Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-03-05
PLAQUES OF THE CITIES.
,ur SECOND SERMON IN DR.. TAI
MAeE's PRESENT SERIES.

.,snness Is the Topic and This Is
-. Text. .'Noah Planted 4 Vineyard.
..a He Drank Of the Wine and Was
Drunken."
49,, vong March l. DR.. Talmage
NN'.,,,,sd today the series of sermons he
oo-,,onced last Sunday on the "Hen
CONN IF New York and the Adjacent
Iiaer The plague which he places
O''.,d on The list is intemperance. and on
go. ,s,,Iiect he discoursed this morning in
lha' academy Of Music. Brooklyn, and this
'Ds -, in New York. At the close Of the
e'e 49, in the New York Academy OF Music
Toiraoe went over to the Union
% ~ Theatre. where his son, MIR. Frank
~ Win Talmage, was holding an over
a. a. meeting and briefly addressed the
.lod house Both the New York ser
are under the auspices Of The Chris
w usrald of which Or Talmage is editor
Si.u ,a,t AZ the DOCTORS sermon was taken
-, Genesis tx. 20, "a: Noah planted a
- NJ, and he drank of the wine and was
drunken. - ~ 100.
49,, for the world. He built an ark
AGAINST the deluge OF water, but intro
5ncad a deluxe against which the human
ssca has ever since been trying to build an
1.-THE deluge of drunkenness. In my
,avt we hear his staggering steps Shem
M .Iaphet tried TO cover up the dis.
,,-acs but there he IS drunk on wine Mt
time IN the history Of the world, when to
say The least. there was no lack Of water
Iasbriation. having entered the world, has
~ rafreated Abigail, the fair and heroic
IN. who saved the tiocks Of Nabal, her
6rsfard from conhsaation by invaders.
~. home al night and finds him so intox
is,fed Sic cannot tell him the story of his
,,rr,v e-cape Uriah came 70 see David,
snd David got him drunk and paved the
,r,y tor the despoiiation of household
gven tie church bishops needed TO be
charged 10 be sober and not given 70 too
much wine. and so familiar We're people Of
Rible times with the staggering aud fall
no motion OF the inehriate that Isaiah,
when Ne comes to describe the final dislo-
,atiop OF worlds, says "The earth shall
reel TO and fro like a drunkard
WORLD WIDE TEMPTATION
Eyer since apples and grapes and wheat
GREW lie world has been tempted TO an.
beaIthful stimulgnts But the intoXicants
oftbe oIGen time were an innocent beyer-
ace. Il harmless orangeade, quiet sirup,
paacefnl soda water as compared with the
Haniay OF modern inebrintion, into which
madness. aud fury. aud gloom, andahre,
abdasuicide. and a retributlon have mixed
and mingled Fermentation WAS always
known. but it was not until thousand
wear, after Christ that distlllatiou WAS i'll
vented While we must confess that some
Of the ancient arts have been lost, the
Christian era IS superior 70 ali others IN
the bad euneuce OF whisky and rum and
Gin The modern drunk is hundred fold
worse than the ancient drunk Noah II
ms iutoXicatiou became imbecile, bat the
victims OF modern alcoholism have 70
struggle with whole menageries Of wild
beasts. and lunges Of hissiug serpents, and
peritions OF Disappearing demons.
An arch fend arrived in our world, and
he built an invisible cnldron OF telnpta-
lion lie built that caldron strong and
stout for all ages and all nations. First
be squeezed into the caldron the juices OF
the forbidden fruit Of Paradise Then ne
gathered for It a distiilation from the har-
vest fields and the orchards Of the hemis-
phares Then he poured into this caldrJ
eapsIcun aud copperas and logwood amt
deadly ugHtshale and assault and battery
and vltriol and opium and rum and mur.
daraud sulphuric acid and theft tnd pot
ash and cucl4iue,.l aqd red carrots and pow
efJy aud death and hops But il was dry
cUnluuud and il must be moistened, aud
umusi 81 iqUetled, and so the arch liend
poured into thar caldrun the tears OF cent
ure, of urphanage and widowhood, and
be poured ia the blood of twenty thousand
ass,us- G5UuuS
And then the arch 6end took a shovel
that be bad brought up from the furnace
beneath, and he put that shovel into TINS
great esdron and began TO STR, and tht
cildrou began 10 heave aud rock and bol
and sputter and hiss and smoke, and ths
nations gathered around it with cups anc
tankards and demijohns and kegs, ans
there was enough for all, and the arct
fend cried "Aha champion fiend am |
Who has done more than have for colin;
aud gfayeyards and prisons and insane
asylums. aud the populating OF the los
world, And when this csltron IS emp
tied III fiji IL again aud I'll stir II again
and II viii smoke again, and that smck'
will Join another smoke, the smoke OF
torment that sscendeth for ever and ever
drove fifty ships on the rocks OF New
fouudland and the Skerries, and tn
Goodwins / have ruined more senator
than gather this winter in the nationa
councils have ruined more lord
than are now gathered in the hous
Of peers The cup out OF which
ordinarily drink is bleached humal
skull, and the upholstery OF my palace l
so uch a crimson, because it is dyed IN hu
man gore, and the mosaic Of my floors l
made up Of the bones of children dashed t
death BY drunken parents, and my faHcrlt
music-sweeter than TIE Deum or triumph
al march-my favorite music is the cry o
daughters turned out at midnight on tn
street because father has come nome iron
the carousal. and the seven hundred voice
shrek OF the sinking steamer. because tn
captain was not himself when he put IN
ship on the wrong course. Champion men
am L | have kindled more fires, nav
wrung out more agonles, have stFetche
ont more midnight shadows, have opene
more Golgo5has | have rolled more jus
gernsuts have damned more souls ina
any other emissary of diabolism Chah
piou fipDd ar5, Iii'