Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-12

children, bare footed, uneombed and un-
kenpt, want on every patch of their
faded dress and on every wrinkle OF their
prematurely old co Intenances, who
would have been IN churches to-day, and
as well clad as You are, but for the fact
that rum destroyed their parents and
drove them into the grave Oh, rum :
thou foe of God, thou despoiIer of homes,
thou recruiting officer of the pit, abhor
thee!
WORST or ALL HIS SOUL is LOST.
But my subject takes deeper tone,
and that is, that the inebriate suffers
from the loss of the soul. The Bible in
Inmates that in the future world, if we
are unfoFgiven here, our bad passions
and appetites, unrestrained, viii go
along with US and make our torment
there. So that l suppose when an in
ebriate wakes up i'll this lost world he
viii feel an infinite thirst elaWing OH
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 q little while; but in eter-
nifty, where is the rum to come
from? Dives could not get one
drop of water From what
chalice of eternal fire will the hot
lips of the drnnkard drain his draught?
No one TO brew it. No one to mix it. No
one to pour it, No one to fetch 1t. Mil
lions of worlds then for the dregs which
the young man Just now slung on the
sawdusted floor of the restaurant. Mil
lions OF worlds now for the Find thrown
out from the punchbowl of an earthly
banquet. Dives cried for water. The
inebFiate cries for rum. Oh, the
deep, eXhaustIng, eXaspeTating, ever
lasting thirst of the drunkard in hell!
Why, if q fiend came up 20 earth
for some Internal work in q grog shop,
and should go back taking on its wings
just one drop of that for which the inc
briate in the last world longs, what ex-
element it would make therei Put that
one drop from off the ftend s wipgen the
tip of the tongue of the destroyed 1nebri-
ate; let the liquid brightness just touch
it, let the drop be very small if it only
have IN it the smack of alcoholic
drink; let that drop just touch toe
lost inebriate III the zlost 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 ruml Give me ruml
Give me rum!'' In the future world I
of God that will make, the drankard IS
'aegrow; ] do not believe that 1t win be
the fsbsence Of 1ight; do not believe
that it will be the absence Of holiness; 1
think II will be the absence of strong
drink. OH ''look not upon the wine
when it is red, when it .moveth itself
Alright in the cup, for at the last, it
biteth like a serpent and it stingeth like
an adder y
:. A WORD TO THE vICT&&S.
But WANG, m. conclusion, to- say some
thing personal for [ do not like a sermon
that has no personalities III it. Perhaps
this has not had that fault already. 1
want to say to those who are the victims
of strong drink that, while I declared
that there was a point beyond which
man could not stop, l want to tell you
that while man cannot stop in his own
strength, the Lord God by His grace can
help him to stop at any time. Years ago
was in q room in New York where there
were many men who had been re-
claimed from drunkenness. l heard their
testimony, and for the first time in my
life there flashed out truth / never IN
derstood. They said: ''We were vic
TINS of strong drink. We tried to give
it up, but always failed; but, somehow,
since we gave our dIIS ~ NIlIIsL lIO has
taken care of US. 1 believe that the
time viii soon come when the grace of
God will show its power here not only to
save man s soul, but his body, and re-
construct, purify, elevate and re-
deem it, I 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
grace, to conquer. Try it. 1t is your
last chance. I have looked off upon the
desolation. Sitting under my ministry
there are people III awful peril from
strong drink, and judging from ordinary
there is not one chance in
five thousand that they will get clear of
it. I see men in this congregation of
whom / must make the remark that, if
they do not change their course, within
ten years they viii, as to, their
bodies. lie down in drunkaLds' graves;
and as to their souls. lie down in a
drunkard 8 perditIon. I know that it is
an awful thing to say, but 1 can t help
saying 1t. On, beware! You have not
yet been captured. Beware! As We open
the door of your wine closet to-day, may
that decanteP flash out upon you, FBe-
ware! - and when you pour the beverage
into the glass, III the foam al the top, III
white letters, let there be spelled out to
your soul, Beware!'' When the
Books of judgment are open, and
10000 ZOO drunkards come to i
gets their dooms, I want
you to.bear witness thatE, to-day, in. the
fear ofSEsd, and in the love for your.
soul, toldSyou with Ill affection, and
with all kiHdness, TOT. bewap6 of that
which has already exerted is Influence
upon your family, blowing oet some of
It's lights-a premonition of tAabIaek-
ness of darkness forever. On, if you
could only hear this moment, In
with druBkard 's bones,
drumming on the head of the |
wine cask the Dead March of minor |
tai souls, methinks the very glance ola
wine cup would make you shuddsF, aud |
the color of the liquor would make you |
think of the blood OF the sotf, and the |
foam on the top of the cup would remind
you of the froth on the maniac IS lip, and /
vou would go home from this service and /
5neel down and pray God, that rather +
shan your children should become
eaptives of this evil habit, yoH,would
ike TO carry them out some brightspring |