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PLAQUES OF THE CITIES.
THE SECOND SERMON IN Or. TAIL
MAGE'S PRESENT SERIES.


Drunkenness Is the Topic and This Is
she Text, Noah Planted a Vineyard,
and lie Drank of the Wins and Was
Drunken"
New YoRB, March /. DR.. Talmage
continued today the series Of sermons he
commenced last Sunday Oh the "ren
Plaques of New York and the Adjnceut
Cities" The plague which 10 places
second on the list rs intemperance. and on
that subject he dlscoursed this morning in
the Academy Of Music, Brooklyn, and this
evening in New York. At the close Of the
service in the New York Academy of Music
DIR Talnage went over to the Union
Square Theatre, where his son, Mr. Frank
De Witt Talmaee, was holding an over
flow meeting, and briefly addressed the
crowded house Both the New York ser
vices are under the auspices OF TIE Chris
tan Herald, Of which DR., Talmage is editor.
The text Of the DOCTORS sermon was taken
from Genesis TX, 20, u: Noah planted a
vineyard, and he drank Of the wine and was
drunken"
This Noah did the best and the worst
thing for the world. lie built an ark
duccd dcluce against which the human
race has ever since been trying to build an
ark-the delnge of drunkenness. In my
text we hear his staggering steps. Shem
end Japhet tried to cover mp the dis
grace but there he is drunk on wine at a
time in the history of the world, when, to
say'the least, there was no lack of water
Inebriation, having entered the world has
not Tetreated. Abigail, the fair and heroic
wife. who saved the tlocks of Nabal, her
husband, from confiscation by invaders,
goes home at night and finds him 80 intox-
icated she cannot tell him the story of his
narrow escape Uriah came to see David,
and David got him drunk and paved the
way Tor the despolation of a household.
Even the church bishops needed to be
charged to be sober and not given tn too
much wine, and SO familiar were people of
Bible times with the staggering and fall
ing motion Of tie nebriate that Isaiah,
when he comes to describe the final dislo-
cation of worlds, says, THE earth shall
reel to and fro like drunkard."
WORLD WIDE TEMPTATION.
Ever since apples and grapes and wheat
grew the world has been tempted to I'M
bealthful stlmulants. But the intoXicants
OF the olden time were an innocent bever-
peaceful soda water as compared with the
liquids of modern inebriatiOn, into which II
madness, and "A fury, and gloom. and fire,
and a suicide and re:ribution have mixed
and mingled. Fermentation was always
known, but it was not until "A thousand
wears after Christ that diStlilation was in
vented While we must confess that some
OF the ancient arts have been lost, the
Christian era is superior to AL others in
the bad emincnce OF whisky and rum and
GIN. The modern drunk is a hundred fold
worse than the ancient drunk. Moan ia
Ais inCUXication became inlbecile, but the
victims of modern alcoholism have to
struggle with whole meuHgeries of wild
beasts, and jupgles of Kissing serpents, and
perdiJons OF DlaspAeming demons.
An arch Gcnd arrived IN our world, and
he built an invisible caidrun of tcAnb,,.-
ton. lie built that caidrGn strong and
stout for all ages and all nations. First
he squeezed into he g4.uTOl the juices Of
the forbidden uuit Of Paradise. Then he
gathered Tor it Il dist.lla,iCn from the har-
vest fields and the orchards Of tine nCmls-
pu.rcs. Then lie poured iltO this caldron
c; lrlcnm and CCppeTas and log1rOOd and
deadly u.gut.nGde and assault and battery
and vittIOl and opium and rum and muir
der add sulphuric acid and theft and pot
ash and cncLfnraI sud red c.rrots and nov
prlv ard deatb ana mons Bnt il WINS a drv
command and ,ot,et ice inni.tcncd and
If must be Iiouafj4d. a,d SO the arch 1end
uo,,rea into Tint caldr,n ,Lot tears Of cont
J13ts Of o1rhann.-e aud v;ido,vboo1 and
b.. nopred m she blood OF 11yenrvtnousand
.s.as.i1,a-ions
Auntncr, the arch fcnd tool. a sbovnl
Tint ne mad bro,jgbt M from Inc furnaces
b,no..Li,. and he mn. tbat shovel into TN.
t,raat caldrou and b,upn TO sir and tho
,.,Id,on beuan 10 neaye and rock and ho;l
and sputter and hiss and smoke. and tine
,,nttu,s gathered nrnuDd it. with cnns and
tpnkari., and deu4iiohns and kegs and
,hrra u.os .nul,,h for ali and tho arc,,
Grlid e.r,od: An,l chanpion ncnd am r
VINO has done more than have for cottins
and oravcvards and prt.ons and ipsono
asvlurns and the ponrIatipo of tho lo.t
worlaY And when this caldron 10 e,nn.
rid IN ali IT. aa,ain and TII srir it. again
and it. will smoke AGAIN. and that sInol.o
win ,oiu ,nytbpr slnol,e the smok, ot a
torment that asceudeth for ever and ever
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