Evening star., 1905-11-11
and was not sick; they have beaten me,
and felt 1t not; when shall awake! !
will seek It yet again.

VIII seek lt yet a8ain
| Isaiah, v:22 Woe unto them that are
| mighty to drink wine, and men of strength
to mlngle strong drink;
| %. Which justify the wicked for reward.
| and take away the righteousness OF the
| righteous from him!
| q. Therefore, as the fire devoureth the
/ stubble AMI the fame consumeth the ehaff,
SO their root shall be as rottenness, and
| their blossom shall go up dust; because
| they have cast away the law of the Lord of
hosts and despised the word OF the Holy
One of Israel.
2o. Therefore is the anger OF the Lord
kindled against his people, and he hath
stretched forth hts hand against them, and
hath smitten them: and the hills did trem-
| bic, and their carcases were torn in the
midst of the streets. For all this his anger
| is not turned away, but his hand Is
stretched out still.
The Lesson.
1t is said that some one once passing by
| saloon saw lying on the pavement in
front of the door, his head resting his
arm against a beer barrel, a man. dead
drunk, and whether from desire to point a
moral to the passersby or from some mis-
taken sense of wit, he placed placard by
ms side bearing the words: Specimen of
the work done inside and passed on.
1t might be we'll If some great painter
would take this mighty word picture III
Proverbs and paint it out in its fulness,
that the world might see and take warn
ing.
Where could one get more vivid picture
or what drink will do than is here paint
ed? The awful look upon his race his
woe Is written on his brow in neTadi-
cable lines You see him standing nelpless
before the terrible result of his own weak
Indulgence. He never thought little pleas
ant drinking with his friends would lead
hlm to this, and here sorrow has grasped
him for her own. and to hide from her and
forget her he drinks the more deeply. New
the picture deepens and grows more life
Ike. His brain is bewildered. He knows
ne Is In trouble and begins to put it upon
some one else. He meets contention where
ever he turns, and his foolish strife to no
end becomes presently but brainl ass bab-
Ding ending in a fight, and horrible
wounds without cause The end of it
an the deathly sickness, and the waking to
seek again after that which has brought 1t
all about,
Could such a painting pass before the
eyes or the boys and girls would they not
turn from 1t with Ioathing? Would they
not. recognize the fearful risk that any
soul runs who touches, tastes or handles?
r.. F. Horton NJ. A. says:
We may urge that alcohol is a medicine
ana useful medicine; but it is not as a
medicine We use it. If doctor prescribes
castor Oil, or quinine, we throw aside the
medicine on the first opportunity often
before it has done it's work Alcohol is the
only medicine which we continue to take
for lifetime because the doctor prescribed
1t for month. Would 1t not be better
then to clear our minds of cant and to set
the whole matter on its right basis? In
toXicantS are drunk as a form, as the
most universal form, of self-indulgence In
some mysterious way, for some mysterious
reasons which we cannot fathom, they graf
ify an instructive appetite, they are natur-
ally and generally attractive they exercise
spell over the physical system. .
Now one might almost suppose that the
conclusion to be drawn would Let us drink,
let US take this element as good gift of
God But no; as wisdom asserts
herself, and demands a hearing she more
and more decisively classes this taste for
lntoXlcantS with certain other tastes, which
are natural to us, but none the less dan
Serous; and she treats the bountiful provi-
sion which nature has made for the graft
fication of the taste as one of those innum-
erable temptations with which men In this
present life are surrounded, in conflict with
which they prove their manhood-by victory
over which they acquire strength of moral
principle and consistency in virtue
More and more it appears that the power
OF wine is the power of the animal within
US, and that the widespread influence of it
is sign that the animal within US dies
slowly; we learn to measure the growth of
reason by the degree of mastery which has
been obtained over the low appetite.
AS religious men, as spiritual beings, whom
God claims to become His children we are
called upon to face this subtle powerful
and all-perVaSive foe. We are to do our
best to understand its ways-we look to
science to help US and to teach us. We
are then to take every weapon within our
reach to resist its pproach-argument, per-
suasion, entreaty; we are to lose no OPP
portunity of unveiling the tactics of the
foe, and rousing those who are imperiled
to sense of their dang2r: then a S Christian
citizens we are bound to use all the infiu-
ence We possess to hold this terrible natu-
raj temptation within the straightest limits,
and to fOrtify all the powers of resistance
in our fellow men to the highest possible
degree
Applied Truth.
Not long ago a railway company in
Europe, which owned 4 small branch run
ming to famous resort. decided to run a
special return train in the evenings to the
city for the benefit of drunken people 1t
had come to pass that so many who came
out for day S excursion We're intoxicated
by night that the trains were more than
half filled with drunken people and the
sober people began TO complain of it loudly.
So the special train was announced and
word was given out that no drunken per-
sons would be allowed on the regular pas
senger trains. Just little while they ran
that train filled with drunkards and 10,
there were no more drunkards to fill it.
All the passengers were sober. The drunk
ards train had cured them. For when they
reached home and found each that they had
been classed with drunkards and shut out
from the respectable trains, shame filled
their soul, and they were brought to their
senses. 1t would be good thing II that
railroad company could go about reforming
men in that way.
How to Help the Leader.
Tell the story vouched for by one of the
professors of oxford College, England, of a
young married woman about twenty-eight
years of age, who died terrible death from
drinking. Up to the age of twenty-six she
had been q teetotaler, and had not even
known the taste of liquor She was
leading member of a gospel temperance
mission. and sang the solos at the meet
ings. Then she was taken i'll and the doc
tor ordered brandy, and it proved like the
first taste of blood to a tame tiger. She
could never be kept from it, till at last 1t
killed her. Show by few words how none
of us are safe from this horrible tempta-
ton if we once allow it. to have a hold
upon us.
Parallel Passages. kill, 2, 21;
Corinthians, iX:27; jeremiah, xxxv:5, 6;
Matthew, eiv 40, IL: II Corinthians, x:4, o.
Romans, viii:37; II Corinthians, ii:14;
Corinthians, xv:o7.
Hints to the Leaaer.-The Endeavor
Hymnal, II. 46, 40, d. 1877, $50.
Try to make the meeting helpful to those
who are tempted, for you may have a
number present who are tempted to drink,
though you would never suspect it.
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