Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-10-27

AtNiAan Nlii%Sc curses all NhrlStet dom
to-day--too many taverns. There are
streets in some of our cities where
there nre three or four tavcrns on every
block; aye. where every other house is
tavern. You can take the Arabic
mineral OF my text. the three. and put
on the right hand side of il one cipher.
and two ciphers, and four ciphers. and
that reinforcement of numerals will
rot express the statistics of American
-ummerics. Even if IL were a good
healthy business. supplying necessity.
an article supcrbly nutritious, il is 8
business nightly ovcrdone. and there
are three taverns where there out to
b. only one
The fact il. there are in another sense
three taverns aow; the gorgeous tav-
crn for the affiuent. the medium tavern
Tor the working GLASSES and the tavern
OF the Slums. and they stand in line.
and many people beginning with the
hrst come down through the second
and come out At the third. At the first
of the three taverns the wines are of
celebrated vintage, and the WHISTLES
are said 10 be pure, and they are
fuaffcd from cut glass at marble side
tables under pictures approaching
masterpieces. The patrons pull off
their kid gloves and hand their silk
hats 10 the waiter and push back their
hair with n hand on one finger OF
which Is cameo. But these patrons
are apt To stop visiting that place.
IL - not the money that n man
pays for drinks, for what are
few hundred or few thousand
to ~
but their brain gets touched, and that
unbalanccs their Judgment and they
can see fortunes in enterprises sur
charged with disaster. In longer or
shorter time they change taverns. and
they come down to tavern the second,
where the pictures are not quite so
scrupulous of suggestion and the small
table is rougher and the castor stand
ing on IL il of German silver and the
air has been kept over from the night
before, and that which they sip from
the pewter mug has larger percentage
of benzine, ambergris, creosote, hem
bane. strichnine, prussic acid, coculis
indicus, plaster of paris. copperas
and night shade. The patron may
Ice seen almost every day and
perhaps many times the same
day at this tavern the second, but
he II preparing 10 graduate Brain,
liver, heart, nerves are rapidly giving
away. That tavern the second has its
dismal echo in his business DESTROYED
and his family scattered, and woes that
choke ones vocabulary Time passes
ON and he enters tavern the third, a
red light outside; a hiccoughing and
besotted group inside. He will bc
dragged out of doors about two
o'clock in the morning and left on
the sidewalk, because the bartender
wants 10 shut up. The poor victim has
taken the regular course in the college
of degradation. lie has his diploma
written on his swollen. bruised and
blotched physiognomy. lie is a regular
graduate of the three taverns As the
police take him up and put him in the
ambulance the wheels seem 10 rumble
with two rolls of thunder. one of which
says, Look not upon the wine when
IL is red, when IL moveth itself Alright
in the cup, for at last IL biteth like a
serpent and stinReth like an adder. ="
The other thunder roll saws. "Au
drunkards shall have their place in the
lake that burneth fire and with brim-
stone"
am glad TO find in this scene of the
text that there Is such a thing as de-
clining successfully great Tavernian
temptations. ] can see from what Paul
said and did after he had travelled the
following seventeen miles of his iour-
ney that he had received no damage at
the Three Tavcrns How much he was
tempted know not. DO not suppose
he was superior 90 temptation. That
particular temptation has DESTROYED
many Of the grandest, might
lest, noblcst statesmen, philoso-
pliers. heroes, clcrgymen, apostles
Of law and medicine and govern
mcnt and religion Paul was not phvs-
'sslly well under any circumstances.
it was not in mock depreciation that
hc said hc was in bodily presenc,.
weak IL seems that his oversight
was 80 poor that be- did his writing
through an amanucnsis. for be men
uons % a. something remarkable that
his shortest Epistlc. the one 10 Phile-
mon. was in his own p.nmanship. say-
ing. u. Paul. have written IL with my
own hand. lie had been thrown from
his horse. he bad becn stoned. hc had
been cndungeoncd he had had his
nerves pulled con- hy preaching at Athens
- the most scholarly audience Of
sli the earth. and at Corinth % the
most brilliantly prohigatc nsscmbIagc.
and been howlcd upon by che Ephcsian
worshipers ~ Diana. tried for his life
0eiorc feiiV. charged ~ Tcstus with
being insane. bal crawlcd up ON the
beach, drruchcd in thc shipwreclt and
much ~ the time bad an iron handeuH
on his wrist and if any man needed
stimulus Paul needed ID. but with al
his physical exhaustion he got past the
Three IaHcrn- unchanged aud strn
ped into Rome all readv for
thc tremendous ordeal o. which
hc was subjected on how manv
mighty men. feeling that they must
brace mp after eNtraord lnarv service
aud prepare themselfc- fnr other arrV-
ice. have called on thf spirit of wine
FOR inspiration. and iu few vears
havc been sacrificed ou tht altar -
Moloch. who sits on b throne % human
carcasscs ~ would pot tr wise or
kind OF Christian to DalI their lamra
iu public. hut sou cal them GOT ~
your own mrmur5 Oh how many
splendid men rYuId not ct pasf ths
Three Tavrrns
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