The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-10-09
Appetite For Strong Drink.
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But appetite is produced by the contin-
uous use of alcohol in moderate doses. |
The system, by degrees, acquires feel
| ing that it must have it. There comes
a craving which nothing else can satisfy. /
A few glasses seems to satisfy it for
the time, then the craving asserts itself
more and more until finally it becomes
so strong that it is beyond control. They
will dare anything, endure ANYTHING,
suffer anything, sacrifice anything to
CRAFTY this abnormal craving for slim
ulant. A United States Chief Justice
/ from Kentucky, and one of the greatest
| that sat on the bench, said when men,
Der of congress that at (this appetite)
would drive a man into hell to get
! liquor" He was man of splendid
genius, power and intellectual culture,
who had been in the power of this de-
mon, yet had reformed, but in an evil
moment he fell back again and ended
! his life a ruined man. The appetite was
too strong for him.
| Poor Bobbie Burns the pride of Scot
| land, went to his death with delerium
tremens, which is simply the total wreck
of mind and body caused by the contin-
ued use of alcoholic drinks The evil
dence of this appetite's power is every
where in our land, in every profession
and position. Sometimes it is called
disease. The alcohol affects the entire
system, destroying the vital functions.
The more rapidly these are consumed
the stronger and greater the demands
| for more stimuIants. If it is disease
| it is unlike any that flesh is heir to. No
natural disease Graves that which pro-
duced it. Appetite does. Of course
some are more susceptible to this appe-
/ tite than others. Some have more self
mastery than others; more will power,
and more important still, higher sense
of responsibility to free themselves from
! it. However, cases of this latter kind
are not of frequent occurrence except
when under strong religious convictions
a man is brought to a sense of his sins
before God and so renounces all intoXi-
eating drinks as sinful. He is a new
man in his convictions, habits and char
acter before man. A man may take
many different diseases from exposure,
| but he can cure smallpox, cholera, ty-
phoid fever and such things by the
power of vii or conscience. Appetite is
the result of an unnatural state of the
system caused by the use of alcoholic
poison, and is a moral debasement of a
criminal character in Gods sight. When
the sinfulness of any &C. is fully reali-
zed, it must be given up if we expect
Gods favor. Appetite for drink is so
gradual that YOU can scarcely tell when
it begins, but it devclopes in criminal
acts | know that at first there is mirth
and pleasantness and the appearance of
prosperity thrown around the stimula-
ting social and apparently moderate use
of Intoxicating drinks. which take away
the suspicion of sin and cause them to
be regarded as a real good. Appetite
is an exotic planted by ourselves and
which brings the functions of the body
under its power and ultimately masters
the whole system.
You will never have the appetite for
strong drink if you do not use them.
Young men frequently get started be-
cause they think it is manly or fashion
able, or they are afraid of ridcule.
Women turn their drawing rooms into
saloons and their daughters into tempt
ing bartenders under the guise that 1t is
fashionable. and thus start young men
on the downward track and myrlads of
our best young men are plunging for
ward to ruin. 1t Is sad indeed when our
social customs are so debased that young
men are enticed into INVESTIGATION.
Appetite goes with use and grows
with it. Soon it is master. What is
the duty of church members? Some
would let them go without effort to save
them. Some would rush them into the
church. as if that were enough, and
then were disguised when, Welding to
this appetite, they brought scandal upon
their friends and the church.
Looked at from every angle it cannot
be denied but that the most reasonable
and plainest duty is for every church
member to abstain from all intoxicants.
When we remember that at least one
half of all who use it moderately acquire
the habit before they die, it behoves us
by precept and example to refrain from
it absolutely lest we help those who
start moderately into the terrors of
drunkard's life and death.
1t is said that when General Harri-
son was running for the Presidency he
stopped at the old Washington House in
Chester for dinner. After dinner it was
.noticed that the General pledged his
: toast in water, and one of the men, in
offering another, said: General, will
you not favor me by drinking glass of
wine?' The General refused, but later
on he was urged again. This was too
much. He rose from the table, his tall
form erect, and in his most dignified
manner replied: Gentlemen, have re-
fused twice to partake of the wine cup.
That should have been sufficient. made
a resolve when | started in life that
would avoid strong drink. | have never
broken it. | am one OF a class of sew
enteen young men who graduated. The
sixteen fill drunkard's graves, all