. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ou should be willing to suffer for aprinciple. Take a man that has been a drunkard fur ten ortwenty years, saturated with drink. He puts his name on thetemperance pledge to-night. You say it will be a good thingfor him if he only keeps it. There is the point. Than mancan keep the pledge very well until the next morning, butwhen the next morning comes, what then? The suffering!He is weak,— physically, intellectually, morally, and spirituallyweak; he cannot hold his hands steady: he has no power overhis nerves ; he is suffering from the h
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ou should be willing to suffer for aprinciple. Take a man that has been a drunkard fur ten ortwenty years, saturated with drink. He puts his name on thetemperance pledge to-night. You say it will be a good thingfor him if he only keeps it. There is the point. Than mancan keep the pledge very well until the next morning, butwhen the next morning comes, what then? The suffering!He is weak,— physically, intellectually, morally, and spirituallyweak; he cannot hold his hands steady: he has no power overhis nerves ; he is suffering from the horrible shivers and theterrible sensations of delirium tremens. * This incident is taken from sir William Culls testimony before ilie com-mittee of the House of Lords, and is told in full on page Im. MY OWK EXPERIENCE. 525 Now here is this man in his weakness, longing for drink ashe never longed for anything upon earth or in heaven. Herecomes the temptation. Now that man knows that if he takesa glass of brandy it will set him up, he knows that he will. TuesdaywgwOct. THE PAST. obtain relief if he takes it. Would you advise him to take itif it would relieve him of that suffering ? All the pangs ofneuralgia, rheumatism, and cramps that I ever felt are nothingto what I suffered the last Tuesday night of October, 1842,when I stood face to face with the giant that held me by one 520 MR- AND MRS. SPURGEON. finger for years. Ought a man to violate his principle for aUtile touch of neuralgia ? \.r{ us stand by the principle of total abstinence, and laugh to scorn those who say that it is good lor us to takeintoxicating Liquor as a medicine. A man belonging to theHoxton Hall Blue-ribbon Army, who had been a drunkard,was taken ill, and the doctor said, Total abstinence wontsuit you, you must take a little ale. kk I low much, doctor? *• You must take half a pint of stout with your dinner, andhalf a pint of beer before you go to bed/ k> Is that all?inquired the man. Yes, said
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