Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-05-01

the tip of his wing one drop of alcoholic
beverage. what excitement it would
make all through the world of the lost,
and, if that one drop of alcoholic bever-
age should drop from the wing of the
iend upon the tongue of the inebriate,
how he would spring up and cry:
"That's it'll That's It'll RUM RUM
That's it !" And all the caverns of the
lost would echo with the cry: ''Give it
to mel Rum Ruml' All, my friends,
the inebriate's sorrow in the next world
will not be the absence of God or holi
ness or light; it will be the absence of
rum. ''Look not upon the wine when
it is red, when it moveth itself Alright
in the cup for at the last it biteth like
a serpent. and it stingeth like an ad-
DER
When I see this plague in the land
and when I see this destroying angel
sweeping across our great cities, am
sometimes indignant and sometimes hui
inflated. When man asks me. ''What
are you in favor of for the subjugation
of this evil? answer, 81 am ready
for anything that is reasonable. You
ask me, care you in favor of Sons of
Temperance p Yes care you in favor
of good Samaritans ?'' Yes. care you in
favor of Good Templars 9'' Yes care
you in favor of prohibitory law7" Yes.
care you in favor of the pledgeH" Yes.
Combine all the influences. o Christian
reformers and philanthropistsl Com
bine them all for the extirpation of this
evil
Thirst May BE Quenched
Thirty women in one of the western
states banded together and with an
especial ordination from God they went
forth to the work and shut up all the
grogshops of large village Thirty
women, with their song and with their
prayer, and if 1000 or 1900 Christian
men and women with an especial ordi-
nation from God should go forth feeling
the responsibility of their work and
discharging their mission, they could
in any city shut up all the grogshops.
But / must not dwell on generalities;
I must come to specifics. Are you
astrays IF there is any sermon dis
like, it is a sermon on generalities
want personalities. Are you astray2
Have you gone so far you think you can
not get back? Did say few moments
ago that a man might go to a point
in inebriation where he could not stopS
Yes, I said it, and / reiterate it. But I
want you also to understand that while
the man himself, of his own strength,
cannot stop, God can stop any man.
You have only to lay hold of the strong
arm of the Lord God Almighty. He can
stop you. Many summers ago I went
over to New York one Sabbath even
ing-our church not yet being open for
the autumnal services. went into
room in the Fourth ward, New York,
where a religious service was being
held for reformed drunkards, and
heard revelation that night that had
never heard before-15 or 90 men stand
ing up and giving testimony such as
had never heard given. They not only
testified that their hearts had been
changed by the grace of God, but that
the grace of God had extinguished
their thirst They went on to say that
they had reformed at different times
before, but Immediately fallen, because
they were doing the whole work in
their own strength. "But as soon as
we gave our hearts to God," they said,
"and the love of the Lord Jesus Christ
has come into our soul the thirst has all
gone We have no more disposition for
strong drink. T"
Warning to Drunkards.
It was a new revelation to me, and I
have proclaimed it again and again in
the hearing of those who have far gone
astray and I stand here today to tell
hot he IF .Ov41
Christ cannot only save your soul, but
save your body. I look off today upon
the desolation. Some of you are so far
on in this habit, although there may
be no outward indications of it-you
never have staggered along the street.
the vast majority of people do not know
that you stimulate, but God knows,
and you know, and by human calcula-
ton there is not one chance out of five
thousand that you will ever be stopped.
Bewarel There are some of you who
are my warm personal friends to whom
7 must say that unless you quit this
evil habit within ten years, as to your
body, you will lie down in a drunkard's
grave and, as to your immortal soul,
you will lie down in drunkard's helli
It is hard thing to say, but it is true.
and I utter the warning lest have
your blood upon my soul Bewarel As
today you open the door Of your wine
closet let the decanter fash that word
upon your soul, "Bewarel" AS you
pour out the beverage let the foam at
the top spell out the word. "Bewarer'
In the great day Of Gods judgment,
when hundred million drunkards shall
come up to get their doom. want you
to testify that this day, in love Of your
soul and in fear Of God, gave You
warning in regard to that influence