The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-06-30

sions which were regnant here will tor
ment us there. l 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 q
little while slake 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-
teget the draught he so much requires.
so much demands? No one to brew il.
No one to mix it. No one to pour II.
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 rind
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 a 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
tend upon the tongue of the inebriate.
how he would spring up and cry:
That's It! That's it! Rum! Ruml |
That's i'll" 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 holi-
ness or light; it will be the absence of
rum. Look not upon the wine when
1t is red, when il moyeth 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 and shut up all the
grogshops of large village Thirty
women, with their song and with their
prayer, and II 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;
1 must come to specifics. Are you
astray? II there is any sermon / dis
like, 1t is sermon on generalites. l
want personalities. Are you astray? S
Have you gone so far you think you can
not get back? Did l say few moments b
ago that man might go to a point
in inebriation where he could not stop9 d
Yes, | said it, and l reiterate 1t. But {
want you also TO understand that while ]
the man himself, of his own strength. i,
cannot stop, God can stop any man.
You have only to lay hold of the strong Il
'rm of the Lord God Almighty. He can b
'top you. Many summers ago / went II
over to New York one Sabbath even ii
ng-our church not yet being open for
he autumnal services. ! went into a ri
Dom in the Fourth ward, New York. &c
where religious service was being N
leld for reformed drunkards, and | is
eard revelation that night that had 60
ever heard before-15 or 20 men stand q
lg up and giving testimony such as l
ad never heard given. They not only T.
estified that their hearts had been =.
hanged by the grace of God, but that -
he grace of God had extinguished
heir thirst. They went on to say that -
hey had reformed at different times - -
efore, but Immediately fallen, because -. -.
ley were doing the whole work in a.
leir own strength. "But as soon as ''''
e gave our hearts to God" they said,
and the love of the Lord Jesus Christ
as come into our soul the thirst has all
one. We have no more disposition for 49,,
rong drink" WI
1t was new revelation to me, and 1
I'VE proclaimed it again and again in th'
e hearing of those who have far gone
tray, and | stand here to-day to tell fac
'u that the grace OF the Lord Jesus
lrist cannot only save your soul. but Ian
We your body. look off to-day upon Y
e desolation. Some of you are so far tic
In this habit, although there may Y
no outward indications of it-you low
yer have staggered along the street Y
the vast majority of people do not Ub
ow that you stimulate; but God u
ows, and you know, and by human o.n
lculation there is not one chance out :,
five thousand that you will ever be
)pped. Bewarel There are some of vi
u who are my warm personal friends "
whom must say that unless you quit Dec
s evil habit within ten years, as to D
ur body, you will lie down in a
grave; and, as to your i'm
rtal soul, you will lie down in a
Inkard's hell 1t is hard thing to a
?, but it is true, and l utter the warn 90
lest have vour blood ,,,,o,, -, :, sr,,I is "
ware! As to-day you open the door W
your wine closet, let the decanter fail
III that word upon your soul. BE app
rel" As you pour out the beverage, W
the foam at the top spell out the to y
I'd, "Bewarel" In the great day of wor
Is judgment, when a hundred mil is in
drunkards shall come up to get III
Ir doom, l want you to testify that thin
J day, in love of your soul and in ing
of God, l gave you warning in re- over
j to that influence which has already Ha
n felt in your home, blowing out recei
e OF its MISREPRESENTATION of the coun
kness of darkness forever. pora
D, II you could only hear intemper- mum
with drunkards bones drumming vile
he top OF the wine cask the Dead
CHI OF immortal souls, YOU would REF