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Title: Christian herald and signs of our times
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Publisher: (New York, The Christian Herald)
Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association
Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University

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PRESBYTERIAN MISSION WORK IN OHILI-PORTRAIT OF REV. JOHN M. ALLIS, OF SANTIAGO—A GROUP OF NATIVE SCHOLARS. 130 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. March 4, 189 THE PLAGUES OF THE CITIES. DR. TALMAGES SERMON ON DRUNKENNESS AT THE CHRISTIAN HERALD SERVICE IN THEACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW YORK, LAST SUNDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1891. Noahs Double Work—No Excuse for Him—The Worlds Advance on a Bad Road—An Arch-Fiends Mission tothis World—The Cauldron he Built— His Awful Boast—What Crooked Whiskey Means—The DrunkenFathers Will—An Urgent Demand for Christian Decision—A Natural Evil—Individual Suffering—TheMother of a Drunken Son—A Vast Multitude Waiting for Something to be Done—From the Church Doorto a Violent Death- The Waterloo of Alcoholism. Noah planted a vineyard; and he drank of the wine and was drunken. Genesis o : 20, 21.
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HIS Noah did the bes tand the worst thing for the world. He built an ark against the deluge of water, but introduced a deluge against which the human race has ever since been trying to build an ark—the deluge of drunkenness. In my text we hear his staggering steps. Shem and Japhet tried to cover up the disgrace, but there he is, drunk on wine at a time in the history of the world when, to say the least, there was no lack of water. Inebriation, having entered the world, has not retreated. Abigail, the fair and heroic wife, who saved the flocks of Nabal, her husband, from con-fiscation by invaders, goes home at night and finds him so intoxicated she cannot tell him the story of his narrow escape. Uriah came to see David, and David got him drunk, and paved the way for the despoliation of a household. Even the Church bishops needed to be charged to be sober and not given to too much wine . and so familiar were people of Bible times with the staggering and falling motion of the inebriate, that Isaiah, when

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