Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-06-02
howed the effect. o, alcoholism ON

the human stomach. He had seven or
eight diagrams by which he showed
the devastation OF st-cag drink upon
the physical system. There were
thousands OF people who turned back
from that ulcerous sketch, swearing
eternal abstinence from everything
that could intoxicate
God only knows what the dru nix a I'd
suffers Pain files on every nerve, and
travels every muscle, and gnaws every
bose, and burns with every flame,
and stiDgs with every poison,
and pulls at him with every
torture. What reptiles crawi
over his sleeping ii>nbs What hends
stand by his midnight pillowi What
groans tear his caI. What horror
shiver through his soul! Talk of tn.
rack, talk of the inquision, Ia. X of this
funeral pyre, talk OF the crushing jug.
gernaut-hc feels them all at once.
Have you ever been in the ward of the
hospital where these iucbriates are
dying, the stencil of their wounds driv.
ing back the attendants. their voices
sounding through the night? The
keeper comes up and says, Hush, nov
bc still. Stop making all this noise"
| But 1T is effectual only for a moment
/ for as soon as the keeper is gone they
begin again: 'Oh, God! Oh, God! Help
/ Help! Drink! Give me drink. Helpl
! Take them off me! Take them off
me! On, Godl' And then they Shrek.
and they rave, and they pluck out their
hair by handouts, and bite their nails
into the quick, and then they
! groan, and they Shrek, and
they blasphemc, and they ask the
keepers TO kill them-"Stab me.
| smother me! Strangle me! Take the
devils off mer' Oh, it is no fancy
sketch! That thing is going on now
all up and down the land, and / tell
you further that this is going to be the
death that some of you will die ]
know il. / see it coming.
| Again, the inebriate suffers through
the loss of home do not care how
much he loves his wife and children.
! If this passion for strong drink has
mastered him he will do the most out.
! rageous things; and, if he could not
! get drink in any other way, he would
sell his family into eternal bondage
! How many homes have been broken
! up in that way no one but God knows
Oh. Is there anything that will so de-
stroy a man for this life. and damn
him for the life that is TO come! Dc
not tell me that a man can be happy
when he knows that he is brea[
ing his wife's heart and clothing his
/ children with rags. Why, there are on
the roads and streets OF this land to.
day little children barcfooted un
washed and unllempt-w want on every
patch of their faded dress and on every
wrinkle OF their prematurely old
countenances, who would have been in
churches to-day, and as well clad as
YOU are, but for the fact that rum de-
stroyed their parents and drove them
INTO the grave. Oh, rum, thou foe OF
God, thou despoiler of home, thou re.
cruiting officer 'of the pit. hate thee.
But my subject takes a deep tone,
and that is, that the un fortunate OF
whom | speak differs from the loss of
the soul. The Bible intimates that in
the future world if we are unforgiven
here, our bad passions and appetites,
unrestrained, will go along with us
and make our torment there. So that,
! suppose, when an inc briate wakes ur
in that world he will feel an infinite
thirst consuming him. Now, down in
this world, although he may have been
very poor, he could beg or ne could
steal five cents with which to get that
which would Stake his thirst for a little
while; but in eternity where is the
rum TO come from?
oh, the deep, exhausting, eXasper.
ating, everlasting thirst of the drunk
ard in hell! Why, IL a fieud came ur
TO earth for some Internal work in
gropshop, and should 90 back taking
on its wing just one drop of that for
which the inebriate in the lost world
longs, what excitement would it make
there! Put that one drop from off the
| fiend's wing on the tip of the tongue
of the destroyed inebriate; let the
liquid brightness just touch it; let the
drop be very small, il it only have
IN 1t the smack Of alcoholic drink.
let that drop just touch the lost inc.
briate in the lost world, and he would
spring TO his feet and cry, THAT is
rum aha! That is rum" And it would
wake up the echoes OF the damned
GIVE me rum. Give me rum, GIVE me
rum. In the future world / do not
believe that il Will be the absence of
God that will make the drunkard's
sorrow. / do not believe that il will be
the absence Of light, ! do not believe
that n Will be the absence of holiness.
/ think it will be the absence OF rum.
Oh. "Look not upon the wine when il
IS red when 1T moveth itself Alright in
the cup, for al the last it biteth like a
serpent and it stingeth like an adder"
While declared some time ago that
there was point beyond which a man
could not stop, 1 want TO tell you that.
while man can not stop in his own
strength, the Lord God by His grace
can help him 20 stop at any time.
was in room in New York where
there were many men who had been
reclaimed from drunkenness. / heard
their testimony, and for the first
time in my lie there flashed out
truth / never understood They
said. We were victims Of strong
drink. We tried 20 give IL up. but
always failed; but somehow Stree we
gave our hearts 90 Christ. lie has taken
care OF u.s. ] believe that tine time
Hill soon come when the grace Of God
/ Will show its power not only 20 save
mans soul, but his body. and recon.
/ siruct. purify. elevate and redeem H.
] verify believe that. although YOU
I feel graphing az the roots OF your
I tongues an almost om IA potent thirst.
/ u you gill give your heart Co God lie
. WlIl hcl Do you boz His grace 20 r.uuuer