The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-04-04 00:00:00

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A TSMPERANCE SERMON!
To at Edam..

81r —I bee to forwar.l yO3 to, inwrti..n in your
eigulge peioey, in coowsctiolk with till temper mice
minion, now being held In the i. 15.1 of Portaaud, an
satrecc fr.nn a seran.m p each,d by the Her. J A.
lieesor in Bt. Os arge'e Oh arch, on sunder morning
la.t. frosting you wilt favour me by iusertan4 the
enclose I, and sincerely hope I h.ye not trespassed too
much on yourispaos.—And ob.ige your. truly,
A TOTAL ABSTAINER.
Reforne.street, Portland.
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Taking fir his text Acts role., an,l part of verse 25,
" R-as ,nski of Temper .1. wee," Sr. Bear ir states.' that I
be had heron advertim to preach • tain.wrauce se, mom
to-day in c innection with the temperance mied to, '
which ',read be held on the tel ,nil durint Hi, week.
Be bad not read the report of the se, m nor winch were
preached in c mnection with :he W. ymouth temper-
&OM mission in the newspapers, bit tie had re I winie
of the. -chat which wrre m ale .luritg the week, ad
he t onto.. there was anything but reason in them.
Toe speeches were vs y extraysgsot. it. beliesed
that it is in accordance with reason and iruth that God
permits the temperate use of strong drinka Nlelchise-
dek brought forth bread sod wiue unt , Abram. Jaz,.b
gees wine unt his fsther lestc. In Issith we rra I—
" And in this m uuu tam shall the Lord of boats make
onto all pep. • feast of fat china, • &sat ~f wine on
the lees, of (at thin:s full of insrr ow, of woos on he
tree well re6Lie I. Christ tome I water int , wine
at the inrarria-e fesst In Cum of G dile,. Pan, who
reannel f tempo-emus before Felix, cut IMO led
'timothy to Wt. • it he wise fir his stoossah'e sake.
He referr d to he who, witch Moab dr elk, soul the
wiue witi,h is sai I io the 104th Pealut. to m k. glad
the brat: f ma-', sit wing that the wimp, of &rip-
tare were int ,x c ...Mg. The Church C ttechisue
teachet us to keep our bit li,. in temp,rance,
soberness, and chaatity. We should practice
righiciusoest, he penned, and godliness. luVe should
always copy the ex onple of Christ, and then
there woul Ib. in, iut-inp•rstice. We must reme•Lb!r
that te to ,I'm it 0.4 religion. In the teetot .1 meet.
Inge wh oh have heels recentlu bed on the ial sod there
had been • gr-at deal of excitemeur. It is • dangerous
and pernid us thing for bye and girls to be out is
the streets late at Melt 'Meng. It is blasphemous
to sin< sacred hymns with cumin songs, which has
been done when the temperance petty have been
pirating the •treeta If. regorlal total ahstin ince as
something like re,li'usty ; it is a higher hind ~1 icing;
It le e shi biting the spirit of welf.denial. Good wine and
god beer take, moderately woul I to good ; but they
are greatly abused, th :retort' he wished the temperance
camel God speed, die wished thst he could be a total
sbefaioer himself. Drunkenness is • great evil, it
produce. all kinds of misery. We use heartren ting
accionts of the eff,cti of drink in the pap-re every
day. On our Island some time ago a quarryman in a
stat • of intoxicsti in fell over int, the raid way in the
top of "Yeats." and was killed. Total alettinence is
the only sale thing for drunkards, and iii, only religion
that will eusble them to keep it properly. He exhorted
all present hi exercise faith in tue i.sori Jesus Christ
sad be saved.