REY. DR. TALMAGE. The Emdoent Washington Sunday Sermon. Subject: “Ehe Song of the Drunkoards ————— Text: “I was the song of the drunkards" wel’salors Ixix., 12. Who said that? Was it Christ? It was both, These Mossianio Psalms are like a teloscope, Pall the instru ment to a certain range, and it shows you an object near by. Pull it toanother range, and it will slow you objects far away. David and Christ were both, each in his own time, the song of the draockards. Holiness of doo- trine and life always did excite wicked merri- ment. Although David had fully reformed and written a psalmody in which all subse- quent ages have s sbbed out their peaitence, his enemies preferred to fetch up his old eareer and put into metric measures sins long before forgiven. Christ who commit- ted no sin, was still more the subject of un- holy song, because the better one is the more iniquity hates him. Of the best being whose voiso ever moved the air or whose fool aver touched the earth it might be said: The by Wor rd ol the passing throng, The ruler's scoff, the drunkard’s song. The earth fitted up for the human race, in congratulation the morning stars sang a gong. The [araelitish army safe on the bank of the Red Sea and the Egyptians clear un- der the returned water, Moses sang a song. One of the most important parts of this great old book Is Solomon's song. At the birth of our Lord the Virgin Wl Ary § and aagelie prima do wing SANE a4 song, What e: nant bee given to the w weld's ment by the ballads, cants, the ditties, the the lyries, the dithyr calls attention to a style has never been diso times hear this style a saloon, id is ascend: night you h from those wh cups, are the inebriate, ized, or what drunkards, For pra Christian p the chara cadence remarx i is an old so world and First came elapping a hammer ing of the w the flute, and the t« harp. Bu hack first parent; ards, years Came ( with t } pre to strong drink a: fe ha frat ages the 4 David or was it id Simeon i iouds rs irtolsa as ad the first acy. An “Noah, b each of ward tl planting which t ft was wanting, Gabriel the ad desired angels of Jenny Lind singe afford the § Vv but ths luxuri this dest The lig room, th of their ke article remnant Hest ti sive of ards, a prot tari whets most of NeoRSa Tr y IT most of ti and pu penitern throat of taskmaste erotuches the drunkar the vlank o voverty, th *he ereaki erash of pires, ars which r in the destruction of the supporting invalids and the erimin drink eanses, is 4 smal is pail for this ax xpaneive song ards, Again, this multitndinons not a quartet, millions are this i ¥ . 10 think that » bBolism has this Aaeid all to it self, It has | 1 yats this grain the Is in the intoxicants wh and ar K. antl gaavo and masiie and wedro, Every Nation, barbaric as well as eivilized, has its pet into yxieant, This song of the drunkards iz rendered in Chinese, Hindoo, Arabian, Assyrian, Persian, Mogi ann yea, all the langnages. All zones join it. No continent wonald be large enough for the choir gallery if all those who have this libretto in their bands should stand sides by side to chant the iolernni ional shoras, Other throngs are just learning the eight notes of this deathiul music, which Is already mas. tered by the orchestras to fall voles under the batons in full swing, Al the musicians assembled at Dusseldorf, or Bertin, or Boston peace jubilee, rendering symphonies, re. ulems or grand marches of Mendelssohn or agner, or Chopin or Handel, were insig- nificant in numbers as eompared with the innumerable thromgs, hosts besides hosts, oh the on gallery, who are now pouriog h the song of the drunkards, Years ago, standing before a bulletin board in New York on the night of a Presie dential election day, as the news came in es the street ome man, in deep, ronan: pr started, to the tune undred, Praise God, from whom blessings flow.” and soon all up and and paique and opium, town the street the voleos joined in the dox- logy, May God speed the day when the wong of rescue and salvation shall drown with an overwhelming surge this mighty wn of the drunkards! Notice that the second noun of my toxt is in the plural. Not “drankard,” but drunkards.” It would be dull work to sing that song solitary and alone. It 18 generally a chorus. They are in groups. On that lownward way there must be companion. Here and there {8 4 man 80 moan as but generous mon, bar or in res- plz hearted men, drinkiog at mortified to laurant or in clubhouse, feel ake the beverage unaccompanied, There whom to click the tim of the glusses, some one's health to pro- pose, some sentiment to toast, There must va two, and still better it four, and still bet- to give zest to the song of the Those who have gone down pame of at least one Generally it is was a little in financial resources, Sur friend felt flattered to have an nvitation from one of superior name, Each one drank not only whan he felt like Neither lacking in soclality when So 100,000 men every year into hell, Pogather are they 1 of evil habit, togethsr they travel air doom, together they make mor. ywardies and Puritanioal senti- ment of those who never indulge, together they join their voless in the song of the irankards. If the one proposes to stop, the pther will not let him stop, When men are wn themselves, they do not want ww to turn ba Those Who turn baek if and caricature of hose who | y on, § iora will be ¢ ; racy te § wmok ha old places have them sould mentjon the who lite or one n social wanted to seem he was invited, nanscle toward th ry aver the Q i thelr associat will y= snew the so Azada, the song earned, lkrough itl one must pnd inspiring sin tie of - ao 3 § nr rance societ vesoms, Th I saver 8071 Bat in by sirong I have been at a cot for two hours and a half, and many pee got up and leit becanss it was too jong ioty-lve per cent, of th enteral mission are annually 1 at all, Fre, 19 ¥ But yee wh nkards’ song will to the jast breath of the sir lungs and the last boat of thelr hearts keep on rene ring it, and the gallaries of earth and heaven aad hell will stay filled with the astouaded spectators. It is such a cone tinuous and prolonged song that one fesis Itke making the pr ayer which a reformed : rials once made: “Almighty God! If it bs Thy will that maa should suffer, what- ever seemeth good in Thy sight ime posse upon me, Let the bread of af fliction be given ma to eat, Take from ma the friends of my confidence, let the eold hat of poverty be my dwelling place and the wasting hand of disease inflict its painful torments, Let ma sow in the whirls wind and reap in the storm, Let those have ms in derision who are younger than IL Let the passing away of my welfare be like the fleeting of a eloud, and the shouts of my enemies Hke the rashing of waters, When I aaticipate good, let evil annoy me, When I look for light, let darkness eome upon me, Let the terrors of death be ever bafore me, Do all this, but save me, merciful Goa! save me from the fate of a drunkard, Amen" You see this sermon js not so much for cure as for prevention. Stop belore start, if Jou will forgive the soleclsm, clock of Paul's cathedral struck thirteen midnight, hy #0 saved the life of a sen- The soldier was arrested and tried Put three or four pers sons, hearing of the case, ame up in time to swear that they, too, heard the clock strike 13 tha* same midnight, and so the man's life was spared, My hearer, if you go on and thoronghly learn the drunkards’ song, perhaps in the deep midnight of your soul thers may sound somnething that wiil vot offeot your moral and eternal rescoe, But it is a risky “‘perhapsy It Is excep- tional, Go ahead on that wrong road, and the elook will mors probably strike tho 12 ! pentonead to death, that it will strike 13, the sound of your de liveranoe, church a man whom I had known in other yoars confronted me, At the first glance 1 saw that he was in the fifth and last act o} | Rhe tragedy of intemperance, | Swyen in his ruin. The same brilliant eye, and the same courtly manners, and the rey mains of the same intellectual endow, ments, but a wreck. I had seen that oraff when it plowed the waters, all sails sot and running by true compass; wife and chil. dren and friends on board, himself com. manding in a voyage that he would be glorious, putting into prosperoug harbars of earth ana at last putting into the harbor of heaven. But now a wreck, towed along by low Apputiten, that ever and anon run him into the breacers—a wreck of body, a wrack of mind, a wreok “Where is your wife?" “I do not “Whers are your children?’ *I do not know." “Where is voar God?” 1 do not know,’ That man {3 coming to the last verse of that long cantata, that protracted threnody, that terrific song of the drunkards, But if thess words should know tho largest audience I of soul, know." some--for reach I sno at all—T sav if these words should come, though at the ends of t earth.to a fal len n lot me say! 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