. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . e shall notappeal in vain. CHAPTER XXV. POWER OF EXAMPLE — LIFE IX A CHEAT CITY — STORY OFDRUNKEN JAKE — SCEXES IX MY EARLIER DAYS. Dont Believe It — Incredulous Fcople — Street Children—Little Crea-tures in Tatters and Filth — The Mouth of Hell —Ive got a TerribleBunch on My Side — Fools Fence — A Good Story — Dip Your Sconein Your Own Gravy — A Tough Audience -A Leaf from My Experiencein Connecticut — A Marvellously Interesting Story — Thrilling Scenes —Bribing Drunken Jake to Disturb the Meeting — An Unexpected Result —A Happy Day —
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . e shall notappeal in vain. CHAPTER XXV. POWER OF EXAMPLE — LIFE IX A CHEAT CITY — STORY OFDRUNKEN JAKE — SCEXES IX MY EARLIER DAYS. Dont Believe It — Incredulous Fcople — Street Children—Little Crea-tures in Tatters and Filth — The Mouth of Hell —Ive got a TerribleBunch on My Side — Fools Fence — A Good Story — Dip Your Sconein Your Own Gravy — A Tough Audience -A Leaf from My Experiencein Connecticut — A Marvellously Interesting Story — Thrilling Scenes —Bribing Drunken Jake to Disturb the Meeting — An Unexpected Result —A Happy Day — Personal Experience in Vermont — Another ToughAudience — Willing Hands and Hearts — My Proposition to Twenty-sevenLadies — Hark ! There Is the Bell ! — Remarkable Scenes — Interest-ing Reminiscences— My Experience in Cincinnati — P. T. Barnum andJenny Lind — Mr. Barnum OffersFive Thousand Dollars for the Use of aChurch —Why His Offer Wras Declined — Look ! The Prairie [s onFire ! —Faith in E often find people indisposedto believe statements madewith regard to the evils ofdrunkenness. We tell them ofthe loss of life. Dont be-lieve it. We tell them ofthe pauperism. Dont believeit. We tell them of the Dont believe it. Lord Robert (Jros-venor, presiding at one of my meetingsin Exeter Hall, London, said, As avisitor of one of our lunatic asylums, I unhesitatinglydeclare that two thirds of the lunacy in Great Britain isproduced, directly or indirectly, by drunkenness. Themanagers of the idiot asylums have said, When we cometo give our report, people will be astonished that so much496 ONE OF DEATHS HARVEST FIELDS. 497 idiocy is produced by drink. The children of drunkenparents are idiotic by scores, and the public have to sustainthem. Yet people « dont believe it. When we tell themof crime,—Dont believe it; yet the last words of JusticeTalfourd were that the great cause of crime in Great Britainis drink, an
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