. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . Procession — Whata Temperance Boy Accomplished — An Army Officers Story — CharityChildren — A Tour Through a Tenement House — What was DiscoveredUnder the Rafters —A Dying Little Waif—Hiding from Father —Friendless and Motherless — An Affecting Scene — The Dying BoysHymn — Death in a Garret — Rest at Last — How a Minister Argued thePoints — Convinced — God Bless the Children. T is a great work to save adrunkard. It is worth alife-effort to lift a man fromdegradation. It is worth amighty self-sacrifice to raisea man, and enable him to|/^
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . Procession — Whata Temperance Boy Accomplished — An Army Officers Story — CharityChildren — A Tour Through a Tenement House — What was DiscoveredUnder the Rafters —A Dying Little Waif—Hiding from Father —Friendless and Motherless — An Affecting Scene — The Dying BoysHymn — Death in a Garret — Rest at Last — How a Minister Argued thePoints — Convinced — God Bless the Children. T is a great work to save adrunkard. It is worth alife-effort to lift a man fromdegradation. It is worth amighty self-sacrifice to raisea man, and enable him to|/^ ^ y ^ stand as a man free from his|x debasement and fetters; but to pre-vent his fall is far better. A boy, when asked, Would youtell a lie for fifty dollars? replied, No; because when the dollars aregone, the lie will stick. Though we may reform a manfrom drunkenness, no one can ever fully recover from theeffects of years of dissipation and intemperance. You putyour hand in the hand of a giant, and he crushes it. You 239. 240 CAPACITY OF CHILDREN. shriek in your agony, and by and by, with a desperate effort, you draw forth your hand. It is crushed and torn, mangledand bleeding. That hand may be at last healed, but it willbe a mutilated hand as long as yon live. And so a man maybe cured of this evil of drunkenness, but the marks are uponhim, and will be to the day of his death. Man} a man inperfect health has a face fearfully marred and scarred fromsmallpox ; the disease has gone, but the marks it is a more important work to prevent than it isto cure. Now, one would suppose there would be no opposition tothis work. But there are some persons who oppose every-thing that does not suit their own narrow views, or that theyhave not suggested, and so there is opposition. The greatobjection seems to be that these children are led and enticedto sign the pledge, without appealing to their underrate the capacity of children
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