North Park union., 1902-04-04
\ Paper Read
Before The Tenn
perance Meeting
Walden ChurcA-March %, 1902
By Mrs. Ida Shippey.

There is . way which sseuet b
right unto 4 man; but tho end there
OF is the way Of dsath.--Provsrbs-
l4-12.
This Is to be no sermon on tsetotal.
ism, but short ono on tho saloons
and the rising generation, We have
many bright, promising boys in Wal.
den and We are proud Of them. Let
us look about and pinch ourselves in
to wakefulnsss and see II we can't
teach them the better ways of doing
oy our examples. A wise priest has
said "Give me child till it 10 scvon
years old and you may take it and
teach it anything you will, but 1t will
always be a Catholic Now IL this
early teaching has SO much to do
with tho moulding of II child's char
acter, why is it that there is bad
boy or girl grown older than seven
Iyears;-is it because the mother is
teaching that child mischief? No,
we think not. To the best OF her
ability any mother will teach her
dearest treasure on earth the best. AS
she knows it. 1t doesn't take very
old boy to know what time UiUl
the boys means; nor does it take n
very old boy long to learn to "say
nothing TO mamma about time he
mas had out with the boys Can we
expect 1t different? You see he is
beginning TO have some outside teach
ings and experiences, this boy Of sew
en- hears boy OF ten talk, and they
in company listen to the great Wis
llom OF q boy of 8. and he in turn il
initiating fellow of twenty, that he
has heard telling the smart things he
had heard those old boys say, and
hear hear! how he shows oil, and
that very small pitcher sees and
hears, but says nothing, tho great
ness OF that big, smart fellow is
enough just to listen to, but he
makes great resolutions, and per
chance he makes use of those fine
,waggers and big words to still
smaller pitcher.
We have :.ll OF us heard many a
time, that strong drink is tho curse
of millions" Do we any OF us be-
Iieveit? Now if it is true, why deal
with it at all2 Why not DO afraid of
touching it the same rs il it were a
viper?
Boys love to dare, and do daring
things, but we, all Of us, had better
make it the major part OF our busi-
ness to teach them to not dare whis.
key We shoulditell them very quick
Iy "Thare now, don take that it has
poison in it, slow polsin, and after
a while it will kill you. 1t tastea
well now, but / saw . man drop
strychnine into that bottle and it has
enough to kill you if you persist In
taking a spoonful each day; the one
spoonful will not hurt you, 1t may
do you an imaginary good, bat If
you keep taking 1t, it will kill you"
II it lies iu our power will we not re-
move that bottle and put out of ex-
istence all temptation to take more,
from our boy or any boy? Boys,
when you commence drinking whis.
key, are you going to drink modcr.
stely2 IL that is your notion, then
remember that there is no such thing
MS drinking whiskey moderately. I'm
moderate drinking makes you a bruts,
it makes you do things brute would
not do.
What does young man loose by
not drinking whiskey2 In the first
place, is 1t necessary TO cultivate the
taste in the beginning. Or why cul-
tiyate il at all.
In the second place, admitting all
the usual sophistry about moderate
drinking, whiskey, means the loss OF
time, loss Of money, loss OF clear
mental thought. Have we ever heard
OF man dying, wishing he had not
lived such temperate life? But We
have, some OF us, heard Of men on
their dying bed, wishing fervcntly
and mournfully tina. thoy had never
tasted spirits.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
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