The Washington herald., 1918-01-19

full results Of his message, and It Is
a good thing he can't. He might be-
come so puffed up with pride that his
wife couldn't live with him, or he'd
get discouraged and go into the life
insurance business.
/ read a story the other day of an
old saint. She prayed that she might
do a great deal OF good and not know
that she did II, and she was told that
when her shadow was behind her, 1t
would have power to heal all upon
whom 1t fell, but when II was in front
of her where she could see 1t, 1t
would possess no virtue. So she went
on through life, healing all upon whom
her shadow fell and not knowing upon
whom it fell.
Tells an Ohio story.
Now, that is much the way with all
who are honestly trying to do the
work for God. 1t is only now and
then that you are permitted to know
what has been done; and yet. who
ever lifts a hand or opens his lips in
the Masters name may rest assured
that something will happen. somebody
will receive a blessing through which
they will never be the same again,
never. Il
I preached in a town in Ohio-fist-
| en- to this story. There was n man
graduated from one of the best schools
in the State. Ambitious to make
good. he overworked in college, then.
after entering the pastorate. he over
worked. He had as bright pros
poets as any young man you have
| ever known. His health gave way
| and for two years he was a hopeless
! sufferer, and eventually he met a
physician who kept him under the in
/ fiuence Of opiates until he became
bound hand and foot by the appetite,
! and under the magic spell OF the
god of Morpheus, he seemed to Sc
\ cure a, new lease on life. The pain
was gone, his trouble vanished. ana
life seemed one solid sweep Of blue
| like an Italian sky.
But however effervescent and
strange and fantastic were all his
dreams and visions, he soon passed
into one long, horrible, indescribable
nightmare of hell. His peace was
gone, his hope was gone, and his
soul plunged into a surging, seething
volcano Of despair. For years he
I plunged down and down. until his
| soul shot like a shrieking night
mare across the earth. He became
slave to morphine, a slave to atropin,
slave to alcohol, a slave to cocaine.
Effects of Drugs.
Cocaine was once hailed as a great
boon, and it is now admitted to be
one of the worst curses. 1t is dass-
ed as one of the scourges OF the hui
man race, and yet when properly used
! It may become q useful servant. 1t
grows In Peru. Ecuador and Bolivia,
and It Is made of the leaves Of
shrub that looks something like the
| shrub from which we get our tea
leaves. Eight million people in South
America habitually ch'w the leaves
Of the cocaine plant. and 1t is one OF
| the most dangerous drugs on earth
\ because of its insidious appeal TO
your passions and the cheapness with
which it is produced and the ease
with which It can be procured.
When I was preaching in New
York some internal revenue officers.
assisted by some detectives, pinched
! ,ouple of fellows who had in their
possession drugs which would have
! amounted to probably hve hundred
! thousand dollars by the time they
] had sold them along the line.
Listenl The effect when taken Is
! instantaneous, makes you feel the
| joy of living, stimulates your brain.
fires your body, seems to stir your
blood until it surges through your
veins like a bfire pressure; and If
you desire to sleep, increase the dose
little and your dreams will be as
beautiful as those of Pericles. SEEM
ingly.
But wait a minute. am not
through On the other hand it deadens
your sensibilities, drives away fear.
annihilates all moral impulses and
sears your conscience and kills every
part and semblance of decency with
in you. And the meanest coward.
the meanest cowardly criminal is
made daring and brave, and ninety
per cent of the habitual users Of CO.
caine, or morphine or heroin. be-
come criminals; and oh. they will
make men attempt crimes which in
normal state they would shrink
from. and boys who are trained by
| gangsters in housebreaking and store
loeting are given this coke to make
them daring. There is nothing on
earth that a policeman fears more
than he does coke fiend. Why?
Because the coke will rob him Of all
fear and his passions are infiamed
and he is insensible to pain seeming
ly. ana he becomes demon.
The evil effects are soon shown,
for within thirty days after they begin
that, they become degenerates, and
few of the habituaI users escape the
prison OF the asylum. The average
length of life Is five years on the
proposition.
We all know. my friend, that they
take poppy leaves and out Of that
| they make opium. From the opium
they make morphine. and from that
they make heroin.s Heroin Is twelve
times stronger than morphine. Nor
phine Is fourteen times stronger than
opium, and it Is that that curses and
damns the world.
In the Depths.
So this fellow becomes fiend,
| drunkard. and his wife, his home.
his piano were gone. The carpet was
! torn OFF the floor. his coat was rip
ped Oft his back and sold. He took
the shoes from his wife's feet, he
took bread from the hungry mouth
Of his little child. All went to salts
fy his appetite for drink and dope. He
became a skeptic, and from the use
Of the hypodermic needle, his blood
became poisoned. his body was COW
cred with fostering, putrefying sores.
have his picture. He became a
stencil in the nostriis OF his family.
He was compelled to live alone. His
friends and family forsook him. He
had delirium tremens and he tried
to take his life; and in one day he
drank quart of whiskey. three ounc-
es of chloral, and took forty grains