Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-08-18

through tne nlpntf Inc
keeper comes up and says, Hush,
now, be still. Stop making all this
noise" But il is etfectual only for
a moment, for as soOu as the
keeper is gone. they begin again:
"Oh, Godl oh, Godl Helpl helpl
Rum Give me ruml Help! Take
them of me! Take them off mel
! Take them off met Oh. Godw And
/ then they shrek, and they rave, and
they pluck ont their hair by hands.
full. and bite their nails into the quick,
and then they groan, and they Shrek,
and they bla>pliemc. and they ask
| the keepers 10 kill them Stab me.
Smother me. Stanglc me. Take the
devils Off me- Oh. it is no fancy
sketch. That thing is going on in
hospitals, aye, il is going on in some
of the finest residences of every neigh.
borhuud ON this continent. II went
ON last night while you slept. and
tell YOU further that this is going to
be- the death that some of YOU will die.
| know it, | see il coming.
HIS HOME Is RUINED.
Again: the incbriate suffers through
the loss Of his home. | do not rare
how mach he loves his wife and
children, ii this passion for strong
drink has mastered him. lac will do
the most outrageous things, and If lac
could not ret drink in amy other way.
he would sell his family into eternal
bondage. How many homes have
been broken up in that way, no one
but God knows.
Oh, is there anything that will so
destroy a man for this life and damn
him for the life that Is 10 come! |
hate that strong drink, With all the
concentrated energies of my soul, |
hate it. DO you tell me that "A man
can be happy when he knows that he
is breaking his wife's heart and cloth
ing his children with rags. Why,
there are on the streets of our cities
today little children. barcfooted. un.
comhcd and unkcmpt; want on every
patch of their faded dress and on cv-
cry wrinkle Of their preInaturely old
cUuntcnanCcS, who would have been
in churches today. and as well clad as
you are. but for the fact that rum de-
stroyed their parents and drove them
into the grave. Oh, ruml thou foe
of God, thou despoilcr of homes, thou
recruiting officer Of the pit, | ubhor
thee!
WORST OF ALL, HIS SOUL Is LOST.
But my subject takes a deeper tone.
and that is. that the lncbriatc suffers
from the loss of the soul. The Bible
intimatcs that in the future world, if
we are unforgivcn here, our bad pas.
sions and %appetitcs, u~nrestnined. will
20 along with us aud make tor.
ment there. So that | suppose when
al inebriate wakes up n this lost world
he will feel an infinite thirst clawing
on him. Now, down in the world,
although he may have been very poor,
he could beg or he could steal five
cents with which TO get that which
would Stake his thirst for a little
while; but in eternity, where is the
rum to come FRONT Dives could not
get drop of water. From what
chalice of eternal fires will the hot
lips Of the drunkard drain his
draught! No N TO brew il. No one
10 mix il. No one 10 pour il. Noone
to fetch il. Millions of worlds then
for the dregs which the young man
just now slung on the saw busted
ilooP Of the restaurant Millions
Of worlds now for the rind
thrown out from the punch bowl Of
an earthly banquet. Dives cried for
water, The inelriate cries for run,
Oh, the deep. exlausting. c~Xasper,t.
ing, everlasting thirst of the drunkard
in hell! Why, if Il icnd came up TO
earth for some internal work in grog
shop, and should 90 back taking on It's
wing just one drop of that for which
the inebriate in the lost world longs.
what excitement il would make there.
Put that one drop from off the
tends wing on the tip Of the tongue
of the DESTROYED inebriatc; let tho
liquid brightness just touch il,
let the drop be very small if
it only have IN il the smack Of alec.
holic drink. let that dros Just touch
the lost incbriatc IN the lost world,
aud lac would spring - his feet and
cry: That is rum. aha. that is rum -
aud il would wake up the echoes Of
the damned Give me rum. Give
Inc rum. Give me rum In the fu-
mre world, / do not believe that il
will bc the absence Of God that will
make the d%unkarl's SORROW; | do not
believe TINT il will be- the absence of
light; | do not believe that il will be
the absence of holiness; Think il will
be- the absence of strong drink. Oh!
look not upon the wine when il is
rcd. when it uoveth itself Alright in
the cup, for at the last, il bitcln like n
serpent and il stim%"th Ike an adder"
WORD 10 THE VICTIMS.
But | want in conclusion Ia sly one
thing personal, for | DO not like Il SCI.
mon that has no personalities in il.
Perhaps this has not had that fault al
ready. want 10 say 10 those who are
the victimSo of strong drink, that while
| declare that there wasa point beyond
which a man could not stop, | want
To tell you that while "A man cannot
stop in his own strength. the Lord
God, by his grace, can help him TO
stop at any lime. Years ago | was in
a room in New York where there were
many men who had been reclaimed
from drunkenness. | heard their tes-
timony, aud for the first time in my
life there flashed out a truth ! never
understood. They said. I'VE were
victims Of strong drink. We tried TO
give it up but always failed but some.
how, since We gave N hearts
To Christ, he has taken care
of as ! believe that the time
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