The Columbian fountain., 1846-04-17

We commend to our leaders the follow
ing article which is the out gushing of a
heart warm With sympathy for the unfor-
tunate druukard. X will repay a careful
pernsal /; yea, it is worthy to be read again
every day.-lEps.
/, APPEAL TO CHRISTIANS IN BEHALF OF
THE DRtNKARD.
Truly we live IN an age of wonders, un-
| der peculiar influences Hundreds and thou
sands Of hopeless dtunkards are becoming
sober men; yet the work Of. reform has but
comneneed. Il is computed that there are
IN the land no less than fre hundred Mou-
sand hablual inebriates The c0ndiiion
of cach indiuiduai calls for sympathy
and aid, that he may become sober man.
and through the blessing Of God, gain eter-
nal life. For drunkenness there is, and can
be no apology; but the condition Of the
drunkard is often ptlahIe in the extreme
However gradual or respectable may have
been his progress in the path called tempe
rate drinking, the appetite now is formed
within hm-the drunkard's appetite
Wretched man He feels what not family
resembles the gnawing Of $ the worm that
never dies" He asks for help. There are
times when he would give worlds to be re-
formed every drunkard's life, could it be
written, would tell this in letters of fire
tie struggles 10 resist the temptation; eau
ses himself to be shut up IN prison throws
himself on board of temperance ship for "a
distant voyage, seeks new alliances and
new employments, wrestles, agonizes-but
all in vain. He rises to-day but 10 fall to-
morrow; and amid disappointment and re-
proach, poverty and degradation, he says,
"let me alone, cannot live" and plunges
headloDg 10 destruction. Who will come
i TO his rescue who will aid in the drlive
rance OF thousands of thousands from this
debasing thraldom Of sin and satin Aid
they must have: their number demands IL.
Hall million, chiefly adults, often heads of
families, having each wife and children.
making miserable a million and half of re-
latives and friends, They pass. too, in ra.
pld succession. Ten years is the measure
of generation, and if noting is done to
save them, in the next forty years two mil
| llors may be swept into eternity, Their
personal degradation and suffering require
a. What would VIC not do to pull neigh
Dor out OF the water, or out of the fire. or
to deliver him from A gerine captivity, or
wrest him from the hand Of pirate OF mid
night assassin: But what captivity, what
pirate, what murderer, so cruel as alcohol
Their families plead for it. The innocent
and the helpless The lambs IN the paw of
the tiger, and that tiger husband and ia
ther amid hungerlng and thirsting, cold
and nakedness, humiliation and shame, suE-
IcrlngS which no pen can descrbe--lhey ask
for aid. .7he good ot the community de-
mands H. While they live as they do, they
are onlva moth and curse The moment
they are reformed, society is relieved of its
greatest burden. The poor-house and the
Jail become almost .tenantless. The prac-
Hcobiiity of a sudden and complete reform
of ererg drunkard in He land calls for II.
THIS, Sc ence has denied Religion has on
" SAID, "with man It IS impossible, but not
with Gnd, Tor with God all things are pos
SlbIe." Bat science yields to experiment,
aud religion marches on joylully in the foot.
steps Of Providence. Thousands amongst
us say, CHOW It has been done we know
moi one thing We know, that whereas,
once we were drunkards, noe we are sober
men" But above all, he salration of me
soW cols. Temperance is not religion
outward reformation Is not religion but by
the reform great obstacle is removed, and
thousands oI these miserable men NAV be
brought into the kin. dom Of God. The
sro, & Cham that has been thrown around
them BY the prince Of the power Of the airs
broken They may be approached as they
n"vcr could be before, Conviction of sin is
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