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The Life-Struggle, Fall, and Reformation of T.N. Doutney

The Life-Struggle, Fall, and Reformation of T.N. Doutney

Doutney, Thomas Narcisse

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ISBN10: 1151541214
ISBN13: 9781151541215
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.12 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1877. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. Obtain Employment in New York--Drinking Habits confirmed--Become Reckless. Being now in New York, after much time spent in fruitless search, I at last succeeded in obtaining employment in the freight department of the Erie Railroad, under A. A. Gaddis, the local freight agent of the road. Here, in the daytime, I attended to my business; but by night I might have been seen in the haunts of dissipation, pursuing my former course, and acquiring, if possible, the habit of intemperance still stronger. Many a morning I would go to my work with a fevered brow and trembling hand; but still, under these disadvantageous circumstances, I kept along. For a whole year I kept my situation; and during that time I familiarized myself with the haunts of vice and intemperance, and was falling lower and lower in the scale of humanity. Rum had now begun to have almost complete control; and, although yet in my teens, I was far advanced on the broad road that leads to death. So strong had this impulse for drink become, that I could not restrain myself; and on, on, I went to complete my ruin. During all this time I avoided being arrested by the police; but a stronger power had arrested me, and was keeping me from all that was useful and good, --the power of intemperance. And this period was one of the darkest of my life. Under the influence of the demon I committed indiscretions that nearly brought my parents to the grave. I became mad; I became worse than reckless: when people told me what I was doing, and had done, I only smiled, and went the faster to destruction. I courted death, but it came not. It seemed as though love and all the finer attributes had forsaken me; and even thus early had I begun to drain the dregs of that bitter cup which I, a few years before, ..

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