The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-16

the fellow that loves whisky; amt it
sweet, now, own up, amt it? atow it
does warm up those cold, unsympathetic
people. They talk and get quite congo
nial. and 1t makes you like them for a
long while afterward. But it exacts a
fearful penalty.
s Listen! Did you ever see the spark
ling cut glass on the sideboard, with the
wine all poured out ready to drink? How
it sparkles, and you call it the bead on
the wine. but every little sparkle is a
little imp saying, Drink me and I'll fix
you And I tell you when you get TO
drinking you spend more money than YOU
mean to, When you think you will get
away with spending quarter of a doll
lar, why It's ten dollars. Then you go
home to your wife like this (Ir. Murphy
illustrated the manner of locomotion) and
you are sorry and you know she'll meet
you at the door and you think what she'll
say, and you know that it would serve
you right if she poured boiling water on
your head. But oh then, when you do
see them, your dear little wife and your
children, and the dear little fellow comes
up and looks at you, and the mother,
dear little soul, tries to hide it from the
boy, and she says, oh husbandr Then
the little tiny fellow. says, Poppy, did
you bring my new shoesY and you have
to say, No, son, I will get 'em next
week, ,'-oh, don't you feel like brute,
and he is such little tiny fellow
II tell you it's an awful thing to dis
appoint child and there are more little
children disappointed in this world by
the liquor traffic than by anything else
in the universe. God love their little
hearts! oh, men, what can say to you
that will induce you to let drink alone!
Try it! l tried it, thank God. I was
such a poor, foolish fellow, and I am
not very wise yet.
Lots of people get me into trouble
They ask me questions and when / ought
to know that NUNS the word, I go and
get my mouth off, and then I get into
trouble. Oh. how / loved those men that
drank with me. People say that men
who drink are not fascinating; they
haven't met themI There is oh such cor
diality and sociability in the saloon 1t
don't matter whether a fellow comes in
with billed shirt or no shirt on at all /;
it's all the same, and the next thing you
know you are touching your glasses to-
gether. Now you know in church. when
we get our best clothes on we are a lit
tie careful of whom we touch; amt that
too bad? Don't you see.
But, God be praised, 1 came into the
church and God forgave me, and L didn't
nave much clothes either. No, l didn't
And had more than drink to pull away
from- There is gambling don't you
Know. Why, 1T grows on some men so
they can't be in the house two minutes
before they say, I'll bet you four bits
that that fly will light on the corner of
that picture frame, or if you put down
a lump of sugar on the table he says,
I'll bet you a dollar that there'H be three
dles light on that sugar in one minute
You can't teacn that kind of fenow
anything by growing at him; you have
to get something under his hat. That's
what l did; got something under my
I1ea Tl,xy l.
Paul TO save him. He fought against
God desperately, but when he was con-
verted don't you know he was one of the
sweetest of men?
Il tell you it is not small thing to sit
down to a table with six children around
it, and a dear sweet-hearted wife, and
not much on it-only small steak. And
you cut it up and there isn't any for
the little boy, and he gets a generous
spoonful of potatoes and a little gravy,
and he is told to eat his dinner The
poor little fellow don't say anything, and
he just eats his 'taty' and keeps still;
but you saw how he looked at the
steak, and you don't forget it. These
things happen to some of US, God help
US, and what is at the bottom of it usu-
ally? Oh. it is drink! And we try so
hard to stop, and we just can't. We must
have a little, just a little, and we have
such thirst for it that we wish we had
a throat mile long so we could taste
1t all the way down. Ah, the time came
when 1 had the strength, God be praised,
and was resolute and manly enough to
stop. But it took the help of God and I
had to pray. And my little boy went
down on his knees beside me and he pray
ed, oh God bless my papa and save him,
God and the dear mother said, Amen
A hundred Christian friends prayed for
me, and the neighbors all said, How is
this, Francis Murphy is praying All,
but 1 struggled out of 1t, God delivered
poor me. When I prayed I knew I was
saved, and I rose to my feet. Some re-
markable change had taken place within
me; load as heavy as this building was
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