Christian herald and signs of our times . 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


Christian herald and signs of our times . 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, HIS Noahdid the bestand theworst thingfor theworld. Hebuilt an arkagainst thedeluge ofwater, buti ntroduceda delugeagainst which the human race has ever since been tryingto build an ark—the deluge of my text we hear his staggering and Japhet tried to cover up the dis-grace, but there he is, drunk on wine ata time in the history of the world when, to saythe least, there was no lack of water. Inebria-tion, having entered the world, has not retreat-ed. Abigail, the fair and heroic wife, who sav-ed the flocks of Nabal, her husband, from con-fiscation by invaders, goes home at night andfinds him so intoxicated she cannot tell himthe story of his narrow escape. Uriah came tosee David, and David got him drunk, and pavedthe way for the despoliation of a the Church bishops needed to be chargedto be sober and not given to too much wine .and so familiar were people of Bible times withthe staggering and falling motion of the inebri-ate, that Isaiah, when


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