Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-09-07
GOLDsBORO. n. c.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER z, 1898.

DR.. Kelley and his grandly benefcent
remedy were only instrumentalities in the
economy of a great and merclful God for
the restoration of diseased and fallen
man, and it was the only agency that had
ever been found to reclaim inebriates.
He wished that himself were personi-l
fed exclamation point of perpetual thanks
to God for his own salvation from the
sting of the terrible errent of the still"
that had engulfed him so great a part of
his life. And he wanted the voice of the
wind and the threat of a Whirlwind to-
catapult his thanks into the hearts OF the
thousands ofuncured men that they might |
hear, heed and speed for the treatment
that would make them men and women |
again in the image of their Divine Maker. |
That drink and morphine craving were
cultivated diseases no rejecting man now
| doubted. He did not put it too strongly |
when he asserted that he had seen men
and many of the audience had made SINH
| lar obseryatlons-in certain stages of des
| bauchery who, if heaven Itself were open
| ed, possessing all the pleasures portrayed
| by the preachers and the Good Book, and
they were invited to enter, would refuse if
no whiskey was there; yet would rush into
hell to get the fiery fluid. He did not
mean to be impious in the illustration.
| Drunkenness, he SAID, was . vice, a
crime, or disease. Man had sought the
graceof God, that only could reach the
first, an they were sincere, yet when the
crave came, in sorrow. in anguish and
bloody tears they fell. The strong hand
of the law should throttle crime, yet no
man was ever reclaimed by prisons and
heavy penalties. But medicated by the
Kelley remedies, as far as a brain apes
tite, disease Of the nerve cells, 100000
men and women had been permanently
stored to health, sobriety and absolute
| l,o Il rsr
Men, it seems, would ra' her talk of the
shortcomings of others than their virtues,
hence one could always hear OF the 5 per
cent. that had lapsed and never a word of
the 95 per cent. who, after cure, nobly
stood, doing their duty to God and man,
with their bright facls turned to the east
All are cured when they take full
:. course and mind the Kelley doctor, but
some men, from various causes, would
| return to drink and recultiVate the taste.
Some had no ambition to lead sober lives
and would train with their old drinks
: ing companions, SO they have to drink in
self defense to keep in the swim.'' The
, majority of the lapsed drink from "pure
cussedness.'' But, to shorten the matter,
there are five cranks in every one hun
dred persons wherever found, for whose
actions there is no accounting.
For any other disease men would speed
to the doctor, but for this, the direst and
deadliest in its effects upon the victim, his
family and society, he hesitated. it was
the acme OF monumental stupidity for a
2 man not to be ashamed to bestialize hin 4
I self with strong drink and yet would pros
fess abashment to gofor cure.
Norman can deceive himself with asser-
!, ton Of will power sufficient to stop drinks
5 ing, He has relied on that too often and
gone down again and again III the dust.
VIII power will not prevent person
I from having chills and fevers when his
!, system is surcharged with malaria.
Some persons, he said, critics and GAYS
illers by nature, objected because the Ine
: stitutes were "money traps" He assured
: the audience that the Institutes in this
. State, with their great charity amounting
: to thousands of dollars-and the great ex-
J, pense attending their running, were nc
i gold mines. True it was stated that DR.
;, Kelley was worth all the way from $10,-
= : 100000 to $100,000,000. He hoped TIE
/ latter figures were correct, as it convinced
It him that the remedies were all that ht
: claimed for them. A man who achieved
}, such a grand blessing for mankind, evolv,
ed from his own brain toll, was deserving
e Of it all, and he did not begrudge him
: dollar of it. But the only thing for dis
> eased man to consider was what the cur,
u was worth to him. A man did not en-
quire whether the merchant was rich from
n cles, but is the article worth the price.
An excessive drinker was rendered les
&c efficient in his business, so it would pa,
t him in dollars and cents-nOt counting
Il the sighs, tears and fears of wife and fam
lily and fr;ends-to be made SO that he di
not W Int drink and would not have it.
k is no pri7ation to be without what maj
# does not want. The treatment is a tonic
and every man who takes the regula
oi course at q Kelley Institute, leaves wit
b nerves and health restorsd to their norma
) condition.
The ministers of the Gospel, doctors
III lawyers, and the women-who suffere
IS. most from the drink craze-God bles
i. them for being foremost in every goo
!. work-the best people in every commu
IL nifty were his warm coadjutors in hi
a. grand work.
ne He asserted that nInestenths of the pa
Il tients in Kelley Institutes certainly
oi the one of which he was manager-wer
rs induced to go by the good ladies of th
+ land. Nearly all his talks on this subjee
:. were made in tie churches at the reques
II of the pastors. And the "God speeds i
le his work, received as benedictions fror
- these good men of God, revived him t
: greater struggles to redeem drinkser
u shaved man.
US The "God- -bless~yous" of wives mother
fathers and families of restored men mad
him feel that he was making some atone
Is ment for his long years of bad exampl
sh Out of forty five men who had once sus
he tanned church relations, before taking th
= treatment, thittysnine had resumed thos
y relations after cure. This told a gran
In story and was the best test of the benef
he cent effects of the Kelley cure.
y. In his peroration Mr.. Battle drew
= most pathetic picture ofa mans life, haI
n dicapped and cloudei by the vampire
i'd strong drink, whose sombre wings oYel
"A shadoWed him and whose talons were
=. his flesh and beak in his Yitals, and whe
at he had emerged from the drunken CRU
e to the sober caterpillar, this last state b
IN claimed to be souls awakening to jo
= inexpressible and a future, as compare
with the past, roseate in all the hues of
happy regenerated spirit and home
20 perfect paradise in comparison with Il
la awful. abyss from which he had emerge
re Mr.. Battles speech was received wit
he generous applause during its delivery an
at its conclusion.