—— “REV. DR. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON, Saljec “he Evils of Liguor Drink- ing." Texr: “Noah planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine and was drunken.” Genesis ix., 20, 21 . This Noah did the thing for the world, He built an ark against the deluge of water, but intro- duced a deluge against which the human race has ever since been trying to build an ark-the deluge of drunkenness. In my text we hear his staggering steps, \ Japhet tried to cover up the disgrace, but there ho is, drunk on wine at a time in the history of the world when, to say the least, there was no ack of water, | having entered the world, has not retreated Abigail, the fair and heroic wife, who saved the flocks of Nabal, her husband, from con- fiscation by invaders, goes home at night and finds him so intoxicated she cannot tell him the story of his narrow escape. Uriah came to see David, and David got him drunk and paved the way for the despolia tion of a household. Even the church bishops neaded to be charged to be sober and not given to too much wine, and so familiar were people of Bible times with the stagger- best and the worst ing and falling motion of the inebriate that | Isaiab. when he comes to describe the final | dislocation of the worlds, save, “The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard.” Ever since apples and grapes and wheat grew the world has been tempted to unhealthful stimulants. But the intoxicants of the olden time were an innocent beverage, & harmless orangeade, a quiet syrup, a peaceful soda- water as compared with the hiquids of mod- | ern inebriation, into which a madness, and a fury, and a gloom, and a fire, and a suicide, and a retribution have mixed and mingled Fermentation was always known, but it was not until a thousand years after Christ that distillation invented While we must « the ancient arts hi Christian era superiot the bad eminend of gin. Them wlern « wot than mtox: tims of with was that been to all other and rum unk a hundredfole t drunk N imbecile, but nf ems Ave some whisky is ah in bi the v ism have eming demon An arch flood arrive he built an invisible caldr He built that caldro all ages i the ca Paradise i into this of H log wood and des and battery an i fer an : y thousand as sassinations And then the arch flend took a shovel that be had brought up from the furnaces neath, and he put tuat shovel into this great caldron and began to stir, and the caidron began to heave and rock and boll and sput ter and hiss and smoke, and the nations t ered around it with cups and tankards a demijohns and kegs, and th was for al the arch flend cried N chamy lend am [! Who has done more than | have | fins and graveyards and prison and I asylums, amd the populat ing of the Jost world® And when this pealdron is ied 1'Il fill it again and I'l stir it n and it will snoke again, and that wke will join an er smoke, the smoke of a torment that ascendeth for ever and ever I drove fifty ships on t f N foundliand, and G wins, ! have wnators t the na more lords the kb wdinar and the rasan re € SR rocks and t We m ruined the Skerrie ruined ut winter I have gathered in ut of which I m than gather 4 1 r OLR nan skull mca a # 80 ynaoged Juggernauts an any ot oampion Lend m { it takes no logical pr to this audience that a drunken nation mg be a free nation. 1 call your at t that x is not that it is not at a stand 1 an onward march, and a double qu There is more ram wed in this country, and of a worse i than was ever swallowed since the first distillery began its work of death, Where there was one drunken home there are ten drunken homes. Where there was one drunkard's grave there are twenty drunk ards graves. It is on the increase. Talk about crooked whisky-by which men mean the whisky that does not pay the tax to gov eroment—1 tell you all strong or is Crooked Otard, crooked crooked schnapps, crooked erooked wine, crooked whisky <hecause it makes a man's path crooked, an i his Nfe crooked, and his death crooked and his eternity crooked If 1 could gather all the armies of the dead drunkards and have thom come te resurre tion. and then add to that host all the armies of living drunkards, five and ten abreast, and then if 1 could have you mount a horse and ride along that for review, you would ride that horse till he dropped from exhaustion, and you would mount another horse and ride until he fell from exhaustion and you would take another and another, a + n to the fa irunkenness siding, certain it that : . » 3 ink 7 Le > h crooked, Cognac, beer Hue TALMAGE, | and good men deceived, not knowing there is any thraildom of alcoholism coming from that source, are going down, and some day a man sits with the bottle of black bitters on his table, and the cork flies out, and after it flies a flend and clutches the man by his throat and says: “Aha! I have been after vou for ten years, 1 have got you now Down with vou, down with you!’ Bitters! Ah! yes. They make na man's family bitter the church of Ephesus, church of Thyatira, church of Sardis, The Protestant and Ro- man Catholic churches to-day stand side by side, with en impotent look, gazing on this evil, which costs this country more than a the 80,000 idiots, and to the drunkards, bury sud his home bitter and his disposition bitter and his death bitter and his hell bitter, Bit tors. A vast army all the time increas ! ing. [\' seems to me it is about time for the 17,- 000,000 professors of religion in America to | take ides, It fs going to be an out and out | battle with rbd pees and sobriety, be | tween heaven and hell, between God and the | devil, Take sides before there isany further | | sons are sacrifiosd Shem and | national decadence, take sides before your | and the home of your | daughter goes down under the alcoholism of | an imbruted husband. Take sides while your voics, your pen, your prayer, your | | vote may have any influence in arresting the | Inebriation, | despolintion of this nation. If the 17,000,000 | professors of reiigion should take sides on | this subject it would not be very long before | the destiny of this nation would be decided | in the right direction Is drunkenness a state or national evil? | Does it belong to the North, or does it belong | to the South? Doss it belong to the Easg, or does it belong to the West? Ab, there is not | an American river into which its tears have | not fallen and into which its suicides have | not plunged. What ruined that Southern | plantation?—every fleld a fortune, the pro- prietor and his family once the most affluent supporters of summer watering places. What | | threw that New England farm into decay and | | turned the roseate cheeks that bloo ned at | | the | continent with a moral pestilence foot of the Green Mountains into the | pallor of despair? What has smitten every street of every village, town and city of this | Stroag {| drink | and Georgia. 14 | this the | | caanot estimate it, but is there any one here and you would ride along hour after bour | and day after day. Great host, in regiments, in brigades. Great armies of them. And then if you had voice stentorian enough to make them all hear, and you could give the command, "Forward, march their tramp would make the earth tromble not care which way you look in the commun. ity today the evil is increasing, I call attention to the fact that there are thousands of people born with a thirst fof strong drink—a fact too often ignored Along some ancestral loess there runs the river of temptation. There are children whose swaddling clothes are torn off the first | | do ! i shroud of death, Many a father has made | a will of this sort. “In the name of God amen, and lands and estates; share and share shall they alike, Hereto | affix my hand and seal in the presence of witnesses.” And yet per haps that very man has made another will that the people have never read, and that has not been proved in the courts. That will t in writing would read something lke fo: “In the name of disease and a and death, amen, | bequeath tomy children my evil habits, my tankards shall be theirs, my wine cup shall be theirs, my destroyed reputation shall be theirs, Hhare and share alike shall they in the infamy, Hereto 1 af. and sal lu the of all " . evil, and aloobol is sold under It is bitters for this and bitters and bitters for some other thing ’ ren i ! 1 bequeath tomy children my houses | | i : can't To prove that this is a national evil I call up two States in opposite directions Maine wt them testify in regard to State of Maloe says: “It is great an ¢ up here we have anathematized it as a State.” State of Georgia “It t an evil down here that ninety counties this State have made the saie of intoxica ting drink a criminality.” Bo the wor 1 comes up from all parts of the land. Either drunk enness will be destroyed in this jntry or the American Government will be destroyed Drunkenness and free instituti com ing into a death grappie Cather up the Co) vil sys is #0 y 4 of { money that the during tand at his sorrel silks, and » of A span anarchist ted and § at might it among saloon saloons of this country side by sid carefully estimated that they from New York to Chicago This evil is pouring nable liquors down the of thousands of ordinary strikes overs and « And sacri Stand the the Koepors and it is ts vitriolic mts of hb Is laborers, and while the iinous, both to em vorsl if strike, 1 n vation of the nation say that th in the Unitel States xt twenty years, if hw ating beverages and be sav yne a capitalist on a small lasses and the sal yiertake to re 8 not ADOT wh will re are wa “ang cannot be done for the perance of d ing who cannot g OW MALY tose if = Ws in Fhousand run cards wait minutes in any dire temptation glaring a to their ping of 5 y ten tines ing 3 vitiated or How quickly ti homes hav t ing of the night last watchman that y oe veryvitiiag wi r that ung man would do something i jise or in artisanship or ina profes a that would do honor t the family name long alter mother's wrinkle! hands are folded from the last toil! All that exchanged for startled look when the door bell rings, lest mething has happened ; and the wish that wo scarlet fever twenty vears ago had bean then he would have gone d his Saviour she has vel 0 said A foolish his mother.” ! what a funeral it ¥ o had b irectly alas SX DTiIency sN BA Lest wu i will be when that : home dead! And how moth or will sit there and say: “Is this my boy that 1 used to fondle, and that 1 walked the floor with in the night when he was sick? Is this the hoy that 1 held to the baptismal font for baptism? Is this the boy for whom [ toiled until the blood barst from the tips of my fingers, that he might have a good start and a good home? Lord, why hast Thou let me live to this? Can it be that these swollen hands are the ones that used to wan- ler over my face when rocking him to sleep Can it be that this swollen brow ie that | nos so rapturously kissed? Poor boy! how tired he does look, [I wonder who struek | him that blow across the temple? 1 wonder if he uttered a dying prayer? Wake up, my won; don't you hear me? wake up! Ohl be hear me! Dead! dead! Sead! ‘Oh, Absalom, my son, my son, would God that I had died for thee, oh, Absalom, my son son" " I am not much of a mathematician and | Sn k enough at figures to estimate how many mothers there are waiting for some thing to done? Ay, there are many wives “waiting for domestic rescue Ho promised something different from that when. after the long acquaintance and the careful serutiny of character, the hand and the heart ware offered and accepted What a hell on earth a woman lives in who has a drunken husband! © death, how lovely thoa art to her, and how soft and warm thy skeleton band! The sepulcher ab mid night in winter Is a king's drawing-room compared with that woman's home. It ls not «0 much the blow on the head that hurts as the Llow on the heart. The ram flend came to the door of that beautiful home, and opened the door and stood there and sald: “I curse this dwelling with an mwelenting curse, [ curse that father into sa manine, 1 corse that mother | into a pauper, 1 curse thos sons into vaga- bonds. | curse those daughters into profiig- acy. Cursed be bread tray and oradis Cursed be conch and obhair, and family Bible | with record of marriages and births and | deaths, Curse upon curse.” Oh, how many | wives are there waiting to see if something cannot be done to shake these frosts of the second death off the orange blowoms! Yea, God is waiting, the God who works through | human instrumentalities, waiting 10 we whether this nation is going to overthrow | this ovil, and if it refuse to do so God will | wipe out the nation ax He did Phoenicia, as He did Rome, as He did Thebes, as He did : que Ty | of family and church and nation ag mount its foaming charger, of {| matic valve, make the more infamous boast that all its billion dollars a year to take care of the 300,- 000 paapers, and the 315,000 criminals, and | 75,000 | Protagoras boasted that out of the sixty years of his life forty years he had | spent in raining youth; but this evil ay | life it has been ruining the bodies, minds and | souls of the human race. Put on your spectacles and take a candle and examine the platforms of the two lead- ing political parties of this country, and see what they are doing for the arrestof this evil and for the overthrow of this abomina- tion. Resolutions-~oh! yes, resolutions about Mormonism! It is safe to attack that or ganized nastiness two thousand miles away. But not one resolution against drunkenness, which would turn this entire nation into one bestial Salt Lake City, Resolutions against political corruption, but not one word about drunkenness, which would rot this nation from scalp to heel. Resolutions about pro tection against competition with foreign in- dustries, but not one word about protection ainst the scalding, blasting, all consuming, damning tariff of strong drink put upon every finan cial, individual, spiritual, moral, national interest I look in another direction, The Church of (God is the grandest and most glorious institu. tion on earth W hat has it in solid phalanx accomplished for the ove rthrow of drunken ness? Have its forces ever been marshalod? No. not in this direction. Not long ago a oreat soclesiastical court assembled in Now York, and resolutions arraigning strong drink were offered, and clergymen with strong drink on their tables and strong drink in thelr cellars defeated the resolu tions by threatening speeches They could not bear to give up their own lusts [ tell this audience what many of you may never have thought of, that to<lay-—mnot in the millennium, to-day--the church holds the balance of power in Amerios; and if Christian people the men and the women who profess to love the Lord Jesus Christ and to love purity and to be the sworn ene of all uncleanuess and debauchery and all would march side side shot to shoulder evil overthrown indred the whools in Chris y shoulder How x them Loy t but mies CTE 1 such Dy this and would of three Bunday houlder burches and ndoa marching = u very short a time i t yw this evil, IT all rapsatinntic ana « Young the army Preserve aong Island g to attend v av Lime we'll ¥ wT you "The in Island The tempat twain went 0 the in drunkenness and started up from ay MY and Ko we'll have a splendid 4 wae ng, and the beach, spent the day riot. The evening Brighton, The ¥ men were on it. Joe, in his intoxication the train was in sil speed, tried $0 pass ar und from one seat y ano ther and fell and was crushed ader the lantern, as Joe lay 1 eeling his away on the grass sid WO 1} hn that was a bad business, | me away from chur it Was a ve bad business YY ou ot not to have A that, John, [ want you to tall the boys morrow when you them that rum and Sabbath breaking tid this for me And John are telling then Iwill bein hell it will be your fault.” Isit not time for to pull out from £ Go with many “Took not i. when it moveth at biteth ke an let Blucher cmume saved th aay at wk in the afternoon it badiy 1 he English. Generals nsonby and Plekton | on. Babers broken, lags surrendered Gravs annihilated 1iv forty-two men iad the German sade. The E ling back and Ling back oleon rubbed bis hands rether and Aba' ab we'll teach little E sheaan a lesson Ninety ns Of { sndred are in « favor fioent He say he had won the day came up, and onquercr of Austerlita Waterioo The name which had shaken all Earope and filled even America with apprehension that name went sn. and Napoleon, muddy and hatless and razed with his disasters, was found feeling w the stirrup of a bors, that he might mount atv resume the conflict Well. my friends, alcoholism is imperial, and it is a conqueror, and there are OK le who say the night of national r throw is coming, and that it is almost night But belore sundown the Conqueror of earth and heaven will ritle in on the while horse and alcoholism, which has had its Austerlitz of triumph, shall have its Waterloo of de feat. Alcoholism having lost its crown, the grizzly ani cruel breaker of human hearts, razed with the disaster, will be found feel ing in vain for the stirrup in which to re “Ha, O Lord, to C uo oO str tran ing when 8 OO he rei taking ry ne 7) t wor the great organ banks of keys, the tremolo » 3 the wine when It sre if aright in the f like a serpent and 2 | Hut this evil will be ar up just before night and At 4 oes ug f iadt it ted " Water) looked very ” giish t a that RD Magnitioer messages to Paris Bat fore suns he who had been the we the victim © al ur nagol even sent . wn Diooher becn f i \ ve nH let Thine enemies perish” Ce ———— Big Crop From Two Kernels of Corn. A Kansas paper says the entire supphy Jerusalem corn in that State came from two kernels, These produced the rom which five bushels were mised soe { the following season, and the next crop amounted to 500 bushels, The plant grows to the height of about three feet, and resembles broom corn or sorghum. The grain is white and answers every purpose which is served by Indian corn. It makes sweeter and better bread, und is delicious when boiled, after the manner of oatmeal. In wet weather it runs to stalks and grows six feet high, without any grain to speak of. It produces best when the season in dry, and after the plant gets a start it in said to be absolutely impervious to the influence of drought and hot winds. The | farmers of Western Kansas are preparing to engage in its culture next season to a large extent. New York Daily Conti- , nent. A New System of Lighting. A now system of lighting by means of petroleum lamps has been introduced in one of the large railroad stations in Lon- don. The system consists in the use of large tank containing the oll, from which pipes run to the various lamps, earrying the oil by gravitation, as needed, Each lamp has a small reservoir for hold- | ing sufficient oil to saturate the wick, the flow of oil being regulated by an auto- The joints in the p are sealed by a material not affected by oil. The wick is lowered or raised by a wire outside of the lamp, and when the wick is lowered a flash light continues to burn #0 thal the entire wick oan be ligh woman, WS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN, | NE Female barbers increase, Skirts are severely plain. Irish poplins are in demand, Ombre plaids will be largely worn, New York City has a female lock- smith, The Empress of Japan is a scholarly | Women's vests are to be a feature next | geason, There are 200 women preachers in this country. There are about 105 women to every 100 men. Printed pongees will be largely favored for spring wear, Thirty per cent. of America's females are working women, Blazers for women will be much more elaborate than las! season. It is all nonsense to assert that ladies copy the fashions of actresses. There are in China societies of young women pledged never to marry. There is only one sudden death among women to every eight among men, Martin Chattoway, formerly custodian of Shakespeare's birthplace, is dead. Mrs. Cleveland, wife of the ex-Presi- dent, is taking lessons on the violin. 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