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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1882)
r CHRISTIAN HERALD. % every day for the last thirty years,’’ Beer in the Hospital. class of men the ravages of this evil. t ' ' ’ • •> They have not only been called to .Alcohol is a slow poison. Men said a brewer’s drayman, “ and I Talmage on Prohibition. •bind up the wounds of the sot tum drink it largely diluted in beer, and never was in better health than at this moment.” Yet the very next Good citizens of the United bled into the station-house and hos-' <ky h<yd.6d .h k Tl of apoplexy; States, 1 do not kS^HEow you feeT "pltafs, But in £!ie Tcst“ani<l briglitesT show, while within they are getting about it, but I am tired of paying and wealthiest homes of your cities into a sad conditioq. They do not The beer told him that lie and he taxes to fit up the work of these in have stood and helped hold down know it themselves, for they poison believed it. Men who are really well and fernal draul-shops that are making under costly canopy and amid mas their nerves continua’ly so that criminals and paupers by the tens terpiece pictures and on the em they get no true reports from with strong do not die off in that way of thousands. Out with them ' broidered pillow the victims of de- in. But let some accident happen suddenly. When these beer drink Uut witlx them ixum the erty ! tint ’whidrserifts -therrr tn ■Hrr^hrtiqTrtTtf'* Africa pour into the diseased imag with them from the State! But and then hear what the doctors say doctor shows them the true state of things, then they begin to see, you say such a law of exterp'xtion ination all the reptiles and perdi about them. * could not be executed if it were tion all its devils ; * * * Dr. Edwards says : “ The diseases though often too late, what beer Belonging to such a party would of beer drinkers are always of a has really done to them.-— Tentper- passed. Try it ! It has hem exe 1...... Doy'otr (tan'2< rom character, and in case of wiice 'foirmat: cuted in different parts of Maine, in < > . ° * * Massachusetts, in Rhode Island, in say they can’t vote ? They all vote. an accident they can never undergo A Terrible Fall. Maryland, in Colorado, in Iowa and Are you not wi'ling to acknowledge the most trifling operation with the in Kansas. Give us such á law ol that the mothers and wives of security of the ’temperate. They Says John B. Gough : A minister America are theuiightiest influences entire prohibition in these eastern almost invariably die under it.” of the Gospel told me one of the extant ? The women carried Iowa States, and if the authorities do not Dr. Grinrod, a prominent London most thrilling incidents I have and Kansas for State Prohibition. execute it we will do as the Forty- physician, says: A copious beer l^eard in my life. A,member of his The women will yet carry the niners did in California when they drinker is all one vital part. He congregation came home for the formed a Vigilance Committee, who United States4pr National Prohibi wears his heart on his sleeve, -bare first time in his life intoxicated, made quick work with the offend tion and for God. Every man who to a death wound even from a and his boy met’ him upon' the door-step, clapped--Iris lianas arid- ers. Give us such alaw in Brooklyn, wants a wife who is not a tool is rusty nail or the clawjof a cat.” and if the au then ties doTñof ex e TOTgfitfFrTnft uuttcu T by • fc r ' se n It~ Dr. Gurdon says: .“The beer exclaiming : Papa has come ment. If a man wants business ad cute it I will some Sunday, stand dribl?ers-when attacked, w ith acute home !” He seized the l*oy by the vice he will go to business-men to ing iu this pulpit, gather a battalion disease are not able to bear deple shoulder, swung .him around, stag^- get it; but if a man wants advice of strong men, and we will go out, tion, and they die.”* gered and fell in the hall. That and in the name of the Lord on moral questions he asks his wife, Dr. Dixou says: “ Intoxicating minister said to me: “I spent the Almighty shut up every grog-shop unless he is resolved .on immorality, drinks, whether taken in the form night in that house. 1 went out, in Brooklyn. But it will never be and then he asks advice from no of fermented or distilled liquors, are bared my brow that the night air thoroughly accomplished until the one. Nuw, the women of the land a very frequent predisposing cause might fall upon it and cool it. I .. .... .. ... nation awakens from its indifference have intense appreciation of what of disease.” walked up and down the hall. this red dragon is. It has put one to its magnificent opportunity. But One of our own workers, on a There was the child, dead ! There of its fore feet on the nursery, and of whom wou'd such a party be recent visit to Bellevue hospital, was his wife in strong convulsions, made up ? First of ail, of hundreds another fore foot on the wardrobe ; says: “ As we entered the ward, and he asleep. A man of about and thousands of drunkards, who, one of its hind feet on the bread the first sight opposite the door thirty years of age, asleep, with a helpless in the presence of tempta tray, and the other hind foot has was a surgeon dressing a g-tn- dead child in the house, having a tions would like those places of al been saturated with the tears and gfenous arm. His words to the blue mark upon the temple where lurement forever ' removed from blood ol a destroyed home. Women patient, as we caught them, were, the corner of the marble steps had their eyes.. These men of appetite know what rum is by its fiery wake. ‘No, I shall not let you go out come in contact with the head as from drink can .not rqn the gaunt Charles Dickens laughed about the you would gjt a glass of beer and he swung him round, and a wife let of so many inebriate restaurants, punch-bowl, and poets have wreath that would kill you.”’ The writer upon the brink of the grave !” "Mr. bo many wine-cellars, so many bar ed garlands about the wine-cup, continues: “A boy in another bed, Gough,” said my friend, “ I cursed rooms; These unfortunate can not, and impersonators beve made audi motherless, friendless, a stianger in drink. He told me that 1 must re from morning to night, get out t>f ences roar at the staggering step of a strange land, speaking no word ol main until he awoke, and I did. the sight of these places. They are the drunkard, but womeq seldom ours, had received a slight wound When he awoke he passed his hand in every street in every city, before see any fun in such dramatization. which pure blood would have over his face and exclaimed : * What them, behind them, on either side They see beyond the foot-lights the thrown off; but he was a beer is the matter ? where am I ? w’here of them, an all-encircling fire of shoeless feet of children, and their victim and his hurt, with his is my boy V ‘ You cannot see demoniac bombardment. For God’s daughters by' destitution turned poisoned blood, produced erysipelas. him.’ ‘.Stand, out of my way, 1 sake give these overwhelmed men over to infamy, and the gash across Another had scratched his fingetwill see my boy? To pre vent con - the wife's temples by the broken and his hand was in danger of a chance to escape. fusion I took him to the child’s ♦ * . * * * glass of a decanter, and a disheveled amputation. Ami so we went bed, and as I turned down the Belonging to this party of Na and wild man standing mid floor through the list, receiving testimony sheet and showed him the corpse, tional Prohibition will be the phy uttering a halloo at which the chil unexpected to us, almost unasked he uttered a wild shriek. ‘ Ah, my sicians of the United States. I hold dren shriek and the wife falls on by us, and almost unconsciously child.’ ” That minister said further the names of 123 prominent physi- her knees praying to God, who for given, that systems clogged with to me: “ One year after that he cians^uf New York and Brooklin, ten vears has not seemed to care effete matter which beer had pre was brought from a lunatic asylum asking for State and National leg anything for her; one fist of the vented passing off, were incapable to lay side by side with his wife, in islation which shall confine the maniac dashing through the mirror of resisting ipjury and disease.” one grave, and I attended his traffic of alcohol to purposes of at which his bride had once arrang Some, if not all of these, no funeral.” science and art and mechanism. ed her tresses, the other hand cast doubt, had thought the beer was I'he minister of the Gospel who Nine hundred and ninety-nine out ing the Bible containing the mar doing them good. Many boast of told me that fact is to-day a drunk- of every thousand doctors in the riage record into the fire.— Ex. . the good it docs them or of their en hostler in a stable in Boston, cities of America would sign such a Where children are, there is the being strong in spite of the beer. Now tell me what ruin will not ^ocument. They know as no other ¡ golden age. “ I have drank a gallon of beer no? It will debase, degrade, im- Temperance Department. L* ——. . •/ ...................... i i il iiiiHi i i . — » ■■■ "’j ” m