Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-18
THE DRINK QUESTION
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches on
THE THREE TAVERNS.

and Eulogizes the Great Reforiners of
the Past and Present-Tribute to Neal
Dow.
fCopyright. 1897 by American Press Asso-
citation.
WASHINGTON, Oct I7.-In a unique
way Dr.. Talmage here discusses the dis
sipations of the day and eulogizes tie
great reformers of the past and present.
His text is Acts xviii, 15, They came
TO meet US as far as April forum and
the three taverns.
Seventeen miles south of Rome there
was a village of unfortunate name. A
tavern issa place of entertainment, and
in our time part of the entertainment
is provision Of intoXicants. One such
place you would think would have been
enough for that Italian village No!
There were three of them, with doors
open for entertainment and obfuscation.
The world has never lacked stimulating
drinks. You remember the condition CT
Noah on one occasion, and of Abigail's
husband, Nabal, and the story Of Bel
shazzar's feast, and Benhaded and the
new wine in old bottles, and whole
paragraphs or prohibition enactment
vi US1OIO ANCo1 AOW
was born, and no doubt there were
whole shelves of infammatory liquid
in those hotels which gave the name to
the village where Paul's friends came
to meet him-namely, the Three Tav-
ems In vain | search ancient geogra-
ply for some satisfying account Of that
village Two roads came from the sea-
coast to that place, the one from Actium
and the other from Puteoli, the last
road being the one which Paul travelled.
There were no doubt i'll that village
houses of merchandise and mechanics
shops and professional offices, but moth
ing is known Of them. All we know Of
that village is that it had a profusion
of inns-the three taverns. Paul did
not choose any one of these taverns as
the place to meet his friends. He GER
tainly was very abstemiOus, but they
made the selection. He had enlarged
about keeping the body under, though
once he prescribed for q young theolOgic-
al student d stimulating cordial for a
stomachic disorder, but he told him to
take only small dOse-"a little wine
for thy stomach S sake. -
The Three Tayerns.
One of the worst things about these
three taverns was that they had espe-
cial temptation for those who had just
come ashore People who had just land
ed 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 the sea (for
it is physical disorganizer), instead OF
waiting for the gradual return of phys
zeal equipoise. are apt to take artificial
means to brace up. OF the 1000, 600
sailors now On the sea, how few of them
coming ashore will escape the three tav-
ernsl After surviving hurricanes, cy-
clones, icebergs, collisions, many of
them are wrecked in harbor. I warrant
that if a calculation were made Of the
comparative number of sailors lost at
sea and lost ashore those drowned by
the crimson wave of dissipation would
far outnumber those drowned by the
salt water.
Alas, 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, Bos-
ton, and at a public meeting at Charles
town. he said, "All the machinery of
the drunkard making, soul destroying
business is iii perfect running order,
from the low grog holes on the docks
kept open to ruin my poor sailor boys
to the great establishments in Still
House square. and when we ask men
what is to be done about it they say,
- kOl, - l., .e,
Bunker Hill, and you say you can't
stop it, and up there are Lexington and
Concord. y We might answer Father
Taylor's remark by saying, 1.-THE trou-
BILE is not that we can't stop it, but
that we won 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 Actium
and Puteoli is now the ruin of seafaring
men as they come up from the coasts of
all the ontinents-namely, the three
taverns. In the autumn, about this
time, in the year 1887, the steamship
Home went out from New York for
Charleston. There were aboUt 100 pas
Sengers, some Of them widely known.
Some of them had been summering at
the northern watering places, and they
were on their way south, all expectant
of hearty greeting by their friends on
the wharfs Of Charleston. But little
more than two days out the ship struck
the rocks. A lifeboat was launched, but
sank with all its passengers. A mother
was seen standing on the deck Of the
steamer with her child i'll her arms. A
wave wrenched the child from the
mothers arms and rolled it into the sea,
and the mother leaped after it.
The sailors rushed to the bar of the