Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-06-05
TALMAGE'S SERMON
INTERESTING THEME HY TUE
A>IIINGTON PREACHER.
Subject Causes Of Failures In
Life"

This ailuzi1H --a-rs 70 be dramatic. Inc
Bible more than once makes such al ne.
Paul -av-s I'VE are male theatre 1r 80
ta.ie q angels and % men. IL T. sEia-l.
from the Text that some 90 tie hatit- ~
theaig-go=rs were known in JOBS tine, f--
cause he describes al actor hissei or me
stag The im0eTs11s-9r comes uu ne
boards and. either through lack - study ~
the pan BE- q % take 0~ inIptE--- Or other
iErspaeity, the ag Hence Is Offended and exc
presses it ii-lpprohatiga aIi dissus. tT
Kissing men snail clap their hands ~
him ami shall hiss him out OF his place
Ny text suggests that Zach one OF ns is
put on the stage % this world 10 tass some
part. What hardship and suffering all -i-cIf'-
line great actors have undergone year ate.
year that they might be perfected 10 tleir
paris yOu have often read. BIt we. put Oh
the stage OF this life 10 represent charity AMI
faith and humility and h-ip'uineSs-whar
little preparation We have made. although
We have three galleries Of spectators. earth
and heaven and hell Hava We not te-n
more attentive 20 the part ;asel by Others
than 10 the part taken by ourselves, and,
while we needed % be looking 20 home and
concentrating on our own duty, We nave
been critioi-ilg the other performers, and
saving. "that was too high. or too low,
or "te0 feeble" or 'to0 extrayacaut" or
''too tame. 5- "t5o deu0nstratiy-. while
and preparing 10 be ANONYMOUSLY Kissed OF
the stacey Each one is assigned place, no
supernumera-es hanging around the drama
Of life 10 take tli, or that or the other part,
as thew NAV be called upon. No one can
take our place. We can take no
other place. Neither can we put II our
character: no change OF apparel eau make
Us any one else than that which We externally
are.
Many make d failure Of their part in the
drama Of life through -sipaiiou. They
have enough intellectual equipment aud
good address and geRigiity unDOundst. But
they have a wine closet that contains all the
forces for their social and business and
moral overthrow. So Jar back a. the year
$50, King gar Of England made law that
the drinking cups should have pins fastened
at a certain point in the side, 50 that the in
dulger might be reminded TO stop before he
got tothe bottom. But there are no pins
projecting from the sides OF the modern W.ne
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 something which all drinkers
ought to know. He has found out that alco-
hol in every shape, whether Of wine or
brandy or beer, contains parasitic life called
bacillus p0tumanijs. By powerful micro
/ scope these living things are discovered, aud
when you take strong drink you take them
I into the stomach and then into yOur blood,
and getting into the crimson canals OF life,
they 20 into every tissue OF your body, and
your entire organism is taken possession Of
by these noXious inliniteslmals. When 10
delirium tremens, a man sees every form OF
reptiiiau life, it seems it is only these para
sites OF the brain in exaggerated size. Il Is
not a hallucination that the victim is suffer-
ing from. lie only sees in the room what IL
actually crawling and riOting in his own
brain. Every time YOU take strong drink
you swallow these maggOts. and every time
the lmbiber OF alcohol in any shape feels YER
tigo or rheumatism or nausea it Is only the
Jubilee OF these maggOts. Efforts are being
made for the discovery Of some germcile
that can killthe parasites of alcoholism, but
the only thing that will ever extirpate them
is abstinence from alcohol aud teetotal alb
stinence. to which | would before God sweat
all these young men and old.
America is a fruitful country, and wt
raise large crops OF wheat and corn aud
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 demijOhn they "a
cut down, and there are whole swathes o
them whole windows of then, and it takes
all the A92SRdtas END Renit.ntsries an
vest Of hell. Some Of you are going down
under this evil, and the never dying worn
Of alcoholism has wound around you one o
its coils, and by next New Years Day it vii
have another coil around you, and it will az
ter awhile put coil around your tongue
and a coil around your brain, and a col
around your lung, and coil around YOU
foot, and a coil around your heart, and SOM
day this never dying worm wilt, with one
spring, tighten all the coils at once, and il
the last twist of that awful convolution you
will cry out, "Oh, my Got.h and be gone
The greatest Of dramatists in the tragedy 0
1.-THE Tempest sends staggering across tn
stage Stephano, the drunken butler; bu
across the stage Of human life strong drin!
sends kingly and queenly and princely ma
tures staggering forward against the foot
lights OF conspicuity and then staggertn:
back into failure till the world Is impatien
for their disappearance, and human and dt
abOlic voices join in Kissing them off til
stage.
Many also make a failure in the drama 0
life through Incidence. They are Away
making calculations how little they eau dc
for the c0mpensations they get. There ar
more lazy ministers, lawyers, doctors, mer
chants, artists and farmers than have eve
been counted upon. The community is full
of laggards and shirkers, | can tell it from
the way they crawl along the street. frOr
their hardness in meeting engagements
from the Iethargies that seem to hang to tn
foot when they lift it. to the hand when the
put it out to the words when they speak
Two young men in store. In the morn
ing the one goes to his post the last minut
or one minute behind. The other is te
minutes before the time and has his hat an
coat hung up and is at his post waiting 70
duty. The one is ever and anon in the after
noon looking at his watch to see if it is NJ
most time to shut up. The other stays ha
an hour after he might go, and when aske
why, says he wanted to look over some er
tries he had made TO be sure he was right, {
to put up some goods that had been left OF
of place. The one is very tOuchy abol
doing work not exactly belonging to hin
The other is glad to help the other clerks
; their work. The first will be u prolonge
nothing. and he will be poorer at sixty veal
of age than at twenty. The other will be
merchant prince. Incidence is the cause
more failures in all occupations than yo
have ever suspected. People are too la2
to do what they can do, and want TO nnda
take that which they cannot do. In the dram
= of life they don't want to be a commo
soldier, carrying Il haberd across the stag
or a falcOner, or mere attendant. and .
they lounge about the 5ceuestill they shall
called to be something great. After awhil
by some accident of prosperity or eircur
stances they get into the place for whiC
they have no qualification. And very 500
7 II the man be merchant, he is going aroun
. asking his creditors to compromise for te
cents on the dollar Or If a clergyman, /
. is making Trades against the ingratitude
churches. Or, il an attorney, by unskiIfl
| management he loses a case by which widow
and orphans are robbed of their portion. 0
If physician, he by malpractice gives h
} patient rapid transit from this world to Il
| next Our incompetent friend would hay
made passable horse doctor, but he wante
to be professor OF anatomy in n uniyersit,
= He could have sold enough confectionery
have supported his family, but he wanted t.
I have sugar refinery like the Havemeyers
Hecoud have mended shoes, but he wante
, to amend the constitution OF the Unite,
States. Toward the end of life these peopl