The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-12-06
TEMPERANCE.
VINO IS rHY NEIeHnon,

WHO Is THY SEIeHBoRe
: Thy neighbour tits he whom thou
Hast power to aid and bless;
Whose aching heart or burning brow
Thy soothing hand may press.
Thy neighborF tits the fain.ing poor
Whose eye with want is dim,
! Whom hunger sends from door to door;
Go thou and spccor him.
Thy neishbors tits that drunken man,
nWhose years are at the brim,
low With poverty and pain;
Thy neixhbSr? his his wife, bereft
OF every earthly gem;
This wife and children helpless loft;
Go thou and shelter them.
Where e'er thon meetst human form
Meath drunkenness bent down,
Remember tbs thy neighbor worm;
Thy brother, or thy son.
Pass not oh pass not needless by,
Perhaps thou canst redeem.
Himself and his from misery;
Go reason, plead with him.
>Gco. W. Cook, in Battle @e of temperance.
TEMPERANCE At COLLEGE.
DIR. Andrew P. Peabody recently ad-
dressed the Harvard Total Abstinence
League. He said:
If had son 4 would not send him to
college unless he would give me pledge not
TO touch Intoxicating liquors j believe that
formed formed the there are not a easI Iiy broken. @ OF my
own class of fifty-three members-when the
temptations TO drink were. less and there
was even a prejudice against anything
stronger than wine, when discipline was
stricter. when we had less spending money
two died sots; one plunged into low dissipa.
tion and was only reformed alter stern jn-
terferepce of his father; fourth had his
life sh0ssencd his early bad habits; a
a, ,II ItpfrS tn
drink and failed of attaining more tllan a
shadow of the reputation he might have had:
All these men were drinkers in college, and
1T has been my experience that all other
graduates who have fallen in bad habits of
drink have contracted their ways in college.
1t is not safe to yield to the temptation, even
to slight degree. I.cannot recall from my
knowledge any cases of men who have never
been Incorporate before twenty-five years
of age, becoming drunkartls later. Ii is true
that some Incorporate men reform, but n
very small percentage. But you say we do
not mean 20 become drunkards. That very
same self-confidence which YOU express is
dangerous. The over-confidert man is very
apt to go beyond the limit he would consider
unsafe in another. 1t is those who are will
ing to go to the very edge of safety who arc
lured over intO evil The young man who
begins to drink to the limit OF soberness
transcends that line little by little till he has
become confirmed drunkard.
In college life there ere great temptations.
Many of your pleasantest companions drink
and drink to excess, though not perhaps Of
ten. You are away from home influences
and restrictions and are brought to look
lightly on drink You are at period when
habits are formed 1t is for you to decide
whether your animal Instincts and appetites
shall prevail. You have a life's work to do
now, for il you curb your appetitns you will
be able to master them. but II YOU give way,
you have become their slave You may
wish to drink little, without ever going far.
as you think many respectable men do: But
you will tnd that very few Of the most SUI.
perior men give way TO drink at all and
those who do would achieve more il they alb
stained entirely. If you learn to depend on
liquor to enhance social gatherings you will
fiEd in later life that you cannot enjoy the
most brilliant society without some stimulus
to the inner man. A man addicted to tho
habit of drink is less self-reliaut and capable
of doing himself justice, though he may never
60 to excess. II you yield to the temptation
OF strong drink YOU will be led to gambling
and other vices which are perhaps neve:
found III abstainers. Drinking is also ev-
pensive habit and tempts u man to get
money in any way he car. Indulgence in
any degree brings you into the class of those
who drink still more, 20 that il you make
beginning you are apt to reach the bitter end
before long. 1 would remind you also, that
most liquors now are adulterated with poi
sonouS'drugs < have spoken of the perils to
which you expose yourself by strong drink,
and believe that you who preserve yourself
from these dangers by joining this league
gratitude. In the highest point of view. il,
the culture of your immortal natures, You
have chosen the better course and you
should make il your life purpose always to
preserve the better way and fix yourselves in
the eternal principles of right