Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-06-09
NO. 26.

soul. Talk OF the rack, talk of the inquisi-
tion, talk OF the funeral pyre, talk of the
crushing Juggernaut-he feels them all at
once. Have you ever been in the ward OF
the hospital where these inebriates are dy-
ing, the stencil of their wounds driving
back the attendants, their voices sounding
through the night? The keeper comes up
and says: Hush, now be still. Stop max
ing all this noise" But it is effectual only
for a moment, for as soon as the keeper is
gone they begin again: 20 Godl Godl
Helpl Helpl Drink Give me drink Helpi
Take them off met Take them off me! o
God!' And then they shrek. and they
rave, and they pluck out their hair by
handfuls and bite their nails into the quick
and then they groan. and they shrek. and
they blaspheme and they ask the keepers to
kill them-''Stab mel Smother me!
Strangle mel Take the devils of me'' oh,
it is no fancy sketch. That thing is going
on now all up and down the land, and 1
tell you further that this is going to be the
death that some of you will die. / know
1t. l see it coming.
Again the inebriate suffers through the
loss of home j do not care how much he
loves his wife and children, If this passion
for strong drink has mastered him he will
do the most outrageous things, and If he
could not get drink in any other way he
would sell his family into eternal bondage.
How many homes have been broken up in
that way no one but God knows. Oh is
there anything that will SO destroy a man
for this life and damn him for the life that
Is to come? Do not tell me that a man can
be happy when he knows that he is break
ing his wife's heart and clothing his chill
lren with rags. Why, there are on the
roads and streets of this land to-day little
children, barefooted, unwashed and un-
kempt want on every patch Of their faded
dress and on every wrinkle of their pre-
.matureiy Old countenances, who would
have been in churches to-day and as well
clad as you are but for the fact that rum
destroyed their parents and drove them
into the grave. Oh, rum thou foe of God,
thou despoiler of homes, thou recruiting
officer of the pit, hate thee.
But my subject takes deeper tone and
that is that the unfortunate of whom /
speak suffers from the loss of the soul The
Bible intimates that in the future world. IL
We are unforgiven here, our bad passions
and appetites, unrestrained, will go along
with us and make our torment there. So
that l suppose, when an inebriate wakes
up in that world he will feel an infinite
thirst consuming him. Now, down in this
world, although he may have been very
poor, he could beg or he could steal five
cents with which to get that which would
slake his thirst for little while, but in
eternity where is the rum to come froIn2
Oh the deep, usting>exasperating
everlasting thirst of the drunkarS IN M n ell,
Why, if fiend came up to earth for s~'7ass-a
Internal work in a grOgShop and shOut
back taking on its wing Just one DR.
that for which the inebriate in the
world longs, what excitement Won
make therei Put that one drop frof
the tiends wing on the tip of the tongl
the destroyed inebriate, let the liz
brightness just touch it, let the dro.
very small, if il only have ia it the :
of alcoholic drink; let that drop Just
the lost inebrate In the lost world
would spring to his feet and cry. ="
rum, ahal That is rum!" And t.
wake up the echoes of .le damned.
me rum Give me rum! Give II
In the future world do not beiey
will be the ah<Alce OF God that =,
the drunkar@ Grow. / do not
will be the q II of light. | Z
I've that it Ae the absence