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 dressed child  and  it  will  tell  you  that  it  amounts  to $3  a  month,  almost  $40  a  year;  $400  in  ten  years; $800 in  twenty  years. Or if  you  spend  a  quarter a day,  that  is  $7  a  month;  $90  a  year;  $900  in  ten years; $1800  in  twenty. And all  for  what? You have heard  tell  of  the  man  who  invested  his  fortune in fireworks  and  fired  it  all  off  in  the  air. Well, the drunkard  is  still  more  foolish,  since  he  fires the rockets  down  his  own  throat. Again, drink undermines his  constitution  and  shatters  his  nervous system,  so  that  he  becomes  a  blear-eyed,  haggard, slovenly  wreck. Then by  and  by  comes  that horror of  horrors — delirium  tremens. God bless and save  us,  friends,  that  is  a  thing  too  terrible  even to talk  about. But what  is  the  spiritual  state  of  such a one? A soul  fetid  with  innumerable  sins  of  drunkenness and  impurity,  and  without  the  remedies of sins — without  prayer,  without  a  Church,  without a God. It was  well  said  that  "for  the  drunkard the  grave  doth  gape  thrice  wider  than  for  other men." But more  terrible  are  the  words  of  Isaias: "Woe to  the  drunkard,  for  hell  hath  enlarged  its soul  and  opened  wide  its  mouth  to  receive  him."

Secondly, drunkenness  affects  the  drunkard's  family. As well  might  I  attempt  to  enumerate  every moan and  sigh  of  the  winter  wind,  and  every  drop  of rain  that  falls  from  heaven,  as  tell  you  of  all  the moans and  sighs  and  tears  of  the  drunkard's  heartbroken mother,  wife,  and  children. See for  yourself; it is  under  your  very  eyes. Ask the  careworn,  sickly child why  he  cries  and  he  will  answer:  "  Father  is