The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-03-20

tell You, sir, /! i, u risky business to
touch the uraiu. 4 minister of tho gus.
pei told me vi member Of his cougrega.
ton, az noble a fellow as ever lived gss-
1 erous-there Was ur. member VI his
church that gave as much as he, though
only member OF the congregation, for
! the support Of the gospel; rch--sleep.
ing partner in i tl';n 10 New York; with
wife and one child living in good style.
. The only iauls the minister could 6ad i1
, him was, he would occasionally take glass
OF wine, and would give it to the young
men aud he said be had often talked
with him ato>.t it One day he saw him
playing with his boy, aud nsk.d him
Do yon love yonr son -
" Love him noble little fellow. /.
lave him better than my own life"
You would not BARN Him -
s!arm hin, hur' my boy, Never"
" Now Yen never thought that lass
81 WING"
Step, yon ars fAuaiir; respect you
y a minister. bat not your tara,icism on
tins pojut. / be idea II Il .laes OF wine
N"rt,ng this buy-that am going to.
ru!n nay child Let thl. IT, u tsbuoed
question between US have 10 patience
10 hear you talk SO foolishly abous it,"
1t was abou: six weeks after that ona
ii tlG partners ia the house came to .ee
him on come business, and they rode toS
ntauut'rturing town about twelve miles
distant He was one Of those men
" mishty to drink wine, aud a man Of
strength TO minglc strong drink )" aud
there ~ no blessing pronounced on such
u,cr, that we can Grd, in the Bible. But
he drank Il il man drunk for the irst
tine in hi- life and when they got to-
the hotel. the city gentleman laughed at
his mandiin companion, and said, 81
wonder what his wife will say to that. ~
Returning. they drove up to the gate,
und the child, with his mother, was on
the marble steps, waiting for papa. In
stepping from the carriage, the drunken
man, foot caught in the reins, aud he
stumbled lf he had been sober no
would i4vo kept hold Of the reins, and
the accident could not have Happened
But it made him angry, his coutrol was
disturbed, and he took tho boy by the
shoulder, twisted him around, and threw
him down. ~ he was urahle to walk :,
they carried him into the hall, and laid
him on a s,;tec; he fell cn that on tho
floor, and wen, to sleep. The cereymsn
told mc-"Thry seat for ,Hc, aud never
spent such a night in my lite There
lay the rhilh dead, H." wife in convul-
si"ns. and the man as'ecp-as!eep, will,
dead child. whose yellow locks we're
dabbled i'll blood, lying in anohter room
asleep with two physicians trying to save
the life Of his wife asleep, under the
damnn% intluencc Of wirc. When he
awoke it was fearful waking. Pushing
back his hair-''Whct is the matter y
Where am l? Where is my boy? Where
is my child? must see him You
cannot must, | will Where ID
my boy ?" Vow cannot see him" II
must sec h'm-i must see my boy. -
They took him into the room. and turned
down the sheet and when he saw him
he crici ou', "Nh, NY God ~ and fell
back sersclcss. That clergyman told ne
and haze his name in my note, book
-"On year from that day buried his
body. hronqht eson. . iue~,ic asylum. "a
lay side by side with his wife and child. -
Young man, thank God for your safety,
if You have never dared to 'amper With
that which disturbo the action Of tho
brain, aud brings man to point where
he knows not what be is about. 1t is q
risky business to touch the brain. and il
is the business Of alcohol to do it
j. Is. Gopyh