Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-05-04

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lie started you in city life. lie could
furnish YOU no means, but he has sur
rounded YOU with Christian influences
aud good memory Of the past. Now,
Nuuu. man, under tod You are with
YOUR own right arm 10 achieve your
fortune. and as your reputation is your
only capital do not bring upon IL suN-
picion hN going in aud ont of liquor rs-
Establishments, ar by an odor at your
breath or 10y amy glare of your eye ar
hl an, unnatural flush on YOUR checks.
Nnu lose your reputation and YOU lose
your capital.
had yer, dear friend, generous to
u fault. lie had given thousands and
tru~ of thousands of dollars to lhblr so
cirtirs. tract eocictics. missionary soci-
cites. a~,lun~ tor the poor. the halt.
the lame. the bliud. the imbccilc. lo
not hrlic>c for ~ Years anybody asked
him for "a dollar. $50 or 500 for char
itt but he gave II. ! never heard of
any body asking him for help but he
.aNc il. l!ut he WAS under the power al
strong drink. and he went on down,
down, down. His famil, implorrd him,
saving: You are going too far in that
habit. You had better stop" lie re-
piird: II can stop any time. ! am my
own master. ! can stop" lie went on
down. down. His friends advised aud
cautioned him. He said: Don't be
afraid of me. ! am m, own master.
can stop now. I know what | am do
tn,r he haI
the delirium trcmenS. On down until
he had the dclirium tremens twice. Aft
cr the second time the doctor said: IF
YOU ever have an attack like this again
YOU will die. You had better stop" He
said: II can stop any time. can stop
now" lie went on down. He is dead.
Wha, slew him? Rum. rum. Among
the last things he said was that he
could stop any time. He could not stop.
oh. my Young friends. | want To tell
YOU that there is a point in incbriation
beyond which if II man go he cannot
stop, Eut sometimes man will he
more frank than that. \ victim of
strong drink said to a reformer: 1T is
impossible for me to Stop. realize il.
But if YOU should tell ne couldn't have
a drink until tomorrow night unless !
had all my fingers cut of. would say:
Bring the hatchet and cut them OFF.
| had Il very dear friend in Philadelphia
who's. nephew came To him aud was
talking about his trouble and confessed
il. lie confessed he could not stop. My
friend said: you must stop" He said
II cant stop. II there stood cannon.
and il was loaded, and there was
glass of wine IN the mouth Of the can
non, and | knew yor would fire il off
il ! approached, ! would start To get
that glass of wine. ] must have il. !
can't get rid of this habit. | can't get
away from it," oh. il is awful for a
man to wake up and feel that he is a
captive. ! hear him soliloqnizing. say
ing: II might have stopped three
months ago. but can't stop now. Dead.
but not buried: am "a walking corpse.
! am an apparition of what once was.
| am a Gagged immortal and my soul
beats against the wires of my cage on
this side and beats against the wires Of
my cage on The other side until there
is blood on the wires and blood on the
soul. hut cant get out. DESTROYED
without remedy"
again. the man suffers from the loss
of usefulness. DO YOU know some of the
men who have fallen into the ditch were
once in the front rank in churches and
in the front rank in reformatory insti-
buttons? Do you know they once knclt
at the fafily altar and once carried
| the chalic, of the holy communion on
sacramento days? DO YOU know they
once stood in the pulpit and preached
the Gospel of the Son of God: We will
no, forget the scene witnessed some
! years ago in my Brooklyn church when
II man rose in the midst Of the audi
cncs. stepped into the aisle and walked
! up and down. Every body saw that he
was intoxicated. The ushers led him
! out. and his poor wife took his hat and
o,ercoat and followed him 10 the door.
Who was he: He had once been II
| mighty minister of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ in Il sister denomination. had
often preached in this very city. What
slew him, Strong drink. Oh. what
must he the feeling of "a man who has
destroyed his capacity for usefulness!
| do not he angry With that man. DO not
lose your patience with him. Do not
wonder if he says strange things and
! gets irritated easily in the family. lie
has the Pyrcnecs and The Andes and
| the Alps on him. DO not try To per-
suate him that there is no future pun
ishmcnt. DO not go into any argument
| Ia prove to him that there is no hell. He
knows there is. He rs there now!
But he suffers also in the loss of phys
zeal health. The older people in this au-
dicnce can remember Dr.. Scwell going
through this country electrifying great
audiences by demonstrating to them
the effect of strong drink upon the hu-
| man stomach. | am told he had eight
or ten Diagrams which he presented Ia
the people. showing the differelt stages
in the progress of The disease, and am
told tens of thousands of people turned
back from that ulcerous sketch and
sworectcrnal abstinence from all intoN-
icants. God only knows what the
drunkard suffers. Pain files on every
nerve and travels every muscle and
snaws on every bone and stings with
every poison and pulls with every tor
turc What reptiles crawl over his shiv-
ering limbs. What specters stand by
his midnight pillows! Wha: groans tear
the air! Talk of the rack, talk of the
funeral pyre, talk of the Juggernaut-
he suffers all at once.
See the attendants stand back from
that ward in the hospital where the in
ebriates are dying. They cannot stand
il. The keepers come through il and
say: Hush up. now. Stop making this
noise. BE still. You are disturbing all
the other patients. Keep still now"
Then the keepers pass on, and after
they get past then the poor creatures
wiring their hands and say: 20 God.
Help, help. Give me rum. give me
rum. o God. q Cod" And they
shrek aud they blaspheme and they cry
for help and then they ask the keepers
to slay them, saying: Stab ME, stran-