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Title: Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Gough, John B. (John Bartholomew), 1817-1886 Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922
Subjects: Temperance
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., A.D. Worthington & co.
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ell, Mr. Gough,you may think it very queer of me, but I have been on myknees this morning for over an hour. Have you? c Yes.Then, I said, keep there, and you will go home sober.No man ever drank a glass of liquor while he was honestlypraying God to keep him from it. There is safety there,but all the rest is risk. A man may keep the pledge to theday of his death, but he does it at a risk. Thus we bringthe intemperate not only to fight the battle, but to trust inGod for the victory. Are there no men ruined who ever had the grace of Godin their hearts? Will you dare to say that every deposedminister never had the grace of God in his heart ? Will youtell me that the wife of a minister, who spent eight years inChina, teaching Chinese women Christianity as a devotedChristian, and then came home and delivered lectures toladies on the wants of the women of China, for the purposeof raising money, not for herself, but for them. — will yontell me she had no grace in her heart? And yet she died
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INTEMPERANCE IX THE PULPIT. 457 drunk in a hotel in Boston, an empty brandy-bottle by her side. This lady I personally knew. I may be approaching delicate subjects, but I have to dealwith facts, not theories. I have to deal with men and theirexperiences. I knew a clergyman, from whose pulpit I oncespoke. I was told that he was one of the most eloquent ofministers. He was the pastor of a very fashionable church.On the night that I spoke in his church he was to offer prayer.He was very much intoxicated. I was asked some time afterif I would testify in the case. They were going to try himfor drunkenness. I said, No, I will give no testimony what-ever. He was deposed, and that doctor of divinity, who hadpreached the gospel to thousands fur eight and twenty years,has since stood in a low dram-shop, with his face bruised andblackened, and a number of degraded and dissolute men jeer-ing him, — stood there and preached his old sermons, forwhiskey to stave off delirium tremens. Now we appeal

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