Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-28
DR.. GUTHRIE's P E

At the annual meeting Of the Scottish Temper
ance League, Rev. DR.. Guthrie concluded one Of
his inimita5le appeals by the following touching
allusion to a case which had passed under bis
observation that very day.
was visiting to-day, and hold in my hand a
letter written by a dying man. His home, three
years ago, was one of the %happiest, sweetest, tidi.
est, and most comfortable homes uf any working.
man in Edinburgh. Heis now dying of consump-
ton, his life is d draining away, his cheek is hollow,
his eyes are prominent, his voice sepulchral,-
There he lies on his dying bed. When first went
to see him, beside him lay a child Of three years
old, which was lifted out Of the bed beside him by
its mother. OF all the pitiable objects | ever look
ed on, it was one of the most touching. Its limbs
and arms were reduced to skin and bone. Its an
kles were b~andaged up with scrofulous sores, and
its mouth was drawn together. 1t had the sweet
est face l almost ever saw. There was the dying
child, and there was a woman-three years ago a
respectable. gentetl like AMI l know as kind, ten
der, loving a mother as was in all Edinburgh
And six days ago the missionary Of the district
was heard to cay that that woman had smitten her
dying husband and was like to kill her child; and
| went there this day, and with the tears falling
on the face Of that poor young corpse, | gaze God
thanks the child was dead. On the Sabbath NOR
ming the gray dawn looked 10 upon a room and
what saw it there? A mother lying in the he'd,
the pillow where that child was lying stained
D with its life blood- the child dead and the mother
dead drunk-andw with that poor infant corpse be
} fore her hut yesterday-I think that scene as
told her, might have sotered a bncchanalian, sht
took a chair, and hurled it at her husband, thu
e dying man far gone in Consumption. Can mel
7 see that, and 90 quietly hack to their work. MAJ
{ all the curses oc a gracious heaven be upon tina
vice; may God blast that tree that can produce
such scenes Of misery 10 this world. l detesteC
drinking before, | detest it ten times more now
" And how ministers of the Gospel!-how christian
u elders, in the face of this vice, can 90 on with tbei
indulgences, is TO me a mystery; | cannot under
u stand it. ! do not condemn them-by their owl
d hands they stand or fall; but before them | charg,
u drink with breaking more bearts-wIth destroy
ing the ties Of more iamilies-with running NOR,
bodies-with sending more souls TO ~peIdition, thar
/" almost all the other vices in the country put togeth
, er. And | appeal to my brethren if there are an,
of them here. You are no better of it-yOu ar
worse of it. 1t does your body no good-it is.
believe, the mightest agent the devil ever inven
i ted to ruin souls. l call upon them, as l did las
y time l was here, on their knees, over their Bibles
. with the example of Christ before them, to consid
err this question; and I I'M certain if they do go il
a right spirit, they will come to a right conclusion
They will do what | have done, and l have neve
regretted it, and l know I never will regret it, b.
giving myself heart and hand to this cause
until by Gods blessing we triumph.