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The rev. Newman Hall states in
The biography of his late beloved father
that for many years he was the victim of
intemperance ... He would sometimes re-
frain for days and weeks, and then again
he was as bad as ever. Hope seemed
now to be lost, and especially when, one
day, after having been bought into
great weakness, through intemperance ...
death appeard to be very near, and his
awful state more terrific than ever ...
Not a moment was to be lost; he cast
himself once more at the foot stool
of his long-insulted Creator, and with
an intensity of agony cried out,
"What profit is there in my blood when I go
down to the pit? Shall the dust praise
thee? Shall it declare thy truth? Hear,
O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord
be thou my helper? He sank down ex-
hausted: he could say no more. That
prayer was heard, and a voice from
heaven seemed to reply, "I will help thee,
I have seen thy struggle, and I will [crossed out] (help)
now say to thine enemy, Hitherto thou hast
come, but no further!" A physician was
consulted, as to the probability or possibility
of medicine being rendered effectual to
stop the disposition to intemperance. The
poor man would have suffered the
amputation of all his limbs, could so severe
a method have rid him of his deadly
habit, which like a vulture, had
fastened upon his very vitals.

The physician boldly declaired, that