder this day and commend you
to Jesus Christ. who himself was young man
and died while yet q young man. and mas
sympathy for all young men. Oh, be master,
by the grace of God, of your appetites and
passions |
l close with peroration. Ministers and
speakers are very apt to close with perorA.
tion, and they generally roll up some grand
imagery to express what they have to say. ]
close with a peroration mightier than was
ever uttered by mere human lips. Twoquo-
tations. The first is this: "Who hath
woe2 who hath babbling9 who hath wounds
without cause? They that tarry long at the
wine they that go to seek mixed wine. Look
not upon the wine when it 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 I 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 tho
sight of thine own eyes; but know thou that
Ior all these things God will bring thee into
i7i0mant"