. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . een permitted to sow and pray over, but of which wehave not been permitted to gather in the increase. CHAPTER XXX. THE REASON WHY— THE FIRST GLASS — RECOLLECTIONSOF MY FATHER — HUMOROUS STORIES. Our Standpoint — Opposition We Meet — An Obliging Blacksmith — MyRespect for Other Peoples Opinions — Tower of Truth — What .Make-Public Sentinienl— ur Duty—A Funny Story as Told by BishopClark — A Disputed Question in Astronomy — A Laughable Incident-Ail Unnatural Appetite —The Struggle of a Lifetime —Why 1 AmPolite to Dogs —Giving the Curs a W
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . een permitted to sow and pray over, but of which wehave not been permitted to gather in the increase. CHAPTER XXX. THE REASON WHY— THE FIRST GLASS — RECOLLECTIONSOF MY FATHER — HUMOROUS STORIES. Our Standpoint — Opposition We Meet — An Obliging Blacksmith — MyRespect for Other Peoples Opinions — Tower of Truth — What .Make-Public Sentinienl— ur Duty—A Funny Story as Told by BishopClark — A Disputed Question in Astronomy — A Laughable Incident-Ail Unnatural Appetite —The Struggle of a Lifetime —Why 1 AmPolite to Dogs —Giving the Curs a Wide Berth —My Dread of Hydro-phobia — What Rev. E. II. Chapin Said — Terrible Results of the FirstGlass —A Graphic Picture — Recollections of My Father —His Habit ofModerate Drinking —His Death at Smety-four — Advice to ModerateDrinkers —An Infamous Example —The Man at the Top of the ChurchSpire — A Dangerous Position — O Sandy. Im bavin an AwfuTumble—A Physicians story— Smoked to IIE whole range of argumentin reference to the temper-ance question has been goneover again and again. 1 be-lieve all has been said on theIIRnY vNxT subject that need be said, ifWxyT: ^ those who hear would onlysliT/vsil^ act according to their ;, V It is a difficult matter to speak on Aga the temperance question, because wedo not stand on debatable every great enterprise it is neces-sary to lay down certain propositions, certain points uponwhich to base operations, and the difficulty has been to ob-tain the assent of the people to these necessary points. Butthere is no difficulty here in the temperance movement. To A BLIGHTING CUESE. 583 the first proposition which we lay down is yielded the con-scious, willing assent of every sane and reflecting mindamong us; namely, that drunkenness is a great evil. Is thereany need of argument on this point? Were I to occupy fiveminutes in endeavoring to prove that drunkenn
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