The Tipton advertiser., 1877-04-19

, physicians were to occupy back seat,
where they might, while unohserved
take notes Of such of Pykem's heresie
as they might deem Ii necessary +
combat; he further arranged that, i'm
mediately after Pykem had conclude
he was to be called away to patient
provided for the occasion. Still NOR
and great would have been the dis
gust of White and Perry had the,
known ofit-Crupp laid soplainly be
fore Pykem the necessities of the com
munity, and the duty. not only Chris
tian, but the simplest manliness also
that men of any intelligence owed I,
their fellow men, that Pykem, VIII,
with all his hobbies was a man o
Christian beliefand human heart, con
fined himself solely to the preventiv,
efficacy Of external applications of wa
ter, not unmixed with soap. in the
case of persons who felt towards alec
hol a craving which they could no,
logically explain; he thus delivered
All address which might. with cause
be repeated in every community in
the United states. Then DIR. Perry,
whose forte was experimental physi-
ology, read whole tables of statistics
based upon systematic observations,
and DIR. White unrolled and explain
ell some charts and plates Of various
internal organs, naturally unhand-
some In themselves, which had been
injured bv alcohol. 1t was declared
by close observers that for few days
after this meeting the demand for
sponges and toilet soap exceeded the
experience Of the old and single APP
othecary of the village and that liquor
sellers looked either sober or savage,
according to their respective natures.
But the boys Crupp found him
self in time really disposed to ask Pas
tors Weigewell and Brown whittier
there wasn't Scripture warrant for the
supposition that job obtained his sons
by marrying a widow with grown
up family. "The boys" numbered
about hundred specimens, ranging
in age from fourteen years to forty; no
two were alike In disposition, as
Crupp had long known; they came
from all sorts of peculiar social condi-
tions that warred against their ply
steal and moral well-being; some of
them seemed wholly corrupt, and
bent upon corrupting others; many
more exhibited a faculty for promis-
ing which could be matched in mag
nitude only by their infirmity of per-
formancs. BY IA vigorous course of
individual exhortation, the burden of
which was that everybody knew they
drank because they were too cowardly
to refuse. and that nobody despised
them so heartily as the very men who
sold them the rum, Crupp lessened
the number of drinking boys by about
about ouefourth, thus rescuing those
who were easiest to save and most
worth saving, but the remainder
made as much trouble as the collec-
tive body had done. crupp scolded,
pleaded, and argued; he hired some
boys to drop liquor for at least stated
time; he importuned some of the more
refined citizens to interest themselves
socially in certain boys; he lent some
Of these boys money with which to
buy clothing which would bring their
personal appearance up to the Barton
standard of respectability, aud he COW
ertly excited some Of the merchants
up to "a genuine interest in certain
boys, by pursuading them 10 sell to
said boys coats, boots, and hats on
credits nominally short.
He enjoyed the hearty cooperation
Of the village pastors, all of whom
preached sermons to young men and
to parents; but his principal practical
came, quite unexpectedly.
from old Bunley. Bunley had not
yet succeeded in finding anything to
do, and as he had on his hands all of
his time which was not needed at the
the family woodpile, he talked to the
the boys. Bunley had.been according
to the Barton classification, "boy"
himself; he had drunk in not re-
mote day with any boy who invited
him he knew more jolly songs than
any other half dozen inehriates i'm the
village, and was simply oppressed
with the load nj good bad stories
which he never tired telling; he had
been always ready to play cards with
any hoy and had come 10 he regarded,
the youngsters, as 1.-The best fel-
low in the village" Now that he had
his success in reforming
boys was simply remarkable-so much
80 that Parscn Wedgweell began to
tremble over the thought that Bnnley,
by the present results Of the expert
ence Of his sinful days, might demon
strate, beyond the hope of refutation,
the dreadful proposition that it was
better that man should be sinner
in his, youth, 80 as to know how to be
a saint when he becomes old. This
idea Parson Wedgewell laid, with
much trepidation, before the Rever-
end Timotheus Brown, and the two
old saints and new friends had a de-
doleful time on their knees |
over it, until there occurred to the Rev
erend Timotheus Brown principle
which which he proceeded to formu-
late as follows: The greater the ca
pacity of a misguided faculty for evil,
the greater the good the same faculty
may accomplish when in its normal
TO be sure, the discovery
was not original with him; the same
statement had been made by peripa-
tetic phrenologists at Barton; indeed
il was visible, to one who could read
rather than merely repeat wsrds, in
every chapter of the Bible SO dear to
this good old man; but the illusion
under which Parson Brown was al
lowed to labor worked powerfully for
his own good and for that Of the csm-
munity, for from that time forth both
he and Parson Wedgwell displayed
their greatest earuestness in work