The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-07-29
THE GREAT DESTROYER i
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
TIE VICE OF lNTsMPERANce.
The Road to Drunkard's Grave is Hard
One to Travel-Thc Average Inebriatc
is Devoid of Manhood, n stranger to
Truth and Full of Deception.

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Truth and Full of Deception.
Shall | ask to be excused for once
again writing on a subject that l have
written upon scores of scores of times be.
fore? MOI 1t is my mission to call upon
the drunkard to repent of his ways and
cease to get drunk, and also to call upon
the drunkard makers to cease to do evil
and learn to do we'll
For some reason God will not let me
alone when | am slow to call attention to
the evils of the liquor traffic. He brings
about worriment. and sometimes l am
brought into contact with events that
make my blood boil with indignation.
Then ] am willing to write my hatred OF
the traffic and tell the whole truth con-
cerning it.
l want all mankind to be persuaded to
let intoxicants alone; and If / had the
power | would compel every inhabitant of
be persuaded to do. My doctrine is,
total abstinence for the individual and
prohibition for the States and Nations.
The drunkard is to be pitied for he is a
slave to the drink habit and suffers the
pangs of hell. He is bound in chains that
upon God and his friends to believe him
when he says, Let these bonds be
loosed!
| have seen the drunkard when he
looked as pale as delth when he realized
that he was going from bad to worse as
fast as possible. when he felt that he was
forsaken and desrised by all his friends.
and when even his own mother had ceased
to ask his father to forgive him.
The drunkard's lot is a fearful one.
The fires of hell urn within him. He oc'
casionally feels the need of positively Civ
ing up drinking; but his appetite stiles
his good wishes. He drinks knowing it's
IL
on account of his sorrows he pours down
his throat the liquid damnation that is the
cause of his sorrows.
The road to the drunt ,rd's grave is
hard one to travel. On each side are
sharp-shooters firing darts at him. Every
little while he is shot by them. and goes
along limping from the wounds he has re,
ceived. If it were not for the fact that
the poor drunkard must meet his God un'
prepared in another world, it would he n
mercy if he shoull die to save him from
more punishment on earth
The average drunkard is 'evoid Of man.
hood-he is stranger to the truth and
full of deception. Under the most solemn
obligations to reform he will pay no heed
TO them. What se says IS not worth tax
ing any stock in. He will abuse the con.
fdcnce of his best friends and smite the
hand that Is eXtenued toward him in
friendship. His sweet wife has not the in.
fluence over him that one of his loafeI
companions in sin has. Drink has hard.
ened his heart. blasted his reputation and
made him only a fit companion of those
who are as wicked as he is. He will
smile at you one moment and threaten to
whip you the next moment. OF course
there are exceptions to this description OF
the chronic drunkard.
How to deal with the drunkard is a
hard problem to solve. A mixture OF
kindness and an iron hand is about the
best application to be applied to such an
one.
Have YOU ever tried to subdue and train
drunkard to behave better? If YOU have
not YOU are not the one to properly nudge
the best methods to improve him. What
the drunkard most needs is to hear the
thunders Of Mount Sinai and to feel the
love of Him who died on Calvary. In
other words. Law and Love. God gave to
man Mount Sinai before Calvary. Why. it
is not my business to try to explain. Tho
Law was schoo,master to bring even
Paul to Christ.
While few men have more tender
heart for the miserable drunkard. yet
| must say that too often love is lost on
him, for is like casting pearls before
| swine.
Young men. ii -ou wan: TO feel the tor.
ments of hell while on this earth, be a
drinkard and you will ct your fil.
| Better for a man or woran not to be
| born than TO become addicted to that
which steals away the brains of its victims
and gives only pain and remorse in return
-George Il. Scott in the New York Wit.
ness.