St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-03

cOuDtendnce. WHO WOuiu nave Dccu III
the house of God this morning as well
clad as You had it not been that strong
drink drove their parents down into
penury and then down into the grave.
Oh, rum, rum, thou despoiler of homes,
thou foe of God, thou recruiting officer
o&the pit. hate thee!
But my subject takes a deeper tone
when it tells you that the inebriate suf-
fers the loss of the soul. The Bible in
Inmates that if we go into the future
world unforgiven the appetites and pas
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 a
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-
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 rind
flung out from the punch bowl of an
earthly banquet. Dives called for water.
The inebriate calls for rum.
If a fiend 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
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 cayerns 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
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 adj
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 il 1000 or 1000 Christian
men and women with an especial ordi-
nation from God should go forth feeling
the responsibility of their work and
their mission. they could
in any city shut up all the grogshops.
But I must not dwell on generalities;
I must come to specifics. Are you
astray? If there is aLy sermon 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 man might go to a point
in inebriation where he could not stop?
Yes, i said it, and 1 reiterate it. But I
want you also to understand that while
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 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 l
;scard a revelation that night that had
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 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"
1t was a new revelation to me, and
have proclaimed it again and again in
the hearing of those who have far gone
astray. and stand here to-day to tell
YOU that the grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ cannot only save your soul, but
save your body. l look off to-day upon
the desolation. Some Of you are 80 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. aud by human
there is not one chance out
of five thousand that you will ever be
stopped. Beware! There are some of
you who are my warm personal friends
to whom must say that unless you quit
this evil habit within ten years, as to
your body, you will lie down in q
grave; and, as to your inn
soul, you will lie down in q
hell! 1t il hard thing to
say, but it is true, and utter the warn
ng lest / have your blood upon my soul
Beware! As to-day you open the door
of your wine closet, let the decanter
fash that word upon your soul: BE
ware!" AS you pour out the beverage.
ct the foam at the top spell out the
word, "Bewarc!" In the great day OF
iod's Judgment, when a hundred mil
ion drunkards shall come up to get
heir doom. want you to. testify that
his day, in love of your soul and in
ear of God. 1 gave you warning in re-
.ard to that influence which has already
been felt in your home, blowing out
ome Of its Misrepresentation OF the
,lackness of darkness forever.
Oh, if you could only hear intemper-
lnce with drunkards' bones drumming
IN the top of the wine cask the Dead
March" of immortal souls, you would
% home and kneel down and pray God
hat rather than your children should
.ver become the victims Of this evil
labit you might carry them out to the
cemetery and put them down in the
ast slumber, waiting for the flowers Of