Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1860-11-30

Him to give you strength to combat with
these strong and fierce temptations"
"Well, doctor, you're kind and good
man, and I'll always love you, because
you have shown your love to me but l
am sure that never never will be able
to overcome this love of strong drink.
Oh my poor, afflicted, and broken-hearted
wife," cried the man, his heart, as it
were, gushing forth in the bitterest re-
morse. "Oh, my dear one, who SO fondly
loved me, had but listened to thy gentle
voice entreating me, to abstain from all
these damning dreams, we might now have
been one kind and loving family, journey
ing on to Heaven"
The poor creature, having spoken thus
earnestly of the past, fell back exhausted
and while the tears coursed down his
cheeks, he breathed the name of her whom
he had hurried to her long last rest. The
doctor sighed as he gazed on this poor
man, for whose reformation his kind and
sympathetic soul was yearning, and he
would fain have stayed yet longer to
counsel him, and endeavor to fan the spark
of courage in his heart, to stimulate to
ACTION, and to lead his mind to ponder on
the awful and eternal doom that must
await him if he still pursued his onward
downward course; but other duties called
him away, and after speaking a few words
of encouragement to the man, urging him
to sign the pledge and become free man,
he left the house.
AS he was passing through the door, he
was met by the little girl who had con-
Quoted him thither, and he told her not to
hesitate in sending for him if her father
grew any worse
AS the day wore on, the good resolu-
tons which the poor drunkard had formed
in the morning began to be shaken and
tried very much; and, forgetting that
God was able to strengthen him if he
asked, he allowed the tempter to triumph,
by ordering his daughter to get him a
little whiskey.
"Oh, father, don't take any to-day ;
it will do you harm, and make you very
i'll again !''
"No, no, child; don't brighten your
self, I'll only take very little drop, and
I'm sure it cannot do me any harm"
But the best way, father, the doctor
said, was to take none"
Il know the doctor told me that but
| feel | am getting stronger now, and I'll
not take any more than one glass"
"What money have you?" cried the
father. 81 thought l saw the doctor give
you something"
The poor child trcmbled and CRIED but
did not answer.
Come, come now, | don't want it all
just give me little, and you shall have
the rest to yourself"
"But father" sobbed the child, "the
money was to buy pair of shoes, that
might get to Sunday school"
"Oh, never mind that; there's plenty
of time, and I'll work and pay you back
before Sunday"
The little girl saw it was no use to say
anything further, and she placed half
crown in her fathers hand.
He clutched the coin, and as soon as
the means were in his power, all his good
resolutions vanished. He forgot that his
Makers eyes saw this awful sin. Placing
his hat on his head, he quickly left the
house, as if DESTROYS to escape from the
place where he had caused SO much misery.
The wrctched man hurried along to the
usual and well-known haunt, and soon
the money was changed for coins of lesser
value. Glass after glass was eagerly
swallowed, and soon his voice grew loud
and boisterous. Smaller and smaller
grew the coins, and slighter and slighter
the hopes of the loving child. He sits
amidst his old companions, but seemingly
heeds them not; for moment they regard
him, and, like demons from the pit Of woe,
knowing the love of drink within that
poor and emaciated frame, they wager he
will drink so many glasses of brandy in
a given space of time. The drunkard's
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