The Progress., 1897-05-29

| after investigation: "The beer Jrinke,
who made the fcwest bricks made $50 900
and the abstainer who madc the fewesl
bricks S46, 900. The difference in behal1
OF the abstainer over the indulger 81 ,OOO o
] hen an army goes out to the battle, the
soldier who has water coffee in his can.
| teen marches easier and fights Better than
| the soldier who has W Risky in his canteen,
| Drink helps a man to fight when he has
only one contestant, and that at the street
corner. But when he goes fortl, to main.
tain some great battle for God and his
country, he wants no drink about him.
When the Russians go to war n corporal
passes along the line and smells the breath
| OF every soldier. If there be in his breath
| taint Of intoxicating liquor, the man is
sent back to the barracks. Why? He can
not endure fatigue. All our young men
| know this When they are preparing for
regatta or for a ball club or for an ath-
letic wrestling, they abstain. Our work
Ing people will be wiser after awhile, and
the money they fling away on hurtful In
dulgences they will put into cooperative
association and so become capitalists. II
the working man put down his wages and
then take his expenses and spread them
out SO they will just equal, he is not wise
l know working men who are in a perfect
fdget until they get rid Of their last dollar
sealsIsin Coat.
The following circumstances came under
our observation: A yonng man worked
hard to earn his 5000 or 500 yearly Mar
rage day came. The bride had inherited
$500 from her grandfather. She spent ev-
cry dollar OF it on the wedding dress Then
they rented two rooms in a third story.
Then the young man took extra evening
employment; almost exhausted with the
days work. yet took evening employment.
It almost extinguished his cyesight. Why
did he add evening employment to the day
employment? To get money. Why did
he want to get money? To lay up some
thing for q rainy day? No. To get his life
insured, SO that in case of his death his
wife would not be beggar? No. He put
the extra evening work to the day work
that he might get $3.50 to get his wife
sealskin coat. The sister of the bride heard
OF this achievement, and was not to be
collapsed. She was very poor, and she sat
up working nearly all the night for a great
while until she bought sealskin coat I
have not heard of the result on that street
The street was full Of those who are on
small incomes, but suppose the contaoion
spread, and that everybody had sealskin
coat, and that the people came out and
crseu, FrncsicaIy, NOT l1teralIy, '-1n0ugn
the heavens fall, we must have a sealskin
cOatl'
was oct wcst and a minister of the
gospel told me in Iowa that his church
$500
ished by the fact that they put mortgages
on their farms In order to send their fam
ilies to the Philadelphia centennial Il
was not respectable not to go to the CEN
tennial. Between such evils and pnuper-
Ism there Is a very short step. The vast |
majority of children in your almshouses |
are there because their parents are drunk |
en, lazy or recklessly improvident.
have no sympathy for skinfint saving.
but plead for Christian prudence. You
nay 1t Is impossible now to lay up my
thing for a rainy day. know 1t, but we |
are at the day break Of national prosperity. |
Some people think 1t is mean to turn the |
gas low when they go out of the parlor |
They feel EN- barrnssed IL the doorbell rings |
before they have the hall lighted They |
apologize for the plain meal II you surprise |
hem at the table. Well. 1t Ia mean IL 1t
e only 10 pile up n misery hoard, but II
8 be to educate your children, ii It DO to
sive more help to your wife when she does
,ot feel strong, II 1t be to keep your fu-
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