Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-08-12
DEATH In THE CUP.
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not, 50 be doss not try. I bad a friend
who for fifteen years was going d0Sn NJ
der this evil habit. He had large means
/ He had given thousands Of dollars to Bibl,
societies and reiorms,Ory institutions o.
all sorts. He was very genial and very
generous and very lovable, and whenever
he talked shout this evil habit be would
say 81 can stop any time" Bat he kept
goirg 90, going on,
DOWN, DOWN, DOWN.
His family would say, 81 wish you would
stop" why he would reply, Il Gag
ny time if want tO.n After while he
had delirium tremens; be bad it twice; and
ye. after that be said, ~ could stop al
any time if wanted to- He is dead now.
What killed hin? Ram Run! And yet
among his last uttersuces was, Il can s'oI
at any time" He did not stop it, beclus,
he could not stopiI. %, there is point
in MEDITATION beyond which, ii a man
goes, he cannot stop
One Ct these victims said to Christian
man, "Sir, if I we're told that couldn't
get drir K until tomorrow night unless
had all my fingers cut OF, would say,
Bring the Ratchet and cat them off now
I have q desr friend il Philadelphia whose
nephew came to him one day, and when
/ ne was exhOrted shout his evil habit,
said, "U1cle, I can't give it up. Il
there stood a cannon, and it was load
/ Ell, and "a glass Of wine sat on the
/ mouth OF tia. cannon, and l knew
that you would fire it OF Just as ]
came up and took Che glssa, 1 would start,
for l must have it." Oh, il Is a sad
thing Tor man TO wake up in this If,
and feel that he is q captive. He says
| 'I oould have gOt rid of this once, bat
can't now. might have ivel on honor,
sble life and died a Christion death; bui
there is 40 hope for me now; there is no es
cape for me. Dead, bat not buried.
am walking corpse. ON an appaTitiOr
of what once was. l am Q Gagged i'm
mortal beating against the wires Of my
cage IN this direction and in tia. direc-
tiOn; beating against the cage until there
Is blood on the wires aud blood upOr
my soul, yet nos able TO get out. De
s.Toyed, without remedy.
70 further, snd say that thu ipebriat,
suffers from the loss OF his usefulness. d,
you not gecoguizs the fact that many o
those who are now capives Of strong drink
only a little while ego were foremost IN tbs
churches and in regormstory institute ons'
Do you know that sometimes they
KNELT IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE?
Do you know that they prayed in public
and some Of them carried around the holI
I IawaJ
they stood ia the very front rank, but they
gradually fell away. And now what d.
you suppose is the feeling OF euch mar
as that, when he thinks OF his dishOnOreC
VOWS and the dishouOred sscfament-whel
he thinks of what he might have been enC
OF what ne is now? Do such men laugl
and seem very merry? All, there is, dowI
in the depths Of their soul, very heavl
! weight. Do not wonder that they some
times see strange thing, and act Terl
roughly il the household. lOa wOald TO
blame st al il you knew what they suffer
Do rot tell such as that there is no future
punishment. ID not tell him there is nj
such place 40 hell. lie knows there Is
he is there now
Igo Oh, and say that the inebriste sui
fers ilom the loss of physical health. TIT
older men IL the congregation may remem
Ter that some years ego Dr. Sswell wen
through this country and electrified th'
people by his lectures, in which he SHOWED
the effects Of alcohol on the human stom
sCh. He had seven or eight Diagrams by
which re showed the devastation Ct str0ns
drink upln tue physical system. There
were thousands OF people that turned bach
from that ulcerous sketch, swearing eter
nal abstinence ftOm everything that coul'
intoxicate.
God only knows what the drunkaTd emf
sers Pain files or every nerve cad tIav
ella every muscle grd gnaws every bore
and burns With every fame and sting
with every poison aud pulls st him will
every torture. What reptiles crawl Owe
his creeping limbsl What tends stand by
bis midnight pillow, What ggosns tea
his esr, What horrors shiver througl
his souli Talk of the rack, talk OF
the Iuquisition, talk Of the fureTa
pyre, talk of the crushing JugNrnsu
he feels them all at once. Have yoV
sysr been in the ward OF the hospita
where these irebristes are dying, th'
stencil Of thsir wounds driving back tn
attendants, their voices sounding througl
the night? The keeper comes up ant
slys, Hush, now, be still. sop mskini
Ian this noise ,n But It is elleclual OILY
| for 8 moment, for as soon Is the keeper u
gone. they begin again "Ou, God oh
God Help, help! Rum Give ms
rum Help Take them of me TAKE
them OF me Take them Of me! o.
Goil" And they Shrek, and they rave
and they