The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-22
INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON
(Copyright, Davis V. Clsrk.) - - -ssx

blessed rest which comes from obedience to the Divine precepts.
 But the Lord's word was offensive to them from its very simplicity. They re- Jected it; %. like a drunken man. the nation tottered, stumbled to its ruin.
 The Teachers Lantern.
 The woe of God against the drunkard is not capricious or sporadic affair. It is interwoven with the physiological con- stitution. The sources of retribution are not external. but internal. Every inebri- ate carries the fire and birthstone of his own hell in his very person.
 The prophet talks by the book. He is true to physiological science, not of his date only, but of ours. He vividly depicts the imperceptfble growth of the alcoholic appetite: the cord becomes the cart-rope. How soon the bon vivant finds himself in the hopeless treadnill of an uncontroll- able passion! Henceforth his might con- sists in his capacity to drink, and simple wine gives place to fiery connections. Then follows complete perversion of moral Ideas. The denouement is death and he'll
 There is hint to modern temperance lecturers in this Old Testament temper ance address They are sometimes them- selves incorporate. Intemperance can show itself also not only in the length of time and vital force wasted, but in the language used; in extravagance, and vim dictive vituperation.
 Again. the predilection for funny sto- ries, the dramatic imitation of the drum kard's staggering gait and maudlin speech, Ten Nights in a Bar-room," and all that, tend to familiarize youth with vice. and to minify the towering evil of our day.
 Isaiah Is the model temperance orator. -<vr1A tr zlA @zl zI~ IT. is conscious ambassador of God. His great heart is stirred to it's depths He depicts the case as it is. He stands across the downward track of a nation and, with the self-obliviousness of . noble na- ture, uses every, worthy argument and entreaty to stay it's course.
 Lyman Beecher was the Prophet Isaiahs style of temperance reformer. One of my saintliest of stewards, in ar, early charge, startled me one day by ad- hitting that he kept a barrel of whiskey in back room, and, like most shopkeep- CTS, treated his customers; but on hear ing Dr. Beecher he went home, rolled the barrel into the yard. broke in the head, and poured the whiskey on the ground. For sixty years he has not touched or tasted liquor himself nor offered 1t to others. He said that Beecher was like flame of fire on his conscience. His logic was remorseless. his appeal ire sistible.
 Lyman Beecher was the instaurator of q noble college of temperance apostles President Hitchcock, Albert Barnes, stephen Tyng. Wilbur Fisk, Eliphalet Mott. Moses Stewart, Francis Wayland, Leonard Woods. Justin Edwards. The prophecy of pr. Tyng has it's fulfillment The names of the good men who have founded and urged on this moral temple shall live in the hallowed recollection of millions as men of high and spotless honor"
 The imperative need of the hour is that men of this high intellectual. social, and ecclesiastical grade shall supplant the shallow, illiterate, mercenary. political, and ranting order. Pray ye. therefore that the Lord will send the Prophet Isaiah style of laborers into this vineyard.