Show to T H ensor M D odden utah july 17 1802 tile gentleman who LIB bas proven and branded drunkenness as 09 a disease the tile medical man who w ho is is recognized as the creator of a cure to t tho I 1 io interests of society and tho tile world the practitioner whose fame is 13 governed equally in ability it and integrity I 1 daizo this tile present opportunity tunit 11 as one ono to express that affectionate a admiration mi ration with which your graduates and associates cannot think thin k of but in love lovland and Frati gratitude tude nor mention your name but in praise what W aliat liat graduate can or will w ill forget the tile example your genius sets us when you have gone from our happy homo the tile ogden ensor institute bapty I 1 iv I 1 i hao have immortalized we know tl bat in your noble work and labors 5 our manly struggles which have found foun dour fame az and praise for forvour you before the world you will take with you the humble prayers of all whom your genius lias has cured so soothed and strengthened against the tile calamities and misfortune of drink you I 1 feel assured will not deem it son presumption resumption in in one whom w horn you y ou have hav e done e so much for to render my humble tribute of respect to your noble gen erous self young men tins this letter is is intended eminently preeminently pre for you the writer hasi has tasted every cv cry false falso pleasure and reaped ever every delusive gain to bo be domed derived from the c drunkards runk ards life and lias has drained to the bitter dregs its full cli alice of humiliation out of my living grave I 1 have boino with w ith humble thankfulness to a divine div me providence and the creator of the ensor cure which has made clear to me ine tho tile infamy of my former life and given roe me strength and and courage to devote dev oto my remaining ma ining years cars to a w ork of personal good U and public benefaction my knowledge is is now and liere here trans transformed forme from the agent of cv evil il to tho the instrument of good and out of it I 1 wll will endeavor to exar express ass en every cry trick and device of strong dr drink that all may plainly see the skeleton through tile mask and thus armed against the delusive of drink bo be enabled to escape its snares and pitfalls in safety directly or indirectly tins this evil drink strikes at the w whole liole world w orld the instrument of drink may differ but tho the principal is is the same hie the drunkard is 11 the man who starves women and children the man mail who exchange exchanges health and heaven for loss of lionor honor and the loss of ins his immortal soul alie very ir t idea of drink is is at var war with all the industries destries dus tries of society young men old men social drinkers amateur drinkers fathers of young men and mothers of young girls who will presently rung be 0 the wives of our youth read tins this letter and reflect you will w ill karn learn liere here that to attempt to turn the niagara a r a falls with w etli a thread would w oud be not fe less s s hopeless than for alie amateur drinker to win you will learn of the swift and speedy course along the steep incline that leads down to the mat pit t of ruin rum and dishonor dis lionor and be made to realize the deadly danger of the fatal first drink which is is at war w ar with vi etli all modern society I 1 you will learn that personal personal liappis ness can bo be only attained by the preservation v aaion of personal honor and that alib avenues to strong drink are the very gates to liell hell you will learn that gods best gifts to ins his creation man are alo also presented by tile drinking pasion passion louwill you will learn to be better husban husbands kis better fathers fat liers better citizens and better men you will become not only armed yourself your belf against the insidious ap cs of ille hated vice vice drik but you will be endowed with knowledge tha t can be used to alio protection and benefit of allt all and especially the youth with m whom hoin you may bo be brought into social or business contact I 1 know liow how I 1 could more fits fit tingly close my exposition of drink than by a description jon such as firven given above nothing could more aptly il illustrate pitr ate the remorseless tactics of the drunkard 10 bollnng al could better show tho the ity of afie the dupe nothing could better exemplify the hollowness hollow aca of th alie eperson person who takes more strong drink that nature requires requires and whiled is up with we the false pride that it w would bo be degrading to him to be known as a graduate of the ensor which I 1 is better ater to be known to the country at arg large as a graduate of the ensor or as a drunkard frequently or undre benty oli parents to whose tender care has been c committed a charge winch which god clims himself e if lias has denominated a sacred trust listen to tile voice of a penitent who has sounded the depths of tins this gnat great question of drink tins this description w would not be complete alete it if I 1 failed to bring out in in bold re cef the figure of this noble man ensor and his mysterious te rious cure lias has long proven to lna his fr friends ayd en s and the country at large it is is what lie and more than he lie represents it endowed by nature with in indomitable pluck and marvelous man clous ener energy 91 lie lias has carried out ins his own success lie it is beyond question one of the greatest bene benefactors factors to the I 1 human race he ile is as noble as ins his cure is is great in hia his profession lie fears no foe and recognizes all friends lie ile 1 looms oo 00 I 1 up pas as a tower in in the midst of ins his graduates and friends who have every reason to respect and land stand by him slay may god GW speed him in ins his treat great work w ork is the Y e r from one who knows what good goad er lie and n d ins his great discovery for the cure of drunkenness is is doing your obedient servant t WM Muni Mun |