Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-05-13

INTO lle gutter. DUt you 90 not KNOW tnht
you have that kind of peculiar organism
The chances are that you have not. This
we know, that every drunkard was once
moderate drinkor, and was just as sure as
YOU are that he could drink with safety.
1t is at fearful peril that any man CO
quets with this wild beast. The drinking
habit first drdes then drugs, then dries
And WOO be- to the man who feels its scor
pion-whp upon his shoulders
Ho3srTfs drinking. h0ugh Il may not bring
gyn into the gutter. Is f'V # PERIL To YOUR
CHILDREN.
What says God The niquity of the
fathers shall be visited upon the children"
And Con DOES NOT LIZ ion may escape
Your children will be- born into the world
with craving for liquors which will, il they
attempt to follow your example OF moderate
drinking. inevitably send them to n drunk
ards grave and q drunknrd's hell
John j. Cough says My father was q
respectable, od-fearing christian. moder
ate drinker all his life. He drank ale two
or three times each day, and occasionally
a glass OF hot spirits at night Nobody
ever saw my father when he showed the
/ effects OF liquor much less intoxicated.
He died at the age of ~ My father could
| be moderate drinker His son could no
more be a moderate drinker than you
| could blow up magazine moderately, or
! fire of a gun little at a time
| Dewitt Talmagc tells us that u neigh
| Dor, a respectable moderate drinker, who
| had five sons, used to rally his father, q
! total abstainer, about his bigotry, and
fanaticism, and lack of self control. -Four
of that mans sons says DIR. Talmage,
are in drunkmds graves, and the fifth is
. rum maniac in an insane asylum"
/ sat once with prominent lawyer of
Kane Co, Ill, reasoning with him about his
moderate drinking which every body but
himself knew was fast becoming immod-
crate. He said, what was true that no
body ever saw him drunk, and added
1T is absurd for you to talk about the
bad effects of moderate drinking. There
are none. / have drank moderately 30
years and have never felt that evil effect. y
him straight in the eye l said: What of
your boy7'' He looked at me for mo-
ment, then his lip quivered, and burying
his face in his hands, he cried out like
David of old: "Oh my son! my son''
His boy? He was born with love for
liquor, was drunk before he was ten years
of age. an inebriate at Is, and two years
after my conversation with his father,
when only "a years old committed suicide
at the end of drunken debauch!
At the close of one of Coughs lectures
in Pennsylvania, Judge of Quarter-ses-
sions arose, and with good deal of
warmth said: Il feel that L, and men like
myself. have been abused by the lecturer.
He says we moderate drinkers set bad
example. II is not true. You all know
me- You have honored me with high
Office. / am respected and respectable.
No man ever saw me the worse for liquor.
And yet l have been moderate drinker
all my life. Such an example is not q bad
one If young men would only follow it
they would be as l am, respected and re
spectacle" Just then drunken voice
shouted: Give it to him old man! Go
for him. Put that man out!n said one.
Let him alone!" said another; g 1t is the
Judges only son, who has tried to follow
his fathers respectable example, but has
signally failedH'
What says this old book? For meat,
that is for the sake of gratifying desire
hoiceUer latcfh destroy not thy brother
for whom Christ died. For the sake OF
the wine glass, however much you may
enjoy it, destroy not your own children!
3. The wine glass in mans hands
closes the door against him for any effec-
tive temperance work.
Here is Christian ON whose table the
wine sparkles. He seeks to reform an in
ebriate. He pleads; he argues; he remon.
strates. But all his arguments are paralyzed
by his own moderate drinking. "Physi
clan heal thyself!' is the whitening reply
in thought, if not in words.
Here is Christian minister who, like
Timothy, has bad stomach. The decan
ter is on his table also. Every word that
S,.,n lN1a only
''as the sounding brass" Scores of men
will hide their drunkenness behind that
one minister's wine glass. And if he goes
to one of them and reproves him, or tries
to win him from drunkenness, if the sol
has not forgotten his Shakespeare, he will
answer:
But, good my brother,
Do not as some ungracious pastors do,
Point me the steep and stormy path to Heaven;
While, like pulled and reckless libertine
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede."
4. Moderate drinking brings man into
bad company. No matter where he may
class himself, the drunkards and the drunk
ard makers always claim the advocate OF
moderate drinking as their ally. 1t Seems
to me that this would be very embarass
ing fact for minister. AT least, one goot
| | ocOtcu HiiulsteI, Do SaiioH uid lciiS no
found it SO. He was preaching ON the su
perior virtue of moderation rather than to
tai abstinence In the midst OF his elo
quence, he was interrupted by an enthusi
astic hearer-a poor drunken keeper of ,
+ low doggery- unable TO restrain hi,
admiration, roared out: "Hooral Minister
, We are on our sidel"
A short time ago, when Chancellor
Crosby had delivered his Calm View o
the Temperance Question" in Boston, il
which he advocated moderation" hi
health was drunk in the saloons from on,
end of America to the other. The ' Brew
ers' League" printed his lecture by tn,
ten thousand copies, and flooded tn
country with it,
, i would very seriously suspect m.