Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-07-20

you that there is point in inebriation
beyond which if a man go he cannot
stop! But sometimes a man will be
more frank than that. A victim of
strong drink said to a reformer: 1T is
impossible for me TO stop. ] realize it.
But il you should tell me | couldn't have
drink until tomorrow night unless |
had all my fingers cut off, would say:
Bring the Ratchet and cut them off.
| had a very dear friend in Philadelphia
whose nephew came TO him and was
talking about his trouble and confessed
1t. lie confessed he could not stop. My
friend said: you must stop" He said:
Il can't stop. If there stood cannon,
and it was loaded, and there was
glass of wine on the mouth of the can
non, and | knew you would fire it off
If | approached, | would start TO get
that glass of wine. | must have it. !
cant get rid Of this habit. | can't get
faway from it," oh, ii is awful for a
man to wake up and feel that he is
: captive! / hear him soliloquizing, say
ing: u might have stopped three
months ago, but | can't stop now. Dead,
but not buried: l am walking corpse.
/ am an apparition of what | once was.
! am 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. but I can't 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
D lonee in the front rank in churches and
e in the front rank in reformatory insti-
e tutions2 Do you know they once knelt
e at the family altar and once carried
: the ehalice OF the holy communion on
sacramento days? Do you know they
e once stood in the pulpit and preached
the Gospel Of the Son Of God 2 We viii
L not forget the scene witnessed some
c years ago in my Brooklyn church when
y 4 man rose in the midst Of the audi
2 ence. stepped into the aisle and walked
IN and down. Everybody saw that III
e Mas intoxicated. The ushers led hin
I out, and his poor wife took his hat ant
n oyercoat and followed him to the door
v Who was he? He had once been
T, mighty minister Of the Gospel Of Jesui
4. Christ in a sister denomination, hat
IL often preached in this very city. VIVA
II slew him? Strong drink! Oh, VIVA
@ must be the feeling Of a man who ha
"a DESTROYED his capacity for usefulness
8 20 not be angry with that man. DO no
a lose your patience with him. DO no
q wonder il he SAYS strange things an
le gets irritated easily in the family. IL
ID bas the Pyrenees and the Andes an
o. HE Alps on him. DO not try TO pei
a. spade him that there is no future pun
le tshment. DO not 20 into any argumen
he IA proye 10 him that there is no hell. II
i knows there IS. He is there now!
% But he suffers also in the loss Of phy
na ical health. The older people IN TINS a.
'if diepee can remember DR.. sewell goln
Cd through this country electrifying gre'
m audiences ~ demonstrating TO the
eN lie effect 81 strong drink upon the n
OF nan stomach. am told he had eigl
he ~ ten diagrams which he presented
ne the people. showing the different stag
y Il the progress Of the disease ana a
az told tens Of thousands Of people turh'
haek from that ulcerous sketch al
he s,yore eternal abstinence from all into
lid icants. God only knows what y
he drunkard suffers. Pain files on eve
err nerve and travels every muscle a.
He pnaws on every bone and stings w
I'd, every poison and pulls with every .
vii ture. What reptiles crawl over his sh
j II .rirg limbsi What specters stand
lrk bis midnight pillowsl What groans e
{ q the air! Talk Of the rack, TAX o.
eh, funeral pyre. talk Of the Juggernau'
les ne suffers all at once.
ind See the attendants stand back ir'
and thai ward in the hospital where the
and rbriates are dying. They cannot sta
and i The keepers come through II a
the sav. "Hush up. nowl stop making Z
be- noise, BE still You are disturbing
nee ~ other patients. Keep still nov
and Then the keepers pass on anu a.
iole they get past then the poor crealu
the ,rino their hands and say: 70 "
rm- Help. help! Give me rum, give
ght rpm, o God. o Cod" And Z
nde- sbriek ana they blaspheme and they
for help and then they ask the keep
ows "a .lav them, saying: stab me, str
.eld. IN me. smother mel Q God! h.
Ned holm, Rum! Give me rum. Y =
ess; IleIp,~ They tear out their hair oy
nut handful. and they bite their nails
nch. ~ auick. This is no fancy picture.
L Of i Transporting in a hospital at tins
and mant. ii went on last night while
give SENT. and, more than that, that Is
and lsath some Of you will die unless
ends ION / see ii coming. God help yo'
then s,op before YOU 60 50 far that you
the not stop.
" Of hut It plaques man also IN the
4, home Idon care how much
! 49, ~ wife and children, if this Z
.,s. .s,s he mastery over him he VII
~ most outrageous things. If nee'
= H. Is order 10 get strong drink he w
ants I'm them all into everlasting eaptl'
= r,hera are hundreds and thousands
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