And this man said to me: "I have
not drank a glass of liquor since." He is now leader of a young men's
meeting in New York. I asked him to come last Saturday night to
Northfield, my native town, where there are a good many drunkards,
thinking he might encourage them to seek salvation. He came and brought
a young man with him. They held a meeting, and it seemed as if the power
of God rested upon that meeting when these two men went on telling what
God had done for them--how He had destroyed the works of the devil in
their hearts, and brought peace and unalloyed happiness to their souls.
These grog shops here are the works of the devil--they are ruining men's
souls every hour. Let us fight against them, and let our prayers go up
in our battles. It may seem a very difficult thing for us, but it is a
very easy thing for God to convert rumsellers.
The Way of the Transgressor is Hard.
There was a man whom I knew who was an inveterate drinker. He had a wife
and children. He thought he could stop whenever he felt inclined, but he
went the ways of most moderate drinkers. I had not been gone more than
three years, and when I returned I found that that mother had gone down
to her grave with a broken heart, and that man was the murderer of the
wife of his bosom.
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