West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-22
A NATIONS CURSE.
MORAL AND PHYSICAL LOSSES.
raimage Describes the Sorrows and
Doom OF the Drunkard.


see long row OF baskets coming up 10.
ward the palace OF King Jehu. am some.
what inquisltive to find out what Is In the
baskets. look in and find the CORY heads
OF seventy slain Princes AS tho baskets
e s at the gate Of the palace, the heads are
tnrown INTO two heaps, one on either side the
gate. In the morning tho King comes ont
ana no looks upon tho bleeding. phastlv
heads q the maSsacred Princes looking on
eitnsr side the gate, he cries out with a ring
ing omphasis; who slew all thesoY'
: We have, my friends, lived 10 see n mora
fearful massacre. There Is no use of nv
taxing your time in trying TO give YOU sta
.istics about tho devastation and ruin and
uentn which strong drink has wrought i'm
tnls country. Statistics do not seem TO mean
enythlng. We are so hardened under these
statistics that tho fact that fifty thousand
more men are slain or fifty thousand Ices
men are slain, seems TO make no positive i'm
preston on the public mind. Suffice &c TO
LAY, tnas intempcrance has slam an in
numcrablo company OF Princcs-the children
OF Gods royal family; and at the gate of
every noighborhood their are two heans Of
the slain; and ut the door Of tho household
.nere are two heaps of the slain; and at tho
Soor Oh tho legislative hall there arc two
nesps OF the slain; and at tho door of the
university there are two heaps Of the slain:
ana at the gate of this nation there are two
heaps OF the slain. When 1 look mon
t tne desolation 1 am almost fran
nv o,,. va" 'sI,r, Ihe scene, while
that question in half n minute. The minis
ters OF Christ who have given no yyarnino
the courts of law that have offered tho IiceS,,
sure tho women who give strong drink on
Wv hesIs day, the fathers and mothers
Wno nave rum ON the sideboard, the hundreds
OF thousands Of Christian men aud women i'm
tho land who are stolid in their indifference
on TINS subJoct-thoy slew ali thesel
propose In this discourse to tell Won wha =,
: enlhk are the sorrows and the doom of the,
orunkard, so that you TO whom speak ,nnv
net como to torment 'J
some one says; You had better let those
tub1ects alona," Why my brethren We
would be glad 60 let them alone il they womb
, .sS US alone; bus when have in my pocket
ne . Tour requests saying: pray for NV hus
oeA !, pray for my son, pray for INV brother
prsY Tor my friend, who Is tho captiyo az
sSrc'y drink" reply, we are ready To Let
enas question alone when 10 is willing TO LET ma
n-ont put when IT stands blocking up tho
Eay 70 heaven, and keeping multitudes awav
from Christ and heaven, dare not he siIenf
hands "' my
think the subject has been kent bacl,
very mpch by tho merTiment people make
SNer Snose siam by strong drink used 70
90 very merry over these things. bavina n
Keen sense or the ludicrous. There WINS some
onng very grotcsque in the gait of n drunk.
a ara. ~ Is noe so now; for saw in one of the
t ~ OF Phhadelphia sight that Changed.
the whole subject to me. There was a voting
man being led home. He was very much i'm
.YxIcaesd-he was raving with intoxica-.
SOn' Two young men were leading
nm along. The boys hooted in the
S s,,f men laughed, women sneered;
where he went init was the door of his
notners house. / saw him go up stairs.
heard him shouting, hootine and blesnhar,-
ing. ne had lost his hat, and the merri-
.nent increased with the mob until ne came
10 the door, and as the door was onCned his
mother came out. When / heard her CIV
SnAb TOOK ell the comedy out of the scene
since that time when / see a man yvoIL;ne,
through the street, reeling, the comedy is ali
s sDa ana ls Is tragedy Of tears and groans
around me about the grotesauenesS NJ n
ornnkord. Alas for his hOmei
. Inc ilrst suffering of the drunknrd Is I'm
tne loss OF his good name God has so ar
ranged IL that no man ever loses his good
name except through his own net All tLa
hatred Of men and all the assaults If ds,,iis
cahnoo destroy mans good name n be
reaily maintains his integrity. III man he
INDUSTRIOUS and pure and Christian. God
LOOKS after him. Although he may be bonn
"a. :; Lor twenty or thirty years, his integ-
rlty rs never lost and his good name Is never
sacrlnced No force ON earth or i'm hell
can capture such Gibraltar But when Re
IS said OF man, HE drinksn and n can
DC proved, then what employer wants
I'M I'M LOT workmsni what store wants him
toI cierkY what church wants him for n
memoerr who will trust himf what diving
man would appoint him his exocutor9' He
may have been forty years i'm building mn
Ms IePutation-it goes down Letters OF
a,.'n nignG ,,on, the backing up Of business
nIns, brilliant ancestry cannot save him
me world SHES off. WhyS It is whispered
al through the community. sHe drinIIs. he
urlnks" That blasts him. When man Ioees
interpolation for sobriety he might as we'll lie
a. tne Dottom OF the sea. There are men
ueIS VINO nave their good name as their ONLY
capital You are now achieving your own,
hVehhood, under God, by your own ,.igi,t
arm Now look out that there Is no doSIbt
OF your sobriety. Do not create any sus-
P,ci on Dy gong IN and out Of immoral places.
OF oy any odOr Of your breath OR NV nm
glare OF your eye, or by any unnatural fusR
OF your check. You cannot afford To do n
for your good name is your only capital and
when that is blasted with the reputation ~
tnking strong drink all Is gone
Another loss which the inebriate suffers Is
that OF self respect just as soon as a man
wakes up and find that he is tho cAptive 81
strong drink he feels demeaned. / do NOT
care how reckless he acts. He may say. ~
don't care" he does care. He cannot look n
pure man IN the eve, unless IL is with positive
torce Of resolution. Three fOurths Of his nature
is destroyed; his self respect gone. be sava
things he would not otherwise say. he dos
things ne would not otherwise do. When a
man man is nine-teDths gone with strong drink
neiiIst thlng he wants % do is 10 persuade Won
thet nc can stop any timo he wants 10 'Ie
cahnot. Inc Philistines have bound him hand
and foot and shorn his locks. and ryt o,it H.
eyes and are making him grind i'm fi,e min ~
q great horror. lie cannot stop. / win nroye
~ re Knows that his course rs bringing d.
grsce and ruin upon himself. lie ioVes him.
5eI. f ne could stop 10 would. He know
- - 4ourse y bringing ruin upon his family.
ne iOFe8 them. RE would stop IL he cot,ld
~ e'Ahnot. Perhaps he could three months
~ yer ago. not now just nsk him In
bpop TOT month. lie cannot. he knows he
Csiihgt 81 be does not try. / had a friend
~ W. iyi 1iteen years was going down under
tnis evil habit. lie had large means re bod
gwen Thousands of dollars 10 Bible s~,iefio.
4nd reformatory institutions Of ali eorfe
re "es very genial and very onner.
O,i9 anQ very lovable aud whenever he fsIked
about this evil habit be would cav. m CO..
stop any time But he kept going on goin,
on down, down, down. flis family Womb
az; II Wish you would stop "yVbv r h.
-yeiu igpiy, ~ can stop any time III L want
- After while be had deliriun, frer,o,,-.
&c DAD ~ twice. and vet after that bo g,ii.
~ couq stop at any time III + wanted ~ y
re is dead now. What kiIlod him. ~,
IsoLn and yet among bic last uffersnaee
49, can stop at auy time He ala 49,
sstgoP y bccouse be could not st0p n O6
~ is p point m inebriation beyond which
a. man goes, he cannot stop!
One ~ these victims said 10 a C,bri.tio,,
lllshi 9ir, n were told that I CouIdr't
~ n drink until tO-morrovv nfgbt ~.
less II haf all 49, 49, AthNt no