Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-05-03

them and cried: LEI Us drink-drink
to the everlasting prosperity of the
liquor traffic! Here's 10 woe and dark
ness and murder and DEATH Drink.
Drink"
oh. my young friends. j want to tell
you that there is a point in incbriation
beyond which il IA man go he cannot
stop, But sometimes IA man will be
more frank than that 4 victim of
strong drink said to "a reformer. lit is
impossible for me to- stop. realize it
But If YOU should tell me couldn't have
"a drink until tomorrow night unless |
had all my fingers cut off, | would say:
/ Bring the Ratchet and cut them OFT.
! had very dear friend in Philadelphia
whose nephew came To him and WAS
! talking about his trouble and confessed
| it, lie confessed lac could not stop. NJ
! friend said: You must stop" He said:
II can't stop. If there stood n cannon.
and IL was loaded. and thcrc'wa "A
glass of wine on the mouth of the car
non, and knew you would fire II OF
if ! approached. 4 would start to get
that glass CT wine. / must have it
cant get rid OF this habit. can't gc.
away from it," Oh, il is awful for
man To wake up and feel that lac Is
captive, ! hear him soliloquiZiug. say
ing: 81 might have stopped three
months ago, but can't stop now. Dead.
but not buried; am "a walking corp.
| am an apparition OF what once was.
| am Gagged immortal aud my soul
beats against the wires of my cage ou
this side and beats against the wire of
my cage on the other SIDE until there
is blood o. The wires and blood ou the
soul. but can't get out Destroy ed
without remedy"
Again the man suffers from the los,
OF usefulness, DO you know some of the
men W no have fallen into the ditch were
once in the front rank in churches and
in the front rank in rcforuutory msti-
tutions2 DO YOU know they once l>nclt
:. at the family altar and once carried
the chalicc OF the holy communion ON
Sacramcntal days? DO YOU know they
, once stood in the pulpit and preached
the Gospel OF the Son of God? We viii
not forge: the scene witnessed some
years ago in my Brooklyn church when
IL man rose in the midst of the audi
eucc, stepped into the aisle and walked
up and down. Everybody saw that he
: was intoxicated The ushcrs led him
out, and his poor wife took his hat and
u ovcrcout and followed him to- the door.
Who was he? lie had once been Il
= mighty minister of the Gospel of Jesus
70 Christ in IL sister denomination, had
often preached in this, very city. What
slew him? Strong drink. Oh, what
y must he the feeling of a man who has
y destroyed his capacity for usefulness.
), Do not bc angry with that man. Do not
= lose your patience with him. DO not
wonder ii he says strange things and
y gets irritatcd easily in the family. liz
has the Pyrouecs and the Andes and
:, the Alps ON him. Do not try 10 per
- suadc him that there is no future pun
. ishment DO not go into any argument
~ to prove TO him that there is no hell. IL,
=, knows there -. He is there now.
= Bu, ne suffers also in the loss of phys
-. ical health The older people in this au
dicrcc can remember DIR. Scwcil goin
= through this country clcctrifl ing grca
audiences bN demonstrating To then
y the effect of strong drink upon the hH
d man stomach. 1 am told hc had eight
q | or ten diagrams which he presented TO
{ the people showing the different stages
> ia the progress of the disease. and am
told tens OF thousands of people turned