REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Subject: “The Plague of Alcohol Tha Drunkard's Wee Depleted fn Eirong Colors—Rum's Mission is to Destroy All Goodw=A Call to Christians, Text: “And there shall be a great ory throughout all the land of Egypt." —Ex« odus xi., 6, This was the worst of the ten plagues, The destroying angel at midnight flapped his wing over the land, and there was one dead in each house. Lamentation and mourning and woe through all Egypt, That destroying angel has fled the earth, but a far worse hus come. He sweeps through these cities, It is the destroying angel of strong drink. Far worse devasta- tion wrought by this second than by the first, The calamity in America worse than the ealamity in Egypt. Thousands of the slain, millions of the slain, No arithmetio ean ealeulate their number. Once upon a time four fiends met in the lost world, They resolved that the people of our eurth were too happy, and these four infernals came forth to our earth on embassy of mischief. The one flend sald, “I'll take charge of the vineyards." An. other sald, “I'll take charge of the grain fields.” Another said, “I'll take charge of the dairy.” Another sald, “I'll take charge of the music.” The four flends met in the great Sahara desert, with skeleton fingers clutehed each other in handshake of fidel- ity, kissed each other goodby with lip of blue flame and parted on their mission. The flend of the vineyard came in one bright morning amid the grapes and sat down on a root of twisted grapevine in sheer discouragement, The flend knew not how to damage the vineyard, or, through it, bow to damage the worid. The grapes were so ripe and beautiful and luscious. They bewitched the air with their sweetness. There seemed to be so much health in every bunch, and while the flend sat there in utter indignation and disappointment he clutched a cluster and squeezed it in perfect spite, and, lo! his band was red with the blood of the vinevard, and the flend said: “That re. minds me of the blood of broxen hearts. I'll strip the vineyard, and I'll squeeze out all the juice of the grapes, and I'll aliow the juices of the grapes to stand until they rot, and I'll eall the proeess fermenta- tion.’ And there was a great vat pre. pared, and people came with their cups and their pitchers, and they dipped up the blood of the grapes, and they drank and drank and went away drinkiog, and they drank until they fell in lopg lines of death, s0 that when the flend of the vineyard wanted to return to his Pome in the pit he stepped from carcass to carcass and walked down amid a great causeway of the dead, Then the second ’flend came into the grainfleld. He waded chin deep amid the bariey and the rie, He heard ail the grain talking about bread and prosperous bus bandry and thrifty homes. He thrust his long arms into the graiofleld, and he pulled up the grain and threw 1t into the water, and be made beneath it great flres——fires lighted with a spark from his own heart— and there were a grinding and a mashing and stench, and the people came with their bottles, and they Spped up the flery liquid, and they drank, and they blasphemed, and they staggered, and they fought, and they rioted, and they murdered, and the flend of the pit, the flend of the grainfield, was so pleased with their behavior that he changed his residence from the pit to & whisky bar- rel, and there he sat oy the door of the bunghole laughing in bigh merriment at the thought that out of anything so harm. less as the grain of the fleld he might turn this world into a seeming pandemonium, The flend of the dairy saw the cows com. ing homie from the pasture field, full ud. dered, snd as the maid milked he said, “I'll soon spoil all that mess, I'll add to it brandy, sugar and nutmeg, and 1'31 stir it into a milk punch, and ebildren will drink it and some of the tem wee people will drink it, and IL ean do them m I'll give them a headache, and then I'l band them over tothe more vigoroos fiends of the satanic delegation.” And then the fiend of the dairy leaped upon the shell and danced until the long row of shining milkpans almost quaked, The flend of the music entered a grog. shop, and there were but few customers, Finding few customers, he swept the eir- cuit of the city, and be gatbered up the musical instruments and after nightfall he marshalled a band, and the trombones blew and the eymbails clapped and the drums beat and the bugles called and the jecpie erowded in, and they swung around n merry dance, each one with a wivegiass in his hand, and the dance became wilder and stronger and rougher, nati] the room shook and the glasses cracked and the lon: broke and the crowd dropped into heli, Then the four flends—the flend of the vineyard and of the grainfield and of the dairy and of the music hall-went back to their home, and they held high carnival because their work had been so well done, and satan rose from his throne and an. nounced that there was no danger of the earth's redemption so long as thess four flends could pay sach tax to the diabolie. And then ail the demons and all the sprites and all the flends filled their glasses and clicked ‘hem and cried: “Let us drink— drink to the everiasting prosperity of the liquor traffic! Here's to woe and darkness and murder and death! Drink! Drink!” Bat whetner by allegory or by appalisg statistic this subject is presanted vou know as well as I that it is impossible to exag. gerate the evils of strong drink. A plague! A plague! In the first piace the inebriate suffers from the loss of a good name. God 40% 80 arranged it that no man loses his reputation except Ly his own act. The world may assault a man, and all the powers of darkness may assault him-—they cannot capture him so long as his heart is pure and his iife Is pure. All the powers of earth and bell cannot take that Gibral. iar. Ifa man is right, ali the bombard. ment of the world for 5, 10, 20, 40 years will only strengthen him in his position, Bo that all you bave to do is to keep oursell right. Never mind the world. Let t say what it will. It ean do you no damage. But as soon as it is whispered, “He drinks,” and it ean be proved, he begins to go down, What clerk ean get a position with such a reputation? What store wants him? What church of God wants him for a member? What dying man wants him for an executor? “He drinks!’ I stand before hundreds of young men and [ say it not in flattery splendid young men who have thelr reputation as thei only eapital, Your father gave you a good education, or as good an education as he could afford to give you. He started you in city life. He could furnish youd ne means, but he has surrounded you wit Christian influences and a good memory o the past. Now, young man, under God yon are with your own right arn to achieve your fortune, and as your reputation i¢ your only eapital do not bring upon it sos. Jicton by going in and out of Higuor estab. ish ments of by an odor of your breath ot by nny glare of your eye or by any unuats ural flush on your cheeks, ot lose yout reputation and you lose your eapital, The inebrinte suffers also in the fact that hie loses his self respect, and when you des stroy a man's self respect there ls not much left of him. Then aman will do things be would not do otherwise, Le will say things he would not say otherwise. The fact is, that man cannot stop or he would stop Bow, He Is bound band and foot by the Histines, and they have shorn big jooke and put bis eyes out and made him grind in the wills of a great horror. After be is _ three-fourths gone iv this slavery the first thing he wili be anxious to impress you with is that h wants to row.” His most confidential friend save; “Why, I'm airald you are losing your balance with that habit. You are going a little further than you ean afford to go. You had better stop.” “Oh, no!” he says. “I can stop at any time. I ean Stop now." He goes on further and further. He can- pot stop. 1 will prove it. He loves hime self, and he knows neverthelessthat strong drink is depleting him in body, mind and poul, He knows he is going down; that he lias less self control, less equipolse of tem- per, than he used to. Why does he not stop? Because hecannot stop. I will prove it by going still further. He loves his wifes nnd children. He sees that his habits are bringing disgrace upon his home, The probabilities are they will ruin his wife and disgrace his children. Hesocesall this, and he loves them. Why does nénotstop?y He cannot stop. Oh, my young friends, I want to tell you that there is a point in Inebriation beyond which if a man go he cannot stop! Bat sometimes a man will be more frank than that, A vietim of strong drink sald ton reformer: “It is impossible for me to stop. I realizeit, But if you should tell me Ieouldn’t have a drink until to-mor- row night unless 1 had all my flugers cut off, I would say, ‘Bring on the hatchet and cut them off.’” 1 bad a very dear friend in Philadelphia whose nephew came to him and was talking about his trouble and con- fessed it. He confessed he could not stop. My friend sald, "You must stop.” Hesald: “I ean’t stop. Il there stood a cannon, and it was loaded, and there was a glass of wine in the mouth of the cannon, and I knew you would fire it off {tf I approached, I would start to get that glass of wine, 1 must have it. 1 can’t get rid of this habit, I can't get away from it." Ob, it is awful for a man to wake up and {eel that he fs a captive! I hear him soliloquizing, saying: “I might have stopped three months ago, but I can't stop mow. Dead, but not buried; I am a walking corpse. I am an apparition of what I once was, lam a Ro immortal and my soul beats against the wires of my cage on this side and beats against the wires of my cage on the other side until there is blood on the wires and blood on the soul, but I can’t get out. Destroyed without remedy!” — — ’ See the attendants stand back from that ward fm the hospital where the (nebriates are dying. They cannot stand it, The keepers come through it and say: “Hush up, now! Stop making this noise! Be still! You are disturbing all the other pa- tients, poor ereatures wring their hands and say: “0 God! Help, help! Glve moe ram, give mes rum! 0 God! fre: i Take the devils off of mel 0 God! ©O God!” And they shriek and they blaspheme and they ory for help and then they ask the keepers to slay them, saying: “Stab me, strangle n 8, smother vwoel! Help, help! Ra al Give me rom! 0 God! Help!” They tear out their hair by the handful, and thay bite their nails Into the qguiek, This Is ao faney pleture. It i» transpiriog in a hos- pital mt this moment, It went on last pight while you slept, and more than that, that is tke death some of you wili die un- less you stop. lsee it coming. God help you to stop before you go so far that you cannot stop, tat it plagues a man also in the joss of home. I do notcars how much he loves his wife and children, it this habit gets the mastery over him he will do the most out- rugecus things. lf need be, in order to got strong deink, he would sell them all into everiastiog captivity. There are hundreds and thousands of homes that have been utteriy biasted of it. I am speaking of no abstraction. Is there anything 50 disas- trous to a man for this fe and for the life to come? Do you tell me that a man can be happy when he Knows he Is breaking his wife's heart and clothing his children with rags? There are Hitle ¢hildren in the streets to-day, barefooted, unkempt, un- combed, want written on every patel of their faded dress and on every wrinkle of their prematurely old countenance, who would bave been in the house of God this morning as well clad as you had it not been that strong drink drove their parents down into penury and then down into the ErTAave, Ob, rom, ram, thou mes, thou foe of God, thou officer of the pit, | hate thee! Bat my sabject takes a deeper tons when it tells you that the Inebriate suffers the was of thesoul., The Bible intimates that we go into the future world unforgiven he appetites and passions which were when the inetwrinte wakes up in the st world there will be an infinite thirst clawing upon him, In this world be sould get strong drink. However poor he was in this world, he could beg or he conid steal five cents to get a drink that wonld fora little while slake his thirst, but in eternity where will the rum come from? Dives wanted one drop of water, but could not get ft. Where will the inebriate get the draft he go wuch requires, so much de- manda? No one to brew it. Noone to mix §t. No ons to pour it. No ounsto feteh it. Millions of worlds now forthe dregs that were thrown on the sawdusted floor of the restaurant, Millions of worlds now for therind lang out from the punch bowl of an earthly banquet, Dives ealled for water. The inebrinte ealls for rum, If a flend from the lost world should come up on a mission to a grogehop and, having i i i r ’ i oo = yao oR come back, taking en the tip of his wing one drop of aleoholie beverage, what ex. citerment it would make all through the world of the lost, and, if that one drop of aleoholie beverage should drop from the wing of the flend upon the tongue of the inebriate, how he would spring up and ery: “That's It! Tst's it! Ram! Ram! That's iti” And all the caverns of the lost wonid echo with the ery: “Give it to me! Rum! Ram!"* Ah, mylriends, the ineliriate’s sor. row in the pest world will not be the ab- sence of God or holiness or light; it will be the absence of rum, *‘Look not upon the wine when it is red, when {t moveth itself aright in the cup, for at the last it biteth ike a serpent, and it stingesh ike an ad. er.” But I must not dwell on generalities; 1 must come to specifies. Are »ou astray? If there is any sermon I dislike, it js & ser. on on generalities, I want personalities, Ate you astray? Have you gone so far you think you canpot get baek? Did I say a few moments ngo that a man might go to a point in inebrintion where Le could not stop? Yes, I sald it, and I relterate it. But I want you also to understand that while the man himself, of Lis own strength, eannot stop, God ean stop any man, You have only to lay hold of the strong arm of the Lord God Almighty. He can stop you. Many summers ago I went over to New York one Sabbath even. ing-—our church not yet being open for the asutumopal fervices. I went into a room in the Fourth Ward, New York, where a religious service was bein held for reformed drunkards, and 1 heard a revelation that night that I had never heard before~fifteen ortwenty men standing up and giving testimony such as 1 had never hoard given. They not only testified that thelr hearts had been changed by the grace of God, but that the grace of od had extinguished thelr thirst, They want on to say that they had reformed at different times betore, but immediately fallen, beoause they were doing the whole work in their own strength. “But as soon As we gave our hearts to God," they sald, “and the love of the Lord Jesus Christ has come into oursoul the thirst has all gone, Wao have no more disposition for strong on st 10. only hear intemperance , if you could only hear intem on with drunkards’ bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the "Dead March” of immortal souls, you would go homs and kneel down and pray God that rather than hould ever he THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the Carirorxia Fio Syrup Co. only, and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. 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