Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-26

ly finds many open points in the doctors armor. Disputing and disproving, one by one, all the main points of the doctors essay, he finally robs him of all his cited authori ties, save one, by simply and conclusively showing that if fully or fairly quoted, tteir evidence, instead of substantiating his the ory, would completely demolish it.
 The pastor concludes as follows: sThe trouble with Dr. Todd's essay is that in it it's author overruns his game. Attempting to 1t only feeble thing. Attempting to make the drunkard out a fend, he makes him out simply fool. In the writer's early years upon the farm it used to be considered that it took pretty smart boy. in driving cart through bar-way, to knock down both bar posts. This is what Dr. Todd attempts in his essay, and, not unnaturally, with indiffer- ent success. Knocking over the drunksrd at the beginning of his career, he attempts to knock him over again at the end; but going down to begin with as 8 fool, he is not up to go down again at the end as fiend. Fools are not the material out of which dends are made. Dr. Todd, therefore, must select be tween the two-either the fool theory or u fend theory. He cannot establish both. TIT truth is he is mistaken in both. Not al drunkards are either fools to begin with fends to end with. The whole history of in temperance disproves the doctrine of tn. essay. Not weak men alone have becon
  lever made have, become helpless sots, alcohol has an equal affinity for the brain the strong man and of the weak, and it's fects in the one case are the same as in other. In all disease the strong and thew are alike weak.
 stAnd this is really the fearful thing al drunkenness not that it takes men alr fools, born fools, and makes them littl' ger fools. Rather it is that it makes fc men by nature kings in intellect and pi in thought. It is not that 1t takes weak and merely exposes their weakness ratb IS that 1t takes men as strong as Sam and binds them as he was bound. It is that it takes men beasts by nature and them somewhat viler beasts = it is makes Gods noblest children beast little lower than the angels to be lowe the brutes: It is not that it takes sou ren of love and fills them with hate that it takes souls wealthiest in love that love into hate; takes men not t, for their families, but love their fay their own lives and makes them of cruelty to the families they so To- the terrible thing about 1t is not the ty that is free to cease from it wh will. Rather it is the awful bondf it binds upon it's victims, so that helpless to cease from it even wher Therefore the young should dread fore those binding on themselves t. indulgence the adamantine bond hopeless fate, before the first links tened should burst from them Dr. Todd's intention is good, but defeats his intent. Too eager f theory, he does not stop first whether it is true. The theory by the facts, his treatise built The drunkard does not, at the O, career, intend the end. Come he is not still free to return to Dr. Todd is wrong in the be wrong in the end. Desiring to wickedness of drunkenness he the facts as to discredit even his truth. He is so unjust to drt his injustice reacts in sympathy whom he condemns. He loads heavily that the recoil is sever discharge. His eagerness to ge at temperance workers distu his game. No good cause such injustice. No true cause by such violation of truth.
 Respecting the tone of about as bad as it could wei those who dissent from it's rogant and insulting. Towal it coarse, heartless and brut' it's author is the injunction Brethren, if a man be overt. ye that are spiritual restore the spirit of meekness, cons lest thou also be tempted to conceive of the Lord Q speaking or even thinking o human beings, the most 1tterl. of such cold, pitiless scorn as ploys throughout his essay with these wretched men. Wicked miserable men, if it must be so, still. they are men, and when thousands of them are, in the' assert their manhood, they kindly consideration of their no one can doubt they enjoy merciful Savior and God. without hope. Dr. Todd do, how much practical experience. efforts to reclaim drunkards I the tone of his essay it is very had had more acquaintance that best, that only true sort WI endeavor to save them he wou. let us trust, more charity for u more hope"