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of work to finish, and I must have a mug of beer to 

 steady my nerves, or I cannot do it; but tomorrow, 

 if you'll call, I'll sign the pledge." 



" That's a temptation of the devil. I do not ask 

 you to sign the pledge; you are a slave, and can't 

 help it; but I do want to tell you this. There is one 

 who can break your chains and set you free." 



" I want to be free." 



" Well, Christ can set you free, if you'll submit to 

 him, and let him break the chains of sin and appe- 

 tite that bind you." 



" It's been many a long year .since I prayed." 



"No matter; the sooner you begin, the better for 

 you." He threw himself at once upon his knees, 

 and while 1 prayed I heard him sobbing out the 

 cry of his soul to God. His wife knelt beside me, 

 and followed me in earnest prayer. The words were 

 simple and broken with sobs, but somehow they went 

 straight up from her heart to God, and the poor man 

 began to cry in earnest for mercy. 



"O God! break these chains that are burning 

 into my soul! Pity me, and pity my wife and chil- 

 dren, and break the chains that are dragging me 

 down to hell! O God! Be merciful to me a sin- 

 ner." And thus out of the depths he cried to God, 

 and he heard him and had compassion upon him, 

 and broke every chain and lifted every burden, and 

 he arose a free, redeemed man. 



When he arose from his knees, he said : " Now I 

 will sign the pledge, and keep it." 



And he did. A family altar was established. The 

 comforts of life were soon secured — for he had a 

 good trade — and two weeks after this scene his little 

 girl came into my husband's Sunday-school with 

 white shoes, white dress, and blue sash on, as a 

 token that her father's money no longer went into 

 the saloon-keeeper's till. 



But what struck me most of all was, that it took 

 less than two hours of my time thus to be an am- 

 bassador for Christ in declaring the terms of hea- 

 ven's great treaty whereby a soul was saved from 

 death, a multitude of sins were covered, and a home 

 restored to purity and peace. " 



The above tracts are furnished at tive cents per 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



dozen; 30 cents per 100, postpaid. M. E. MuNSON, 

 publisher, 77 Bible House, New York. 



Some of you may urge that the above is 

 only fiction; but the first paragraph tells us 

 that it is a true experience; and it is very 

 much such an experience as I have had 

 again and again, as you may recognize if 

 you recall what I have written in these 

 Home papers. This intemperate man was 

 a sample of those that the world considers 

 beyond help. It required quite a little faith 

 on the part of the good Christian worker 

 to insist on seeing him when he refused to 

 be seen. Then it required a considerable 

 amount of tact as well as faith to get Jiold 

 of such a man. The white shoes and the 

 white dress belonging to the saloon-keeper's 

 daughter touched the vulnerable spot in the 

 heart of the poor besotted inebriate. Then 

 the suggestion in regard to the saloon- 

 keeper's ivife drove another nail, until the 

 poor slave of drink got to the point where 

 he could say, *' God ! have mercy on me, 

 a sinner." 



Now for the moral of this tract, and may 

 God grant that it may be scattered far and 

 wide. There are such poor helpless slaves 

 of drink in almost every community ; and 

 you too, my friend, whether man or woman, 

 can do just such work if you will. Get 

 down on your knees first, and ask God to 

 2;ive you faith and courage, and then turn 

 in and help in this glorious work of " rescu- 

 ing the perishing." 



TEMPERANCE 



Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the chil- 

 dren unto the third and fourth generation. — Ex. 

 20:5. 



Ever since infantile j^aralysis commenced 

 its terrible work I have been impressed with 

 the idea that sooner or later we shall find 

 the trouble comes, perhaps indirectly, from 

 the use of intoxicants; and I have feared, 

 ioo, that some of our great cities might be 

 reluctant to admit or have it come out in 

 print that our open saloons are more or less 

 responsible for this terrible malady. It has 

 already been remarked that it is confined 

 mostly to our great cities, and to those por- 

 tions of these cities where there is a con- 

 gestion of population and a lack of sanitary 

 measures; and I wish somebody could tell 

 me whether its ravages are not confined 

 mostly to our wet cities. Has infantile par- 

 alysis started or made any headway in our 

 dry cities and towns'? We have had just 

 one case here in Medina County, and it oc- 

 curred right close by the only spot where 



(here are two saloons put in by the famous 

 (or infamous) liome rule a year ago. Be- 

 low is a clipping from the Cleveland Leader, 

 which, wliile it does not hit exactly where I 

 expected, contains a suggestion that may 

 well be pondered. The Bible tells us that 

 when Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord thai 

 I should obey him?" Avhen nothing else 

 would subdue that proud monarch the Al- 

 mighty struck a blow at the first-born in all 

 llie land; and is it not possible that the 

 loving i'ather has seen fit to strike a blow 

 at the babies Avhen nothing else would rouse 

 up and bring to their senses the fathers and 

 mothers? Now read the elii^ioing and look 

 out all around you, as far as you are able, 

 and see if nicotine is not at the bottom of 

 the whole matter. 



"tobacco plague cause;" infantile disease is 

 form of nicotine poisoning, claim. 

 New York, Sept. 29. — If you are a smoker you 

 probably have heard of Dr. Pease, president of the 

 Non-smokers' Leagao, and .arch enemy of thja 

 cigarette. Well, then, Dr. Pease and his favorite 



