News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-07-31
TaImage'S Sermon.
SERMON ON INTEMPERANCE BY
DIR. TALMAGE.

ssrt Is NV Sons Coat; an Evil Beast Hath
Deyoured Him. the Text-Vivid Shape
of the Evil Beast of Drunkenness That
Destroys Souls.
BROOKLYN, July 27.-Dr Talmage's
sermon today was devoted to the curse
of intemperance. With the hand OF a
master he drew in vivid colors the APP
palling tragedies which this remorseless
demon has perpetrated. His text was
Gen.. xxxvii, SO: 1T is my sons coat;
an evil beast hath devoured him.
Joseph's brethren dipped their broth
er's coat in goats blood, and then
brought the dabbled garment to their
father, cheating him with the idea that
a ferocious animal had slain him, ana
thus hiding their infamous behavior.
But there is no deception about that
which we hold up to your observation
TODAY. A monster such as never ranged
African thicket or Hindostan jungle
hath tracked this land, and with bloody
NAV hath strewn the continent with
the mangled carcasses of whole genera
tions. and there are tens OF thousands
of fathers and mothers who could hold
mn the garment of their slain boy,
truthfully exclaiming, 1T is my sons
coat; an evil beast hath devoured him.
There has in all ages and chimes been
a tendency to the improper use OF stun
| ulants. Noah, as if disguised with the
prevalence of water in his time, took to
strong drink BY this vice Alexander
the Conqueror was conquered. The
Romans at their feasts fell off their
! seats with intoxication. -Four hundred
| millions of our race are opium eaters.
/ India. Turkey and China have groaned
/ with the desolation, and by 1T have
been quenched such lights as HALEY
| and De Quincy. One hundred mill
| ions are the victims Of the betel nut,
which has specially blasted the East
| Indies. Three hundred millions chew
hashish, and Persia, Brazil and Africa
suffer the deliriuIn. The Tartars en-
plov murowa, the Mexicans the agave,
the people at Guarapo an intoxicating
quality taken from sugar cane, while a
great multitude that no man can num-
Der are the disciples of alcohol. To 1t
they bow Under it they are trampled.
In its trenches they fall. On its CHASTITY
holocaust they burn. Could the mus
ter roll of this great army be called,
and they could come up from the dead,
what eye could endure the reeking,
fostering putrefaction and beastliness
What heart could endure the groan OF
agony2
THE EVIL DEEDS OF DRUNKENNESS.
Drunkenness. Does it not jingle the
burglars key? Does it not whet the
assassin's knife? Does it not cock the
highwayman's pistol2 Does it not wave
the incendiary's torch? Has it not sent
the physician Keeling into the sick
room, and the minister with his tongue
thick into the pulpit Did not an ex-
quisite poet, from the very top OF his
fame, fall gibbering sot into the gut
ter on his way to be married to one OF
the fairest daughters of New England,
and at the very hour the bride was
decking herself for the altar, and did
he not die of delirium tremens, almost
unattended, in hospital2 Tamerlane
asked for one hundred and sixty thou
/ sand skulls with which to build pyra-
mid to his own honor. He got the
skulls and built the pyramid. But if
| the bones of all those who have fallen
as a prey to dissipation could be piled
up it would make vaster pyramid.
Who will grid himself for the jour
ney and try with me to scale this noun
tain of the dead-going pmiles high on
| human carcasses to find still Other
peaks far above, mountain above noun
tain white with the bleached bones o.
drunkards.
The Sabbath has been sacrificed tc
the rum traffic To many of our PEG
pie the best day of the week is the
worst Bakers must keep their shop:
closed on the Sabbath. 1t is danger
Gus to have loaves of bread going out
on Sunday The shoe store is closed
severe penalty will attack the man who
sells boots on the Sabbath. But down
with the window shutters of the grog-
shopsl Our laws shall confer particu
]
other trades must stand aside for these.
/ Let our citizens who have disgraced
themselves by trading in clothing
and hosiery and hardware and lumber
and coal take off their hats to the rum
seller elected to particular honor. Il
is unsafe for any other class of men tc
be allowed license for Sunday work
But swing out your signs, oh We trafick
ers in the peace of families and in th'
souls of immortal men! Let the cork
fly, and the beer foam, and the rum g
tearing down the half consumed throa
of the inebriate God does not see
Does he2 Judgment will never come
Will it?
YOU CANNOT REGULATE WHISKY.
| do not know but that God is deter
mined to let drunkenness triumph, ant
the husbands and sons of thousands @
our best families be destroyed by thi
vice, in order that our people, amaze'
and indignant, may rise up and deman
the determination of this municipal
crime There is way of driving dow
the hoops of barrel so tight that the
break We have in this country a
! various times tried to regulate this evi
by a tax on whisky. You might g
well try to regulate the Asiatic choler
D or the smallpox by taxation. The me
S who distil liquors are for the most pa
2 INSCRIPTIONS, and the higher the ia
/. the more inducement to illicit distilli
4 ton.
l oh! the folly of trying to restrain a
q evil by government tariff If ever
e gallon of whisky made, if every flas
J of wine produced, should be taxed
! thousand dollars it would not be enoug
to pay for the tears it has wrung frol
a the eyes of widows and orphans, nc
. for the blood it has dashed on til
: Christian church, nor for the catastrC
3 phe of the millions it has destroye
e forever.
: sketch two houses in this street. III
T first is bright as home can be. III
n father comes at nightfall, and the chi
n dren run out to meet him. LuxuriaI
Y evening meal Graduation and syn
pathy and laughter Music in the pa
lor. Fine pictures on the wall Cost
n books on the stand Well clad hous
o hold. Plenty of everything to NAL
u home happy.
House the second: Piano sold ye
u terday by the sheriff Wife's furs
II pawnbroker's shop. Clock gon
70 Daughters jewelry sold to get flou