The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-06-05
SUCCESS. AND FAILURE.
Why Some do Up and Others Per
" sistently Go Down.
-Ths Causes Arc Patent II Ono WIN Only
Take Pains 70 Note the Habits
snd Associations of the aa
Msg3p Individual


The following discourse, dealing
with the causes of the success or fail
ure of men in their lives, was deliv
sered by Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage Il
Washington. His text was: f2a rs
Men shall clap their hands at him and shal
hiss him out Of his place.-Job XVII. %
This allusion seems to be dramatic
The Bible more than once makes sucl
aallusions. Paul says: 1--WE are made
a theater or spectacle to angels and tt
men," 1t is evident from the text tha
some of the habits Of theater-goerI
were known in Jobs time, because he
describes an actor Missed 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 Of
Tended, and expresses its disapproba-
tion and disgust by kissing. Men
clap their hands at him and shall hiss
him out of his place."
i My text suggests that each one of
ms is put on the stage Of this world to
take some part. What hardship and
suffering and discipline great actors
have undergone 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
faith and helpfulness- little prep
aration we have made, although we
have three galleries of spectators,
earth and Heaven and helli Have
we not been more attentive to the
part taken by others than to the part
taken by ourselves, and, while we
needed to be looking at home and con-
centrating on our own duty, we have
been criticising the other performers,
and saying: THAT was too high" or
/ ''too low" or ''too tame" or 'too
while we ourselves |
were making dead failure and pre-
pairing to be ignominiously Kissed off |
the stage? Each one is assigned a
place; no supernumeraries 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. Neither can we put off our
character; no change of apparel can
make us anyone else than that which
we eternally are. ia. s. i. $50
+ Many make failure Of their part in
the drama of life through dissipation.
They have enough intellectual equip
ment and good address and geniality
But they have q wine
aloset that contains all the forces for
their social and business and moral
overthrow. So far back as the year
D5s King Edgar of England made
law that the drinking cups should
have pins fastened at a certain point
In the side, so that the indulger might
be reminded to stop before he got to
the bottom. But there are no pins
projecting from the side of the mod
ern wine cup or beer mug, and the
first point at which millions stop is
at the grayelly bottom Of their own
grave. DR.. Sax. of France, has
something which all
drinkers ought to know. He has
found out that alcohol. in every shape,
whether of wine or brandy or beer,
con tains parasitic life called bacillus
By a powerful micro
scope these living things are discOv-
cred, and when you take strong drink
you take them into the stomach and
into your blood, and getting into the
crimson canals of life, they 60 into
every tissue of your body, and your
entire organism Is taken possession of
by these noxious infinitesimals. When
In delirium tremens man sees every
form of reptilian life. 1t seems it is
only these parasites of the brain
IN exaggerated size. 1t is not a
hallucination that the victim is
suffering 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 inn
biber of alcohol in any shape feels
vertigo or rheumatism or nausea it is
only the jubilee Of these maggots.
Efforts are being made for the dis
covery of some germicide that can
kill the parasites of alcoholism, but
the only thing that will ever extir-
pate them is abstinence from alcohol
and teetotal abstinence, to which l
would before God swear all these |
young men and old
America is fruitful country. and we
raise large crops Of ,wheak and corn
and oats, but the largest crop we raise
In this country is the crop of drunk
ards. With sickle made out of the |
sharp edges of the broken glass Of |
bottles and demijohns they ere cut
down, and there are whole swathes of |
them, whole winrows of them, and 1t |
takes all the hospitals and peniten-
tiaries and graveysrds and cemeteries
to hold this harvest of hell. Some of |