Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-27
THE pRAMsHoP.

A Powerful Arraignment from "a nerlnon
by Rev. DIR. t. De witt Talmage.
We might in his country-this traffic
nerished-have less revenue, but we
would have more happy homes, and we
would have more peace, and we would
have fewer people in the penitentiary,
and there would be tens OF thousands OF
men who are now on the road to hell
who would start on the road to Heaven
But the financial ruin is a very small
part of it. This iniquity OF which
speak takes every thing that is sacred
out of the family, every thing that IS
holy in religion. every thing that is in
finite in the soul and tramples 1t unaer
foot. The marriage day has come. Inc
twain are at the altar. Lights flash.
Music sounds. Gay feet go up and
down the drawing-room. Did ever a
vessel launch on such a bright n
beautiful sea? The scene changes.
Dingy garrett. No fire. On a broken
! chair a sorrowful wife. Last hope gone.
Poor. forsaken, trodden under foot, she
knows all the sorrow of being a drunk
ards wife. "Oh," she says, he was
the kindest man that ever lived, he was
SO noble, he was so good! God never
made a grander man than he was, but
the drink did it, the drink did it,
Some day she will press her hands
against her temples and cry; "on' my
brain, my brainl'' or she will go out on
the abutment of the bridge some moon
light night and look down on the CLASSY
surface and wonder if under that CLASSY
surface there is not some rest Tor u
broken heart.
A Young man, through tho interees-
sion of metropolitan friends, gets a
place in a bank or store. lie Is going 70
leave his country home. That morning
they are up early in the old homestead.
The trunk is in the wagon. Mother
says: my son, / put a Bible In the
trunk; l hope you will read IL oiteh'
|. She wipes the tears away with her
apron. ''Oh," he says, come, don't 90
Worried; l know how to take care OF my
i self. Don't be worried about me-" Inc
/, father saws: my son, be a good boy ana
D write home often; your mother VIII be
n anxious to hear from YOU" Crack goes
= the whip. and over the hills goes the
! wagon. Five years have passed on and
D n d~issipated life has done its work ioi
u - 49,
that Young man. There is a hearse
coming up in front of the old home
stead. The young men of the neighbor'
" hood who have stayed on the farm com
d in and saw; 'ls it possible? Why, h'
n doesn't look natural, does heP Is Una
Il the fair brow we used to know? Is una
the healthy cheek we used to know l
!, can't be possible that is him. IN
!. ~narents stand looking at the cash IN Tn
forehead from which the life oozed out
10 and they lift their hands and say; y
q NV son. Absaloml my sonl my son, Al
"a saloml would God l had died for thee
in O Absaloml my son my sonF'
a Lorenzo de Medici was very sick, an
ID some of his superstitious friends though
at II thew could dissolve a certain numbe
az nearls in a cup and then he woul
IN drink them 1t would cure him OF ID
a. disease. SO they went around ana tne
mt gathered up all the beautiful pearls the
OF could find. and they dissolved them IN
he Gun and the sick man drank them. %
al n was an expensive draught. Butt te
in Won of a more expensive draught tina
al that. Drunkenness puts into its Gu
re the pearl of physical health the pea
he Of domestic happiness, the pearl OF r
zee speetability, the pearl of Christian hop
in the pearl OF an everlasting Heaven al
nd presses it to the hot lips.
tell you the dramshop is the gate
an hell. The trouble is they do not put
res the right kind of a sign. They ave
ce, great manydiferent kinds OF signs n
ler on places where strong drink is sold y
ed is called the restaurant" and anoth
of. il called the saloon" and another
nee called the ''hotel," and another is call
tif- the ..wine cellar" and another il call
itv the sample ROOM What a name
Of Give one of those places! A 'samf
the roomr' / saw a man on the steps
one of those sample rooms the otl
md dav. dead drunk. said to myself;
q is suppose that is a sampler tell you
ex- is the gate of hell.
be- .soh.n saws some man, II am kind
dis am indulgent to my family l am rHt
as in many respects, l am very genera
her and l have too grand and generou
llar moral nature to be overthrown IN u
but yav.n Let me say that the pers'
loes who are in the most peril nave
clips largest hearts, the best education
rom brightest prospects. This sin choo
the the latest lambs for its sacrifice. J
de- brightest garlands are by this
dis buncled hand of drunkenness torn
,eer. the brow of the poet and the ora
lnti- Charles Lamb. answerl Thomas tic
pro- answerl Sheridan, the English ora
that answerl Edgar A. Poe, answeri Jun
REV Brutus Booth, answer
lent, Obi come and long over into II "
wine 7 draw off the cover-hang over II
per look down into it, and see the seetnl
alco- boiling, loathsome, smoking, agonizl
hose disappearing hell of the drunk
plete Younp man. be master Of your appel
the and passions.
deal T close with a peroration. Minis
We and speakers are very apt to close WI
con- neroration and they generally rol
g. some grand imagery to express '
ral Of thev have to say. ! close with a =