The Penn's Grove record., 1889-08-31

though he may have been very poor, he
could beg or he could steal five cents
with which to get that which would
slake our thirst for q little while; but in
eternity, where is the rum to come
from? Dives could not get one drop Of
water. From what chalice of eternal
fires will the hot lips of the drunkard
drain his draught? No n to brew it.
No n to mix it,. No one to pour it.
No n to fetch it. Millions Of worlds
then for the dregs which the young
man Just slung on the sawdusted 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 deep, exhaust
ing, e~xasperating,
EVERLASTING THIRST
of the drunkard in hell! Why, if q
fiend came up to earth for some internal
work in grog shop. and should go back
taking on its wing just n drop OF that
for which the inebriate longs, what ex-
citement it would make there! Put
, that one drop from off the fiend's wing
on the tip of the tongue Of the destroy
ed inebriate; let the liquid brightness
just touch it, let the drop be very small
if it only have in it the smack of alcho-
holic 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 wovld
wake up the echoes of the damned:
Solve me rum! Give me rum! Give
me rum!" In the future world, / do
not believe hat it will be theabsence of
God that will make the drunkard's sor-
row; 1 do not believe that it will be the
absence of light; I do not believe that it
will be the absence of holiness; I think
it will be the absence of strong drink.
/ Oh! flook not upon the wine when it is
red, when it moveth itself Alright in the
cup, for at the last, it biteth like a SER
pent, and it stingeth like an adder"
But l want in conclusion to say one
thing personal, for l do not like a SER
mon that has no personalities in it. Per-
haps this has not had that fault already.
l want to say to those who are the VIC
Tins of strong drink, that while / de-
clare that there was a point beyond
which a man cannot stop, l 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
time. Years ago l wa in a room in
New York wnere there where men who
had been {fssx t94.
RECLAIMED FROM DRUNKENNESS.
l heard their testimony, and for the
first time in m" life there flashed out a
truth i never understood, They said:
"We 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." 1
believe that the time will soon come
when the grace Of God will show its
power here not only to a mans soul,
But his body, and reconstruct, purify,
elevate, and redeem it. 1 verify believe
that, although you feel graphing at the
roots of your tongues an almost omni-
potent thirst, if you will only at this
momeLt give your heart to God He will
help you, by disgrace, to conquer. Try
it. 1t is your last chance.
1 have looked off upon the desolation.
Sitting under my ministry there are
people in awful peril from strong drink,
and, judging from ordinary circumstan-
ces, there is not one chance in five
thousand that they will get clear of it.
| see men in this congregation Of whom
l must make the remark that, if they
do not change their course, within ten
years they will, as to their bodies, lie
down in drunkard's graves; and as to
their souls, lie down in a drunkard's
perdition. l know that it is an awful
thing to say, but l can't help saying it.
oh beware! You have not yet been
captured. Beware! As We open the
door of your wine closet to-day, nay
that decanter fash out upon you. Be
ware! And when you pour the bever-
age into the glass, in the form at the
top, in white letters, letthere be spelled
out to your soul, 8"Beware!!" When
the books of Judgment are open, and
ten million d~runkards come up to get
their doom, l want you to bear witness
that l to-day, in the fear spfGod, and In
the love Of your soul, told you with all
affection, and with all kindness, to be-
ware Of that which has already exerted
its influence upon your family, blowing
out some Of it's .aights :.
lbsA PRRNoSIfIoN OF THE BLAcKNEss
of darkness forever, Oh, il you could
only hear, this moment, insemperance,
with drunkards bones, drumming on
the wine cask the Dead March Of i'm
mortal souls, methinks the very glance
of a 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 oncthenaAniac's
lip, and you wonld go home from this
service and kneel down and pray God
That, rather than your children should
become captives 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 up all over the grnve-sweet
prophesies OF the resurrection. God
has a balm for such a wound; but what
| flower of comfort ever grew on the
blasted heath Of a drunkard's sepul-
chre?
The owner Of the young stallion
Nelson, 2.I5, has had offers to take his
horse 10 California and match him
against Stamboul; TO pit him against
Ax,ell, and to trot for u purse against
the 2.134 of Maxey Cobb. Nelson may
be counted a certain starter in the
stallion race at Boston. and he Is so
sure OF first money that q big field is
not likely to oppose him.
Madame Marentette has new span
of runners They went a mile to pole
the other day In LAT. 81
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