The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-03-12
PLAQUES OF THE CITIES.
THE SECOND SERMON IN Or. TAL-
MAGE'S PRESENT SERIES.

and Ho Drank OF the Wine and wus
Drunken"
NEW YORK. March 1.--Dr. Talmage
continued to-day the series of sermons
he commenced last Sunday on the "rrn
Plaques of New York and the Adia.
cent Cities" The plague which he
places second on the list is intcmDrr-
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 doctors
sermon was taken from Genesis ix, 20,
Il: Noah planted a vineyard, aud he
drank of the wine and was drunken"
This Noah did the best and the worst
thing for the world. lie built ;un ark
against the deluge of water. but intro
duced a deluge against which the hu-
man race has ever since been irving to
build an ark-the dclugc of drunkc en-
ness. In my text We h.ar his Staagrr-
Ing steps. Shem and Japhct trl.u to
cover up the disgrace, out there nc is,
drunk on wine at time IN the history
OF the world, when, to say The least
there was no lack of water. lncbria-
uCn. having entered the world, has not
retreated. Abigail, the fair ard heroic
wife, W ho saved the llOckS OF Nabal,
her husband, from c0nliSCatiGn by in
VaderS, goes home at night and finds
HIM SO intoxicated She cannot tell him
The story OF his narrow escape. Criah
came to see David, and David got him
dunk and paved the way for the dcs-
pollatlon oI household. Even the
church bishops needed to be charged
TO be sober and not given to too much
VINE, and SO familiar were people OF
BlDle times with the staggering and
t2lIlnU motion If hn
Isaiah, when he comes to describe the
hllal dlSlocatlOn of worlds, says, "Thr
earth shall real to fro like Il drunkard." ."
Ever slnco apples and grapes ana
wheat grew the world hats been tcmUt-
ed TO unhealthful StlmulanlS. But The
ntOXicantS Of the Oldcn time were M
innocent beverage, Il harmless orange
aue. quiet Slrup, Il peaceful soda
water us compared with the liquids Oi
modern lncbrlatlOn, into which Il mad
ness, and fury, and Il gloom, and Il
nre, ana suicide, and Il retrILutiun
nave mixed and mingled. Fermrnta-
ton was always known, but 1t was not
untii Il thousand years aItcr Christ that
ulStlllallCn was invented. While we
must confess that some of The ancient
arts have been lost, the Christian era is
superior to all others Ia the bau emf |
nence Of whisky and rum and GIN. The
modern drunk Is Il hundred fold worse
'han the ancient drunk. Noah III his
lntoXlcatlOn became imbecile, but the
victims OF modern alcoholism have to
struggle with whole mcnagcrlcs OF
"llu beasts, and jlngleS OF hlSsinE Ser
penis, ana prrUiIlOnS Of hiuSphymluu
demons.
AN arch llend arrived in our world,
and he built ali invisible cal,run of
temptation. He nuiIL that ca!drOu
SlrohS aud stout for all ages and ali
nations. FlrSI he squeezed into the
Caluron the juices OF the Forbidden |
fruit Of Paradise. Then he gathered |
1or II distribution from the harvest
hcluS anu the orchal dS of the hcmis. |
phereS. Then he poured into thi., cald. |
ron capSlcum ana cOppcraS and log
wood and deadly nlShtshadU and as
Saalt and battery and Vit!iOl and Opium
and rum and murder and sulnhurjc
acld and theft and potash and cochl-
neal ana red carrots and poverty and
death and hops. But it was Il DRY com.
pound ana IT must be mUiSteneli, and
IL must De llquclied, and 50 the arch
hcnd poured into that caluron the tears
vi centuries vi Orpanagc and widow |
hood, and he poured in the blood OF
twenty thousand aS5aSSlnations.
ana lhen the arch iienu took a ShOy- !
el that he had brought up from the
FURNACES beneath, and ne put that |
oiio'el lllto thlS great caldron AMI be-
gan 10 stir, and the caldron Deu,!u to
heave and rock and boil and s,ultrr
ailu Mss and smoke, and the nulious
gathered around it with cupsand t;ull
ARDS and demijohns and kegs. and there
was enough Tor all and the arch hend |
cTieo: Aha! champion licnd am |, |
no mas done moro than | hayo for |
Collins anu graVeyardS and PRISONS and |
insane asylums, and the populatiop of
the lost world? And when this caldron
Is emptled III ill it again and III Stir
IL again, and it will smoke again, and
tnat smoke will join another smoke.
lhe smoke OF torment that asCcndcth
lor ever and ever. | drove fifty ships
on the rocks OF Newfoundland, and the
okerrles, ana the GoodWins. / have
ruined more senators than gather this
winter In the national councils. |
have ruined more lords than are now
gathered in the house Of peers. The
cup out OF which ordinarily drink is
Dleached human skull, and the up-
holStery OF my palace is so rich a Grim
son, because 1t Is dyed in human gore,
ana the mosaic of my floors is made up
ol the bones of children dashed to death |
ny drunken parents. and my favorite
than re Dcum or tri. |
umphal march-my favoritc music is
the cry OF daughters turned out at mid
night on the street because father has
come home from the carousal, and the |
seven hundred voiced Shrek of the |
sinking steamer, because the captain |
was not himself when he put the ship |
on me wrong course. Champion hpnd |
am l. have kindled more fires, have
Wrung out more agonies, have st 'otch
Ell out more Midnight shadows, have |
opened more Golgothas. have rolled |
oreJuggernauts, have damned more |
SOUS than any other cmissary of dia-
Doiism. Champion tiend am |.
:, drunkenness is the greatest evil of
TINS nation, and it takes no logical pro-
cess TO prove TO this audience that a
drunken nation cannot long lie a free
nation. | call your attention to the
TACT that drunkenness is not subsj1inp,
certainly that is not at Il standstjii
put That 1t is on an onward march, and
ltls double quick. There is more rum
swallowed i'll this country, and OF a
worse kind, than was ever swallowed
since the first distillery began its work