Show DRUGGIST OPIUM Army Officer Also Restored to Respectability by Tom Mackeys Work GOSPEL MISSION NOW BUSY FOURTEEN DRUNKARDS RE RECLAIMED CLAIMED IN ONE WEEK This is the first day in five years that I have not been under the influence ence of opium or morphine and the time was fast coming when I would have lost my home my position and every everything everything thing I had in the world worth living for forThia This Thia was the startling testimony given en by a prominent druggist in the Vol Volunteers Volunteers of America Gospel hall In Corn Com Commercial mercial street yesterday afternoon a aman aman man who contracted the opium habit In China five years ago and who has since been a frequent visitor to Plum alley the heart of the opium den dIe dis district of Salt Lake The druggist is em employed at present as a prescription clerk clerkIn In one of the downtown pharmacies and has dally had the lives of scores of drug store patrons depending upon his Infallibility Yet he testified yesterday that it was his first day from under the influence of opium or morphine It was only one more of the instances of at erring humanity that are being daily brought to light from lifes seamy side sideby sideby by the meetings conducted by Evangel Evangelist 1st Tom Mackey and Mrs Mackey This druggist entered the meeting by chance last Thursday night and asked Mr Mackeys help In freeing himself from the influence of the drugs to which he ha had become a slave Mr Mackey gave time the best advice he knew pray to be freed from It Yesterday the druggist declared he would never touch the drugs again If it meant the sacrifice of his life His face showed colorless and his eyes carried a dead stare of an ambi ambitionless man as he testified but he re reiterated reIterated iterated that being free from the drug habit meant more to him than life and heartbreaking in incidents incidents are constantly being developed In the Mackey meetings Out at Fort Douglas an army officer has taken a anew anew new grip on himself that may mean for him the realization of a dream that was shattered by a few nights dissipation in Commercial street One month ago the officer had prepared for a wedding his fiancee an eastern girl having started from her home for this city With a large sum of money he had saved he stopped In a Commercial street dive a few days before the date set for forthe forthe the wedding When he came into a Mackey meeting about two weeks ago he was haggard and His money was gone and he lie had been forced to wire to his fiancee to return to her home Inspired by the words of the evangel 1st the officer said he would return to the fort and make good Yesterday he came into the meeting and Informed Mr Mackey that his wedding was set for early next month Fourteen drunkards have come to time the altar in the Gospel hall during the last week S S |