Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-08-18

any EluIt VI NbuE eve, VI " uhN uh-
natural Hush of your cheek. You can
not afford to do il, for your good name
is your only capital, and when that is
blasted with the reputation OF taking
strong drink, all is gone.
HE RESPECTS HIMSELF NO MORE.
Another yss which the inebriate
suffers is tlidh Of self respect. Just as
soon ms A man wakes up and finds that
he is the captive of strong drink he
feels dcmcaucd. | do not care how
reckless he acts. He may say, IL
don't care" he does care. He cannot
hook "A pure man III the eye, unless il
is with positive force of resolution.
mlrcc-rourtlis of his nature is de-
stroycd, his self respect gone; lac says
things he would not otherwise say; he
docs things he would mol Otherwise do.
When Il man Is ~nlne-teuthS gone with
strong drink, the first thing he wants
to do Is To- persuade YOU that he can
stop amy time he wauiS to. %llccunnoi.
The phili>tiucs have bound him hand
and foot. aud shorn his locks, and put
out his ewes, aud are making him grind
ia lhemIll of great horror. lie cannot
ltop will prove IL. He knows that
MS course is bringing disgrace and
ruin upon himself. lie loves himself.
Ii he could stop he would lie knows
his course i bringing ruin upon his
family. He loves Them. He would
stop if he could. He cannot. Per
maps he could three months ar a year
sgo; mol now. Just ask him to stop
Tor a month. He cannot; he knows
he cannot, 81 he does not try. | had
a friend who for fifteen years was
going down under this evil habit. lie
had large means. lie had given thou.
sands of dollars to Bible societies and
reformutory institutions of all sorts.
lie was very genial and very gcner,
Gus and very loyablc. and whenever
he talked about this evil habit he
would say, Il al stop any time.
But he kept going on. going on, down.
down. down His family would
say, Il wish YOU would stop Why"
he would reply. Il can stop any time if
| want to-" After Il while he had de-
lIrium trcmcuS; he had il twice; and
vet after hat he said. II could stop
st any time if | wanted to-" He is
dead now. What killed him! Rum!
Rum! And yet among his last utter.
snccs was, Il can stop at any time"
lie did not stop ii. because he could
not stop il. Oh. there is a point in in.
ebriation beyond which. if a man goes,
he cannot stop!
THE TERRIBLE CRAVING FOR DRINK.
One of these victims said Ia a Chris.
iian man. ''Sir, if | were told that |
couldn't get a drink until tomorrow
night unless | had all my fingers Gu
of, ! would say, Bring the Ratchet
and cut them off now | have a dear
friend in Philadelphia, whose nephew
zane 10 him one day. and when he
was exhorted about his evil habit,
laid, Uncle, can't give il up. If
here stood "A cannon, and it was load
ed. and a glass al wine sat OH the
mouth Of that cannon, and | knew
that you would lire it off just as !
zane up and took the glass, ! would
start, for ! must have it," Oh, il
is a sad thing for a man TO wake
up in this life and feel that lie
is a captive. He says: Il could have
got rid of this once, but ! can't now.
J might have lived an honorable life
and died a. Christian death; bpt there
Is no hope for me now; THERE is no es.
rapc for me, Dead. but not buried.
! am a walking corpse. am an APP
partition of what | nee was. | am a
Gagged immortal, beating against the
" Tres of my cage in this direction
aud in HAT direction; beating against
the cage until there il blood ON the
wires and blood upon my soul. vet
moi able 10 get ont. Destroyed, with.
ont remedy
! 90 further, and say that the in
q Jriatc suffers from the loss of his
usciUlncsS. DO you not recognize the
iact that many of those who are now
ra,ptives OF strong drink only a little
while ago were foremost I the
churches and in rcforunalgry ,%nslitu-
tions! Doyou nod know that sometimes
hey knclt in the family circlcs DO
. not know that they prayed in pub
lie. and some of them carried around
The holy wine Oh sacramcntal days!
oh, YES, they stood in the very front
rank, but they gradually fell away.
Md now what do you suppose l. the
feeling of such man ms that, when
he thinks of his dishouured vows aud
the dishuuUrcd Slcramcnt-whcn he
thinks of what he might have
been and of what he is uowi
DO such men laugh and seem
very merryt All, there Is, down
IN the depths of their soul, a
very heavy weight DO not wonder
that they sometime, see strange things,
aud act very roughly in the household
You would not blame them nj all if
YOU knew what they suffer, DO not
tell such ms that there is no future
punishment. Do not tell him there is
no such place as hell. lie knows there
4, lie is there now!
THEIR HEALTH GOES TOO.
| go on, and say that the incbriate
ALTERS from the loss of physical health.
The older men in the congregation
may remember that some years ago
Dr. Scwell went through this country
ond electrified the people by his lect.
ures, in which lac showed the effects
al alcohol on the human stomach. lie
had eve n eight diagrams by which
lac showed the devastation Of strong
drink upon the physical system. There
were thousands of people that turned
back from that ulcerons sketch swear,
iig eternal abstinence from everything
nat could intoYicate.
God only knows what the drunkard
.ltfcrs. Pain files Oh every nerve,
aid travels every muscle, and gnaws
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