Connecticut western news., 1891-03-04
THE WOE OF THE NATION
MAY SWEEP IT'S FREEDOM AWAY.

FREEDOM AWAY.
 The Evil That Noah Wrousht-Modern Science Has Made Liquor Thousand fold More Deadly Than the Ancient wines-we Must War Against It.
 NKw YORK. March 1.-Dr. Talmage continued today the series of sermons he commenced last Sunday on the Ten Plaques 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. Tallnage went over to the Union Square theatre. where his son, Mfr Efank De Witt Tallnage was holding an overflow meeting. and briefly addressed the crowded house Both the New York services are under the auspices of The Christian Herald. of which Dr. Talmage is editor The text of the doctors ser mon was taken from Gen. K, 2O-21: Noah planted vineyard. and 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 duced a deluge against which the human race has ever since been trying to build an ark - the deluge of drunken 1v, hoor Iio Sfo ing steps Shem and Japhet tried to cover up the disgrace. but there he is drunk on wine at time in the history of the world when. to say the least, there was no lack of water. 1nebria- tion. having entered the world. has not retreated Abigail, the fair and heroic wife. who saved the hocks of Nabal, her husband, from confiscation by in vaders. goes home at night and finds him so intoxicated she cannot tell him the story of his narrow escape Uriah came to see David, and David got him drunk. and paved the way for the des poliation of q 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 inebrate that Isaiah when he comes to describe the final dislocation of worlds. says, '"The earth shall reel to and fro like drunk ard"
 THE 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. peaceful soda water as compared with the liquids of modern inebriation. into which a mad ness and fury. and a gloom, and a fire. and a suicide, and a retribution have mixed and mingled. Ferlnenta ton was always known. but it was not until thousand years after Christ that distillation was invented. While we must confess that some of the ancient arts have been lost. the Christian era is superior to all others in the bad elni hence of whisky and rum and gin The modern drunk is hundredfold "oioC CAcl CAIS ttiSiCHt LII A>Oob ID his intoxication became imbecile but the victims of modern alcoholism have to struggle with whole menage ries of wild beasts and jungles of hiss ing serpents and perditions of blas pheming demons.
 An arch tiend arrived in our world. and he built an invisible caldron of
 
 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 distillation from the harvest fields and the orchards of the heuis pheres Then he poured into this cal dOn capsicum and copperas and log wood and deadly nightshade and as | sault and battery and vitriol and opi uIn and rum 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 mostened, and it must be liqueted, and so the arch fiend 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 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 and sputter 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 the arch fiend cried Anal champion tiend am l. Who has | done more than have for collins and l graveyards and prisons and insane asyIums and the populating of the lost world2 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 ascendeth for ever and ever l drove fifty ships on the rocks of Newfoundland, and the Skerries and the Goodwins. l have ruined more senators than gath CT this winter in the national coun | cils l have ruined more lords than are now gathered in the house of peers. The cup out of which l ordinarily drink is bleached human skull, and the upholstery of my palace 1 is so rich a crimson because it is dyed in human gore. and the mosaic of my floors is made up of the bones of chil | dren dashed tO death bv 6rnnl<en par