Telegram-herald., 1891-03-02
PI.AGUE OF THE CITIES
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serves la tie Ne~ York Aoacssay u MQsic
Dr Taiasass seot over - tic Union
square Theatre, where lis sou. Mr.. Frank
Ile Wit Tainazze ws.s holding al over
SOW meeting aad briefly addressed tie
crowded house. b9Ih tbs New York sef-
ysces sFe uaier tbe auspices ~ The Chris
tan Herald, Of wbich DR.. Talma.:e Is editor.
TIE text Of the doctors sermon was taken
fFoaa Genesls IA. -, 81 "NoAh planted a
vineyard. and he drank Of tie Wits aad was
dTaaken
This Noah did the best and the worst
thing for the world. tie bailt an ark
against the delage Of ~atsT. bat Intro
dueed a Geguge against which the human
race has ever since been trying 10 build an
ark-th deluge Of drunkenness. In nay
text We bear his staggering steps, shen
aud Japhet trizl 10 cover up tho dis
grace, bat there he \, drunk on wine at a
time In the history Of the world. when. 10
say the least, there WAS no laek ct water.
inebriation, having entered the world. has
DOT retreated Abigail. the fair and heroic
wife, who saved the fioeks Of Nabal. her
husband from confscatlon by invaders.
goes home at night and tinds him 80 lntox-
icated she cannot tell him the story OF his
narrow escape Uriah cane 10 see David,
aud David got him drunk and paved the
way tor the despoiiation OF "A household.
Even the church bishops needed 10 bc
charged TO be sober and not given 70 too
much wine, and SO familiar were people Of
Bible times with the staggering and fall
ing motion of the inebriate that Isaiah,
when he comes TO describe the final dislo-
cation of worlds. says, 1.-THE earth shall
reel 70 and fro like a drunkard-"
WORLD WIDE TEMPTATION.
Ever since apples and grapes and wheat
grew the world has been tecpted to un-
heaithful stimulants But the !ntoxicants
OF the olden time were an innocent bevcr-
age, a harmless orangeade, quiet strip, a
peaceful soda water as compared with the
liquids OF modern inebriation, into which =
madness, and fury. and gloom, and fire,
and a suicide. and retributiou have mixed
and mingled. Fermentation was always
known, but it was not until a thousand
years after Christ that distilation was in
vented While we must confess that some
OF the ancient arts have been lost, tie
Christian era is superior to all others in
the bad eninence Of whisky and rum and
gin The modern drunk is n 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 TEND arrived in our world, and
be built an Invisible caldron of tesnpta-
ton He built that caldron strong and
stout Cor all ages and all nations. First
be squeezed into the caldron the juices OF
the forbidden fruit OF Paradise. Then he
gathered for it distilation from the har-
vest fields and the orchards OF the henis-
pheres- Then he poured into this caldron
capsicum and copperas and logwood aud
| deadly nightshade and assault and battery
,, and vitr;ol and opium and rum and muir
der and sulphuric acid and theft and pot
ash and cochineal and red carrots and pow
erty and death and hops. But it was dry
compound and it must be moistened, and
1t must be lique1ed. and so the arch fiend
poured into that caldron the tears of cent
uries of orphannge and widowbood, and
he poured in the blood of twenty thousand
assassin8rions.
And then the arch fend took a shovel
that he bad brought up from the furnaces
beneath. and he pat that shovel into this
great caldron and began to stir, and the
70, hos nd t.o;l
and sputter and hiss and smoke, and the
nations gathered around it with cups and
tankards and demijohns and kegs, and
there was enough for all, and the arch
iend cried: "Ahal champion fiend am Il
Who has done more than have for collins
and graveyards and prisons and insane
asylums, and the populating of the lost
worlds And when this caldron is emp
tied I'll fill it again and I'll stir it again,
and it will smoke again, and that smoke
will Join another smoke, the smoke of a
torment that ascendeth for ever and ever
| drove fifty ships on the rocks Of New
| foundland, aud the Skcrries, and the
Goodwins. ! have ruined more senators
than gnther this winter in the national
councils. l have ruined more lords
than are now gathered in the house
ordinarily drink is bleached human
skull, and the upholstery of my palace Is
| 90 rich a crimson, because it Is dyed in hu-
man gore. and the mosaic OF my floors /,
made up of the bones of children dashed TO
death by drunken parents, and my favorite
music-sweeter than TIE Deum or triumph
al march-my favorise music Is the cry of
daughters turned out at midnight on the
l.
| the carousal, aud the seven hundred voiced
shrek Of the sinking steamer, because the
captain was not himself when he put the
| ship on the wrong course. Champion fiend
am II I have kindled more fires, / have
wrung out more agpnies, have stretched
out more midnight shadows, have opened
more Golgothas. have rolled more jug
| eernauts, have damned more souls tina
pion fiep6 am Ir'
THE NATIONS GREATEST EVIL.
| Drunkenness IL the greatest evil Of this
nation. aud IL takes no logical process 20
/ prove to this audience that a drunken ma
ton cannot long be a free nation. call
/ your attention TO the fact that drunken
ness IL not subriding. certainly that IL il
not at . stAodstiiI, but that 1t i on an on
ward march, and 1t is a doabie quick
| There il more rum swallowed tn this coma
try. and Of a worse kind. than was ever
swallowed slsce the first distillery began
/ It's work OK death. Where there vas ore
/ drunken home there are ten drunken
sorse~ Where there Was one drunk ard 8
/ grave there are twenty drznksrds' graves.
/ IL Is on the increase Talk about crook ri
+ wAisky-bv which men mean the vbi.k v
sass does not pay she tax - gove-ars>nt--
tell ron ali ssronz drink Is crooked
Crooked Osard, crooked Coxnsc- crooked
s-hnapps, crooked beer. crooked vine.