. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . by Jury — Did Von Smell It ? —The Patient Old Manand His Hay — A Young Mans story — A Thrilling Incident —CarryingHome the Dead Body of His Father—Temperance Litters — Tito Juryami the stolen Bacon — A Foregone Conclusion — A Corrupt Judge —Retributive Justice— A Lit of Bread, Please, for [m Hungry — Pull-ing a Tooth by Degrees — Steps in the Ki^rht Direction. HE first time I saw NiagaraFalls, I thought a parallelmight be drawn between thestream, rapids, and cataract,and the stream, rapids, andcataract of the Falls of
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . by Jury — Did Von Smell It ? —The Patient Old Manand His Hay — A Young Mans story — A Thrilling Incident —CarryingHome the Dead Body of His Father—Temperance Litters — Tito Juryami the stolen Bacon — A Foregone Conclusion — A Corrupt Judge —Retributive Justice— A Lit of Bread, Please, for [m Hungry — Pull-ing a Tooth by Degrees — Steps in the Ki^rht Direction. HE first time I saw NiagaraFalls, I thought a parallelmight be drawn between thestream, rapids, and cataract,and the stream, rapids, andcataract of the Falls of [ntemper-ance the water is bright and smooth :thousands who embark on that placidstream, as it glides down and comesinto the rapids, are swept on withfearful rapidity, and sent into thegulf at the rate of 30,000, 40,000, and 50,000 a year, a fearfulwaste of human life. The friends of humanity see this ter-rible destruction ; they station themselves above, and cry outto the people, Hack ! back for your lives : none escape who on. 618 STOP THAT BALL! get into these r;ij>i<ls, except by a miracle. Back, back fcyour souls sake* for no drunkard can inherit eternal they keep many back. Still there is the stream, and. inspite of every effort, the embarkation continues. .Men. in thepure spirit of benevolence, devise means to rescue those whoare in the rapids, and they construct a bridge over the vergeof the cataract. They save many of the poor, battered,drowning, shrieking wretches who have drifted to the veryedge; they set them on tin bridge, hind up their wounds, andsend them up the stream to tell others how they felt whenthey were in the rapids. The saved ones show the sears ontheir limbs, and they keep thousands back. Men upon thebridge and on the banks plead with hands uplifted; still thereis a stream of them pouring into eternity. Let us go andsee what is the matter. Away up yonder we find men whosesole business is to push others into the
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