The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-20
Powerful Warning to Drunkardls.

"A powerful Warning to Drunkarils.
- rather Elliott, who, with two Paulist
Brothers, has just concluded a series Of
mission services in St. Paul, delivered
powerful lecture to ran7audience Of over
Two thousand men, on the subject of tenn
perance. The lecture was to Catholics, but
general invitation was given to Protes-
1ants' and was accepted by many. At its
conclusion three hundred and nty-odd
signed the pledge. Many who listened
70 ms burning words said that they had
never heard SO powerful temperance lec-
ture. tie took for his text the first chap
OF Joel and fifth verse. awake We that
are drunk and weep,' &c. I know not,
sara the reverend lecturer, whether /,
snouid ask you to mourn or to rage.
Those who have been the sufferers through
the drunkard's crime, might rage and
curse the debaslng sin which was the
cause OF their dire distress. But those
VINO nave never been the victim of the
drunkard, vice. ask your tears. When
we LOOK upon the mourning widow, and
orphan children who have been brought
70 poverty, disgrace and eternal damna.
ton by this hellish vice, to spend a whole
LIE III weeping tears OF blood. methinks
would be light thin. lit could remove
the evils OF drunkenness. Some here ner.
haps have drunken fathers or drunken
brothers, or it may be but O Great God
torbd-a drunken wife Or mother. It
may be that some will return from
THIS temple tonight to a home VIII Oh
uruHNenneSs has made desola:e AID
oliyhted, where uruukard' wife weeps
and mournS her hopeless fate How can
ask your pity for the unrepe,,tinc, iuebri-
ate man who laughs and SCOTS at your
advice and replies with some ribald Joke
upon his night debauch. The monster
who devours his chiidreil's food, their
clothing. their education and their virtue
IN feeding his insatiate appetite is below
our pity-he deliberately with eyes open
contracts this habit Of hell with free will
and sows the seeds Of disease in his own
body and his own soul.
THE EVILS
OF drunkenness We're spoken Of under
three heads-injary to himself. disgrace
to those about him and injury to Col.
The drunkard injured himself in that
he s;nned for happiness, but his sin effect
ually destroyed all happiness. There is
no real enjoyment in drinking; it is bru-
fish, poisoning every innocent Joy; it fills
the soul with shame and brings ruin in
temporal things as we'll as spiritual; once
drunk and man despises himself; his
self respect is gone; once seen drunk,
only once. and it is months before he
can look his friends in
the face; no matter: how good
previous reputation man may have
had If once seen drunk he is looked
upon at once with distrus, and suspected
by everybody. And the dreadful power
OF the sin is like malignant fever in The
marrow of the bones which defas every
remedy and as sure as a stone sinks in
water men sink in this vice till honor
self.respect, reputation are all gone. In
one week the drunkard will spend the
earnings of years! The insatiate thirst
is never allayed-more drunk more fever
for drink--poverty and then disgrace, fol-
lowed by more poverty and more disgrace
till crime, vagrancy and hopeless ruin
ensue. Go to :. police court any Monday
morning and look upon the crowd Of
criminals and ask them what sent them
there-their bloated, purple faces, blear
eyes, trembling hands, answer. Oh
young man Of good position, only get
drunk once and you are already halfway
on the road to the police court, and YOU
have already said to your position and
responsibility, goodbye.
DRINK IS AN INJURY TO YOUR NEIGHBoRs.
T If man lived alone, he might perhaps
GOV rifb hn foo1 o< 1.:-1-
for tomorrow we die;'' but man does not
live alone. He is husband. brother,
father or son, or II in these he stands
alone, he is still citizen, and he carries
others down with him in his rapid whirl
to perdition. He brings darkness of
despair upon a once happy home; the
gray hairs and furrowed brow of
parents are wrought by him; the
tears Of that once loving, trusting
wife are for. him, and what legacy, oh.
my God, does he leave his children. Oh,
that could place On this platform that
most wretched Of creatures, the drunk
ards wife. Could You recognize the |
happy. joyous, handsome young wife in
that sad, pale. ragged, shoeless creature
What she has suffered to produce such
wreck-to make such havock upon her
once fair form. What crime, oh. nv
God. has she committee: thas she should |
SO suffer! She was fool enough, with /
her young trusting heart, to place her
happiness in the keeping of young man
who drank. She gave her true hearts
iove'h hand, her peace-all that pure
woman can Givc".to brute, and in re.
turn she gets curses and ofttimes blows
and the disgrace Of his name!
Look at tina: child...poor little child, so
thlnly clad, so pale and wan. and such
mOurnfui ewes such 4 shrirol.d farn, ]