The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-22

alcoholic drink, ct that drop Just touch
the lost inebriats in the lost world, and
he would spring to his fset and cry;
That is ruml aha that is rum ~ and
IL would wake up tie echoes OF the
damnedl
"Give me rum! Give me ruml Give me
rumw In the future world do not be-
lieve that it will be the absence OF God
that will make the druukard's sorrow;
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. OIL look
not upon the wine when it is red,
when it movath itself Alright in the
cup, for at he last, it biteth Ike
a serpent and It stingeth like an adder"
But l want, in conclusion. to say one
thing personal, for do not like sermon
that has no personalities in it Perhaps
this has not had that fault already.
want to say to those who are the victims
OF strong drink that while | declare that
there was a point beyond which man
could not stop, want to tell you that
while a man can aot stop in his own
strength, the Lord God, 10y His grace,
can help him to stop at any time. years
ago was in a room in New York whers
there were many men who had been re-
claimed from drunkenness. / heard
their testimony, and for the first time in
my life there flashed out truth l never
understood. They said:
ave were victims OF strCng drin K. We
tried TO give it up, but Away faile d; but
somehow, since we gave our hearts to
Chriit He has taken care OF u.s."
/ believe that the time will soon come
when the grace Ct God will show its
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 Omnip-
otent 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 chaL ce. | have looked off upon
the desolatioL Sitting under my min
istry there are people in awful peril from
ordinary circumstances: there is not one
chance in five thousand that they will get
clear Of it.
| see men in this congregation Of whom
must make the remark that, If they do
not change their course, within ten years
they will, as to their bodies, lie down
in drunkards' grares; and as to their
souls, lie down in a dTunkards perGl-
tio.l. know that it is an awful thing to
say, but can't help saying it. On, be-
warel You have not yet been captured.
Beware! AS ye open the door Of Jour
wine closet to-day, may 'hat decanter
fash out upon you: Beware! And when
you pour the beverage into the glass, in
the foam at the top, in white letters, let
there be spelled out to your soul:
"Beware."
I'll
and ten million drunk ards come up TO get
their doom, l want you to bear witness
that to day, in the fear of God, and in
the love for your soul told you with all
affection, and with all kindness, to beware
of that which has already exertod its in
auence upon your family, blowing out
some Of its lights-a premonition Of the
blackness of darkness forever.
Oh, if you could only hear this moment,
Intemperance, with drunkard's bones,
drumming on the head OF the wine clsk
the Dead March OF immortal souls, me-
thinks the very glance of wine cup
would make you shudder, and the color
of the liqaor 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 maniac's lips,
and you would 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 last
call Of the south wind the flowers would
come up all over the grave-sweet proph-
ecies Of he resurrection. God has
balm for such a wound; but what flower
of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath
| Of drunkard's sepulcher?