. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . THE OF THE TEMPTER — CHARMED UNTIL CHAINED— THE BATTLE OF LIFE — A STAINED RECORD. The Old Lady and the Haystack — Driving Nails in Ones Own Coffin — TheGreen-eyed, Fiery-tongued Serpent — Robbing Birds Nests — Suspendedin Mid-air — A Frightful Position — Only a Single Strand Between Lifeand Death — A Thrilling Incident — Narrow Escape — My Frolic With aChild — A Hoy Again — The Drunken Loafer — Look on This Picture,Then on That — Youth and (>ld Age Side by Sidi— A Picture for YoungMen — Past. Present, and Future — A Physician
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . THE OF THE TEMPTER — CHARMED UNTIL CHAINED— THE BATTLE OF LIFE — A STAINED RECORD. The Old Lady and the Haystack — Driving Nails in Ones Own Coffin — TheGreen-eyed, Fiery-tongued Serpent — Robbing Birds Nests — Suspendedin Mid-air — A Frightful Position — Only a Single Strand Between Lifeand Death — A Thrilling Incident — Narrow Escape — My Frolic With aChild — A Hoy Again — The Drunken Loafer — Look on This Picture,Then on That — Youth and (>ld Age Side by Sidi— A Picture for YoungMen — Past. Present, and Future — A Physicians Story — A PatheticIncident — Alone — A Night in the Cold and Dark—A Little Girls SadStory—The Old Ladys Feelings — A Certain-sort-of-Goneness —Nearer and Nearer to the End — A Stained Record — Life is What YouChoose to Make it — Where Are Those Dogs Going . — Treasures Laidup Above — Lifes Battlefield — Honorable Scars — A Disgraced RegimentWinning Pack Their Colors — Honor HE great object we have in view is to stir up the people to do something against the fearful curst1 of intemperance. We think \ye gain one g >11 point when we can make IP? -r,:r them acquainted, in some de- ^& gree, with this terrible evil. A great many persons tell us that they see U--g- nL — v-T^ nothing of all the evils we describe. :$%r The fact is, they know no more about the evils of drunkenness than the old lady knew of the scenery through which she passed the first time she ever rude in a railroad car. Some one said to her, Well, madam, what did you sec/* -Sec! nothing at all but a haystack, and that was going the other way!* W e22fi THE FASCINATION OF DRINK. 227 want to show people, if we can, the terrible evil we seek toremove. I wish I could lift the curtain that conceals fromtheir view the secrets of this awful charnel-house. That ter-rible curse of drunkenness ! the mind of man cannot grasp itin its wide exten
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