The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-03-11
PLAQUES OF THE CITIES.
THE SECOND SERMON IN Dr.. 'TAL'
MAGE'S PRESENT SERIES.

IMAGES PRESENT SSh!eS.
Drunkenness is the Topic and This is
tie Text. Neal. Planted a Vineyard,
and He Drank Of the Wine ard Was
Drunken
New YORK, March DIR. Talmage
continued to-day the series OF sermons
he commenced last Sunday Cn the Ten
Plaques of New York and the Ada
cent Cities" The plague which he
places second on the list is lntemper-
ance, and on that subject he discours..
ed this morning in the Academy OF
Music, Brooklyn, and this evening IN
New York. The text OF the doctor 5
sermon was taken from Genesis N. 70,
81: Noah planted vineyard, ana ne
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
duced a,deiuge against which the hui
man race has ever since been trying TO
build an ark-the Geluge Of drunken
ness. in my text we hear his stagger-
ing steps. Shem and Japhet tr!ed 10
cover up the disgrace, but there ne Is
drunk on wine at (. time il the history
of the world. when, TO say the least,
there was no lack Of water. lneor!d-
ton. having entered the world, has not
retreated. Abigail, the fair AID heroic
wife, who saved the tlocks OF Naba!.
her husband, from confScatlon oy IN
vaderS, goes home at night ana hnGs
him so intoxicated she cannot tel MN
the story of his narrow escape. r!an
came to see David, and DAVID got MN
drunk and paved the way tor the des-
pohation OF a household. Even the
church bishops needed to be charged
to be sober and not given to too much
wine, and so familiar were people o!
Bible times with the staggering anc
falling motion OF the lnebrlate that
Isaiah. when he comes to describe the
final dislocatlon Of worlds, says, The
earth shall real to fro like a drunkard.
Ever since apples and grapes and
wheat grew the world has been tempt
ed to unhealthful StlmulantS. But the
intoXicants OF the olden time were an
innocent beverage, a harmless orange
ade. a quiet slrup, a Peace!uI Soua
water as compared with the EqmdS OF
mo6ern inebrlation, into which mao
ness, and fury, and gloom, ana d
fire, and a suicide, and a re.rltuuoa
have mixed and mingled. Fermenta-
tion was always known, but 1t was not
until thousand years after Chrlsc tcat
6istillation was invented. w BILE we
must confess that some OF the ancient
arts have been lost, the Christian era IS
superior to all others IN the bad e;ni-
nence of whisky and rum and gin. Ine
modern drunk is a hundred tod worse
than the ancient drunk. Noah ii his
intoxicatlon became imbeclie, but the
victims Of modern alcoholism have 10
struggle with whole menageries OF
wild beasts, aid jungies OF kissing ser
pents, and perdltlonS OF biaspnemlnS
demons.
an arch Gend arrived in our world,
and he built an invisible caldron OF
temptation. He built that caldron
strong and stout for all ages and ali
nations. First he squeezed into the
caldron the juices OF the forbidden
fruit OF Paradise. Then he gathered
: for it distillation from the harvest
fields and the orchards Of the hemlS-
pheses. Then he poured into this cald-
ron capsicpm and copperas and log
wood and deadly nightshade and as
s2ult and battery and vitllol and opium
and rum and murder and sulphuric
acid and theft and potash and cochl-
neal and red carrots and poverty ana
death and hops. But it was dry com,
pound and it must be molstened, and
1t must be iquefed, and so the arch
fend poured into that caldron the tears
of centuries OF orpanage and widow
hood, and he poured III the blood Of
( twenty thousand assasslnanoDs.
And then the arch hend took a shov-
el that he had brought UP from the
furnaces beneath, and he put that
shovel into this great cal6ron and be-
gan to stir, and the calGrOn began to
heave and rock and boil and Sputter
and hiss and smoke, and the nations
gathered around it with cups and tank
ards and demijohns and kegs, and there
was enough for ali, and the arch liend
cried: s"Aha! champion fend am /.
Who has done more than l have Tor
cofins ana graveyards and prisons and
insane asylumS, and the populating OF
the lost world? And When this caldron
IS emptied III fill it again and I'll stir
il again, and it will smoke again, and
that smoke will join another smoke,
the smoke Of a torment that aScenGeth
for ever and ever. | drove fifty ships
onthe rocks of Newfoundland, and the
Skegries, and the Goodwins. l have
ruined more senators than gather this
winter in the national councils. l
have ruined more lords than are now
gathered in the house Of peers. The
cup out of which I ordinarily drink IS
a hieached human skull, and the up
hoIstery of my palace is so rich Grim
son, because it is dyed in human gore,
and the mosaic Of my floors is made up
of the bones Of children dashed to death
by drunken parents. and my faVorlte
music -sweeter than Te Deum or trl-
umphal march-my favorite music IS
the cry of daughters turned out at mid
night on the street bee; use father has
come home from the caIousal, and the
seven hundred voiced Shrek Of the
sinking steamer, because the captain
was not himself when be put the ship
On the wrong course. Champion hend
am /! / have kindled more fires. have
Wrung cut more agonles. Ihave stretch
ed out more midnight shadows, l have
opened more GolgothaS. have rolled
more Juggernauts, l have damned more
souls than any other emissary OF dla-
bolism. Champion fiend am /,
Drunkenness is the greatest evil OF
ehiS nation, and it takes no logical pro
cess to prove to this audience that a
drunken nation cannot long be 4 tree
nation. I call your ;ttention to the
fact that drunkenness is not subsidiog,
certainly that tits not at Il standstiil,
but that it is on an onward march, and
tits a double quick. There is more rum
swallowed in this copnty, and OF a
worse kind. than was ever swallowed
since the first distillery began its work
of death. Where there was one drum
ken home there are ten drunken
homes. Where there was one