WHOSE BOY WAS IT

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2096, 23 January 1908, Page 3

WHOSE BOY WAS IT

S ET me state a fact. Not. long ago i_J tlio body of a ji.ior lad was touiul in (ho .rivor Morso.v with u paper in his pocket, and on it were those words: “THIS IS THE ENR OF A WASTED LIFE. T DONG' ASK MY NAME. IT IS DRINK TH AT HAS DONE IT. Let me rot! Now, mark, my bretliren, the Coroner of Liverpool, who sal at the inquest, received no less than 24(5 letters. THINK OF IT. NO LESS TH AN 248 LETTERS FROM T« ATIfEIIS AND MOTHERS, -A.SIv.IXNG IF .THERE AVERE ANY SIGNS BY AVI IlCll THE BODY COULD BE IDENTIFIED. They had boys who had thus gone astray, and who would have boon thankful if oven licit poor corpse line! been left them. T t wav. somebody’s son. Some 1 a tho t had once caressed that son; _ sotno mother had once loved him with all the tenderness of a mother’s love. Supposing it was your sou, would you have boon so incliflereut to the cause of intemperance? AA’ould you have said that rum and gin are "good creatures of God” 11 it had boon your son, the pride of your younger years, tile joy of your life, and the prop of your ago, who had thus fallen a victim to them.—Canon Farrar. Aclvt. C.P.