The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-28
PLAQUES OF THE CITIES.
THE SECOND SERMON IN DR.. TAL-
MAGE'S PRESENT SERIES.

Drunkenness Is the Topic and This Is
the Text, ''Noah Planted Vineyard,
and He Drank of tho Wine and Was
Drunken"
New YORK, March l. DIR. Talnage
nCntinued today the series of sermons he
commenced last Sunday on the "Ten
Fiagues of New York and the Adjacent
Cities" The plague which he places
second on the list is intemperance, 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 the New York Academy of Music
DR.. Talmage went over to the Union
Square Theatre, where his son, Mr.. Frank
De Witt Talmage, was holding an over
How meeting, and briefly addressed the
crowded house. Both the New York SER
vices are under the auspices of The Chris
tian Herald, of which DIR. Talmage is editor.
The text of the DOCTORS sermon was taken
from Genesis TX. 20. 81: Noah planted
vineyard, and he drank of the wine and was
drunken"
This Noah did the best and the worst
ching for the world. He built an ark
against the deluge of water, but intro
duced a deluge against which the human
race has ever since been trying to build an
Ark-the deluge of drunkenness. In my
text we hear his staggering steps. Shem
and Japhet tried TO cover up 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.
lnebriation, having entered the world, has
not retreared. Abigail, the fair and heroic
wife, who saved the docks of Nabal, her
husband, from confiscation by invaders
goes home at night and finds him so 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 despoliation 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 fall
ing motion of the inebriate 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 un-
healthful stimulants. But the intoxicants
OF the olden time were an innocent bever-
age, harmless orangeade, a quiet sirup, a
peaceful soda water as compared with the
liquids of modern inebriation, into which a
madness, and fury, and a gloom, and a fire,
and a suicide, and a retribution have mixed
and mingled Fermentation was always
known, but it was not until a thousand
years after Christ that distillation was in
vented While we must confess that some
aef the ancient arts have been lost, the
Christian era is superior to all others in
the bad emiRence of whisky and rum and
gin The modern drunk is 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
ks.uc fo r1frIee e<Nfh HI
perditions of disappearing demons.
An arch fiend arrived in our world, and
he built an invisible caldron of tempta-
tion. He built that caldron strong and
stout for all ages and all nations. First
he squeezed into the caldron the juices of
the forbidden fruit of Paradise. Then he
gathered for it distiilation from the har-
vest fields and the orchards of the hemis-
pheres. Then he poured into this caldron
capsicum and copperas and logwood and
deadly nightshade and assault and battery
and vitriol and opium and rum and muir
der and sulphuric acid and theft and pot
ash and cochineal and red carrots and pov
+erty and death and hops. But it was a dry
compound and it must be moistened, and
il must be hquefied, and so the arch fiend
poured into that caldron the tears of cent
uries 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 furnaces
beneath, and he put that shovel into this
great caldron and began to STIR and the
-czlidron began to heave and rock and boil
and sputter and hiss and smoke, and the
nations gathered around it with cups and
eankards and demijohns and kegs, and
there was enough for all, and the arch
aend cried: "Ahai champion fiend am 1!
Who has done more than have for coffins
and graveyards and prisons and insane
asylums, and the populating of the lost
world? And when this caldron is emp
tied I'n fill it again and I'll stir it again
and IL will smoke again, and that smoke
will Join another smoke, the smoke of a
torment that ascendeth for ever and ever.
1 drove fifty ships on the rocks of New
foundland, and the Skerries, and the
Goodwins. | have ruined more senators
than gather this winter in the national
councils. ] have ruined more lords
than are now gathered in the house
Of peers. The cup out of which
ordinarily drink. is a bleached human
skull, and the upholstery of my palace is
30 rich crimson, because it is dyed in hui
man gore, and the mosaic of my floors is
made up of the bones of children dashed to
death by drunken parents, and my favorite
music-sweeter than TIE Deum or triumph
nj march-my favorite music is the cry OF
daughters turned out at midnight on the
street because father has come home from
the carousal, and 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 have kindled more fires, l have
Wrung out more agonies, have stretched
out more midnight shadows, 1 have opened
more Golgothas, / have rolled more Jug
gernauts, have damned more souls than
any other erpissary of diabolisze. Cham
pion fend am Ip'
THE NATIONS GREATEST EVIL
Drunkenness is the greatest evil of this
nation, and it takes no logical process to
Brove to this audience that drunken ma
ton cannot long be q free nation call