Show DRINKS DANGERS k eloquently depicted by the ilens arlus orator bolm U clon gansl 11 in union opera house monday evellen Evell ln may 12 otil owing qwing to the very unfavorable weather there was only a moderate though attentive and appreciative audience at the union opera house monday evening to hear MR JOHN S B GOUGH the great lecturer on temperance whose reputation has gone throughout this country and all the world fur for forty years he was introduced by rev rey K R Hartle hartley yand and commenced by stating that 41 years ago he lie had first signed the pledge since which time ho he had delivered lectures THE SUBJECT OP OF TEMPERA temperance NCr was indeed as old as the hills bills drunkenness was generally admitted to bo be an eail the use ofin of intoxicating beverages was a source of temptation to be frowned down relentlessly by all lovers of mankind As to the principle of total abstinence he held beldi that bat every man had a right lo 10 his own personal opinion and ho lie was prepared to meet all objections to IE he advocated the principle of temperance from a common sense standpoint stand point as ho he understood it it was argued the bible admitted and sanctioned sanction ed the use of wine but what of it it may bo be lawful to drink wine wine but it is also right in us to abstain from the lawful gratification of our appetite men quoted scripture for almost every absurdity but that was no reason why we sho should u id adhere to every such conclusion search itkis this land oscr and find a man mail sixty sixty years of age who will say that he lic had NEVER TOUCHED A A DROP of intoxicating stuff and regretted that he lie had not learned it orthis of this the speaker gave graphic experiences drink was the curse which went forth from the tile penitentiary drink was the curse exhaled from the black lips odthe of ahe dying inebriate the moderate drinker of course was not worse than the total drunkard his own father had been a moderate drinker taking his glass of ale when he be could get it consistently and he lie lived to become 94 years of age should this how bow ever be an encouragement for young men to drink the speaker kne waman 88 years of age who had i awo IT 0 bullets in his body since the barof 1812 but should therefore the people get BULLETS INTO thein BODIES his father lived to algood old age in spite af pf abis his drinking not because of oi it and he lie his son could no more be a moderate drinker than to havo have a cannon go off mildly at tit a time the speaker then exemplified the power of will in in breaking a habit in n a very drastic manner giving instances of former devotees of th the c tobacco practice practice in drink we throw away away ourselves all our roan man liness our reason our ambition our aspirations our hopes and our glory of this mr gough gave powerful illustrations from practical life of a young mau man whose sufferings in delirium cremens tremens iren tens with soft hairy spiders crawling over his legs and green bugs buzzing through liis his very nostrils ho be depicted in thrilling language THE APPETITE for intoxication is not a natural instinct the man who never touched drink does not have a taste or inclination clitia cli nation tion for it mr gough here deplored the pretenses of tha moderate use of drink and showed up the fallacies of the arguments used in favor of temperate drinking if a man drinks as much as he can stand then ho he shows a power of self control and self denial 1 drunkenness must not be measured by a mans abili ability tySo 0 o stand so much or so little of toddy or ale A christian can bo be poisoned just us ps quick aa as a and the graco grace of god baa has no power to prevent drink from affecting a man mans s physical system although it wilt will help him tg fight the monster and trams tram pie on it shui shuhing ing victory mr gough gave startling and stirring instances of the damnable INFLUENCE OF showing that the grace of god was unable to prevent physical causes from taking physical effects A church had no right to discipline a man for getting drunk unless they disciplined him for drinking it depends more on the temperament or nervous susceptibility of a man what effect drin drink will have on him which the speaker aa as lucidly as S ludicrously illustrated with funny anecdotes there were men who were from one years end to the other who still never were drunk being naturally ni niggardly mg gardly stin stingy gy stolid all and d of a handshake as cold as dead fish but on the other hand there is the sanguine tempered man the good natured large whom the temptation of drinkwitz drink with ita temporary exhilaration draws into the vortex of physical socia land moral ruin and perdition as mr gough in thrilling language depicted mr GREAT consisted in people not recognizing the danger dangers they are rushing into tho the trouble was with young people PO not revolting at the first touch of abe de deadly tal y drink frink this the speaker ler showed by illustrating how the youths willbe tempted and induced into taking a social glass 1 b by their companions when they have no inclination but at the same time do not possess tho moral stamina to refuse to say no exercising the almighty power of f tho the will this power of will god had given to man independent even of his own will some men possessed a powerful will as mr ur gough it illustrated lust rated from personal perso fial ac acquaint quain tc there vaa not a drunkard on earth who if lie really willed it could not give give up his evil practice asking god honestly for iiii a assistance asis to free himself from tha the curse curs e for god would hear bear the honest prayer AND ANSWER IT Dri drink tilli was tho the great and chief destroyer of all that was grand virtuous and noble in man A man who steals once is a thief a man who lies once is a liar why then should not a man who gets drunk occasionally be called a drunkard the sleak speaker cr with avith a strong peroration taken from the landscape of the yosemite Yoe emite valley exhorted the young and old to realize the power and grandeur of will an element grander than all of natures mat material orial creations simple intoxication was a wrong in itself of the comic aspects of which the speaker gave ave as amusing incidents as its lie narrated jar rated terrible accounts of consequences drunkenness was debasing mildewing mil dewing scathe scathing ng damning the very best elements in mans man a nature before concluding tho the speaker admonished the young men particularly to keep themselves their bodies and souls sou Is free from the stain and curso curse of drink not hunting bunting and chasin chasing after the gorgeously glittering bubble of fascinating 0 gratification of a Vl VICIOUS bIOUS passionate APPETITE I 1 the evil of drink was not drunkenness but intoxication so said an eminent english physician and the speaker adduced further ni medical edical authority to show that drinking especially of beer tends to disease disca se early earl decay and premature death wrong and right were as two di verging merging lines that never could meet the great task was to build a bar rier between tho the unpolluted lip and the intoxicating cup also it was a noble work to reform and restore the drunkards which could be done with the right kind of charitable persistency of which mr gough gave most touching 0 anecdotes fro from in liis his own personal experience wh which i eh called forth overwhelming applause u se |