Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-03-02
THE WOE OF THE NATION
INTEMPERANcE MAY SWEEP ITO
FREEDOM AWAY.

fold More Deadly Than the Ano,..,
wincs-we Must War Against II.
New YORK, March DIR. TaInas.
continued today the series Of Sermon.
he commenced last Sunday on the 'sTan
Plagues OF New York and the Adiacont
Cities" The plague which he places
second on the list is intemperance and
OIL that subject he discoursed this
morning in the Academy of Music
Brooklyn, and this evening in New
York. AT the close of the service in
the New York Academy of Music, DR.
Talmage went over to the Union SQUARE
theatre, where his son, Mr.. Frank De-
Witt Tallnage, was holding an overflow
meeting. and briefly addressed tho
crowded house. Both the New York
services are under the auspices of Tbe
Christian Herald. of which DR.. Talrnaoe
is editor The text of the doctors scr.
mon was taken from Gen. il, 20-21,
Noah planted vineyard, and no
drank of the wine and was drunken"
This Noah did the best and the worst
thing for the world He built an ark
against the deluge of water, but intro
duced a deluge against which the
human race has ever since been trying
to build an ark the deluge of drunken.
ness. In my text we hear his stagger.
ing steps. Shein and Japhet tried to
cover up the disgrace but there he is
L. -, H.
of the world when, to say the least,
there was no lack of water. Inebria-
ton, having entered the world, has not
retreated Abigail, the fair and heroic
wife. who saved the tiocks of Nabal,
her husband, from confscation by in
vaders. goes home at night and finds
him SO intoxicated she cannot tell him
the story of his narrow escape. Uriah
calne to see David, and David got him
drunk, and paved the way for the des
poliation of household. Even the
church bishops needed to be charged to
be sober and not given to too much
wine, and so familiar were people Of
Bible times with the staggering and
falling motion of the inebriate that
Isaiah. when he comes to describe the
final dislocation of worlds, says THE
earth shall reel to and fro like drunk
ard"
THE WATERS OF MADNESS.
Ever since apples and grapes and
wheat grew the world has been tempt
ed to unhealthful stimulants. But the
mtoNicantS OF the olden time were an
innocent beverage, harmless orange
ade. a quiet sirup, a peaceful soda
water, rs compared with the liquids Of
modern inebriation, into which mad
ness. and fury, and a gloom, and
tire. and suicide, and a retribution
have mixed and mingled. Fermenta-
ton was always known, but it was not
until thousand years after Christ that
distillation was invented. While we
must confess that some of the ancient
arts have been lost, the Christian era
is superior to all others in the bad emf
nence OF whisky and rum and gin.
The modern drunk is a hundredfold
worse than the ancient drunk. Noah
in his intoxication became imbecile,
but the victims of modern alcoholism
have to struggle with whole menage-
ries of wild beasts and jungles OF hiss
ing serpents and perditions OF bias
pheming demons.
An arch fiend arrived in our world,
and he built an invisible ealdron OF
temptation. He built that caldron
strong and stout for all ages and all
nations, First he squeezed into the
caldron the juices of the forbidden
fruit OF Paradise. Then he gathered
for it a distillation from the harvest
fields and the orchards of the hemis-
pheres. Then he poured into this cal
dron capsicum and eopperas and log
wood and deadly nightshade and as
sault and battery and vitriol and opl-
nm and rum and murder and sulphunc
acid and theft and potash and eocnl-
neal and red carrots and poverty and
death and hops, but it was dry com.
pound, and it must be moistened, ana
il must be liquefed, and 50 the aren
bend poured into that caldron tne
tears of centuries of orphanage ana
widowhood, and he poured in the olooq
ot twenty thousand assassinationA
And then the arch flend took . shoyei
hat he had brought up from the fu',
laces beneath, and he put that shoYei
nto this great caldron and began "
'tir, and the caldron began 70 heaVS
md rock and boil and sputter and MS
md smoke, and the nations gathere1
around it with cups and tanksrds Ana
ieInijohns and kegs, and there wa
enough for all, and the arch fiend crieo'
Aha champion iend am l. Who hA,
lone more than have for collins anu
and prisons and lnSs-
Isylums and the populsting OF the 100
Eorldl And wilsn this eAldroa
mPtied I'll Ill 1t again, and ~ HH
gain, and il viii smoke again An9
hat smoke will join another @Dose
he smoke Of a torment that AsoeDae-l
oF ever and ever. ] drove tfEy soy
n the rocks Of Neyfoandland'
he Skerries. and the GoodSin~
ave ruined more senators than -
= this winter In the national GO
ia have ruined more LORDS u
ne noE gathered in ths honsS
eerA The cup out af shs-
FdinaTily drink Is = bleAehed nui
knll and the upholstery Of ny
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