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...Cites Drunkard's Case...
...business to mend men's souls and not their mere material bodies. He strikes at the root of a man's character; he gets not only under his skin but into his heart, and provides the force to make him a man. For example, take the case of a drunkard, who breaks a leg in one of his orgies. The doctor can set the leg; thus physically the man may be mended. But is his soul any better than it was before? No; and that is where the minister steps in to do his part in mending the drunkard...
...goodness,' says the Good Parisien, 'I cannot go out any more; I find the boulevard dug up; I risk being run over; and I may be shot if I meet a madman or a persecuted drunkard. What are the people doing who are charged to look after my security? What a Préfet de Police doing, his commissaries, his agents, and of what good are the mental prophylactic service and the lunatic asylum...
Lionel is worse than a drunkard: he wishes Oliver's estate, and has him kidnapped to be sold as a slave to the Moors. In rage and bitterness Sir Oliver forswears his religion and becomes a Barbary Corsair, in high favor with the pasha. Sir Oliver plans a desperate coup of vengeance. As Sakr-el-Bahr, the Sea-Hawk, he descends with his pirates upon the Cornish coast and steals Lionel and Rosamund on the eve of their wedding...
Unfortunately those who have tasted cannot easily be deterred from this unworthy calling. Sermons on the terrors of a Drunkard's Damnation, pleadings of father and older brother, even censure from the College office will have small influence. More effectual will be the attitude of those their fellow-students who did not go out of the straight and narrow path for the festivities of one occasion, however great it was. Over the wretched ones who have had their first drunken debauch we can no longer be mirthful; we must show them that such is not the stuff of which true...