The Penn's Grove record., 1895-08-16

ppe peyonh all endurance, because 1t Is TO b.
the disruption and annihllation OF the do
mestjc ctrcle-if it be for that, then 1t Is mag
nifeent.
There are those who are kept In povert
because Of their own fault. They might hav
been well off, but they smoked or chewed u
their earnings, or they lived beyond thet
means, while others on the same wages an
on the same salaries went on to competency
/ know a man who was all the time com
planning OF his poverty and crying GU
against rich men, while he himself keeps twl
dogs, and chews aud smokes, and ia full t
the chin with whisky and beer. wilkins MI
cawber said to David Copperleld, Cooper
field, my boy. one pound income, EXPENSE
twenty shillings and six pence; result
misery. But, Copperleld, my boy, one pound
income, expenses nineteen shillings and sil
pence; result, happiness" But, o working
man Of America. take your morning dram
and your noon dram. aud your evening dram
and spend everything you nave over for to
oacco and excursions, and you insure pow
srty for yourself and your children forever
II by ome generous fiat OF the capitalist
OF this country, or by a new law OF the Gov
eminent Of the United States. twenty-hv,
per cent, or fifty per cent, or n hundred
per cent. were added to the wages of tht
working classes Of America, it would be ne
advantage to hundreds of thousands OF then
unless they stopped strong drink. Aye, I'M
Ill they quit that evil habit, the more money
The more ruin, the more wages, the NOR
holes in the bag.
My plea this morning is to those working
people who are in a discipleship to whisky
bottle, the beer-mug, and the wine-fask.
And what l say 10 them will not be more ap-
propriats to the working classes than to the
business classes. and the literary classes. and
the r occasional classes. and all glasses, and
not with the people of one age more than
Of all ages. Take one good square look at
the suffering of the man whom strong drink
has enthralled, and remember that toward
that goal multitudes are running. Tho dis.
,ipls OF alcoholism suffers the loss of self
respect.
Just as soon as q man wakes up and finds
hat he is the captive of strong drink, he feels
iemeaned. 1 do not care how reckless he
acts. He may say, az don't care;'' he does
,are. He cannot look a pure man in the eye
unless 1t is with positive force Of resolution.
Three-tourths OF his nature Ia destroyed;
his self-respect is gone; he says things he
would not otherwise say; he does things
he would not otherwise do. When a
man Is nine-tenths gone with strong
drink, the first thing he wants to do isto
persuade you that he can stop any time he
wants to. He cannot. The Philistines have
bound him hand and foot, and shorn his
LOCKE, anu put OUT ms eyes. anu dEo kuhhJuS
him grind in the mill OF a great horror. He
cannot stop. / will proyeit. He knowsthat
his course is bringing ruin upon himself.
He loves himself. If he could stop he would.
He knows his course is bringing ruin upon
bis family. He loves them. He would stop
II he could. He annot. Perhaps he could
three months or Il year ago, not now. Just
isk him to stop for a month. He cannot; he
rnows he cannot, so he does not try.
k,A n f-,anl prb1 ,uua fn- n ffaap raoN ~
going down under this evil habit. He had
large means. He had given thousands OF
dollars to Bible societies and reformatory
Institutions of all sorts. He was very
genial, very generous, and very lovable, and
whenever he talked about this evil habit he
would say, ~ can stop any time" Blu he
kept going on, going on, down, down,
down. His family would say, 81 wish you
would STOP" "Why,' he would reply, 81
IAN stop any time II 1 want to-" After a
while he had delirium tremens; he had 1t
twice; and yet. after that, he said, az could
stop at any timeif I wanted to-" He Is dead
now. What killed him? Rum! Rum! And
yet among his last %utterances WAS, II can
stop at any time" He did not stop it, be-
cause he could not stop it. Oh, there is a
point in inebrlation beyond which if q man
goes he oanno stop!
One OF these victims said to a Christian
man, 'tSir. 10 I were told that l couldn't get
a drink until tomorrow night unless had
all my fingers cut off, l would say, Bring
the Ratchet and cut them OF now" lhave
. dear friend in Philadelphia whose nephew
came to him one day, and, when he was ex-
horted about his evil habit, said, "Uncle, l
SAINT give 1t up. II there stood a cannon
and it was loaded, and a glass OF wlne were
yet on the mouth OF that cannon, and l knew
hat you would fire it off as l came up and
took the glass, I would start, for1 must
lave it."
oh, 1t Is a sad thing for a man to wake up
n this life and feel that he is a oaptiveI He
Jays. az could have got rid of this ct once,
but I can't now. 1 might have lived an hon
,rable life and died a Christian DEATH but
there is no hope for me now; there iS no
ssoape for mo. Dead, but not buried. l am
\ walking corpse, l Am an apparition OF what
[ once was. I am a Gagged immortal beating
against the wires of my cage in this direc-
ion; beating against the cage until there IL
blood on the wires and blood upon my soul.
ret not able to get out. Destroyed without
emedy!"
go on, and say that the disciple of run
uffers from the loss OF health.
The older men In the congregation may re-
member that some years ago DR.. Sewell went
through this country and electrified the peo-
ole BY his lectures, in which he showed the
effects OF alcoholism on the human stomach.
He had seven or eight diagrams by which he
showed the devastation OF strong drink upon
.he physical system. There were thousands
Of people thai turned back from that ulcer
ous sketch, swearing eternal abstinence rom
everything that could intoxtcate.
God only knows what the drunkarl sur
fers. Pain files on every nerve, and travels
every muscle, and gnaws every bone, and
burns with every flame, and stings with
svery poison, and pulls at him with every
torture. What reptiles crawl over his creep
ing limbsl What hends stand by his mid
night pillow! What groans tear his earl
What horrors SHY through his soull Talk
Of the rack. talk of the Inquisidon, talk oi
the funeral pyre. talk OF the crushing Jug
~zernaut-he feels tn tn all at once. Have you
Syer been In the wari Of the hospital whezs
,hese inebriates are dying, the stenchof tbeii
wounds driving back the attendants, theti
voices sounding through the nightH The
Keeper comes up anil says, "Hush, now, be
ytilll Stop making all his noise!' But 1t
5 effectual only for a moment, for as soon
IS the keeper Is gone they begin again,
1iys me rum! Hslpl Take them OF ma!
fake them off mel Oh, Godp' And then they
shrek, and they rave, and they pluck ont
heir hair by handfuls. and bite their nails
alto the quick, and then they groan, and
hey shrek, and they b~laspheme, and they
Ask the keeper to XIII them-'slao mol
smother mel Strangle me! Take the devils
"a mel" Oh, it is no fancy sketchl That
lhinR is going on now all up and down the
and. and I tell you further that this Is go.
~ to be the death thai some Of you viii
lie. I know 1t. l see It coming.
Again, the inebriate suffers through the
oss OF home.
1 DO not care how much he loves his wife
and children, II his passion for strong drink
las mastered him, he will do the most out
-ageous things; and If he could not get
rink in any other way, be would sell his
fsmiiy Into eternal bondage. How many
ZONES have been broken up in that way no
one but God knows. oh, is there anything
that will so destroy a man for this life and
damn him for the life that is to come? Ihate
that strong drink. With all the concentrated
energies Of my soul / hate 1t. Do not
tell me that a man can be happy when he
knows that he is breaking his wlfe's heart and
clothing his children with g Why. there
are on the roads and streets Of this land to
day little children, bareiooted, unwashed
and unkempt-want on every patch OF thei
faded dress and on every wrinkle OF thei
pr~ematurely old oou~ntenances, who woult
have been in churches to-day, and as wei
siad as you are, but for the fact thai rum de
stroyed their parents n drove them int
the grave. o rum, thou Zoe OF Goo, tho'
despoiler Of homes, thou recruiting of1cel
NJ the DIT. I hate thee!