Identifier: evilsofcitiesser00talm (find matches)
Title: Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt), 1832-1902
Subjects: Sermons, American City and town life
Publisher: Chicago : Rhodes & McClure
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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aggering steps. Shem and Japheth tried to cover upthe disgrace, but there the is, drunk on wine at a time inthe history of the world, when, to say the least, therewas no lack of water. Inebriation, having entered theworld, has not retreated. Abigail, the fair and heroic-wife, who saved the flocks of Nabal, her husband, fromconfiscation by invaders, goes home at night and findshim so intoxicated she cannot tell him the story of hisnarrow escape. Uriah came to see David, and Davidgot him drunk and paved the way for the despoliation ofa house hold. Even the church bishops needed to becharged to be sober and not given to too much wine,and so familiar were people of Bible times with the stag-gering and falling motion of the inebriate that, Isaiah,when he comes to describe the final dislocation of worlds,says, The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard. A WORLD WIDE TEMPTATION. Ever since apples and grapes and wheat grew the worldhas been tempted to unhealthful stimulants. But the (34)
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INTEMPERANCE. DRUNKENNESS. 35 intoxicants of the olden time were an innocent beverage,a harmless orangeade, a quiet syrup, a peaceful soda wateras compared with the liquids of modern inebriation, intowhich a madness and a fury, and a gloom, and a fire,and a suicide, and a retribution have mixed and mingled.Fermentation was always known, but it was not untila thousand years after Christ that distillation was in-vented. While we must confess that some of the ancientarts have been lost, the Christian era is superior to allothers in the bad eminence of whisky and rum and gin.The modern drunk is a hundred fold worse than theancient drunk. Noah in his intoxication became im-becile, but the victims of modern alcoholism have tostruggle with whole menageries of wild beasts, and junglesof hissing serpents, and perditions of blasphemingdemons. An arch fiend arrived in our world and he built an in-visible caldron of temptation. He built that caldronstrong and stout for all ages and all nations. F

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