Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-03-05
INTEMPERANCE.
DIR. TALMAGE CALLS 1T THE SEC
OND PLAGUE OF NEW YORK.
What VIII Happen TO tho Nation if
the Evil IL Not Suppressed
Iitical Parties aud the Churches
Scored for their Indifference.

Wnut VIII happen 60 tho Nation II
the Evil IL Not Suppressed
Iitical Parties aud the Churches
Scored for their Indifference.
NEW YoRK, March 1, isoi.--Dr. Tai
mage continued today tho series Of sor-
mons he commenced last Sunday on the
Ten Plaques of New York and Adjacent
Cities" The plague which he places
second on the list is Intcmperance, and on
that subject he dscoursed this morning IN
the Academy of Music Brooklyn, and
this evening in New York. At the close
Of the service in tho Now York Academy
OF Music, DIR. Talmago went over to tho
Union Square Theatre, whore his son, Mr.,
Frank Dewitt Talmagc, was holding an
overflow meeting, and briefly addressed
the crowded house. Tho text OF tho Doc
tors sermon was talsou from Genesis 0.
2o-2l: "Noah planted u vineyard; and no
drank OF the wine and was drunken"
This Noah did the best and tho worst
thing for tho world. lilo built an ark
against tho delugo OF water, but introduced
u dcluge against which the human race has
ever since been trying TO build an ark
tho deluge Of drunkenness. In my text
wo hear his staggering steps. Shem aud
Juphet tried To cover up tho disgrace, but
there he is. drunk ON wine ut u timo In tho
history Of the world when, to say tho least,
there was no lack OF water. Inobrlation,
having entered the world, has not ro-
treated Abigail. the fair and heroic wife,
who saved tho noclis Of Nabal, hor hus-
band, from confiscation by invaders, goes
homo ut night and finds him so intoxicated
she cannot tell him tho story of his mar
row escape. uriah came 10 SEQ David, and
David got him drunk, and paved tho way
for the despolatlon OF household. Even
tho church bishops needed TO DO charged 10
be sober and not giyon 10 too much wine,
and 80 familiar were people OF Biblo
times with tho staggering and falling
motion OF tho incbrato, that Isaiah, when
he comes TO describe tho final dislocation
Of worlds says: ''rhe earth shall reel TO
and fro like n drunknrd."
Drunkenness Is tho greatest evil OF this
nation, and IL takes no logical process TO
prove to this audience that drunken
nation cannot long DO free nation. call
your attention TO the fact that drunkenness
is not subsiding, certainly that II Is not at
O standstill, but that IL Is on IN onward
march, and IL Is u double quick. There Is
more rum swallowed IN this country, and
OF worse kind, than was over swallowed
since the first distillcry began It's work Of
death. Where there was one drunken
home there AFRO ten drunken homes.
Where there was one drunkard's grave
there are twenty druulSards graves. IL Ia
nm IA frullf ubnnt crooked
whlslSoy-by which men moan tho whiskey
that does not pay tho tax to government
tell you all strong drink is crooked.
Crooked Otard, crookci Cognnc, crooked
schnapps, crooked beer, crooked wine'
mans path crooked, and his lifo crooked,
and his death crooked, and his eternity
crooked
! call attention TO the fnct that there are
thousands OF people born with thirst for
strong drink-a fnct too often ignored.
Along some ancestral lines there runs tho
river OF temptation There are children
whose neutrality-suspicious. nre torn on tho
shroud OF death. Many iatp n mas made
viii OF this sort I'm the name Oh Sod,
amen. boqueath TO my chlidreh my
houses and lands aud estates; share
and share shau they alike. Hereto
j uilix my hand and seal In the presence oil
Witnesses" And yet perhaps that very
man has made another VIII that tho people
have never read, and That mas not Doen
proved In the courts. That will put In
writing would read something liko this:
''In tho name OF disease and appetite ana
death. amen. ] bequeath TO my children
my evil habits, my tankards shall oe
theirs, my winccup shall be theirs, my
destroyed reputation SHAH be theirs
Share and share alike shall they In tho
'infamy. Hereto afix my hand and seal
In tho presence OF all tho appinudinB
harpies OF hell"
IL seems TO me II Is about tine Tor tho
1000, 600 professors OF religion in Amer
lea TO take sides. II is going to be an out
and-out battle with drunkenness and
sobriety, between heaven and hell, be-
tween God and tho devil. Take sides be-
fore there is any further national do
cadence, take sides before your sons arc
sacrificed and the now homo OF your
daughter goes down under the alcoholism
OF an embruted husband. Take sides
while your voice, your pen, your prayer,
your vote may have any influence IN ar.
resting tho dospoliatlon OF tins nation. III
inc li,OUU,UOU pTOleSsoEs VI rciibioH nho"iu
take sides on this subject II would not be
very long before the destiny OF this nation
would be decided in the right direction.
Is drunkenness state or national eviiP
Does II belong TO the north, or docs IL DO
long TO tho southP Docs u beiong 10 the
east, or does 1t belong TO the westP AM
there Is not an American river INTO Whlch
Its tears have not fallen, and into when It's
suicides have not plunged. what ruined
that southern plantation?--ovcry iield
fortune, the proprietor and his family once
tho most afiluent supporters OF summer
watering places. What threw That New
England farm into decay and turned the
roseate checks that doomed at the loot OF
the Green Mountains into the pallor OF
despair? What has smitten every street
OF every village, town and city OF this con-
tinent with a moral pestilence? Strong
drink.
To prove that this Is national evil
call up two states in opposite directions
Maine and Gcorgia.s Let them testify In
regard to this. State OF Maine says: ut
is so great an evil up here we have
mathematical IL as state" State OF
Georgia says: ut is so great an evil down
here that ninety counties Of this state have
made the sale OF Intoxicating drink
criminality." So the word comes up from
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