The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-03-20
SAM JONES' ExpERiENCE.
What lie Says of :he Liquor Habit and
Its Cure.

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day Times IS an account OF a visit
made to the Keeley Institute of Ten
nessee by the great Georgia evange-
list, the Rev. Sam Jones. We copy. in
part, his remarks.
II went said he, ''all the eaits. and
know what it is to drink the cup TO
the dregs Ny wife has followed ms
to the front door, and with tears III
her eyes begged me not to take a
drink today, would promise by all l
held sacred, and alas. I would come
home that night drunken than ever
before. No doubt my wife thought me
a hypocrite and a liar, but wasn't: I
was only weak and diseased. l was
honest in my promise, but didn't have
the mind to know Christ, nor the
strength to resist liquor.
''I found Christ at last, When I was
d years old. It was before the Kee-
lev treatment came to make the road
easy and safe for men. And, friends,
we owe a heap to that man. believe
in the Kelley cure. I have sent men
to take the treatment, and I have paid
their expenses. Christianity is the
best thing on earth, but there is no use
in talking Christianity or any other
kind of 'anity> to a man who drinks
man under the paw of the tiger.
You must get man sober before you
can give him religion. I put little
faith in the man who gets religion
when mauldin drunk or feebly sick.
He is then afraid the devil is going to
get him, and he promises like a good
fellow until the scare is over. No
stree, that won't do. The best thing
is to let the Keeley cure pick you out
of the ditch, put you on your feet and
wipe the mud off; then, while you
are clean and healthy, go and take the
Christ cure. Mine was the Christ cure.
but if should 60 up town and drink
three drops of red liquor, 1 would get
on a bowling drunk and paint the
town red before morning.
ga Keeley Cure will make you like
a two-year-old boy; but if you drink a
drop afterwards you are worse than
the man who had the seven devils cast
out Of him. If 60 and wallow with
tiger and he bruises me, and scratch
es me and tumbles me all over in the
mire and mud and then 60 home, get
clean, see a doctor and get my wounds
dressed, I will get well, suppose. If
I am fool enough to 60 and wallow
with that tiger again, what can l ex-
pect? What ought I to get? Why, he
Just ought to scratch the life out of
me and that's just what he would do,
too; you can bet on it But the Kelley
graduate has more sense than to wal
low with his tiger a second time. !
have met many hundreds of them, and
can recall only three who have ever
gone back to romp with the tiger.
My brother-in-law was the worst
irr1nkard that ever lived. I sent him
to tho Kelley Institute and I never
look al him now without saying,
'whata marvellous work of the Keeley
Cure
ga Dutchman drinking too much
and asked me what to do about It. l
told him to take the Kelley Cure. as
tell every man who is afflicted with
the whiskey appetite.
"'Hein, said he. dot would cure
me altogedder, und [ don't want dot.
I Just want to be cured so dot I can
take two or three drinks day
"Wel, my friends, there is no mid
die course like the Dutchman wanted.
You must quit it and then fight it.
If liquor isn't with you it's against
you and you must fight it tooth and
toe nail.
81 believe the Kelley Cure helps the
head and no doubt it helps the morals
and then leads on to Christianity.
When you leave here. I beg Of you to
go away praying. Ask God to send
you home a good man. Say to him:
I have set a bad example to my
community, teaching the young the
road that leads to ruin. Let me go
home an exemplary citizen. Let me
live upright and sober in my home
and win the respect of men where be-
foreI had their pity
My own reasons for being sober
are my boys, my wife, my fellows,
myself and my God.
I believe God is in the Kelley Cure
as much as I believe the devil is in the
saloons.
"Now, when you go home shun the
saloon, live rightly and don't stop un-
til you get with God. A Kelley In
stitute will help you. Write to the
officers and physicians, write to each
other and have grand reunions.
lord, what a sight is there! Better
than the reunions Of all the veterans
in the world. These have talks of war
and carnage and blood, but you, oh,
my friends, can tell of wrecked lives
saved, of souls saved, of homes saved,
of new and better life, Of sad voices
made merry, of woebegone faces made
bright, of the goodness of God and the
wonders He has shown one and all of
you; and now good bye. A joy and a
blessingbe with you forever"
Information about the cure may be
had by addressing The Keeley Insti-
tute, Columbia, S. G.
A Swind1er's Clever Game.