The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-09
A GRAPHIC OUTLINE.
THE NERVES AND MIND DISEASED
An Interesting Description OF tho seif- De-
NAL and Sacrifice OF Drink
ing Man.

Newport News, Oct Sit is curious
to note the varying phases OF precol-
ceived ideas with which men come TO
the Kelley Institute at this place. "A
somewhat prOtracted observation OF
these characteristics may not fail OF IN
terest.
Some come here hesitating to take the
Cure because they think part OF the
pleasures Of life will be taken from them.
Every drinking man who has tired TO
quit through his own will, knows the
self-denial and sacrifice required. Ills
nerves constantly demand it, and his
mind follows the diseased condition OF
his nerves. This constant camor pre-
vents pleasure in any other direction,
Many think this will be their state after
treatment 1t is not true. Selt-denlal
implies desire. Every desire is eliminated,
consequently no self-denial or sacrifice
is required The mind following the
healthy nerves springs back to former
pleasures and almost forgotten ENJOY
ments. 1t is indeed Il renewal OF youlh
with the experience Of age. NO pleasure
is given up because there is no attrac-
ton. In "A word, one does not get into
that mentally or physically depressed
condition where liquor is necessity.
Again. others hesitate because they DO
not know at what point the Kelley treat
ment becomes a necessity.
AT what point does drinking cease to
be a mere pleasure or habit and become
a disease? AS a layman, ana one. not
without experience, the writer unhesl-
tatingly says that period has arrived
when a man gets drunk, who intends
only to drink moderately. or when ne
drinks despite his resolutions not to drink
1T all. Ninety per cent. of such cases
we care not at what stage Of quantity
they have arriyed-haye passed SELF
help. They will progress with ever IN
creasing recurrence Of lapses and ever
decreasing power Of resistance to the
inevitable end Of helpless drunkenness.
Many, however. in this condition i've
ever in hope that ut some fortunate time
they will be able to quit. Even II tilS
is in rare instances the case, sucn
one need not hatter himself that he Is a
well man. a drinking man, after II
reaches the point of disease, ~ never nor
nal. either mentally or physically.
Most people think that drunkar9'
when sober. is in a condition mentally
as though he never drank. NO greater
mistake could be made. Any man VINO
has ever taken the Kelley treatment
knows it is an erroneous lmpIcsSioh'
and will tell you that while drlnhlhg
man and sober. his thoughts, actions ana
associations were influenced by IL during
that whole period; that the debaucI
while not engaged in physically, recurreu
mentally with great regularity. y nan
in this condition is errauc IN business
irresolute. tickle in friendship. restless
discontented. now unnaturaly gay. again
Respondent and mOrose. lie is peset WIN
q thousand imaginary difficulties ana
lacks courage to face real ones. these
with numerous other symptoms, proclaim
the man diseased by alcoholic stmulants.
No such \ man. though he has not
touched liquor for a year. the heeley
Cure is as great a blessing as to the ac-
tive drunkard Id
Conversing with a friend who had
graduated" at the Kelley Institute at
Novnort News on the moral and mental
elevation effected by the treatment, nv. nv
/ said. This can easily be accounted
for on purely physical grounds and yet
it is 10 me daily revelation and Won
der This fact it seems to me, ought
In be IMPRESSED on every one hesltatlng
IN take the Cure. Before, my chosen
associates. even when sober, were tnOse
of the bar-roOm. my conversation ana
demcanor naturally the same. Any III
tcrest | might manifest in moral ass0-
GATES or innocent amusement was 1Ofceu.
Now the opposite is true. Ana TINS 100
when | took the treatment without any
faith in its efficacy as physical remedy
and with no intention of reformation
otherwise ~,
let me add" he continued. that
for two wears before ! was induced to 20
TO the Kelley Institute ] was incapaclta-
ted from all labor by the use OF liquor.
Il had fought it for ten years. lost the
battle and acknowledged defeat FOR
two wears | had earned scarcely dol
lar CIouded i'm mind. blunted in morals,
broken physically, loathing myself. de-
snised by others the future held but one
hope-dcath; the past but one pleasure
forsetfulness. This night has merged in
Ia the glorious morning of new life of
hope. industry and happiness. The sun
that has made my morning ] would carry
into other sunless homes. The hope that
has come to me | would bring to other
hopeless men,
And this is the experience and feeling
of every Kelley graduate.