The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-22
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS A8OU,
THE VICE OF INTeMPERANcs.

Once the Drink Appetite Ia Formed T.
Is only by a Miracle Almost Tina
the Man IL ssved-Bow One Mar
Reformed.
A great point to be aimed at il preven
tion-.to build up barrier between tn,
unpoluted lips Of boys and drink. Onct
the drink appetite formed. it is only by
miracle almost the man is saved.
MIR. Cough once told the writer thai
while the guest Of gentleman in New
Hampshire. and admiring the perfect an
no,ntmpnts OF the house. his host said
MIR. Cough. ! was ono OF the most de
based and degraded Of drunkards. I vii
tell YOU how ! reformed Some ladies no
t'ccd a little girl nassing by their house
daily with tin pail in her hand One da,
they accosted her Little oirl what have
vom got IN your Dal" Whisky. ma'am.'
Where do Won live Down in the hol
low The lady accompanied her home.
and said to the mother rs this your
child. madam 'Ycs' Does she 60 tc
SCHOOL, No; we have no clothes for her
Send her to our house and we will furnish
her with clothes Yes responded the
moor woman. and he will steal them foi
drink Does your child go to Sunday.
SCHOOL, inquired the lady. No. replied
the mother. ! propose a plan said the
lady. 'let your little girl come to our house
in the morning. and we will give hei
clothes. so that she can go TO Sunday.
school and she can return and nut tho old
ones on before returning home. That was
agreed upon. and the little girl was SC
teachahle, and learned TO read so soon that
she was presented with little Testament
which was the first thing she ever owned.
She loved it so much that she took it to
bed with her and held it in her hand till
she went to slcep. Ono dav the child was
i'll. so sick that the doctor said she must
die. The father went into her room and
sat by her side He said to me ooh. how
7 wanted drink: that 1niet little child
know the hell that was in me. | must
have drink and I felt like stripping the
house of everything I could Law my hand
upon. I looked at the child: she was doz.
ing; the Testament dropDed from her
fingers on the covcrlid of the bed. I saw
it and looked about me, for ] felt | was
guilty; | stretched out my hand. took that
Testament, put it in my pocket, went ont
and got for it a pint of gin ! drank it,
and it started the stagnant blood in the
diseased vessels of my stomach. I felt bet
ter, perspiration came. and there was
warmth in my system. I came back to the
child, and soon she looked at me and said:
'Papa, YOU know Jesus said. "Snffer little
children to come unto Me- | have tried
to come, papa. Just well as know how,
and when die | shall 90 to Jesus. but oh,
papa. suppose Jesus should ask me what
you did with my little Testament. what
will tell Him.? He said that was like
fash of lightning, but before thai child
died she held his two hands in his and
heard him cry God he merciful to me- a
sinner From that dav to this. said he,
7 have never touched intoxicating drink
That is twentv.cipht years ago. yet | tell
voY an absolute fact that 7 never smell
the breath of one OF the forty or fiftv men
in nv employment who has been drinking
but | want it. and although tweutveight
years have passed since I tasted it. If
smell the breath of one who has beer
drinking ] have leaped upon nv horse and
ridden ten miles on full callop to get
rid OF the desire that would creep over me
at such times