Christopher Smith
speaker
315 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Christopher Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mix not with the white sugar of the cup, the snow of this awful leprosy.
Mar not the clatter of cutlery at the holiday feast with the clank of a madman's chain.
Stop and look into the window of that pawnbroker's shop.
Elegant furs, elegant watches, elegant scarves, elegant flutes.
People stand with a pleased look gazing at these things, but I look in with a shudder as though I had seen into a window of hell.
Whose elegant watch was that?
It was a drunkard's watch.
Whose furs?
They belonged to a drunkard's wife.
Whose flute?
Whose shoes?
Whose scarf?
They belonged to a drunkard's child, and
If I could, I would take the three brazen boars hanging at the doorway and clang them together until they told the awful knell of the drunkard's soul.
The pawnbroker's shop is only one eddy of the great stream of municipal drunkenness.
Stand back, young man, take not the first step in the path that leads there, let not the flame of strong drink ever scorch your tongue.
You may tamper with these things and escape, but your influence will be wronged.
Can you not make a sacrifice for the good of others?
When the good ship London went down, the captain was told there was a way of escape in one of the lifeboats.
He said No, I will go down with the rest of the passengers.
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