Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-09-04
ABOUT INEBRIETY.
WHAT Is iri-A HABIT, A DISEASE, on
ACURSEi
A Pcn Picture Of the Two Conditions
Before and After the Keeiey
Treatment.

"We are coming Of last 10 treat inebriatlon
~ II ought 10 he tfeAted; an awful disease cell
inflicted 70 be sure, but nevertheless disease. =
Rev. 2. DsHin 1dimage.
The Kelley remedies will cure inebriety.
That IN "a certain as that water will quench
thirst. and In the same degree the Kelley
remedies will cure inebriety. You mar
call drunkenness disease or whatever
you like. but the fact remains. Here Is a
physical condition which racks the frame
more seriously than fever or blight or chill
will do. and here e remedy which re-
lieves tho distress, reflls the veins with
healthy blood. restores the sinews,
covers them with rosy hesh. aud re-
stores TO the world man. lie IS
q different being from what he would
have been had he never drank.
lie is safer. have known more than one
man 20 acquire the drinking habit To his
fall after he had attained tho age OF 40.
After taking the Kelley treatment he will
not fan aCain-unless he wants to. IL Will
not breathe into his nostrils the breath of
life that he may have living soul. God
did that once, and man cannot we'll I'M
prove on the work Of his Maker. But
1t will put him where he ia as free
from temptation as he could have
of 30, and will record in mis- 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 90 to the Kelley Institute while al
Salem, and also since its removal to New
port News, and come away Of the end OF
four weeks "a clear and fresh and as guilt
less OF LIQUOR as q child OF 10 years. Like
tho lad Of 10, though, they must begin
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the cure should attack exacting business
for time. He is not physically able. He
wants weeks for the fibres of his new
being to adjust themselves. But the pro-
Qress is as sure and the result rs wonder
full. That man who has been cured will DO
safe TO the day of his death.
| wish | might tell OF the men know
who lost their manhood in the iunales 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 | might tell of the gradations OF
their fall-gradations we all have watched
in the bibulous cOmrade OF the thousand
temptations that come TO drinking man,
weakening him and poisoning his moral
nature as we'll "a his physical TIL ne was
wretch we uTtdltu W hCos oHe phph
we only tolerated till such time as he
should sink from sight forever and
be lost. We have all known men
we desired to forget. And then
against that repulsive picture l would
place the sight of these same men when
thew returned cured healthy. 1t seemed
at first past belief that there was anything
that could cure many OF them. We had
looked on them "a already within the
mouth of hell and only remained in sight
because the torture at the edge of the
world was keener. But they came back
healed. They met US in conVersat'on with
recovered minds. They met us in the
marts of trade with renewed business
acumen. In a word the tree upon which
their blossoms had grown had rlpened and
blessed them with the fullness OF fruit.
And then If you could but look In upon
the homes which appertain TO so many OF
these men changed from an unceasins
scene of desolation and heartache to one
that nearly approaches the gates OF Para
disc, Their, indeed, IL Is not a little thing
that these men have been cured.
So we have this condition Hero ~
habit or disease, or CURSE care not
what you call (which ruins beyond the
hope of redemption here and hereafter
thousands Of men every year, ana WITH
them entails o ruin whose final blight IS
hidden IN the years we may not guess.
And here is O 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. / have no
logic, no argument, to append. II human
life be worth the saving, if hope DO sweet
and love be worthy. if youth be precious
and old age revered, then the conclusion
here is palpable. :.
Don't depend on moral suaslon. Don't
depend solely on prayer. Don't depend
on separation. Don't depend on anything
which has been tried and found full OF
fallule-which rises up in ten thousand
cases to haunt with mockery the weary
eyes of those whose loved ones tried go
hard for victory and vet have fallen. God
meant His world should begovered by the
means He has placed in His world. Pray
Him to wisely guide you in their use. But.
don't ask Him to wash the stomach OF
the drunkard or string anew the nerves
which make his harp of lite. Drop
oil discussion. Go cure the man. Then
give him the place that man deserves,
for / pledge you he will win 1t II
you give him the chance: In conclusion,
inebriety can certainly be cured by the
Kelley remedies. You have but TO VISIT
the institute near Newport News, talk with
the patients, and examine its record TO be
convinced of this. 1t is safe as spring
water, aud the only effects that follow It's
are those which add one man
TO the wealth of the world. ID.