Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-05-28
THE DRAMA OF LIFE.
"MEN SHALL CLAP THEIR HANDS AT
HIM AND HISS HIM."
Rev. DR.. Toinase Chooses Another Unique
Text and breaches an Eloquent and Hor-
tatory Sermon Full of Vivid Pictures.
Last Act Of the Drama.

Text and breaches an Eloquent and Hor-
tatory Sermon Full of Vivid Pictures.
Last Act Of the Drama.
WASHINGTON, May 24.--Rev. DIR. Tai
mage, In this discourse, sets forth the
causes of failure In life, drawing on Bib
lioal reference to the theater for startling
illustration. His text was Job xvii, 23,
Men shall clap their hands ut him and
shall hiss him out of his place"
This al]usion seems to be dramatic. The
Bible more than once makes such allu-
sions. Paul says, We aro made thester
or spectacle to angels and to men" 1t is
evident from tho text that some Of the
habits of tbeator goers were known In
Jobs time, because he describes an actor
Missed off the stage. The impersonator
comes on the boards, and, either through
lack of study Of the part ho is to take or
happiness or other incapacity. the audience
Is offended and expresses itsdisapprobation
and disgust by Kissing. "Mcn shall clap
their hands Mt him and shall hiss him out
of bis place.
My text suggests that each ono Of us is
put on the stage OF this world to 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
put on the stage of this life to represent
charity and faith and humility and help
fulnoss-what little preparation wo have
made, although we have three galleries Of
spectators, earth and heaven and he'll
Have we not been more attentive to the
port taken by others than TO the part taken
by ourselves, aud, while we needed to be
looking ut home and concentrating on our
own duty, We have been oritioising the
other performers and saying, "that was
too high" or "too low" or "too fecble' or
"too extravagant" or "too tame" ON 'too
administrative" while we ourselves were
making dead failure and preparing TO be
ANONYMOUSLY Kissed Off the stageY Each
ono IL assigned place. No supernumera-
ries hanging around the drama of life to
tako this or that or tho Other part, as 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 ono else than
that which We etornally are.
Noxious Infinitesimals.
Many make n failure Of their part In
the drama Of life through dissipation.
They have enough intellectual equipment
and good address and geniality unbounded.
But they have vino closet that contains
all the forces for their social and business
and moral overthrow. So far back as the
year 900 King Edgar of England made
law that the drinking cups should have
pins fastened at certain point In the sido,
so that the indulgor might be reminded 10
stop before he got to the bottom. But
there are no pins projecting from the sides
of the modern wine cup or beer mug and
the first point at which millions stop is at
ba Ia, bptt ,f thpir
DR.. Sax of France has discovered some
thing which all drinkers ought to know.
He hos found ont that alcohol In every
shape, whether Of wine or brandy or beer
contains parasitic life called bacillus potu-
maniue BY powerful microscope these
living things arc 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 go into every tissue of your body,
and your entire organism is taken posses
sion of by these noxious in1nitesimals.
When In delirium tremcns q man secs ev-
cry form Of reptilian life, it seems 1t is
only these parasites Of the brain in exag-
gerated size. 1t is not hallucination that
tho victim Ia suffering from. He only sees
in the room what is actually crawling and
rioting In his own brain. Every time you
tuho QTiuh yOu SNuiiOW lllcSc mug
gots and every time tho imbiber Of alcohol
in any shape feels vertigo or rheumatism
or nausea 1t is only the Jubilee OF these
maggots. Efforts arc being made for the
discovery Of some germicide that can kill
the parasites Of alcoholism, but the only
thing that will ever extirpate them Is
abstinence from alcohol and teetotal alb
stinenoe, to which I would before God
9wear oil these young men and old.
America is fruitful country, Ssld we
raise large crops of wheat and corn and
oats, but tho largest crop VIC raise in this
country is tho crop Of drunknrds. With
sickle made out of the sharp edges Of the
broken glass OF bottle and dcmijohn they
are cut down, and there are whole swathcs
Of them, whole winrows of them and 1t
takes all tho hospitals and ponitontiaries
and graveyards and cemeteries to hold this
harvest of holl Some Of you are going
down under this evil. and the never dying
worm Of alcoholism has wound around
you ono OF Its coils, and by next Now
Years day 1t will have another coil around
you, and it will after awhile put o coil
around your tongue and coil around
your brain, and a coil around your lung,
and coil around your foot and coil
around your heart and some day this never
dying worm will, with one spring, tighten
all tho coils mt once, and in the last twist
Of that awful oonvolution you will cry
out, ooh, my Godl' and BIO gone The
greatest Of dramatists In the tragedy OF
1.-THE Tempest" sends staggering across
the stage Stephano, the drunken butler,
but across the stage Of human life strong
drink sends kingly and queeniy and
princely natures staggering forward
against the footlights Of conspicuity and
thsn staggering back into failure, till the
world IL impatient for their disappearance
and human and dinbollc voices join ir
Kissing them of tho stage
Many also make failure In the drama
of life through Incidence. They arc al
ways making calculations how littlo they
can do for tho compensation they get
There arc moro lazy ministers, lawyers
doctors, merchants, artists and farmers
than have ever been counted upon. TIT
community is full Of laggards and shirk
ers Gun tell 1t from the way they craw
along the street. from thor hardness IL
meeting engagements, from tho lethargie
that seem to hang to tho foot when tho.
lift 1t, to tho hand when they put 1t out
to the words when they speak.
The Misplaced.
Two young mon in IA store. In tn
morning the ono goes to his post the las
minute or ono minute behind. The otho
Is ten minutes before tho time and has hi
hat and coat hung up and is at his pos