The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-30

cit IL My Sons Coat; an EVIL Beast Hath
Devourcd Him" the Tcxt-viyid Shape
of the Evil Beast of Drunkenness That
Destroys Souls.
BROOKLYN, July 21.-Dr. Talmage's
sermon today was devoted to the curse
of intemperance. With the hand of a
master he drew in vivid colors the up
palling tragedies which this remorseless
demon has perpetrated. His text was
Gen. xxxvii, 80: at is my sons coat;
an evil beast hath dcvoured 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
ferocious animal had slain him, and
thus hiding their infamous behavior.
But there is no deception about that
which we hold up to your observation
today. y monster such rs never ranged
African thicket or IIindoStan jungle
hath tracked this land, and with bloody
nav hath Strewn tho continent with
the nangled carcasses OF whole genera
tions. and there are tens of thousands
of fathers and mothers who could hold
up tie garment of their slain boy,
truthfully eXclaining. 1t is my sons
coat an evil beast hath dcvoured linn. y
There has in all ages and cli,ues been
a tendency to the improper use of slim
ulants. Noah, as if disguised with the
prevalence of water iii his time, took 10
strong drink. BY this vlco Alexander
the Conqueror was conquered. The
Romans 1T their fe;lSts fell oil their
seats with intoNication. -Four hundred
millions o: our race arc opium caters.
India, Turkey and China have Sroancd
with the dcsolation. and 10y it have
beSu qucnchcd such lights ~ HALEY
and Dc Quincy one hundred mill
ions are the victims of rlc hetel nut,
which las specially blasted the East
Indies Three hundred millions chew
hashsli, and Persia Brazil and Africa
suffer the dcirium The Tnrtars EN-
pioy lnurowa, the McXicans the aSavc,
the people 1T Guarapo an intoxicating
quality taken from sugar cane. while a
great multitude tliat no man can mum
Der are the disciples of alcohol To ii
they bow Under it they arc trainplcd.
In It's trenches they fall On its ehastly
i.oio~auI 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 ree!ling.
restoring putrefaction and beastliness:
What hear; could endure tlle Sroan of
acon!i
THE EVIL DEEDS or DRUNKENNESS.
Drunkenness. Does it not jingle the
burglars kcyi Does it not whet the
;uis;usSin's kuife' Does it not cock the
hishwaynan's pistol! Does it not wake
the incendiary's torch Has 1t not sent
tlra physician rceliuS into the sick
room, and the minister with his tongue
thick into the pulpit' Did not an cy-
Ya 81 poet, from the Very top of his
f;.3ac. fH! y gbbering set into the gut
ter on hi, way to be married tio one OF
the inirest daughters of New England.
and At the very hour the bride was
decking herself for the altar and did
he not die OF dclrium tremcns, almost
unattended. in "a hospital: Taincrlane
asked for one hundred and sixty thou
sand skulls with Which 10 build pyra-
mid 80 his own honor He got the
skulls and built the pyramid. But if
the t,,ncs OF all those who have fallen
n, u prey to dissipation could be piled
up it would make u vnster pyramid.
Who will grid himself for the jpur-
ney and try with me to scale this noun
tain OF the dead going upm miles high on
human carcasscs to find still other
peaks farnbove, mountain abov noun
tain white with the bcachcd bones OF
dr1nkardS
The Sabbath has been sacrificed to
the rum traffic To many OF our PEG
pie the best day OF the week is the
worst; Bakers must keep their shops
closed on the Sabbath 1t is danger
on. to have loaves OF bread going out
OH Sunday The shoe store is closed;
sever penalty will attack the IN IN who
sells boots on the Sabbath. But down
with the window shutters of the grog-
shops, Our laws shall confer particu-
lar honor upon the rum trstlic!iers. All
other trades must stand aside for these.
Let our citizens who have disSraced
themselves by trading i'll clothing
and hosiery and hardware and lumber
and coal take off their hats 10 the rum
seller elected to particular honor. 1t
is unsafe for any other class Of men to
be allowed license for Sunday work.
But swing out your signs, oh sc trafflck-
ers in the peace of families and in the
souls of immortal men, Let the corkS
fly, and the beer foam, and the rum so
tearing down the half consumed throat
of the nebrlate God does not see'
Does lni Judgment will never come
VII! itt
YoC CANNOT REGULATE WHISKY.
do not know but that God is deter
mined 70 let drunkenness triumph, and
the husbands, and SONS of thousands OF
our best finuilies be destroyed by this
vice, i'll order that our people, amazed
and indignant, may rise up and demand
fine determination of this municipal
crime. There is way of driving down
the hoops of a barrel SO tight that they
break. We have in this country at
various times cried to regulate this evil
by a tax on whisky. You might as
we'll try to regulate the Asiatic cholera
or tho smallpox by taxation The men
who distil liquors are for the most part
INSCRIPTIONS, and the higher tho tax
the moro inducenaent TO illicit distilla-
ton