Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-11
SONG OF DRUNKARDS.
DR. TALMAGE'S CALL TO REFORMA-
TON FROM DISGiPATED HABITS.

oil the church, ScIass Z MT Is tfee CcsE-
lest Song, on Ea-th-TI.e Low Note Of
Resottedness.
WASHINGTON, JaD. 10.-This dis
course Of DR.. Tal-n&So is from most
unusual standpoint, an arousing call tc
reformation from dissipated habits, and
must do wide good. The text was
Psalms Xix, IL, 81 was the song of the
drunkards. :"
Who said that? Was it David. or was
it Christ? It was beth. These Messianic
Psalms are like a telescope. Pull the
instrument To a ceitaii: range, and it
shows you an object near by. Pull it 60
another range, and it will show you OBJ
jects far away. David and Christ were
both, each in his own time, the song Of
the drunkards. Holiness of doctrine and
life always did excite wicked merri-
ment Although David had fully re-
formed and written EsalmCdy in
which all subsequent ages have sobbed
out their penitence, his enemies pre-
ferred to fetch up his old career and put
into metric measures sins long before
forgiven. Christ, who committed no
Eli, WIS SCll1 lu0 VI CHuO4y
song, because the better one is the 1sore
iniquity hates him. Of the best being
whose voice ever moved the air or whose
foot ever touched the earth, it might be
said:
The byword Ct The passing throng,
The rulers scof, The GrUnkard's song.
The earth fitted Up for the human
race, in cCngrat ulation the morning
stars sang q sCng. The Israelitish army
safe on the bank CT the Red sea and the
Egyptians clear under the returned wa
ter, Moses sang song One of the most
important parts of this great old Book
is SolomoD's Song. At the birth of our
Lord the Virgin Mary and old Simeon
and angelic prip,a donnas in lowering
clouds sang Song.
Ballad Of the Inebriatc.
What enrichment has been given to
the worlds literature ard enjoyment
by the ballads, the canticles the dis
Giants, the ditties, the loundelays, the
epics, the lyrics, the dithyrambsl But
my text calls attention 10 style of
song that I think has rever been dis
'coursed upon. You sometimes hear this
style of music when passing saloon
ascendant, or after you have retired at
night you hear it coming out of the
street from tho-a who, having tarried
long ct their cups, are on their way
home-the ballad Of the inebriate, the
serenat:e of the alcoholized. OR what
my text calls the song Of the drunk
ards.
For practical and saving and warn
ing and Christian purposes l will an
nounce to you the characteristics of
that we'll known cadence mentioned in
my text. First I remark that the song
of the drunkards is an old song Much
of the music of the world and of the
church IS cid music First came the
music of percussion, the clapping Gym
bal, which was suggested by hammer
on an anvil, and then the signing of the
wind across the reeds suggested the
flute, and then the strained sinews of
the tortoise across it's shell suggested
the harp. But far back of that, and
nearly back IS far as the moral collapse
of our first parentage, is the song Of the
drunkards That tune was sung at least
4,243 years ago, when, the dela9e past,
Noah came out of the ark, and as il
disguised with too much prevalence of
water he took to strong drink and stag
gered forth, fer all ages the first known
drunkard. He sounded the first note of
the old music Of inebriety. An Arab
author OF &. D. 1910 wrote, "Noah,
being como out CT the ark ordered each
of his sons to build house. -
The Devils Vine.
Afterwar3 they were occupied in SOW
inu in, I'll bo
and fruits CT which they lad found in
the ark. The vine alone was wanting,
and they could not discover it. Gabriel
then informed them that the devil had
desired it, and indeed had some right
to it. Hereupon Noah summoned him
to appear in the field and said to him
''Oh, acoursedl Why hast thou carried
away the vine from me?'' Because
replied the devil, cit belonged to me. -
''Shall part it fer your said Gabriel.
ST CONSENT said Noah, "and will
leave him fourth - ''That is not suffi-
cient for him." said Gabriel. "Well, 7
will take half, - replied Noah, land he
shall take the other.'' ''That is not
sufficient yet." responded Gabriel. ''He
must have two-thirds and thou one and
when thy wine shall have boiled on the
IRE until two thirds are gone the re-
mainder shall be assigned for thy USE. -
A fable that illustrates how the vine
has been misappropriated.
Benhadad and 80 allied kings, riot
ing in pavilion, took up the same
bacchanal. Nabal was rendering that
drunkards' song when his wife, beauti-
full Abigail, came back from her expe-
dition to save her husband. Herod was
singing that song when the daughter Of
Herodias whirled in the dance before