Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-01-06

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There sits one in his doorway misera-
BILE wr.ek filed with equity pains. unable
even ., t.ste of tine liquor which has des-
tro, ed HIM. and loathing the food which
he ha- nn power 10 digest. There writhes
an"ther III tOrment-in delirlnm whose
horrors are beyond conception, rs they
are beyond description. There sits an
other in the sun. from whom the flesh has
all iallen aWay-who IS LEFT feeble and
d iccid and fooiish--a poor, broken-dOwn,
diseased wretch, beyond the reach OF help.
There sinks another in paralysis. help
less mass oi b.oIted Aesh.
What do you think of these men, Mr..
Jehu Jones! Does il seem as if that hand
some face and those shapsly limbs Of yours
could ever arrive at such degredstioal-
You have only to Keep along in the track
which you now follow, with no fears and
no compunction of conscience, TO pass
through the various stages of ruin which
these men have presented to you. There
IL but one end TO life of drink, and that
d hell Il matters little whether the pop
ular doctrine OF future torment be admit
ted or upt 10 make my statement good
A body long abused by drink becomes ell
that We can conceive of ~ hell. IL Is the
/ dwelling place of torment-the home OF
| horror. You see these men on their way
TO ruin. You know just where they are
going, and see you are going on the
same road, to the same end. Tell me
whether you do not love drink better to-
day than you did five years ago. Tell me
whether it does not take more drink to
satisfy you than it did FIVE years ago
Tell me whether you are not drinking
ottener than you did even one year ago.
Tell me whether your conscience reproves
you at all, and whether, under the accu-
mulating evidences of your essential ruin,
you have felt the smallest alarm as to
what may be the result of your indulgence.
see what you do not see-that you have
acquired an appetite for liquor. You
used to drink it only when on frolic;
now you drink il every day. Now let me
tell you what all observation and expert
ence teach-that you will love it more
and more as the years pass away, and will
be less and less inclined to relinquish its
use. Why should not speak of you then
IS ruined mani
There is another element that enters
into your ruin. You have for the past
i've years, consorted with ruined women.
When you we're younger, evil companions
and evil desires and curiosity led you into
then society. There were certain things
IN that society that disgusted you then
10 day you are at home in it. Sir, you
are beast You delight in the company
OF women who shame the names of moth
er, sister and wife-of prostitutes who sell
for gold that which, in Gods pure ecomo-
my. Il sacred to lOve--of women whose
touch Is pollution and whose hold upon
you is da,nnation. On HeaFeni When
| think OF the young life around me that
IS permitting its feet = De directed into
these terrible paths OF sin-when con
sideg how seductive these paths are to
youthful sppetite and passion-when
remember how opportunity invites from
ten thousand hiding -places-and when
realize that there IS no vice which so
deadens or destroys the moral sense as
that of licentIousness, | am sick and al
most in despair. You are old in this vice,
but there are those around me who are
young IN IT, As you were once--boys, whose
ieet hang upon the verge of :, preeIpiee
uiore fearful than deaLh-young men
with CHRISTIAN mothers and pure sisters
whose Characters are a. base as then bod
les are Diseased. Do youslIriuk IRON this
wee. -sn.t from she soeIety wnscf IA isa-
wolves! Are you not III love with it--so
mucu Al love wIth II that you do not en-
JOJ the society vi pure women! Are you
not 81 much love WITH II that the so-
cIeIy Uf pure women only brings to you
shanieIuf suggestlCnst Aud yet, you S4Ink
you ars nol Iuned. SIr, youa TotIen. III
nin.i ere subject To Inc Ia~s vi matter,
ant moral corruption were accompanied
oy the PnenonIena WuIcn charaeIefILe
Dhi sic-d decay. od would stInk Ike ear
rion.
/ have no words with which ~ ca press
my sense III tue ruin wuIch LnIs single vice
has rod Sus In ,ou Men VINO ttrInk arc
sOneGIhies resOrunsd, and II tney nave nOI
prOcev,Ietl tOO issr lH tne vice, Lacy come
Olch lo sell rsspecIIuI InannJOd Inc
tainl ieit upon The morals Is not stl deep
that II canIrDt be ersdIcaled, but a man |
vino n.ss been debaucuFd bS llcenuous
ness, ls Incurabie. do not mean tnst he |
CANNOT reform. but iilaI ne must always |
be "eik, anu must AWAY carry Win hun
a rrIst- Ol d~grsitiaCiOn aud shame.
DO yOa peis1 Iu Uelieslng thai on are I
not Iulns-S: lnere l., Oi course, one as |
p,'yt Oi yvur case Ia men YOU are noL.-l
IL ls i',eeIUls iOr on To reiUrIn. but you |
have NJ idea oi rriorInimhg. i0u base |
40 ..opes Or calculations ol, te.OrtnatIou.
Iiia. A. "a! d~ciare ad - be TuIneu
lou Soiunl.,r,iJ block up lise Onls way vi /
escape from riiin. il uIAI, LOVING your
welfare, spraAs to yuuOs reformation, you
are sn-rS WITH uIIn. Ehe ventures 10 re-
prose .ou Ior Your Vices, } Ou bad hun
mInd hIs own business. You brace your
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tended Io reform you. You Join hands
with those who nearer the grand Ca
tast rOPne vi their lives than yUurself.-
You sc,Id ~ temperance aud purity
IN lie. lou iaugh a. Religion. You gio-
~ III your Independence of all weak aud
wonaniSn notions of morals AMI uf lie,
yet God Knows thai IN these weak anu
6oInanIsn NOTIONS Ut morals anu vi lIie
abIdes UtrI onIy hoPeoI denver tnce from
4 career wnUse end II certain disaster and
MISERY. LuOk al the poor women who
share our deDaueherles. Are Iney ru-
med, or are they noII How great a chance
ioes any one oi them stand Of reforIna-
lion and happy lifes Can you not see
hat their lives are morally certain TO
end In wreck? Do you not know that
her steps tend directly into the black
ness of dark kness-into y horrible tempest
,f remOrse, whose no" ings even nov ring
n their ears in the intervals of artificial
madness? What are you better than
hey! You are no better than they
They are your equals and your compan-
ons, travelling the same path-bound to
he same perdition. -
Would to Heaven / could paint to your
the horrors of d lost life, that
'ou and all who may gaze upon the pic
ure might shrink from the gull, and
make haste to reach safer and higher
round would call EY to your vision
our former self-the uhpolluted boy and .
oung man-full of life. and Joy. and gen
rous impulses, with inclinations drawing
on toward sin, aud pure influences from
arents and home and heaven dissuading
ou from it. | would show you how,
ieldiug to these bitter Influences, you
light now ke an honored member of So
iety, with yiItuous wife &C your side, q
nd Dleasanf ehildran at vorsp kraa ,z;.L I