The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-11-09
ABOUT lNEBRiETY.
What Is TIA Habit, q Disease or a
Curse.

are coming at last to treat inebriation
as it ought to be treated an awful disease. self
inflicted TO be sure, but nevertheless a dis
ease."-Rev. r. Dewitt Talmage.
The Kelley remedies will cure inc
briefly. That is as certain as that water
will quench thirst, and in the same de-
gree the Kelley remedies will cure inc.
briefly. You may call drunkenness a
disease or whatever you like, but the fact
remains. Here is \ physical condition
which racks the frame more seriously
than fever or blight or chill will do, and
here is a remedy which relieves the dis
tress, reflls the veins with healthy blood,
restores the sinews, covers them with
rosy flesh, and restores to the world q
man. He is a different being from what
he would have been had he never drank.
lie is safer. | have known more thar
one man to acquire the drinking habit TO
his fall after he had attained the age of
40. After taking the Kelley treatment
he will not fall again-unless he wants
to. 1t will not breathe into his nostrils
the breath of life that he may have a liv-
ing soul. God did that once, and man
cannot we'll improve on the work of his
maker. But it will put him where he 10
as free from temptation as he could have
been had he never taken a drop to the
age of so, and will record in his memory
a warning experience that will keep him
safe if there be a spark Of manhood in
his breast. | have seen men demented
through drink go to the Kelley institute
while at Salem, and also since its removal
to Newport News, and come away at the
end Of four weeks as clear and fresh and
as guiltless of liquor as a child of 10
years. Like the lad of 10, though, they
must begin and gather flesh and blood.
No man after the cure should attack ex-
acting business for a time. He is not
physically able. He wants weeks for the
tibres Of his new being to adjust them
selves. But the progress is as sure and
the result as wonderful. The man who
has been cured will be safe to the day Of.
his death.
| wish l might tell of the men l know
who lost their manhood in the jungles of
strong drink and then were restored to
health and virtue by this cure. But the
tale would be too long. When they were
sober they were leaders of their fellows.
When they were drunk they were the
usual wrecks that whiskey always makes.
| wish l might tell of the gradations of
their fall - gradatiOns we all have
watched in the bibulous comrade; of the
thousand temptations that come to a
drinking man, weakening him and poi
sOning his moral nature as we'll as his
physical, till he was a wretch we dreaded
to meet and whom we only tolerated till
such time as he should sink from sight
forever and be lost. We nave all known
men We desired to forget. And then
against that repulsive picture / would
place the sight of these same men when
they returned cured and healthy. 1t
seemed at first past belief that there was
anything that could cure many of them.
We had looked on them as already
within the mouth of hell and only re-
NAMED in sight because the torture at
the edge of the world was keener. But
they came back healed. They met US
in conversation with recovered minds.
They met US in the marts of trade with
renewed business aCumeD. In a word,
the tree upon which their blossoms had
grown had ripened and blessed them
with the f~ullness of fruit. And then, if
you could but look in upon the homes
which appertain to so many Of these
men changed from an unceasing scene OF
desOlation and heartache TO one that
nearly approaches the gates of paradise.
Then, indeed, it is not a little thing that
these men have been cured.
SO we have this condition Here is 5
habit, or a disease, or a Curse-1 care TO-
what you call (which ruins beyond the
hope of redemption here and hereafter
thousands of men every year, and with
them entails a ruin whose final blight is
hidden in the years we may not guess.
And here is a remedy which will correct
that habit, heal that disease, dispel that
curse, and do it as certainly as water will
cleanse or fire will burn. Now, l have
no logic, no argument, to append. II
human life be worth the saving, if hope
be sweet and love be worthy, if youth be
precious and old age revered, then the
conclusion here is palpable.
Don't depend on moral suasion. Don't
depend solely on prayer. Don't depend
on separation. Don't depend on any
thing which has been tried and found
full of failure-which rises up in ten
thousand cases TO haunt with mockery
the weary eyes of those whose loved
ones tried so hard for victory and yet
have fallen. God meant his world
should be governed by the means he has
placed in his world. Pray him to wisely