Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-08-12
pIrcK OFT THEIR HAZE


by handsful, and bite their nails into the
quick, and theu they grosn, and they
shrek, and they blaspheme, and they ask
the keepers to kill them. stab me-.
Smother me. S,rangle Lac. Take the
eyis OF me n Or, it is 40 fancy sketch.
That thing 10 going on in hospitals, aye, IL
/ Is goi8g on 10 some of the finest residences
OF every neiahbOrhood on this continent.
Il went on last night while yOu slept, and
/ tell you farther that this Is going 10 be
/ the death that some Of you will die. l
know it, / see it coming.
%, is there anything that will so de-
stToy p man for this life AID dam hin Tor
the lie thst is 70 come? hate that strong
drink. With eli the concentrated euergie,
Of my sonl, hate it. Do You tel me that
q man eau he happy when he knows that
he IS breaking his wife's heart snd clothing
his children with rag? Why, there are
on the streets of our cities to-day little
children. baIeiooted, uncOmbed ard III
kempt, want Oh every patch of their faded
dress snd on every wrinkle OF their pre-.
maturely cd Couniensnces, who would
have been in churches to-day, aud as well
clad es you are, bu. fOI the fact that rum
destroyed their parents and drove them
into the grave. Oh, ram, thou foe OF
God thou despcier OF homes, thou re-
cruiting officer OF the pit, sbhor thee.
But my subject takes deeper tone, and
hat Is, that the insbrate suffers from the
loss Of the sodl. The Bible intimates that
in the future world, il we are unforg;ven
here. our bad pastors and sppetites, unre-
strained, will 90 along with us snd make
our torment there So that suppose that
when en- inebriste wakes up in this Lost
world he viii feel an infinite thirst CLAW
inc Oh him. Now, down in the world, al.
though Lie Lay Gsve bCsn very poor, he
could beg or he could stsal FIVE cents with
which 20 get that which would Stake his
thirst for a little while; but in eternity,
Where ia the rum to come from2 Dives
couId not get one drop OF water From
what ehalce of eternal fires will the hot
Inns OF the drunkHd drain MS draught?
/ No one TO brew Il. No one 10 mix it No
o,a 10 pourit. No one to fetch it. Mil
IONS of worlds then for the dTegs which
the yo,.rg man ,uss now sluDg on the saw
5nsisd f5orcf the restaurant. Millions OF
worlds usg for the rind thrown oui FROM
me nluch bowl Of az earthly banquet
Oivss cried for water The inebriste cries
or rnm. On, the deep, exhsussing, exss
nerstipg. everlasting thirs! Of the drunk
ard ia he'll Why, L fend came up to
earth
FOR SOME INTERNAL WORK
in q erog chop, and sAould 90 back taking
on its wing lust oue drOpof that for which
tire insbrists in the lest world longs, what
excitement it would make here. Put that
one drop from of tie iead's wing on the
tin of tie tougue of the destroyed inebEiate;
, let the liquid brightness Just touch 1t, let
the drop be very small, If it only have in
it the smack Of alcoholic drink, let that
drop lust touch the los. inebriate in the
lest world, aud be would spring TO his
feet ard CRY: That is rum! shal thst Is
ruor' aud it would wake up The echoes
of the damned Give me run, Give me
run, Give ne ruur' In the future
world, 1 do not believe that it will be the
absence # God that viii make the drunk
ards sorrow; do not believe that it will
be the absercs of light; no not believe it
viii be the abserce Of holiness; think it
| viii be the absence of strong drink. Oh