The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-11-05
THE THREE TAVERNS.
Rev. DIR. Talmage Discourses Upon
Designations of the Day.
Modern Tsverns on tho Road oil LII" ana
Their FictIms-A Tribute to the Rs-
formers Who step in to save
this Unfortunates.

I tions Of the day aud. incidentally,
+. eulogy II the great reformers, past an
present. The text is:
They came to meet Us Us far as Appii Fofal
, and the Three rayernsr Act XVIII, 10
Seventeen miles south OF Rome
Italy, there was a village OF unfortu
nate name. A tavern is q place OF CT
%ertainment, and, in our time, part G
the entertainment is Il provision 9
intoxicants. One such place you "oui
think would have been enough 10
that Italian village. No. There wer
three Of them, with doors open Tor en-
tertainment and ohfuscatlon. IN
world has never lacked st%imulatin,
drinks. You remember the condition
OF Noah on one occasion, and OF AID!
gals husband, Nnbai. and the story o
Be,shazzar's feast, and B~enhadad, ant
the new wine in old bottles, aud who'll
paragraphs on prohibition enactmen
thousands of years before Neal do"
was bora; and no doubt there wer'
whole shelves OF inhammatory iiquie
ia those hotels which gave the name
to the village where Pants friends
came to meet him, namely the Ihret
Tagcrns, In vain / search an
cient geography for some salts
fying account of that village. Iwt
foa,3s came from the s~eacoast TO tina
place: the one from Aciiuu, and Tho
other from Puteo3i. the last road being
tie one which Paul travelled. There
were, NJ doubt, IN that village houses
| OF merchandise and mechanics shops,
aud professional offices, bnt nothing is
known Of them. All we know OF that
village is that il had a prosnsion OF
inns-the Three IavsruS Paul did
not choose any one .: these .averns as
the place Il meet his friends He Ger
ialuIy was very absteiuinouS bat they
made the selection. lie had enlarged
abOat keeping the body under, thoRgh
once he prescribed for a young the
ui0xlcai student a stimulating eozdIai
for a st5nachlc disorder; but he told
him TO take only a small dese-a lit
tie wiae for thy stosaAth's saNa"
One o. the woEss things about these
Three Taverns was That they had
especial temptation for those who had
9asE come asil3ss- AS'p4s WHO haa !Hst
landed al Aetium OF s'atcoli were soou
tempted by these three hotels, which
were OILY s. Att-s WAY up from the
beach. Those wag arg dlsordered of
the SEA flor il is d physical disorgau-
1LeEA Instead OF waiting tor the gradual
return ot Physaea! e4a!pose, are apt to
take artificial means to brace up. Of
tile QUE million sailors NOW on the sea,
ho~ te" Oh THEM coming ashore Will
escape Il Three I2yerns. After sur
siring hurricanes, eyctoaes, lcebergs,
collisions. many OF them are wrecked
III harhor. l warrant that II a caicu-
lasson were made vi the comparative
nuhter Of sailors lost at SEA aud lost
ashore, those droH hed by the crimson
wave of dissipation would far outnum-
Der those Drowned oy tue salt water,
Alas. that the large majority OF
those who go down 10 ta= >e4 n ships
should haze twice Ia pass The Iaree
Taverns, namely, before S4eg 70 out,
and after they cGIss ID. 4&4s i4gt
was what aroused Father Taylor. She
great sailors preacher, 81 the Sailors
Bethel, Boston, and al = public meet
ing at Charlestowu i4e sad: An the
machinery of he dranRard. making,
soul-destroying business is in perfect
running order, from the low srag
holes on the docks, kept open to ruin
my poor sailor boys, 10 the great es-
adjustments in Still House square,
and when we ask men what is to be
done about it they say you can't help
it," aud yet there is Bunker Hill. and
you say you can't stop it, and up there
are Lexington and Concord" We
might answer Father Taylor's remark
by saying: The trouble is not that
we can't stop it, but that we won't
stop it," We must have more
generations slain before the world will
fully wake up to the evil, That which
tempted the travellers OF old who came
up from the seaports of Actiun and
Puteoli is o the ruin OF seafar-
ing men as they come up from the
coasts of all the countinents-name-
ly, the Three Taverns. In the au-
tumn, about this time, in the year
1887, the steamship Home went out
from New York for Charleston. There
were about 100 passengers, some OF
them widely known. Some of them
had been snmmering ut the northern
watering places, and they were on
their way south, all expectant of
hearty greetings by their friends on
the wharves of Charleston. But IL lit
tic more than two days out the ship
strucl: the rocks. A lifeboat was
launched, but sunk with all its passen-
gers. A mother was seen standing on
the deck of the steamer with her child
In her arms. A wava wrenched the
child from the mothers arms and
rolled 1t into the sea, and the mother
leaped after 1t. The sailors rushed tc
the bar OF the boat and drank them
selves drunk. Ninety-hve human be