The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-23

cottage, with its little garden in front,
on the outskirts of the town. where
| had often seer him with his wife
and happy children playing about,
but found, to my sorrow. that he had
removed some time ago. At last,
with some difficulty, l found him
located in a couple of rooms in a low
neighborhood, not far distant from
the public-house he had patronized
the day before. Here, in such a
home as none but the drunkard could
inhabit, | found him laid upon a bed
of straw, ferverish and PROSTATE from
the previous days debauch, abusing
his wife because she could not get
him some more drink-she standing
aloof with tears in her eyes, broken
down with care and grief, her children
dirty, and clothed in rags; all friend
less, and stepped in poverty. What
a wreck was there
Turned out Of the church in which
he once was an ornament, his religion
sacrificed, his usefulness marred, his
hopes of eternity blasted, now a poor
detected slave to his passion for
drink, without mercy and without
hope!
l talked to him kindly, reasoned
with him, succored him till he was
we'll, and never lost sight of him or
let him have any peace, until he had
signed the pledge again.
1t took him some time to
his place in the church, but l have
had the happiness of seeing him
restored. He is now, more than
ever, a devoted worker in the church,;
and the cause of temperance is pleaded
on all occasions.
Can you wonder, then, why l
never order strong drink for a patient
now?
Man by nature has no taste not
desire for alcohol. 1t is as unnatural
and averse to his constitution as it is
to the horse or the OK, and there is
no apology for its use by man that
does not equally apply to the brute"
DR.. SEwELL.
"Alcohol is nowhere to be found
in any product of nature-was never
itself created by God, but is essen
TALLY an artificial thing prepared by
man through the destructive process
of fermentation Pro. H. Mum
ROE, M. ID.
"Bcer, wine, spirits, ect., furnish
no element capable of entering into
the composition of blood, muscular
fiber, or any part which is the seat
of the vital principle BARON LIE
BIG.
at is a growing popular error that
| stimulents, like ale, wine and bour-
bon, are beneficial. The pulpit must
fight that error. 1t is sweeping souls
to damnation."-DR. CUYLER.
"From these facts I conclude that
the daily use of stimulants is indie
feasible under any . known circum-
stances."-DR. H. R. MADDEN.
81 have come to the conclusion
that alcohol, as a medicine, may be
wholly dispensed with, and the more
speedy and thorough restoration Of
health, and the prolongation of life,
be insured joins H. GRIscoM,
M. d.
81 became anxious to test the i'll
fuence which alcohol has upon the
sick, and to observe carefully its in
fuence upon myself and upon persons
in health. My observations soon
brought me to the conclusion, that
my patients recovered far better
after / discontinued the habit Of
prescribing alcohol; and l went on,
very carefully and gradually, in this
way, until, some four or five years
ago, l came deinitively to the con-
clusion. that even cases of typhus
fever, delirium tremens, and other
diseases, in which it was held that
alcohol vas especially beneficial, did
far better when treated without it."
DIR. JAMES EDMUNDs.
The Republicans of Ohio.