The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-11-22

that the ElnS OF pleasure, Is Iue p1eas-
ure seeking in the bowl. Men de-
light to quaff the liquor cup to their
full, and disipate the hours in mid
night revelry; they drink, and are
now satisfied without the burning,
craving thirst that calls for more still,
their chief Joy is to resort where the
accursed stuff and irery liquid is bar
tered away in fearful quantity and
measure, that Graves and destroys
every sensibility and being itself
Listen to this: the man who loves his
bowl, his egg-nog, his toddy, his
dram, his punch, his bitters or what
not; needs no better proof and argu-
ment, picture or story to illustrate
the fearful fact OF its sad and painful
consequences, than that OF his own
individual experience. The expert
ence of all wine lovers, amounts to
this, and this only: "Wine is mock
er, strong drink is raging; he that
loveth such pleasure, shall not be
rich, he shall be poor man." Again,
verses, 1872 Every wickedness
brings mischief with it, especially
strong drink, which leads to so many
evils. But who is the man that es-
pecially draws on himself all manner
of sorrows and Inconvenience, both
in soul, body and estate? Who is
the man that raiseth qusrels, and
contentious upon every trife? Who
is he that is full of idle, absence and
unsavory words? Who is he that in
distempered trays gets stripes and
wounds? Who is he that afHicts his
eyes with Deductions and infama-
tions? Who is he that when he is
drunk, say and do, what he would not
even dare, when he is scber9 Alb! it
is he 'twho goeth to seek mixed wine
and tarry long at the bowl" Sad
truths. "Wine is o mocker, strong
drink is raging; and whosoever is de-
ceived thereby, is not wise" Here
comes the warning, the sad illustra-
ton of the trusts: that strong drink
of any and every kind, when improp-
erly used, throws down the fences of
reflection, fear, and shame; excites
men to profane uockery of things
holy and sacred; to revile the most
peaceable and respectable characters;
to ridicule or reproach their best
friends; to commit the greatest out
RACES; to embroil themselves in riots
and quarels; to crafty the basest
lusts, or to commit the most rash and
ruinous crimes; and the satisfaction
expected from it mocks and deludes
the poor drunkard.
Be assured, drunkenness or wine
drinking is an enemy to wisdom, even
in common things; much more in
those OF everlasting consequence.
But Again, read verses 1882. Alas!
who has more misery and sorrow than
his neighbors? Who is always en-
gagged IN riots, fgbtings, duels or
lawsuits? Who is frequently cover
ed with bruises, or laid up with dan
gerous wounds, when neither called
to defend himself, his friends, nor
his country? Who carries the marks
ofhis distempered body, in the red
ness of his eyes, and in his bloated
countenance? Do you Tot see at
once my fellow creatures, the force
of this truth; that these are the
wretched distinctions of those "that
tarry long at the wine, that go to seek
mixed vine" Should there be one or
more who sit under my voice, addict.
ed to the evil habit of strong drink,
O! let me entreat you beware OF the
serpent that turks at the bottom OF
the cup; beware of contracting the
habit OF wine drinking beyond the
bounds of strict temperance, it is
extremely, fearfully dangerous 20
tamper with anything that goes
through the mouth into the body
under the name of wine, whiskey,
bitters or what not, that has the
slightest tendency to intoxicate. The
wine may sparkle in the glass, and
appear beautiful to the eye; and
drunken poets may write very ingen-
ious things in praise of it, and say
there is no harm etc. It may please
the palate, and e1hilerate the mind
for moment; but sat last it biteth
like a serpent, and stingeth like an
adder It infames the passions, fits
them for every hateful crime; it ruins
a mans constitution and character,
and tends to beggar his family, it Is
an incentive to the basest lusts, and
causes many to fall into that deep
ditch and narrow pit, from which So
few ever escape with their lives;
making them an easy prey to those
lower "hells" who lie in in wait for
them to destroy, and whose constant
employment it is, to increase the
transgressors among men; All! 1t
leads man, without precaution to
run himself into unnumbered dan
gers and unexpected death, and yet
it facinates him in such love for
whiskey-his cruel oppressor and his
CALLING claims-that he only sleeps to
recruit himself, that when he awakes
he may return to it, his Obstructive
indulgence again, (35 w. Who then
with common sense, would contract
such habit, or sell himself to an in
iquity, which tends to such accumu-
lated guilt and misery, and exposes
man every day to the danger of dying
intoxicated, and waking up in depair?
Thus the wisdom of God warns men
against this common but fatal vice
81, 32, w. Truly it is written: "Wine
is mocker, strong drink is raging"