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ijwMccn ; M * 4 GortducXcd — ’ A/• ' Z Mi M L. 0 .Tnomas^J- — All letters written for this page must have the writer's real name and ad dress enclosed. This is not for publication nor for the use of any one except the edito- of tat, page. Xf your letter has not been published this may be the reason. Address letters for ••Mousehold’’ to Miss I>. O. Thomas, lock Box 643. Atlanta. Ge- 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 (ORRIffIES Cwrni*h Instr*meat*for ' rral merit, are u«- We will aend exrelied by «ay direct from our other, whatever Factory. any IVrne Cvrn; * ! ’ P‘«® <* utnUon ’ orgxa that y?u may (elect from oar cat*. of. on any of P*?" * Kte’" rnt ,hat y” a a> < hooae ual*r»und'n«tbat if the (natrameat w xT I d°ea not come up ■v / Jg I to your fulleat I Ij <} • expectation* you • If will *** on<ler “° ■ obllgattoM what- ever to keep U y aad that the Trial Will Coat You Absolutely Nothing If the tnatru- Two Tear* Credit if Xceded Kent does not -*, w .y • --• v*l a e " r ; • ®3|t. 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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. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY MitRNAL. ATLANTA, -A- V, - DOCTOR ADVISED OPERATION Cured by LydiaE.Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Galena, Kans. —“A year ago last March I fell, and a few days after there was soreness in my right side. In a short time a bunch came and it bothered me so much at night I could growing larger and by fall it was as large as a hen’s egg. I could not go to bed without a hot water bottle applied to that side. I had one of the best doc tors in Kansas and he told my husband that I would have to be operated on as it was something like a tumor caused by a rupture. I wrote to you for advice and you told me not to get discouraged but to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. 1 did take it and soon the lump in my side broke and passed away.” —Mrs. R. R. Huey, 713 Mineral Ave., Galena, Kans. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound, made from roots and herbs, has proved to be the most successful remedy for curing the worst forms of female ills, including displacements, inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregu larities, periodic pains, backache, bear ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion, and nervous prostration. It costs but a trifle to try it. and the result has been worth millions to many suffering women. If you want special advice write forittoMrs.Pinkham,Lynn,Mass. It is free and always helpful. 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| drop planter or one that will drop the [I 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 ] even stand of corn. An even stand I from good seed is the only way to I grow a profitable crop. Test the planter well tiefore taking ! it to the field. I>o not s|>oil a lot of j ground and waste a lot of seed trying j to find out whether your planter >» | or not. The Source of Cottolene Is Pleasing From the snowy tufts of the cotton plant, the seed is removed, crushed, and the oil extracted. This in turn is rehned by our own special process and the oil made odorless and neutral in taste. Being a vegetable product, cottonseed oil is free from any possible tain of animal infection. You cannot be absolutely sure of this when buyin' hog lard, for fats of animal origin are, of necessity, not as healthful as fats ob tained from vegetable sources. Right there is the difference between lard ant Cottolene from the standpoint of health. If every housewife would but stop to think of the differ ence in purity, cleanliness and healthfulness of hog lard and Cottolene, lard would never again be used in any Tiome. COTTOLENE is Guaranteed not pleased, after having given Cottolene a fair test. s w m R«ilLr Cottolene is packed in pails with an air-tight top to -». INeVer OOld in DUIK jf dean, fresh and wholesome, and prevent it from catching dust and absorbing disagreeable odors, such as fish, oil, etc. Made only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK. COMPANY, 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. 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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. 5
