. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . lly by what he said. Dr. Richardson would haveput it in much better shape, but the man did a good work byhis method of putting the point. He said : — They tell us that alcohol givesstrength and nourishment. Now it doesnot; it gives stimulus. But, says his opponent,there can be no stimulus with-out some nourishment. His reply was, You sit downon a hornets nest, and its veryquickening, but it is not nourish- fog When we do not understandthe science of the question,we are forced to use commonillustrations; I give you anotheras a specimen.
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . lly by what he said. Dr. Richardson would haveput it in much better shape, but the man did a good work byhis method of putting the point. He said : — They tell us that alcohol givesstrength and nourishment. Now it doesnot; it gives stimulus. But, says his opponent,there can be no stimulus with-out some nourishment. His reply was, You sit downon a hornets nest, and its veryquickening, but it is not nourish- fog When we do not understandthe science of the question,we are forced to use commonillustrations; I give you anotheras a specimen. A man once saidto a friend of mine, — You are fighting whiskey;whiskey has done a great deal of good; why, whiskey hassaved a great many lives. My friend said, What do you mean? Why, said the man, I mean that whiskey has saved agreat many lives. Well, said my friend, you remind me of a composi-tion a boy wrote on the subject of a pin. A pin is a very queer sort of a thing. It has a round head and a sharp point; and if you stick pins , they17. 268 AX INTERESTING COMPOSITION. hurts. Women use pins to pin on their, cuffs and collars, andmen use pins when the buttons is off. ^ ou can get pins forfive cents a paper; but it you swallow them, they will killyou; but they have saved thousands of lives. The teacher said: Why, Thomas, what do you mean bythat? Said the boy: By people not swallowin of em. 1 say there is no good in intoxicating liquors as a bever-age. Yes, but, say some, I know better than when I was crossing the Atlantic in the steamshipAmerica, a person on hoard, who called himself a gentle-man, I suppose, tried to insult me; but such a man nevercan insult me, and so he failed. ••What! said he, goingto Great Britain to tell the Englishman that he must give uphis beer! Why, beer is the life of an Englishman. Ithought to myself, What a beery sort of existence thatmust be. But some say, I can do better with beer thanwithout it. I doubt it. Have you e
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