The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-05-27

world unforgiven the appetites and pas
sions which were regnant here will tor
ment us there. suppose when the ine-
briate wakes up in the lost world there
will be an infinite thirst clawing upon
him. In this world he could get strong
drink. However poor he was in this
world, he could beg or he could steal five
cents to get drink that would for
little while Stake his thirst, but in eter-
nifty where will the rum come from?
Dives wanted one drop of water, but
could not get it. Where will the inebri-
ate get the draught he so much requires,
so much demands? No one to brew it.
No one to mix it. No one to pour it.
No one to fetch it. Millions of worlds
now for the dregs that were thrown on
the sawdusted floor of the restaurant.
Millions of worlds now for the rird
flung out from the punch bowl of an
earthly banquet. Dives called for water.
The inebriate calls for rum.
If fend from the lost world should
come up on mission to the grogshop
and, having finished the mission in the
grogshop, should come back, taking on
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 bev-
erage should drop from the wing of the
fiend upon the tongue of the inebriate,
how. he would spring up and cry:
That's it! That's it! Rum! Rum!
That's it," And all the caverns of the
lost would echo with the cry: Give it
to me! Rum! RUM" All, my friends,
the inebriate's sorrow in the next world
| will not be the absence of God or holt
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"
Thirty women in one of the western
states banded together and with an
especial ordination from God they went
forth to the work aud shut up all the
grogshops of a large village. Thirty
women, with their song and with their
prayer, and if 1000 or 1000 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
astray? If there is any sermon l dis
like, it is a sermon on generalities. /
want personalities. Are you astray ?
Have you gone so far you think you can
not get back? Did say few moments
ago that a man might go to point
in inebriation where he could not stop?
Yes, said it, and l 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 l went
over to New York one Sabbath even
ing-our church not yet being open fox
the autumnal services. | went into a
room in the Fourth ward, New York
where a religious service was being
held for reformed drunkards, and
heard revelation that night that haC
never heard before-15 or 20 men stand
ing up and giving testimony such as
\ had never heard given. They not only
testified that their hearts had beer
changed by the grace of God, but thai
the grace of God had extinguishet
their thirst. They went on to say thai
they had reformed at different time!
before, but Immediately fallen, because
they we're doing the whole work il
their own strength. But as soon al
we gave our hearts to Cod" they said
"and the love of the Lord Jesus Chris
has come into our soul the thirst has al
gone. We have no more disposition TO.
strong drink"
1t was a new revelation to me, and
have proclaimed it again and again il
the hearing of those who have far gon,
astray, and / stand here to-day to tel
you that the grace of the Lord Jesu
Christ cannot only save your soul, bu
save your body. l look off to-day upol
the desolation. Some of you are so fa
on in this habit, although there ma.
, be no outward indications of it--yo
never have staggered along the stree
5 the vast majority of people do no
know that you stimulate; but Go,
, knows, and you know, and by human
= calculation there is not one chance on
' of five thousand that you will ever b
5 stopped. Beware There are some o
: you who are my warm personal friend
J., to whom must say that unless you qui
! this evil habit within ten years, as t
e your body, you will lie down in
0 drunkard's grave; and, as to your in
t mortal soul, you will lie down in
= drunkard's hell! 1t is hard thing t
Il say, but it is true, and utter the war;
e ing lest have your blood upon my sou
u Beware! AS to-day you open the doc
o of your wine closet, let the decante
l. fash that word upon your soul: "Bt
ware!" AS you pour out the beverag
s let the foam at the top spell out til
e word, ''Beware!" In the great day c
t Gods judgment, when hundred mi
o lion drunkards shall come up to ge
:, their doom, I want you to testify thu