The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-21
THE HlANGE2R OF 81 RONas
DRHNEk.
stAt 1Ese last IA ABfslaeth Like a
Serpent and Stfnse1Is Like
RR adder.

SAT- hke last Ia asfsIaeth like a
Serpent and SfEnSe1Ir Like
aR Adder.
(Proverbs % :32.)
The use of intoxicating drink
tends to create 8 thirst for it, SO
strong that but few will overcome.
That this is true q few facts will
prove. I am now in my eighty
third year. When l was small
boy, but few, if any, deemed it
wrong TO make whisky. Two
farmers, one a Baptist, the other q
Presbyterian each had a family of
Icons, and each set up a distillery.
The Baptist man and the wife of the
Presbyterian had debate respect
ing their distilleries aud the means
Iof preventing them from injuring
their families of boys. Each had q
plan of presentation. The Baptist
man said he woaid give his boys s
dram every morning and being ac-
Icuetomed to that they would not
desire any more. This be- deemed the
safest plan. The Presbyterian Wo-
man said she would give hers none.
She deemed her plan the only safe
plan. He replied that when her
boys would go where it was used,
they would not know how to use
it, and then they would be more La
BILE TO get drunk than if they were
taught at home how to use it. But
he could not convince her that his
plan was best. He gave his sons
dram every morning, and she gave
hers none. Twas present, heard the
debate and marked the results. All
that mans sons became drunkards,
and last of all he fell himself. In
the other family there was no i'm
temperance and the distillery soon
went to wreck.
On a certain day one of the Bap-
lists sons was at my fathers house
and one of my brothers told him of
a shocking death that had occurred
in the neighborhood. A drunkard
crept into distillery at night after
the distiller had left, got drunk, got
into the fire and was burnt to death.
A hungry dog ate part of him be.
fore morning. The young man be-
ing greatly shocked, exclaimed
"Well, if L were to get drunk and
burnt to death and dog eat part of
me, I would never drink another
drop!" But he continued to be
drunkard.
was called to marry young
man and on my way to the brides
house, fell in with the groom and
his company. On the way the
groom's brother drew out his bottle
to treat the company. 1 expostula-
ted with him in respect to the danger
of dram drinking. He affirmed
that there was no danger, and as
proof he referred to persons who
had long used whiskey without in-
jury, and then referred to his own
experience, he had been in the habit
of dram drinking without injury,
or danger of becoming a drunkard.
said TO him ''if may Judge from
your appearance you take too much
already" He ADVOCATED taking
morning drains. When we arrived
at the brides house, her father, an
old gray headed man, was drunk,
and annoyed the people with his
foelishness. pointed to him and
said to the young man "there is 3
looking glass for young men who
take morning drams." He COM
planned to some of his friends of
my reprOof. Some years after
wards 1 saw him standing on the
sidewalk, at Ripley, Ohio, like an
idiot, a ruined sot. Thus dram
drinking created in him such an In
tense thirst for ardent spirits as pro-
duced his utter ruin.
A gentleman, member of the
Presbyterian church, assured me that
he thirsted more for ardent spirits
than ever [ did for water. He had,
notwithstanding his profession of
religion, sometimes fallen by it, and
again he arose and withstOod the
intensity of his thirst, and seemed
to be pious man.
Many years ago an old gray head
ed man came twelve miles to get
me to visit q young woman on her
death bed, sick of consumption. He
had been a long time a drunkard.
While we were riding that distance
endeavored to get him to aban-
don his habit of drinking intoxica-
ting liquors, and to become a sober
man. said to him sit Injuries your
health, it Injuries your family, it de-
stroys your reputation, and will
ruin your SOUL" "The drnnkard
shall not inherit the kingdom of
God" lie admitted all l had TO
say, and said 81 can't quit it," The
yoang woman lived some weeks,
and / preached often for her, and
he attended, and / did the best /
could in my discourses, to bring
him to repentance. After the
young woman died, 1 preached at
his house and adapted my discourse
to his case. He receiyed NV az