Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-23

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ha NAV have been very poor, he could
hoo or he could steal five cents with
wb;ch TO get that which would Stake his
th;rst for y little while; but in eternity,
,r,,ara is the rum to come from? Dives
could not get one drop of water. From
who+ cholice of eternal fires will the hot
Inns of the drunkard drain his draught?
No one to brew it. No one to mix it.
No one to pour it. No one to fetch it.
Millions of worlds then for the dregs
which the young man Just now slung on
the Saw busted floor 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 inebriate cries for rum. Oh, the
eyerlasting thirst of the drunkard
in hell! Why, if fend came up to
earth for some internal work in grog
shop. and should go back taking on its
wing lust one drop of that for which
the inebriate in the lost world longs,
what excitement it would make there.
Put that one drop from off the fends
wing on the tip Of the tongue of the de-
stroyed inebriate; let the liquid bright
ness just touch it, let the drop be very
alcoholic drink. let that drop just touch
the lost inebriate in the lost world, and
he would spring to his feet and cry:
That is rum! aha. that is RUM" and it
would wake up the echoes of the
damned: Give me rum! Give me rum!
Give me RUM" In the future world,
do not believe that it will be the alb
sence of God that will make the drunk
ards sorrow; 1 do not believe that it will
be the absence of light; do not believe
that it viii be the absence of holiness;
l think it will be the absence of strong
drink. Oh! look not upon the wine
Alright in the cup, for at the last, it biteth
| like aserpent and it stingeth like an
adder"
But 1 want in conclusion TO say one
| thing personal, for do not like SER
Perhaps this has not had that fault al
ready. want to say to those who are
the victims of strong drink, that while
declare that there was n point beyond
which q man could not stop, 1 want to
tell you that while q man cannot stop in
his own strength, the Lord God, by His
grace, can help him to stop at any time.
Years ago l was in room in New York
where there were many men who had
been reclaimed from drunkenness. 1
heard their testimony, and for the first
time in my life there flashed out truth
l never understood. They said: I'VE
were victims of strong drink. We tried
to give it up, but ALWAYS failed; but
somehow, since we gave our hearts to
Christ, He has taken care of u.s." / be-
lieve that the time will soon come when
the grace of God will show it's power
here not only to save mans soul, but his
body, and reconstruct, purify, elevate
and redeem it. verify believe that,
although you feel graphing at the roots
OF your tongues an almost omnipotent
thirst, if you will this moment give your
heart to God He will help you by His
last chance. | have looked off upon the
desolation. Sitting under my ministry
there are people in awful peril from
strong drink, and, Judging from ordi-
nary circumstances, there is not one
chance in five thousand that they will
get clear of it. | see men in this con-
gregation Of whom l must make the re-
mark that, if they do not change their
course, within ten years they will, as to
their bodies, lie down in drunkards'
graves; and as to their souls, lie down
/ in drunkards perdition. know that
it is an awful thing to say, but I can't
not yet been captured. Beware AS We
open the doorl of your wine closet to-
day, may that decanter flash out upon
YOU Beware! and when you pour the bev-
erage into the glass, in the foam at the
top, in white letters. let there be spelled
out to your soul, "Beware!" When the
books of judgment are open, and ten
million drunkards come up to get their
| doom, want you TO bear witness that
to-day, in the fear of God, and in the
love of your soul, told you with all at
lection, and with all kindness, to be-
ware of that which has already exerted
its influence upon your family, blowing
out some of it's lights-a premonition Of
/ the blackness of darkness forever. Oh,
1T you could only hear this moment, In
temperance, with drunkards bones,
drumming on the head of the wine cask
the Dead March of immortal souls, me-
thinks the very glance of wine cup
would make you shudder, and the color
OF the liquor would make you think of
the blood of the soul, and the foam on
the top of the cup would remind you of
the froth on the maniacs lip, and YOU
would go home from this service and
kneel down and pray God that, rather
than your children should become cap
tives of this evil habit, you would like
to carry them out some bright spring day
to the cemetery and put them away to
the last sleep, until at the call of the
south wind, the flowers would come ND
all over the grave-sweet prophecies Of
! the resurrection. God has q balm for
such wound; but what flower of com
fort ever grew on the blasted death of q
drunkards sepulcher?
Jones Would Compromise.
"When I used to rim q or;st mill o,or