The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-03

seat of the trouble-and it comes still
question l hear one say trouble drives
men to drink. Now | have never known
trouble to drive men to drink who did
not drink before. / know that often men
| immersed in financial. social, political or
| domestic troubles in order to drown
their consciousness of feeling their sense
! of degrees or shame, or removes and
quest for sin, plunge into the delusive
dreams of intoxication-only to be aroused
by a deeper consciousness of failure and
sense of sin. Again to seek relief in
maudlng drunkenness finally to awaken
| to a misery that only the doomed In hell
can conceive. But those who go to drink
because of trouble have been to drink
before
Il have also noticed that when men
, feel jublant and exultant because luck
is their way In gaming, or because spec
| ulations have PANIED out well, or be-
cause of financial or political victory men
are often led by the very excitement and
exhilaration of their exultation to drink
to inebriety. But many, many times these
have tasted of the wine before, and the
prime cause lies back of the excitement
| of success as it does back of the con-
seriousness of guilt and shame.
| Foundation of Drunkenness.
when was the foundation of the drunk
ard laid? What is the primary cause?
know that l am safe In saying that no
man who never takes his first drink will
ever make a drunkard.
"Then IL is the first drink that has its
vital casual relation to drunkenness in
trouble, and drunkenness in joy and
! drunkenness wherever and whenever II
occurs. Never take your first drink and
| I'll guarantee you can never be a drunk
ard.
"Then the root of the matter is the
question, What Is il that induces men to
take the first drink a beverageT
I'm answer to this question great doc
tors who have studied the laws of hered-
| ity tell us that children of drunlSards in
herit the taste for whisky from their
fathers This great natural law should
teach every father that he lives not unto
| himself'-that his sinful indulgence brings
curse not only himself, but upon his
| children and grandchildren and great
grandchildren even unto the third and
fourth generations. Let no man be the
cause of his chids ruin.
Pure Manhood.
Every sin contributes to the progress
OF every other. But there Is one cause of
drunkenness which is so much more pc
tent than all the others combined that
will give 1t as the very root of the mat
ter of the evil. This is the power of e:s
ample. This is what induces young men
who do not inherit the taste to take to
drink.
"Oh, that the boys of the twentieth CEN
fury who are to shape the destiny of this
great country. and upon whom the hope
of this and all other countries rests. may
have a clearer conception of pure man
hood. That they may learn the simple les
son that to be great Is to be good
But what is to become of the poor fell
low doomed with the habit and appetite?
Is there remedy or relief for him who
Is powerless In his own strength to re-
sist their temptations? All yes there Is
| a remedy. There are gold cure, Kelley
cures and inebriate hospitals of various
kinds. These are all right and in many
cases do great good. But l have known
men cured in these hospitals to fill
drunkards grave In the end. But If he
will go to the Great Physician, One who
Is willing and able to cure all of our
diseases, and put himself under His care
and trust in Him, he will hnd relief ana
| a permanent cure. And as long as he
will follow the directions he will have no
more of that appetite or habit of strong
drink. / know men who are living wit
| nesses to this fact"
Judge Feagn Speaks.
Judge Feagin very feelings endorsed the
words of Chief Wier, He said:
young men. God has given you intellect
and the power to make yourselves like I'M
to Himself and the angels. 1t Is not
hard task for you to make sober men of
honor and integrity. Abstain from drunk
enness and intemperanee of all kinds and
you will put Chief Wier and myself out
| of business.
ut is your duty, young men, and your
God given privilege to be honorable, sober
and powerful In the world. The spiritual
men of old made Jerusalem the light OF
the world. Sober spirituality has made the
world what 1t is today has given us all
the good we enjoy, and Is the only power
given to man by which future happiness
and greatness can be obtained Spiritual
| characters are the only characters that
can live in the hearts of men, that elevate
the race and hold In check the warning
elements that strive against the soul.
I'm conclusion | admonish you, young
men, to be sober and true. You cannot
be true to others yourself unless you
are sober and honest. The spiritual life
can make Birmingham great. Let us
make Birmingham great
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