Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-21 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL WORKING MAN

" Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that.plit'est thy
bottle to him and makest him drunken."—habak. it. 15.

[Continued from 13th October.]

A devout Indian Mussulman, named Hadgee Jaffe Stillman, is stay-
ing at Southampton. Ili is a merchant of Bombay, and has visited
this country for the combined purposes of business and pleasure. He
speaks six languages, two of them—the Mahratt and Hindost ini
most fluently, and English pretty well. He has din.oil with gentlemen
at Southampton, with whom he is a ereat favourite, on account of his
iate:ligencs and agreeable manners. He eats and drinks nothing
stimulating; even Indian curries he abhors. Bread, plain boiled rice,
and roasted meats alone he partakes of. Water is his drink. He is
a good-looking man, about forty years of age; wears an enormous
turban and a r:ch Oriental dress.
It is said that in the Society Islands, where the temple idols and
the service of Oro, were superseded by the worship of the true and
living God; where the inhabitants lifted up the club and the spear
for each others destruction, hei been linked in the bonds of Christian
affection and friendship, and vied in making each other acuainted
with the truths of the Gospel, thus turzed fro,n idolatry, superstition,
cruelty, bloodshed, to the true faith. Yes, the people of Tahiti
promised to beco us one of the most religions people on earth. But,
alas, their houses aro now descrieed 11,3 little better than brothels,
and virtue and morality at a very low ebb.
Whence this lamentable relapse; when Oro, their own idol was
des Toyed, alcohol, the European idol, was spared.
Having thus glanced at the hindrance intemperance is to the pro-
gress of religion, I will now endearou: to demonstrate that it is
melancholy Cause of decliesion.
The Re serail W. R. Baker says—" That he has had twelve years
expetien, e in the ministry, and the result of his observations daring
that time I', that full five-sixths, or eight-four oat of every hundred,
of cases, in which Christian proressors have been expelled from
Christian communion, has been drunkenness.
The Rev. Dr. Bennett says—" It is melancholy to reflect how large
a portion of the fells of protesaing Christians hare been through
drunkenness."
Tie Rev. Dr. Campbell says—" There has sc irce'y been an instance
requiring from me the exercise of Church discipline or the exclusion
of Church members which did not arise from strong drinks."
The Rev. B. Pars ns says—" Let our Church books be examined,
and we shall find that nineteen of evry twenty acts of backalidiug
and apostacy may be traced to inioxicatine:drinks."
A Sunday School Realer instituted an inquiry into the character
of the first hundred scholars admitted into the school since it was
opened, and th reau:t of that Inquiry was, that ha ascertained that 38
were confirmed drunkards.
The Rev. W. R. Baker saes—" I has lately examined the roll
book of a Sunday school, exteading Tier a period of twenty years',
including 2,i a 4 names, ea] I found that more than one half had
been rained by intemperance."
Tae :Rev. W. B. Wright, B.A. says—" There has lately been
pus into my hands a dome neat drawn up by a gentleman who is
not a total ass airier, being an account of ten Sunday school
t achers, eight of whom have been ruined by drunkenness."
A Clergyman gave are account of 15 persons who in early life
belonged to the sane ceristi an esearnunity as himself, which
shows that nine out of the 13 met with drunkards' deaths.
The injunction so pointedly laid upon the Jewish priests by
Almighty Ged, not to take wino or strong di-ink when about to
engage in the sacred services of religion, and also upon the wilds
Nazaritish order, was doubtless dictated be divine knowledge,
relative to the disordering and demoralizing influence of these
drinks. We hive in the lO:h of L:v,tecus a melancholy account
of the deaths of Nadal and Ablu, sons of Asro , for effacing
strange fire before the Lard, which they did throneh drunken and
perver.ed judgements, and the Christian minister unwarned by that
appalling judgement, and the prohibitions there eejeined, as
it iment to think in some instances at least, be at partaken of the
crime that led Nadal and Abiha to offer strange fire before the Lord.
Not only has intemperance broken like a wolf into the fold of
Christ and borne off vast numbers of the flock, but in some instances
overpowered the earthly Shepherd.
A Geutleuasn travelliag in Essex and staying with a friend,
where he met with a young minister, who was going to preach
in the neighbourhood; the lady of the house offered him a glass
of spirits before he enteral upon his Work, which he accepted;
an al.lerly gentleman who wan present thus addressed him—' My
young friend, suffer me to give you a word of advice respecting

the use of intoxicating liquors. There was a tim3 when I was
an exceptable preacher of tha G ispel, but by too frequen ly
accepting the mistaken kindness of friends I became a drunkard,
I wvkald icv trJU sou,or ir 1 coLva get drink. I am as
miserable in conseqaence a 4 a creature can be thi3 side aide of Hell."

I know myself a minist-r, an eloquent and powerful preacher,
the editor of a leading publication, in connection with one of the
lead ng. Dissenting bodies of the present day, who, throagh
drunkenness, was banishql his country, and died in a foreign land
of thet dreadful malady of drunken VS3 —the deli inn tremens.
I knew a local preacher in this town, who through the same
eel hsh't was excommunicated, and was u'Vmittly carried to the
drunkard's grave. Notwiths ending such t-rrible evils occurring,
a leading minister of the body to which thane two unfortuni to
♦ictims of alcohol drinks belonged, very recently frustrated the
establishment of a temperance society in connection with a sthbath
school in this town ; and thus it is that we have such lamentable
declarations as the following.

The Rev. W. Jay, of Bath, said, " that_ in one month not loss
than sever D sseniini ministers came under my notice, and were
suspended from their sacred office through drankenness."

The Ray. Dr. Dodds was asked ;,by a parliamentary committee
"Are you aware at all cf ministers who were correct in their
conduct generally, moral and useful Clergyman yielding to habits of
intemperance" said —" Yes, I have the pain of knowing several
clergymen addicted to habits of Intemperance. I know one man, a
common soldier. a id twe others aiding mental situations through
drunkenness." The Rev. Dr. Woods observed to the same Com-
mittee —"at one time I coall number nearly forty ministers, whose
reputation and usefalnoss was either injured or reined through
drunkenness. A very few years ago a minister not m ny miles from
Liverpool, was in the habit of adjourning with Christening parties to
the nearest public-house, and then proposed the new made Christian
with a glass of intoxicating liqour On one of those occasions so
perfectly unconscious was he of the iniquity or danger of such a
course as to comment to one who has always evinced a disposition to
ms.gnify rather than conceal any infirmities on my taking drink.
This minist9r's case affords a striking illustration of the fact that "he
that standeth ought to take heed lest he fall." Not long after, this
minister was t•ird in the Ecclesiastical Court at York for drunken-

ness. Although still in the Church, his ministry is powerless. How
is it that there is so mush drunkenness amongst the lower order of
Roman Catholics? Is not a fact that Father Ilatthew was the ex-

ception to the rule among the Roman Catholic Pthsthood 2 The
influence of religious proffesars, and especially of ministers, is poten-
tial in the country. They will not attend theatres, cassinoes, the
hop, the horse•race, 8a,!., as they alleze, oa account of their demoral-
izing and contaminating tendency, while they ara not one thousandth

psi t as demons !zing and contaminating as the gin shop ;"
against which no general dentin cation from the pulpit can be
heard. Of coarse there are honourable exceptions: onr est.reraed
Pre3iden', the Re►. W. 11. Wright, the Rev. Mr. Bardsley, and many
others in this town ani other place;, as will be sew from the
following:—" The Rev. J. Kirk delivered a sermon on the Bible an d
the Mains-law, in Edinbargh, on &I:lday w.ek. Toward.s the close
he sail that fur fifteen years ha had closely sta tied the temperance

question, and wUe he was chaerel with the good which total

ab3tinenee had Elmo. it way striki gly clear something of a more
practical character w.s domantod. He aa3 one of nearly four

hand ed ministers, who, impressed wit'i this pressing idea, had m2l a
few days ago, not to carp and cavil, bat in a so'exia earnestness, to
seek the tote prohibition of the liquor-traffic, and, in the nano of

mercy for the en4laved, and zea' f,r the caul° of righteousness as d
truth, he earnestly irup'ored a'l present to aid in the accomplishment
of thin object so identified with the great intere,ts of men, and in
strict hirmany with the will of God.

(To be continued.)

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The Fairy has arrived from China with 604,500 lbs. of
tea.

The Vienna letters mention the stoppage of Messrs.
Malanotti and Co. for £40,000,
The Marquis of Dalhousie proceeded on Tuesday in
the India mail steamer, for Malta, where his lordship
will pass the winter,
The Daily News observes that several journals which
have defended Lord Oanning's instructions relative to the
treatment of the mutineers, have made a dangerous misre-
presentation of facts ; °Le and all of them proceed on the
assumption that the instructions are simply an exhortation
to humanity, that they in nowise interfere with the free
and energetic action of the military authorities in the dis-
turbed districts. This b)ld perversion of the truth may
cause their nature to be extensively misapprehended. The
above paper then shows what it believes to be the scope
and operation of these instructions, and considers that
their promulgation is a proof that Lord Canning is not
equal to the task of rescuing the Indian empire from

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