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Yet the greatest injury it does is to the soul, because it is a vice 
that leads to many other sins and vices. 
It leads to the destruction of peace. 
It leads to impurity. In wine there is luxury. 
Intemperance leads also to the neglect of the duties of one’s state 
in life. A drunkard is, as a rule, a bad husband, a bad father, a bad 
Christian. He gives bad example to his children, and scandal to the com¬ 
munity around him. 
The Apostle reckons drunkards among those who shall be excluded 
from the kingdom of Heaven, unless they repent; but how seldom is a 
drunkard converted from his evil way! 
“No, I’ll shun the hollow glee, 
And the mirth and revelry, 
Where King Alcohol must be 
Crowned the monarch of the feast; 
For this rosy-fingered devil, 
Prince and chief of all things evil, 
While this poor weak head is level, 
Ne’er shall make a slave of me.” 
— Anon. 
THE DRUNKARD’S WARNING. 
Touch not the sparkling bowl, 
Taste not its water bright ; 
’Twill fill with fire thy soul, 
And dim thy youthful sight. 
Touch not the sparkling bowl, 
’Twill poison v/ith its breath; 
Beneath its surface roll 
The seeds of strife and death. 
Touch not the flowing bowl, 
But spurn it as your foe; 
With grief ’twill fill thy soul, 
And strew thy path with woe. 
