Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-05-27

against the cage until there is blood on the
wires and blood upon my soul, yet not able
to get out-destroyed without remedy"
l go on and say that the disciple of rum
suffers from the loss Of health. The older
men may remember that some years ago
DR.. Sewell went through this country and
electrified the people by his lectures, in
which he showed the effects of alcoholism
on the human stomach. He had seven or
eight diagrams by which he showed the
devastation of strong drink upon the phys
ical system. There were thousands of
people who turned back from that ulcer
Gus sketch swearing eternal abstinence
from everything that could intoxicate.
In Deliriun.
God only knows what the drunkard suf-
fers. Pain files OH every nerve, and trav-
els every muscle, snd gnaws every bone,
and burns with every flame, and stings
with every poison, and pulls at him with
every torture. What reptiles crawl over
his sleeping limbs! What flends stand by
his midnight pillow! What groans tear his
earl What horrors shiver through his
soull Talk Of the rack, talk of the inqui-
sition, talk of the funeral pyre, talk of tho
crushing Juggernaut-he feels them all at
once Have you ever been In the ward of
the hospital where these inebriates are dy-
ing, the stencil of their wounds driving
back the attendants, their voices sounding
through tho night? The keeper comes up
and says: "Hush, now be still! Stop
making all this noiser' But it is effectual
| only for a moment, for as soon as the
keeper Is gone they begin again: 80 God,
o God! Help, help! Drink! Give me
drink Help! Take them of me! Take
them off mel o Godr" And then they
shrek, and they rave, and they pluck out
their hair by handfuls and bite their nails
into the quick and then they groan, and
they shrek, and they blaspheme, and they
ask the keepers to kill them-"Stab me!
| Smother mel Strangle mel Take the
devils off mel" 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 it. see it coming.
Again, tho 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 outrageous things, and
If he could not get drink in any other way
he would sell his family into eternal bond
| age. How many homes have been broken
up in that way no one but God knows.
| Oh, is there anything that will So destroy
man for this life and damn him for the
life that is to come! Do not tell me that
man can be happy when he knows that
he is breaking his wife's heart and clothing
his children with rags. Why. there are on
the roads and streets of this land today lit
tie children barefcoted, unwashed and un-
kempt-want on every patch of their faded
dress and on every wrinkle of their prema-
turely old countenances--who would have
been in churches today and as well clad
as you are but for the fact that rum de-
strcyed their parents and drove them into
the grave. Oh, rum, thou foe of God, thou
despoiler Of homes, thou recruiting officer
of the pit, hate thee!
/ A Deeper Loss.
But my subject takes deeper tone, ant
that is that the unfortunate of whom
speak suffers from the loss of the soul
The Bible intimates that In the future
world, If wo are unforgiven here our bat
passions and appetites, unrcstrained, will
go along with us and take our torment
there. So that, suppose, when an in
ebriate wakes up in that world, he will
feel an infinite thirst consuming him
Now, down in this world, although hi
may have been very poor, he could beg ol
he could steal cents with which to geI
that which would slako his thirst for lit
tie while. But in eternity where is thu
rum to come from?
Oh, the deep, exhausting, exasperating
everlasting thirst of the drunkard in hell
Why, If fend came up to earth for somi
internal work in grogshop and shoult
60 back taking on its wing just one droI
of that for which the inebriate in the los
world longs, what excitement would i
make therep Put that one drop from of
the fiend's wing on the tip of the tongu,
of the destroyed inebriate; let the liquit
brightness just touch it; let the drop b.
very small, if 1t only have in 1t the smacl
of alcoholic drink; let that drop just toucl
! the lost inebriate in the lost world, and h.
would spring to his feet and cry: "That i
rum, ahal That is rumr' And it woult
wake up the echoes of the damned: "Giv
: me rum! Give me ruml Give me rum =
In the future world / do not believe tina
it will be the absence Of God that will
make the drunkard's sorrow. do no
believe 1t will be the absence Of light I d.
not believe that 1t will be the absence O
holiness. think 1t will be the absence o
rum. Oh, "Look not upon the wine whel
it is red, when it moveth itself Alright IL
the cup, for at the last 1t biteth like ser
pent and 1t stingeth like an adder"
II While declared some time ago tina
there was point beyond which mai
could not stop, want to tell you that
while man cannot stop in his owl
strength, tho Lord God by his grace cal
help him to stop ut any time. was in
room in New York where there were man
men who had been reclaimed from drunk
enness heard their testimony, and TO
the first time in my life there flashed ou
truth I never understood. They said
, "We were victims of strong drink. W
tried to give it up, but always failed. Blu
, somehow since we gave our hearts t
Christ, he has taken care of u.s." beliey
J that the time will soon come when tn
grace of God will show its power not onl
to save mans SOUL but his body, and re
construct, purify, elevate and redeem it.
A Sure Remedy.
I verify believe that, although you fec
graphing at the roots Of your tongues u,
almost omnipotent thirst, If you will Civ
your heart to God, he will help you by hi
grace to conquer. Try it. 1t is your las
chance. have looked oft upon the desc
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