The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-13
Effects Of Intemperance.

are fllleu Will teSLlmOmeS 10 Tile evils
Of ihtelnperance. Take this extract
from recent missionary report rs an
example: The missionary says:
RUNS doings'give direction to not
little Of our ihi'or.. ~ man whom L
had set down as lazy fraud, and TO
whom l. had given the cold shoulder,
one day informed me of n sick woman
whom he wished Iwould call and see,
giving ME particular caution not to
make my errand known to any one |
should meet in the house; to make
no inquiry at the door, lest her hus-
band should prevent my seeing her.
was told in what room the sick
woman was lying, and that should
go into the room without waiting for
a summons. Taking my wife with
me went according to the directions
given me. l found the house quite
respectable in appearance, and opened
the front door, without knocking, and
walked in, and though l saw the hus-
band Gas l rightly supposedly: at work
in the rear yard; at once, without
addressing him, proceeded to the
sccond-1oor room indicated to me,
and entered. y very dirty, disor-
dcrcd, rubhishy room received me
and my wife. A strange mixture of
misery and comfort was apparent. A
woman, young and dying, alone and
neglected, was lying on what had
been very nice hair cloth sofa, un
der tic front window, an old, worn
gray army blanket thrown over her,
aud her head resting uncomfortably
on a dirty and patched feather pillow.
A smutLy, broken lamp was burning
upon Il large marble-top center-tablc,
Just ut her head. There was not a
decent chair in the room, but the
walls were kang with an array Of
portraits and pictures in oiS with gils
frames also q pier mirror. There
was no carpet on the floor, which
looked as though it had not been
swept in six months; while heaps of
dilapidatcd odds and ends were scat
tered shout.
Altogether, the state Of tAis dying
woman H;rs AS ,iuvivtnf,ivz no uvui,'
well bu i,nAgiacN, or foubd in the
mos' wrclchc,j teDGlnrnc iw the city (;
and ali this the work oi rum. Her
husband, who owns the house III
which he lives and several others, had
totally neglected bis wife, anxious
that she should die as soon rs possi-
bic. Though SO yonng, perhaps
twenty-siS years old she haul become
& confirmed inebriate, with no pur
pose in life but to indulge her appetite
for strong drink, utterly neglecting
home and family Her children were
leiL 70 run abont in rags, aad we're
found upon The sheets il the depth oi
winter with no shoes on Their feel
The poor, infatuated woman La;, Been
in the habit Of taking the furniture,
bedding, and wearing apparel to the
pawn-shop to get money for the pur-
chase of liquor. When ! afterwara
| went to the husband to inquire about
his treatment Of his wife, he showed
me in his shop bolster almost emp
tied Of feathers. which she had taken
out to sell for rum; and, to save the
carpet from the same disposition, he
had taken it off the floor of her room.
10 the poor, miserable wreck Of a
woman | spoke Of the compassion OF
Jesus, but could get no response. AT.
terward she was taken to the hospital.
and everything was done that could
be done under the circumstances, bat
TO the last the poor woman felt she
was SO far ofI-too far off from Jesus
she could not reach out to Him.
The city missionaries are labo,ing
constantly. not only for the reforma-
! iion and elevation Of the incorporate
but also to prevent the formation OF
those evil habits which lead the way
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