Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-09-29

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young bride to cabin upon the hill
sides of the Rocky mountains The
young husband unknowingly built his
home over a den of snakes. After the
married couple had retired for the
night the fire they had lighted on that
cold winter night warmed the dormant
serpents into life. They came forth
into the room of the sleeping couple.
They crawled up upon the bed. They
buried their cruel fangs in the flesh of
man and woman alike, and the nuptial
couch became the bed of death. When
husband looks upon the wine when
it is red, he always builds his home
over a den of vipers. He lets the poi
sonous serpents crawl up into his bed
and not only slay his body, but also
poison his love for his wife and his
children, for his parents and his broth
erS and sisters, for all who ought to be
near and dear to him and whom he
ought to love better than his own life
The Heart of Drunkard.
A drunkard's heart through the touch
Of the adder of intoxication not only
becomes poisoned heart, but the mer-
CHESS heart of an inhuman monster
In order to drink drunkard is willing
practically to go to any extreme He
is ready to let wife and children starve.
l have known two drunkards who
were willing to sell their own flesh and
blood into life of crime in order that
they might get liquor with which to
satisfy their diabolical thirst. These
two drunkards were not men of the
lowest social rank They were men
who were born in as good families as
yours or mine. But why continue in
this strain? Is there any need of my
longer describing how the serpent Of
intoxication can destroy mans love
for his wife and his children? No. In
the rags of the factories we see it; in
the scandals of the divorce courts we
read it; in the horrors Of the reforma-
tory schools we can prove it. Let us
pass on in our Indictment of this coil
ing serpent of the wine cup.
The SolOmonic serpentine evil de-
stroys mans soul as we'll as the tenn
poral usefulness of his brain and the
loving power of his heart This is not
pleasant because many of us have had
friends, dear friends, who have met or
are today on the way to meet drunk
ards doom. But, my brother, we must
be true to the living as well as to the
dead. If you had a loved one who
was contemplating the commission of
a heinous crime, what would you do?
Why. you would go to that friend and
say: Brother. if you do this you will
have to pass many years in Jail. If
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 in 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 melted 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 drunkard in
herit heaven? 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 great
ice palace. the walls of which are COW
cred with huge mass of swaying,
swinging serpents. Their forked
tongues and kissing Threats converge
to a common center, where the con-
demned of God crouch and tremble
and weep. Shall we not fight this SER
pent of intoXication, which may APPLY
be compared to the Icelander's Satanic
serpents in the palace of the Inferno?
Shall we not, one and all, fight the SER
penis of intOXication, which can and
do destroy happiness the other side of
the grave as well as that of the life
] which is on this side?
The Drunkard's Curse.
! The Solomonic evil cannot only de-
! strOy fathers or a mothers tenn
poral and eternal life, but it ruins
their children also, because the drunk
ards evil habit is inheritable The
drunkard's curse, which rests upon the
parents life, can be transmitted by
the law of blood into the veins of the
fathers children and his children's
children. Every physician is ready to
testify that it is far easier for a
drunkard's son to become drunkard
than for child whose parents have
never been cursed by the sting of the
fatal adder of intoxication. So, my
brother, as the Mohammedan mothers
look upon the serpent as sacred and
allow the venomous cobra to crawl in
to their cradles and sting their little
ones to death, you, if you are addicted
to the curse of drink, are not only de-
stroying your own souls, but you are
also destroying the immortal lives of
the unborn generation. BY looking up
on the wine cup when it is red you