What did alcoholics do before there was Alcoholics Anonymous? Let us consider a few parts of this holy man's life: He was not quarrelsome when drunk, but went quietly home to bed when the public-houses had closed for the night.
No matter how much drink he had taken the night before, he was up in time for his work, which started at 6 a.
, and left the house clean and tidy in his person.
He acquired the habit of taking the Holy Name in vain and of using strong language when talking with his fellow workers, and he began to neglect the Sacraments, though he went to Mass on Sundays.
His prayers consisted of blessing himself when he got out of bed in the morning, as he was, usually, too drunk to say any prayers going to bed.
For two, if not three, years before his conversion he had not been to the Sacraments of Penance or the Holy Eucharist.
The picture which Matt Talbot presents to us at this period is that of a young fellow going fast on the road to ruin; the craving' for drink gradually mastering him; the duties of his religion almost completely neglected; and the duties to his parents entirely ignored.
The picture is dark, but it is not all black.
All his troubles came from the one sin-indulgence in drink.
He had no other vice and his moral character was irreproachable.
And let us consider the day of his conversion.
Matt was silei Jlt for a time, and finally turning to his mother said, I am going to take the pledge.
She smiled rather incredulously, and said, Go, in God's name; but don't take it unless you are going to keep it.
He answered, I'll go in the name of God.
He went to the room in which the boys slept, washed himself carefully, and, taking his cap, turned to leave the house.
As he stood at the door his mother turned to him and said gently, God give you strength to keep it.
He took the pledge, which at that time was a pledge to give up drinking for a period of time.
On the present occasion, Matt had made up his mind to take the pledge for three m.
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