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Dr. Taliuiiffe Gives Adviee to Those In tlieBusiness.[BY T. IE WITT TALMAGE, D. D,]Do I address one whose regular work in life is to administer to this appetite*: For God’s sake, get out of that business! If a woe 1h3 pronounced upon the man who gives his neighbor drink, how many woes must be hanging over the man who does this every day and every hour of the day!God knows better than you do yourself tho number of drinks you have poured out. You keep a list, but a more accurate list has been kept than yours. You may call it Burgundy, Bourbon, Heidsieck, Hock. God calls it strong drink. Whether you sell it in low oyster cellars or behind the polished counter of a first class hotel, the divine curse is upon you. I tell you plaiuly that you will meet your customers one day when there will be no counter between you. When your work is done 011 earth and you enter the reward of your bu siness, all the souls of the men whom 1 you have destroyed will crowd around you and pour their bitterness into your cup. They will show you their wounds and say, “You made them,” and point to their unquenchable thirst and say, “Y^ou kindled it,” and rattle their chains and say, “You forged them.” Then their united groans will smite your ear, and with the hands out of which you once picked the sixpences and the dimes they will push you off the verge of great precipices, while rolling up from beneath and breaking among the crags of death will thunder, “Woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink!”
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Indianapolis Patriot Phalanx
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Thu, May 17, 1894
Page 6
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