Use a large goblet, filled with water colored red to represent wine. It will be crowded with a great variety of little objects, which you will draw out, one by one, and hold up before the children. Tell the children that these things are usually invisible, but that they are hidden away in every glass of liquor, just the same.<\/p>\n
You will draw out a little cake of red paint, and ask the children what that is for. That is the color that gets on the drunkard\u2019s nose. You will draw out a miniature pocketbook, and show the children that it is empty. Ask them what becomes of the drunkard\u2019s money. Draw out a toy chain, and talk about the prisons, and how drunkards get there. Draw out a ragged piece of broadcloth, and tell about the drunkard\u2019s clothes. Draw out a bit of printed paper, the printing all blurred and illegible, and tell about the drunkard\u2019s memory. Draw out a model of a coffin or a tombstone, and talk about the drunkard\u2019s death, and the death of his dear ones. This illustration may be enlarged or limited, as the speaker thinks best.<\/p>\n
All these terrible things are in the wine cup. They are in it, however, and not outside. What is the way to escape them, then? and to get others to avoid them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Use a large goblet, filled with water colored red to represent wine. It will be crowded with a great variety of little objects, which you will draw out, one by one, and hold up before the children. Tell the children that these things are usually invisible, but that they are hidden away in every glass … Continue reading “WHAT IS IN IT?\u2014A TEMPERANCE OBJECT LESSON”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}