Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-05
THE CURSE OF REMEMBRANCE,

THE CURSE or REMEMBRANCE. Lenter Preacher Says It is the Great est Enemy of All Ages.
 | Tn spite of the stormy weather sew era1 hundred attexaed the second 1 Lenten address at St. Patrick,s church Sunday evening. Rev. H. J. McManus,
 o. P. of New Haven. delivered q | forcefu1 sermon on Intemperancs. Rev. 1 Fr. McAIanus said in part:
 The greatest enemy of all aEHs. of l the country. the human race and re-. l heion, is intemperancs, 0f all the degrade mankind there is non % far reaching in it's destruction as the habit of intempernnfe. God Tnads man after his own Iil<eueEs. It seems to
 spect an image because of what they l represent. Who does not respeckDff1s picture of some loved onee
 Now comes the auehtfon, what does 1 the drunkard do with the image of God
 that 1t is his lot to bear He lies in the gutter. mere beast in all except form; his will power gone. his fnflu- ence of the worst: he sells his liberty
 to intenperance. He destrcys the 1 for what he considers pleasure. He deliberately offends God and piacaH himself outside of God's mercy. Gods l mercy is infinite but the drunlxarti places himself wheer he cannot beg l that mercy. The man who gives him self up to drink shuts out the mercy I of God.
 Many ministers of God are called to the bedside Of some dying nersoIi who l may have sinned in some of the worst l ways and when he begs for mercy the ministed pleads with the Master and 1 the man Is forgiven. It is different when the name of God is called to the home of the drunlxard The drunk ard lies helpless, unable to ask or re- reive that mercy of God. - He has | destroyed himself by drink brought self That man has made God of tfI1temperance.
 Now the question arises what is the influence of liquor upon the family Of
 the drunkard. Stop one moment and count the ca ses that come under our own personal observation. We Ind many families ruined and miserable l and the home broken up Take the
 young couple just married who are just starting a life of hope and hap
 piness- The young husband feelh it his duty to protect his wife who | trusts him and ifSl1e realizes this, all
 fntemperance iav it's finger upon him and all is lost. He may not give up at
 once: he tries to give some outward
 manifestation of respect for his
 
 and all is done. duty honor and re-
 spect. Go to the home of a
 dr11nkard. What flo we find? A
 hovel where the wind whistles through in, a, few embers struggle for life
 on the hearth. two or three ragged and
 hungry children gathered arounr a
 worn, tired mother who is sharing her
 lv, there is a noise without and the
 door bursts rudely open. A man stag-
 gers in and his first words are an
 oath. He strikes that woman who : everything she holds dear. He curses
 his children. He is no longer a father: he is a brute. It would bt
 better that he had never been borr
 the picture of the average drunkard's | home.
 l We often hear the cry of hard times l Just let us stop and consider the causs
 Is often overlooked. Take the city of New York. A few years back tfer, |, were 300 destitute families in one par } of the great metropolis. Of these Sei , | forty were destitute because the breas l winner was sick: another forty be l cause of 1sck of work and the re nlainirg 20 were destitute because O the money which should have beer sauandered in the rum shop. Is no
 this a dep1orable condition? Ter , years ago a census of saloons wa taken in New York city. There wer, : of s5.oe0 apiece. That makes SEQ, 100000 spent in one city a year fo liquor. Is not that appalling7 Ant . worse yet, the larger part of thii working man who should have spen it in procuring food and clothing fo , his family. No wonder there is thu
 cry of hard times and want and ruii affx fr1 f115c nfF-xy : What is the effect of drink on so ciety in general? It is the prime caus of pauperism. Nine-tenths of tn criminals in the jails in the countr, l or indirect cause of drink. The in mates of the prisons, the mad house.
 and the grave yard are nine-tenths re !, cruited from the gin houses. Eighty four per cent of the arrests in tn by drink. There were 71,679 arrest in the city of New York, and 4s,o00 O 7 these were due to the influence of Ii : are in the majority of cases there be 7 l cause of the result of drink. If VI knew the history of these degrade'
 i beings we would find that they eithe ] had drunken father or what l ' worse, a drunken mother. t This does not especially apply t any one city but to all throughou = l the country. Parents should be care
 ful and use their influence to keel f 1 their children from temptation. Youni V :! men should beware of temptation aD, e | stay away from the places where tha 2 temptation is found. Young womei . | company. I choose young man win . | does not drink even a little bit. Som 5 young women think that they can TO < form the young man after they ar ' 1 married. It cannot be done.
 Beware of intemperance and wher : 1 you find it. cast it out like a lion tha