. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ppose you say, Doctor, here is a man who cannot eat cheesewith impunity; I shall give you no cheese ; I will not give aparticle of cheese to my guests, because some people eatcheese to their detriment. Is that fair? I ask any intelligent person if that is a fair way of puttingit? Did you ever hear of a man on the scaffold, about to behung, saying to those who came to witness his execution, Take warning by me, and never eat cheese ? Did you everhear of a man murdering his wife, and giving as his excusethat he had been eating cheese? Was
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ppose you say, Doctor, here is a man who cannot eat cheesewith impunity; I shall give you no cheese ; I will not give aparticle of cheese to my guests, because some people eatcheese to their detriment. Is that fair? I ask any intelligent person if that is a fair way of puttingit? Did you ever hear of a man on the scaffold, about to behung, saying to those who came to witness his execution, Take warning by me, and never eat cheese ? Did you everhear of a man murdering his wife, and giving as his excusethat he had been eating cheese? Was there ever a row inthe streets, ribs broken, and blood shed, which the news-papers next morning stated was because these men hadbeen eating cheese ? Did you ever hear a mother mourn overthe dead body of her child, crying, Would I had died forthee, O, my son ! I have no hope in his death : he died fromeating cheese ? All I have to say is just this : Prove to methat the use of cheese produces the same results as does the 17l> TAKING IT AS A MEDICINE. j. use of drink, and, by the grace of God, I will fight the cheese as heartily as I do the drink. I consider it the height of stu-pidity and nonsense to bring such an argument as that againstus while we are advocating the disuse of intoxicating liquoras a beverage. We do not seek to take it away from you byforce; we want you to be made so far acquainted with the evils of drinkthat, with yourheart and soul,and in the exer-cise of large-hearted, self-de-nying benevo-lence, you willgive it up for thesake of oth /?.-?.That is the grandprineiple onwhich we base our appeal,and it is the highest prin-ciple. Some say. however. Yotlwill certainly let us havea little as a medicine. we will : we donot condemn it as a medi-cine: that is. when men really take it as such. I was onceat a dinner-party when a gentleman at table, holding a glassin his hand, said ton lady present, ww I assure your ladyship I ampersonally an abstainer,
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