Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-02
THE WOE OF TIE NATION
INTEMPERANCE MAY SWEEP ITS
FREEDOM AWAY.


The Evil That Noah Observation-Disclosures
Science Has Made Liquor Thousand
fold More Deadly Ih.sh the Ancient
I Wines-We Must War Against 1t.
/ NEW YORK, March DIR. 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. DIR.
! Talmage went over to the Union Square
/ theatre, where his son, Mr.. Frank DE
Witt Talmage, 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 DIR. Talmage
is editor. The text of the doctors ser
mon was taken from Gen. tx, 2O-21 {:
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. 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
ness. In my text we hear his stagger-
ing steps. Shem and Japhet tried to
cover up the disgrace, but there he is,
drunk on wine at q time in the history
of the world when, to say the least
there was no lack of water Inebria-
ton. having entered the world, has not
retreated Abigail, the fair and heroic
wife, who saved the fiOcks 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 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 of
Bible times with the staggering and
falling motion of the inebriate that
Isaiah, when he comes to describe the
final dislocation of worlds, says, 1.-The
earth shall reel to and fro like a drunk
ard.
THE WATERS OF MADNESS.
Ever since apples and grapes and
wheat grew the world has been tempt
ed to unhealthful stimulants. But the
intoxicants of the olden time were an
innocent beverage, a harmless orange
ade, a quiet sirup, a peaceful soda
water as compared with the liquids of
modern inebriation, into which mad
ness, and fury, and gloom, and a
fire, and a suicide, and a retributiOn
have mixed and mingled Fermenta-
ton was always known, but it was not
until a 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 emf
nence of whisky and rum and gin.
The modern drunk is a hundredfOld
worse than the ancient drunk. Noah
in 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 bias
pheming demons,
An arch fiend arrived in our world,
and he built an invisible caldron OF
temptation He built that caldron
strong and stout for all ages and all
nations. First he squeezed into the
caIdron the juices of the forbidden
fruit of Paradise Then he gathered
for it d distilIation from the harvest
fields and the orchards of the hemis-
pheres. Then he poured into this cal
dron capsicum and copperas and log
wood and deadly nightshade and as
sault and battery and vitriOl and OPT
um 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 moistened, and
it must be iquefed, 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 a 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 hes.ve
and rock and boil and sputter and hiss
and smoke, and the nations gathered
around it with cups and tankards and
demijOhns and kegs, and there was
enough for all, and the arch fiend cried
"Ahal champion fiend am l. Who has
done more than I have for collins and
| graveyards and prisons and insane
asylums and the populating of the lost
world? 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 a torment that ascendeth
| for ever and ever. | drove fifty ships
on the rocks of Newfoundland, and
the Skerries, and the Goodwins /
have ruined more senators than gath
er this winter in the national coun-
ellis | 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 so rich a crimson because it is dyed
in human gore, and the mosaic of my
floors is made up of the bones of chill
dren dashed to death by drunken par
ents, and my favorite music-sweeter
than TIE Deum or triumphal march
my favorite music is the cry of daugh-
tiers turned out at midnight on the
street because father has come home
| from the carousal, and the seven hun
| dred voiced shrek of the sinking
steamer, because the captain was not
himself when be put the ship on the
wrong course. Champion fiend am L !
have kindled more fires, have wrung
out more agonies, 1 have stretched out
more midnight shadows, [ have opened
more Golgothas, [ have rolled more
Juggernauts, | have damned more
souls than any other emissary of dlabol-
ism. Champion fiend am I!
| NTENIPERANCE IS NOW INCREASING.
Drunkenness is the greatest evil OF
| this nation, and it takes no logical
process to prove TO this audience that a