The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-05-28
DR.. TALMhGE'S SUNDAY SERMON.
A GOSPEL MESSAGE.
Subject, "Causes OF Failures In
Life.''

Trxr: "Men shall clap their hands az
him and shall hiss him out OF his place"
job xxvii., 29.
This allusion seems 20 be dramatic. Tho
Bible more than once makes such illusions.
Paul says; "We are made n theatre or spec
tacle TO angels and TO men," II is evident
from tho text that some OF the habits of
theatreRoers were known In Jobs time, be-
cause he describes an actor Kissed OIL the
stage. The impersonator comes on the
boards and, either through lack OF study Of
the part he is TO take or inaptness or other
incapacity, the audience Is offended and ex-
presses its disapprobation and disgust by
kissing. "Men shall clap their hands at
him and shall hiss him out OF his place."
My text suggests that each one OF us Is
put on the stage OF this world to take some
part What hardship and su ffering and discip-
line great actors have undergone year after
year that they might be perfected In their
parts you have often read. But we. put on
the stage OF this life TO represent charity and
faith and humility and helpfulness-what
little preparation we have made. although
we have three galleries OF spectators. earth
and heaven and helll Have we not been
moro attentive TO the part taken by others
than TO the part taken by ourselves, and,
while we needed TO be looking at home and
concentrating on our own duty, we have
been criticising the other iperformers, and
saying, "thnt was too high" or "too low"
or "too feeble" or "too extravagant," or
''too tame" or "too demonstrative." while
we ourselves were making dead failure
and preparing to be ignominously hisscd off
the stage2 Each one IL assigned place, no
supernumeraries hanging around the drama
of life to take this or that or the other part
as they may DO called upon. No one can
take our place. We can take no
other place. Neither can we put of our
character; no change OF apparel can mako
Us any one else than that which We etcrnally
are
Many make failure OF their part in the
drama OF life through dissipation. They
have enough intellectual equipment anl
good address and geniality unbouuded. But
they have q wine closet that contains all the
forces for their social and business and
moral overthrow. So far back as tho year
59, King Edgar Of England made law that
the drinking cups should have pins fastened
at certain point In the side, 80 that the in
dulger might be reminded to stop before he
Iyot to the bottom. But there are no pins
| projecting frcm the sides OF the modern wine
/ cup or beer mug. and the first point at
which millions stop is at the gravity bottom
| OF their own grave. DIR. Sax. OF France, has
| discovered something which all drinkers
ought to know. He has found out that alco-
! hol in every shape, whether OF wine or
brandy or beer contains parasitic life called
bacillus potumanip BY n powerful micro
scope these living things are discovered, and
| when you take strong drink you take them
into the stomach and then into your blood.
and getting into the crimson canals OF life,
they 10 into every tissue OF your body, and
| your entire organism Is taken possession OF
| by these noxious innnitcslmals. When 10
, delirum tremens, n man sees every form OF
reptilian life, II seems II is only these para
sites Of the brain In exaggerated size. Il Is
not q hallucination that the victim is suffer-
Ing from. He only sees In the room what is
actually crawling and riotng In his own
brain. Every time you take strong drink
you swallow these maggots, and every time
the imbibrr OF alcohol In any shape feels ver-
tigopr rheumatism or nausea Il Is only the
The Of these maggots. taret