Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-14
Never Too Old to Learn.

Never Too Old TO Learn
The most skillful way is to adopt tho
modern theory and give the intoxicant TO
your children, saying to yourself, "They
will in after life meet the intoxicants
everywhere, and they must get used to see
ing them and tasting them and controlling
their appetites That Is the best way of
teaching them the song Of the drunkards.
Keep up that mode Of education, and IL
lou have four boys at least three Of them
will learn the drunkards' song and lie
down in drunkard's grave, and II / ever
laid a wager / would lay wager that the
fourth will lie down with the other three.
Or II the education of the children In this
music should be neglected, 1t Is not too
late to begin at 81 years of age. The young
man will find plenty Of young men who
drink. They are in every circle to be
found. Surely, my boy, you are not a
coward and afraid of it, Surely you are
not going to be hindered by sumptuary
laws or the prejudices of your old father
and mother? They are behind the times.
Take something. Take 1t often. Some Of
the greatest poets and orators have been
notorious imbibers. If you are to enter
parlor, 1t makes you more yivacious and
Chesterfeldian. II you are to transact
business, your customer is apt to buy more
f you have taken with him sherry cob
bier. II you are to make speech, it will
give you glibber tongue. Gluck could
compose his best music by having his
piano taken into the midst Of meadow,
and bottle Of champagne placed on each
side of him. The earlier you begin to learn
the song of the drunkards the easier 1t is,
but none of you are too old to learn. You
can begin at 30 or so, under prescription
of doctor for aids to digestion or break
ing up of irfrmities, and close life by rem
dering the song of the drunkards so well
shat all pandemonium will encore the per-
formance and want it again and again.
Furthermore, the last characteristic of
the drunkard's song is so tremendous that
can hardly bring myself to mention it.
The drunkards song Is 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. The grace of God can do any
thing, hut it does not do everything. Re-
ligion 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 1t was too long.
But 95 per cent of those who are singing
the drunkards' song will to the last breath
of their lungs and the last beat of their
hearts keep on rendering it, and the gal
| leries of earth and heaven and hell will
stay filled with the astounded spectators.
1t is such continuous and prolonged song
that one feels like making the prayer which
reformed inebriate once made: GAL
mighty God! If it be thy will that man
should suffer, whatever seemeth good in
thy sight impose upon me- Let the bread
of affiiction be given me to eat. Take from
me the friends of my confidence Let the
cold hut of poverty be my dwelling place
and the wasting hand of disease infliot its
painful torments. Let me SOW in the
whirlwind and reap in the storm. Let
those have me in derision who are younger
than I. Let the passing away of my well
fare be like the fleeting of cloud, and the
shouts of my enemies like the rushing Of
waters. When anticipate good, let evil
annoy me. When I look for light, lei
darkness come upon me. Let the terrort
of death be ever before me. Do all this
but save me, merciful God Save me from
the fate of drunkard. Amenl'
| A Word For Prevention.
You see this sermon is not so much fol
cure as for prevention Stop before yoJ
start, If you will forgive the solecism. TIL,
clock of st. Pauls cathedral struck 13 ON
midnight, and SO saved the life of a sen
tinel. The soldier was arrested and trieI
for falling asleep at his post one midnight
But he declared that he was awake a
midnight, and in proof that he was awak
he said that he had heard the unusual oc
currence of the clock striking 13 instead O
49, He was laughed to scorn and sen
fenced to death. But three OF four per
sons, hearing of the case, came up in tim
to swear that they, too, heard the clocl
strike IS that same midnight, and so tn,
mans life was spared. My hearer, II yol
go on and thoroughly learn the drunkards
song, perhaps in the deep midnight o
your soul there may sound something tina
will yet effect your moral and eternal res
cue. But it Is risky perhaps. 1t i
exceptional Go ahead on that wrong road
and the clock will more probably strik
the 12 that closes your day of opportunity
than that 1t will strike 13, the sound o
your deliverance.
A few Sabbaths ago on the steps of thi
church man whom had known in othe
wears confronted me- At the first glance
saw that he was In the fifth and last act o
the tragedy Of intemperance. Splendi'
even in his ruin. The same brilliant eye
and the same courtly manners, and the re
Emains of the same intellectual endow
ments, but wreck. had seen that Graf
when it plowed the waters, all sails set ant
running by true compass; wife and chill
dren and friends on board, himself com
manding in voyage that he expecte
would be glorious, putting into prosperou
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