Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-06-03
TALMAGE'S SERMONS.
Many Disconnected Actors Make Fail
ures of Their Parts.
Kisses an' Groans Drive Them From IN,
stage. and the Curtain Rings Down NJ,
iiiastrd Life-A beautiful Parallel
Dotvccn This Life aud the Drama.

Betwecn This Life aud the Drama.
New DIR. Talmages text Sunday was
job xvii, 20: Men shall clap thei,
hands at him and shall hiss him ont OF
his place"
This allusion seems to be dramatic
The Bible more than once makes sucb
illusions. Paul says: I'VE are made y
thcater or spectacle To angels and 70
men" 1t is evident from the text that
some OF the habits of theater goers
were known in Jobs time. because he
describes an actor Kissed off the STAGE.
The impcrsonator comes on the boards
and, either through lack of study OF
the part he is to take or happiness or
other incapacity, the audience is Of
Tended, and expresses it's disapproba-
ton 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 suffer.
ing and discipline great actors have
undergone year after year that they
might be perfected in their parts. Won
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 CALLER
les of spectators, earth and Heaven
and hell! Have we not been more at
tentive TO the part taken by others
than 10 the part taken by ourselves.
and. while we needed To be looking at
nd
duty, we have been criticising the other
performers, and saying, That was too
high" or too low" or too feeble" or
too eNtravagant,' or too tame" or
too administrative" while we our
selves were making = dead failure and
preparing to be ANONYMOUSLY Missed
off the stage?
Each one is assigned to n place; no
supernumerarics hanging around the
drama of life TO take this or that or the
other part, rs they may be called upon.
No one can take our place. We
can take no other place. Neither
can we put off our character: no
change of apparel can make us any
one else than that which we eternally
are.
Many make n failure of their part in the
drama ot life through dissipation. They
have enough intellectual equipment
and good address and generally I'M
bounded. But they have Il wine closet
that contains all the forces for their
social and business and moral over
throw. SO far back rs the wear $50.
King Edgar of England made law
that the drinking cups should have
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side, so that the indulger might be re-
minded 10 stop before he got 20 the
bottom. Eut there are no pins project
ing from the sides of the modern wine
cup or beer mug, and the first point at
which millions stop is at the gravellv
bottom of their own grave. DIR. Sax.
OF France, has discovered sometime
which all drinkers ought to know. He
has found out that alcohol. in every
shape, whether OF wine or brandy or
beer. contains parasitic life called
bacillus pCtumaniac. by a powerful
microscope these living things are dis
covered, 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
go into every tissue OF your body, and
your entire organism is taken poses
sion of by tho uoNiOus infinitesimals.
When in delirium trcmcns q man sees
every form of rcptiian life. it seems it
is only these parasites of the brain in
exaggerated size. 1t is not a hailucina-
ton that the victim is suffering from.
He only sees in the room what is actu-
ally crawling and rioting in his own
brain. Every time you take strong
drink YOU swallow these maggots, and
every time the imbiber Of alcohol in
any shape feels vertigo or rheumatism
or nausea 1t is only the jubilee OF these
maggots. Efforts are being made for
;hc discovery of some gcrmicide that
can kill the parasites of alcoholism.
but the only thing that will ever cxtir-
pate them is abstinence from alcohol
and tcctotal abstinence. TO which I
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 OF drunllards.
with sickle made outof the sharp edge
OF The broken glass Of bottle and demi-
john they are cut down. and there are
whole swathcs of them. whole vinrows
of them, and it takes all the hospitals
and pcniteutiaries and graycyards and
cemeteries 20 hold this harvest of hell.
some Of You are going down under this
evil. and the ncvcr-dvinr worm Of
alcoholism has wound around Won
ono Of its coils, and 10y next New Years
day IL viii have another coil around
YOU. and it will after a while nut
coil around your tongue and coil
around your brain and coil around
your lung and coil around your foot
and coil around your heart. and some
day This ncvcr-dying worm will with
one spring tighten all the coils at once.
and in the last twist of that awful CON
vultion you will cry out: "Oh. nv
Cod" and be gone. The greatest Of
dramatie's in the tragedy OF The
Tempest sends staggering across the
stage Stcphano. the drunken butter:
but across the stage OF human life
strong drink sends lingly and guecnlv
and princcly natures staggering for
ward agaius. the foOtlights Of con.pic-
uity and then staggering back into
failure tii the world is impatient for
their disappearance. and human and
dia6olicai voices join IN kissing them
of the stage
Many also make n failure in the drama
OF lie through Incidence Ihcv are