DR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: "The Plague of Alcoliol"—The
Drunkard's Woe Depleted In Stronc
Colors—Ruin's Mission Is to Destroy
All Good—A Call to Christians.
TEXT: "And thero shall be a great cry
throughout all the land of Egypt."—Ex
odus xl., C.
This was tho worst of the ten plagues.
The destroying angel at midnight flapped
his wing over the land, and there was one
♦lead in each house. Lamentation and
mourning and woe through all Egypt.
That destroying angel has fled the eorth,
but u far worse has come. Ho 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 Americn worse than
the calamity in Egypt. Thousands of the
slnin, millions of the slain. No arithmetic
can calculate their number.
Once upon a time four ilends met in the
lost world. They resolved that the people
of our earth wero too happy, and these
four infernals came forth to our earth on
embassy of mischief. Tho one fiend said,
"I'll take charge of tho vineyards." An
other said, "I'll take charge of the grain
fields." Another said, "I'll take charge of
the dairy." Another said, "I'll take charge
of the music." The four fiends met In the
great Sahara desert, with skeleton Angers
clutched each other In handshake of fidel
ity, kissed each other goodby with lip of
blue flame and parted on their mission.
The fiend of the vineyard came in one
bright morning omld tho grapes and sat
down oh a root of twisted grapevine in
?heer discouragement. The fiend knew
not bow to damage the vineyard, or,
through it, how to dnmage the world.
The grapes wero so ripe and beautiful
and luscious. They bewitched the air with
their sweetness. There seemed to bo so
much health in every bunch, and while
the ileud sat there in utier indignation
and disappointment he clutched a cluster
and squeezed it In perfect spite, nnd. lo!
his hand was red with the blood of the
vineyard, and the fiond said: "That re
minds me of the blood of brosen hearts.
I'll strip the vineyard, and I'll squeeze out
all the juice of the grapes, aud I'll allow
the juices of the grapes to stand until they
rot. nnd I'll call the process fermenta
tion." And there was a great vat pre
pared, nnd people came with their cups
nnd their pitchers, nnd they dipped up the
blood of the grapes, aud they drank and
drank aud went away drinking, and they
drank until they fell in long lines of death,
so that when tho fiend of the vineyard
wanted to return to his tome In the pit
he stepped from carcass to carcass and
walked down amid a great causeway of
the dead.
Then the second fiend came Into the
grainfleld. He waded chin deep amid the
barley and the r\e. He heard all the grniu
talking about bread and prosperous hus
bandry nnd thrifty homes. Ho thrust his
long arms into thegrninfleld, nnd he pulled
up the grain and threw It into the water,
and he made beneath it great fires—fires
lighted with a spark from his own heart—
and there were a grinding and a mashing
nnd stench, and the people c*me with their
bottles, nnd they dipped upthe fleryiiquid,
nnd they drank, and they blasphemed, and
they staggered, and they fought, nnd they
rioted, and they murdered, and theflend of
the pit, tho fiend of the grainileid, was so
pleased with their behavior that ho changed
his residence from the pit ton whisky bar
rel, and thero he sat by the door of tho
bunghole laughing In high merriment at
the thought that out of anything so harm
less as the grain of the field he might turn
this world into a seeming pandemonium.
The fiend of the dairy saw the cows com
ing home from the pasture field, full ud
dered, and as themaidmilked he said, "I'll
soon spoil all that mess, I'll add to It
brandy, sugar nnd nutmeg, and I'll stir it
into a milk punch, nnd children will drink
it nnd some of the temperance people will
drink it, and if 1 can do them more harm
I'll give them a headache, and then I'll
linnd them over to the more vigorous fiends
of the Satanic delegation." And then the
fleud of the dairy leaped upon the shelf
nnd danced until the long row of shining
milkpnns almost quaked.
The fiend of the music entered a grog
shop, and there were but few customers.
Finding few customers, ho swept the cir
cuit of the city, nnd he gathered up the
musical instruments and after nightfall ho
marshaled a band, and the trombones
blew and the cymbals clapped and the
drums bent and the bugles culled nnd tho
people crowded in, and they swung around
in merry dance, each one with a wineglass
in his band, nnd the dance became wilder
nnd stronger and rougher, until tho room
•hook and the glasses cracked and the floor
broke and the crowd dropped into hell.
Then the lour fiends—the fiend of the
vineyard and of the grulnlleld and of tho
dairy aud of the music hall—went back to
t>eir home, nnd they held high carnival
because their work had been so well done,
nnd satan rose from his throne and an
nounced that there was no danger of the
earth's redemption so long as these four
fiends could pay such tax to tho diabolic.
And then all the demons and all the sprites
and all the fiends filled their glasses and
clicked them and cried: "Let us drink
drink to the everlasting prosperity of the
liquor traffic! Here's to woe and darkness
nnd murder nnd death! Drink! Drink!"
But whether by allegory or by nppaling
statistic this subject Is presented you know
ns well as I that it is Impossible "to exag
gerate the evils of strong drink. A plague!
A plague! In the first place the inebriate
suffers from the loss of a good name. God
has so arranged it that no man loses his
reputation except by his own act. The
world may assault a man, nnd all the
powers of darkness may assault him—they
cannot capture him so long as his heart is
puro and his life Is pure. All tho powers
of earth nnd hell ennnot take that Gibral
tar. If a man is right, all tho bombard
ment of tho world for 5, 10, 20, 40 years
will only strengthen him in Ills position.
So that all you have to do is to keep
yourself right. Never mind the world. Let
it say what it will. It can do you no
damage. But ns soon ns it is whispered,
"He drinks," and it can be proved, he
begins togo down. What clerk can get a
position with such n reputation? What
storo wants him? What church of God
wants him for a member? What dying man
wants him for an executor? "Ho drinks!"
I stand before hundreds of young men—
nnd I say it not In flattery—splendid young
men who have their reputation ns their
only capital. Your father gave you a good
education, or ns good an education as he
could afford to give you. He started you
in city life. Ho could furnish you no
means, but he has surrounded you with
Christian influences and a good memory of
the past. Now, young man, under God you
ipe with your own right arm to achieve
your fortune, and as your reputation is
your only capital do not bring upon it sus
picion by going in and out of liquor estab
lishments or by an odor of your breath or
by liny glare of your eye or by any unnat
ural flush on your cheeks. You lose your
reputation nnd you lose your capital. "
The Inebriate suffers also In the fact that
be loses his self respect, and when you de
stroy a man's self respect tberels not much
left of him. Then a man will do things he
would not do otherwise, be will say things
he would not say otherwise. The"fact Is,
that man ennnot stop or he would stop
now. He Is bound hand and foot by the
Philistines, nnd they have shorn his looks
und put his eyes out and made him grind
in the mills of a great horror. After he Is
three-fourths gone in this slavery the first
thing he will be anxious to impress you with
is that lie can stop any time he wants to.
His fnmily become alarmed in regard to
him, and ttey say: "Now, do stop this.
After awhile It will get the mastery of you."
"Oh, no!" he says."l can stop at any
time, I can stop now. I can atop to-mpr
row." Ills most confidential friend sayg)
"Why, I'm atruld you are losing youi
balance with that bablt. You are going a
little further than you can afford to go.
You had better stop." "Oh. no!" he says.
•'I c%n stop at any time. I can stop now."
He goes on further and further. He can
not stop. I will provo it. He loves him
self. and he knows nevertheless that strong
drink is depleting him in body, mind and
soul. He knows bo is going down; that he
has less self control, less equipoise of tem
per, than ho used to. Why doej he not
stop? Because he cannot stop. X will prove
it by going still further. He loves his
wife and children. He soes that his
habits aro bringing disgrace upon his home.
The probabilities are they will ruin bis wife
aud disgrace his children. He sees all this,
and he loves them. Why does he not stop?
He cannot stop.
Oh, ray young friends, I want to tell you
that there is a point in inebriation beyond
which if a mango he cunnot stop! But
sometimes a man will be more frank than
that. A victim of strong drink said to a
reformer: "It is impossible for me to
stop. I realize it. But if you should tell
inel couldn't have a drink until to-mor
row night unless I had all my lingers cut
off, I would say, 'Bring on tho hatchet and
cut them off.' " I had 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 said, "You must stop." Ho;said:
"I can't stop. If thero stood a cannon,
and it was loaded, and thero was a glass
of wine in the mouth of tlie cannon, and
I knew you would lire it off If
I approached, I would start to get that
glass of wine. I must hav it. I can't
get rid of this habit. I c ,'t get away
from it." Ob, it is nwfu Or a man to
wake up and feci that hen captive! I
hear him soliloquizing, Sf ,ug: "I might
have stopped three month! go, but I oun't
stop now. Dead, but no. juried; I am a
walking corpse. lam an apparition of
what I once was. lam a caged Immortal
and my soul beats against the wires of my
cage on tbis side and beats against the
wires of my cage on the other side until
there is blood on the wires aud blood on
the soul, but I can't get out. Destroyed
without remedy!" *
See the attendants stand back from that
ward in tho hospital where the inebriates
nre dying. They cannot stand it. The
keepers come through it aud say: "Hush
up, now! Stop making this noise! Be
still! You are disturbing nil the other pa
tients. Keep still now!" Then the keepers
pass on.and after they get past then the
poor creatures wring their hands and say:
"O God! Help, help! Give ino rum, give
me rum! O God! Help! Take the devils
off of me! O God! O God!" And they
shriek and they blaspheme and they cry
for help and then they ask the keepers to
slay them, saying: "Stab me, strangle me,
smother me!" O God! Help, help! Hum!
Give me rum! O God! Help!" They tear
out their hair by tho handful, and they
bite their nails into tho quick. This is no
fancy picture. It i? transpiring in a hos
pital at this moment. It went on Inst
night while you slept, and more than that,
that is the death some of you will die un
less you stop. 1 see it coming. God help
you to stop before you go so far that you
cannot stop.
But it plagues a man also in the loss of
home. Ido not care how much he loves
his wife and children. i( tbis hnbit gets tho
mastery over him he will do the most out
rageous things. If need be, in order to get
strong drink, he would sell them ail into
evorlnstiug eaptivlty. There aro hundreds
and thousands of homos that have been
utterly blasted of it. lam speaking of n<\
abstraction. Is there anything so disas
trous ton man for this life 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 little children in the
streets to-day, barefooted, unkempt, un
combed, want written on every patch of
their faded dress and on every wrinklo of
their prematurely old countenance, who
would huve been in tho house of God this
morning ns well clad as you had it not
been tliat strong drink drove their parents
down iuto penury and then down into the
gravel Oh, rum, rum, thou despoiler of
homos, thou foo of God, thou recruiting
officer of tho nit, I hato thee!
But my subject takes a deeper tone when
It .tells you that the inebriate suffers tho
loss of thesoul. The Bible intimates thut
If we go into the future world unforgiven
the appetites and passions which wero
regnant here will torment us there. I sup
pose when the inebriate wakes up in the
lost world there will be an infinite thirst
clawing upon him. In this world he could
get strong drink. However poor he was
in this world, ho could beg or he could
steal live cents to get a drink that would
fora llttlo while slake his thirst, but in
eternity where will tho rum come from?
Dives wanted one drop of water, but could
not «et it. Where will the inebriate get
the draft he so much requires, so much de
mands? No one to brew it. No one to
mix it. No one to pour it. No one to
fetch it. Millions of worlds now for the
dregs that were thrown on tho snwdusted
floor of the restaurant. Millions of worlds
now for the rind iluug out from tho punch
bowl of an earthly banquet. Dives called
for water. Tho inebriate calls for rum.
If a llend from the lost world should come
up on a mission to a grogshop and, having
ilnished tho mission in the grogshop, should
come back, taking on the tip of bis wing
one drop of alcoholic beverage, what ex
citement it would make all through the
world of tho lost, and, If that one drop of
nlcoholic beverage should drop from the
wing of the (lend upon the tongue of the
inebriate, how ho would spring up and cry:
"That's it! That's itl Ruinl Bum! That's
it!" And all the caverns of the lost would
echo with the cry: "Give it to me! Rum!
Bum!" Ah, my friends, tho inebriate's sor
row in the next world will not be the ab
sence of God or holiness or light; it will be
the absenco of rum. "Look not upon the
wlno when it is rod, when it movetli itself
aright in the cup, for at the last it biteth
llko a sorpent, and It stingeth like an ad
der."
But I must not dwell on generalities; I
must come to specifics. Are you nstray?
If thero Is any sermon I dislike, it is a ser
mon on generalities. I want personalties.
Aro you astray? Have you gone so far you
think you cannot get back? Did I say a
few moments ago that a man might goto
a point in inebriation where he could not
stop? Yes, I said It, and I reiterate it.
But I want you also to understand that
while tho man himself, of his own strength,
cannot stop. God can 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 Now York one Sabbath even
ing—our church not yet being open for
the autumnal services. I went into a
room in the Fourth Ward, Now York,
whero a religious servico was being
held for reformed drunkards, nnd I
hoard n revelation that night that I hud
never heard before—fifteen orjtwenty men
standing up and giving testimony such as
I hnd never heard given. They not only
testified that their hearts had been changed
by tho grace of God, but that the grace of
God had extinguished their thirst. They
went onto say that thev had reformed at
different times betore, but Immediately
fallen, because they were doing the whole
work in their own strength. "But as soon
as we gave our hearts to God," they said,
"aud the love of the Lord Jesus Christ has
come into our soul the thirst has all gone.
We have no more disposition for strong
drink."
Oh, if you could only hear intemperance
with drunkards' bones drumming on tho
top of the wine cask tho "Dead March" of
immortal souls, you would go borne and
kneel down and pray God that rather than
your children should ever become the
victims of this evil habit you might carry
them out to the cemetery and put them
down In the last slumber, waiting for the
flowers of spring to come over the Rrave—
sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God
hath a balm for such a wound, but what
flower of oomtort ever grew on the blasted
, heath of a drunkard's aepuloliar?
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.
m« Crank—The Importance of Sobriety
to the Labor Organization* Is So Well
Recognized by the Leader* That Spec
ial Effort* Are Made to Promote it.
"Those temperance cranks," saloon-keop
ers affirm,
"Are but wasting their time"—what B
pity!
Forgetting that "cranks" make everything
turn,
In affairs of State, township or city.
Each revoluion ot thought or Invention
Was e'er by the country received
As the work of a "crank," with perhaps
"good Intention,"
Tho' the latter but rarely believed.
Where there's machinory wheels must gt
round.
And those wheels, on a cog, must turr
others.
And a "crank" of some sort forever be
found,
Causing some wheel to move up tti
brothers.
Lord! hasten the day when somo "Temper
ance crank,"
Exalted or lowly In station,
Bliull "turn" all the heads of political rant
To remove the saloons from the nation.
—N. D. T., in Ram's Horn.
Trades-Union* Promote Temperance.
Employes have special Interests,'apart
from tho desire to retain their places and
earn good wages, which make for tomper
ance, says Henry VV. Farnnm, in the Atlan
tic. The development of labor organiza
tions, nnd tho increase in their powei
and responsibilities, has given thorn E
strong incentive to watch the habits o!
their members. A groat change has taker
place in their practlco in this respect. If?
the early part of the century drinking was
incorporated in the rules and regulations
of some of the societies as a regular insti
tution; tho place of mooting was co.timonlj
in a public house; the rations at grop
were a prlvilogo, the withdrawal of wlilct
might involve a strike. But the unions
can no longer afford to subject their mem
bers to this temptation. The magnltud«
of their (lnauclal operations necessitates
tho election of temperate mon to the bighei
offices, while the development of an elab
orate system of Insurance benefits gives
each monSber a direct interest in tho so
briety of his fellows. No member of u
union likostosee his contributions, labori
ously saved from small earnings, squan
dered in the support of a drinking fellow
member.
The importance of conciliating public
opinion during strikes furnishes auothet
powerful motive for maintaining temper
ance in the unions. The result Is that al
ready many by-laws and rules of our largei
unions contain special clauses inculcating
moderation. Iu somo cases no steps aro to
be taken to rolnstato a man discharged on
account of drunkenness; in other cases a
rauu is excluded from the union who en
gages !n the liquor traffic; in still others
men are lined who attend meetings in an
intoxicated condition, while in very many
cases any person who loses his work, falls
sick, or meets with an accident on account
ot the use of liquor is excluded from the
benellts which ho would otherwise enjoy.
The importance ot this Interest is recog
nized by many trade-union leadors, such
as John Burns, who bimsolf is a teetotaler,
Samuel Gorapers, and others. Mr. Gom
pers, tho President of the American Feder
ation of Labor, in a letter to the writer,
says:"l think I could convince you or
anyone that trade-unions have done more
to instill temperate habits, not only In
drink, but in all tnlngs, among tho work
ers, than all other agencies combined."
Saved by IClght Thinking.
The hacknoyed example of moral de
liberation is the case of an habitual drunk
ard under temptation. lie has made a re-
Bolve to reform, but he is now solicited
again bv tho bottle. Ills moral triumph or
fallureliterally consists in his llnding the
right namo for the case. If ho says that it
is n ease of not wasting good liquor, al
ready poured out, or a ease ot not being
churlish and unsociable when in the midst
of friends, or a case of learning something
at last about a brand of whisky which ho
never met before, or a easo of celebrating
a public holiday, or a case of stimulating
himsolf to a moro energetic resolve In favor
of abstinence than any he has over yet
made, ho is lost; his choice of tlie wrong
name seals his doom. But if, in spite of
nil the plausH)lo good names with which
bis thirsty fnncy so copiously furnishes
him, ho unwaveringly clings to the truer
bad name, and appercelres the ease as "a
drunkard's act, a drunkard's act, a drunk
ard's act," his feet are planted on the road
to salvation, he saves himself—by thinking
tightly.
Sturdy Advocate of Temperance.
Itev. William Boss, of Cowcaddens Free
Church, Glasgow, lias just made the re
markable statement that during tho Inst
twenty-livejyears ho has performed the
marriage ceremony for no couple who have
not previously undertaken to havo no al
coholic liquor* at the subsequent festivi
ties. It is still more surprising that only
in live or six cases out of about a thousand
havo tho bride and bridegroom refused to
ugreo to Mr. Boss's conditions.
|| A Pathetic Advertisement.
Tho following pathetic advertisement
appeared the other day in a Lebanon
(Peon.) paper;
"Public Notice—l hereby notify all saloon
and liotelkeepors, or any other persons, not
to furnish liquor of any kind to me, as I
am making an effort to quit tho drinking
habit, and cannot do so as long as auy one
will give mo liquor."
When llullet* Fall, Send Hum.
One of tho secular papers has a cartoon
that Is very slgnillciint. It represents the
last of tho Indians saying to Uncle Sam
apropos of the Philippine Islandors:
"To former mothodsyou may have to come;
When beef and bullets fall, why, send them
rum."
The Crusade In Paragraphs.
Tho Ink bottlo may help along the work
Of tho rum bottle.
Over 1000 people die every year of de
lirium tromons in England.
The saloon was born of evil, but it exists
because good men tolernto it.
It takes a long time to age whisky, but it
won't take long for whisky to age you.
The people of the United States look
with favor upon the saloon becaus* thev
are short-sighted onough to think that It
keeps down taxos.
Among resolutions adopted by the State
Grango of Michigan was one pledging its
influence to seaure tho passage of laws to
promoto temperance and sobriety and con
demning the canteen system in the
United States army.
There are 16,000,000 children of school
age In tho United States under temperance
education laws.
Tbe late Joseph Medlll, the successful
newspaper publisher of Chicago,estimated
that if the working men of the United
States had bought railway stocks Instead
of whisky, for the last ten years, they
would now own every railway In the United
States.
The Kentucky Interdenominational
Ternperauce Committee, representing nine
religious denominations, has issued an
nppeal to the voters of the State to choose
State legislators who will give proper con
sideration to the temperance sentiment ot
the State.
The Indian and Water,
The American Indian, be bis tribe
wh at it may, has no great fondness for
water taken internally, and no use at
all for it aB an external application.
One or two quarts of water will carry
a family through a day, and even in
the arid regions of New Mexico and
Arizona, where the atmosphere takes
up moisture from the body before it
reaohes the surface of the skin, the
per capita of water used is small. Per
haps the scarcity of that fluid has
something to do with the wonderful
economy in its use which prevails, for
it is almost never applied to the body,
with the single exception that no In
dian will lose an opportunity to wash
his long, glossy black hair. Of their
hair they are as proud as any woman,
and devote much time and attention
to its proper care, even sacrificing a
small quantity of the precious wuter
now and then for that purpose. Two
quarts, with the bruised roots of the
yucca, or soap weed, are all that is
necessary for this purpose. As might
be expected under these conditions
the tribes are periodically visited by
dreadful epidemics of smallpox, which
often decimate them.— New York Post.
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iying on the floor, nearly in the mid
tile of the room, that has been lying
there undisturbed for more than six
months. At that time the head of the
house wanted a chair, and, seeing but
jne handy, be dumped to the floor the
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Josephine and Napoleon's Son.
Apropos of the French Napoleonic
drama now being played at the Nou.
veau Theatre, and entitled "Le Roi
de Rome," an interesting communica
tion to the Gaulois states that Joseph
ine only once saw Napoleon's boy. It
had long been her ardent wish to set
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it, saying: "We must go, my boy;
wish the lady goodby." —London
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