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28 pages.] THE SPOILED CHILD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look\nat the third son. He maried into a very worthy family, and his wife is a worthy\nwoman. He prospered in business and became wealthy. Yet passionate, and\nfurious, and drunken, his family knew no peace. The abuse in person and\ncharacter which he inflicted upon his wife, will not all be known till the\njudgment. There are deeds of darkness of which but few have any knowledge; and\nearth now conceals them till eternity shall call them forth to light. But his\nwife was compelled to flee from her home, and then in his fury he did the deed\nwhich has consigned him to a prison. What a train of misery is here; and all to\nbe traced to the conduct of one drunkard\u2014and that drunkard a father!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A<\/em> third\nremark arises: how do the venders of ardent spirit jeopard not only their\nmen temporal and eternal interests, but those of their children and children’s\nchildren. <\/em>Multitudes who are now living, like multitudes who are dead, can\ntrace their ruin to the pernicious conduct on parents. Thousands of examples\ncould be produced, in which the unmingled ruin which the venders of ardent spirit\nhave brought upon others, has returned upon themselves or upon their families.\nWere a thorough investigation made, there is little doubt but a larger\nproportion of the descend- ants of those who have spent their days in vending\nardent spirit have been dissipated and worthless, than of those of any other\noccupation. In the family of M. every son who came to manhood was intemperate\nand vicious. If any one doubt the hazard of the traffic in this respect, let\nhim look around in his own town, and among his own acquaintance. And why should\nit not be thus? For gain the vender mingles the cup which ruins others, and why\nshould not others for gain mingle the same cup for his children? The simple\nfact is, God has pronounced a solemn curse upon the man who puts the cup to\nhis neighbors lips;<\/em> and if the traffic itself is accursed, the gains made\nfrom it must be accursed, and the iniquities of the father shall pursue the\nchild even to the third and fourth generation.       \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let then every man reflect as he pours out strong drink for his neighbor, and pockets the money as a reward, there is a curse entailed upon his conduct, and that curse will be felt even after his name is forgotten, or remembered only to be execrated.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. 28. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

28 pages.] THE SPOILED CHILD. Look at the third son. He maried into a very worthy family, and his wife is a worthy woman. He prospered in business and became wealthy. Yet passionate, and furious, and drunken, his family knew no peace. The abuse in person and character which he inflicted upon his wife, will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-125","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions\/829"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}