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Part of the Building Escaped
the Flames.
FONT AND LECTERN SAVED.
Origin of the Fire in
the Organ.
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OTO OF HE CHURCHES.
Letters and Resolutions From All
Denominations.
Thousand)* of People Viewed the
Hull!* Yesterday—Firemen Explain
the Difficulty in Getting; nt the
Fire—The insurance Believed to Be
Sufficient to Restore the Church.
Only the blackened ruins confronted
those who would have worshipped at
Christ church yesterday. Besides the
members of the congregations, thousands
of others viewed the half destroyed church
and expressed regret at the loss. One
member of the church remarked if sym- (
pathy would rebuild it, the congregation
already has an over-supply.
There was general surprise at the dis
covery that the damage to the building
and its contents was not so great as had
been supposed. Those who saw the flames
rage for hours and the interior of the
building a roaring furnace, naturally sup
posed that everything in the shape of
wood-work and combustible material
within it would be consumed, or, at least,
charred beyond recognition. Such is not
the case.
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Christ Church After the Fire.
Daylight revealed that the flames had
been confined entirely to the ceiling, with
the exception of the organ and the portion
of the gallery surrounding it. The ceiling,
which was in heavy heart pine in hnrd oil
finish, was almost entirely consumed, only
a tew charred beams being left overhang- :
ing the body of the church in a perilous i
manner. One of these beams fell in the ,
afternoon, capslng the police, who had
taken charge of the ruins, to prohibit any
one from entering the building afterwards.
The galvanized iron roof is still in posi
tion overhanging the church like a shell,
with little support, except at the sides.
The Iron roofing stood the Are remarka
bly well, giving away at one portion only,
just over the pulpit. It Is pierced with
little holes, which let in rays of light.
There was much joy among the mem.
bers of the congregation when It was
found that the handsome Italian marble
font, which stands on the right of the
altar, was practically uninjured. The
marble is discolored, but can be cleaned
and restored to its former whiteness. The
brass lectern, which stands in front of
the pulpit, is also unhurt, except for dirt
and smoke, from which it can be easily
relieved. Although the roof gave way
above the altar and a portion of the south
east tower fell in, the ornaments around
the altar and chancel were almost mirac
ulously preserved, none of them being
broken. The marble tablets to several
former rectors of the church are unin
jured. The credence table is the only
piece of chancel furniture unaccounted
for.
The organ is an entire loss, only the
charred frame remaining. Visitors to
the building were surprised to And that
the tire had not spread in the lower part
of the church at all. With the exception
of about a dozen pews on each side of
the center aisle, which wore Injured by
falling timbers, the pews in the body of
the church are not damaged, except by
water and smoke, and can be placed in
good condition at small cost. In the gal
leries the pews are practically all ruined,
most of them being badly charred. Part
of the sheathing on the sides of the gal
leries is knocked off. revealing the old
ornamental design underneath, which was
covered over at the time the church was
remodeled.
While the damage la not so great as was
at first thought to be the case. It U
still very heavy. Probably $30,000 would
be an inside estimate of the cost to re
place the building in its former condition. ;
The walls are practically unhurt, and can
be used in the erection of another build- ,
Ing. The roof, ceiling, galleries, win
dows and other portions of the church
will have to be replaced entirely new. The
insurance will not cover the damage, as
of the total amount of $32,500 insurance,
BfSjW Is upon the building, which lacks
considerably of being a total loss.
An inspection of the Interior of the |
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building yesterday proved conclusively
that the Are originated in the organ and
spread from there to the ceiling. The
latter being of hard heart pine, well fin
ished in oil, made a splendid food for the
flames, and it was easy to see the diffi
culties which the firemen labored under.
It was practically impossible for them to
place the water where it would do the
most good, from outside the building, on
account of the small, narrow windows,
the range from the lower windows being
cut off entirely by the galleries, and to
fight the Are from inside the building was
out of the question. No one could have
lived there in the heat and smoke after
the fire had obtained headway.
Undoubtedly valuable time was lost be
fore turning in the alarm after the fire
was first discovered. Several minutes were
lost by the firemen after their arrival in
( getting on a sufficient head of steam to
I throw effective streams. Chief Maguire
I said yesterday that this was not due
] either to lack of water or failure on the
1 part of the engineers to have up steam
when they arrived at th® fire. The en
gines all had steam up when they ar
rived, h® said, but there is a necessary
loss of steam between the time the steam
connection is broken at the engine houses
and the time which It takes for the ma
terial in the furnace, which is touched off
before the engines leave the houses, to
get sufficient headway. After arriving at
the hydrant soft coal is thrown into the
furnace, and this require a short while
to become thoroughly Ignited. This loss
of time is unavoidable, he said, and ac
counts for the light streams thrown when
the water was first turned on.
The theory that the fire originated in
the organ loft from some carelessness dur
ing the choir practice earlier in the night,
is well borne out by corroborative circum
stances a» well as th® appearance of the
ruins. A member of th® choir said that
the boy who was employed to pump the
organ, had a small piece of candle, which
was exhausted before the conclusion of
the practice. His supposition was that
the boy, being in the dark, struck matches
occasionally to Inform himself of the
whereabouts of the pumping gauge. These
matches were doubtless thrown carelessly
on the floor and this furnishes the best
explanation of the origin of the Are. As
those who are familiar with the construc
tion of large organs are aware there is a
sort of cubby hole tn which the man at
the pump works out of sight of the choir
and congregation. The door in the Christ
church organ, through which the pump
man entered, was only about three by
four feet, but on the inside there was
room for him to stand up. This left him
in total darkness unless he had a light of
some kind, and if he had no candle it is
the most natural thing in the world that
he should have used matches.
The only chance the firemen had to ex
tinguish the flames before they had gain
ed too great headway was to have gotten
Into the body of the church before the
' fire had gotten into the ceiling, and on
account of the bead way which the fl re
had when they arrived, it is doubtful if
they had time to do this. Chief Maguire
was in bed asleep when the alarm sound
' ed, but arrived on the ground at the end
'of the fourth round. After locating the
1 Are in the front of the building, he enter
ed the rear through the basement, in com
pany with Assistant Chief Mouro and
Foreman Murphy of the chemical engine.
■ The organ was biasing and the place was
■ fl.led with smoke. They saw that the
; only thing to do was to fight the Are from
I the rear or middle of the church, and or-
ders were immediately given to bring in
! the chemical stream. Two lines of chem
j leal hose ware run in through the base
merit, one in che.-ge of Foreman Murphy
of chemical No. 1. and the other in charge
! of Foreman Toshach of engine No. 3. The
men managed to get inside the church
and discharge two tanks of the chemical
fluid, one from each line of hoee. when
I they were driven out by the heat and
•moke. Immediately afterwards the cell
ing burst info a blaxd with a sound which
■ many people took for an explosion. The
, oil and varnish is supposed tn have oosed
I from the timbers of the ceiling and to
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK) THURSDAY, MAY 27.1897.
have given the flames a ready hold. After
that it was impossible for any one to live
inside the building, and the only thing to
be done was to pour in water from the out
side. Had the volume of water which was
poured into the building reached the
seat of the flames there would have been
no difficulty in quickly extinguishing the
fire, but, as has been explained, the con
struction of the building made this im
possible.
The thousands of people who were gath
ered in Johnson square witnessed an awe
inspiring sight when the flames reached
the porch and ate through the ceiling
there. Columns of dense, black stroke
poured out from under the porch and
around the massive pillars for a minute
or two, and then the flames burst forth.
A meeting of the Christ church vestry
was held at the residence of the rector,
Rev. White, yesterday morning. Numbers
of telegrams of condolence and sympathy
were received, among the number being
one from Rev. Chauncey C. Williams'of
Augusta and another from Rev. F. F.
Reese of Macon. A letter was received
from Rev. C. H. Strong of St. John’s
church expressing sympathy, and stating
that the vestry would take action during
the day. A communication was received
from the Independent Presbyterian church
offering the use of the Sunday school room
of the church as long as it might be
needed. A similar communication was re
ceived from Trinity Methodist church, and
also a communication from Prof. Mehr
tens, offering the use of his hall on Perry
street. The offer of the Independent Pres
byterian church was the first received and
the building being conveniently located
and arranged it was decided to accept this
offer.
A committee was appointed to look af
ter the insurance. The question of re
building was not discussed. If it is found
that the building can be restored practi
cally for the amount of insurance or at a
moderate cost in excess of that, there is
hardly a doubt that the old building will
be restored practically as before. Should
a good offer be received for the present
site there are many members of the
church who will favor accepting and
erecting a new building further south and
nearer the center of population. Some
years ago, when the government was look
ing for a site for the new postoffice, which
is just now in course of erection, the offer
was made to Christ church to exchange
the government barracks property, where
the De Soto now stands, for the site occu
pied by the church. A cash offer was also
made. Christ church, however, held out
for SIOO,OOO cash. This figure was a little
steep for Uncle Sam and the result was
that a few years later the government
purchased <he lot at York and Abercorn
streets, which later was exchanged for the
site upon which the new postoffice is now
being erected, from the Savannah Volun
teer Guards, for $50,000.
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URUGUAY’S REBELS.
Government Troops Repulsed st
Bevern With Heavy Loss.
London, May 24.—Telegrams from the
Brazilian frontier of Uruguay say that
the rebels made a determined stand at Re
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capture the town, but were repulsed with
severe loss. They are now waiting for re
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declare he will soon be captured, as he
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MISERABLE WASTE OF MONEY.
AN ARRAIGNMENT OF IMPROVI
DENCE BY TALMAGE.
Countless Thousands Putting Their
Earnings Into a Bag With Holes.
Billions of Dollars Wasted in Fool
ish Outlay, at the Gaming Table
and in Intoxicants—God Alone
Knows What the Drunkard Suffers.
Washington, May 23.—This sermon of
Dr. Taimage is an arraignment of improv
idence in all classes, and of alcoholism,
as the greatest enemy of the working peo.
pie. The text is: Haggai i: 6, He that
earneth wages, earneth wages to put It
into a bag with holes.
In Persia, under the reign of Darius
Hytaspes, the people did not prospet.
They made money, but did not keep it.
They were like people who have a sack
in which they put money, not knowing
that the sack is torn or eaten of moths,
or in some way made incapable of hold
ing valuables. As fast as the coin was
put in one end of the sack it dropped
out of the other. It made no difference
how much wages they got, for they lost
them. ‘‘He that earneth wages, earnetn
wages to put it into a bag with holes.”
What has become of the billions and
billions of dollars in this country pail
to the working classes? Some of these
moneys have gone for house rent, or the
purchase of homesteads, or wardrobe, or
family expenses, or the necessities of life,
or to provide comforts in old age. Wnat
has become of other billions? Wasted in
foolish outlay. Wasted at the gaming
table. Wasted in intoxicants. Put into
a bag with a hundred holes.
Gather up the money that the working
, classes have spent for drink during the
last thirty years, and I w'ill build for every
working man a house, and lay out for
him a garden, and clothe his sons in
broadcloth and his daughters in silks, and
place at his front door a prancing span
of sorrels or bays, and secure him a policy
of life insurance, so that the present home
may be well maintained after he is dead.
The most persistent, most overpowering
enemy of the working classes is intoxi
cating liquor. It is the anarchist of the
centuries, and has boycotted, and is now
boycotting, the body and mind and sou!
of American labor. It is to it a worse
foe than monopoly and worse than asso
ciated capital.
It annually swindles industry out of a
large percentage of its earnings. It holds
out its blasting solicitations to the me
chanic or operative on his way to work,
and at the noon spell, and on his way
home at eventide; on Saturday, when the
wages are paid, it snatches a large part
of the money that might come into the
family, and sacrifices it among the sa
loon-keepers. Stand fKe'*saioOns' of 'this
country side by side, and it is carefully
estimated that they would reach from
New York to Chicago. ‘‘Forward,
march,” says the drink power, “and take
possession of the American nation!”
The drink business is pouring its vitri
olic and damnable liquids down the
throats of hundreds of thousands of la
borers, and while the ordinary’ strikes are
ruinous both to employers and employes, I
proclaim a strike universal against strong
drink, which, If kept up, will be the relief
of the working classes and the sal
vation of the nation. I will undertake to
say that there is not a healthy laborer in
the United States, who, within the next
ten years, if he will refuse all intoxicating
beverage and be saving, may not become a
capitalist on a small scale. Our country
in « year spends one billion five hundred
million and fifty thousand dollars for
drink. Os course the working classes do a
great deal of this expenditure. Careful
statistics show that the wage-earning
classes of Great Britain expend in liquors
one hundred million pounds, or five hun
dred million dollars a year. Sit down and
calculate, O working man! how much you
have expended In these directions. Add
it all up. Add up what your neighbors
have expended, and realize that instead
of answering the beck of other people
you might have been your own capitalist.
When you deplete a working man’s physi
cal energy you deplete his capital. The
stimulated workman gives out before the
unstimulated workman. My father said:
“1 became a temperance man in early life,
because I noticed in the harvest-field that,
though I was physically weaker than
other workmen, I could hold out longer
than they. They took stimulants, I took
none.” A brick-maker in England gives
his experience in regard to this matter
among men in his employ. He says, after
investigation: “The b?er-drinker who
made the fewest bricks made six hundred
and fifty-nine thousand; and the abstainer
who made the fewest bricks, seven hun
dred and forty-six thousand. The differ
ence in behalf of the abstainer over the
indulger, e ißhty-seven thousand.”
When an army goes out to the battle
the soldier who has water or coffee in his
canteen marches easier and fights better
than the soldier who has whisky in his
canteen. Drink helps a man to flght
when he has only one contestant, and that
at the street corner. But wlien he goes
forth to maintain some great battle for
God and his country, he wants no drink
about him. When the Russians go to
war a corporal passes along the line and
smells the breath of every soldier. if
there be in his breath e. taint of intoxicat
ing liquor, the man is sent back to the
barracks. Why? He cannot endure fa
tigue. All our young men know this.
When they are preparing for a regatta, or
for a ball club, or for an athletic wrestling
they abstain. Our working people will be
wiser after awhile, and the money they
fling away on hurtful indulgences they
will put into co-operative association, arid
so become capitalists. If the working man
put down his wages and then take his ex
penses and spread them out so they will
just equal, he is not wise. I know work
ing men who are in a perfect fidget until
they get rid of their last dollar.
The following circumstances came under
our observation: A young man worked
hard to earn his six or seven hundred dol
lars yearly. Marriage day came. The
bride bad inherited five hundred dollars
from her grandfather. She spent every
dollar of it on the wedding dress. Then
they rented two rooms in a third story.
Then the young man took extra evening
employment: almost exhausted with
day’s work, yet took evening employment.
It almost extinguished hia eyesight. Why
did he add evening employment to the dky
employment? To get money. Why did
he want to get money? To lay up some
thing for a rainy day? No. To get his life
insured, so that in case of hia death his
wife would not be a beggar? Na He
put the extra evening work to the day
work that he might get a hundred and
fifty dollars to get his wife a sealskin coat.
The sister of the bride heard of this
achievement, and was not to be eclipsed.
She was very poor, and she sat up work
ing nearly all the night for a great while
until she bought a sealskin coat. I have
not heard of the result on that street. The
street was full of those who are on small
incomes, but I suppose the contagion
spread, and that everybody had a seal
skin coht, and that the people 'came out
and cried, practically, not literally:
“Though the heavens fall, we must have
a sealskin coat!”
I was out west, and: a minister of the
gospel told me, in lowa, that his church
and the neighborhood had been impov
erished by the fact that they put mort
gages on their farms in order to wend
their families to the Philadelphia centen
nial. It was not respectable not to go
to the centennial. Between such evils and
pauperism there is a very short step. The
vast majority of children in your alms
houses are there because their parents are
drunken, lazy, or recklessly improvident.
I have no sympathy for skinflint sav
ing, but I plead for Christian prudence.
You say it is impossible now to lay up
anything for a rainy day. I know it, but
we are at the daybreak of national pros
perity. Some people think it is mean to
turn the gas low when they go out of
the parlor. They feel embarrassed if the
door-bell rings before they have the hall
lighted. They apologize for the plain
meal, if you surprise them at the table.
Well, it is mean if it is only to pile up a
miserly hoard. But if it be to educate
your children, if it be to give more Help
to your wife when she does not foe!
strong, if it be to keep your funeral day
from being horrible beyond all endurance,
because it is to be the disruption and an.
nihilation of the domestic circle—if it be
for that, then it, is magnificent. .
There are those who are kept in poverty
because of their own fault. They might
have been well off, but they smoked or
chewed up their earnings, or they lived
beyond their means, while others on the
same wages and on the same salaries went
on to competency. I know a man who is
all the - time’ complaining of his poverty
and crying out against rich men. while he
himself keeps two dogs, and chews and
smokes, and is full to the chin with whis
ky and beer. W’ilkins Micawber said to
David Copperfield, “Copperfield, my boy,
one pound income, expenses twenty shill
ings and sixpence; result, misery. But,
Copperfield, my boy, one pound income,
expenses nineteen shillings and sixpence;
result, happiness;” But, O working man,
take your morning dram, and your noon
dram, and your evening dram, and spend
everything you have over for tobacco and
excursions, and you insure poverty for
yourself and your children forever!
If by some generous flat of the capital
ists of this country or by a new law Os the
government of the United States, twenty
five per cent., or fifty per cent., or one
hundred per cent, were added to the wages
of the working classes of America, it
would be no advantage to hundreds of
thousands of them unless they stopped
strong drink. Aye, until they quit that
evil habit, the more money, the more ruin,
the more wages, the more holes in the bag.
Jly plea is to those working people who
are in a discipleship to the whisky-bottle
the beer-jug, and the wine-flask. And
what 1 say to them will nOt be more ap
propriate to the working classes than to
the business classes, and the literary
classes, and the professional classes, and
all classes, aaid not with the people of one
age more than of all ages. Take one good
square look at the suffering of the man
whom strong drink has enthralled, and re
member that toward that goal multitudes
are running. The disciple of alcoholism
suffers the loss of self-respect. Just as
soon as a man wakes up and finds that he
is the captive of strong drink, he feels de
meaned. I do not care how recklessly he
acts. He may sdy. “I don’t care;” he
does care. He cannot look a pure man in
the eye unless it is with positive force of
resolution. Three-fourths of his nature
is destroyed; his self-respect is gone; he
.nays things he would not otherwise say;
• he does things he would not otherwise do.
When a man is nine-tenths gone with
strong drink the first thing he wants to
do is to persuade you that he can stop
any time he wants to. He cannot. The
Philistines have bound him hand and
foot, and shorn his locks, and put out
his eyes, and are making him grind in
the mill of a great horror. He cannot
stop. I will prove it.' He knows that his
course is bringing ruin upon himself. He
loves himself. If 'he could stop he would.
He knows his course is bringing ruin up
on his family. He loves them. He would
stop If Ihe could. He cannot. Perhaps
he could three months or a year ago, not
now. Just ask him to stop for a month.
He cannot; he knows he cannot, so he
does not try.
1 had a friend who was for fifteen years
going down under this evil habit. He had
large means. He had given thousands of
dollars to Bible societies and' reformatory
institutions of all sorts. He was very
genial, very generous, and very lovable,
and whenever he talked about this evil
habit he would say, “I can stop any time.”
But he kept going on, going on, down,
down, down. His family would say, "I
wish you would’ stop.” “Why,” he would
rep.y, “I can stop any time if I want to.”
After a while he had delirium tremens; he
had it twice; and yet, after he had said,
“I can stop at any time if I wanted to.”
He is dead now, What killed him?
Drink! Drink! And yet among his last
utterances was, “I can stop at any time.”
He did not stop it because he could not
stop it. Oh, there is a point in inebriation
beyond which if a man goes he cannot
stop!
One of these victims said to a Christian
man, “Sir, if I were told that I couldn't
get a drink until to-morrow night unless I
had all my fingers cut off, I would say,
‘Bring the hatchet and cut them off now.’ ”
1 have a dear friend in Philadelphia whose
nephew’ came to him one day, and when
he was exhorted about his evil habit said,
"Uncle, I can’t give it up. If there stood
a cannon and it was loaded, and a glass of
wine were set on the mouth of that can
non, and I knew that you would fire it off
just as I came up and took the glass, I
would start, for I must have it.” Oh, it
is a sad thing for a man to wake up in
this life and feel that he is a captive! He
says, "I could have got -rid of this once,
but I can’t now. I might have lived an
honorable life and died a Christian death;
but there is no hope for me now; there is
no escape for me. Dead, but not buried.
I am a walking corpse. I am an appari
tion of what I once was. I am a caged
immortal beating against the wires of my
cage in this direction; beating against the
cage until there is blood on the wires and
blood upon my soul, and not able to get
out. Destroyed without remedy!”
I go on and say that the disciple of rum
suffers from the loss of health. The older
men may remember that some years ago
Dr. Sewell went through this country and
electrified the people by his lectures, in
which he showed the effects of alcohol
ism on the human stomach. He had
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seven or eight diagrams by which he
showed the devastation of strong drink
upon the physical system. There were
thousands of people who turned back
from that ulcerous sketch, swearing eter
nal abstinence from everything that could
intoxicate.
God only knows what the drunkard
suffers. Pain flies on every nerve, and
travels every muscle, and gnaws every
bone, and burns with every flame, and
stings with every poison, and pulls at
him with every torture. What reptiles
crawl over his sleeping limbs! What
flends stand by his midnight pillow! What
groans tear his ear! What horrors shiver
through his soul! Talk of the rack, talk
of the inquisition, talk of the funeral
pyre, talk of thd crushing Juggeranut—
he feels them all at once. Have you ever
been in the ward of the hospital where
these inebriates are dying, the stench of
their wounds driving back the attendants,
their voices sounding trough the night?
The keeper comes up and says, “Hush,
now be still! Stop making all this noise!’’
But it is effectual only for a moment,
for as soon as the keeper is gone they
begin again: “O, God! O, God! Help! Help!
Drink! Give me drink! Help! Take them
off me! Take them off me! O, God!” And
then they shriek, and they rave, and they
pluck out their hair by handfuls, and bite
their nails into the quick, and then hey
groan, and they shriek, and they blas
pheme, and they ask the keepers to kill
them—“ Stab me! Smother me! Strangle
me! Take the devils off me!” Oh, it Is
no fancy sketch! That thing is going on
now all up and down the land, and I tell
you further that this is going to be tho
death that some of you will die. I know
it. I see it coming.
Again, the inebriate suffers through the
loss of home. I do not care how much
he loves his wife and children, if this pas
sion for strong drink has mastered him,
he will do the most outrageous things;
and, if he could not get drink in any other
way, he would sell his family into eternal
bondage. How many homes have; been
broken up in that way no one but God
knows. Oh, is there anything that will
so destroy a man for this life, and damn
him for the life that is to come! Do not
tell me that a man can be happy when
he knows that he is breaking his wife's
heart and clothiftg his children with rags.
Why, there are on the roads and streets
of this land to-day little children barefoot
ed, unwashed, and unkempt— want on ev
ery patch of their faded dress and on ev
ery wrinkle of their prematurely old coun
tenances, who would have been in
churches to-day, and as well clad as you
are, but for the fact that rum destroyed
their parents and drove them into the
grave. O, rum, thou foe of God, thou de
spoiler of homes, thou recruiting officer of
the pit, I hate thee!
But my subject takes a deeper tone, and
that is, that the unfortunate of whom I
speak suffers from the loss of the soul.
The Bible intimates that in the future
world, if we are unforgiven here, our bad
passions and appetites, unrestrained, will
go along with us and make our torment
there. So that, I suppose, when an ine
briate wakes up in that world, he will feel
an infinite thirst consuming him. Now,
down In this world, although he may have
been very poor, he could beg or he could
steal 5 cents with which to get that which
would siake his thirst for a little while;
but in eternity where is the rum to come
from?
Oh, the deep, exhausting, exasperating,
everlasting thirsrt. of the drunkard in hell!
Why, if a flend came up to earth for some
infernal work in a grog-shop, and should
go back taking on its wing just one drop
of that for which the inebriate in the lost
world long, what excitement would it
make there! Put that one drop from off
the fiend's wing on the tip of the tongue
of the destroyed inebriate; let the liquid
brightness just touch it; let the drop be
very small, if it only have in it the smack
of alcoholic drink; let that drop just touch
the lost inebriate in the lost world, and he
would spring to his feet and cry, “That is
rum, aha! That is rum!” And it would
wake up the echoes of the damned—“ Give
me rum! Give me rum! Give me rum!”
In the future world I do not believe that
it will be the absence of God that will
make the drunkard’s sorrow. I do not be
lieve that H will be the absence of light.
I do not believe that it will be the absence
of holiness. I think it will be the absence
of rum. Oh, “Look not upon the wine
when it is red, when it moveth itself
aright in the cup, for at the last it biteth
like a serpent and it stingeth like an
adder.”
While I declared some time ago that
there was a point beyond which a man
could not stop, I want to tell you that,
while a man cannot stop in his own
strength, the Lord God by his grace can
help him to stop at any time. I was in a
room in New York where there were
many men who had been reclaimed from
drunkenness. I heard their testimony,
and for the first time in my life there
flashed out a truth I never understood.
They said: “We were victims of strong
drink. We tried to give it up, but always
failed; but somehow since we gave our
hearts to Christ, he has taken care of us.”
I believe that the time will soon come
when the grace of God will show its power
not only to save man's soul, but his body,
and reconstruct, purify, elevate and re
deem it.
I verily believe that, although you feel
grappling at the roots of your tongues an
almost omnipotent thirst, if you will give
your heart to God he will help you by his
grace to conquer. Try it. It is your last
chance. I have looked off upon the deso
lation. Sitting next to you in our religious
assemblages, there are » good many peo
ple in awful peril; and, judging from or
dinary circumstances, there is not one
chance in five thousand that they will
get clear of it. There are men in every
congregation from Sabbath to Sabbath of
whom I must make the remark, that if
they do not change their course, within
ten years they will, as to their bodies, He
down in drunkards’ graves; and as to their
souls, lie down in a drunkard’s perdition.
I know that is an awful thing to say, but
I cannot help saying ft.
Oh, beware! You have not yet been
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ter mug. in the foam at the top. in w'hite i
letters, let there be spelled out to your :
soul. “Beware!” When the books of
judgment are open, and ten million drunk
ards come up to get their doom, I want
you to bear witness that I, in the fear of
God and the love of your soul, told you.
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to beware of that which has already ex
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