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future generations; see the children born of a 

 drunken father following in his footsteps. See 

 his daughters in the houses of infamy and his sons 

 in the chains of crime. Watch their descendants 

 as they multiply imbecility, epilepsy, insanity and 

 pauperism. See this stream of deformed human- 

 ity as it grows wider and wider, trace it for only 

 a few generations, and it numbers thousands of 

 dependents and delinquent mortals. Watch it as 

 the centuries come and go; who can conceive of 

 the final results ? The finite mind is dazed in the 

 presence of this infinite problem. 



Drink and take the consequences! Wait until 

 the evening bells of Time have ceased tolling and 

 the morning bells of Eternity break the interven- 

 ing silence with their clarion notes. Now, mount 

 the great white throne, stand beside the Recording 

 Angel, and as the unending day of eternity sweeps , fa , < 

 on, observe the consequences. Watch that de- of the Nations, 

 bauched, debased, distorted, deformed, pauper, 

 idiotic, insane and criminal throng as it passes the 

 Judge of the Nations to receive its reward. There 

 where the deformed limp, where the feeble-mind- 

 ed chuckle in silly mirth, where the epileptics froth 

 in periodic fits, where the insane rave with mad- 

 ness, where drunkards stand face to face with 

 heaven's gate, and see those awful words, flash- 

 ing from flaming swords, "No drunkard shall 

 enter the kingdom of heaven!" There where 

 prostitutes are cursing the mothers that gave 

 them birth and hardened criminals stand shud- 

 dering on the crumbling cliff that o'erhangs the 

 dark Valley of Death and Despair; there where 

 family ties are being severed forever and loved 



