The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-09-13
LAYMAN'S SERMON.
He Says Something About Strong
Drink.

-. VI,
The hardest rain fell here lastsaturday thai
we have had this season. Some OF the
streams were very much swollen from 1t.
Miss Ella Mcclellan, OF Greenwood, is Visit
| ing relatives IN town.
| Troy high school opened this morning Will
The first bale of new cotton was sold In
| town for 6Nc. There has been fifteen bales o
new cotton ginned in town, but 1t has not
been put on the market on account no money
to buy with.
Mitchell. OF Kings Mountain, N. T., were hap
PLY married by Rev. T. w. Sloan Saturday
Miss Sue Burnett was the guest OF Miss Car
rie Robinson last S., week; pr,d.s,ort Ala Is
among her relatives in and around Troy.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Harvley and Miss Elm ma
Of Edgefield. worshipped in the A. X. r
church Sunday.
Mrs. L. N. Kennedy spent last week in Due
West with her sister, Mrs. o. Y. Bonner.
Mr.. Theo. Stehle returned 10 bis home IN
Charleston last Friday. He has charge OF a
| med.
A cyclone was reported to pass over US last
Saturday night. but we are glad to be dlsap'
| pointed, as IL did not come.
| Alter hearing sermon In one OF our
churches a week ago, d few thoughts arise,
and wish them to come out through the col.
umns Of the Press and Banner, and thlt Is
the discipIeship " whiskey. This IL sno)ect
that our country Is more or less Interested In,
and feel that there cannot be too much said
about It.. II by some generous fiat OF the cup.
italists Of this countr, or by new law or the
government of the United States twenty-five
| per cent, yes one hundred per cent. were add.
cd to the wages of the working classes ol
America, II would be no advantage to hun
dreds, yes, thousands OF them, unless they
stopped strong drink. Until they quit that
evil habit the more money, the more ruin,
the more wages, the bigger the holes IN the
bags.
My plea is to the working people, who are are
disciples to the bottle, the beer mug. and the
wine flask, and what | say to them Will not
be more appropriate TO the working classes
than TO the business classes and the literary
classes and the professional classes, and all
classes and all ages. Take one good square
| look at the suffering of the man whom strong
drink has enthralled, and remember the dls'
cipie Of alcoholism suffers the loss OF self re.
spect, just as soon as u man wakes up and
| finds that he is the captive OF strong drink be
feels bemeaned. / don't care how reckless ne
may act. He may say, don't care. he does
care. He cannot look pure man in the eye
| He knows that mis- course is bringing ruin up.
on himself and family. He loves them. II
he could stop now he would. He cannot
Perhaps he could six months or year ago
Oh, IT is sad thing for d man TO wake up IN
this life and feel that he is captive l might
| have lived an honorable life and died Chris.
He is dead, but not buried. God only knows
what the drunkard suffers. Pain files on ev.
cry nerve. and travels every muscle, and
gnaws every bone, and burns with every
| tame, and stings with every poison, ana pulls
at him with every torture.
What reptiles crawl over bis creeping
limbs What fiends stand by his midnight
pillow! What groans tear his ear! What
| horrors shiver through his soul! Talk OF the
rack. Talk OF the inquisition. Talk OF the
funeral pyre. Talk OF the crushing jugger-
naut. He feels them all at once. Have you
ever heen IN hospital and heard the suffer
ing there? But still strong drink leads TO the
loss OF homes. II he could not get whiskey
| 10 any other way he would sell his family IN
10 eternal bondage. How many homes have
been broken up in that way. No one but God
knows. Do not tell me man can live happy
when he knows he Ia breaking his wiie's
heart and clothes his children In rags, but
still this subject takes deeper tone, and that
| Is, the unfortunate Of whom speak suffers
| from the loss OF the soul. Oh, look not upon
the wine when II Is red, when IL moveth itsell
Alright in the cup, for at last IT biteth like
serpent and stingeth like an adder. Nick.