TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 13, 11 July 1885, Page 4

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

TDK DRUNKARD'S WIFE. .■*'..'.■■ ■■-(•Continued.) The appetite ior intoxicating drinks — jvliat is it ?, There is something in i it .that I cannot define., I once j rt-ctfiyedya letter: in that letter the | qnet-tinnjip-.a-kedrr-'* Do you mean to | Buy that tht* grace of God does not j talte av'av the love of sin?" Ah, J that; is' *i different thing ! I may hate, and-' -loathe »he sin : abhor that which produces the sin ; the smell of liqu»r may; he absolutely sickening ; the sight of it revolting ; and yet I may have 'the appetite. What is that appetite ? As near as I can define it. it is .amysterious something, produced in M-ertain, pystems ., by the use. oi int«'Jficating liquors, that will respond \o> the. ; first drop of ; alcohol when touched iby it- ""You cannot make a moderate drinker out of a drunkard. I dp not/are how many tiroes he may joiii t.Vie'c)iVch. It* lias been tried "oVer andover again. Total abstinence is' necessary to save a man frondrtinkehnoss. •A gentleman in New York said to tntf','^.! was a sad drunkard — 1 became a Christian at Mr Aloddy's Hippodrome meetings at New York. I had signed^ the pledge. I wanted to work f. rthe Lord. I joined the Rev. Dr Tyng'ij church, because he was very sympathizing witn us; and I had been working in his Gospel tent, and trjing'to rescue men.' Well, I belieVed iind boasted that the love df Jesus had taken away all appetite for the drnk Three weeks ago there was 'ayCpramunior. Service at Dr Tyng'i. I„. smelt" the. drink, and wanted * it. My fingers began to tingle. 'J here was an itching, burning, dry sensation in my throat. I wanted it. I tried to pray. I tried t»* -'think that I had come there to <sh&* forth the Lord's death till He come.' It was no use, I gripped the > eat. I ground my teeth. 1 %at in perfect agony. The wine apjiroacbed me. I shuddered from Lead tb foot. It I had taken the cup in °niy hand there would not have been a. drop of wine h ft: I know it. I Have been lighting that-appetite fwr three weeks with all the power I hafeet to fight anything, and am very glad .you; have comforted me by the assurance that I may yet be a child ot-G»sd. though subject 'to this terrible temptioan." (To be continued.)