The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-11

and yet how pugnacious ii made 9th
ers, numbers one and three hunched
number two; and when | told how
some drunken people became SO low
ing as to want to kiss others, as drunk
and as filthy as they, then numbers
one and two Winked at number three
A day or two after l met one of them
and he said he wanted to pay me the
five dollars he owed me.
"HoW came you to owe me five dol
lars? I asked
For that sermon last Sunday night
told those other fellows they had to
pay up and they've got it to do But
how did you hear of the affair is what
I'd like to know?
"You didn't pay that driver not to
tell on you, | replied
mo, and I'm glad we didn't for
wouldn't have missed that sermon for
ten dollars; it does a fellow a sight of
good to find out he's a fool You'll
never hear Of my being in such anoth-
er scrape."
And never have. 1 think all three
of them came to the conclusion that
one first class drunk was enough, and
so to keep from getting drunk again
they quit fooling with whiskey.
The saddest thing, in all the world
to my mind, is to see a good woman
yoked to a drunkard / used to know
family in my boyhood days that
never knew any real pleasure, for the
reason the husband and father was an
habitual drunkard; and when drunk,
(Which was as often as he could get
the liquor), was a desperate brute.
Wife and children were as afraid of
him as if he had been a bear. l was
told that the wife knew he was
dlunkard before she married him, but.
| like too many other good-hearted
girls, who have an idea that love Will
conquer, she thought and even boast
ed that he would reform when
brought within the circle of her low
| ing influence. l have said scores OF
times that a girl is very foolish TO
| yoke herself to Il man who drinks IL
quor at all. / think that a pure, ten
der hearted Christian woman, mar
| ried to u drunkard, is very much 10
be pitied provided she did not know,
| before marriage, that he drank.
never felt like sympathizing with that
fellow who yoked himself with q young
| steer, and who, when the steer started
| to run away and was about to break
his neck, cried out: won't some
| body please head us, blamed fools !
/ If a girl deliberately yokes herself
| with a drunkard or even moderate
| drinker she may expect to have her
neck twisted and, really, is not to be
pitied Man and wife, to live happily,
| should endeavor to be alike III thought
and purpose, and avoid everything
| that might possibly cause friction. 1t
would be well that husband and wife
| be of the same religious faith; for
many a home is unhappy because the
j husband belongs to one church and
| his wife another.
| Enoch Gwynn thought so. lie was
q Methodist and married a Baptist
| lady. He felt and she felt also, that
While he loved his wife and she loved
| him, there was not that perfect UNI
| derstanding between them that ought
| to exist in the married life; and he
longed to see the day when they
would be one in the church as they
| were one in love. She had the same
| thought, but neither ever said word
| to the other on the subject.
| On one occasion Brother Enoch
| went over the mountains on business,
and while over there he Joined the
Baptist church, was baptized and or
| dained a Baptist preacher All the
way home he felt so happy as he
| Thought of the glad surprise he would
| give his wife, when, after the greeting
| k sses, he should tell her that, at last
| nothing stood between them. She saw
| him coming over the hill and putting
| on her best apron and smoothing her
pretty hair, she went TO the gate to
greet him when he drove up He drew
her very lovingly to his heart and,
with more than old-time ardor, kissed
her repeatedly The holding her off
| at arms length and regarding her
| with tenderest interest, he said:
| Together at last, my dear!'
| what do you mean" she asked.
| 81 mean" said he. that, while /
was gone, / Joined the Baptist church,
| and we are together at last, thank
| Cod!
I'VE are just as far apart as We ever
We're" said the Wife.
How is that? asked Enoch.
| why said the wife. while you
| were gone L went down to Ebenezer
and joined the Methodist church"
| Brother Gwynn told the story in a
| temperance speech / once heard him
make at Statesville; but, [ do not re-
( member how the matter was finally
| Observation-Disclosures he or she changed
| a second time or whether they re-
NAMED as they were--he a Baptist
| and she a Methodist. One. thing is
| certain, each of them manifested in
an eminent degree, the true Christian
spirit and, | guess, they communed
| together ever afterward; thing,
| which / am sorry TO say, some hus-
to any church, sometimes fail to do.
| X. II. WHITAKER.
| appointments if they didn't expect
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