The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-15

more and more fashionable for women
to drink. I care not how well . Nofssn
may dress, IL she has taken enough Of
WINE to flush her cheek and put glasses
on her eyes, she is intoxicated. She
may be handed into a 50, 500 carriage,
and have diamonds enough to confound
the Tiffanys-she is intoxicated She
may be a graduate of great institute,
and the daughter of some man in danger
Of being nominated for the Presidency
she is drunk. You may have larger
vocabulary than / have. and you may
say in regard to her that she is ''con-
vivial" or she is merry" or she is "fes-
tive" or she is ''exhilarated, but you
cannot with all your garlsnds of verb
iage cover up the plain fact that 1t is an
old fashioned case of drunk
Now, the watering places are full Of
temptations to men and women to
tipple. At the close of the ten-pin or
billiard game they tipple. At the close
of the cotillon they tipple. Seated on
the piazza cooling themselves Of they
tipple. The tinged glasses come around
with bright straws and they tipple.
First they take Eight wines" as they
call them; but light wines" are heavy
enough to debase the appetite. There
is not very long road between cham
paign at IS per bottle, and whisky at
five cents per glass. .-
Satan has three or four grades down
which he takes men to destruction.
One man he takes up and through one
spree pitches him into eternal darkness.
| That is rare case. Very seldom, in
deed, can you find man who will be
! such fool as that When a man goes
down to destruction Satan brings him
to plane. 1t is almost level. The
depression is so slight that you can
hardly see it. The man does not &C
tually know that he is on the down
grade, and slips only a little toward
darkness-just little. JfE4
And the first mile it is claret. and the
second mile it is sherry, and the third
mile it is punch, and the fourth mile it
is ale, and the fifth mile it is porter,
and the sixth mile it is brandy, and then
it gets sleeper and sleeper and tho man
gets frightened and says, 20, let me
OFF, NO" says the conductor, this
is an express train, and it does not stop
until it gets to the grand central station
at Smashuptown." g!
My friends, whether you tarry at
home-which will be quite as safe and
perhaps quite as comfortable-or go in
to the country, arm yourself against
temptation. The grace of God is the
lu 70 oh Hsyhn in
country. There are watering places ac-
cessible to all of us. You can not open
book of the Bible without finding out
some such watering place. Fountains
open for sin and uncleanliness; wells Of
salvation; streams from Lebanon;
flood struck out of the rock by Noses;
fountains in the wilderness discovered
by Hagar; water to drink and water to
battle in; the river of God, which is full
he shall never thirst; wells of water in
the valley of Bsca; living fountains of
water; a pure river of water clear as
crystal from under the throne of God.
These are watering places accessible
to all of us. We do not have lsbori-
Gus packing up before we start-only
the throwing away of our transgressions
No expensive hotel bills to pay; it is
without money and without price, No
long and dirty travel before we get
there; it is only one step away. In CAL
ifornia in five minutes walked around
and saw ten fountains all bubbling up,
and they were all different And in
five minutes / can go through this Bible
parterre and find you fifty bright, spark
ling fountains bubbling up into eternal
life.
A chemist will 60 to one of these sum-
mer watering places and take the water
so much of iron, and so much of soda,
and so much of lime, and so much OF
magnes a. l come to this Gospel well,
this living fountain and analyze' the
water. and i find that its ingredients
are peace. pardon, forgiveness, hope,
life, Heaven. 'Ho. every one
that thirstest, come ye" to this water:
ing place. F--s-rs
Crowd around this Bethesda to-dayi
o. you sick, you lame, you troubled, you
dying-crowd around this Bethesda
Step in it, o, step in It'll The angel Of
the covenant to-day stirs the water
why do you not step in it? Some Of you
are too weak to take a step in thatdi-
rection. Then we take you up in the
arms of our closing prayer and plunge
you clean under the wave, hoping that
the cure may be IS sudden as with Cap.
tain Naaman, who blotched, and car
buncled, stepped into the Jordan, and
after the seventh dive came up, hisskin
and complexioned as the flesh
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