It was written just before he committed suicide. “I leave to
the world a wasted character and ruinous example; I leave to
my parents as great a sorrow as in their weakness they could
possibly bear; I leave to my brothers and sisters as much
shame and dishonor as I could have brought them; I leave to my
wife a broken heart and a life full of shame; I leave to my
children poverty, ignorance, a bad character and the memory of
their father lying in a drunkard’s grave and having gone to
a drunkard’s hell.” This is typical. Decent men are becoming
sick at heart with this thing. We are now in the midst of a
war that promises to become world-wide, relentless until our
Christian obligation to the world is fully met. Since religion,
business, science, education and the State have taken the field
against drink there is certain promise of victory.--_Methodist
Recorder._
(831)
=Drunkenness, Disastrous=--See DEBAUCH, FATAL.
=Drunkenness, Safeguard Against=--See SAFEGUARD FOR DRUNKARDS.