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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 mmm IT , -. W^L - ; r; ^O . / cxma^Jo kJlid l3^(pc //i THE nrnfeard's J^^m; — A N D -— TH E DMTY OF TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES. ^ j^ SEK.:Rd:oisr, PBBACHiB BIWB£ III lOMf, AI WESTCHBSTEE, mi SCOfU, BY REV. ». STEWART, Gf. "W. Chapl. Ixxdeperxdent Order of Gropd Xempiajrs. t\ PUBLISHED BY REQUEST. & AMHERST, N. S. : "AMHERST GAZETTE" OFFICE. 1668. # I ^fflr <^ DRUNKARD'S DOOM. «< FTor Drnnktrds shall intierit tbe kingdom of God.*'-I Cor. ri* 10* w There la a long eataloguo of criminals here, having the drunkard ia their midst, of whom it is said, that they shall not inherit the kingdom of God The truth of this statement might be doubted hy some, if Paul were the only individual who left this testimony on record. But, what are the facts of the case f There is not a book in the Bible that does not condemn the drunkard, and pronounce him to bo an object of wretchedness, misery and woe ; yet, with all this, the devil makes a slave of the poor tippler, by telling him that there is no ini mediate dan- ger. He listens for a moment, and then cakes another draught of that which has sent millions upon millions of the human family into the chamburs of eteriial despair. Mao is depraved by nature ; Satan takes advantage of that depravity, comes in the garb of an angel of light, presents the cup of strong drink in all its charms ; away goes the poor besotted wretch to the tavern, and stops not till he burls himself into eternal ruin. In Saint Paul's Cathedral, London, I saw a door of black marble, intended to represent death. Above it ras written, " Through the gate of death, we muit pass to our joyful resurrection, " There is, on either side of the door, a statue of marble, intended to represent angcis with extended wings, Their countenance is mild, solemn, serene and God- like ; being intended to comtort the weary pilgrim as ho walks " through the valley of the dhadow of death." Oo one side of the door was writ- ten, " Until the day break, and the shadows fleo away ;" and on the other, " They that abide under his shadow shall return." In the words of my text, I s«e inscribed over the gate of the New Jerusalem, "No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God." With a telescopic view, I see two angels standing at the portals of glory above : but how differ- ent from those in Saint Paul's Cathedral ! They are not there to over- shadow the drunkard's path, and ward off every danger. Ah ! no ; but they have the sword of God's eternal vengeance against sin, in hund, and their duty is, to keep every drunkard from entering " in through the gates into the city." But that is Dot all. After declaring that '' no drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God," they show the gate of woe wide ojier. nv'i •;;t;«' wordfi inaoibed, as with liquid fire, on the top, " This is the yawning gate of hell, and every drunkard naust enter here." Where now ia the poor drunkard who left this tabernacle of clay ? the angels of God's justice did not allow him to enler the portals of glory : so, where must he go ? At death, Justice condemns him ; then he is dragged to the gates of woe. Now two parties are ready to receive him ; they are quite different from, either the statues uf marble in Saint Paul's Cathe- dr^il, or the angels of divine love that welcome the just at the gates of the New Jerusalem. They are arch liends from the gulf of despair. Their name is Beelzebub, and Apollyon. They are tormented for ever and ever, in the fire of God's wrath ; aod their only delight — if delight it oao be called — is in torturing and tormenting the lost of Adam's race. Think what kind of reception the poor drunkard will receive at their handd, as they drag him into the chambers of darkness and gloom I Mercy is unknown to them ; so he cannot expect mercy at their bands. Think you, what will Apollyon cay to the drunkard, aa he seizes him at the gate of woe ? Will it be tbat which he said to Christian, in the valley of Forgetful Green ? The words are these : " Prepare thyself to die ; for I swear by my infernal den that thou shaK go no further ; here will I spill thy soul," at the same moment throwing a flaming javelin at Christian's breast. If not, will he say, " Poor fool, that believed me bofore Christ, and brought yourself to this dismal ^ate by strong drink ; I Am now to drag you away and plunge you into the boiliug, sulphury suiges of Jehovah's wrath ; there you and I must exist, side by side, till the resttrrection morn ; then, your body shall bo raised, at the sound of the last trumpet ', body and soul shall be re united > after that, you and I shall be plunged into a furnace seven times heated, where we shall remain throughout eternity." Call this the language of imagina- tion, if you will ; but suoh will be the lot of those who ruin themselves by strong drink, and concerning whom it is said, << No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God." If we look at tho drunkard in the light of r^jison, he is the most pitiable orsature in God's universe. This is by no means the language of extravagance, but the teachings of conscience. Ac the outset, no man ever intended to squander his money, diigraco his wife, his family, and himself, then die a drunkard. At first, he begins with a mere taste, perhaps not one-tenth of a glass ; he tells you it leaves a disagree- able taste in his mouth ; for this reason, be is in no danger whatever of becoming a drunkard. Watch his movements, and, at the end of two or three yeuiy, he'll toll you that it's very nice to have a little in the morning This is a mighty stride in such a short time : dislike is turned into like ; bad taste into rather pleasant } and, " I won't enter a *m tavoro," into, "I don't mind if I do, and tnko one glass." Hy \h'\f time, drunkenness ia deeply rooted in the heart ; and it requires onlj a cultivatiou of two or three glasses a week, to make the moderate drink- er a besotted wretch. The car that wont only two miles an hour, nt first, now goes twenty, and at fifty the drunaard will die of ihlirium ^' tremens. ' ^l'*' Who is to bear the blame of all this ? I believe parents are guilty, in a great many instances. How many a mother, ^ho never taught her child to pray, has begun to make thai child a confirmed drunkard, while the infant is yet dandled upon her knee. Th<» child may be unwell, and she, without the advice of a physician, or any one el;ie, ' crams wine and gin toddy down its throat. The infant cries, and resists with all its might, but all of no use — down it must go. What class of - mothers is apt to do this ? — the very ones who like an occasional taste '^ for themselves. When the child begins to reason far itself, the mother ^ shows it that the nica drink is sweetened with sugar, or something else, and that it will do the little dear good ; the baby is ill, and it will not -' get well or strong, if it won't take its drink. Tiiis is no vain story, but the occurrence of cvery-day life. How little does that mother think . that she is sowing the seeds of drunkenness in her child's breast, and • schooling him for hell ! How little does ehe think that her two hands % are the means of keeping him out of that place where no drunkard shall ever enter — I mean the " kingdona of God." Keep your eye on thai child ; by the time he is eight or ten year? of cge, and his mother from- home, he will go to the oloset and help himself to a drop of strong drink. Whose fault ia this — the ohild or the mother's ? I think it roust be that of the latter. The ohild is only practising whut his mo- ther taught him. For doing this very thing, she punishes him with the rod vihiah justice would hiyvpon herself. Oh, mothers ! beware of the manner in which you train your children ; look we!! at the example which you set before them. It is natural for your offspring to walk in\ your footsteps; so, whichever way you want them to go, go before them. • This reminds me of an anecdote I read, some years ago ; it ran thus :— ; A party who was on the scaffold, with the halter about his neck, asked, ' as a favour, that he'd be allowed to speak one word to his mother. The request was granted. She ascended the scaffold to his side. Instead of whispering in her ear, he pulled it off, aud turned round to the crow J, holding it up in his hand ; then he said : — " I used to steal, and my mother encouraged ma j if she'd punished me in time, I'd be a r«». pictable man." Cull this a fable, if you will, but it's a faWe in real life. Hoff many a son has died upon the scaffold of delirium tremens, with tho halter of strong drink about his neck, while he cried to a weep- ing multitude : " My mother's example brought me to this ! My mother^ ruined me, body and soul I I'm lost I lost forever I" In this condition/ V'^&CU'.,' w W" he takes nnollier drau|^ht, anwlin<; wilderness ; and I'd venture to ^hv that nine hundred and ninety nino out of every thcmsuiid can trace thoir ruin to the influeuoo of strong drink and bad company. Other cities nro liitio, if any, better. Go to Ediuburg ; ther« is no place in the world whore the fi;ofpel is preached with such hi(];h-toned eloquence and soul-burninji; zt^al ; titill, in it you will find a areat deal of misery, wreichednesa, and woe. Take a walk throu<;h Canongate and Oow^ato, in the dead hour of ni<{itt, and you can see hundruds and thousands on the very threshold of hell Glas> gow is no better, and Liverpool is woise, if worse it ca» be. They live in misery, rod die in disgrace. A^^k theoa, what was the first and iavst Htep ou your road to ruin ? From the chaiitbers of despair, one and all answer : " Stroupj driuk ! rum ! rum ! rum !" But I'm told that there's a time for dancinof, in the Uible. Well, grant it; there is likewise a time to kill. Wliat would you think of a man coming into your house telling you, cu'mlv and co^ly, that the Bible allowed ** a time to kill ;" then, diseharsiG the contents of his revolver at your wife, and family ? Why, you would appreiiend him at once, and the law of the laud would condemn him to die, Well, ho had just as much of the Bible on his side, to defend that murder, as you have to defend the dancini* and drunkenness of our day. To defend these customs by the Word of God, as thtjy now exist in society, is nothinLT more nor less than a prostitution of the Bible to uphold the works of Satan. But again, we are told that rum^selling is quite respectable. Grant it, for the sake of aruuh tho strength of diyine grace, never allow one drop of the accursed thing to pas:iyour lips. Have you ever been at a drunkard's death bed ? It is the most lamentable, the most heart rending of all scenes ! There he lies in dtlirium tremens, raving mad with the effect of strong driuk ; and all 10 thai he docs is, blaspheme hi«; Maker, curse his own cxistdoce, and cravo, in God's name, for another draught of wtrong drink. He gradually sinks, till the spirit leaves its tabernacle o^ clay, and fails like a iuount*in of lead into the burning Uke ! becaus«, * No drunkarc? shall inherit the Kinjrdonn of God." Kvery person will agree with me — even the man who sold hiin ardent spirits — when I say that the raan rpho died thus killed hunself with stroup; drink. Then he is guilty of suicide. Three years ago. Doctor Pritchard, of Glasgow, poisoned bis wife and mother-in-law. It was proved in Court that he administered it gradually, so as to pave the way and screen bis guilt. Every voice, from Laud's End to Cape Wrath, uried, " Why didn't the cruel wretch poison thjm ct once, instead of torturing them for three months ?" Popular opinion pronounced his guilt to be more heinous than if he had put them to death in an instant. Apply the same reasoning to the rum-seller and rum drinker, jf the one tortures himself, and the other tortures his customers for a lifetime, and puts them to death at last. Are not both equally as guilty, if not more so, as the man who takes his own life or the life of his neighbor in a moment ? I'd be very far from leading you to have much Conjidencf. in a cUath bed repentance. True, we Dave the thief on the cross ; but I believe such ca^ej to be few and far beiween. With stll chis, I can conceive of the salvation of a Jiurderer bein<^ possible, if he repents ; but I cannot possibly see that the individual who kills himself with strong drink can be saved. And why ? Because thera is no room for rcpentr.oce. With his own blood upoii his hands he rushes to a judgment seat, and is there condemned, lie died a drunkard ; and " No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God." Perhaps there may be some present who comfort themselves by saying, «' I don't drink myself; I only pell to others." Well, friend, that is jus^ sayiOiT, " I don't kill myself with strong drink ; I only kill as many other? as I can draw around me." With a gaudv sign in front of your house, you do all in your power to collect men, women, and <5hildren, and prepare them for the bottomless pit, Of all murderers, the dealer in ardent spirits is the most terrible. The man who takes your child's life only kills the body ; but the dealer in strong drink kills the body and ruins the soul. Tie does not mind «11 that, but ^ays, " I make a respectable living," Respectable living, aye ? Respectable living, engaged in the traffic of Satan ! — respectable living in destroying husbands, disgracing wives, and starving chil- dren ! — respectable living in sending myriads of the human family to a place of woe, and you, yourself, to a Inko burning with fire and brim- atone, which is the second ! Oh ! dealers in stroujj drink, how will you meet, at a judgment seat, the myriads that you destroyed upon eaj-th ? Tliere you shall realize the awful meaning of iht word n '' Depart !" — depait from Goii I depart from heaverj I depart to j« with Io8t spirits, in that place where their '^ worm dieth not, abd the fire if uot quenched." God never intendfd that this fair world of curs should retnuin uuder the coutiaual swa}' of King Alcohol. I'e has permitted it lo t« so, just now ; hut movemeutH that are abroad innthe world coDTiDce us that his da^rs, lilie those of Bc!»hazzar, are numbered, ♦'•E»ch breeze that tlordecai. — Ilnth iv, 10. Why n(^v.(l be afraid any longer? Already we have an InJcprndeut Band — a noble army of six hundred t lou-^and in the field, who plfdired themselves to a life-lonjr pie^re vrith the enemy. Their rnaks are daily gr-iJins thinner; and ours are increas- ins; by hundreds and thousands. We have many Lodjres in British America and the adjoinin'j RepuMio. These are, like beacons, pointinj; the shipwrecked drunkard to the haven of safety, and sayinpr, "Turn, and live." Irat tlio work is yet unfinished, J]very year, hundreds and thousands aro uoing down to the chamljcrs of woe. Wo must wayre war with the enemy till her citadels ;vre stormed, her ports block- aded, her captives set at liberty, and her fountains dried up. We must polish the mirror of publio opinion till the drunkard sees himself to be, v/bat he really is — the imaire of wretchedness,^ tuisery, and woe, We must elevate the tone of aooiety till one and all be persuaded to spue the rum^aeller nut of their midst with dis^just, and '.ompel him to eay, with Cain : " Ye have driven mo out, this day, from the face of tho earth ; and from your face shali I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a va'jabond iu the earth." Temperance men ! we mu.«t never leave th* field till the pulse of Ardent Spirits will cease to beat, and tiie trafiic die, of piilpitation of the heart. We must strujjule and fiti;hl till the chains of every victim b« snapped asumi'-r, ,and tbe last drop of ardent spirits be dried from our soil — till " kiofrs shall be nursing farncr