Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-05-30

Unique Peroration EIndicating Shakes
poaro of Irfdelity.
WASHINGTON, May 24.-Rev DIR. Tai
mage i'll this discourse sets forth the
causes Of failure i'll life, drawing on
Biblical reference to the theater for star
Ting illustration. His text was Job
xvii, 23, "Mcn shall clap their hands
at him and shall hiss him out of his
place. "
This allusion seems to be dramatic.
Tho Biblo moro than once makes such
illusions. Paul says, ave are made a
theatcr or spectacle to angels and to
men,. " 1t is evident from the text that
slme of the habits of theater goers were
known in jobs time, because he de-
scribes an actor Kissed off the stage.
The impqrsonator comes on the boards
and, either through lack of study OF the
part no is to take or happiness or other
incapacity, the audience is offended and
expresses Its disapprobation and disgust
by Missing. "Mcn shall clap their hands
at him and shall hiss him out of his
place. -
The Actors of Life.
My text suggests that each ono Of us
is put en- the stage of this world to takes
some part. What hardship and suffering
and discipline great actors have under
gono 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 elpfulness-what little
preparation we have made, although we
have three galleries of spectators, earth
and heaven and HE'LL Have we not been
more attentive to the part taken by 9TH
ers than to the part taken by ourselves,
and, while we needed to be looking at
home ard concentrating on our own
duty, we have been criticising the ether
performers, and saying, that was too
high" or "too low" or too feeble, .
or "too extravaganza, or "too tame, " or
"too Gemonstrative, " while we our
selves were making dead failure and
preparing to be ANONYMOUSLY Missed off
the stage? Each one is assigned place,
10 supornumeraries 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
10 other place. Neither can we put off
our character; 10 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 lifo through dissipation.
They have enough intellectual equip
lnent and good address ard geniality
unbounded. But they have wine closet
that contains all the forces for their So
cinl 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 ut
certain point in the SIDE so that the in
tlulcer might be reminded to stop before
no got to the bottom But there are 10
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 OWL grave
DR.. Sax Of France has discovered some
thing which all drinkers ought to know.
He has found cut that alcohol i'll every
shape, whether CT wine or brandy or
beer, contains parasitic life called bacil-
lus potumanin. By u 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 your body, and your entire
organism is taken possession Of by these
noxious infinitesimals. When Ill dellr-
ium tremens, a man sees every form OF
rcptilian life, it seems it is only these
parasites Ct the brain in exaggerated
size. 1t is not hallucination that the
victim is suffering from. He only sees
III the room what is actually crawling
and rioting in his own brain. Every
time you take strong drink you swallow
these nla@cots, and every time the I'M
biber Of alcohol i'll any shape feels yer
tigo or rheumatism or nausea it is only
the jubilee of these naggots. Efforts are
being made for the discovery of some
cernicide 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.
Dangers of Strong Drink.
America is q fruitful country, and
wo 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 demi-
john they are cut down, and there are
whole swathcs Ct them, whole windows
&C them, aud it takes all the hospitals
and pcnitcntiaries and graveyards and
cemeteries to hold this harvest of hell.
Some of you arc going down under this
evil, ard tic never dying worm of alco-
holisin has wound around you one Of its
coils, and by next New Years day it
will have another coil around you, and
it Will after awhile put Il coil around
your tongue, and coil around your
brain, and q coil around your lung, and
a coil arouad your foot, and coil
around your heart, and some day this
never dying worm will with one spring
tighten al tic coils at once. and i'll the
last twist Of that awful convolution you
will cry oft, "Oh, my God!" and be
gone The greatest Ct dramatists in the
tragedy C "The Tempest sends stag
gering acrcss the stage Stcphano, the
drunken butler; but across the stage Of
human life strong drink sends hingly
and qucenly aud princely natures stag
gcring forward against the footlights of
conspicuity and then staggering back
into failure till the world is impatient
for their disappearance, and human aud
diabolic voices join i'll hissing them off
the stage.
Many also make failure in the
drama Of life through incidence. They
are always making calculations hcv
little they can do for the compensations
tl,av nor There ore more law ministers,