The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-25
TALMAGE ON LIES DRAMA.
ALL THE WORLD : STAGE AND
EVERY MAN 4 PLAYER.

Spectacle 10 Angels or 10 Men.
Failures in the Drama of Life-In-
doIence Also Responsible for
Many Poor acknowledgements
selRshneSS Also Ruinous.
Washington. y. C.. May 2i-Rev. Dr.
Taimaee. in this discourse. sets forth
the causes of failure .l lie. drawing
on a Biblical reference 10 the theater
for startling illustration. His tcXt was
Job c7-23 Men shall clap their hands at
him and shall hiss him oIt Of his place
This allusion saems 10 De dramatic
The Bible more than once makes such
illusions. Paul SAYS: we are made a
theater of spectacle TO angels and TO
men" IL is evident from the text that
some of the habits of theater-gOers were
known IN jobs time. because he describes
an actor Kissed of the stage. The inn
personator comes on the boards and,
either through lack of study Of the part
he Is to take or happiness or other inca
pacity the audience is offended, and eX-
presses its disapprObation and disgust by
Kissing. Men shall clap their hands at
him and shall Miss him out of his place
Nv text suggests that each one OF us
is put on the stage of this world to take
some part. what hardship and suffering
and discipline great actors have under
gone year after year that they might
be perfected in their parts. you have
Gifted read. But We put on the stage
of this life to represent charity ana
faith and humility and hclpfulness-w
little preparation We have made. al
though we have three galleries of spec
tators. earth and heaven and helli Have
In ne
taken by others than TO the part taken by
ourselves, and, while We needed to
be looking at home and concentring
on our own duty. We have been
criticisiug the other performers, and say
ing. that was too high, or TOO low,
TOO tame" or too demonstrauve,
while we ourselves were making dead
failure and preparing TO be ANONYMOUSLY
Kissed of the stageE Each one IS dsalr-l-
ed a place; no supernumeraries hanging
around the drama Of lie 10 take TINS OF
that or the other part as they may ne
called upon. No one can take our place.
We can take no other place. Ne.ther
can we put off our character; no chahge
of apparel can make US anyone else thah
that which We eternaly are.
Many make failure Of their part in the
drama of life through dissipation. Ihey
have enough intellectual equipment ana
good address and geuialty unDounded.
But they have a wine closet that contains
all the forces for their social and business
and moral overthrow. Do lar bdCh d. tAe
year $50, King Edgar Of England made
law that the drinking cups should have
pins fastened at certain point IN the
side, 50 that the indulger might be re-
minded to stop before he got to the bot
tom. But there are no pins projecting from
the sides OF the modern wine cup or peer
mug, and the first point at which millions
stop Is at the graNelly bottom OF thelr
own grave. DR.. Sax of France has discov-
cred something which all drinkers ought
to know. He has found out that alcohol,
In "a 10 ID
or beer, contains parasitic life called bac-
illus pOtumanae. BY a powerful micrO>
scope these living things are discovered,
and when you take strong drink you take
them into your 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 possession of by these
nOXiOuS inhnitesimals. When in dellrium
fremens a man sees every form of reptil-
ian life, it seems il IS only these parasites
OF the brain in exaggerated size. 1t Is not
a hallucination that the victim is suffer-
ing from. He only sees in the room what
is actually 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
1eelS vertigo or rheumatism or nausea IL
is only the jubilee of these maggots Eff
forts are being made for the discovery OF
some germcide that can kill the PARASITES
of alcoholism, but the only thing that will
ever eXtirpate them is abstinence from
alcohol and teetotal abstinence, 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 of drunkards With
sickle made out of the sharp edges of the
broken glass of bottle and demiiohn thew
are cut down, and there are whole swaths
OF them, whole WinroWs of them, and il
takes all the hospitals and penitentiaries
and graVeyards and cemeteries to hold
this harvest of hell. Some of you are 60
nnVTn axrgf 4 .
dying worm of alcoholism has wound
around you one of its coils and by next
New Years Day it will have another coil
around you, and Il viii after awhile put
coil around your tongue and a coil
around your brain and coil around your
lung and a coil around your foot and a
con around your heart, and some day
TINS neVer-dylng worm will, with one
spring, tighten all the coils at once and
in the last twist of that awful convo-
luton you Will cry out: "Oh, my Godw
and be gone. The greatest of dramatists in
the tragedy of The Tempest" sends stag
gering across the stage Stephano, the
drunken buteri but across the stage of
human life strong drink sends kingly and
queenly and princely natures staggering
forward against the footlights of con-
splculty ana then staggering back into
failure till the world is impatient for their
disappearance, and human and diabolic
voices join in Kissing them off the stage
Many also make a failure in the drama
of life through Incidence. They are al
ways making calculations how little they
can do for the compensation they get.
There are more lazy minister's lawyers
doctors, merchants. artists and farmers
than have ever been counted upon. The
community is full of laggards and shirkers.
can tell it from the way they crawl
along the street, from their hardness in
meeting engagements from the lethargies
that seem to hang to the foot when they
lift il, to the hand 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 min
ute or one minute behind. The other is ten
minutes before the time, and has his hat
and coat hung up, and is at his post
waiting for duty. The one is ever and
anon. in the afternoon looking at his
watch to see if it is not most time to shut
up. The other stays half an hour
after he might 60, and when asked why.
SAID he wanted TO look over some entries
ne had made to be sure he was right
or to put up some goods that had been
left out of place. The one is very touchv
about doing work not exactly belonging
TO him. The other is glad TO help the
other clerks in their work. The first will
be be am prolonged nothing, and
years Of age than at twenty. The
other will be a merchant prince. Indo-
lenCR is the canSp Of mora fa5l,,rae a., ~