. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . id, But I do, though ; you re so he was, — a ehnreh-niemher babbling, maudlin, silly, staggering drunk: right inthe square of the village. Now there were a num-ber of young men who didnot like that revival, andthis was what some peoplecall nuts for them. Amember of the church ! ! Why, thats one k\ I henew converts. 1 le spoke theother night at the prayer-meeting. Set im up ! Oh,oh ! Now here was achurch disgraced throughan individual did the ehnreh do?Th ey discipli n ed h i dealt with him. Theywere ob
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . id, But I do, though ; you re so he was, — a ehnreh-niemher babbling, maudlin, silly, staggering drunk: right inthe square of the village. Now there were a num-ber of young men who didnot like that revival, andthis was what some peoplecall nuts for them. Amember of the church ! ! Why, thats one k\ I henew converts. 1 le spoke theother night at the prayer-meeting. Set im up ! Oh,oh ! Now here was achurch disgraced throughan individual did the ehnreh do?Th ey discipli n ed h i dealt with him. Theywere obliged to deal with him. And the dealing with himso broke his heart, that he gave up his business and workedon a farm for about eighteen months. Never did 1 know aman SO completely broken down as he was. by the disgrace ofthat ehnreh discipline in this small village. Now for whatdid the ehnreh discipline him ? They disciplined him solelybecause he could not stand two glasses of brandy and he had stood it. they would not have touched him. If he. I— DONT— KNOW.* MEN WHO CANT STAND IT. 567 had drank twenty glasses and stood it, they would not havedealt with him. They disciplined him for what he couldnot help. He could help drinking, but he could not help theeffect after he had drank, and they disciplined him for that. I knew men in that church who drank two glasses everyday of their lives, and I should like to see the church under-take to deal with them. Would not there be a row? Any-body see me the worse for drink ? I should like them to sayso. I challenge them to say so. I should like to see thechurch discipline me/ Now the church does nut touchthese men, because they can stand it; but the poor fellowwho cannot stand it is disciplined. Many a man has beensentenced to prison for drunkenness by a judge who drankmore liquor than he did. Many a church-member has beendisciplined for drunkenness who drank less in quantity thanthose who condemned him. You may consider me
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