The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-05-06
TERR0RS OF DRINK.
Dr.. TslDage breaches Of the Evils
Of the Liquor Traffic
In an E~Ioaaeht sermon He Depicts
the Drunkard's wse-The Ram
Fiend's Mission L. TO De-
stroy All Good.

Copyright 1850. by Louis Rlopsch. Wash
ington. April %.
AT this time, when the evils Of the
drink traffic are being widely discussed
and the movement for the abolition Of
the degrading and brutslizing canteen
In our military camps is gaining many
supporters, this sermon by DIR. Tai
mage, dealing with the broader aspects
Of the plague of intemperance should
cheer and inspire the friends Of tenn
perance everywhere. His text is Exo-
aus i1:e. And there shall be a great
cry throughout all the land Of Egypt"
This was the worst Of the ten plaques.
The destroying angel at midnight
tapped his wing over the land, and
there was one dead in each house. La
mentstion and mourning and woe
through ell Egypt. That destroying
angel has fed the earth, but q far worse
has come. He sweeps through these
cities. II is the destroying angel Of
strong drink. Far worse devastation
wrought by this second than by the
first. The calamity in America worse
than the calamity in Egypt. Thousands
Of the slain, millions Of the slain. No
arithmetic can calculate their number.
Once upon a time four fends met in
the lost world. They resolved that the
people Of our earth were too happy,
and these four Intervals came forth to
our earth on embassy Of mischief. The
n fend said: "l'l take charge Of the
Vineyards" Another said: an take
charge Of the grainfelds." Another
said: "In take charge Of the dairy"
Another said: an take charge Of the
music" The four fends met in the
great Sahara desert, with skeleton I'm.
gers clutched each other in handshake
Of fidelity, kissed each other good-by
with lip Of blue fame, and parted on
their mission.
The fend Of the vineyard came In one
bright morning amid the grapes and sat
down on a root Of twisted grapevine in
sheer encouragement. The fend knew
not how TO damage the vineyard, or
through IL, how to damage the world.
The grapes were so ripe and beautiful
and luscious. They bewitched the ali
with their sweetness. There seemed 10
be SO much health in every bunch, and
while the iend sat there in utter indig.
nation and disappointment he clutched
a cluster and squeezed II in perfect
spite, and 10! his hand was red with The
blood Of the vineyard, and the flend
said: That reminds me Of the blood Of
broken hearts. I'll strip the vineyard
and I'll squeeze out all the juice Of the
grapes, and III allow the juices Of the
grapes to stand until they rot, and III
call the process fermentation" And
there was a great vat prepared, and
people came with their cups and their
pitchers, and they dipped up the blood
ofthe grapes, and they drank and drank
and went away drinking, and they
drank until they fell in long lines OF
death, 80 that when the fend Of the
vineyard wanted 10 return TO his home
in the pit he stepped from carcass "a
carcass and walked down amid q great
eauseway of the dead.
Then the second fend came into the
grainfield. He waded chin deep amid
the barley and the rye. He heard all the
grain talking about bread and prosper.
Gus %husbandry and thrifty homes. He
thrust his long arms into the grainfeld,
and he pulled up the grain and threw 1;
into the water. and he made beneath II
great ~ires-fres lighted with a spark
from his own heart-and there were q
grinding and smashing and q stencil,
and the people came with their bottles,
and they poured the fiery liquid, and
they drank, and they blasphemed, and
they staggered, and they fought, and
they rioted, aud they murdered, and
the hend Of the pit, the fend Of the
grainteld, was 80 pleased with their be.
havior that he changed HIS residence
from the pit TO the whisky barrel, and
there he sat by the door Of the bunghole
laughing In high merriment at the
thought that out Of ANYTHING 90 harm