Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-03-07
TEE WOE OF THE NATION
MAY SWEEP ITS
8 FREEDOM AWAY.


FREEDOM AWAY.
5Science Has Made Liquor Thousand
L Hal aLoro Deadly zb.., tho Ancient
s. W1nes-yyo Muat War Against It.
NEW YORK, March DIR. Tal,nage
continued today the series of sermons
he commenced last Sunday on the ''ren
plaques or Sew fork and the Adjacent
Cities The plague which he places
second on the list is intenperance, and
ont that subject lie discourscd this
morning in the Academy of Music,
Brooklyn. all this evening in New
York. 35At the close OF the service in
the New York Academy of Music, DIR.
TaIinage went over to the Union Square
theatre. where his son, Mr. Frank De
witt T alInage, was holding an overflow
.,iieeting. and briefly addressed the
crowded hops soths thegs leMssY oEA
feryiice are Ennd Ter the ausp
Christian ii erald Of ~ ihiich DE- T'Mlmdge'
tseditor. The text: OF tile doctors SER
anon was taken from Gen. tx. 1921:
sgsNoah planted vineyard md he
drank of the wine and was drunken.
:: = This Noah did the best and the worst
thing for the world. He built an ark
against the deluge of water, but intro
dnced q deluge against which the
human race has ever since been trying
to build an ark-tl,e deluge OF drunken
hess. In my text we hear his st;lggcr
ing steps. Shem and Japhet tried to
cover up the disgrace, but there he is,
drunk OH wine ut time in the history
Of the world when. to say the least,
there was no lack of water. Inebria-
tion. having entered the world, has not
retreated. Abigail. the fair and heroic
wife, who saved the llocks OF Nabal,
her husband, from coniiscation by in
vaders. goes home ut night and finds
him SO intoxicated she cannot tell him
the story of his narrow escape. Uriah
came to zee David, and David got him
drunk. and paved the way for the des-
collation. of 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 nebriate that
Isaiah, when he comes to describe the
final dislocation of worlds, says The
eslrth shall reel to and fro like drunk
ard.
TIE WATERS OF MADNESS.
{, Ever since apples and grapes and
wheat grew the world has been tempt
ed to unhealthful stilnulants. But the
intoxicants Of the olden time were an
innocent beverage, harmless orange
ade. a quiet sirup, a peaceful soda
water. as compared with the liquids OF
modern inebriation. into which Il mad
ness, and a fury, and gloom, and a
fire, and suicide, and a retribution
have mixed and mingled. Ferlnenta-
ton was always known, but it was not
nntil a. thousand years after Christ that
distillation was invented. While we
mast confess that some OF the ancient
arts have been lost, the Christian era
is superior to all others in the bad emf
nence OF whisky and ruin and gin.
The modern drunk is hundredfold
4I,o,. +1,o a-o;o~t 4 Nnob
IN his haso3foation becatipe irnbecile,
but the victims of modern alcoholism
have to struggle with whole luenage-
ries of wild beasts and jungles of hiss
ing serpents and perditions of bias
phening demons.
An arch fiend arrived in our world,
and be built an invisible caldron of
temptation. He built that caldron
strong aud stout for all ages and all
nations First he squeezed into the
caidron the juices of the forbidden
fruit of Paradise. Then he gathered
for it a distillation from the harvest
fields and the orchards of the heInis-
pheres Then he poured into this cal
dron capsicum md copperas and log
wood and deadly nightshade and as
sault and battery and vitriol and OPT
UNI and ruin and murder and sulphuric
acid and theft and potash and cochi-
neal and red carrots and poverty and
death and hops, but it was dry COM
pound, and it must be moistened, and
it must be liquefied, and so the arch
fend poured into that caldron the
tears of centuries OF orphanage and
widowhood, and he poured in the blood
of twenty thousand assassinations.
And then the arch fiend took a shovel
that he had brought up from the fur
naces beneath, and he put that shovel
into this great caldron and began to
stir, and the caldron began to heave
and rock and boil md sputtcr and hiss
and smoke, and the nations gathered
around it with cups and tankards and
delnijohns and kegs. and there was
enough for ALL and tile arch fiend cried:
:'Ahal champion flend ON |. Who has
done more than have for collins and
graveyards and prisons and insane
asylums and the populating of the lost
worId2 And when this caldron is
emptied 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 torment that ascendcth
for ever and ever. I drove fifty ships
on the rocks of Newfoundland, and
the Ske1ries. and the Goodwins. |
have ruined mere senators than gath
er this winter in the national coun-
ellis. l have ruined more lords than
are now gathered in the house of
peers. The cup out of which |
ordinarily drink is n bleaclled human
skull, and the upholstery of my palace