. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . out of his pocket, unfolded it, and cameto a piece of clean paper: he opened that and showed us abeautifully bound copy of the Bible. Said he: Sly wifegave me this when I left home. She is a good woman. Sheput my name in it, as you see. I am trying to keep the bookclean until I go home. We earnestly pleaded with him to giveup the drink. I shall never forget how he suddenly sprangto his feet, and, throwing his cane on the floor with a loudcrash, said, kk Gentlemen, you ask me to give up the me to sever my right hand from the wr
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . out of his pocket, unfolded it, and cameto a piece of clean paper: he opened that and showed us abeautifully bound copy of the Bible. Said he: Sly wifegave me this when I left home. She is a good woman. Sheput my name in it, as you see. I am trying to keep the bookclean until I go home. We earnestly pleaded with him to giveup the drink. I shall never forget how he suddenly sprangto his feet, and, throwing his cane on the floor with a loudcrash, said, kk Gentlemen, you ask me to give up the me to sever my right hand from the wrist, and I can doit; but to give up the drink — NEVER! Six days after thathe cut himself all to pieces with a bowie knife, in the Hotel. That was his end. Now we ask you, for the sake of others, to give up thatwhich ma)T be a gratification to yourself. That is the nobilityof oui enterprise; it requires benevolence, and true benevo-lence always costs something. But some say, Will nothingbut total abstinence do? To use a Yankee expression, I. lillis i&M PORT-WINE LEGISLATION. 4<J1 guess not. What else would you have ? Shall it be occa-sional abstinence? That is what every drunkard is obligedto come to, — he must come to that, sometimes, to save hislife, — and, as the prison surgeons sajr, he is forced to adoptit when he gets into jail. It must be occasional or total. SirWilliam Gull says it may be more damaging to a moderatedrinker than to a drunkard, because the one may be able tocarry his system of daily drinking for a long time, whereasthe other man, who was incapable of drinking so much, wouldbe obliged to discontinue the practice ; and in reply to thequestion, What would you say about our forefathers, whodrank two or three bottles of port wine daily, till the}^ wereseventy or eighty years of age? he said, I have noticed thattheir legislation has often to be reversed. u Oh, say some, use it moderately. What is •mode-rately? You cannot measure it, you can
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