The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-10-23
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Three Taverns On the Road to
Rome.
Discourse Applied TO the Designations OF
the Day-Modern Taverns the
Road of Life-A Tribute
TO ReformerH.

Kew. J.. lie w alu1aSsS- Ii IAiS III
lowing sermon, in a unique way DIS
eusses the issipabions Of the day, and
eulogizes she great reformers, past and
present. His text is:
They came 40 meet us far AppI Forum
END the Thrss Tavsrns--Acts xviii. Ia
Seventeen miles south Of Rome,
Italy, there WAS village Of unfortn-
nate name. A Avern is a place OF en-
eer'tainnert, and, in orr time. part OF
the entertainment is q provision OF
intoxicHnts. One such place you would
think would have been enough Tor
that Italian village. No! There were
three OF them, with doors open Tor en-
1ertainmeut md obfuscanon. The
world has never lacked stimulating
drinks. You remember the condition
OF Noah on one occasion, and OF Abb
gHaTs husband, Nabal. and the story OF
Belshazzar's feast, and Bsnhadad, and
the new wine in old bottles, and Whole
paragraphs On prohibition enactment
thonsapds of years before Neal Dow
WIS born; and no doubt there were
whole shelves of infammatory liquid
in those hotels which gave the name
TO the village where PauPs friends
came to meet him, namely the Three
Taverns In vain I search an
Gent geography for some satls-
tying nccounl of that village. Two
roRds came from the sehcoRst TO that
place; the one from Actium. and the
other from PuteoE, the last road being
the one which Paul Travelled. There
were. no doubt, in that villnge houses
OF merchandise and mechanics shops,
and professional Offices. but nothing As
known OF them. All we know of that
village is that 1T had q profnsion OF
inns-the Three Tayerns- PAM did
not choose any one of these tAverns as
the place TO meet his friends he GER
tainly Was very absteminous, but they
made the selection. He had enlarged
about keeping the body under. thong
once he prescribed for a young the
oiogical student stimulating cordial
for a stomacbic disorder; but he told
him to talre only q small dose--''a lit
tie wane for thy stomach's sake.
One of the worst things about these
Three Taverns was that they had
especial temptatfun for those who had
Just come ashore. People who had just
landed at Actium or Puteoi were soon
tempted by these three hotels, which
were only little way up from the
beach. Those who are disordered OF
Ihe sea flor it is a physical disorgan-
izer9, instead of wanting for the gradual
return of physical eQuipose, are apt to
take artificial means TO brace up. OF
the one million sailors now on the sea,
how few of them coming ashore will
escape the Three TavernsI After sur
viving hurricanes, cyclones, icebergs,
collisions, many Of them are wrecked
in harbor- j warrant that If a calcu-
Aa.lpn were made of the comparative
nnsnber of sailors lost at sea End lost
ashore, those drowned by the crimson
wave of dissipation would far outnum-
ber&those drowned by the salt water.
Alasl that the large majority OF
those who GO down TO the sea in ships
should have twice to pass the Three
Taverns, namely, before they go out.
and after they come in. That fact
WAS what aroused Father Taylor. the
great sailors preacher, AT the Sailors
Bethel, Boston, and at public meet
IN l. n. ~.