. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . do/ Helooked at me, and said, Youkept your wine in your cellar,and took it regular every takes mine when I gets mywages, once a fortnight, andthen perhaps I gets why dont you do as I donow. said i: I dont drinkwine at all. Not at all, sir?No, I drink no intoxicatingliquor. No? have you signedthe pledge ? % Yes. I Well, sir, if you can give upyour wine and your spirits, withall the company you have, 1 thinkI can give up my beer, and Iwill, and he signed the pledge. Now for a moment let us look at sonic of the reas
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . do/ Helooked at me, and said, Youkept your wine in your cellar,and took it regular every takes mine when I gets mywages, once a fortnight, andthen perhaps I gets why dont you do as I donow. said i: I dont drinkwine at all. Not at all, sir?No, I drink no intoxicatingliquor. No? have you signedthe pledge ? % Yes. I Well, sir, if you can give upyour wine and your spirits, withall the company you have, 1 thinkI can give up my beer, and Iwill, and he signed the pledge. Now for a moment let us look at sonic of the reasons givenfor drinking, or some of the excuses for taking a glass. Wetotal abstainers have no excuse or apology to offer for ourposition of antagonism to the drink. A man once rose in a meeting which I held and said, Iwill sign the pledge if you will let me have a little drop when Iwant it as a medicine. When a man prescribes for sickness solong in advance. I look at him with suspicion. I said. Whenthe doctor prescribes it you may take it. But, said he,. THE MAN Wllo DRINKS BECAUSEHE [S COLD. COMICAL EXCUSES FOR DRINKING. 123 I dont want to go to the doctor every time I am sick ; Iwant to take a little when I feel I need it; if you will let medo that I will join the society, because I think you are doinga great work. Anyone would give us his name in that way,for it would cost him nothing. When I feel I need it! It is very cold to-day, I shiver from head to foot; I musthave a little something because it is so cold, and I need it. Or, It is very hot to-day; dear me! such weather as this swelters a man to death; Imust have somethingto keep me up in suchhot weather; I needit. Another mandrinks a little in sum-in e r-t i m e becausethere are insects inthe water, and spiritskill them. Anotherthinks he needs some-thing in winter-timebecause it is so hurtful to drink cold water. Another man isvery ill; for eighteen years he has taken the same remedy,and he will go and try a little more
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