Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-12
r.. Terrible Devastation that
strong Drink Has Wrought.
80, Nan Loses His Reputation for
sobriety He had just as Well be
at the Bottom Of the Sea.
G., the Foe Of God, the DespoiEer of
y',, -ss and the Recruiting officer Of the
rayu and The Army Of He'll
..vHo SLEW ALL THEsE?''

-+7-rr>.. u. l., aug. LINE Rev.
No Wifi Talmage, D. D., preached
today to a vast congregation.
20 for his text, 'who slew all
-, Il Kings, X, 10, he preached a
-.-fpI discourse on Drunkenness the
[.,foa,s Curse. He said:
ga long row of baskets coming up
ord the palace of King Jehu. I am
.rbat lnquisltive to find out what is
-. baskets. look in and I find the
beads of seventy slain princes. As
gu! t.st,e-s arrive at the gate Of the pal
'- .ta heads are thrown into two heaps,
IN either side the gate. In the
'-- inc the king comes out and he looks
--- the bleeding, CHASTITY heads of the
..yarred princes. Looking on either
nc cries out with a ringing emphasis,
,.Who slew all these?
Va have. my friends, lived to see a
40 fearful massacre. There is no use
- taking your time in trying to give
.,orisfics about the devastation and
90, and The death which strong drink
-. brought in this country. Statistics
--ro+ seem to mean anything. We are
hardened under these statistics that
che fact that 80 900 more men are slain or
~ an less men are slain seems TO make
-, rosfiiva impression on the public
mind Suffice it to say that intemper-
@-.a has slain an inuumeTable company
~ --fnras. the children of God S royal
s--rv. ana at the gate of every neigh
t,-1ooi there are two heaps of the slain;
s~l NJ the door Of the household there
49, two heaps Of the slain; and at
.Fa door of the legislative hall there are
.ra baaus of the slain; and ct the door
ofHe university there are two heaps of
Hs slain: and at the gate of this nation
there two heaps Of the slain. When I
lax mon the desolation I am almost
frantic with the scene, while I cry cut,
uwbo slew al these?'' can answer
that question in half q minute. The
ministers OF Christ who have given no
vqming. the courts of law that have Of
frsI the liceusure, the women who give
strong drink on New Years day, the
fathers and mothers who have rum on
the sdetoard, the hundreds of thou
sands Of Christian men and women in the
land who are stOlid in their Indifference
on this subiect-they slew all these,
TIVE SORROWS AND THE DOOM OF THE
DRUNKARD.
Irrouose in this discourse to tell you
what / think are the sorrows and the
doom of the drunkard, so that you to
whom l speak may not come to the tor
neut.
Some one says, ''You had better let
l10se subjects alone. Why, my breth-
TEL, we would be glad TO let them alone
if they would let us alone, but when l
have in my pocket now four requests
saving, ''Pray for nv husband, pray for
nv son, pray for my brotber, pray for
Nv friend, who is the captive OF strong
drink. I reply, we are ready to let that
question alone when It is-wiiling to let us
alone: but when it stands blocking up
,la way 10 heaven and keeping multi
illes away lr0m Christ ana heaven, l
ds-e net be silent, lest the Lord require
their hood at my hands.
think the subject has been kept back
very nuca by the meFPIment people
ul6e over those slain by strong drink. I
Used TO De very merry over these things,
having Keen sense of the IudieFoUs.
There was s0metbing very gTotesque in
the gait of @ dTunkaTd. It is not SO now;
tr saw Iu one of the streets Of Phila-
aeplia @ sight that changed the whole
subject TO me. There was a young man
being led home. He was very much in
u1ieltel-he was raving with intoXica-
lu. Two young men were leading
Am along. The boys hOoted in the
street, men laughed, women sneered;
Tut happened to be very near the door
where he vent init was the door OF his
-ai1g' S house. I saw him go upstairs.
IA5aN nam shouting, hoOting and bias
I-5mug. Ee had lost his hat, and the
IsIrlmeut increased with the mob until
lie cams zap 10 the door, ana as the door
Was opened his mother came cut. When
heard her cry that took ali the comedy
away from the scene. Since that time,
'4el see q man walking through the
street, raeliug, the comedy is all gone,
ll9 Il is tragedy of tears and groans
aug 1yaTthreakS. Never make any fun
around me about the grotesqueness of a
OuhAard. Alas for his home!
Ills GOOD NAME NIELTS AWAY.
III" hTst suffering Of the druukard is in
'e loss of ais good name. God has so
arranged il that no man ever loses his
s.'- name except through his own act.
al l-e hatred Of men and all the assaults
~ 17'.s cannot destroy a man 5 good
name ii he really maintains his integ-
..t. Il % man is industrious and pure
--' 'hTstian, God looks after him. Al
cough Ae may be bombarded for twenty
y. .....ty years, his integrity is never lost |
l.' -.s good name is never sacrificed.
i.Iee on earth or in hell
-- capture such a Gibraltar But
. .~.'. .l is said of q man, He drinks,
--' can be proved, then what
-.Eer wants him fora workman? what |
."g wants him for Il clerk! what church |
~. .l,' aim log q member? who viii trust |
A.. '. what dying man would appoint him |
- executor: He may have been forty |
- I'D building mp his TeputatiOn-it /
;, 7' Gown. Letters of recommendation, i
..e@Ing up of business firms, |
h. brilliant ancestry cannot save /
The world SHES off Why? |
t. D. whispered all through the commun- |
A.. tie drinks; he drinks. - That blasts !
W hen a man loses his reputation |
I... >-''I.ety, he might as well be at the
=, ,-'-h OF the sea. There are men here /
,. -2 nave their good name as their only |
CO. on are now achieving your |
10 ' -'e-Aood, under God, by your own |
D. arm. Now look out that there is
~. .'1oaJ of your own sobriety. Do not |
NJ 60 any suspicion by going in and out
.-.,--oI2l places, or by any odOT of your /
h. ~ OF by any glare of your eye, or /
: 81! unnatural flush of your cheek. +
cannot afford TO do it, for your good |