Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-10-14
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Does he Drink

Is trying to win your love. Though he nav
be all smiles, all Establishments. all i saam.
ing soul of hour and a golden prize that Won
might be proud to gain, yet if he npts tho
destroying cup to his lips, spurn him from
your presence. .Crush the growing bud of
love In your heart to death a. once, if YOU
value your future peace. You may think
that you will possess the power to restrain
him In his degrading indulgence, and that
for your sake, after you are married. he will
put the vice far away from him but in hit
%terness you will discover your mistake and
repent of your error when it is too late. New
} er risk your happiness by becoming the wifi.
of one who drinks.
t Disregard this friendly counsel, and what
! will happen? You marry him, and the we'd
? ding day seems so bright that you think sure
y no cloud can ever gather its gloom to dar-
e ken the glowing prospect opening before you.
r You 60 to a new home. not like your old
$ home, but with full as pleasant shade trees
t shadowing it, and with full as merry birds
singing in the welcoming bOughs. Your
p soul throbs with the pulses of a noble and
generous love, and you wonder how any wife
10 can be unhappy 10 a world so bright and
full of promise. All! it has never entered
into your young heart to conceive the ter
rors that are embodied in the single phrase
a drathkard's pite! Months roll by and you
begin to realize a terrible truth. Yo1r hus-
bands love for his drains is rapidly burn
ing up the love that he once vowed to you.
Sc He spends but little of his time with you.
81 His words seem less musical to you than for
is merly. He is growing cross and unkind to-
e. wards you. You try in vain to persuade
yourself that he is not in danger of becoming
VI a drunkard, but the evidences are too conclu-
I'D sive-too overwhelming. His evenings are
ter spent abroad, and, bye and bye, he comes to
the your home reeling and singing in the deliri-
Ih UNI Of a beastly intoxication. Curses linger
,dd on his lips against you his tongue is on fire
gh- with abuse his hand, that you clasped at
as the altar and pledged to take for better or
worse, is raised against you, and you begin
now to realize the misery's the anguish and
sorrow of a drunkard's Uye.
the You plead, you beseech, you persuade, you
ana pray your husband, by the memory of your
IN early love, to forsake a course that is leading
( TO you both to ruin, and he may make you prom
that Uses and kindle a spark of hope in your sor
hose row crushed heart, but the demon of rum has
Us in him bound in strong chains like brass, anG
the promises that gave you hope will be bro
the ken, and darker and yet darker clouds vii
lder- gather over YOU. until each and every it'll
VINO star of hope will be shut out from casting
and beam of promise along the dark and rugged
ames way that lies before you. You may weeI
20 all and mourn through all the hours of lonesome
-. nights, but the midnight elfns have not tn
of power to speak peace to your troubled soul
room You may sigh in vain for the happiness yol
and once enjoyed in the quiet home of a kind oil
father, whose eyes death has kindly SIass
IT. against the day Of your trouble, and long fo
Or as the departed joys you once realized under tn
have shadow of oak and naples in the yard wher
70 your good old mother gave you her blessin
orr and pointed you to wisdom's ways. Thes
! O! joys shall never, neUer return you are boun
for to a body of death, and loathsome, corrup
and defled as he is, you love him still. Ca
anything be more terrible?
Yea, indeed, a more terrible scene avail
~ " you. All of your eartly possessiOns-the Ii
4uorS' tie legacy your good old father left you-al
aoah' all will be squandered, but that's notthe grea
tempt est calamity awaiting you. Your husbar
.ecome was strong when you married him, but tt
Is over continued blows of the rum devil has laid hi
ps for low. He is. nbvsiciallv and morally a sba
erhaps tered wreck. He is a great and bopele
ID stop sinner lying at Deaths iron gate. You S
he puts a dim and terrible vision through the fOt
D often of tears that blind you. Your once mob
eWltch- husband gasping after a feeting breath, al
lsclous ia a whirlwind of delirium and despair Gu
OF dy' ing Heaven, earth, hell and a Saviour tn
Tor the died on Calvary You see the last agony
e must the poor man, and you know that his so
nature. that you loved so wildly, has no rest; b
8 many that it is lost and torn by shrieking stOrI
his tel of everlasting despair on a raging sea Of f
Ter over "where the worm dieth not and the fire
not quenched." This is the great and tel
q him BILE calamity awaiting you, and it will re
ppIness your soul with anguish in years to COZ
his &C even after the sod has taken deep root &
g with grown green on the spot where your lost b
truth, band mingles with the dust. You haYt
hich he lively hope that you will gain Heaven in
e air of end and rest from your labors, but you C
perVa- not hope to meet your lost husband the
for your own faith and knowledge of the
S many pei forbids it. He is lost-lost to you
cement 10 happIness-lost to Heaven! Lost ] Il
h. rroo LOST y!
Avert these terrible calamities, dear 20
u 'eS lady reader, by a jealous care of whom
g fumes meet at the sacred altar there to pledge J
me and love faith. Better not marry at all, tina
is temp cap q tttie . ! .nese caiaHiueS.
shape the orowino Ind Of Idva IN yonr bGsom
weak to serpent that would sting you to death
pied by ten to no promises OF future amendment
,ersuade we do assure you that it has never emit
- into your young heart to conceive one
Fm' anu the anguish and misery of a drunkards q
old hab-
demous,
ght and E1 LET the heart be thanklul tnat
plucking purest and best pleasures of life cannot
rom the bought and sold. The wild woodla
/ back - wealth of glowing flowers cannot be We