The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-11
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
A TEMPERANCE LESSON.
Some Reasons Why Boys and Girls Should
Let Strong Drink Entirely Alone.


Let Strong Drink Entirely Alone.
Twenty millions of dollars are spent
each day in this country for intoxicating
drink.
One million men are employed in the
manufacture and sale of liquors. Ihelr
wages amount to about three hundred
millions of dollars.
1t has been estimated that the money
spent for strong drink last year would
have supported one million and half OF
missionaries. 1t would have supported
our public schools for fifteen years.
Two-ffths of all arrests in the year
are persons who were intoxicated when
arrested. Noah Davis says that three
fifths of all arrests may be directly
traced to the use of intoxicants.
Here are some excellent reasons why
our boys and girls should not use intox-
icants:
1. Gods word says that no drunkard
shall inherit the kingdom of Heaven
Il Cor. 6:1O). If we do not use intoxi-
cants we certainly shall not become
drunkards. This is the only safe side
to take.
2. History proves that some of the
wisest and best of men have been
crushed in the deadly folds of this SER
pent.
8. Statistics prove that large per
cent. of the insane have become, so
through the use of intoxicants.
4. The influence of the life of the in.
temperate man extends to others as well
as to himself, and causes others to
suffer. He spends money for drink that
should be used to buy the necessities of
life for those who are dependent on him.
Suffering, hunger, tears, lave been the
meat and drink of MANI drunkard's
family. We have no right to believe
that we can escape such misery unless
we abstain from the use of that which
causes it.
temperance are fearfally far-reaching.
Many one who is adrunkard to-day is
so because of an inherited appetite.
g.. If we once begin the use of intoxi-
cants the difficulty of breaking away
from the habit becomes greater and
greater.
z. The use of i1toXicants weakens the
mind, the body, and threatens the soul
with destruction.
s. We can put our money to much
better use than to spend it for intoxi-
cants.
Intemperance is hydra with hun
dred heads. She never stalks abroad
unsccompanied with impurity, anger and
the most famous profigacies (Chrysos-
TONI.
incompetence is deaths prime minis
ter.
Maudsley, in his "Crime and lnsani-
ty," says that an irresistible impulse to
steal, TO set fire to houses and to COM
nit suicide often accompanies alcoholic
excess. This shows that intem perance
must be of the devil.
Ribot, in his Diseases Of the WILL"
declares that intemperance is one of the
causes of the loss of will power.
Shakespeare says: so thou invisible
spirit of wine, if thou hast nc name to
be known by, let us call thee Devil"
Four-fifths of those who were swept
away by the cholera in 1891 Merx-s,ds.
dicted to the use of strong drink. Out
of twelve hundred attacked in Montreal
not drunkard escaped.
| Of the 10000 victims in Paris nearly
every one was a user of intoXicants.
Dr. Huber saw 2,16O perish in twenty
five days in Russia. He says: Persons
given to drinking were swept away like
flies"
DR.. Sewall stated that of 2O4 cases in
Park Hospital, New York, there were
only six temperate persons, and they
recovered.
Out of 366 who died in Albany 1926
were habitual drin llers. These things
show that alcohol is indeed mocker.
For while it seems to strengthen the
body it is only making it weaker and
weaker.
The microscope reveals the fact that
alcohol deteriorates the blood.
Experiments prove that it inflames
the stomach and the brain and causes
the heart to work much harder than
otherwise would be necessary.-Rev. A.
S. Gumbart, in Christian Inquirer.