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other liquors of the kind, soon led him
along the highway of intemperance with
fearful rapidity. Do you wonder at it,
my young friend? You need not won-
der at it. Intoxicating liquors set the
whole body and mind on fire. They
drive a person crazy. He loses com-
mand of himself, after a while. He goes
on drinking, though he knows well that
he is going certainly and swiftly to de-
struction.

William was soon a confirmed drunk-
ard ; and oh, what distress he brought on
the once happy family of which he was
a member! Before he was twenty-one
years of age, he was often found, in the