Saloons, Badness Of
Even the worst have a vital point where they can be reached and helped.
See DRINK; DRUNKENNESS; INTEMPERANCE; TEMPERANCE.
SALVABILITY
Every man, even the worst, has some vital point at which he can be touched and helped, as was the paralytic mentioned below:
Dr. Swithinbank describes a real case of bodily paralysis in a medical record in Paris: A man was attacked by a creeping paralysis; sight was first to fail; soon after, hearing went; then by degrees, taste, smell, touch, and the power of motion. He could breathe, he could swallow, he could think, and strange to say, he could speak; that was all. Not the very slightest message from without could reach his mind; nothing to tell him what was near, who was still alive; the world was utterly lost to him, and he all but lost to the world. At last, one day, an accident showed that one small place on one cheek had feeling left. It seemed a revelation from heaven. By tracing letters on that place, his wife and children could speak to him, his dark dungeon-wall was pierced, his tongue had never lost its power, and once more he was a man among men.