Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-08-21
NO. 36.

sIabe his thirst for little while; but in eter-
nitv where is the rum to come from?
Oh, the deep, exhausting, exasperatng
everlasting thirst of the drunkard in hell!
Why, II fiend came up to earth for some in
fernal work in a groG-shop, and should go
back taking on its wing just one drop OF that
for which the inebriate in the lost world
longs, what excitement would it make there!
Put that one drop from off the iend'S wing
on the tip OF the tongue ofthe destroye in
briate; let the liquid brightness just touch
II; let the drop be very small, il it only have
In 1t the smack Of alcoholic drink: let that
drop just touch the lost inehriate in the
lost world, and he would spring to
hh,t his feet s um and aSa # Wns is w,s Tam Ahn
echoes of the damned-"Give me rum, Give
me rum! Give me rum" In the future
world do not believe that it will be Tho ah-
sence of God that will make the drunkarrs
sorrow. do not believe that it will lac the
absence of light. 1 do no: believe that ii
will be the absence of holiness. think it
will be the absence of rum. Oh. ''look not
upon the wine when it is red, when it NOV
eth itself Alright in the cup, for at the last II
olteth like serpent, and it stngeth like an
,dder.'
1t is about time that we have another wo
mans crusade like that which swept through
Ohio ten or twelve years ago. With prayer
and song the women went into the grog-
geries and whole neighborho oods towns and
cities were redeemed by their Christian
heroics. Thirty women cleared out the rum
traffic from a village of one thousand inhab-
itants. II thirty women, surcharged OF the
Holy Ghost, could renovate town of n
thousand. three thousand consecratei wo-
men, resolved to give themselves no peace
until this crime was extirpat d from this city.
could in six months clear out three-fourths of
the grog-shops OF Brooklyn. II there be three
thousand women now in this city who will put
their hands and their hearts to the work,
N.t-. -,
these moral nuisances from the city-at any
rate, three-fOurths ofthem-in three months.
n, when that host of three thousa nd con-
secrated women is marshale'. there be no
one to lead them, then, as n minister of the
Most High God 1 will offer to take my
position at the front of the host, and / will
,ry to them, "Come on. We women OF Christ,
with your songs and your prayers, Some
Ot you take the enemy's right wing and some
he left VIM. Forward, The Lord of Hosts
with US: tn. God Of Jacob Is our refuSe
Down with the dram shops,''
But not waiting for those mouths OF hel
% closa, let me advise the working AMI tho
business classes. aud all classes to stop strong
1rink. While declared some time ago that
here was a point beyond which man could
lot stop, want to tell you that while man
cannot stop in his own strength, the Lori
God by His grace can help him to stop at
any time. l was in II room in New York
where there We're many men who had been
their testimony. and for the first time
n my life there flashed out "A truth
never understood. They said, "We
we're victims of strong drink. We tried to
rive it up, but always failed; but somehow
yince we gave our hearts to Christ. He has
IA ken care of us" 1 believe that the time
will soon come when the crIc, OF God will
show its power not only to save mans soul.
but his body. and reconst ruct, purify. elevate
an redeem it.
r iI,- haIt ,lt fa.I
,rapplinS at the roots of your tongues an
almost omnipOtent thirst. if You will give
your heart to God, He will help You by His
grace to conquer. Try it. 1t is your last
chance.
1 have looked off upon the desolation
Sitting in our religious assemblases there are
I good many people in awful peril; and,
Judging from ordinary circumstances, there
5 not one chance in five thousand that they
will get clear of it. There men in my
congregation from Sabbath to Sabbath OF
whom l must make the remark, that il they
10 not change their course, within ten years
:hey will, to their bodies, lie down In
irunkards graves; and as to their souls, lie
1own in drunkard's periition. L know
that is an awful thing to say, but l cannot
help saving it.
Oh, beware! You have not yet been cap
.ured. Beware! Whether the beverage be
poured In golden chalice or pewter mug. in
the foam at the top, in white letters let there
When the books of Judgment are open, and
ten million drunkards come up to get their
doom, 1 want you to bear witness that |,
this morning, In the fear of God and in the
love for your soul, told you, with all affec-
ton and with all kindness, to beware of that
which has already exerted its influence upon
your family. blowing out some of its lights
3 premonition of the blackness of darkness
forever.
Oh, II you could only hear this morning
with drunkards' bones drum
ming on the head of the liquor-cask the
Dead March of immortal souls, methinks the
very glance Of a wine-cup would make you
shudder, and the color OF the liquor would
make you think of tho bloc of the SOUL
andthe foam on the top of the cup would re-
mind you of the froth on the maniacs lip;
and you would go home from this service and
kneel down and pray God that, rather than
your children should become cap
lives Of this evil habit. you would like to
garry them out some bright spring day to
the cemetery, and put them away to the last
sleep. until at the call of the south wind the
lowers would come up all over the grave
sweet prophecies Of the resurrection. God
mas a balm for such wound; but what
aower of comfort ever grew on the blasted
heath OF q drunkard's sepulchre?