Milford chronicle., 1902-10-03
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY OCTOBER 3, 1902.

are today on the way to meet a drunk
ards DOOM Bur. ms brother. we must
be true to the living as well as to the
dead. If you had loved one who
was contemplating the commission Of
Il heinuus crime what would you do?
Why. YOU would 20 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 he carried out in many in
stances in the future"
Now. my friends, what is the divine
punishment that viii 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
hcrit heaven? What says the epistlc
of First Corinthians? BE not deceived;
neither idolaters, adultcrers nor thieves
nor drunkards shall inherit the king
dom of God" There is no need Of
reading further That simple Pauline
sentence covers the whole ground. II
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 a huge mass Of swaying,
swinging serpents. Their fOrked
tongues and kissing thrOats converge
to a common center. where the con-
dcmned Of God crouch and tremble
and weep Shall we not fight this SER
pent Of intoxicatiOn, which may aptly
be compared to the lcelander's Satanic
serpents in the palace of the Inferno?
Shall we not. one and all. fight the ser
penis of iutoxicutiOn. 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 DrunLnrd'S Curse.
The SOlOmOnlc evil cannot only de-
strOy fathers or a mothers tenn
poral and eternal life. hut 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 childrens
children. Every physician is ready to
testify that it Is far easier for
drunkHrd'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 10 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
| are preparing the way to look into the
| blOodShOt eyes and to listen to the
disappearing tongues Of your children's
children. who shall meet you at the
! Judgment seat of Christ to arralgn you
as the cause of their evil inheritance
and to curse you and to curse the day
| you We're born.
But my subject is vast must fore
! 90 much of what | would Ike to say
in arraigning this serpentine monster
and pass on TO briefly discuss the
means with which. by the grace of
God. we can destroy it. And in this
discussion | shall not touch on the
power of the ballot box. That is a
theme in itself
The sure antidote for the poison OF
the adder of intoxication must be
found for Christians, first and last anC
all the time, In the blood of Jesus
Christ 1t is right to use human aGen
eies for the cure Of ineDriety, but be
lieve human agencies will always fail
unless they are blessed by the divine
poverty the power of the Holy
Ghost. As pastor and preacher and
temperance worker | have personally
tried to aid IN the rescue Of many
drunkurds. l have helped send some
to the reformatory institutions. | have
taken theD into my own home nnC
stores. | am free to confess that al
these human agencies failed except
when those victiIis of strong drinl
have thrown themselves into the armi
of God and chung to Jesus Christ al
their only Saviour.
Oh, We victims of the wine cup! Oh
We helpless men and women who hayl
long struggled in the relentless coils o
the Satanic serpent. which are strOnge
and more merciless than those of tn
great serpent, 100 feet long, Of whicl
Pliny once wrote! l beg and plea'
, with you to seek rescue from you
besetting sin in the blood of Jesu
Christ Divine re-enforcements save,
John B. Cough. Divine re-enfOrce
> ment saved Francis Murphy. Diyin