The Red Cloud chief., 1889-08-16

He loves himself II b could stop b
would He knows his course II bringing
ruin upon his family. He loves them. H.
would stop II he could. He can not Per
not now. Just ask him 70 stop for
month. he can not; be knows he car
not 30 he does not try. ! had . friend Wit
for fifteen years was going down under
this evil habit He had large He
had given thousands Of dollars to Bible
societies and rsformatoey Institutions Of
all sorts. he was very genial and very
generous and very lovabls, and whenever
he talked about this evil habit he would
say: Il can stop any time" But he
kept going on, going on, down, down,
down. His family would say: II wish
you would stop" ''Why." he would re-
ply, II can stop any time I want to-" A.
ter . while no had dslirium tremens; be
bad it twice; and yet after that he said:
II could stop il I wanted to-" He is dead
now. What killed him? Rum! Rumi
And yet among his last u~tterances was:
II stop at any time" He did not
stop it because he could NOT stop it O.
there 10 . point in insbriation bevond
which. II . man goes, hs can not stop!
One OF these victims said to Q Christian
man: 'tSir, IL I were told that I couldn't
get . drink until tomorrow night unless I
had all my fingers cut oR I would say.
bring the Ratchet and cut them on now"
l havea dear friend in Philadelphia whose
nephew came to him one day. and whom
he wa exhorted about his evil habit said:
"Uncla. I can't give 1t up II there stood
. cannon and IL Vas loaded, and Q glass
Of wine sat on the mouth Of that cannon,
and l know that you would fro it OF Just
a. I came up and took the glass, I would
start for ! must have it" q, IL Is q sad
thing for . man to wake up in this life and
feel he 10 . captive. He says: II could
have got rid Of this once, but I cant now.
! might have lived an honorable life and
died . Christian death; but there is no
hope for me now; there 10 no escape for
m. Dead. but not buried am Q walk.
ing corpse am an apparition Of what 1
once was. I am . Gagged immortal. beat.
ing against the Gag until there 10 blood
on the wires and blood upon my soul yet
not able to get out. Destroyed, without
remedy"
/ 90 further and say that the inebriate
suffers from the loss Of his usefulness.
Do you not recogniz, the fact that many
Of those who are now captives Of strong
drink only . little while ago were fore.
most in the churches and in refOrmatory
institutions: Do you not know that some-
times they knelt in the family circle: Do
you not know that they prayed in pubic
and some Of them carried around the holy
wine ON sacramental days? O. yes, they
stood in the very front rank, but they
gradually fell away. And now what do
you suppose 10 the feeling Of such . man
- that when he thinks Of his dishonored
VOWS and the dishonored sacrament
he thinks Of what he might have
been and Of what he il now? Do such
men laugh and seem very merryf All,
here Is, down in the depths Of their soul.
very heavy weight Do not wonder
hat they sometimes sec strange things
act very roughly in the household
You would not blame them At all IL you
Knew what they suffer. Do not tell such
- that there 10 no future punishment
Do not tell him there 10 no such place ~
aell He knows there is. Heis there now. |
I 60 OF and say that the inebriate suf-
from the loss OF physical strength.
The older men in the congregation may
that some years sgo Dr.. Sewell
rent through this country and electrified
he people with his lectures, in which he
'howed the effect Of alcohol on the human
Itomach He had seven or eight diagrams
y which he showed the d~evastation of |
trong drink upon the physical system
There were thousands Of people who
urned back from that ulcerous sketch
wearing eternal abstinence from every
hing that could intoxicate.
God only knows what tho drunkard suf.
ers. Pain 6.es on every nerve. and
ravels every muscle. and gnaws every
zone. and burns with every 1ame, and
tings with every poison, and pulls At him
nth every torture. What fends stand
his midnight pillow! What eroans
his earl What horrors thrill through
il soul! Talk Of the rack. talk Of the in.
TAN Of the funeral pyre. talk Of
he crushing Jug9ernaut-he feels then
II 1T once. Have you ever been
D the ward Of the hospital where
hess inebriatss r dying. the
tsnch Of their wounds driving back their
their voices sounding through
night? The keeper comes ~ and saya
Hush, row.. be still. Stop making Ill
his noise" But il 10 ei1ectual only for Q
for Is soon - the keeper il gone.
hoy begin again: 20, 0odI q. God!
[elp! help! Rum! Give me rum! Help!
AXE them on me-! Take them on ne!
AXE them on me! o 0odr'
And they shrek. and they rava and
hoy pluck out their hair By handfnls.
nd they bite their nails into the quick.
nd then they groan, and they shrek.
nd they blaspheme and thew ask the
eepers to kill them. '1Stab me! Smother
le! Strancle mel Take tho devils Cd
le!" o. it II no fancy sketch. That thing
going On in hospitals aye. it il going
D in some Of the finest residences Of
neighborhood on this continsot It
on last night while you slept and I
~ you further hat this 10. going to be
10 death that some Of you will die. I
now it l sec IL coming.
q. il there any thing that will % destroy
man for this life and damn him for the
10 that 10 70 GOMEZ? I hate that strong
rink. With all the concentrated energies