TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42748, 15 July 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

By ReyormbrO ADVICE FOR TO-DAY FOR MEN OF TO-MORROW. i The young man who drinks strong liquor is like the commander of a fortified city who deliberately admits a known enemy within the walls. Drink is most hostile and more deadly than any army. It has sent more men to destruction and death than have all the armies of the world. There is nothing in it. You Cannot gain by it; you may lose every thing—health position, reputation, self-respect manhood, soul. The first drink admits a demand that some day it may be strong enough to deminate and glut its ravenous appetite with your brain and blood. Don’t deceive yourself about your strength. You know nothing about that until the test comes, and then it is often too laet. You may never be sure you have the strength to resist until you have asserted that strength by resistance. To resist once or twice, or a dozen times, does not prove strength to resist always. It ean be proved only by constant and unfailing resistance. Any man can resist sometimes. The only man who Crin have absolute confidence in his power to resist is he who never drinks at all. If you have strength, use it. Assert it now. One drink more is too much. Be strong right now. It is your best chance. Strong young man! If you can to-day mock at the assertion that one drink is too much, some day you may think the same of ten drinks, and later of twenty. And when that day comes, the strength that could not resist oue drink, before appetite was formed will be but as a straw in the whirlwind. If you have not the strength and sense to quit drinking right now, when will you have 'it V Will continued yield-

wU g-vi" jadoa sense, or better sense ? W hen the ravelled nerves or disordered stomach, and the flaccid tissues of a softening brain demand- whiskey, will you, who could not resist ’ when strength was whole and cravings were unknown—will you be better able to resist then ? It is not an abstruce question of piety, or ethics, or morality; itis a simple question of commonsense and health. One does not become a drunkard in the gutter to be injured by whiskey. It is poison even in small quantities. Young man, don’t drink! Eefuse the first drink, or, if you have taken that aud more, assert your strength now, and refuse to take another, and the spirits of all dearest to you on earth or in heaven will lean and listen and smile. Take it, and the devils will laugh and leer and mock— Kansas City World.