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IKri(ien by John Adkins, while in prison for the |
murder of his Wife.
Come sinners, poor sinners, take warning by me,’
The fruits of transgression, behold now and see:
Mv soul is tormented, mv l»ody confined,
My friends and dear children left weeping behind.
Much intoxication, my ruin has been,
My dearest companion I have barbarously slain ;
In yonder cold grave-yard her body doth lie,
Whilst l am condemned, and shortly must die.
A solemn death-warning to drunkards [ leave,
Whilst this, my poor body, lies cold in the grave;
Remember John Adkins’ life and reform,
Lest Justice o’ertakes you and vengeance comes
on.
A whole life of sorrow could never atone,
Por this cruel murder, which my hands have
done;
I am justly condemned, ’tis just I should be,
Therefore, tell all drunkards take warning by me.
Farewell, my dear children, wherever you be,
You are quite young and tender, and dear unto
me;
I leave you exposed to nature’s wide field,
To all the sad dangers of this wicked world.
No mother to shield you, no father to guide
Your tender affections through sin’s rapid tide;
No father to shield you from hunger or cold,
My poor little orphans are cast on the world.
When sorrow surrounds you, and sickness comes
on,
You’ll cry for your mother, but ales she is gone;
Your father, in anger, struck heron the head,
She bled, groan’d and languished, and now she
is dead.
My heart pains with sorrow, my eyes overflow,
Farewell! my dear children, I bid you adieu—
I hope my kind neighbors your guardians may
prove,
And Heaven, kind Heaven, will bless you in
love.
When sorrows surround you and troubles in
crease,
This world cannot comfort nor give you relief,
There’s none but your Saviour, whose mercies
can save,
And pardon and bless you,—pray none other
crave.
My soul, through his mercies, 1 kindly resign,
With saints in sweet glory, 1 hope I shall join,
To tell of the wonders of Jesus’ love,
Who pardons poor # sinners, and crowns them a
bove.
TEMPER ANOE.
From the American Temperance Union.
Letter from Rev. A. A. Wright to the I
Corresponding Secretary of the il Amcr- j
ican Temperance Union."
Oroomiah, Persia, Dec. 19th, 1844.
My Dear Sir, —In looking over
some recent numbers of the “Union,”
l noticed several communications
from various parts of the world in
relation to the drawings of the hu
man stomach by Dr. Ssewall, illustra
ting the Pathology of Drunkenness.
As those drawings in their mammoth
form were sent to us a year or more
ago, and have been standing in my
room since that time, where they
have been exhibited to large num
bers of people, both Mussulmen and
Christians, I have had a good oppor
tunity to witness their effect upon
observers, and would add my testi-;
mony to their usefulness.
You may be aware that this prov-1
ince is one of the richest and most
fertile in Persia, and abounds in
vineyards, which furnish grapes, rai
sins, doshap (a syrup like molasses,)
arak (a kind of strong drink,) and
last, but by no means least, wine.
Wine being abundant, it is of course
cheap. Enough can be bought for
two or three cents to make several
persons very happy, if not very drunk.
It is used almost universally by the
Christian population, and very many
of the Mussulmans transgress the
law of their own Prophet, and drink
not only habitually, but to great ex
cess. The Jews also do the same,
and more on their Sabbath than on
any other day. As a consequence
of this excessive use of wine, sick
ness, destitution, suffering, and death
are common. In this state of things,
one part of our missionary work is
to set forth the evils of intemperance,
and to urge upon the people the
adoption of temperance principles,
and to act upon them.
The mammoth plates have done,
and are doing, a good They
are eloquent preachers of temper
ance, and in this distant land are
useful fmissionaries. They are so
’arge as to artract the attention of
j every one that comes into the room,
' and are so marked and distinct as to
| excite an interest. Persians from
i almost all parts of the country have
| seen them. Sometimes large com
panies have called together, and
seemed deeply interested in looking
at them, and I have often noticed the
countenance of gome habitual drinker
overcast with anxiety as he observed
the gradations ofdisease, ending in
death; and in a multitude of cases|
they have exclaimed—“l’ll drink no;
more.” How many acted out their I
resolution, the Searcher of hearts
only knows.
1 now have in mind a case. A
young Mussulman of high family,
brother of the Beglerbeg of Oroo
miah, the chief of the Afshars, some
years ago fell into bad company, and
formed the habit of drinking, to
which he soon became a slave, inso
much that he drank in the day time
during the month of Ramazan—a
month observed most sacredly by all*
true Mussulmans, by abstaining from
all food and drink, also from smok
ing and snuffing, from the early dawn
of the morning until the dusk of the
evening. His mother, being under
a sense of the shame and .disgrace,
which he was bringing upon himself
and family, and of indignation at the
conduct of her wretched son, spit in
his face on the first day of the fast,
as a testimony of her abhorrence of
| his sin. His unhappy mother and
heart-broken wife came and begged
me to give him some medicine to
break up the habit. After some days
he came himself, when I urged upon
him the certain ruin to which he w r as
going, and entreated him to abandon
at once the cup as his greatest enemy,
lie promised fairly, but went away
to do as before. About this time the
plates arrived. lie called again in
company with his brother, who had
the plates in mind, and hoped that a
sight of them would make an im
! pression upon him. The poor fellow
could eat nothing but a little onion
and cheese in his drinking intervals.
I told him that his stomach was
losing the power of digesting food,
and that it was probably assuming
the diseased form exhibited by some
of the plates. He seemed affected
; and alarmed, and solemnly declared
that he would drink no more. From
I that time I inquired often after him, j
| and was most happy to learn that he j
was not drinking, and that he had
come from the village, where he was
accustomed to have his drunken
frolics, to the city, and that his health
was greatly* improved. Another
Ramazan arrived, and he kept the
fast faithfully, as his brother inform
ed me. His mother, his wife, all his
i numerous friends, hoped that he was
■ saved. But—l am sorry to be ob
liged to say it—lie lias returned to
his wallowing in the mire. From
the latest accounts of him, he is evi
dently near the grave. Poor man!
The Mussulman drunkard’s grave
j is as wretched as that of the Chris
j tian drunkard.
Mussulmans, true in their faith
i and practice, often exclaim in look
ing at the plates, “You see how wise
our Prophet was to make the use of
wine unlawful to his followers. He
knew that it was had, and therefore
forbid its use in the Koran.”
Your heart would bleed to see how
multitudes of the poor Neslorians,
especially at this season of the year,
are steeped* in wine. They are
oppressed by the Mussulmans, but
more by intemperance. The friends
of temperance have an immense
work to do before they can say, “our
• work is done.” They need to gird
up the loins of their minds, and make
ready for a long warfare.
Definition of Liberty.
The Rumseller's Definition. —The
i right which every man has, to do
what he likes without regard to con
; sequences. The right of filling his
, purse with the price of other men’s
1 souls, and braving popular opinion
because he supports his family by
selling rum.
The Drunkard's Definition. —The
principle of making myself a beast;
• of wearing blood-shot eyes, and trem
• bling limbs, and bloated face; the
glorious privilege of lying in the mud,
’I of heatin'?- my wife, and fiisrlitcnm?
my little ones, and last though not
least, my right to go to the alms
house.
Tke moderate drinker's definition.
—Drinking or letting it alone, as ]
please; minding one’s own business,
and letting other people mind theirs;
a slow and sure way to become a sot.
The?e are some of the rights which
are taken away by signing the pledge.
Poor men !—Dew Drop.
The Dtpsas.
The most terrible of poisonous
creatures, according to a Greek
writer, is a small viper in Africa
called the Dipsas. Its venom causes
internal inflammation and putrefac
tion. The sufferer feels as if he
were in the midst of a raging fire;
and what is very remarkable, the
vehement thirst that seizes him, in
creases with every drop he takes to
quench it; and thus he perishes mis
erably of thirst, and the more miser
abty the more he drinks, as oil
thrown on fire to extinguish it, only
makes it rage more fiercely.
While reading this account we
could not help asking, what would
he thought of the understanding of
those who would voluntarily seek the
bite of the Dipsas, and even pay a
high price to experience the effects
above described—or what of the hu
manity or morality of those who
should make a living hy vending the
privilege of being bitten, to such lu
natics—or what of the wisdom of a
government that should encourage
such a ‘fair business transaction ?’
Is there nothing of the kind nearer
than Africa?— N. Y. Organ.
A National Sin. —Drunkenness
has often been called the national
sin of America, and although much
has been done to remove this stigma j
from our fair escutcheon, yet we
much fear it w ill long hang to us a
lasting disgrace, when the legislative
bodies, and even our Congress, give
their sanction and the influence of
their example on the side of rum.
So long as this continues, the people
may do ever so much, yet drunken
ness will be our national sin, and
the world look upon free America
as a land of drunkenness. —Crystal
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