The Progress., 1896-05-30

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be Is 10 take or happiness or other
inGapacity, the audience is offended
and expresses its disapprohation and
disgust by kissing. 'M"n shall clap
their hands at him and sh9r hiss him
out OF his place"
My text suggests that oash one OF
us Is put on the stage cf this world 10
take some part What hardship and
suffering and discipline great actors
have undergone year after year that
they might be perfected in Their parts.
you have often read But we. PIT on
the stage Of this life 10 represent
charity and faith ana humility and
he'pfulness what little prepare lion we
have made, although we have three
galleries Of spectators, earth. heaven
and hell Have We not been moro at
tentive to The part taken by others
than TO the part taken by ourselves
and. while We needed to he looking AZ
home and COuCcn'ring on our own
duty. we have been cri'icising the other
performers, and saying. Chat was too
high" or too low" or "too feeble" or
too eXtravagant,' or too tame" or
too domonstratjye, while we our
selves were making a deal failure and
preparing to be ignomjn,onsly Kissed
OH the stage tach on" is assigned
a place; no snpernomoraries hanging
AROUND tue drama OF HE TO take this
or that or the other part, rs they may
be called upon, No one cdn take our
p'ace' we can take no o;her place.
neither can we put off our
character, no change OF apparel can
MAKE us anyone 'ISe IMAM mat which
we e'ornaIIy are,
MANY MAKE rallUre Of 'h"lr part in
.no vi an" VI i'e through dlSSlpa'lon.
'ney nave enough ln,eIIe',uai equip
hent ana good auhress and Eeniallty
uno'""u'"' h"' 'hey nave VINE
oiose' 'hat contains all the forces for
'h'' fo''"' "nu puS'hsSS ana moran
overthrow % l"' oFCk as the year
JOY Ming Edgar OF England made
Id" tnal the nflhklhg cups should
nave pms fastened at certain point
"a we s'de' so that the indUfg'r might
be reminded to stop before he got to
the bottom But there are no pins
from the sides o. the mod
ern wine cup or beer mug, and the first
point at which millions stop is at the
grayelly bottom Of their own grave
Or. sax, of France, has discovered
something which all drinkers ought to
know. He has found ont that alcohol |
in every shape, whether Of wine or
brandy or beer, contains PARASITIC life
called bacillus pOtnmaniac. By a
powerful microscope these living things
are discovered, and when you take
strong drink YOU take them into The
stomach and then into your blood. and
getting ;ntO the crimson canals of life. |
they go into every tissue Of your body. |
and your entire organism Is taken pos
session of by these noyious iufn- !
itesima|s, When in deIirium tremens
a man sees every form Of reptilian life, |
1t seems 1t is only these parasites Of |
the brain IN exaggerated size. It is |
not Naturalization that the victim is
suherlng from. lie only sees in the |
room what IS actually crawling and |
rlotlng IN MS own brain, Every time |
you take strong drink You swallow |
lhese magg0ts, and every time the i'm |
biber OF alcohol in any shape feels YER |
tlgo or rheumatism or nausea II IS only |
the jubilee OF these maggots, Efforts |
are being made for the discovery OF |
some germ,clde that can kill the para
sites OF alcoholism, but the only thing
that will ever cxtirpate them is alb
Btlnence from alcohol and teetotal alb
stinence, to which | would before God |
swear all these young men and old
America Is a fruitful country. and we
raise large crops OF wheat and corn and
oats, but the largest crop We raise in
this country Is the crop o. drunkards. |
With sickle made out Of the sharp
edges OF the broken glass Of bottle and .
1emijohn they are cut down. and there
are whole swathes of them, whole win
rows OF them, and it takes all the hos