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02‘ 912 a? .' Jo mg filled :1 they 1 re 3 murder t ‘ fiend of 1 sh their bu idence fro: 5. there he . 3 laughing ugh: 6h“ 0 he grain of world into '. he fish! a! ing hemetm «ed: 311‘ at t ”on 51003 a) 5713?. 5313.53 t» into a, ‘mm 111‘ka ifiy ‘nd 5‘ 'e will drihk it, ore harm 1’11 Sh hen 1’11 hand Hm the tie. hen I’ll hand the ans fiends ‘ot the I then the fluid a the shelf 'and abnc‘ f shining milkpans fiend of the maelc t and there were but fl 1;: few customers, he the city, and .53 ga 1 instruments. and n‘ floor Opped into hell; be four fiendkthe and The fiend of the vine ard came in one bright morning amid grapes and sat down on a root of twisted grapevine in sheer discouragement. The fiend knew not how to damage the vineyard or, through it, how to damage the world. The pes were so ripe and beautiful diam ious! They bewitched the air with their sweetness. There seemed to be so much health in every bunch! And while the fiend sat there in utter indigna- tion and disappointment he clutched a cluster and squeezed it in perfect spite, and, 10. his hand was red with the blood of the vineyard. and the fiend said: “That reminds me of the blood of broken hearts. I’ll strip the vineyard, and I’ll squeeze out all the juice of the grapes, and I’ll allow the juices of the grapes to stand until they rot, and I’ll call the pro- cess fermentation.” And there was a great vat prepared, 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 drinking. and they drank until they fell in long lines of death, so that when the a fiend of the vineyard wanted to return to his home in the pit he stepped from car- ass to carcass and walked down amid 3 eat causeway of the dead. '‘hen the second fiend came into the 'nfield. He waded chin deep amid the ey and rye. He heard all the grain ng about bread and prosperous hus- y and thrifty homes. He thrust his ‘ arms into the grainfield and he up the grain and threw it into the and he made beneath it great fires ighted with a spark from his own nd there was a grinding and a and a stench, and the people h their bottles, and they dipped 7 liquid, and they drank, and : whemed and they staggered, s) ‘ought, and they rioted, and 3. red, and the fiend of the pit, de the grainfield, was so pleased of shavior that he changed his r be a the pit to awhisky barrel, fro: at by the door of the bung- he . in high merriment at the hing ut of anything so harmless has 0 the field he might turn in of a seeming pandemonium. l fine the dairy saw the cows in of m the pasture field full me he, he maid milked he said: mfi at t 1 that mess. I'll add to spofi a,‘ . and nutmeg. and I’ll Once upon a time four fiends met in the 1081 world. They resolvzd that the people of our earth were too happy, and these four internals came I: rth to our firth on embassy of mischief. The one fiend laid, “I’ll take charge of the vine. yards.” Another said, “I’ll take chemo of the grainflelda.” Another said, “I’ll take charge of the dairy.” Another said, “I’ll take charge of the mueic. ” The four fiends met in the great Sahara desert, with skeleton fingers clutched each other in handshake of fidelity, kissed each other goodby with lip of blue flame and parted on their minion. vuv w. _v -_ 1°“ r 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 has 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 calamity in Egypt. Thousands of the slain, millions of the slain. No Arithmetic can calculate their number. I?” Y lntempennce Pertrayed by Rev, Dr. Tenn-go in Burning Languageâ€"The Fiend: of the Vineyard, the Dairy, the Grain Field and the ntmic Hall Send Up a 6:03: Cry. Washington, April 30.â€"Rev. Dr. Tal- mage's text to-day was Exodus xi, 6, “And there shall be a. great cry through- out all the land of Egypt. ” He said: A VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THE WOES OF DRUNKARDS. MILLIONS OF SLAIN. WORSE THAN H_Jusic hall 10 for ANY PLAGUE. speaking thing to . . and for th that a ma). he is break his his chilt. limo childre) “Wed, unken : ten on every L and on ever-v “ 1y 61d connt'emu in the house of (1 See the attendants stand back from that ward in the hospital where the ine- briates 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 patients. Keep still now.” Then the keepers pass on, and after they get past then the poor creatures wring their hands and say: “Oh. God! Help, help! Give me rum, give me rum! Oh, God! Help! Take the devils ofl of me! Oh, God; oh. God!” And they shriek. and they blas- pheme. and they cry for help, and then they ask the keepers to slay them, saying: “Stab me, strangle me, smother me. Oh, God! Help, help! Rum! Give me rum! Oh, God! Help!” They tear out their hair by the handful, and they bite their nails into the quick. This is no fancy picture. It is transpiring in a hospital at this moment. It went on last night while you slept. and. more than that, that is the death some of you will die unless you stop. I see it coming. God help you to stop before you go so far that you cannot cztop. But it plagues a man also in the loss of \me. I do not care how much he loves Wife and children, if this habit gets mastery over him he will do the most igeous things. If need be, in order t strong drink he would sell them ‘0 everlasting captivity. There are ~ds and thousands of homes that en utterly blasted of it. I am ' of no abstraction. Is there any- disastrous to a man for this life e life to come? Do you tell me .. 1 can be happy when he knows ~ 'ug his wife’s heart and cloth- ‘ren with rags? There are 1 in the streets to~dav bare- xpt. uncombed, want Writ- patch of their faded dress rinkle of their premature- ; ‘ces, who would have been 3 ‘od this morning as well n. ‘t not been that strong 3 Q ' parents down into :1 3 down into the grave. ihet deepoiler of homes, ten 1 recruiting emcer of But he suffers also in the loss of physi- cal health. The older people in this audi- ence can remember Dr. Sewell going through this country electrifying great audiences by demonstrating to them the effect of strong drink upon the human stomach. I am told he had eight or ten diagrams which he presented to the peo- ple, showing the difl‘erent stages in the progress of the disease, and I am told tens of thousands of people turned back from that ulcerous sketch and swore eternal abstinence from all intoxicants. God only knows what the drunkard sufl‘ers. Pain files on every nerve and travels every muscle and gnaws on every bone and sting’s with every poison and pulls with every torture. What reptiles crawl over his shivering limbs! What specters stand by his midnight pillows! What groans tear the air! Talk of the rack, talk of the funeral pyre. talk of the Juggernaut. He sufi'ers them all at once. 1 Again, the man suffers from the loss 1 of usefulness. Do you know some of the 1 men who have fallen into the ditch were I once in the front rank in churches and in the front rank in reformatory institu- tions? Do you know they once knelt at the family altar and once carried the chalice of the holy communion on sacra- mental days? Do you know they once stood in the pulpit and preached the gospel of the Son of God? We will not forget the scene witnessed some years ago in my Brooklyn church when a man rose in the midst of the audience, stepped into the aisle and walked up and down. Everybody saw that he was intoxicated. The ushers led him out. and his poor wife took his hat and overcoat and fol- lowed him to the door. Who was he? He had once been a mighty minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ in a sister denomo ination, had often preached in this very city. What slew him? Strong drink! Oh, what must be the feeling of a man who has destroyed his capacity for usefulness? Do not be angry with that man. Do not lose your patience with him. Do not wonder if he says strange things and gets irritated easily in the family. He has the Pyrenees and the Andes and the Alps on him. Do not try to persuade him that there is no future punishment. Do not go into any argument to prove to him that there is no hell. He knows there is. He is there now! .. v“...â€" Wlbc. Luc Lat/U La, uuuv .s. or he would stop now. He is bound hand and foot by the‘Philstines. and they have shorn his looks and put his eyes out and made him grind in the mill 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 he can stop at any time he wants to. His family become alarmed in regard to him, and they say: “Now do stop this. After awhile it will get the mastery of you.” “Oh. no,” he says, “I can stop at any time. I can stop now, I can stop to- morrow.” His most confidential friends say: “Why, I’m afraid you are losing your balance with that hsbit. You are going a little further than you can afford to go. You had better stop.” “Oh, no,” he says, “I can stop at any time. I can stop now.” He goes on further and fur- ther. He cannot stop. I will prove it. He loves himself, and he knows nevertheless that strong drink is depleting him in body, mind and soul. He knows he is going down, and he has less self control, less equipoise of temper than he used to. Why does he not stop? Because he mnnot stop. I will prove it by coin still fur- ther. He loves his wife and o ildren. He sees that his habits ere bringing disgrace upon his home. The pmbsbilities are they i will ruin his wife and disgrace his chil- l dren. He sees all this, and he loves them. | Why does he not stopii - He cennot stop. I ‘ drods of young menâ€"and I say it not in i flattery-splondid‘young men, who have 5 their utation as their only capital. Your fat or 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 you no means..but he has surrounded you with Christian influ- ences and a good memory of the past. Now, young man, under God you are with your own right arm to achieve your fortune, and as your reputation is your only capital do not bring upon it suspi- cion by going in and out of liquor estab- lishments or by an odor of your breath or by any glare of your eye or by any unnatural flush on your cheeks. You lose your reputation and you lose your capital. The inebriate suffers also in the fact that he loses his self reSpect, and when you destroy a man’s self respect there is not much left of him. Then a man will do things he would not do otherwise, he will say things he would not say other~ wise. The fact is, that man cannot stop, ken a deeper tone at the inebriato soul. The Bible into the future ‘etitea and ms. In all seasons and moods we are to do our work with unflinching courage; we are to be loyal to the highest truth though our hearts be lead within us; we ere to inspire and lead though we cannot see the way for the darkness. A man often does his noblest work in the deepest depression; he often spanks the greatest word which is given him out of the depth: of something very like to despair. It is our part to nail coungeouliy and unhesitatingly on in the blackest night on the top of the wine cask the “Dead March” of immortal souls, you would go home 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 graveâ€"sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunk- ard’s sepulcher? Oh, if you could only hear intemper- ance with drunkardl' bones_ dpumming __ AL. A It- was a new revelation to me, and I have proclaimed it again and again in the hearing of those who have far gone astray. and I stand here to-day to tell you that the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ cannot only save your soul, but save your body. I 100]: Oh? to~day upon the desolation. Some of you are so far on in this habit, although there may be no outward indications of itâ€"you never have staggered along the streetâ€"the vast majority of people do not know that you stimulate, but God knows, and you know, and by human calculation there i not one chance out of 5,000 that you wi 1 ever be stopped. Beware! There are some of you who are my warm personal friends to whom I must say that, unless you quit this evil habit, within ten years, as to your body, you will lie down in a drunk- ard’s grave and, as to you immortal soul, you will lie down in a drunkard’s hell! It is a hard thing to say, but it is true, and I utter the warning lest I have your blood upon my soul. Beware! As to-day you open the door of your wine closet let the decanter flash that word upon your soul, “Beware!” As you pour out the beverage let the foam at the top spell out the word, “Beware!” In the great da of God’s judgment, when a hundred mi - lion drunkards shall come up to get their doom, I want you to testify that this day, in love of your soul and in fear of God, I gave you warning in regard to that influence which has already been felt in your home, blowing out‘ some of its lightsâ€"premonition of the blackness of darkness forever. of ’the strong arm of the Lord God Almighty. He can stop you. Many sum- mers ago I went over to New York one Sabbath evening. our church not yet being open for the autumnal services. I Went into a room in the Fourth Ward, New York, where a religious service was being held for reformed drunkards, and I heard a revelation that night that I had never heard beforeâ€"~15 or 20 men stand- ing up and giving testimony such as I had never heard given. They not onlv testified that their hearts had been changed by the grace of God, but that the grace of God had extinguished their thirst. They Went on to say that they had reformed at different times before, but immediately fallen because they were do- ing the Whole Work in their own strength. “But as soon as We gave our hearts to God." they said. “and the love of the Lord J 0119 Christ has come into our soul the thirst has all gone; We have no more disposition for strong drink.” But I must not dwell on generalities. I must come to specifics. Are you astray? If there is any sermon I dislike, it is a sermon on generalities. I want personali- ties. Are you astray? Have you gone so far you think you cannot get back? Did I say a few moments ago that a man might go to 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 the man himself of his own strength cannot stop. God can stop any man. You have only to lay hold Thirty women in one of the western States banded together, and with on especial ordination from God they went forth to the work and shut up all the grogshops of a large village. Thirty Women, with their song and with their prayer. And if 1.000 or 2,000 Christian men and women with an especial ordina- tion from God should go forth feeling the responsibility of their work and dis- charging their mission they could in any city shut up all the grogshops. me, “Are you in favor of Sons of Tom- perance?” Yen. “Are you in favor d good Samaritans?” Yes. “Are you in favor of Good Temphrs?” You. “Are, 7“ in favor of prohibitory law?” Yes. “Are you in favor of the pledge?” Yes. Com- bine all the influences, 0 Christian to- formers and philanthropists! Combino them all for the extirpation of this evil. -vâ€" If a fiend from the lost world should come up on a mission to a gropshop and, having finished the mission in the grog- shop, should come back, taking on the tip of his wing one drop of alcoholic beverage, what excitement it would make all through the world of the lost, and, 11 that one drop of alcoholic beverage should drop from the wing of the fiend upon the tongue of the inebriate, how he would spring up and cry: “That’s it! That’s it! Rum! Rum! That’s it!” And all the caverns of the lost would echo with the cry: “Give it to me! Rum! Rum!" Ah, my friends, the inebriate’s sorrow in the next world will not be the absence of God or holiness or light. It will be the absence of rum. “Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup. for at the last it biteth like I serpent, and it stingeth like an adder.” When I see this plague in the land and when I see this destroying angel sweep- ing across our great cities I am some- times indignant and sometimes humili- ated. When a man asks me, “What are you in favor of for the subjugation of this evil?” I answer. “I am ready for anything that is reasonable.” You ask mix it. No one to pour it. No one to fetch it. Millions of worlds now for the dregs that were thrown on the sawdusted floor of the restaurant. Millions of worlds now for the rind flung out from the punch bowl of an earthly banquet. Dives called for water. The inebriate calls for rum. 'v-'â€"_n 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, he could beg or he could Steal five cents to get a. drink that would for o little while slake his thirst, but in etern- ity where will the rum come from? Dives wanted one drop of water, but could not get it. Where will the inebriatc get the draft he so much requires, so much de- mands? No one to brew it. No one to THE WATCHMAN-WARDER: LINDSAY. ONT; Do Your Work. 7 Big Mr. \Vm. J. Hepburn Writes Bails. from Centralia, ‘Ont.: “I can sincerely say that Burdock Blood Bitters is the best spring medicine on the market. Last spring my blood got out of order, and I had seven or eight good sized boils come out on my body, and the one on my leg was much larger than an egg. I got. a. bottle of Burdock Blood Bitters, and inside of six days, when only half the bottle was taken, there wasnt a boil to be seen. I have recommended 3.3.8. to different people in our village, and all derived benefit from it. I wish B.B.B. every success, as it is indeed e great medicine for the blood." 3.8. B. is a. highly concentrated vege- table compoundâ€"tcaspoonful doses-add water yourself. With happy song : And Love still reigns, while shines star I The Evening star. Now bent and white Are tired heads; the failing sight Scarce sees the shadows creep. The bark of Life hath touched the strand, And Old__Age waits with folded hand The long. last sleep. A breathâ€"a touch of fingers light- And it is night. New near, now far, There comes the moaning of the bar, While Life's bark glides along. Long years have turned the tressee gre), Yet deaf _9_n_es_ cheer the onward way ' With sweet refrain. Youth’s Afternoon glides swiftly by While Love is nigh. The Dusk comes on. And hides the glories of the sun ; Yet all the heavens ring With wedding bells, for life is hlest, And haggfi is the cosy nest ere Love is king. His joyous reign has just begun Though day is done. When school is done. And yet we miss the bnby ways 01 other days. The tide is high, And on Life's stream the sunbeams lie ; Then comes the tender strain 0! happy music, soft and low, Love guideq the trail bark to and fro It stimulates the sluggish liver to ac- tivity, improves the appetite, acts on the bowels and kidneys, purifies and enriches the blood, removes all poisonous pro- ducts, and imparts new life and vigor to those who are weak and debilitated. While lips repeat The nursery songs of childish things That mother sings. The Noon'e bright rays Shine down on books and Childhood‘s plays; And vanished, one by one, Are tagged dolls and broken toys, While now is heard the fun and noise Yet, come what may. The mother weaves her tender spell, And all is well. And morninar brings The soft unfolding of the wings, The steps of tiny feet, The pmttle none many understand, Save those whojdwell in Babyland ; The liver is sluggish, the bowels inclin- ed to be constipated, the blood impure, and the entire organism is in need of a thorough cleansing. Of all “ Spring Medi Blood Bitters is the best There is a dullness, drowsiness and inaptitude for work on account of the Whole system being clogged up with 1m- purities accumulated during the winter months. The light of day, And night Wind's whisper ere they die, The lullaby. Would we could tell What happy thoughts and. fancies dwell, As baby's cradle rocks away ; Wide open are the dear one‘s eyes. An unknown world before them lies ; Take This Spfing. Very few people escape the enervating influence of spring weather. The dawn is gray, Ami night's dark shadows fade away, Sing low, sing sweet; the lullaby, The little one lies still and sleeps, While softly through the easement creeps â€"Grace R. 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