Very painful was this experience to the pioneer.
An experience which touched Garrison more nearly arose out of the sad case of his brother James, who, the reader will recall, ran away from his mother in Baltimore and went to sea.

He ultimately enlisted in the United States Navy, and what with the brutalities which he suffered at the hands of his superiors, by way of discipline, and with those of his own uncontrolled passions and appetites, he was, when recovered by his brother William, a total moral and physical wreck.

But the prodigal was gathered to the reformer's heart, and taken to his home where in memory of a mother long dead, whose darling was James, he was nursed and watched over with deep and pious love.

There were sad lapses of the profligate man even in the sanctuary of his brother's home.

The craving for liquor was omnipotent in the wretched creature, and he was attacked by uncontrollable desire for drink.