The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-05
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIvINWs SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
sublecti "Causes OF Failures IN
Mro.n

.yExri "Mon shall elan their hands M
MN and shall HAS him out OF MS place"
job xvii. 20.
This alluslon seems 70 DO dramatic. Tho
hlplo moro than once makes such illusions.
faul HaY1i "Wo are maa0 o. thoatrh or anoo-
taeio 90 angels and 20 mon." It h evident
from tho text that som0 of tho habits of
theNregoem wore known an Jobs time. D.
cause ne Describes an actor hlssod on the
stage Tho imp8r0nat0r comes on the
boards and, either through lack OF study OF
the part no q 90 take 0r happiness or othnr
iheApaeity, the audience is offended and OK
presses ia dlslpprobation and disgust by
Missing. "Men shall clap their hands M
him aud shall bliss him ont 90 hls place."
ny text suggests that each one OF us a.
put on the stage Of this world 20 take some
part What hardship and suffering and diaelp-
me great actors hav0 undergone year after
yenr that ihoy might De perfected On their
parts you have often read. But We. put on
me stage Of this lilo 90 represent charity aud
tath and humility and holpiulne81-what
little preparation we have made. although
We nave three galleries OF spectators. earth
and heaven and hclIi Have wo not been
moro attentive 20 the part taken by Others
than to the part taken by ourselves, and.
Hhie we needed % be- looking no homo and
concentrating on our own duty, we have
been critcising the other performers. and
saying, "that was too high. or "toO low"
or "too feeble" or "t0o extravagant." or
''too tame, or "too domonstrauve." while
we ourselves We're making a dead failure
and preparing TO be ANONYMOUSLY Kissed Of
the stage2 Each one "a assigned n place. no
supornumeraries hanging around the drama
OF lie 70 take this or that OF the other part,
as they may DO called upon. No one can
tako our place. We can take no
other place. Neither can we put of our
characters no change OF apparel can mako
Us any one else than that which wo eternally
are.
Many make a failure Of their part IN the
drama OF life through dissipation. They
nave enough intellectual equipment aud
GOOD address and geniality unbOunded. But
they have a wine closet that contains all the
forces for their social and business and
moral overthrow. So far back as the year
Oo5, King Edgar OF England made a law that
the drinking cups should have pins fastened
az q certain point In the side, so that the in
dulger might be reminded to stop before he
got tothe bottom. But there are no pins
projecting from thesides 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 something which all drinkers
ought to know He has found out tina, alco-
mol IN every shape. whether of wine or
brandy or beer, contains parasitic life called
bacillus potumanim 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 every tissue OF your body, and
your entire organism is taken possession OF
BY these noxious inanitesimas. When in
Naaas
repttlian life, 1t seems Ii is only these para
sites Of the brain in exaggerated size It Is
not hallucination that the victim is suffer-
ing from. lie 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 imbtber OF alcohol in any shape feels YER
ugo or rheumatism or nausea II is only tho
jubilee OF these maggots. Efforts are being
made for the discovery Of some germicide
that can killthe parasites Of alcoholism, but
the only thing that will ever extirpate them
IS abstinence from alcohol and teetOtul ABB
stinence, to which would before God swear
oil these young men and old.
America Is fruitful country, and we
raise large crops of wheat and corn and
oats, bat 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 are
cut down, and there are whole sWathes Of
them, whole windows Of them, and it takes
all the hospitals aud penitenharies and
graveyards and cemeteries to hold this har-
vest OF hell. Some Of you are going down
under this evil, and the never 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 II will af-.
ter awhile put a coil around your tongue.
and coil around your brain. and a coil.
around your lung, and a coil around your
foot, and coil around your heart, and some.
day this never dying worm will, with one
spring, tighten all the coils at once, and in
the last twist Of that awful convolution YOU
will cry out "0h, my God" and DO gone.
The greatest of dramatists In the tragedy OF
''The Tempest" sends staggering across the
stage Stephano, the drunken butler; but
across the stage Of human life strong drink
sends kingly and queenly and princely ma
lures staggering forward against the foot
lights of eonspicuity and then staggering
back into failure till the world is impatient
for their disappearance and human and di-
abolic voices join in Kissing them of the
stage.
Many also make failure in the drama of
life through Incidence. They are always
making calculations how little they can do
for the compensations they get. There are
moro lazy ministers, lawyers, doctors, mer-
chants, artists and farmers than have ever
been counted upon. The community is full
Of laggards and shirkers I 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 1t, to the hand whenthey
put it out, to the words when they speak.
Two young men in O store. In the morn
ing the one goes to his post the last minute
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 after
noon looking at his watch to see II It is not
most time to shut up. The other stays hall
an hour after he might go, and when asked
why, says he wanted to look over some en-
tries he had made to be sure he was right, OF
TO put up some goods that had been left out
OF place. The one is very touchy about
doing work not exactly belonging to him,
The other is glad to help the other clerks IL
| their work. The first will be a prolonged
nothing. and he will be poorer at sixty year
Of age than at twenty. The other will DO (
merchant prince. Incidence is the cause o
more failures in all occupations than yor
/ n..~ IL. Lee.