The Monitor-register., 1897-05-28
Actual Potash.


it is effectual only for a moment, for as
soon as the keeper is gone they begin
again: 80 Godl o God! Helpl
Helpl Drink! Give me drink! Helpi
Take them off mel Take them off me!
o Godl' 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 me! Strangle me!
Take the devils off me!' Oh, it is no
fancy sketch. That thing is going ON
now all up and down the land, and I
tell you further that this is going to be
the death that some of you will die. I
know it. I see it coming.
A Destroyer of the Home.
Again the inebriate suffers through
the loss of home. l do not care how
much he loves his wife and children, if
this passion for strong drink has mas
tered him he will do the most outra-
geous things, and if he could not get
drink in any other way he would sell
his 1dlllly 1utO SbcIudl DOuudR0. 41OW
many homes have been broken up in
that way no one but God knows. Oh,
is there anything that will SO destroy a
man for this life and damn him for the
life that is to come? Do not tell me that
a 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 little children, ba~refooted,
unwashed and ppkempt, want on every
patch of their faded dress and on every
wrinkle of their prematurely old u
~tenances, who would have been in
churches today and as well clad as you
are but for the fact that rum destroyed
their parents and drove them into the
grave. Oh, rum, thou foe of God, thou
despoiler of homes, thou recruiting Off
Ger of the pit, 1 hate thee.
But my subject takes a deeper tone,
and that is that the unfortunate of
whom I speak suffers from the loss of
the soul. The Bible intimates that in
the future world, if we are unforgiven
here, our bad passions and appetites,
pnrestrained, will go along with us and
make our torment there. So that, l sup
pose, when an inebriate wakes up 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 he could steal 5
cents with which to get that which
would slake his thirst for a little while,
but in eternity where is the rum to
come from?
Oh, the deep, exhausting, exasperat-
ing, everlasting thirst of the drunkard
in hell! Why, if a fiend came up to
earth for some internal work in a grog-
shop and should go back taking on its
wing just n drop of that for which
the inebriate in the lost world longs,
what excitement would it make therel
Put that n drop from off the fiend's
wing on the tip of the tongue of the de,
stroyed inebriate, let the liquid bright
ness just touch it, let the drop be very
small, if it only have in it the smack Of
alcoholic drink; let that drop just touch
the lost inebriate in the lost world, and
he would spring to his feet and cry:
"That is rum, ahai That is ruml' And
it would wake up the echoes of the
damned: "Give me rum! Give me rum!
Give me rumr' In the future world I
DO not believe that it will be the absence
of God that will make the drunkard's
sorrow. I do not believe it will be the
absence Of light. ! do not believe that
it will be the absence Of holiness. !
think it will be the absence of rum.
Oh, "Look not upon the wine when it
is red, when it moveth itself Alright in
the cup, for at the last it biteth like a
serpent, and it stingeth like an adder"
The Help of Gods Grace.
While I declared some time ago that
there was a point beyond which a man
could not stop, I want to tell you that,
while a man cannot stop in his own
strength, the Lord God by his grace can
help him to stop at any time. I was
in a room in New York where there
were many men who had been reclaimed
from drunkenness. / heard their testi-
mony, and for the first time in my life
there flashed out a truth I new under
stood. They said: "We were victims of
strong drink. We tried to give it up,
but always failed, but somehow since
we gave our hearts to Christ he has
taken care of u.s." I believe that the
time will soon come when the grace of
God will show its power not only to
ave mans soul, but his body and re-
construct, purify, elevate and redeem it.
I verify believe that although you
feel graphing at the roots Of your
tongues an almost omnipotent thirst, II
you will give your heart to God, he will
help you by his grace to conquer. Try
it. 1t is your last chance. I have look
ed oft upon the desolation. Sitting next
to you in u religious assemblages
there are a good many people In awful
peril, and judging from ordinary cir.
cumstances there is not one chance in five
Thousand that they will get clear of it.
There are men in every congregation
from Sabbath to Sabbath of whom !
must make the remark that If they do
not change their course within ten
years they will, as to their bodies, lie
down in d~runkards' graves, and as to
their souls, lie down in a drunkard's
perdition. l know that is an awful
thing to say, but I cannot help saying
1t.
Darkness Forever.
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