Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-10-04


e In order to drink drunkard is willin
d practically to go to any extreme. II
n is ready to let wife and children stary,
8 have known two drunkards VIII
' were willing to sell their own flesh an
( blood into life OF crime In order tha
: they might get liquor with which I
satisfy their diabollcal thirst. Thes
r two drunkards were not men of tn
Z lowest social rank. They were mel
who were born In as good families a
yours or mine. But why continue II
this strain? Is there any need Of IN,
longer describing how the serpent o.
intoxication can destroy q mans Low,
for his wife and his children? No. Ii
the rags Of the factories we see It; II
the scandals Of the divorce courts W,
read II; In the horrors OF the reforma
tory schools We can prove 1t. Let us
pass on In our indictment Of this coll
Ing serpent Of the wine cup.
The Solomonle serpentine evil de
stroys a mans soul as well as the tenn.
poral usefulness of his brain and the
loving power Of his heart This Is not
a pleasant subject to touch 1t is not
pleasant because many OF us have had
friends, deer friends, who have met or
are today on the way to meet a drunk
ards doom. But, ny Brother. we must
be true to the living as well as to the
dead. II you had a loved one who
was contemplating the commission Of
a heinous crime, what would you dor
Why, you would go to that friend and
say: Brother, II you do this you will
have to pass many years In Jail. II
you allow your angry passions to rise
and commit murder. you will have to
sit In the electric chair or stand under
the hangman's moose. That is the law.
That Is the law which has been car.
ried out I'm many instances In the past
and will be carried out In many In
stances In the future"
Now. my friends, what is the divine
punishment that will be meted out to
all who have been slain by the sting
Of the SOlomonic adder? Let me read
part Of just one verse from the divine
criminal code. Shall the drunkaYd IN
herit heaveni What says the epistle
OF First Corinthians? "Be not deceived;
neither idolaters, adulterers nor thieves
nor drunkards shall inherit the king.
dom Of Cod" There is no need OF
reading further. That simple Pauline
sentence covers the whole ground. 1t
seems to harmonic with the Iceland |
er's idea OF hell, which Is to be q great |
ice palace, the walls OF which are cov- |
cred with a huge mass Of swaying,
swinging serpents. Their forked |
tongues and kissing throats converge
to common center, where the con.
demned Of God crouch and tremble
and weep. Shall We not fight this ser.
pent Of intOXication. which may aptly
be compared to the Icelanders Satanic
serpents in the palace OF the Inferno?
Shall we not. one and all, fight the ser.
pents Of int0xication. which can and
do destroy happiness the other. side Of
the grave as wen as thut or tire ifrr
which is on this side?
The Drunknrd's Curse.
The Solomonic evil cannct only de {
troy u fathers or mothers TEN. [
)oral and eternal life, but it ruins I
heir children also. because the drunk.
rd's evil habit Is i;lh9ritablc The (
runkard's curse. which rests upon the 7
arent's life, can be transmitted by (
he law Of blood into the veins Of the !
ather's children and bis children's Q
hildren. Every physician Is ready to (
estify that ii IL far easier for a
son TO become drunkard \
nan for cLel whose parents have u
ever been cursed by the sting OF the 1.
ltal adder Of intOXcatIon. SO, my c
rother, as the MOhammedan mothers
'ok upon the serpent as sacred and
low the yenomous cobra 10 crawl IN.
, their cradles and sting their little
les to death, you. If you nre addicted
} the curse OF drink. are not only de- d
roying your own souls, but you are fl
so destroying the Immortal lives of S,
le unborn generation. BY looking up Is
! the wine cup when II Is red you II
e preparing the way 10 look into the lo
oodshot eyes and TO listen to the el
tongues Of your children's W
ildren, who shall meet you at the to
dgment seat OF Christ to arraIgn you tr
the cause OF their evil Inheritance fe
ID to curse you and to curse the day al
u were born. ia
But my subject is vast I must fore tn
much OF what | would like 10 say OF
arralgnIng this serpentine monster 70
d pass on to briefly discuss the to
sans with which. By the grace Of ST
ID. we can destroy It. And In this VI
,cussion | shall not touch on the az
wer Of the ballot box. That 10 a III
anne In itself. tu
rhe sure antidote for the poison Of ye
: adder Of lntoxication must be or
Ind for Christians, hrst and last and m'
the time, In the bleed Of Jesus "a
rist. It Is right to use humaB agen-
ror the cure of inebrlety, but be.
e human agencies WIN always fail I
ess they are blessed by the divine gr'
the power Of the Holy Ell
'st AS pastor and preacher and tat
perance worker / have personally yo'
d to aid In the rescue of many mo
nkards. have helped send some the
he reformatery institutions. ! have mo
IN them into my own home and edt
ght them medicines from the drug pos
es. | am free to confess that all rec
e human agencies failed except wa
n those victims Of strong drink rell
2 thrown themselves into the arms IRE
iOd and clung to Jesus Christ as reS'
: only Saviour. pos
|, We victims Of the wine cup! Oh, or
Ielpless men and women who have his
struggled in the relentless coils OF mig
Satanic serpent, which are stronger cei'
more merciless than those Of the ade
t serpent, 120 feet long. Of which
y once wrote! | beg and plead 4,
you to seek rescue from your -
tting sin in the blood OF Jesus vo"'