Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-04-29

drunkard suffers Pain files on every
nerve and travels every muscle and gnaws
on every bone and stings with every poison
and pulls with every torture. What rep
tiles crawl over his shivcring limbs, What
spcctcrs stand by his midnight pillows,
What groans tear the air Talk Of tine
rack, talk Of the funeral pyrc talk Of the
Juggcrnaut lie suffers them all at once.
The Inebriate's Death.
See the attendants stand back from that
ward in the hospital where the inebriatcs
are dying They cannot stand il. The
keepers come through il and say: Hush
up now stop making this noise BE
still! You are disturbing all the other
patients Keep still now Then the
keepers pass on, and after they get past
then the poor creatures wiring their hands
and say: oh, God Help, help, Give
mo rum, give me rum, Oh, God, Hclpl
Take the devils of of me, oh. God: oh.
tod g. And they Shrek and they bias
phcme, and they cry for help, and then
they ask the keepers to slay them. saying:
stab me stranglc me smother me. Oh,
God Help. help! Rum, Give me rum!
oh, God Help They tear out their
hnir by the handful. and they bite their
nails into the quick This is no fancy pic
turc II Il transporting in hospital at
this moment. II went on last night while
you slept. and more than that. that is the
death s,,,ue Of You will die unless Won stop.
see il coming. God help you to stop he
furc Won 70 20 far that yuu cannot stop.
But il plaques "A mnn also in the loss of
home. ! do not care how much he loves
his wife and children, if this habit gets
the mastery over him he will do the most
outrageous things II need be. in order to
get strong drink he would sell them all
into everlasting captivity. There are hun.
drcds and thousands Of homes that have
been utterly blasted OF it, am speaking
~ no abstraction Is there anything 50
disastrous Ia man for this life and for
the life Ia come? Do you tell me that n
man can bc happy when he knows he is
breaking his wifc's heart and clothing his
children with rags. There are little chill
drcn in the streets today bnrefnotcd. un
kcmpt. uncombcd, want written on every
patch of their faded dress and on every
wrinkle of their prcmaturcly old countc
nance. who would have been i'm the house
Of God this morning as well clad n you
had il not lcen that strong drink drove
their parents down into pcnury and then
down into the grave. oh. rum, rum,
thou dcspolcr Of homes, thou foc Of God,
thou recruiting officer of the pit, | hate
thee,
But my subject takes a deeper tone
when IL tells you that the incbriatc suffers
the loss of the soul The Bible intmatcs
that If we 20 into the future world unfor
given the appctitcs and passions which
were rcgnant here will torment US there.
suppose when the inehriatc wakes up in
= 4 All
thirst clawing upon him In this world
he could get strong drink However poor
he was in this world. he could beg or no
could steal ! cents Ia get a drink that
would for a little while Stake his thirst,
hut i'm eternity where will the rum come
from? Dives wanted one drop of water.
hut could not get H. Where will tho inc
hriatc get the draft he 50 much requires.
50 much demands? No one 10 brew it. No
one To- mix it. No one to pour il. No
one to fetch il. Millions OF worlds now
for the drcgs that were thrown on the
sIwdusttd floor of the restaurant Mil
lions of worlds now for the rind flung out
from the punch bowl of an earthly han
quct Dives called for water. The inc
briate calls for rum.
u Biteth Like "A serpent.
If "A flcnd from the lost world should
come up ON "A mission "a gragshop and.
having finished the mission in the grog-
shop, should come back. taking on the tip
Of his wing one drop Of alcoholic bcvcr-
age what excitement IL would make all
through the world Of the lost. and. II that
one drop Of alcoholic beverage should drop
from the wing Of the tlcnd upon the
tongue Of the incbriatc. how he would
spring mp aud cry: THAT it That : 1t!
Rum, Rum, That's IT,! And all the
Cavcrns Of the lost would echo with the
cry: GIVE IL to me, RUM Rum" All.
my friends. the inchriatc's sorrow In the
next world will not be- the absence of God
or holiness or light. II will be the alb
scncc of rum. Look not upon the wine
when IL is red, when IL movcth itself
Alright In the cup. for Mt the last it bitcth
like serpent, and 1t stingcth like an
adder.
When see this plague in the land and
when | see this destroying angel sweeping
across our great cities | ann sometimes
indignant and sometimes Inundated.
When man asks me, what are you in
favor Of for the subjuga,ion Of this evil?
answer. Il am ready for anything that
Is reasonable" You ask me, Are you in
favor of Sons Of temperance YES Are
you in favor Of good Samaritansg" Yes.
Arc you in favor of Good Tcmplarsg"
Yes. Are yon In favor of prohibitory
law" Yes Are you in favor of the
pledge" Yes Combine all the inilu-
cnccS, o Christian rrf0rmcrs and philan-
thropistS, Combine them all for the cx-
tirpation Of this evil.
Thirty women in one of the western
states banded together, and with an cspc-
cinl ordination from God they went forth
20 the work and shut mp all the grogshops
Of large village Thirty women, with
their song and with their PRAYER And IL
! 600 or .nUO Christian men and women
with an especial ordination from God
/ should 20 forth feeling the responsibility
of their work and discharging their mis-
sion th,y could in any city shut up all the
grogShops
But mast not dwell on gcneralitics
must come - specifies. Are you astray?
| II there il any sermon ! dislike it is "A
sermon on gencrllitics | want PERSONAL
/ tics Are You astray? Have you gone so
far you think you cannot get back; Did
say "a few moments ago that "a man might
cotton point IN iucbriation where he could
not stups Yes | said IT, and rcitcrato
I IL But | want ynu also Ia understand
1 that, while the man himself Of his own
1 strength cannot stop. God can stop any
man You have only Ia lay hold 81 the
strong arm Of the Lord God Almighty
/ He can stop you. Many summers ago |
I went over To- New York one sabbath even
4 ing, our church not yet being open for
Z the autumnal services. went into room
/ In the Fourth ward. New York where a
/ religious service WAS being held for re-
/ formed drunkarts, and | heard - rcVcla-
/ tiun that might that | had never heard he
/ fur'--li ar 20 men standing up and Civ
I ing testimony such as had never heard
I given They not only testified that their
hearts had been changed hy the grace Of
I God, but thnt the grace uf tod had cNtin-
I guiShcd their thirst. They went on Ia say
/ that they had reformed al different times
/ before, hut Immediately fallen because
/ they were doing the whole work in their
own strength " But ~ soon as we gave
our hearts L. God. they said ''and the
I love of the Lord Jesus Christ has como
/ into our SOIL the thirst has all gone We
/ have no more disposition for strong drink, "
IL was new revelation Ia me. and |
Tried Friends Best.