The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-07-29
CHE WON'T STICK"


"HE WON'T STICK.o
Whenever drunkard resolves to re-
FORM and unites with some one of the
Temperance organizations for that purpose,
there are those in the community who
are ever busy to publish their opinions
respecting his probable want of integrity
in the promises They manifest a great
pleasure in contemplating the step the
unfortunate man has taken, and would
seem to wish that he might be endowed
with fortitude to resist all temptation and
keep his pledge sacred and ipviolate, but
upon every occasion they predict his
downfall, and even so far as to taunt the
person to his face by telling him that "he
must stick"
Now this is wrong and unjust to the
person in question. He has been drunk
ard, his moral purposes have been sadly
weakened by strong drink, and now, since
he is making an effort to cast off the ter
rible habit that has degraded him, he
stands in need of the counsels, the coun-
tenance and comfort of all good men, in
order to enable him to maintain the noble
! parpose Of breaking the acc.s~et, sctters
by which he has been bound He feels
his own weakness and the weight of his
old scourge pressing him down, and if he
is taunted on every hand with predictions
of his downfall, and constantly remined
of bis weakness and want Of power to re-
sist the temptations of the intoxicating
glass, is it any wonder that he yields to
the first temptation, and becomes worse
than before Such treatment from his
fellow men vividly impresses his degra-
dation upon his mind, and is but too apt
to confirm him in the belief that he is be-
yound the reach of hope, and is doomed
| to the worst of fates. Many poor fel-
low has been driven into the wilderness
of despair by such uncharitable treatment.
We should exercise much charity and
sympathy towards the drunkard endea-
voring to reform. His manhood has be-
come weakness by reason of strong drink,
and his strength like that of little child
Let those who are strong uphold him,
and cheer his failing powers. 1t is bet
| ter to rescue one such, than hundreds, to
our lists from the ranks of those who new
er have felt the reproach of the curse
Then let all such be encouraged by coun-
sci, by sympathy, by charity and by man
ifestations of confidence in their integrity
| to the vows and pledges they have as
sumed. This will inspire the man with
courage to battle more zealously with
assailing temptations and put them under
! his feet while, If we manifest no conf
| dence in his integrity, and constantly
suspect his motives and predict that he
will abandon his purpose of reformation
and be worse than before, we may rea-
sonably expect the man to lose confidence
in himself, consider himself an outcast
and go back to his pots aud slavery again.
4 Hold ND the hands, the hearts, of all such
by your encouragements, and happy ones
shall lisp your name in thanktulness
around hearthstones bright as day, where,
/ little while ago, the shadow OF a curse
/ fingered and darkened all that was center
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Lore.-A love scene overheard and
phonographically reported by Phrederick
Phine: ~ 3a* - e
Phairest of the phair," sighed the
lover, l"phancy my pheelings,A when
phoresee the phearfu consequences
of our phleeing from yourphather's pham-
lily. Phew phellovs could have placed
the music with more phoriitude than |
have; and as phickle phortune phails to
/ smile on our love, phind / must phore-
go the pleasure of becoming your bus
band Phair Phrances pharewell for
ever,
i Hold, Phranklin, hold I" screamed
Phranccs, II will phollow you phorever,'
But Phranklin phled, and phair Phran-
ces phainted. 80 'as.s'AAA f39i'