PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42752, 25 July 1905, Page 1

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.

Yonder, tossing upon a bed straw in a miserable attic—i garret-—in a cellar, tosses a tie child, burning up with fei starving for milk and fruit, medicine that it might : have abundance but that its fathej a drunkard, and that his earn] have gone into the till of , drink-seller* And He loves child, my calm, clear-head sober friend—loves it, perfl as well as you do yours—thou that, of course, is hard for j to understand, and he would] have deprived it of food l medicine—ho would have si it from hunger, and from s ness if he could; hut he I horn into the habit of drinjj born with the passion of the appetite for aH ol coursing along his veins J he had to work hard, and ] hours were long, and the was small, and he was ill-1 and ignoraut, audthe dram sH yawned all along his wav,] he tumbled, and the publl got his money, and he is drl in the gutter, he is lockedjj gaol, he is lost so far an 1 helpfulness to his own fail for the present is concerned] the child lies there dyinj consequence, and the pa house—the thing* hat undid 1 the thing that is killing his cl the thing that is breaking! wife’s heart—is part of II political assets by virtue of 1 you voted. 1