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JOHN BARLEYCOF PREACHED U Large Crowd at Norfolk F liyt -Conduct the Last ceased Monster. The following is an account in part of the funeral sermon preached .by Rev. Billy Sunday at the "Death of John Barleycorn" at Norfolk, Va., on Janu ary 15th as it appeared in the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch the following day: Ten thousand persons who alter nately cheered and wept, heard Bil ly Sunday preach his last sermofn against liquor as an ally of the Devil and verbally kick the deceased "John Barleycorn" into a grave of shame and dishonor, at the tabernacle this after noon. Nqever was there a more triui Phant hour for Sunday. Probably never again will lie experience deep er .satisfaction. For there is' noth Ing that the great evangelist hated more, save the UWevil himself, than the liquor traffic. An : all that hatred, all that accu miulate enmity, born of i war he had waged 'on1 twenty-six years, Sunday loosed upon the lifeless form of th Diemon 'Runi in that funeral oration , the tabernacle. There was little of the humorous in Billy'a sermon, though the cere nioy which preceded it was lII dicrously funny. For half an hour the evan';list recounted, with the greatest ,how of feeling lie Is ox hibited since his campaign began here the evils that accompanied 11(1 uor and the haippiness that will follow its demise. 'oGoodbye, John," lie said, "You were God's worst enemy; you wbre Hell's best friend. "I hate you with a perfect hatred. I love to hate you." The- Funeral Cortege. The ceremony began with the ar rival of "the corpse" at the Union Station at 1 o'clock, on a "special train from Milwaukee." The coflln was twI enty feet. long. The Devil himself was the escort and twenty pallbearers lifted tle casket into the hearse in whieh it was Conveyed through (te streets to the tabernacle. Westward oil Main street the pro cession moved .wth~ a siuad of po licemuen lat its headi The Devil marched just ahead of tle hearse and the pallbearers aionigside and in the rear. Before the cortege had advanced two blocks thousands of people linod the route along .lainl and Granlby streets and watched it pass. Sunday Was not in 1lhe 1)processton. le imiet the "corpse", at tle taber nacle and grilt ed deligtiledly as tihe lige (einket wasi placed in th' tther na'le af lils feet. The )evil mLiasked and~ dejected in app~learanle sa1t close by thle c oril:e duiinig t' enitir1e cer mioniy. "We hav'' 1passed throughI the mo1(st mnoimntus1 plochi ini the hiistoi'y oif 0our nation. Tihe l'nglishi language does not contain wvords suilcien t foi' us to exprs our05011 adim'irat ion foi' the achiievecmenit of ouir boys, on (lhe land and on thle sea, whlio bellped t o over thr 1ow 0one of the g reatesMt imenneaes to li bermtv antd fr'eedom thbe world has ever' kniown--Pruiiisian military aum toc racy. Autocra''cly of lio'oze Overthiirowni. And no0w we havue overthii'~row booze autlo('racy at hiomie, andi~ life has at new meaninug. No otarneset, initellh L ~m iain oi' wo tuan enni deniy but1 tht thie saloon and1( druniilkeinness wvas the( l crse of the Uniitedi States; and1 thiose who loved to i'st ed in * w'elfare' of' ouri nation mnouird tils leibleb blight. AndI we arose In ou'r ind1'ianatilon andaisoe tihe saloon 50erpenit. TIhils is a hand of Sabbath. oft hiaii py homes, of flible, of (lospel aind of mai'tyi's, wvho counted it not1 loss to shedl their blood on mnoor's, mounu tains and1( bat tleflelds. This is the landi of *Washigton-"Fir'st ini Peace, first in War, fIrst in the hear'ts of his countrymen." Trhis ia the land of Thomas .Jefferson, auithor of the D~eclar'ation of indeieinece. This in the land of Alexander lHamilton, 01ur fInancial 1iigh .Priest; of Commodore Perry. who saidi, "WVe have mei(t the e nmy and1( they ar'e ours"; of L~aw rene, whio said. "i)on't givo uip the ship" ; of l)ecaiur, who said, "My colm1tr'y, many she alwvays be right. bul. right or' wvrong, my countr'y." Of Loncoln, who said, "'I hope it may ali ways lhe slaidl of me t hat I rluicked up a thorn and plantedl a rose wherever a flower' would grow." We were becoming thme mocst degen er ate andl druunkon. S1eventy-flvo per' cent of curn idhiots caime from intemrper Ate par'ents; eIghty per cent of ouri pauiers were whiskey-made paulpeiA;: cighty-twvo per cent of the crime waft com nitted by men while under the( in--I )fluence of liquor; ninety er.~ ct,of N'S FUNERAL Y BILLY SUNDAY lear the Base Ball Evange Rites Over Body of De our adult criminials were drinking men. The saloon undermined public morals, as is shown 'by every jail, wovorklhouse, reformatory and peniten tiary, which are largely filled by the products of the saloon. The only business the saloon help ed was the Devil's buginess. It is hard to understand how some men thought that stealing chickens was wrong, but that it was all right to back the saloon. If there is a heaven for fools, the man who fought to per.etuate the saloon will be there on a front seat. Tliere is no good thing this side of Heaven that the saloon would not have destroyed if it had a chance. It was the sum of all villianies, .worse than war, worse than pestilence, worse than famine, the crime of crimes, the paients 'of crimes and tlhe mother of sin. Distilled Damintion. What was this traffic in rui? The Devil in solution liqid distilled damnation; an artist in human slaughter; the most ruinous and de grading of all human pursuits. Oh! to be a drunkard-what a history, what a tragedy. From a rosy-checked boy to WastedI youth, then oil to blast ed manhood; alternating days of rev elry, cursing and death. See thn wreeks that It icde--pale-faced, ragged gin drinkers-eyes large, 'declly set 'in their sunken sockets; fIngers 111ce the claw. of an unclean bird, that look as though they had Just come up out of the grave to get a drink and had for gotten to go back and put the coffin lid over them. God has given power and domin ion to man. What broke the scep ter and tore the crown from his head The saloon. What debased hinm below the level of beasts? The saloon. What detroned his reason and made him an Idot? The saloon. What has smit ten his body with disease? The saloon. Oh! Heow I hated tle liqiuor busi ness. If .e had no sorrows, it cre ated them; If we had sorrows, it. in creased l themi. It blighted youth as lightning blights a tree; it took from middle age ambition; .it robbed (old ag'' of serenity and peacee; it tirned men into monsters and women into harlots. Wherever It went it brought grief. And now that it has gone, it leaves rejoicing. ulid you ever know of any one who died yoting Iecause lie (lid not dIrink liqior? id you ever know of any (f'ne committing iliicide because he drank too muclI water? Did you ever know of any one who killed his .Wife lecause lhe dIak too much toffee? Did( y'ou ever know. of any qne being sentI to Jia i because he drman k too much buttermilk? In a WVestern State whviere I was preaching, they wemnt to an Irlishiman to get him ibo agree to vote for' the saloon, because (lie revenue in that community wvas used for public schiool expenses; and they arigiied with Pat that if ther ce were 110 saloonir, theyi' woeld haveW no mnoney wvithi which i t) hire0 teach er., and lhe said, "Dy Gorry; I' ratherJi'i haive my boy I' ican hils A ii C's in Ileaveni than to 1)e able to) road I atini iin l.'1. I'' miilllion men01, womnm anud (hil diren used to go daihly to thie saloons for drink . MarcinOimg five: abicr' they w'oul Id have reachlied .W) niles ; ima rch lng twenty miles a (lay, it would take them thirty dli'ay to )ass a given point. The lad. yeaZr'C of he mlooni (urse we 51)ent moneyI (O~ eughi for' booze whichu, if naade inio twenty11 doll0 ari gold pieces5 011( iiled on ele on to o)i(f another II, w'.oul d havYe mnade a mnonumn nt Ii 8 mliles hi gh; if miadoe into silIver' dollIaris and laid sIde ly side, they would hav~e reachied 3,613 nilles--froni New York to San F'ranlcisco and1( back as far as Salt l,nke City; if made in to silver dlimes, it would have beent eniotigh to have wra'uppedl a silver ribbon ten t ies arotind (lhe wvorld. In twenty lyve years wve have spment money enough for' booze to have made an automobile plathi to (lie moon 240,000 miles long, 16 feet wvide and 6 inchea thick out of solid silver. You say yotu can't refor'm men by law. Yes, bitt we have renmoved the tempitationi by law.'.. This will prevent the open door of temptation In (lie ii In ire If you wvant to steer yourm boy againist gamiblinog, woulId you send him to live in a gambling htouse? If' youu wvanted to raise him pure, wouild you eend him (9 a room in the 'red light? If they had exhibited a truthful sign in front of their festering hell holes, they would( have had themil rea'd lke this: "Delirium TPremnens. Rover, laease, Crime, 'Pauperism, 'Despair, D'eatti'and .HJell for.Sale -Here" instead of trying to camnouticage with the name "JDuffet'. TPhty hadl np more ri~ght to call the saloon a buffet than .1 have to call a Ipolecat a guinea-pig. Talk about .poverty-it was John Barleycorn that burled you In Pot ters' Field and made your home the bleakest moor of misery that the fanged hounds of hunger and despair ever hunted over. Good-bye, John Barleycorn. Old Top, we didn't need your money bad enough to allow you to snatch bread from hungry women and children; we didn't need your money bad enough to send women over a steaming wash tub; we didn't need your money -bad enough to talce shoes off the feet of shivering children. Good-bye, John, Old Top, the peo ple of America are fit for self govern ment at last; the people arc free from the chains you riveted about them at last; the wrath of an outraged public has been (uencihed and your putrid corps is hanging from the gibet of public shame. John Barleycorn, we bury you be cause you destroyed our health; you disfigured our bodies; you ruined outr nervous system; you dethroned out reason; you caised idiocy and insan Ity; you destroyed every principle of manhood and womanhood; you squan dered our prop)erty; you produced pai perism ; you crowded our poor-louses and Jails and penitentiaries; you cor ullpted our courts; you delled our iaws; you destroyed both soul and body; you daIrkened our homes; you broke our hearts; you beggared our wive3 and children; you led men to commit every conecivable crime; you iaralyzed every noble ambition; you dried llup the fountains of human af fection. No Worms In a Healthy Child All children troubled with worms have an ut, healthy color, which indicates poor blood, and t: a rulo, there Is mtore or less stomach disturbarce. 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