Christopher Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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But many of them are not of the right kind, and our young people, night after night, are kept in the whirl of unhealthy excitement until their strength fails, and their spirits are broken down, and their taste for ordinary life corrupted, and by the time the spring weather comes they are in the doctor's hands, or sleeping in the cemetery.
The certificate of their death is made out, and the physician, out of regard for the family, calls the disease by some Latin name, when the truth is that they died of too many parties.
Away with these wine drinking convivialities.
How dare you, the father of a household, trifle with the appetites of our young people?
Perhaps out of regard for the minister or some other weak temperance man, you have the decanter in a side room where, after refreshments, only a select few are invited, and you come back with a glare in your eye and a stench in your breath that shows that you have been out serving the devil.
Someone asks, for what purpose are these people gone into that side room?
Oh, replies one who has just come out, smacking his lips, they have gone in to see the white dog.
The excuse which Christian men often give for this is that it is necessary after such late eating by some sort of stimulant to help digestion.
My plain opinion is that if a man have no more control over his appetite than to stuff himself until his digestive organs refuse to do their office, he ought not to call himself a man, but rather to class himself among the beasts that perish.
I take the words of the Lord almighty and cry woe to him that putteth the bottle to his neighbour's lips.
Young man, take it as the counsel of a friend when I bid you to be cautious where you spend your winter evenings.
Thank God that you have lived to see the glad winter days in which your childhood was made cheerful by the faces of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, some of whom, alas, will never again wish you a happy new year or a Merry Christmas.
Let no one tempt you out of your sobriety.
I have seen respectable young men of the best families drunk on New Year's Day.
The excuse they gave for the inebriation was that the ladies insisted on their taking it.
There have been instances where the delicate hand of woman hath kindled a young man's taste for strong drink, who, after many years, when the attractions of that holiday scene were all forgotten, crouched in her rags and her desolation, and her woe under the uplifted hand of the drunken monster who, on that Christmas morning so long ago, took the glass from her hand.
And so the woman stands on the abutment of the bridge on the moonlit night, wondering if, down under the water there is not some quiet place for a broken heart.
She takes one wild leap.
And all is over.
Ah, mingle not with the harmless beverage of your festive scene, this poison of adders, but
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