The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-06-03

It Appears That People Used to Go to
the Theater In the Days Of job
Unique Peroration Vindicating Shakes
peare of Infdelity.
WASHINGTON, May 24-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage in this discourse sets forth the
causes Of failure in life, drawing on
Biblical reference to the theater for star
Ting illustration. His text was Job
xvii, %, "Men shall clap their hands
at him and shall hiss him out Of his
place"
This allusion seems to be dramatic.
The Bible more than once makes such
illusions. Paul says, eve are made
theater or spectacle to angels and to
men, It is evident from the text that
some of the habits Of theater goers were
known in Jobs time, because he de-
scribes an actor hissed off the stage.
The impersonator 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 offended and
expresses its disapprobation and disgust
by kissing. "Men shall clap their hands
at him and shall hiss him out OF his
place.
The Actors OF Life.
Nv text suggests that each one Of US
is put on the stage Of this world to takes
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 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 hell! Have we not been
more attentive to the part taken by 9TH
ers than to the part taken by ourselves,
and, while Ee needed to be looking at
home and concentrating on our own
duty, we have been criticising the other
performers, and saying, "that was too
high" or "too low" OR 'too feeble, I"
or "too extravagant, " or ''too tame, " or
sstoo demonstrative, while we our
selves were making dead failure and
preparing to be ignominiously hissed OF
the stage? Each one is assigned place,
no gupernumeraries hanging around the
drama Of life to take this or that or the
other part, as they may be 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
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 equip
ment and good address and geniality
unbounded. But they have wine closet
that contains all the forces for their So
ciaI and business and moral overthrow.
So far back as the year $50, King Edgar
Of England made law that the drink
ing cups should have pins fastened at a
certain point in the side, so that the IN
dulger might be reminded to stop before
he cot 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
the gravity bottom Of their own grave.
Dr.. Sax of France has discovered some
thing which all drinkers ought to know
He has found out that alcohol in every
shane, whether Of vine or brandy or
beer, contains parasitic life called bacil-
lus potumanie. By 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 go into ev.
cry tissue of yonr body, and your entire
organism is taken possession OF oy tneSe
noxious infnitesimals. When IN dellr'
ium tremens, man sees every form o.
reptilian life, it seems it is only tnese
PARASITES of the brain in exaggerated
size. It is not hallucination that the
victim is suffering from. He only see'
in the room what is actually crawling
and rioting in his own brain. Every
time YOU take strong drink you swallo"
these maggots, and every time the I'M
biher of alcohol in any shape feels yer
tico or rheumatism or nausea 1t IS only
the Jubilee of these maggots. Efforts are
being made for the discovery OF some
sermicide that can kill the parasites O
alcoholism, but the only thing that VII
ever extirpate them is abstinence IRON
alcohol and teetotal abstinence, &
which would before God swear a.
+hoso yorno men and old. .z-,.--e .-----