H The w ijKfir in the First Glass. One of the latest contributions to the of the bottle which I have seen His the following note: V "My dear sir: lam sorry to inform you W that I have again fo'.len, and am uow held ■ at Jefferson Poliece Court, Sixth Avenue I and Tenth Street. Will you come and ' pay my fine afld deliver me? Please come at c-nce; I will repay you. lam sick and almost beside myself." The author of the above distressing note is a young man of fitie family, flne education, and attractive manners. lie was for a short time a student in a theo- Ikal seminary. Twelve hours before ■as locked up in "Jeffersou Police H"as a street drunkard he was at l>r. ling's "Chnstain Home for Inebri in Seventy-eighth Street. For sev [ weeks he had been an inmate of that ellent institution. Knowing how often wretched youth had fallen before, Dr. secured a good situation for him |B keep him from the temptation of idle- Before sundown he had slipped from his new place of employment, was arrested for drunkenness in the And all this, too, in a young man gentle, refined manners, not yet out of His twenties. are the lessons of this last text in ever-enlarging chapter of ruin by the Several lessons. The first one is when a drunkard has "reformed" and fallen quite as ofteu, he gets to falling, llis will grows weaker time, like a rope that has been bro- HH repeatedly and is the worse for every He becomes hardened in con- by every blow given to conscience. ■H self-respect has been wounded so of- HH that he grows reckless. 11c has bro so many good promises that he does believe himself when he signs for the fifteenth or twentieth le f ssqp from my fallen friend's drunkenness becom s a hoiri- It is as much a self-inflicted consumption would be which on by sleeping on the wet This young man tells ine that appetite clutches hold of him he to resist, lie is swept away on the rapids of Niagara. This makes him the more Bitterly has he learned what ineaueth—"Whoso commit is the slave of sin." What mira- grace dßfeod may yet work for my friend no one can predict; but up to no efforts, prayers, or promises been of any avail. The demon of still liurles him into fires and into ; and when cast out he returns with seven other evil spirits, and state of the man is worse than thure teas a time my friend A—was boy, untaiuted with the cup. let it alone he was safe. He saw drink and began to tamper. Ilis HH3H" S opened perdition to him. Touch- first glass was like touching a HK ,f yellow fever; it was fatal. That which scut him into a police b ut fhc last drop of his first day I see God's truth witten up jgHmore and more vivid lines of fire on g|H sky—"Look not on the wine when it Hrad; for at the last it bieth like an ad- Bder, and stingeth like a viper." Total ab- W stinence is the only gospel of salvation I from the bottle. We have got to prcacli 1 it from our pulpits, and teach it to our ■ Sunday-schools, and enforce it in our ■piomes that the viper lies coiled up in the I first glass—Rev. T. L. Cuyler. 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