Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06
4cJ]Es or THE CITIES.
orcoNp SERMON in DR..
rA1mAGE's SERIES.
,ss is shc Topic and Tit is tho
,-,,t, planted IL Vineyard, and he
NV ,,,e y, i,,n and Was Drunken

,css is tho Topic and TIKI. is tho
,,,n planted IA Vineyard, and lie
IN" .,, ~ in, and Was Brunken.''
,r,,r,are continued the series of
if nn the sTcn Plaques Of New
ri'' nnd the Adjacent Cities The
pf''' " n,hrh he places second on the list
as"' ,,,orancc, and on that subject he
H''ppJ The text of the doctors SER
s''' Da'. taken from Genesis liz, 30 2l:
p N" tainted a vineyard, and he drank
A"'" zinc and was drunken.
IE yo,h did the best and the worst
III, ,.r thn world. lie built ain ark
~ thn dclugc of water, but intro
F''' Ir)uec against which the human
I,"s ever since been trying to build
,,.-tnc drlugc of drunkenness. In
a ',yt we hear his staggering steps.
AND Japhct tried to cover up the
' ....r hut there he is, drunk on Wine
.imc in the history of the world,
10 saw the least, there was no lack
...sr, Inebriation, having entered
,.n,fd. has not retrcatcd. Abigail.
and heorc wife, who saved the
..nf %nbal her husband, from con-
Ian by invaders, goes home and
sg w.. him so in:uxicated she cannot tell
IT, ,hc story of his narrow escape.
. "' zane TO sec David, and David got
49, drunk and paved the way for the
collation. of household. Even the
,rcl bishops needed to be charged to
.olcr and not given to too much wine,
y, 50 familiar were people OF Bible
in,, with the staggering and falling
an.icn of the incbriate that Isaiah. when
,,,ncs to describe tho final dislocation
,orlds, says: ''Thc earth shall reel
", and fro like a drunkard."
Eyer since apples and grapes and
,hr,r grew the world has been tempted
onhcathfnl stimulants. But the in
oyirauts of the oden time were an in
"cnt beverage, a harmless orangcadc.
nuiet sirup, u peaceful soda water as
omparcd with the fluids of modern
irpbrjatiol, into which madness, and a
Eury, and u gloom, and fire, and II
suicidc, and rctribution have mixed and
mingled Fermentation was always
known, but it was not until Thousand
Years after Christ that distilation was
invented While VIC must confess that
some of the ancient arts have been lost,
lhe Christian era is superior to all others
in the bad cmincnce of whisky and rum
and gin The modern drunk is y hum
drcd fold worse than the ancient drunk.
Noah in his intoXication became imbecilc,
but the victims of modern alcoholism
have to struggle with whole mcnagcrics
of wild beasts, and jungles of kissing
sprpentS and perditions of baspheming
demons.
An arch iend arrived in our world,
and he built all invisible caldron of
temptation. lie built that caldron strong
ard stout for all ages and all nations.
First he squeezed into the caldron the
juice of the forbidden fruit of Paradise.
Then he gathered for it distiation
from the harvest fields and the orchards
oithe hemisphere. Then he poured into
this caldron capsicum and copperas and
0gwood and deadly nightshadc and as
sault and battery and vitriol and opium
and rum and murder and sulphuric acid
aMMefta and potash and cochinead and
red carrots and poverty and death and
541s Nut it was a dry compound and it
must be moistened, and it must be liaue-
fed. and so the arch tiend poured into
tina, cadron the tears of centuries of
orphanase and widowhood, and he
poured inthc blood of twenty thousand
aSSaSSinations.
And then the arch fiend took shovel
that he had brought up from the furn-
aces 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
twlth cups and tankards and demi-
lohhs and kegs, and there was enough
lor all and the arch fiend cried: "Aha!
champion fiend am 1! Who has done
more than have for collins and grave
YARDS and prisons and insane asylums,
ana the populating of the lost world?
drunkenness is the greatest evil of
shls nation, and it takes no logical pro-
cess 10 prove to. this audience that u
urui'kcn nation cannot long be free
4 III call your attention to the fact
.ni' drunkenness is not Subsiding, GER
.alal! mat it is not at standstill. but
'Aae u IS on an onward march, and it is
double quick. There is more rum
swallowed in this country, and of a
worse kind, than was ever swallowed
since the first distillery began it's work
u death. Where there was one drunken
Mp''e there are ten drunken homes.
"tbS oAC GRAVE
!heie are twenty drunkard's graves. 1t
No'' The increase. Talk about crooked
sh'Sky-by which men mean the whisky
''a' uoes not pay the tax to government
'el' you all strong drink is crooked.
.'ooAed Otard, crooked Cognac, crooked
s.nhapps, crooked beer, crooked wine,
rocked whisky-bccausc it makes a
man oath crooked, and his life crooked,
aa'u ms death crooked, and his eternity
II could gather all the armies of the
ueaa drunkards and have them come to
iaI,Ilut,rectlon, and then add to that host
S am inc armies of the living drunkards,
NV NV ana ten abreast, and then if could
, ,S'e you mount horse and ride along
l taal me Tor review, you would ride tina,
any,, 'utse until he dropped from exhaustion,
r; "u YOU would mount another horse and
,'ue until he fell from exhaustion, and
s svu would take another and another,
s sad you would ride along hour after hour
1 ulu uay after day. Great host, in regi
tb leals' IN brigades. Great armies Of
, ,mn And then if you had voice stem
ana enough to make them all hear
a anu 20" could give the command, ''For
malu' march!'' their first tramp wouC
" "sAe The earth trcmblc. lido not care
t h' a. way you look in the community
''1uay the evil is increasing.
ara eali attention to the fact that there