Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-11-12
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ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.

Young men, would you be honored
and respected Would you store your
mind with useful knowledge ? Would
you hold high positions and places of
trust? Would you be in every respect
men? Then don't drink. Drink will
make you dissatisfied with yourself
Drink will take your money Drink
will ruin your health. Drink will de-
stroy your mind. Drink will become
your master, and with relentless hand,
drive you, until goaded to madness, you
writhe amid the horrors of drunkard's
hell, and at last sleep in the graves to
awake-where Look around and you
will find in our own county real pictures
to illustrate the favages of too much sa-
tanized whiskey Take ride over the
country and you will be astonished to
find in how many cases drink is the fore
runner of poverty Go into the Court
House and you will find how closely it is
connected with crime. When king al
cohol reigns, he regns supreme. He
not only enslaves the person, but he
binds every faculty he changes reason
to madness, strength to weakness, sours
the disposition and turns the heart to
stone. The man who becomes habitu-
al drunkard will forget the purity of his
youth and become lost to the counsels of
an upright father; the memory of a
loving mother kneeling with him in
prayer to merciful God in the days of
his happy boyhood, only deepens his re-
morse.
Do not try to persuade yourself that
you can drink or let it alone, that you
can drink moderately, Experience has
proven that no man, however great, can
use it continually and do him no harm.
Richard Yates, Illinois most brilliant
governor, he who did so much for the
soldiers, he who had such large, gem
erous heart, such gift of eloquence,
and such fine mind was overpowered
by rum, and his brilliant career ended
in the prime Of life, under the dark
shadows Of a drunkard's grave.
Alexander the Great, after he had
deluged the world with blood, and made
himself her master, was enchanted by
friends which inhabit the Intoxicating
cup, and the genius who knew no king,
died a death which the meanest slave
would not envy.
No Moderate drinkers are an ilu-
sion, and already they are in the outer
limits of great land slide whose sandy
foundation has been washed away on
which if you walk with your face toward
the river, whether slow and fast, will
one day engulf you amidst its dirty ruin.
DEEP Times. One of the deep things
Of God is his word. No fathoming line
has ever touched its depth. No con-
sumption of its pure, refreshing waters
have ever lowered it an inch Within it
play the lcviathans. Its sublime utter
ances are as the sound of many waters
Deep caleth unto deep" And in its
profound bosom lie all manner of pearls
and precious stones; any one Of them is
worth all the pebbles of earthly streams
That single pearl, "God is love-" out
weights the globe in value just com
pare. too, all the human books ever writ
ten, with this one book, as the subject
and pulpit Of private study. Upon this
book the most cultured aud devout minds
have been engaged for centuries. Mil
lions of spiritual and soul-saving dis
courses have been drawn out it, And
the Bible is as fresh and faithful as when
Augustine explored it twelve hundred
years ago. Men run dry; the Bible
never.