MEMORY GEMS.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 284, 18 February 1919, Page 10

MEMORY GEMS.

(By Frances E. Willard.)

The* human brain with its fair, d etc ate, mystical filaments, is God’s night blooming eereus, its white radiance forever enclosed and shut away from sight within the* close crypt of the skull, but exhaling ts fragrance in jtoctry, and revealing it- deep pure heart in sc ience*, philosophy, and ic!:;*ion. Keep that s.h rc*d blossom eve 1 pure, fair and fragrant, with God's truth and heaven's immortality.

The beautiful brain that can think

out an epic, compose a symphony, transfigure a canvas, invent an engine, a telephone, an airship we are in the fight for its freedom and integrity, the holiest fight thi- side Jehovah’s throne.

In his ignorance man began to u*alcoholic drinks, and honextlx called them a “good creature of God.’’ Hut the attractive ingredients 111 all tlv’sr beverages is alcohol, a poison that has this changeless law- that it acts, 11 exact proportion to the* quantity mbibed, upon the brain and nervous system precisely as fire acts u|x»i. water, lapping it up with a fierce and insatiable thirst.

Ju-t as ai> engineer controls his e ngine with the* throttle valve, m as an operator controls his telegraph line, so the wonderful brain controls the body’s intrrate machinery. Given s., much clear thought md you will get so much clear ac tion. Given s»> much crazed thought and u»u will get so iiiu< h crazed action. I’here is no axiom of mathematic s more fixed than this physical law.

The man who cannot think his own thoughts though pobody hinders hiii', cannot sneak his own word- though everybody wishes he could, cannot use h s own five senses though they were g ven him for that specific: purpose, and whose cruelty is greatest toward those he loves the best, pre sent' nature’" supreme illustration of the law that alcoholic drinks have no business in the economies of a we I ordered physical life.

Character i« bounded on the north by sobr ety, on the east by integrity, on the west by industry and on the south

by gentleness. But these cardinal points are all determined by the first, sobriety. This virtue must precede that of integrity.

Alcoholic beverages are the onb ones that have no jHixxer of self-limi tatioil. One* glass says two, and two Nays three, until as a general rule, ficun the powei of self perpetuation in this app* t te, the life of a drinker of alroho ies has but two periods, n tlv fir-t of which hr could leave off if be wou'd, and in the last, he would leave off if he could.