The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-01
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DR.. LONGS SERMON
The convention sermon was preached
by Rev. D. A. Long, D. D., of Graham
His text was "IIe that striveth for the
mastery is temperate in all things and
he spoke as follows
MY subject is ''The Anatomy of Drunk
eness.' This form OF evil is the cause
of more broken hearts and more unhappi-
ness in North Carolina than any other one
cause, and North Carolina is not alone
in this condition of affairs.
Carniverous animals have never learned
to stop fighting and killing. 1t is no use
to plead that alcohol is a food for it is
not The Bible condemns drunkenness in
every form, and condemns everything
that causes drunkenness. The words
whiskey and brandy do not occur in the
Bible because the distillation of alcoholic
spirits was not begun until long after
the Bible was written.
In many Instances men of genius are
addicted to the habit of drink. No man
ever sets out to become a drunkard. Nc
man or woman ever becomes a sinner in
a single day. The allurements are so fas-
chatting that no one realities the dan
ger to which he is tending No man adj
dicted to drunkenness can be sound in
mind or body. The phenomena of drunk
enness. While the consequences are SO
fatal it is said that the fascination is
ecstatic. The state of mind involved is
amorous, melancholy or fractions. The
last state of drunkenness is total insensi-
bility. Which is the state known as dead
drunkenness.
The use of tobacco is another form of
drunkenness Some of the best and clev-
crest people we know are users of tobacco,
but they will never complain with you
nor me if YOU never use it. The only
scripture bearing upon this subject is that
passage which says "he that is filthy let
him be filthy still.
/. Drunkenness is the cause of the large
majority of cases of unhappiness in the
world today
2. 1t is injurious to the health.
3. 1t is dangerous to be a moderate
drinker, because it nearly always ends in
drunkenness.
4. 1t is your duty as citizen to be
total abstinence.
Drunkenness produces inflammation of
the liver, stomach and brain, and the
blood of the drunkard differs from that
of the sober man. The breath of the
drinker is distressingly bad, the perspira-
ton is offensive, and the eyes become red
and watery. Drunkards nearly all become
irritable. Drunkenness causes premature
old age. Most drunkards are young and
middle aged for it is seldom that a
drunkard attains to old age.
Finally, no age has called so loudly as
this for thoroughly sober and upright
young men and women.
The final conservation service was con-
Quoted at the close of the sermon by
President Thaeler Before this service
began Mr.. Thaeler announced the men,
bers Of the Business Board for the coming
year, and stated also that the convention
of 1901 would be held in Winston Salem.
He gave as the motto for the coming
year the words found in | Tim. 3. Thou
therefore endure hardness as a good SOL
der of Jesus Christ"
Many of the delegates took part in the
conservation service and Mr.. Shaw Offer
ed the closing prayer.
THE CONVENTION ADJOURNED AT
$3.50 SINE DIE.
Resolutions of thanks were passed by
the convention thanking the people OF
Raleigh for their hospitality, the business
men for their kindness in decorating their
stores in Christian Endeavor colors, to
the railroads for the reduction of rates
and to the newspapers for their courtesy
in giving such space to the reports of the
convention.
A special resolution of thanks to the
secular press of the State was passed on
Saturday after the report of Miss Mamie
Bays, chairman of the Press Department,
thanking the press for its courtesy to
Christian Endeavor in publishing notices
throughout the year just passed.