Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-06-03
REf. DR.. TaLuaGE.
The Eminent Dlvine's Sunday
Sermoa.
Subject. 'sCauses Of Failures In
Life-'s

stage. Tne 1mporSOnatOr comes on tn3
boards and, either through lack % study OF
the part he is to take or happiness or other
incapacity. the audience Is offended and ok
presses its dislpprobatiOn au disgust by
Kissing. ''Men shall clap their hands at
him and shall hiss him out OF his place"
My text suggests that ach one OF US ie
put on the stage OF this world TO take some
part. What hardship and su ffsring and discip-
line great actors have undergone var after
year that they might be perfected In their
Parts You have often read. Bnt We. put on
tha s:aa,e OF this life to represent charity ani
faith AMI humility and helpfulness-what
little preparation Wa have made. although
We have three galleries Of spectators, earth
and heaven and hell! Bav. We not been
more attentive TO the part taken by others
than TO the part taken by ourselves, and,
white We needed to be looking at home and
concentrating on our own duty, We have
been criti~ising the other performers, and
saving. that was TOO high," or '.too low" :"
or 'toO feeble" or 'too extrava.ant." or
"too tame" or ''tOo demonstrativa." while
We ourselves wara making dead failure
and preparing to be ANONYMOUSLY Missed of
the stage? Each one is assigned place, no
supernumeraries hanging around the drama
of lite to lake this or that or the other part,
they may be- called upon. No one can
take our place We can faka 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 failure of their part in the
drama of life through dissipation. They
have enough intellectual equipment and
good address and geniility unbOunded. But
they have a wine closet that contains all the
forces for their social and business aud
moral overthrow. So ar back as the year
959, KIM icar Of England made law that
the drinking cups should have pins fastened
at u certain point In the side, SO that the in
dulSer might be- reminded to stop before he
got tO,he bottom. But there are no pins
rojecting from the sides of the modern wine
cup or beer mug. and ths first pOinr 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-
hoi in every shape. whether OF wine or
brandy or beer, contains parasitic life called
bacillus potumanin. By powerful micro
scope these living things are discovered an6
when you take strong drink you take them
into the stomach and then into your blood,
ani getting into the crimson canals of life.
they go into every tissue OF your body, and
your en;tra organism is taken possession of
bv these noyious inflnite5imais. When in
Gelirlum fri'mens, a man sees every form of
fe'tiiian life, II seems it Is only these para
sites OF the brain in exaggerated siza- It Is
not IA hailucination that the victim is suI.er-
ing from. He only sees In the room what Is
brain. Every time you take strong drink
you swallow these maggots, and every time
, the imhiber of aLohoi in any shape feels YER
tiSa or rheumatism or nausea it il only the
jubilee of these maggOis. Efforts are being
ma ie for tio discovery of some germicide
that can kiilthe parasites of alcoholism, but
the only thing that will ever extirpate them
Is abstinence from alcohol and teetOtal aD-
stinence. to which l wOuid before God swear
all these Young mon and old
america is fruitful country, and We
RAISE large crops OF wheat ami corn and
oats, but the largest crop We raise in this
counIry is the crop of drunkards. With
sickle made out of the sharp edges of the
broken glass OF bottle aud demijohn they are
cut down. and there are whole swathes OF
them. whole windrows Of them, and IL takes
all the hospitals and penitentiRries and
Yraveyards and cemeteries to hold this har-
vest of heli Some Of you are going down
under this evil, and the never dying worm
OF alcoholism has wound around you one of
its coils, and by next New Years Day 1t will
have another coil around you, and it will af-
| ter awhile put coll around your tongue.
and coil around your brain, and q coil
around your lung. and a coil around your
| foot. and a coil around your heart, and some
| day this never dying worm will, with one
| spring, tighten all the coils at once, and IN
| the last twist of that awful convolutiOn you
| will cry out. 'fOh. my Godf and be gone.
| The greatest of drlmattsts in the tragedy OF
'.Tne Tempest" sends staggering across the
stage Stephano, the drunken butler; but
a cross the stage Of human life strong drink
| seuds kingly and Queenly and princav ma
| turss staggering forward against the foot
! lights of conspiouity and then staggering
| back into failure till the world Is impatient
for their disappearance, and human AMI df-
sboiic voices join IN Kissing them of the
stage.
| May also make 4 failure in the drama oi
| life through Incidence. They are always
making caicu aiions how little they can do
| for tine compensations they get. There are
| more lazy ministers, lawyers, DOCTORS NOR.
| chants artists ani farmers than have eveI
been couu;e.l upon. The community is full
of laggaris AMI shiraers. l can tell II from
| the wav they crawl along the street. from
the r tardiness in meeting engagements
| from iha s hargies that seem to hang to the
| foot when they lift IL. to the hani when they
put it out. to the words when they speak.
Two young men In a store. In the morn
ing the one goes TO his post the last minute
| or one minute behind. The other Is ten
| minutes before the time and has his hat ant
| coat hung up and is at his post waiting fol
duty. The one is ever and anon in the aft er
noon looking at his wa, ch to see il it is MOI
| most time to shut up. This other stays hal
an hour after he might go, and when asked
| wh,, says he wanted to look over some en
| tries he had made Ia be sure he was right, o
10 put up some goods that had b en- lett GU
! OF place. The one IS very touchy abou
doing work not exactly belonging to him
| The other is glad to help the other clerks II
their work. The first will be a pro onge,
nothing and he will be poorer at sixty year
| OF age than at twenty. The other will be
merchant prince indoienca Is the cause
| more failures in all occupations than yO,
have ever suspec:ei. People are too laz
to do what they can do, and want to under
| take that which they cannot do. In the dram
| of life they don't want to be common
soldier, carving halberi across the stage
or falcOner, or u mere attendant. ana $
| thev lounge about ha SceneStiil they shall b
called to be- something great. After awhile
by some accident OF prosperity or circuu
! stances they get into the place for whlc
they have no qualification. And very sooI
n the man be a merchant, he Is going aroun
asking his creditors to compromise for te
cents on the dollar. Or, II "a clergyman, b
Is making TRADES against the insratitude {
churches. Or, il an attorney, by unskilif'
| management he loses a case by which widow
aud orphans are robbed OF their portion. U
II a physician. he by malpractice gives h
patient rapid transit from this world to 1t
next. Our incompetent friend would ha'
made passable horse doctor, but he wante
to be professor Of anatomy In a universit,
have supported his family, but he wante :
have a sugar refinery like the Havemeyer'
He ecould have mended shoes, but he wante
to amend the constitution OF the Unite
States. Toward the end OF life these peopl
are out Of patience, out Of money, out I
rrIends. out OF ev-rytu.na. I.oy xO 20 a..
poorhouss, or keep out Of II by running
debt to all ths grocery and dry goo Is s'orf
that will trust them. People begin to VOL
der when the curtain will drop on the seen
After awhile, leaving nothing but their con
pliments to pay doctor, untertaker, al
Gabriel Grubb, the Rravedigger, they disaI
pear Exeunt! Kissed OF the stage.
Ofhara fail in fha drama Of life thrOup