Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-05-29

stroyed incbriate, les tie liquid bright
ness just touch it, let the drop be very
small if it Only Lave in it the smack of
alcoholic drink; let that drop just touch
the lost iucbriate in TIE lost world, and
he would spring to his feet and cry:
"That is rum, ahal That is rumP' And
it would wake up the echoes of the
damned: "Giye me rum! Give me rum!
Give mo rum!' In the future world l
do not believe thatit 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. l
think it will be the absence of rum.
Oh, "Look not upon the wine when 1t
is rcd, when it moveth itself Alright IN
the cup, for at the last it biteth like
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 man
could not stop, want to tell you that,
while man cannot stop in his own
strength, the Lord God by his grace can
help him to stop at any time. was
in a room in New YORK where there
were many men who had been reclaimed
from drunkenness I heard their testl-
mony, and for the first time in my life
there flashed out truth l never under
stood. They said: ave were victims OF
strong drink We tried to give it up,
but always failed, but somehow since
we gave cur hearts to Christ he has
taken care of US" I 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 re-
construct, purify, elevate and redeem it.
verify believe that although you
feel graphing at the roots Of your
tongues al 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. have look
ed oft upon the desolation. Sitting next
to you in our religious assemblages
there are good many people in awful
peril, and judging from ordinary cir
cumstances there is not one chance IN i've
thousand that they will get clear OF 1t.
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 III drunkards' graves, and as to
their souls, lie down in drunkard's
perdition. 1 know that is an awful
thing to say, but cannot help saying
it,
Darkness Forever.
Oh, beware You have not yet been
captured. Beware! Whether the beyer-
age be poured in golden chalice or pew
ter mug, in the foam at the top, in
white letters, let there be spelled out to
your soul, "Beware!' When the books
of Judgment are open, and $1,000, 600
drunkards come up to get their doom,
want you to bear witness 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 exerted its influence
upon your family, blowing out some OF
it's lights-a premonition of the black
ness of darkness forever.
Oh, if you could only hear intemper-
ance with drunkards' bones drumming
Oh the head of the liquor cask the dead
march of immortal souls, methinkss the
very glance of wine cup would make
you shu6der, 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, and you would kneel
down and pray God that, rather than
your children should become captives OF
this evil habit, you would like to carry
them out some bright spring day to the
cemetery and put them away to the last
sleep, until at the call of the south
wind the flowers would come up all
over the grave-sweet prophecies of the
resurrection. God has balm for such
a wound, but what flower of comfort
ever grew Oh q drunkard's sepulcher?