Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-03-05
INTEMPERANCE.
DIR. TALMAGE CALLS 1T THE Sec
0ND PLAGUE OF NEW YORK.
What win Happen to tho Nation if
the Evil Is Not Suppressed.--Po-
1itical Parties aud tho Churches
Scored for their Indifference.

WnNt VIII happen TO tho Nation "
the Evil IL Not Suppressed,--Po
1itical Parties aud tho Churches
Scored for their Indifference.
New York, March l, isoi.-Dr Tai
mage continued today tho series OF SER
mons he commenced last Sunday on the
Ten Plaques Of New York and Adjacent
Cities" Tho plague which no places
second on the list is Intcmperance, and on
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 tho New 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
tho crowded house. Tho text OF tho Doc
tors sermon was taken from Genesis 0.
s0-ai: Noah planted u vineyard; and no
drank of the wine and was drunken"
This Noah did the best and tho worst
thing for the world. lie built an ark
against tho deluge OF water, but introduced
dcluge against which tho human race has
ever since been trying TO build an ark
tho dciuge of drunkenness. In my text
we hear his staggering steps. Shem and
Japhct tried TO cover up tho disgrace, but
there no is, drunk on wine ut u time In the
history Of tho world when, TO say tho least,
there was no lack OF wntor. inebriation,
having entered the world, has not re-
treated. Abigail, the fair and heroic wife,
who saved tho noolSs of Nabal, her hus-
band, from confiscation by invaders, goes
homo at night and finds him so intoxicated
she cannot tell him the story Of his mar
row escape. Uriah came To SEQ David, and
David got him drunk, and paved tho way
for the despollation OF u household, Even
the church bishops needed to be charged 10
be sober and not givon 10 too much winc
nnd 30 familiar were people OF Bible
times with tho staggering and falling
motion of the inobriato, that Isaiah, when
he comes TO describe tho final dislocation
Of worlds says: "rhe earth shall reol TO
and fro like u drunkard."
Drunkenness is the greatest evil OF this
nation, and IL takes no logical process TO
prove TO this audience that drunken
nation cannot long DO u free nation. call
your attention 10 the fact that drunkenness
Is not subsiding, certainly that IL Is not ut
O standstill, but that II Ia on an onward
march, and IL Is double quick. There Is
more rum swallowed IN this country, and
OF worse kind, than was ever swallowed
since the first distillery began It's work OF
death. Where there was one drunken
home there aro ten drunken homes.
Where there was one druukurd's grave
there are twenty drunkards' graves. IL Ia
on thu iparauua Hulll ubpllt crooked
whisSey---by which men mean tho whiskey
that does not pay tho tax to government
tell you all strong drink Ii crooked.
Crooked Otard, crookci Cognnc, crooked
schnnpps, crooked beor, crooked vino,
crooked whiskey u makes q
mans path crooked, and his hfo crooked,
and his death crooked, and his eternity
crooked.
call attention 10 the fact that tboro arc
thousands OF people born with thirst Tor
strong drink-a fnct too often ignored.
Along some ancestral lines there runs tho
river OF temptation. There arc children
whose neutrality-suspicious. are torn on tho
shroud Of death. Many n faith n has made
q will OF this sort: ''ln the name OF God,
amen. boqueath 10 my chiiureh my
houses and lands aud estates; share
aud share shall they alike. Hereto
] anix my hand and seal In the presence oil
Witnesses" And yet perhaps That very
man has made another wiz that tho people
have never rcad, and that mas not Doeh
proved In tho courts That will put In
writing would read something liko this:
''ln tho nnmc OF disease and appetite ana
death. amen. bcquoath TO my children
my evil habits, my tankards shall DO
theirs, my winccup shall be theirs, my
DESTROYED reputation shall be the.rs.
Share aud share alike snail they In the
Hereto afix my hand and seal
In tho presence OF all tho applnuding
harpies of hell"
1t seems to me 1t Is about tire Tor tho
IA, 900, 900 professors Of religion In Amer
lea to take sides. IL is going to be an out
Rnd-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 de-
cadence, take sides before your sons are
sacrificed and the new 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 dcspolation OF this nation. II
INC " pTOltbhoTs VI EtibiVh ohouiu
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 evilP
Does IL belong to the north. or docs u DO
long TO tho south? Docs u belong 10 the
east, or does 1t belong to the west3 AM
there Is not an American river INTO which
Its tears have not fallen, and into which Its
suicides have not plunged. what ruined
that southern plantation?--every held
fortune, tho proprietor and his family once
tho most afiluent supporters OF summer
watering-pla What threw That New
England farm into decay and turned the
roseate checks that bloomed at the loot oil
the Green Mountains into the pallor OF
despair? What has smitten every street
OF every village, town and city OF this con-
tinent with moral pestilencc? strong
drink
To prove that this is national evil
call up two states In opposite directions
Maine and Georgia. 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: at is so great an evil down
here that ninety counties OF this state have
made the sale OF Intoxicating drink q
criminality." So the word comes up from
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