. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . andsome pair of boots; handsomest pair of bootsI eber saw in my life. Dem was bery expensive boots, demwas; de best boots I eber set my eyes on. An 1 wanted debbil says, Take em. De Lawd says. Leave emalone. Now what was I going to do? I wanted dem says, -Take em,1 and de Lawd says. Let em alone. Dat s two toone: we is inclar majority,an I dontknow what todo. So I jes1made a compro-mise wid deLawd, an tooka cheap pair ofshoes offanodershell, and walkoll wid em. Someof thesepeople who re-gard theni-seh es as advo-cates
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . andsome pair of boots; handsomest pair of bootsI eber saw in my life. Dem was bery expensive boots, demwas; de best boots I eber set my eyes on. An 1 wanted debbil says, Take em. De Lawd says. Leave emalone. Now what was I going to do? I wanted dem says, -Take em,1 and de Lawd says. Let em alone. Dat s two toone: we is inclar majority,an I dontknow what todo. So I jes1made a compro-mise wid deLawd, an tooka cheap pair ofshoes offanodershell, and walkoll wid em. Someof thesepeople who re-gard theni-seh es as advo-cates of the cause do more harm than good. 1 rememberleading a story of a man who was drunk, and a gentlemancame to him and said. What are you doing? Doing?Well, that s just what Im doing. No. but what are yonabout? What am I about? Thats just exactly what Iam about. But what is your business? Business?I m in the temperance business. In the temperance bnsi-ness. Why, how in the world do yon make that out??Why look here: you see Ive got a brother, and hes a. FEARFUL EXAMPLE. PEOPLE HAKD TO PLEASE. 127 temperance lecturer, and I go along with him as the fearfulexample of the evils of intemperance. I do not know butthat man was honest, for a man will think anything almost,when he is in the habit of drinking. Our method is simple, it is lawful, and it is expedient, whenwe adopt it for the sake of others. And I ask, if a principleis worth adopting for the sake of example to save others, is itnot worth adopting for its own sake? We need, and ask for, your influence. Many persons areafflicted with a great deal of modesty, and when asked to signthe pledge, say, I dont know that I have any particular in-fluence. Such persons would not be pleased if I should saythey had no particular influence. I once made a man veryangry who said, I dont know that I have any particular in-fluence. I said, I dont know that you have. He wasquite vexed because I agreed with him. He was like the manthat stood up
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