Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-04-30

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those on the merchantmen - the cap
tain's helpless wife and his Innocent,
weeping child. "What did the piratical
leader then do p said Father Taylor HE
ordered grog to be served. Even those
murderers of men had heart until
gill of rum and molasses apiece took IL
away. No sooner was the rum swal-
lowed than this mother and her child |
were struck down by the men, whose
infamed hearts and brains were with
out mercy" All, yes; the drunkards
sins are scarlet. They are sins which
make men capable OF fiendish work,
even to the death of helpless mother
and her innocent babe.
Drink Destroys Spiritual Life.
Some people will tell you that men
drink to drown their sorrows. tell
you that when men drink they stain
their souls. No sooner is the drunk
ards poisonous draft taken into the
blood than the man seems to be pos
sessed with rabies and must go forth
to scatter death wherever lie can. Ihe
human being inoculated with the pol
son of intoxicants seems to be endowed
with the power to destroy spiritual and
often physical life, as was the inocu-
lated rabbit of Australia to destroy the
physical life Of beast, bird and man.
Many years az an Australian colonist
was homesicB ior the sight of the Eng
lish rabbit. 4 fe had one Of his friends
ship him a couple as pets to his faroH
southern home. Those rabbits escaped
from their master and began to breed.
Their progeny increased until they
were almost as countless as the sands
Of the sea. The Australian rabbit
plague destroyed the crops. They be-
came as great curse as is the seven
teen year locust to the American farm
er. They were numbered by the mil
lion. The Australian parliament was
bewildered with the problem. A re-
ward of 100000 was offered for any
man who could devise practical plan
TO exterminate them. Wire fences were
built across that island continent The
rabbits were hunted with guns and
dogs and entrapped everywhere, but
still their numbers grew. At length, as
q last resort, some rabbits were caught
and Inoculated with the fatal serum or
hydronhobla. Then n greater danger
than before menaced these southern
colonists. These mad rabbits not only
bit otIier rabbits, but they bit dogs and
sheep and cattle, and even bit men and
women and children. SO when the
drunkard's blood is once inoculated
with The poison 1t seems to create III
its victim mad passion to destroy life
Ii seems to make man absolutely IN
different how he might crush out the
heart of his wife, his child or his
friend. A man drinks to drown sor
row? Oh, no! He drinks to crafty hi'
Unsuitable craving, reckless of the con
sequences. though they may Involve biz
becoming recreant to his duty to thu
HELPLESS woman and the Innocent chill
dren who are dependent on his exer
tions and have the strongest OF al
! elaiise sSn hls loyalty, his truth and hh
honor.
Reddest of All Sins.
The crunkard's sins, without doubt
must be classed among the reddest o
all scarlet sins. Now comes the prac
tical question, Will God cleanse tn
drunkard's sins? When we say he
n loathsome. heartless, good for moth
ing drunkard do we mean, There
no hope for the drunkardY Some o
us have such a lack of faith that w
do mean this; but God never mean
nor said it. purge me with hysso
and I shall be clean; wash me, an
| I shall be whittier than snow" is a d
rect refutation Of the charge tina
Z Christ will not forgive the drunkard
sins. Oh, man, though by drunkel
[ ness you have sold your home unde
| the sheriffs hammer, though you hav
wrecked your business and had you
ewes horror struck with the kaleld'
{ scope of dellrium tremens, yet there
: even pardon and peace for you! TheI
: ia the same message Of salvation an
: rescue for you that there was t'
9 Francis Murphy, or Cough, or Captai
e Barbour. or as there is for the score
Y and hundreds upon hundreds OF +
e formed drunkards who every nigl
Y are found testifying to the gloriol
g rescuing power of the gospel OF jest
v Christ. Though your drunkards sli
s be as scarlet, they shall be as whi
d as snow; though they be red like crir
d son, they shall be as WOOL
. An AppeaI to Young Men.
Il Young man. you who today are ha
y Ing your life's blood squeezed out
E YOU by the upper and the neither mi
't stones of q drunkard's sins, Will "
- not accent this salvation for yo
II emancipation from evil? VIII you n
L. seek Christ as a refuge from the q
ie struction Of the drunkard, which seer
"a 70 be going on everywheref How &c
n eral the drunkard's eternal overtime
Is rev pcOIlc stOp W AN"'N'
4 years ago these sardonic lines fell IN
'r my hands; let me read them 10 yo
. There was an old decanter, and Its mor
sc was gaping wide;
~ The rosy wine had ebbed away ana
IN It's crystal side.
.,d Tho wind went hummlng, hummin
iu up and down the sides 1t flew,
lie And through the reedlike. hollow neck
In widest notes 1t blew.
n. 7 placed It in the window. where the Di
was blowing free,
And fancied that Its pale mouth sang
ne queerest strains to me:
IN "They tell me, puny conquerors'
"A plague has slain his ten.
III And war his hundred thousands OF
Ill very best OF men,
lis But T'-'twas thus the bottle spake-'t
l,o have conquered more
Than all your famous conquerors,
)s- famed and feared Of yore.
ed Then come, ye youths and maidens a
no come. drink from out my cup
- The beverage that dulls the brain a
oy hurns the spirit up,