4 THOUGHT
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When we see man buying and drink
ing alcoholic liquors. we compare him 10
one who is the possessor of many fine Jew
els standing on preciPice throwing them
over one by one into the deep abyss
below. from whence nothing returns, until
all are gone, and then deliberately throws
himself after them. The man who begins
to drink. possesses many jewels, wealth
friends. home. reputation. mind and talents.
one by one he casts them all away until


none is let, and he stands alone a poor


friendless fortuneless being, and then


casts himself soul and body into the deer.
est vortex of the stream tha: has swallowed
all he ever owned. The most precious
level ever set in casKet. he immortal so1l


Is nothing. when weighed in the balance
of his unbridled passions all mus. 60, an
,h;s among the rest. unless an Almighty
ha nd snatch him from the abyss aud res
tore to him all he has lost, and none but an
| A Almighty hand can do this.