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


sIaks his thirst for a little while; but In eter.
nifty where is the rum to come from2
Oh, the deep, exhausting, exasperating
everlasting thirst of the drunkard in HE'LL
Why, II a fiend came up to earth for some in
fernal work in q grog-shop, and should go
back taking on its wing just one drop OF that
for which the inebr1ate in the lost world
longs, what excitement would it make therei
Put that one drop from of the 1end's wing
on the tip OF the tongue ofthe destroyed inc
br1ate; let the liquid brightness Just touch
Il; let the drop be very small, II 1t only have
In it the smack Of alcoholic drink; let that
drop just touch the lost inebriate in the
lost world, and he would spring to
his feet and cry, ''That ia rum, ahal
That is rumT' And It would wake up the
echoes of the damned-"Give me rumi Give
me rumi Give me rum!" In the future
world 1 do not believe that it will be the ah-
sence Of God that will make the drunkard'5
sorrow. I do not believe that it will be the
absence Of light. I do not believe that II
will be the absence of holiness. ] think II
will be the absence OF rum. Oh, "look moi
upon the wine when It Is red, when it NOV
eth itself Alright in the cup, for at the last IL
oiteth like a serpent, and it stingeth like an
ldder."
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 neighborhoods, towns and
| cities were redeemed by their Christian
heroics. Thirty women cleared out the rum
traffic from a village of one thousand inhab-
ltants. If thirty women, suroharged of the
Holy Ghost, could renovate q town Of a
thousand, three thousand consecratet 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 oil
the grog-shops Of Brooklyn. If there be three
thousand women now in this city who will put
their hands and their hearts TO the work, !
will take the contract for driving ont all
these moral nuisances from the city-at any
rate, three-fourths ofthem-in three months.
n, when that host of three thousand con-
| secrated women is marshalei, there be no
ane to lead them. then. as q minister OF the
Most High God, I will offer to take ms
position at the front Of the host, and l will
,ry to them, "Come on, ye women Of Christ,
with your songs and your prayers! Some
of you AXE the enemyis right wing and some
The left wing. Forward The Lord Of Hosts
s with us; the God Of Jacob Is our refuge!
Down with the dram shops!"
But not waiting for those mouths OF hell
20 close, let me advise the working and the
business Glasses, and all classes, to stop strong
lrink. While I declared some time ago that
here was a point beyond which a man could
aot stop, l want to tell you that while man
cannot stop IN his vwn strength, the Lord
God by His grace can help him to stop at
any time. I was in a room in New York
where there were many men who had been
reclaimed from drunkenness. l heard
their testimony. and for the first time
in my life there flashed out q truth
[ never understood. They said, W
we're victims of strong drink. We tried to
rive it up, but always failed; but somehow
hnce we gave our hearts to Christ, He has
:aken care Of u.s." l believe that the tim
will soon come when the grace of God will
show its power not only to save mans soul,
but his body, and reconstruct, purify, elevate
AMI redeem 1t.
1 verify believe that, although you feel
yrappling at the roots OF your tongues an
Almost omnipotent thirst, II you will give
your heart to God, He will help you by His
grace to conquer. Try 1t. 1t is your last
chance.
1 have looked OF upon the desolation.
Sitting in our religious assemblages there are
igood many people in awful perilj and,
Judging from ordinary cirsumstances. there
g not one chance In five thousand that they
will get clear OF it. There are men in my
congregation from Sabbath to Sabbath OF
whom 1 must make the remark, that" If they
10 not change their course, within ten years
hey will, as to their bodies, lie down in
irunkards' graves; and as to their souls, lie
down in a drunkard's perdition. l know
that Is an awful thing to say, but l cannot
help saying 1t.
Oh, bewarel You nave not yet been cap
tured. Bewarel Whether the beverage be
poured In golden chalioe or pewter mug, in
The foam at the top, In white letters, let there
DO spelled out to your soul, "Bewarel"
When the books of Judgment are open, and
ten million drunkRrds come up to get their
doom, I want you to bear witness that l,
this morning, In the fear OF God and in the
love for your soul, told you, with all affec-
lion and with all kindness, to beware OF that
which has already exerted its influence upon
your family, blowing out some ofits lights
1 premonition Of the blackness OF darkness
forever.
Oh, II you could only hear this morning
rntemperance with drunkards' bones drum
ming on the head of the liquor-cask the
Dead March Of immortal souls, methinks the
very glance of a wiue-0up would make you
,hpdder. An1the COLOR OF the Liquor. would
make you think OF tho blood Of the soul.
andthe foam on the top Of the cup would re-
mind you of the froth on the manisc's 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 OWL habit, you would like to
parry them out som bright spring day to
the cemetery, and put them away to the last
sleep, until at the call of the south wine the
flowers would some up all over the grave
sweet prophecies Of the resurrection! God
has q balm for suoh a wound; but what
flower Of comfort ever grew on the blasted
heath Of a drunAard's sepulchreP