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WHY WE SHOULD GIVE.
“The earth is the Lord s and the full
ness thereof: the world and they that
dweU therein. ’■ If. then, we are His peo
ple. He has a right to command His own.
If the earth and its fullness are His.
then He has a right to demand all. or
any part, of what belongs to Him.
In a little tract entitled: "Who Owns
the Woolf Rev. J. B. Gambrell em
phasises a self-evident fact, that who
ever owns the sheep owns also the wool
upon its back. In the Sth Psalm we are
called "God s sheep.” so of course pas
ture. sheep and wool all belong to Him.
Therefore our so-called giving is. ir
reality, only a rendering unto God a small
portion of His own—and how pitifully
small that portion often is.
But perhaps you do not agree with the
Lord your God as to His method of evan
gelising the world—as to His need of you
tn this great plan of redemption. All this
should matter little. A soldier's first duly
is to obey, and ye are soldiers under the
banner of Christ, your Captain. A child's
first duty is to obey: are ye not children
of the Heavenly King? Our Bible tells
us: "The Lord loveth a cheerful giver;”
♦nit if you cannot give cheerfully, if you
cannot even give willingly, give any
way. A child is not excused for disobe
dience merely because he cannot obey
wttUngly.
A great and powerful king was one
day looking out from the window of his
turret chamber over the rich and vast
country that lay within the borders of
his dominions. Far off on the outer edge
of his estate he saw a beggar—ragged,
dirty, starving He was filled with com
passion for the miserable creature and.
unwilling to leave so Important a mat
ter in the hands of servants he went out
Into the cold, over the bleak, barren
hills and brought the poor man back
to his own house. Here he was wasned
and made clean, robed In a garment be
fitting the king s own son and fed at the
royal table. t
Then said the king: "Son. houses and
lands, orchards and vineyards will I give
thee; overflowing abundance shall be
thine and thnu shalt never want for any
earthly goods; but on one condition;
there are still many poor wanderers on
my vast domains who have not yet been
found It is not the will of your king
that one of these should perish GT Peter.
2:>» and I command that out of your
great abundance you shall at al! times b>
ready to render aid to these unfortunate
brothers.
The man. of course, gladly accepted
these conditions, and for a time took
great pleasure in helping the poor, the
halt, the blind, who chanced to pass his
way. A few times he even went out into
the highways and byways for the ex
press purpose of seeeking and saving the
lost
But by and by his heart grew hard and
proud. He became boastful and said:
•"Stine own industry and mine own right
arm hath gotten me this wealth. Have I
not pruned and digged about the vines?
Hare I net gathered and pressed the
grapes, trod the wine press and plucked
the fruits of industry with mine own
hands? Why should T waste my sub
stance on these idlers? T.est there come
a famine. I will store up fruits and grain
for the years to come, and then I will
eat. drink, be merry and take mine
ease “
The king was very much displeased
when he learned these things and If you
will read Luke 12:39 you will see what
He called the man. Moreover. He said
to him: "Depart from me. Inasmuch as
ye did it not to one of the least of these,
my brethren, ye did it not to me.” Then
the man's possessions were taken from
him and given to others.
We all recognise the King in this story.
He is the Lord, our King, and we are
the poor beggars on whom He has abun
dantly lavished both spiritual and ma
terial blessings. If we use them only for
our own selfish purposes the day will
come when to us He will say: 'Thou
fool, thia day shall thy soul be required
of thee.” Then whose shall those things
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ne? "We brought nothing into the world
and it is certain we can take nothing out
of it." Woe unto us if we fail to rightly
use the goods our Lord has entrusted to
our care.
Another reason why we should give,
and give liberally, to God's cause is that
the gift becomes a two-fold blessing—it
"blesses him that gives and him that
takes." In our Bible we read that it is
even more blessed to give than to re
ceive. It is good for the sheep to shear
them—it is good for God's children when
they are liberal with the talents He has
given them.
God's greatest blessing goes with a
gift only when it is bedewed with the
tears of sacrifice. When Jesus commend
ed the poor widow He pronounced a eu
logium upon the many thousands of
local souls who, from the very depths of
want and privation, have plucked up a
shining gem l of sacrifice and laid it at
the Master s feet.
Jane Addam is a name on the list of
America's greatest women, -and well she
deserves the honor. When this noble
woman decided to take up settlement
work for the uplift of Chicago's poor,
she did not dispense her bounties through
an agent nor smile at her beneficiaries
across the great gulf digged by society,
between the lives of the very rich and
the very poor; but, leaving her palatial
residence, her fashionable friends, and
renouncing the continued round of gay
ety that might have been hers, she took
up her abode right tn the midst of the
111-condittioned district chosen as the
field of her labor of love. And wonder
ful has been the improvement in civic
and Industrial conditions, tn morals, and
in the educational uplift of that whole
section of Chicago.
Truly, the gift, whether great or small,
becomes a hundred-fold more valuable
tn the sight of God. a hundred-fold more
productive of good results. If the ele
ment of sacrifice goes with it. God iis
not pleased with a gift which costs us
nothing.
A woman stood in a millinery shop ad
miring a hat. It was just before Easter,
end al! her friends had new hats, why
shouldn't she have one? The price, ss—
all the money she could possibly
spend at that time—was snugly tucked
away in her slim little purse. Then,
why did she hesitate? She had just lis
tened to a lecture by a missionary, who
painted in graphic colors the condition of
the millions of her brothers and sisters
in heathen lands. Conscience would give
her no peace, but was waging relentless
war against her selfish inclinations. At
last she turned away, sighed, but walked
resolutely out of the shop. Then, with
out giving herself time to change her
mind she sought the missionary and
gave him the $5. She returned to her
humble home, happy, but without the
coveted hat.
Many, many years afterwards, when it
came her turn to cross the river which
divides our land from the shores of the
heavenly kingdom, she lamented, with
tears, that there would be no one at the
beautiful gate to welcome her home: her
life had been too crowded with works of
necessity to enable her to do anything in
the Master s vineyard. Imagine her sur
prise when, half-way across, she lifted
her eyes and beheld a great company of
redeemed ones coming forth out of the
Celestial City to meet her. Calling her
by name they welcomed her with great
gladness. Replying to her astonished
questions they told her that the $5 given
the missionary had bought thousands of
tracts which, together with the prayers
and teachings of God’s children had
brought them into the kingdom. Then
said the woman softly to herself: “Just
suppose I had bought the hat.”
Give as the sunshine is given to you—
Give as God giveth the rain:
Give like the sbwer who scatters broad
cast
The seeds of golden grain;
Hoping to garner a thousand-fold
When the harvest cometh in;
Hoping to hear thy Lord's “Well done.
True and faithful thou hast been."
ANNIE DURHAM METHVTN.
Dawson. Ga.
Is This Your Work?
Dear Iloueehold: Will yon admit a lonely boy
into your b«n<l ? I often long for my *unny
home back In the old hill* of Georgia: but like
a lot of other* who have drifted westward
looking for better thing*. I have drifted away
out on the beautiful plain* of Texas. This 1*
a beautiful county, although you don't find
such home* a* in the other state*. Kometlmes
a* I ait and ponder over the past, fancy bear*
me back to my childhood home; and again 1
roam the familiar haunt*, pres* the bands of
old friends who hare gone to another world;
wade sh the old spring branch, catching min
nows. walk down the path to the old school
•prlng with my boyhood sweetheart. But I
awake front my meditations and find it all
fancy It 1* like Osian'a mimic, sweet, but
1 moarnfnl to the soul I notice in my last paper
I that Del Ruae said the sand in the south Geor-
I gia made her think of what *he had beard of
• Texas. She ought to b? here, in me went,
sometimes and then she could express it from
I a real experience. I expect, though, she would
be in the atonn-eeliar, scared out of her wits,
thinking there was a cyclone on hand. I know
i she would If the neighbors failed to get their
wssblng tub* and loose things around the house
tied down before it came.
Some of the household seem to think there is
no harm in flirting, especially some of the
girl*. Os course, there is no great harm done
tn a flirty conversation, but there is a lot of
I silly talk for nothing. But when you come
down tn the real facts in the ease, flirting Is a
I curse to the American people.
I Will yon allow me to give you the experience
of a broken hearted man? One time tn my
travels I met a beautiful woman. I fell In
! love with her and she claimed the same feeling
• f->r me. We were sweethearts For rwo years
and a half. I had all the confidence in her
any man could have in any woman, but she was
only flirting, you see.
During our engagement tone year) I saved
I her life from cruel parents and got her away
| from them and to her relatives. Just before
our wedding day she wrote: “I don't love you;
• go and forget me.”
It almost drove me mad to think the woman
whom I loved as my own life and the one 1
had put so much confidence In had proved
false to me. I tried traveling to satisfy me.
but it did not. for I would get restless In large
I cities, where there was nothing hut excitement.
I I tried to study to pass the time away tn col
lege and one week was all I could stand. Then
i I went to the ranch and farm and I hare re
mained here ever since, for the happiest hours
I spend are with the stock, where everything
is pleasant and no one to remind me of th*
past. Xo one knows the anguish of a broken
heart, unless they have had experience.
Some may say. “You are a fool for letting
such stuff bother yon.” I once did think a
person was. but alas! I see now where It can't
be heli>ed if It was true in the case.
I say God Hews the homes of the American
pec.nle today, fnr out of them is what our future
will be; for the older will pass away and the
young will step up and take their places, and
may they he ready and equipped for the occa
sion: for the hone and destiny of opr homes,
churches and state rest upon the young gen-
I eratton.
| One of onr writer* told us what it took to
make a happy home—-common sense, genuine
i love and a «jn«nttty of 1 Industry. I said anion.
' wh<n I read that letter, and I also said that
m*n had a wife to be proud of.
iB«»t wishes to all. 1
DON ELY COWBOT.
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One Thing I Know
Dear Household: I just want to drop in this
evening to say amen to Chat in April 12 issue
of The Semi-Weekly Journal.
This is my first attempt to write to the
Household, but some way. after reading wnat
Mis* Thoma* says about voting for or against
prohibition. I cannot resist longer.
I for one am for prohibition. God speed the
day when this law will be enforced in our
good old state.
I often read in The S.-m! Weekly Journal
how some smart detective has caught some
moonshiner or blind tiger in or around At
lanta and I am disposed to think some one
ought to come down here to wiregrass Georgia
and see if they could not do a good business
at that much neded work.
1 am quite sure that they could, for this
evil I* a curse to our state.
A* for dirty children, I hare three of them,
hut they were nice and clean this morning
when they started off to school. 1 love clean
children, but it Is impossible to keep them
clean all the time, especially where a mother
do<s all of her work, including the family
washing and garden work. I will not try to
disens* the subject of woman suffrage, a* 1
think there are uiony others more capable of
writing on that subject than myself. I do
know this: that there are plenty of women
who are more capable of casting a vote than
a lot of men that do cast them.
With love to all the AR „ ENER .
Is this An Exception
Dear Miss Thoma*: 1 have for a long time
been silently listening to the discussion of va
rious questions, especially the one. '’Should
girl* marry for love or money?” 1 say they
would better go to school and complete their
education instead of marrying for either love
or money. Tbeu they can make money and
love who they please, whether it does them
any good or not. If they should not win a
heart. I guess they will be Just as well off.
I bad much rather be a spinster than to be
in a home with a < rowd of children running
and crying after “mummy.” Os course. 1 do
not mean to say every home is this way, but
1 can stand In my door and see for a good dis
tance the grown up girls dressed and on the
streets, while their little sister* and brothers
are crying after them, and so dirty that they
look almost like “varments.” I wonder if Mr.
Bach was out here with me to see all this
sight, which he would like the better, the girls
or their little sisters and brother*. Neither,
I suspect.
I know a family who seem to be up to date.
They own a large, beautiful farm in the coun
try’ and a nice house and lot in a city, but
you <an very often see the grown girls crying
because their father has beaten them cruelly.
Is any man like this a gentleman? Is he any
more than a brute? Ha* he any love for hl*
family? 1 should say such a man is not any
more than a wild beastj Then he will kill
chickens because they come on the veranda
ami do not go when be scares them, and when
his j*»r invalid wife says anything about It
he slaps her face. Though at home, be dresses
in hi* nicest clothes and is ready to go to a
public meeting to grin at everybody be sees.
I wonder how many would return the smile If
they knew just what had happened at bis home
thirty minute* ago? Is this happiness? They
are wealthy enough.
Y’es. this man has love, but It Is for the
banks and the money be has in his pockets.
There 1* one. I guess, that he serves, and
that i« the devil, and 1 would not be at all
surprtsid if the devil is not getttiyg disgusted
by this time, for he has been playing this game
about 25 year*, or more, for he has been mar
ried this long.
I liope to be a college girl before long. If
I work hard, then I will be able to make my
own living and then, if good luck comes my
way. maybe I can marry the right sort of man.
SILLAH.
Shearing Sheep
Shearing sheep too closely, even when the
weather is warm, is bad practice, as either a
chill or a sunscald is liable to result.
Early shearing of sticep is not to be recom
mended unless warm barns are available, for
much more feed 1s req'iln-l l.y she rn sheep
than by nnsborn while the weather is at all
cold.
The French feed conslde rable buckwheat to
their turkeys, believing that this grain imnarts
to the flesh a delicious, nntty flavor iwuch
liked by their epicures.
Delicately
Formed
and gently reared, women will find In
all the seasons of their lives, as maid
ens, wives and mothers, that the one
simple, wholesome laxative remedy,
which acts gently and pleasantly and
naturally and which may be taken at
any time, when the system needs a
laxative, with perfect safety and real
ly beneficial effects, is Syrup of Figs
and Elixir of Senna.
It has that true delicacy of flavor
which is so refreshing to the taste,
that warming and grateful toning to
the stomach which responds so favor
ably to its action and the laxative ef
fect which is so beneficial to the sys
tem when, occasionally, its gentle
cleansing is required.
The genuine, always bearing the
name of the California Fig Syrup Co.,
may be purchased from all leading
druggists in original packages of one
>ize only, price fifty cents per bottle.
MRS. LEUVITHWEN
AND HUSBAND ON TOUR
They Stop in Kansas City on
Their Way to Jamaica,
Where They Will Visit
(.By Associated Press.)
KANSAS CITY. May 4. Lieut. Reginald
A. Owen and his bride, who was Mrs.
Ruth Bryan-Leavitt, en route from Lin
coln, Neb., to Jamaica on their wedding
trip, spent last night in Kansas City.
They planned, it was stated, this morn
ing, to depart for the south late today.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Owen reached Kan
sas City late last night, and went to
the Baltimore hotel. Lieutenant Owen reg
istered illegibly and it was some time
before their presence was known.
“We are going to Jamaica, where I am
stationed,” said Lieutenant Owen in re
sponse to inquiries. The clerk at the
hotel this morning said that the couple
had left their room early, and that it
was not known when they would re
turn.
It was stated, however, that they in
tended to remain in Kansas City at least
today before they start south.
Is This Your Life?
Dear Household: God pity the 3’rwn who
cannot find worx to do. I pity the young lady
who cannot cook, wasn a H»h .ir make an
apron. The young man who can find no belter
occupation than to -tan 1 on tbo streets end
smoke cigarettes and profane tne name of bis
Maker ig a sorry M'.ow, whoever be may re.
God did never lnt»ad that should be idle.
Here is the great (i'll that ae ha, set ai art
in which each and every one of us can find
work. Yet everywhere wo hear the cry “Work
ers are needed. Why stand ye her' al. tne
day idle?” Ottr life is grow.ns shorter and
we must soon lay down our responsibilities and
stand before the iudsu-nt throne of God to
give an account for imr-elvcs.
Woe unto you Idlers! Wake up. dear friends,
our time Is not‘long. Our life Is only a narrow
Isthmus between two eternities.
It is a race; the goal will soon be reached.
It is a voyage; the port is almost in sight.
It is a journey; the end lg nearing.
How much of the way have you already passed
over? You will never return to the place from
which you started. You are going on and on
and away from alt your earlyy ears. Life
bears us on like the waters of a mighty river.
Onr boat at first glides down the narrow chan
nel. through the playful murmuring of the little
brook and the winding of its grassy borders.
The trees shod their blossoms over young hearts;
the flowers on the brink seem to offer them
selves to the young hands. We are happy in
hope, and grasp eagerly at the beauties around
us. but the stream hurries -n and still our
bands are empty. Our course tn youth and man
hood is along a wilder and deeper flood, imn
objects more striking and magnificent. We gre
animated at the moving picf*res and egiov
ments and industry passing us; we are ex
cited at some short lived disappointment.
The stream bears us on and on. and our
joys a,n(l griefs are alike left behind us.
may be shipwrecked, but we cannot be delayed.
Whether rough or smooth, the river hastens •<>
Its home, till the roar of the ocean la In our
ears and the tossing of the waves are beneath
our feet and the land lessens from our eyes and
the floods are lifted up around us. and we take
our leave of earth and its Inhabitants.
ft Is a startling thought that our business
will soon be left behind: that our work will
be done end that we shall leave this stage ot
being: leave it forever. Our homes and cares
and all the interests that engage us here and
never come br.ck.
But it is a joyous thought that we—ls we are
Christians—shall soon be In heaven. Think of
It! Time and all its opportunitleß passed for
ever. The suns and moons and stars all behind
us; springs, summers and autumns all gone;
the sights and sounds of eart halt passed awav!
Soon—very soon, shall wc be nt heaven. We
shall se P God: we shall behold Christ in His
glory: wo shall look upon the angels. Mothers
will bo searching for their children and hus
band* and wives will find each other, and all
the hnnds nartod in Christ will ho clasped
again. It is like coming Into port after an
wan voyage. The shining shore line! How
It grows on the waiting eye! The joy will
he like that with which the Crusaders first
saw Jerusalem. But where—oh. where, will
the idler appear! Love to all.
Smiley.Ga . W. F. JENKINS.
Does This Hit You?
Dear Miss Thomas: I have been atficen. or
It seems that way, for our subscription expired
and we missed the paper some weeks, but I am
rejoicing in it again. Pansy’s last letter called
back my own childhood. I never cared much
for children then; I expect ft was because 1
was the only one at home. My one brother and
alter were a good bit older than I. I bad
a rocking chair that had the habit of turning
over, and when ladles came to spend the day.
bringing their children along. If I thought
they Intruded too much in my dominion I in
troduced them to this rocking chair and never
said a word when they began to “rock hard."
1 remember, it usually had the desired effect;
they went back to their mother and stayed.
Now. If any little vixen should do mine the
same way 1 should be awfully mad. I bare
though since the subject of child training
was being discussed 1 would mention the differ
ence between boys and girls. 1 know there
are some young men who read our page, and
some mothers, too. may give me a roasting,
hut I only wish some I’ve seen and know would
see this. If it could make any difference, ir
you will look around at the difference made
in clothes, and then in the company allowed
them you will understand me. I know tber»
are exceptions to all cases, but I think the
thought is all wrong that 1 have heard from
mothers and father. “Oh. let him alone; ne’s
a boy.” Now I have no boys, and you may
say at once you would like to see what kind 1
might raise. Well, if it should happen that
I ever do have one I will do the best 1 can
and I would rnthcr raise a "sissy” than some
others I could mention—a Jailbird. for In
stance. I firmly believe if as much pains
pains were taken with boys as with girls from
the cradle up. the standard of young manhood
would bo higher today. same
REBECCA JI. »>'•
P. g.—Will some one tell me what causes an
Otaska hydrangea to droop and shed Its leaves.
R. J.
GROWING CORN
SCIENTIFICALLY j
Tbe testing of seed corn is very Im- j
portant this spring. Not In many years ;
has the question so closely appealed to <
the farmer as it does now.
Much of the seed corn saved In the'
corn belt states for this season’s plant-'
Ing is showing low germination and
better cultivation than ever will be
necessary to produce a big croop.
A good seed, bed is tbe foundation
of the cl(>p. or rather the first stone
upon the real foundation, the seed.
Presuming that tbe corn ground is in
proper rotation and sufficiently man- '
ured, it should be worked up as mel- I
low as a garden bed. If stains are on I
the ground they should be disked both
ways, the rollers being ground sharp,
then follow with a spading disk, and
work the soil thoroughly four or t*e
Inches deep.
It is hardly po>lble to spend too
much time in preparing tbe ground. It
should be disked three times each
way, making six workings before plant
ing.
When stalks are plowed under a g<*si
plan is to harrow first, then plow,
then harrow again and plant.
Tbe harrow should follow tbe plow
closely and all plowed ground should
be finished every noon and night.
Another good preparation is to disk
the ground four times, using a spader
tbe first time and au ordinary disk a
week later. Then barrow the land
after each double disking and plant
close after ’ the harrow. Howe, tbe
Illinois man, says that after several
years’ experience he prefers iTisking to I
plowing. Os course, sod ground mint:
be plowed.
It Is also important to use the right |1
kind of a corn planter—use an edge- i|
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exact number of kernels for which Is I
set 95 times out of 100. It should ||
even do better than that, if the seed I
has been carefully sorted according t’o I
size tb fit the holes <n the different I
plates. This is the only way to get an ]
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from good seed is the only way to I
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ground and waste a lot of seed trying j
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or not.
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SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON
For Sunday, May 7. Prov. 23, 29-35.
By DR. MARION McH. HULL.
Golden Text—At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth
like an adder.
In considering this temperance lesson
It is not so much my purpose to treat it
from a religious as from a scientific
standpoint. For a number of years, four
times each year, we have considered th©
former until a generation has grown up
more thoroughly in sympathy with the
temperance movement than at any time
in the past, and through whose influence
largely has been brought about the tem
perance wave which has swept well nigh
the whole south, and is extending north
wa rd.
This particular passage has been used
frequently to show’tis the effects of al
cohol in bringing disaster, sorrow, and
disease, and In showing that the only
safe course is not to look upon the wine;
that the first glass always leads to th©
second, and also to demonstrate the hold
which alcohol has upon the drunkard,
causing him to return to hfs drink In
spite of the despair which is brought up
on him. Let these points be emphasised
again.
There is no doubt that a large percent
age of the crimes that are committed in
this country have alcohol as the base:
but the phase of the subject which we
particularly want to show today Is the
action of alcohol upon the human body,
and the necessary resultant action upon
the human spirit. We desire to remove
the commonly accepted opinion that al
cohol is a stimulant, and to show that
it is always a depressant. It has its
function as a drug which is just as dis
tinct as the function of morphine, of caf
feine, and of strychnine, but it is no more
to be abused than either of these. Neith
er should its use be Interdicted any more
than the use of any of these when the
proper regard to its action is had.
THE ACTION OF AIA’OHOL.
When an ordinary quantity of alcohol
has been taken, certain effects are pro
duced upon the little cells which com
pose the body, and this action is very
different, depending upon the specializa
tion of the various cells. For example, on
the circulation alcohol makes the heart
beat more rapidly, and therefore the
pulse quicker. The pulse seems at first
to be strengthened, but measurements
with Instruments for the purpose of de
termining the pressure of the blood in
the arteries show that the apparent
stimulation at first very rapidly gives
way to depression, and that the force of
the pulse (therefore the circulation) is
less than before it is given. This de
pression is so great that in large doses
sometimes paralysis of the heart occurs,
and it Is not unusual for a max who has
been on a terrible debauch to die of
paralysis of the heart from the depress
ing effect of the alcohol.
There' is a sensation of warmth which
occurs, but as a matter of fact the tem
perature of the body is lowered from one
to four degrees. Both of these results
are due to the fact that alcohol de
presses the nerves which keep the capil
laries or small blood vessels in check,
thereby allowing them to dilate and more
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blood to go into the superficial blood ves
sels of the skin. This gives the sensa
tion of warmth; but it also allows more
heat to be radiated from the body, and.
therefore, the temperature lowered. On
account ot this fact arctic explorers, anu
people who go into exceedingly cold cli
mates. will not allow alcoholics to be
members of their party.
On the digestive system in small quan
tities alcohol stimulates the cells of the
stomach, but its presence prevents t':e
action of the pepsin which the cells se
crete, so that the ultimate action of al
cohol' on the digestion is depressant. I
am aware that there is a widely spread
opinion that alcohol aids digestion, but
the aid is only psychic, not physical. The
glands of the body, like the liver, for in
stance. are stimulated slightly by the
irritant action of alcohol circulating
through the blood which feeds them, but
this irritant action soon acuses an in
flammation and an increase of the tissues
which bind the cells together. As this
inflammation subsides the cells are con
tracted so that there is not as much
secreting surface left as there was before
the use of alcohol. Just here is the
gravest danger in the continued use of
small doses—mainly upon the liver and
kidneys, causing chronic inflammation
which results in those two very disas
trous diseases—cirrhosis, or hardening, of
the liver, and Bright's disease.
But possibly the most interesting effect
of alcohol is on the nervous system.
There is primary excitation. A man who
was not formerly able to speak with
fluency speaks with the greatest ease
after a dinner with wine. This might be
due to one of two causes, either that
portion of the brain which deals with in
tellectton has been directly stimulated,
or those parts which ordinarily hold the
brain in check have become depressed,
so that now no longer inhibited, the
words and ideas flow forth in rapid suc
cession. As a matter of fact, various ex
periments have proven that the latter Is
true. The man has lost the power to
keep himself In check rather than has
his intellectton been stimulated. This
opinion Is further confirmed by the re
sults which follow slightly larger doses of
alcohol; for we find that then there is a
progressive paralysis of the whole nerv
ous system, beginning with the highest
centers and extending through the parts
of the brain which control the muscles,
down to those parts which control sen
sation, and finally affecting that portion
of the medulla in which are situated the
vital centers controlling the circulation
and the respiration. This progressive
paralysis is manifested in this way; the
depression of the highest centers is
shown by the loss of a man’s aesthetic
nature. He does and says things which
he would not think of doing and saying
under other circumstances. He has no
regard for his personal appearance; he
uses language in the presence of ladies
that he would not dare use ordinarily.
Then when the motor tracts are affected,
he loses his power ot co-ordination. We
see him reeling from one side of the
street to the other. He is not able to
“walk a straight line,” as we say. And
finally he loses the power of sensation
so that when he falls he has no feeling
of pain. It is difficult to arouse him
from the stupid sleep into which he falls,
and, as has been noted above, in poison
ous doses he dies from paralysis of the
heart.
There is one other effect of alcohol
which we must notice. There are in
I the blood a number of little cells called
; leucocytes whose object is to protect the
I body from the invasion of bacteria whiqji
, produce disease. Experiments have re-
I peatedly shown that alcohol dlmfnisnew
j the power of the leucocytes, and the re
sistance of the body to disease is thereby
• lowered. Two puppies might be taken
J from the same litter; one fed alcohol and
the other not; both inoculated with tu
berculosis. The alcohol-fed puppy suc
cumbs first, and very much more readily
than the one who was not given alco
hol. ' t
j So much for the effect of alcohol on
'the purely physical organism. We see
. thst every system of the body is de
pressed by it, not stimulated. There Is
one other effect which it has upon the
moral nature. It Is very difficult to differ
entiate that portion ot' the brain which |
has to do with Intellectton from that
which we call “will power.” But th«
1 fact remains that the depressive action of
alcohol on the brain extends also to the
will power, for when It has been taken
the will power is weakened, depressed,
so thst the habitue Is absolutely power
less to overcome the craving for the
drug. This is not only true of alcohol,
but is true also of morphine, of caffeine,
and of cocaine. Herein lies the harm is
those patent medicines and soft drinks
which contain these drugs. They render
the subjects of them just as powerless
, to restrict the craving for them as alco
; hoi does. This naturally follows from Its
depressant action. Alcoholics should be
treated as those who are diseased, not as
criminals.
CHRIST THE ONLY CURE.
i What hope therefore is there for on#
1 who has come under the power of such
• a dreadful curse, distilled by the arch
enemy of our souls himself? There Is
I but one cure, and that is. let come nto
jyour life a power which is stronger than
' that of the devil himself, and He is our
1 One who has this power, and He is our <
blessed Saviour who showed Himself
' stronger than Satan in the wilderness,
i through His whole earthly ministry, and
' even after Satan had done his worst in
! nailing Him to the cross. And only by
I nutting our trust tn Him and receiving
‘ ’he power greater than our own. a power
i greater than Satan's, can we overcome
| this terrific curse, which damns not qply
; the body throughout time, but the .soul
throughout eternity.
Time and space forbid the citing of
various instances that might be given
where Jesus has given power over this
disease. Ts you have come tinder the
nower of It, or of any other drug habit:
i if you know of any friend who is now
i a slave to It. let me advise you to 1 ak«
i this only way of cure; and in your heln
lessness look to Him for strength. Tn
I your sinfullneas accept His abundant
’ grace.
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