. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . j ()h. young men, if (rod lias spared you, and youhave never been drunkin your lives, down onyour knees, and, in thegratitude of yoursouls,declare that von williic\ er again touch thatwhich may dethronereason. If I ask any youngman who is in the11 a 11 i t of d r i n ki n _!••Why do you drink ? it is probable his an-swer will be, in trueYankee style. Whyshould I not drink? If I should say. Perhaps youmay become a drunkard. No fear of my becoming adrunkard. Im not such a fool as to become a drunkard,sir? As if all were fools, in the comm
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . j ()h. young men, if (rod lias spared you, and youhave never been drunkin your lives, down onyour knees, and, in thegratitude of yoursouls,declare that von williic\ er again touch thatwhich may dethronereason. If I ask any youngman who is in the11 a 11 i t of d r i n ki n _!••Why do you drink ? it is probable his an-swer will be, in trueYankee style. Whyshould I not drink? If I should say. Perhaps youmay become a drunkard. No fear of my becoming adrunkard. Im not such a fool as to become a drunkard,sir? As if all were fools, in the common acceptationof that term, who had so degraded themselves! I do noluse the term fool in a moral or religious sense. All whocommit wilful sin are fools. Are they all fools who becomedrunkards? Were all who became so during the last cen-tury, fools? There are men with minds s>. gigantic thatthey could stand with one foot on the daisy while theother was lost among the dust of the stars. ami yettheir minds have been crippled by strong drink: men who. FOR K. FALSE ARGUMENTS. 5,Sl might have showered great thoughts all round them, as theoak sheds a layer of golden leaves in autumn. Such men aremore like drowsy bats, clinging to the dry limb of a deadtree, than like living souls. You say, I have a mind of myown, and can leave off when I like,* — as if the poor wretchwho has become a drunkard could not once say the say, I have more pride than to become a sot,—as ifthe drunkard did not once have pride as well as you; as if hehad not all the qualities necessary to constitute him a man,as well as you. All your arguments are false, young man,and you know it. In the temperance work we have great reason to thankGod, and take courage. If this cause be of man, it will cometo naught; if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it. Wejudge of the righteousness of our cause by the results, andthese are: The restoration of many drunkards to society, vir-tue, and religion : the
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