AN INFAMOUS MOCKERY.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 52, 3 May 1884, Page 3

AN INFAMOUS MOCKERY.

(Continued.) (advebtisement.) Men in that condition of stupidity and helplessness into which they are landed by strong drink become objects of contempt and ridicule. They frequently exhibit their degradation and drunken folly in the most public places, drawing arbund them the curious and idle crowd, to feast the vitiated eyes and ears of those forming it on their obscene gestures and sayings. See the crowds of children that follow the drunkard as he goes reeling and stumbling down the street, watching with keen and mirthful interest his insane movements and hurrahing his hoarse and vulgar strains. What a corrupting spectacle ! How the witnessing of such must tend to lessen all sentiments of lofty esteem and respect for others in the minds of the young, and seeing chiefly its more comical features, their impression of the evil of drunkenness diminishes, and their aversion for it becomes proportionately less. To speak of those that thus exhibit their helplessness aud degrading folly in terms due to the dignity of true manliness would lead the though ttul to interpret our words as being ironical, and among others they would raise a laugh. How tantalising, too, this mockery is that strong drink subjects its devotees to- Defeat is hard to bear under any circumstances, but it is certainlv more oppressive and aggravating when it comes from an inferior and unworthy foe. What a poor mean lifeless thing intoxicating drink is ! Without either sense, life, or motion ; and yet it is dealing out defeat and death to untold thousands of men and women, who once bore the impress of their all perfect and Divine Creator, and though this has been defaced by sin, still they retain their positions as rulers over the other orders in creation, indicating as it does their natural and rightful superiority. To be continued. j

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