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Show THE AFTER-GLASS. Following are some striking pas-pages pas-pages from a sermon on "Drunkenness" "Drunken-ness" by Rev. Father H. Cotter: The drunkard lays down his glass and says, "Ah! that was good." I propose pro-pose that he will wash the whisky down with a glass I will fill. Drink down the tears of your sorrowing mother, and say. "Ah! they taste well!" Drink down the blood of your broken-hearted wife, and say, "Ah! it tastes well!" Drain off the cud. filled with your own honor, and say, "It tastes well!" You, ladies and 'gentlemen, 'gen-tlemen, may say the picture is overdrawn; over-drawn; seek, then, from those intimately inti-mately concerned, the truth. Let the drunkard ask his mother what has made her eyes red-rimmed and bloodshot, blood-shot, and her sigh will give him an eloquent answer. Let the drunkard ask his wife, what has given pallor to her cheeks, and her surprise that he did not know will be his rebuke. Let the drunkard ask his own heart what has become of God-given affections, and he will find that blue flame of alcohol al-cohol has licked dry the deepest depths of his soul's honor. And all this, for what? Maybe to gain the golden purpose of ambition? No, but to kill ambition. Maybe to reach a fortune? No, but to destroy an actual or prevent a possible one. Maybe May-be to handicap an enemy, and feel the gratification arising from a sense of victory? Not so; but to deliver himself gagged and bound with a thousand chains to the arch-enemy 01 true manhood and Christian character. charac-ter. The drunkard slaughters all his obligations for a bottle of rotten liquor and so goes staggering through life, until he falls drunk at the foot of God's judgment seat. Ah! there, let us leave him; even our nrayers can-ot can-ot follow him; ottr prayers, like his life, would be a mockery to God. |