Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-01-22


Our friead felt latterei 70 have an
Invitation from one Of superior mans.
Each one drank not oaly when he f.it iiss
Il. but when the other felt like il. Neither
wanted 10 seem lacking in s0eiality when
he was invited. 81 100000 men every year
are treaiei into he'll. Together are they
manaclei OF evil habit, together they travel
toward their doom. together they make mar-
r. over the coWartics aud Purltanical ssnti-
meat OF those who mover indulge, together
they join their voices in this song Of tho
drankarts 1.-THE one proposes to stop, the
other will not let him stop. When men ara
getting dOWn themselves, they do not want
their associates to turn hack. Those who
turn back will DO the sc1lT AMI caricaturs OF
those who keep on, AMI there will be con-
spiracy TO bring them back TO tho old places
m ! their Old environment, aud 80 have them
renew the song o! the drunkaris.
Again, the song OF tbs duunkarls is easily
learned. rhroush what long ami difficult
drill one must ~ 10 succeed as an elevated
an inspiring singer! Emma Abbott. among
the most eminent cantatrices that ever Gu
chanted academies OF music, told mo on
ocean ships deck. in answer to my question,
"Whither are You bonn i?'' az am goiug to
Berlin aud Paris to study music" "What!"
| said. "Attarall your worllrenowned sue
cessas in music, going to study"
Then she told me through what hariships,
through what self denins, through what
almost KILN: tatigues, shs hal gone in
or Ter TO be n singer, AMI that when in her
earlier days great teacher OF music had
told her there were certain notes she
could never reach, she said II will reach
them" aud through doing nothing else
but practice for five years she did reach
them. Oh, how many herOas ami heroiues
of musical achievement! There are songs
which are easy to hear, but most difficult to
render. When Handel, with new oratorio,
entered room where group OF musicians
had assembled and said, "Gentlomen, YOU
all read music?" They said, Yes, We play
in church" "Yery WELL" said the great
composer. "Play this. But the perform
ance was so poorly done Handel stopped his
ears aud said: "You play in church, Very
we'll. for we real the Lord is lOrG suffering,
OF great kindness and forgiving OF iniquity,
trlnsgressiOu and sin. But you shall not
play for me-" Pure music, whether fingered
on instrument or trilel from human lips, is
most difficult. But one of the easiest
the drunkaris. Anybody can learn
it, In Il little while you can touch the
highest note OF cOnvivialitY or the lowest
more OF besottedness. Begin moderately, IA
sip hero and a sip there. Begin with cjare;,
so on with ale ana wind up with cognac.
First take the stimulant at wee ding, then
take il at meals. then take it between meals,
then all the time keep your pulse under its
stealthy touch. In six months the dulest
scholar In this ApollyOnic music may become
IN expert First il will bosOunded in hic-
cough. After awhile it will be heard il a
silly ha. ha! Further on 1t will become a
wild whoop Then it will enable you to run
up and down the five lines of the musical
scale internal. Then yOu will have mastered
1.-THE song OF the drunGards.
The most skilful way is to adopt the
modern theory and give the intoxicant 10
your children, saying to Yourself "rhev
will in after life meet the intoxicants
everywhere, ana they must get used to see
ing them and tasting them and controlling
their appetites,n That is the best way OF
teaching them the song Of tho drunkards.
Keep up that mode OF education, aud il
you have four boys ut least three Of them
will learn the drunkards' song and lie
down III druukard's grave, and il l ever
laid wager l would lay wager that tho
fourth will lie down with the other three.
OF ii the education OF the children in this
music should be neglected, it Is not too
late to begin at tweuty-one years OF age.
The young man will find plenty Of young
men who drink. They are in every circle to
he found. Surely, my boy, You are not u
coward and afraid Of it, Surely YOU are not
going to ha hinderei by sumptuary laws or
the prajudices Of your Old father and mother?
They are Oehini the times. Take SOME
thing. Take it often. Some of the great
est poets and orators have been nOto,
rious imbiber5. II you are to enter par0r
it makes you more viYacipuS aud Ches-
ter!leidIan. II You are to transact
business, your customer is apt to buy more
II you have taken with him a sherry cobbler.
{ If n mpkA n If will
You gbber tongue. Gluck could compose
his best music by having his piano taken
into the midst of a meadow. and q bottle Of
champagne placed on each side OF him. The
earlier You begin to learn the song Of the
drunlards the easier it is bat none of YOU
are to old to loarn. You can begin Mt fifty
or sixty, under prescription OF a doctor for
aids to digestion or breaking up of intirm-
| tiles. and close l.fe by rendering the song OF
the drunkar1s so well that all pandemonium
! will encore the performance and want il
| again and again.
Furthermore, the last Characteristic OF the
/ drunkari's song is so tremendous that can
| hardly bring myself to mention it, The
! drQukarls song is a continuous song. Once
| start that tune. and you keep it up. You
! have known hundred men destroyed OF
strong drink. You cannot mention five who
| got fully started on that road and stopped.
/ L nc STlGt Ol bVu ctu 40 anything, pul IL
does not do everything. Religion saves some
| Temperance societies save some. The BoWery
mission saves some. The Central mission
saves some. But 100000 who are annually
slain by strong drink are not saved at all.
[ have been at a concert which went on
| for two hours and half, and many people
got up and left because it was too long. But
ninety-ltyo per cent of those who are singing
| the drunkards' song will to the last breath OF
] Al. o Il.
| keep on rendering it. and the galleries OF
earth and heaven and hell will stay filed with
the astouuded spectators. It is such con-
tiuuous and prolonged song that one feels
like making the prayer which reformed
| inebriatH once made: almighty God! II
it be Thy will that man should suffer, what
ever seemeth good in Thy sight i'm.
pose upon me. Let tho bread Of af-
Fiction lie given me to eat. Take from
me the friends of my confidence. Let the
cold hut of poverty be my dwelling place
painful torments. Let me sow in the whirl.
wind and reap in the storm. Let those have
me in drrisOn who are younger than |. lie:
| the passing away of my welfare be like the
feeting OF q cloud, and the shouts of my
enemies like the rushing of waters. When |
anticipate good, lot evil annoy me, When |
look for light, let darkness come upon me.
Let the teri ors of death be ever before me.
Do all this, but save me, mereiful Cool save
me from the fate of II drunkard. Amen"
You SEQ this sermon is not so much fol-
cure as for prevention. Stop before you
start, if you will forgive the soecsm. The
clock OF st. Paul's cathedral struck thirteen
one midnight, an / so saved the life OF u sen.
tinel. The soldier was arrested and tried
for falling asleep at his post one midnight
But he declared that he was awake at mid
night, and in proof that he was awake he
said that he had heard the unusual occur
renee OF the clock striking 10 instead
Of II. He was laughed to scorn and
sentenced to DEATH But three or four per-
sons, hearing of the case, came up in time
to swear that they, too, heard the clock
strike IS tina. same midnight, and so the
| mans life vvou sDora1 NV hearer if Won 90