The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-03-03
THE HORRORS OF INTEMpERANcE.

On Sunday, in Brooklyn, N. Y, DR..
Talmage took for his text Genesis tx.
20 and 21: "Noah planted q VINEYARD;
aud he drank of the wine and was
drunken" In the course OF his sermon
DIR. 1almage said;
Ever since apples and grapes and
wheat grew the world has been Tempted
TO unhealthful stimulants. But the in
toxicantS of the olden time We're an
Innocent beverage, q harmless orange
ade, quiet syrup, peaceful soda
sNnter, as compared with the liduids of
modern inehriation, into which n mad
ness, and a fury, and glooom, and a
llre, and suicide, and retiibutlon
have mixed and mingled. Ferinenta
tlon was always known, but il was not
ultli Thousand years after Christ
that Oscillation was invented,
While we must confess Tint Soma
OF the ancient arts have been lost, the
Christian era Is superior to all others
~ the bad emlnencc of whisky and
rum ana gin. The modern drunk Is a
hlhdred-Iold worse than the ancient
urulk' Moan in his intoxication be-
came lmbecile, but the victims of
modern alcoholism have TO struggle
WIN whole menageries of wild bcasts
and jungles of Kissing ssrpents and
perdltions OF disappearing demons.
an hrch.ilond arrived in our world,
anu ne Quit an invisible cauldron OF
temptation. lie built that cauldron
stfons anu stout for all ages and all
nations First ho squeezed into the
cauldron the juices OF the forbidden
lfuit OF Paradise. Then he gathered
for IL distillation from the harvest
lields and the orchards of the hcmls-
Phercs. Then he poured in this enul-
uroil capsleun, and copparas, and log
wood, and deadly night shade, and
assault aud battery, and vltriol, aud
opium, and rum, and murder, and
sulplulic acid, aud theft, and potash,
ana cochineal, and red carrots. and
poverty and death, and hops. But it
was airy compound, and IL must DO
moilstened, and ii must be liquifled,
ana so the atch-ilend poured into that
canldron tho tears OF centuries OF or
phanHSe and widoWhoud, and lie
poured into the blood of 20, 100 as5assi-
nations
And then the arch-fiend took a
shovel hat he had brought up from
the furnaces beneath. and he put that
shovel into this great cauldron and
began to stir, and the caultlIon began
TO heave, aud rock, and boil, and sput-
ter, and hiss, and smoke. and the na-
tons gathered around il with Guns.
and tankardls, anI demiinhns, aud
kegs, and there was enough for all,
and the afch-iiend criedi Ahal cham
pion liend am !. Who has done more
than have FOR collins and graveyarls
and prisons and insane asylums, and
the population of the lost world? And
when this cauldran Is onlptied, I'll MI
il again, and PHI stir il again, and it
Will smoke / again, and that smoke
Will join another .smoke-tila smoke of
a torment that aScRndeth forever and
ever. drove ilfty ships on the rocks
OF Newfoundland and tine Skerries and
the GoodMiaS. 1 have ruined more
Senators than gather this winter in the
national councils.
81 have ruined more lords than arc
now gathered III the House of Peers.
The cup out OF which | ordinarily
drink IS q blcachad human skull, and
the upholstery OF my palncc Is so rich
crimson becausa II is dyed In human
gore, and the mosaic OF my floors Is
made up of tho bones of children
dashed to death by drunken parents,
and my favofite music -swectnl than
lie Deuln or triumphal march-my
tayorite music Is the cry OF daughters
turned out at midnight on the street
because Iutlier las come home from
the caronsill, and tho sepen.hundred
voiced shrek OF the sinking steamer.
because The captain was not himself
when he pnt the ship ON the wrong
course. Champion iieBd am /! have
kindled more fires have HrIlng out
more agoIirs, / have stretched ont
more midnight shadows, / hgpo
OPENED mure ,7oigo has ! have rolled
more JuEgelnaatS | have DAMNED
more souls ltnu plfA- ~ l,rI, on, Is,-,,,. ~
diabolism. Champion iiend am III
"But this eSh will br arrested.
Blucher came ~ Just before night aud
saved he day al Waterloo. At O'Clock
III the afternoon il looked very badly
for tho English. Generals p0nsonby
and Picton fallen. Sahras broken, Hays
surrendered, Scots tifays iunihilated,
only forty-twO mcn left ont of the
German Brigade. The English army
falling back and falling back. Napo-
leon rubbed his hands together aud
said: Aha! aha. wG'll teach tint little
a lesson. Ninety cbunces
out OF hundred are in our favor.
Magnificent! lnagmiiicentr lie even
sent messengers to Iaris to saJ he had
won the day. Sat before shutdown
been conquerer OF Austeriitl became
the victim of Waterloo. That hamn
which had shaken all Europe, and
hlled even America with apnrabansion;
that name went down, and Nannieon,
muddy and hatless, and crazed with
his disasters, was found feeling for the
stirrup OF horse, that he might mount
and resume the conflict. /
"Well, my friends, alcoholism is i'm
perial, and 1t is q eonqueror, and there
nrN.oo1d ppnDlr who sass the nlrhk IN