The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-03-06
THE SECOND PLAGUE.
DR.. TaImage on the Evil of Strong
Drink
EiquOrs Severely DenOunced-An Appeal
to Christian People to Take Sides against
the Monster-The Great Foe of the
Working Glasses.

late sermon at Brooklyn, classed in
temperance as the second plague. His
text was from Genesis TX, 20. p; Noah
planted vineyard: and he drank of the
wine and was drunken" The preacher
said:
This Noah did the best and 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 drunkenness In my text we
hear his staggering steps. Shem and
-JaPeth tried to cover up the disgrace,
but there he is, drunk WINE at time
in the history of the world when, to say
the least. there was no lack of water.
InebriatiOn, having entered the world,
has not retreated. Abigail, the fair and
heroic wife, who saved the fOclzs of
Nabal, her husband, from confiscatiOn
by invaders, goes home at night and
finds him so intoxicated she can not
tell him the story of his narrow es-
cape. Uriah came to see David, and
David got him drunk, and paved the
way for the despoliatiOn of a 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 desribe the
final dislocation of worlds, says: 1.-THE
earth shall reel to and fro like a drunk
ard
Ever since apples and grapes and
wheat grew the world has been tempted
to unhealthful stimulants. But the in
toxicants of the Olden time We're an in
nocent beverage, a harmless Orangeade,
a quiet sirup, a peaceful soda water as
compared with the liquids of modern
inebriatiOn, into which a madness. and
a fury, and gloom, and a fire, and a
suicide, and retributiOn have mixed
and mingled. Fermentation was al
ways known, but it was not IN
til a 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
hence of whisky and rum and gin. The
modern drunk is a hundred fold worse
than the ancient drunk. Noah in his
intOxicatiOn became imbecile, but the
victims of modern alcoholism have to
struggle with whole menageries of wild
beasts and jungles OF kissing serpents
and perditiOns of disappearing demons.
An arch fiend arrived in our
world, and he built an invisible
cauldron of temptation. He built that
-cauldrOn strong and stout for all ages
and all nations. First he squeezed into
the cau1drOn the juices of the forbidden
fruit of paradise Then he gathered for
1t distillation from the harvest fields
and the orchards of the hemispheres.
Then he poured into this cauldron cap
sicum, and cOpperas, and logvoOd, and
deadly nightshade, and assault and bat
terry, and vitriol, and opium, and rum,
and murder, and sulphuric acid, and
theft, and potash. and cOchineal, and
red carrots, and poverty, and death and
hops. But it was a dry compound, and
1T must be moistened, and it must be
II
into that cauldron the tears of centuries
of orphanage and widOwhOod, and he
poured in the blood of twenty thousand
demonstrations And then the arch fiend
took a shovel that he had brought up
from the furnaces beneath, and he put
that shovel into this great cauldron and
began to stir, and the cauldron began to
heave, and rock, and boil, and sputter,
and hiss, and smoke, and the nations
gathered around it with cups and tank
ards and demijohns and kegs, and there
was enough for all, and the arch fend
cried:
AHA! champion fiend am I. Who
has done more than I have for collins
and graveyards and prisons and insane
asy1ums, and the pOpulating of the lost
vvorIdP And when this cauIdrOn is
-emptied, I'll fill it again, and I'll stir il
again, and it will smoke again, and thai
smoke will join another sInoze-ths
Smoke OF 2 EDEIlCnI Lftat aSC&nuteLh IOl
ever and ever. I drove fifty ships OF
the rocks OF Newfoundland and the
Sl1erries and the GOOdvins- 1 have
ruined more senators than gather THU
winter in the national councils, I have
ruined more lords than are now gath
cred in the house of peers"
Drunkenness is the greatest evil o.
this nation, and it takes no logical pro
cess to prove TO this audience that I
drunken nation cannot long be a free
nation I call your attention to the
fact that drunkenness is not subsiding
certainly that it is not at a standstin
but that it is on an onward march, anC
1t is double quick There is more run
swallowed IN this country. and of (
worse kind, than was ever swallowed
since the first disti1lery began its worl
of death
I cali attention to the fact that there
are thousands of people born with