. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . them to bed, and we came home without them. It wassuch fun. Ha. ha!* What! Young men so drunk thatthey could not be polite to ladies, and could not go homewith them ! Ami that is/ww/ itn! Let me say a word or two to the ladies, for their influenceis of great importance in temperance work. I do not pre-tend to say that I know the reason why the ladies do notwish to get rid of the drinking customs of society, but I willtell you a story that was told to me. A clergyman in thiscountry was called upon to marry a couple, and the man wasso ver
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . them to bed, and we came home without them. It wassuch fun. Ha. ha!* What! Young men so drunk thatthey could not be polite to ladies, and could not go homewith them ! Ami that is/ww/ itn! Let me say a word or two to the ladies, for their influenceis of great importance in temperance work. I do not pre-tend to say that I know the reason why the ladies do notwish to get rid of the drinking customs of society, but I willtell you a story that was told to me. A clergyman in thiscountry was called upon to marry a couple, and the man wasso very drunk that the clergyman said: I will have nothingto do with you. You must come when you arc sober. Ycu A HARD CASE. 571 are miserably drunk and not in a fit state to be went home, and in about a week afterwards came againas drunk as ever, or a little worse. - Why, said the clergy-man, -I told you before that I would not marry you insuch a state as this. Go away with you, and come againwhen you are in a proper condition. About a week after. that, the clergy-man met the girlin the street and B*said to he r, •Young woman,you should notbring that man ing state to bemarried. Lorsir, said she,he wont comewhen lies so-ber! I do notpretend to say, in such a shock- an unwilling bridegroom. you know, thatthat is the reason, but such a thing as that looks alittlesuspicious. Young men, I appeal to you; what is it for a man to getdrunk? Come with me to the Yosemite Valley in stands that mighty rock, El Capitan, a mile seems in this clear, dry atmosphere as if you might strikeit with a stone. Approach it. Nearer vet, How it loomsup before you! How it grows in majesty and grandeurSee yon shrub. Shrub? That is a tree one hundred and o, _ THE yOSEMITE VALLEY. fifty feet in height and Pour feet in diameter. Nearer yet .still nearer. See thai dent in the face of the rock. Dent?It is a fissure seventy-five feel deep. Nearer, and yel still nearer. Now look
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