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Show THE (TRSK OK IR!Xu. j (Continued from Pa-e i. . I I not escape the clutches of the .. ,; ,,, whose power they had once rei-LI, --;- , , ., I selves. " I Xow. it seems evident from .i ! ., I power the drink habit secures v ; ; i largely due to natural t-nier;Mne;:-. ,. ,. who. by the inherent tendencies :. f tio-ns, which they are utterly unable .; ' Ui I the ordinary interests of mankind U(j. . , . P( ' i pugnant, seek elsewhere To -ati-t'y ij. , , their hearts ami minds. So long ;, . . I fervor holds sway these men are mod. : t ;,,., but as soon as this fervor t'or-ak, - . .. ;. j docs, inevitably, all men at times ti,, . : I deplorable weakness and despair, seek ..... ;., t stimulants, and unable to moderate their . -:i, . I for suclrstimulants, debase and bn; ;,,.. -;,;. manhood by over-indulgence. F.iiiior ti;:-. , ',.ia7. ing once, ere any tendency to religion- ; : , t ,,,.( j manifested itself fallen a victim t., '.,, tiveness of ab-oholie stimulants, the. ; .:;-,.It:v 5 sought the supernatural aids religion in ;'u,:iT I struggles to emancipate themselves r..:il ,(. I monical grasp, but all too late. Untortima'-iv f... the tjurnose of this solicitous iiiumrv , 1 i failed to surhcicntjy acquaint himself with i . iUJ. j torics of these men to determine which , ,,. jt two hypotheses would the more accurate!;.- i-xni.h.i ' the perplexing problem 'with which we ,.:i. I fronted. j But, be that as it may, is not the plight of ;':i, f men a most pitiable and a heartrending ,w: j Would not any man animated by true t 'hristia:, : I principles gladly forego the pleasure that he luig'it, derive from an occasional glass of wine or am -9 ardent spirits if, by so doing, he might -avo a f..'- low creature from such a dread and lea li-,,m,. ! malady the lot of the hopeless, though dc-p, rati- ly struggling, drunkard? j It is with a view to persuading all well-di . ,.., j men to Use their influence in disiiading the young j man from taking his first drink of intoxicants iha". : this appeal is made for it is certain that 11,. nu's tempera men t will irrcsistably impel him t, drink if his system has not -been ruined by ovei--in,lu!r'- l euce. To publish in an influential journal an aryu- ment tending to justify the habit of the modern?? i drinker is, the writer is convinced, a most ill- ; advised action. It is therefore to be Imped ibr. ): our Catholic journals may be prevailed upon t,. henceforth eschew the publication of ail such ma:- ter. Regardless of what our views may he nu- cerning the moderate use of stimulants by him who may safely indulge, no one can feel justitifj in encouraging a young man, who might otherwise i abstain, to indulge in the first; glass, which might, eventually bring him to the drunkard's grave. What father who had nco.lent-.ll,- ,!is.., .rr.l 1 that a- dose of deadly poison which would le fatal to the ordinary mortal was. for some my-termi:-; ' reason actually beneficial to him. Mould .therefore i encuorage a beloved son or even a stranger, i'-r - .j that matter to partake of a like dose, in the vagu hope that it might have a similar effect.' Yet the problem we are here mooting presents a la-t strikingly dissimilar case. I-i there a man wh would not prefer to see a beloved child die a nio-r painful death, rather than have him live the life .f a hopelessly irretrievable drunkard? It were better far that a thousand vac. a mil- 5 lion men should deny themselves or be denied, tho j questionable benefits to be derived from indulge mf : in alcoholic stimulants, than that the least among r them should become a' habitual drunkard. tIiu- I wrecking and brutalizing his being that exalted human entity that was created in the image and likeness of the Eternal God. ' A. C. LAYMAN'. j |
