The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-05

| ton beyond which II a man goes ne car
not stop!
| go on and say that the disciple OF
rum suffers from loss of health. The
older men may remember that some
years ago DIR. Sewell went through this
country and electrified the people by
his lectures, in which he showed the
effects of alcoholism OF che human
stomach. He had seven or eight dia-
grams by which he showed the devasta-
ton of strong drink upon the physical
system. There were thousands of peo-
pie who turned back from that ulcer
Gus sketch, swearing eternal abstinence
from everything that could intoxicate.
But my subject takes deeper tone,
and that is. that the unfortunate of
whom speak suffers from the loss Of
the soul. The Bible intimates that in
the future world, il we are unforgiven
here, our bad passions and appetites,
unrestrained, will go along with us
and make our torment there. So that,
l suppose, when an inebriate wakes up
in that world, he will feel infinite
thirst consuming him. Now. down in
this world, although he may have
been very poor, he could beg or he
could steal five cents with which to
get that which would Stake his thirst
for 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 fiend came up to
earth for some internal work in grog-
shop, and should go back taking on his
wing just one drop of that for which
the inebriate in the lost world longs,
what excitement it would 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, 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, ahal
That is rum" And it would wake up
the echoes of the damned-"Give me
rum! Give me rum. Give me rum In
it will be the absence of God that will
make the drunkard's sorrow. l do not
believe that it will be the absence of
light. | do not believe that il will be
the absence of holiness. l think it will
be the absence of rum. Oh: Look not
upon the wine when it is red. when it
itself Alright in the cup, for at
the last it biteth like serpent, and it
like an adder"
10 I 4 4
there was point beyond which man
could not stop, l want to tell you
that, while a man can not stop in his
own strength, the Lord God, by His !
grace, can help him to stop at any
time. i was in n room in New York |
where there were many happy men
who had been reclaimed from dru.lken-
ness. / heard their testimony, and |
for the first time in my life there
flashed out a truth l never under
stood. They said: 1--WE were victims
of strong drink. We tried to give it |
up, but always failed; but somehow
since we gave our hearts to Christ lie |
has taken care of u.s." l believe that !
the time will soon come when the |
grace of God will show its power not |
only to save mans soul, but his body, |
and reconstruct, purify, elevate and re.
deem it.
/ verify believe that, although you
feel graphing at the roots of your
tongues an almost omnipotent thirst, if |
you will give your heart to God He will |
help you by His grace to conquer. Try |
It, 1t is your last chance. l have
looked off upon the desolation. Sitting
next to you in our religious assemblages
there are good many people in awful
peril; and, judging from ordinary cir
there is not one chance in !
1000 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 drunkards graves, and as to
their souls, lie down in a drunkard's |
perdition. i know that is an awful /
thing to say, butI can not help say
ing it.
Oh, beware. You have not yet been
captured. Beware. Whether the |
beverage be poured in golden chalico
Or pewter mug. in the foam at the top,
in white letters, let there be spelled |
out to your soul: '.Bewarew When |
the books of Judgment are open, and |
5000, 900 drunkards come up to get |
their doom, want you to bear wit
ness that l, in the fear of God and in
the love for your soul, told you, with
all affection and with all kindness, to
beware of that which has already OK.
,rted it's influence upon your family,
out some of its lights-a pre-
of the blackness of darkness
forever.
Oh, if you could only hear intern.
oerance with drunkard's bones drum
ming on the head of the liquor cask
The dead march of immortal souls
the very glance of wine cur
would make you shudder, and the color
Of the liquor would make you think
Of the blood of the soul, and the foam
on the top of the cup would remind
you of the froth on the maniac's lip.
md you would kneel down and pray
God, that, rather than your children
should become captives of this evil
, hit Won xynu1J ILL, - nm ,..,, -