The Penn's Grove record., 1891-03-13
REY. DR.. lALMAGE'S SERMON.
Chs Brooklyn Divtns's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject "rhe Evils of Liquor Drinking

TEXT: "Noah planted a vineyard and h
drGnk Of the seins and Wds drunksn."-
Genesis X, 20, 81.
This Noah did the best and the worst
thing for the world. He built an arb
against the deluge Of water, but intro
duced q deluge against which the human
race has ever since been trying to build an
= the deluge OF drunkenness. In my text
we hear his staggering steps. Shein and
Japhet tried to cover up the disgrace, but
there he is, drunk on wine at q time in tbs
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 fiocks of Nabal, her husband. from con.
fiscation by invaders, goes home at night
and finds him so intoxicated she cannot tell
him the story Of his narrow escape. Uriah
came to see David, and David got him
drunk and paved the way for the despolia-
ton of a household. Even the church bishops
needed to be charged to be sober and not
given to to much wine, and 50 familiar
ing n falling Eotion Of the insbriats that
Isaiah, whom he comes to describe the final
dislocation OF the worlda say, "Ths earth
shall reel to and fro like q d~runkard."
Ever since apples and grapes and wheat grew
the world has been tempted to unhealthful
stimulants. But he intoxicants Of the olden
time were an innocent beverage, q harmless
water Is compared with the liquids Of mod
srn inebriation. into which q madness, and
. fury, and . gloom, and . fire, and q suicide,
and q retribution have mixed and mingled.
Fermentation was always known, but it vas
not until . thousand Year, after Christ
that Oscillation was invented. While
we must confess that some Of the
e%ncient arts have bsen lost ths
Christian era II superior to all others in
the bad eminsncs Of whisky and rum and
gin. The modern drunk Il . hundredfold
worse thar tbs ancient drunk. Noah In his
intoxication became imbecile, but the VIC
Tins of modern alcoholism have TO struggle
with whole menagsries OF wild beasts, and
jungles of kissing serpsnts, and psrditions Of
Of bla~spheming lemons
An arch fsud arrived In our world, and
be built an invisible caldron Of temptation.
He built that caldron strong and stout for
all ages and nGtious. First be squeezsd into
the caldron the juices of the forbidden fruit
of Paradise. Then he gathered for It a dis
t~illation from the harvest fields and the
orchards OF the hsmispheres. Then be poured
into this caldron capsicum and copperas and
logwood and deadly nightshade and assault
and battery 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 IL was q
dry compound and it must be moistened, and
IL must Be liquefed, and 80 ths arch fsnd
poured into that caldron toe tears OF csLtu-
rie, Of o~rphanage and widowhood, and he
pouredin the blood Of twenty thousand as
~SassinationA
And then the arch iend took a shovel that
he had brought up from the furnaces be-
meath, and he put tuat shovel into this great
caldron and began to stir, u the caldron
began to heave and rock and boil and sput-
ter and hiss and smoke, and the nations gath.
sred around it with cupa and tankards and
deraijohns and kegs, n there was enough
for all, and ths arch dend cried; AHA
champion fsnd am II Who has done more
than / have for collins and ~gravsyards and
prisons and insane asylums, and the populat-
Ing Of the lost worldf And when this caldron
. smptied III fll IL again and I'll stir II
again, and IL will smoke again, and that
smoke will join another smeks, tbs smoke Of
stormsnt that nosudsth TOR sver and sver.
foundland, and ths Sksrrisa and the Good
wins. have ruined more senators
than gather this winter IN the ua-
tioual councils. ! have ruined mare lords
than are now gathered In ths houss
a peers. The cup out Vt which I ordinarily
drink b . blsaahed human skull, and she
upholtsry Of ny pelaes b - rich . crimson,
because e 10 dyed n human gors, and the
eDosaio of my Aoors u mads up q the bones
parsnts and my favorits music-sswsetsr
than 70 psum g triumphal march--my
f~avorits nude d the cry Of daughtsrs turned
out at midnight On the street because father
bes coms homs from the ~earousal, and the
ssvsu hundred voioed shrek 81 tbs sinking
steamsr, bsoauss The captain was not him
sslf when b pee ne chip On re wrong
kindled more 6rss ] havs wrung out more
agouisa ! have stretched out more mid
aisht shadowa ! have opened more Col:
epthas, I have rolled more J~uggeruauts. /
6avs damned more souls than any other
smissary Of diabousm. Champion aend
am If'
Drunkenness 10 the greatest svrl Of this
prove to this audience that Q drunken nation
cannot long be . free nation ! call your at
tention to the fact that drunkenness IL not
subsiding, certainly hat 10 Is not At . stand:
still, but that il Is on an onward march, and
II Il q double quick. There y more RUN
swallowed in this country, and OF . "orss
kind than was ever swallowed siucs the mrs.
distillery began its work OF death. Where
there was ons drunken home there are ten
drunken homes. Where there was ons
drunkard's grave thsrs are twenty drunk
ards graves. It IL on the increase Talk
about crooked whisky-by which men mean
the whisky that does not pay the tax 10 gov
unment-I tell you all strong. drirk -
crooked. Crooked Otard, crooked Cognac,
crooked schnappS crooked beer; er3oksa
wine crooked whisky-hesauss IL makes q
mans path crooked, and his life crooked, and
I'd death crooked and bis stsrnity crooked =.
II / could gather all the armies Of the dead
drunkards and have them some 70 rssurrev
tion, and then add to that host all tbs armies
'oS living drunkardA i've and tan abreast
snd then u / could have you mount . horss
and ride along that line to- rsvasww, you
would ride that horss dill be dropped from
srhsnstiou. and you would mount another
hores and ride until b. fell from exhaustion,
end you would eaks another and another.
md you would ride along hour after hour
snd dsy after day. Great host IN rsgaments,
ia hriEades, Great armies Of thsm- And
thcn q you had voice ssspsorian enoush 20
mako them all hear, and you oouid gavs tas
oommand 'Forward, marchr their nrsi
trsmp would make the sarth trembla. do
not cara which way you look In the cemmun'
itv to- q the svil II Increasing.
I call a~ttsntion 70 ths fact that there an
thousands Of people born with . thirst fof
strone dripk-a tact 100 often Ignored
AlonS sornSancsstral lines there runs tnt
river Of temptation. Thsrs are ena,o \.
shroud Of death. Many . father has mad'
4 win Of this sort: 'In the name o. GOO
smen, Ibequsath to my children my house.
epd lands and Estates; share and SPARE snai
they Alike. Hereto l afdx my hand and sea
In the uresencs OF witnesses" And YET Pc,
haps that very man has made another w
that tbs people have never read, q tna
has NOT been proved In the courta- Ihat w
u In writing would Rad something ~
IT the lame OF disease rlI eyHyglo
and death, amen. Ibequeath to m cnLore
nv evil habits, my tankards shall % tneri
nv wine cup shall be theirh my dessroye
yanutstion shall be theirs. Share n snar
aike shall they in the infamy. Hereto q
AZ INV hand and seal in the pressncs oh =
] the ~applauding harpies OF hell."
From tbs multitude Of those VINO nav
@hs syIl habit born with them this army Isl
ing augmented. And am sorry tosay tnas
great many Of the drug stores are Sosssin
this evil, and alcohol Is sold under tne nau
Of bltters. It Is bitters for this ana oisvs4
fer that and bittsrs for some otnes mn
and good men deceived, not knowing thsr
Is any thralldom Of alcoholism coming iron
that source, are going down, and some da.
. man sta with the bottle Of black bittsrs o.
bis table, and the cork dies out, and after
dissa dend and clutches the man o.. nj
throat and says: "Ahai ] have been arte
va for ten ysarA ! have got you now
| Down with you, down with your Buffers
Ali yea They make mans family oitte
and 6is home litter and his disposition bite
and ~ dsath hittsr and his hall bitter. Bit