. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . gt; I m o-lad I m not a member of your church : if I was, Iwould get out of itto-morrow, if there issuch a word as can in reference to a caseso gross as that.* Mr. Gough, saidthe minister, we can-not discipline him fordrunkenness whilethere is so much mode-rate drinking, as it iscalled, in my man will take a couple of glasses of brandy and water,and will then be in the state you see him : but there are manymen in my church who take six or eight glasses without gettingdrunk, and we cannot make any particular offence of that.
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . gt; I m o-lad I m not a member of your church : if I was, Iwould get out of itto-morrow, if there issuch a word as can in reference to a caseso gross as that.* Mr. Gough, saidthe minister, we can-not discipline him fordrunkenness whilethere is so much mode-rate drinking, as it iscalled, in my man will take a couple of glasses of brandy and water,and will then be in the state you see him : but there are manymen in my church who take six or eight glasses without gettingdrunk, and we cannot make any particular offence of that. We come then to moderation, so called. As I have saidbefore,— I say now. — every man who becomes a drunkardbecomes so in trying to be a moderate drinker, and he docs itby argument, and by coming to certain conclusions. A manwill say to me: Oh, I can Lei it alone when I please. lres,you can let it alone if you please. We will change the wordwhen to ?•if. Yon can give it up if you please. Billsuppose you dont please, what then? Now, the possession. ONE or MY LIST! N 1 R? A QUAKERS ADVICE. 347 of power is of no value unless I have the will to exercise thatpower. I have sometimes thought it was an awful fact thatGod has given to every man a will (I say it with reverence)independent of His will. Amid thunderings and lightnings,when the voice was so terrible that the people begged theymight hear it no more lest they die, God spake these words: Thou shalt not, and we can, and do, say, I will. Christsays, Come unto me, and we can, and do, say, I will say, I can, but I wont. Why not say, I can, and Iwill? As a Quaker once said to his son: John, thee canleave off drinking just as easily as thee can open thy * -Why, when thee gets a glass in thy hand, andraiseth it to thy mouth, just open thy hand, and thee willnever get drunk. So we say to a man. you can if youwill. You possess the power, but you have no will to exer-cise that power. I can open my hand if I please.
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