1 :A:iiTIMtNGE, "SAD; %RUE.TALE.

Manawatu Herald, 9 August 1889, Page 3

1 : A:iiTIMtNGE, "SAD; %RUE .TALE.

'.'. ■••"■■ " — . „■■■♦ — : — r-71 ••;•.■.■.. ....• ..• In his speech at the . Presbyterian Synod-,' London, the Rev. John Mac Neil created .quite a sensation by tetiing the following tale: He was speaking of tetnperance, and said' that 1 last Sunday (when he preached a!teniperance;aermon*atthe IHaher;jiacfe,') ; he received tf letter ..that: bad ' peen written : by a lSd^'on'the^ange?: -Qi'.-fjie Cpaijnunioii . of- fer T ' 'nJentedl ; winie._ ;V T%s ■■ lady in her lettef lold a sa^ .story o|;an*in|erited' f :fori drink. * 'there.syerje four "or.rlbvecof theinv several brothers and two sisters,- th^e children of intemperitenarents, ■•' -Hot sister haJd; I " un

fortunately inh'eiited the craving, and "before she was fourteen had taken to <ii'ink. The others became converted, aud did all in their power to cure their sister ; but it was of no use. The sister at length married comfortably, and children were bom. Butjthe craving for drink grew greater and greater, and at 1 ngth she was sent to a home for inebriates where she stayed a year. She left, apparent^, said the sister, a changed woman. Soon after, however, hei husband caug t a severe cold, a d before going out one morning drink a glass of hot whisky — taking care* however, not to do so in the presence of his wife. Then, aa wa6 his custom, before leaving he kissed his wife. At once the fames of alcohol passed into her, and in an hour she was a drunk and roaring woman. She wVnt from worse to worse, and at last left her husband, and her children, one of them a cripple, through her drunkenness. The husband died two years ago, a white haired and brokenhearted man, thongh only forty-five years old. « Need I add " said the sister in her letter, " what became of her ? her story is that of Annie Chapman^ one of the recent WLite chapel victims, jhat was mv sister !" J