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HERBIE'S STORY blackouts became '-quent bleeding for the stuff, but
This is'the story of Herbie, and more and mor: often he remembering' ''that the
a smiling, happy Bermudian ended up either in jail or in . gentleman who was paying
who worked al—the hotel the hospital. He awoke from - his way was sitting next to
where ' ' we holidayed one blackout to find he was him, Her'iie somehow
recently. He's the •kind of married S"'She had the managed to grit his teeth
guy .who makes you, feel Papers to prove it._ and decline the enticing
good just to look at him, his Whooppee!) "It didn't last offgz•.
eyes lit up;: a lop-rsided grin -long", he .says with' a wry • He saw his mother briefly
in New York and once again
she advised"him, to trust God
with his problems. "I had
another good laugh about
that!"
On the bus to Penn-
sylvania' from New York, 'all
he,saw were the giant
billboards declaring the
merits of this or that brand
of alcohol. "I've never been
more . miserable", he
remembers, "I was sure I'd
die if I didn't get a drink."
As they drew up to a
resort hotel where the Faith
at Work conference was
being held, he noticed a
liquor store about t half way
down .the block. Somehow ,he
managed to get throu-gh_the
first day, but that ,night,
unable to sleep, and with'
nothing on 'his mind but the
unquenchable need for a
drink, he decided ,he could
that one . of the things he critically sick in the hospital-- ,ta'ke' it, -no. longer and would
wanted to • do' was drink. By " where he had been , treated head for the liquor store `as
the time he was 16 -he had many times before. After soon as ' it opened the next
set 'himself up it a classy 'two weeks the doctor told 'day.
apartment and was drinking him bluntly, "Herbie, you're As dawn broke, he got up,
here's ' nothin
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to do in those days", he . more I can doforyou. walk until the store opened.
recalls, "work hard and Please donJt waste my time Going down to the' lonely
drink harder."-ariymore." However, a little beach he, „kicked his way
'Shortly, he was drinking later he came back to tell along angrily impatient.
harder than he was working Herbie he could be released Something bright turned up
and taking his hostility out if he would go and stay with in the sand, He bent 'clown
on everybody. "I'd fight a couple wl}p ran a home for and picked up an American
anybody,. didn't matter how' alcoholics who were . trying Penny. The\words printed on
big they were." Booze to make it back. To,get out the coin leapt out at him, "In
of -''the hospital, Herbie God We Trusty''. ..
agreed and stayed at the ' His mother's words came
home for awhile- because rushing back to' him.
there was no place else to "Suddenly,.. I was down_ on
go., But his thirst for 'liquor, my knees writhing in pain,
was becoming greater and crying, 'Oh Goll, please help
more desperate with each ME, -
passing day. - --`- "I can't explain what
.Ode day, another man who , happened, all I know is that.
' worked with alcoholics came ,, -,something beautiful washed
-to see him and asked him if over me and took with it all
he would , go with him -o a the pain and the thirst which
Faith` at ark-cortifisreti e tit -"'has-"iaever 'returned, to this
Pennsylvania. He offered to day." (That was in 1969.) His
, buy Herbie's plane ticket eyes mist over when he tells
and-' whatever clothing he . you, "I believe it was the
needed. Seeing a. chance to • 'a'nswer to m9 mother's
get out of the " home and prayers." '
perhaps_awan .opportunity to Well, whatever it was,
see his mother in New York, .»H.erbie's a new man. Now,
Herbie agreed. . instead of hating people, • he
"I'd. no sooner got my seat loves 'them. Wherever he
belt fastened", says Herbie, goes he spreads fun and
"when the pretty stewardess' laughter and faith..,
bent Over me and . asked "Every day is exciting",
sweetly, 'Would you care for he says, "I never know .what
anything from the- bar, Sir?" God has in store for me!"
With his inners . almost
and a quick quip for any. grin, "I drank up all her
situation. But after listening perfume... and anything else
to him, we found that Herbie I could get my hands on!"
hadn't always been this Occasionally he would
lovable. In fact, it had been meet his mother on the
quite the opposite. ' .- street. "Herbie", she
He says he had always pleaded with him, "your
been a loner, hated and problem is too big for you.
mistrusted everyone from Why don't you ask and trust
his earliest memory. When God to help you?';
he went"to school he was in "I' had never trusted
constant- hot water so he anybody in my whole life",
attended as rarely as' says Herbie, "and I wasn't
.possible. As he puts it, "I about to trust somebody I
passed through school; in the didn't know or believe in."
front door and out the back." Eventually, his• mother
At the age of 13 he walked moved ' to New York, and
out of the classroom ,forever; er-bie kept going lower and
the same day he left home lower until, unable to keep a
turning his back on his job, he was forced to
mother and older brother. scrounge in the streets. One
It, wasre't difficult for him day, .with no money to buy
to pick up work and he says, liquor,.he took a container of
"I felt like a big man, I was anti -freeze from a service
free to do whatever I station and began to drink it.'
wanted." He foind out soon Of course he ended up
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Forty members and 25
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United Church, on February
6. .
'Mrs, C. Crozier, president,'
welcomed all and asked for a
moments silence for a past
member Mrs. R. Fuller, who
passed away recently.
Mrs. H. Anderson, reported
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An invitation, to a euchre
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Two candidates receive
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Two candidates had their Lodge No. 89 February 4.
Rebekah Degree conferred on
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Mrs. Marguerite Horton,
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Dorothy Tideswell and Mrs.
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of the Morning Star Rebekah
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The Goderich group agreed
to hold a dessert card party in
the Legion Hall April 16.
' ritrich was convened ,by
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using almost .entirely
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