The Grenada sentinel., 1897-01-16

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TEACHING them IN. .ono ~ th. d-,rh.
ards. Keen dn I'M mode Of educa.
tiou. and Il Won have four bows n
least three 81 them viii learn ths
drunksrd's sonp and lie down in a
druuksrd's grave. and II I ever laid
. wager l would lav a wager that
the fourth will lie down With The
other three. Or. II the educa.
ton Of the ehildrsn in this musio
should be neglected.. Il Ia mot too late
to begin at FL vears Of aoe. Tho
Young man viii and plenty Of voune
men who drink. Thev are in everv
circle to be found. Surely, INV boy.
you arc not 4 coward. and afraid OF
itq Surely YOU are not poinp to bs
hindered by sumptusrv laws or the
preiudices OF vour old father and
mother? They are behind the timea
Take somethinr. Take it often. Some
Of the greatest poets and orators have
been notorious imbibsrs, II you are
to enter 4 parlor. Il makes Won
more vivacious and Chester8aldian.
II you are to transact busi.
ness. your customer ia ant to
buy more II YOU have taken with him
q sherry cobbler. fvou are to make
q speech Il will rive Won a plibber
tongue. Gluck could compose his best
music by having his piano taken into
the midst of meadow, and bottle of
champagne placed on each side of him,
The earlier YOU be9in to learn tho
song Of the drunkards, the easier
it is; but none of you are too old to
learn. You can begin at so or 60, un-
der prescription of a doctor for aids to
digestion of breaking up of inHrmities,
and close life by rendering the song of
the drunkards SO we'll that all Pande-
monium will encore the performances
and want It again and again,
You see this sermon is not so much
for cure a. for prevention. Stop be.
fore you start, if you will forgive the
solecism. The clock of St. Paul's
cathedral struck l3 one midnight, and
so saved the life of sentinel. The
soldier was arrested and tried for fall
ing asleep at his post one midnight:
but he declared that he was awake
at midnight, and in proof that he was
awake he said that he had heard the
unusual occurrence Of the clock strik.
ing IL instead of u. He was laughed to
scorn and sentenc ced to death. but three
or four persons, hearing of the case,
came up in time to swear that they,
too, heard the clock strike la that
same midnight, and so the mans life
was spared. Ny hearer, If you 20 on
and thoroughly learn the drunkards'
song, perhaps in the deep midnight of
your soul there may sound something
that will yet effect your moral and
eternal rescue. But it is q risky ''per-
haps." It is exceptional. Go ahead
on that wrong road and the clock will
more probabl strike the IL that closes
your day of opportunity, than it will
strike 13, the sound of your deliver
ance.
A few Sabbaths ago, on the steps of
this church, man whom had known
in other years, confronted me. At the
the first glance I saw that he was in
the fifth and last act OF the tragedy Of
intemperance. Splendid even in his
ruin. The same brilliant eye, and the
same courtly manners, and the res
mains of the same intellectual endow-
ments; but wreck. I had seen that
craft when it plowed the waters, all
sails set and running by true
compass; wife and children, and
friends ON board, himself command
ing in q voyage that he expected
would be glorious, putting into pros-
porous harbors of earth, and at last
putting into the harbor OF Heaven.
But now a wreck, towed along by low
appetites, that ever and anon run him
INTO the breakers-a wreck of body,
wreck of mind, wreck of soul.
''Where is your wife?" II do not
know" "Where are your children?"
Il do not know" "Where is your
God9" II do not know" That man is
coming to the last verse of that long
that protracted threnody that
terrific song of the dr. unkards.
But if these words should came-for
you know the largest audience reach
never see at ALL nay if these words
should come, though at the ends of the