Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-14 00:00:00

A L C 0 8.0 L;

OR, THE
MINOR CURSE OF ENGLAND.
BEING TUE SUBSTANCE O➢' A SERIES OF ADDRESSES DELIVERED IN
CONNIXTION WITH ST. MARY'S TOTAL ABSTI,BNCE SOCIETY,•
KIRKDALE.

DEDICATED TO THE
REV. C. E. TIT VERTON, 8.A., P
RESIDENT,

re
LIVERPOOL WO RICJ_NG MAN.

" Woe unto him that glveth his neighboar drink, that put test the
bottle to him and makest him drunkea."—lialuk. ii. 15.

I Concluded from 2nd December.]
•
The principles of total abstinence act in two ways. They tend to
facilitate the diffusion of Christianity, by withdrawing that which
hardens the sinner against the teaching of ne.Gespel ; a❑d by pre-
senting in the minister a consistent example. And I will remark,
hero, that total abstinence i 3 incomplete, and has not done its work,
until it has driven the victim of intemperance to Christian commu-
nion. I fear this subject does not occupy snalcieatly the attention of
our leading temperance advocates, hence thepast failures, in Liverpool
and elsewhere, and the charge of inildebty that meets the total
abstaining Christian at every turn. Nevertheless, in the town of Corn-
wall 100 reclaimed drunkards have become membes of Christian
churches, and it is asserted that in England and Scotland, upwards
of 40,000 reclaimed drunkards have annually joined religious
communions.
The Rev. H. G. Ludgoan, near Land's End, at a public meeting,
sail—" When I cause to my parish I made every effort, by my pen
and from the pulpit, to reclaim drunkards and put an end to the
appalling evil which was causing wretehelness, disease, and death,
but in vain; indeed, I thought seriously of leaving that field of
labour, believing that the church doors might as well be closed. If
however, resolved upon establishing a temperance soziety. I signed,
she pledge myself first, and now, thank God, thece i.e not a drunkard
in the place, and my church is too small for the people."
A woman observed to a towdmissionary, about twelve months ago :
—" My husband lest a good situation through drunkenness, which
reduced us to great distress. I pre ailed upon him to sign the
pledge; in a short time ha regained his situation, ann we are, than
God, again very happy. We attend church on the Lord's day regu-
larly, he distributes tracts, and oar children go to the Sunday school.
The person who distributes tracts at my hoists is a reclaimed
drunkard, and fro:n the conversation I frequency have with him, I
believe he is a Christian total abstainer, and can call Jesus his
Saviour. Such are soma of the triumphs of the elevating, ennobling,
and benign principles of total abstinence, deenonstratmg that they
are deserving, and, indeed, demand the co-operation of all Christians
—ministry and laity.
Total abstainer! there is nothing like acting up to your light,
Dream not of going back. The cit./ of distrnetion is behind—the
light of Heaven is before. Cr", What shall Ido ? Ask the question
with deep and solemn earnestness. If conscie❑ce tells ton and com-
panions, intercede. Listen not to their entreaties. Act with firm-
ness, life and death are in the scale. Diffuse the ennobling principles
of total abstinence among your neighbours, and especially among
pooa drunkards.

The evils resulting from drunkenness to the physic 11 system a"0
aPPAilIng, while numerous toe imonies to the great augmentation of
health and bodily strength resulting from the adoption of total
abstinence principles might be adduced.

The Re... J. CoHinson, perpetualaarate of Lemeily, says As
regards my personal experience, I can say with truth, that my bodii
y
health is greatly improved since I adopted total abstinence izinci-
pies."

Old Parr's maxim was, to eat when hungry, and drink when dry ;
and he lived 152 years.
The Rev. J. Moore says :—" I have been told that ministers cannot
preach or speak for any lengthened time without intoxi.ating drinks.
I have, however, spoken and preached when on a deputation in aid of
the Bible Society, 12S times in twelve weeks without it, and not at
all fatigued, while I have witnessed those that took a little unable to
discharge their duties through weakness."
The Roy. W. Marsh, of Leamington, said :—" I have been enabled
to make greater and more continued efforts in my studies and public
ditties since I adopted total abstinence principles; never 'di] a man
enjoy better health Ural I do." And, in reference to myself, I can
say that total abstinence enables me, after battling with the difficul-
ties of the day in the effort to provide for my fawli;, to wash away
all fatigue of body, and, with a mind free from the mopish influence
cf intoxicating drinks, prosecute with delight the preparation of these
paper., which I intend to be a record of my sentiments in reference
to the evi.s inflicted by alcohol.

The Rev. S. Schon, church missionary at Sierra Leone, pays:—"We
begin to find that we can live and enjoy Letter health, even in Western
Africa, 'without alcoholic drinks."

A French colonel, who had served 22 years under Napoleon Bona-
parte, got up at a temperance meeting and said :—" Yoa see a mn
70 year,. of age, and although I am in excellent health, I bare fought
200 battles, have 14 wounds upon my body, have lived 30 days on
horse flesh and the bark of trees for bread, snow and ice for my
drink, the canopy of Heaven for my covering, without stockings or
shoes on my feet, and with very few rags for my clothing, in the
d ese,ts of Egypt. I have marched for days with thd burning sun on
my naked head, feet blistered, 1101611 s ill'ed with sand. Do yon ask
how I survived these horrors ? I answer, I owe my proservatien to
the k ind providence of God, my health and vigour to the fact that I
never drank a drop of spirituous liquors in ray life."
Bernon Lary, chief of the medical staff of the French army, stated
it as a fact that the 6,000 survivors who returned from Egypt were,
to a man, total abstainers from the use of intoxicating drinks.
John Hancock, Esq., of Hulse. near Taunton, engaged 18 men, nine
abstainers and nine anti-abstainers, to reap nine days. The total
abstainers, at the end of the specified time, had reaped 85 acres,
3 roods, 35 poles, white the beer men had reaped only 70 acres 33 poles.
Th, beer men consumed 162 gallons of ale and adz, at a cost of
Li 143 Gd, while the cost of the abstainers dric•k was 18s, so that the
teetotallers had £9 143 9d more to receive in the nine days than the
beer men.

Captain Drew stated the following incident to a committee of naval
officers, met to confider the plopristy of diminishing the issue of
spirits in the navy :—" I had a man who was perpetnally quarrelling
and fighting, and disobeying orders. At length I ordered him to
receive a dozen lashes. In a mouth another charge was preferred
against him ; I ordered him three dozen lashes, and informed him
that they would ba doubled every time a complaint was made against
him. In another month there was another complatt. I then

consulted with the surgeon as to the state of his mind, h° riSl
him to be healthy and of sound mind. When we went into
at the West Indies, I hired a cell in prison, and kept him tw,:fii
on bread and water. When he came out I told him that ifl'o,6°
reform I would forgive him all that W 33 past. He thanksdidel
asked me would I sto his grog and let him be paid for :ts '
and from that moment there has not been a more faithful'
seaman in Her Maj 'sty's service."
The Poor Law Commissienere observe, in their annul'
It in now ascertained that total ab-tinence is the I)3°
working men engaged in unhealthy employments.
The correctness of the pethagorean rule of allowing °
but water, will be evident from a consideration of the
connection between the physical and mental system. Tie
organ by which the mind acts, being Itse f a portion of
system, the connexion between mind and matter—is 0,
that sympathetic kind, existing between one organ and
o
—the stomach and brain for example,—bat 15 f
dependance, the immaterial mind depending upon "`"
brain, as music does upon the instrument it prccaeds
be evident, therefore, that health of body is necessary to
mind, just as order in a musical instrument is essential
of sound. The utmost labeur and skill tint can be ex,,,a
broken instrument will be productive only of broken
notes, while were it well attuned the most meloile`"
would bo produced.
In like manner, a disordered brain affects the mind'
conditions and productions, under such physics' derai
be inferior to what they would have been had the orge
The connection of mind with matter is not confined
He who would have a clear heal, mast have a clean st°S
is what the most moderate consumer of alcoholic d'W".
possess; nothing is so greet a friend to the mind of OSLI
abstinence. It is well known that an excess of rue'
system blunts the intellect; consequently, abstinence
sharpen it. The poet Walker has the reputation of
wit of his age, and he was a total abstainer.
The advantages of total abstinence are so manifest
have tried them, when speaking of the improvement of
invariably refer to the improvement of the mind. The
Dr. Potter, professor of mental and moral phylosophY, siesies
I abstained from alcoholic drinks, I have be able t 3
prolonged efforts of mind."
I believe if total abstinence principles were generaill
they would give an elevated tone to the national chars°
would manifest itself in the moral and intellectual'
the community.
A missionary, in 1845, said :—" I saw a little boy, talei",
of gin, and following hies, I overheard his mother send
halfpenny-worth of coals." And thus it is, that
tle commercial system of the coantry ; the greatest
spent on the most pernicious luxury, and the smallest
the most important articles of domestic comfort. For
The duty paid on sugar, tea, and coffee, in the year er
1857, was about £12,000,000; while the duty paid a• p
liquors—alcoholic drinks—and tobacco, amounted ofeA
£24,000,000 ; so that double the amount was OPe
Intoxicating drinks teen in the other articles of domesti-
A witness declared to a parliamentary commission, is
individuals, connected with alcoholic drinks, were the
that prospered in Ireland. When, however, total
principles were diffused in that country, the trade bete-
artd Ireland trebled in three years. The people of
manufactured in 1638 one hundred bales of goods for iello
in 1844 three hundred bales; thus demonstrating t 4
abstinence princ:ples ware to become general, the outl
earnings would be too vast almost for comprehension.
One fact, ilicited by the parliamentary enquiry into the
extent of drunkenness was, that the reputation of the Di
was sallied by the intemperate habits of the peoPle*
greatness of our national and commercial renown, 4
naturally associate a corresponding elevation of individual ;of
they lowa the generally humane nature of the laws of is
the innumerable institutions provided for benevolent oe.iss
6.114 amongst us ; the extent and success of our moral
and our fame for literature; and the arts which, cordate
mercantile and political greatness, prepare them for
find in every Briton the representative of perfection. 11°
are they disappointed when they have practical expert°o
ntemperance of the British character.
Every lover of his country must feel deep humiliating'
when lie reflects upon the Intemperance of Englishmen, and
not wonder at any man, convinced of this humiliating fact' tee
pressing the importance of the temperance moveraeat as • '
lever by which the elevation of our moral character a'
can be effected, .
If is true, the drunkenness of Britain yields a revenue
een
seventeen millions sterling annually; hence the -
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and for this patronage
have depression of trade, drunkenness, premature des
destitution, ignorance, vice, filth, and all kinds of merit
ryh
disorder. Every year about 12,000 immortal souls pePD
drunk, and, it is to be feared, go into etenity in that
so that the Chancellor of the Exchequer may esti.
£1,450 each. Certainly, in the estimation of a selfial
no great sacrifice for £17,000,000: sterling, as in the Year
January, 1857. Tell not this in Pekin ; publish it not in
of Canton, lest the heathens of China rejoice, lest the '
Buddi triumph. "I will never consent" raid the Pegen,,
China, "to raise a revenue from the vices of my
PeePiee.e
this, ye British Christian legislators! who reckon LI;
one-fourth of your income derived from the drinking Pree
people. Even the Russian bear, as the late Emperor scss '
said, in ens ver to a deputation of total abstainers froze
"As for the revenue, we will let that go, and get A
somewhere else, but not f.om drunkenness."
The expenditure of seventy-six millions at the shrine of
in England, immerses continually one-hundred theeseAd
fad
of
in prison; causes one-hundred thousand to be regularly
legal charity, forty-thousand immortal beings to be rer
home, relations and friends and placed in the dark and
of the asylum —the sad and dreary abode of the lu'°*.
fifty-four thousand to be annually shouldered to drano.'"i
whereas total abstinence principles produces the blessing'
peace, comfort, and plenty.
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When these facts are contemplated, how gleseetieersofi
of drunkenness, how horrible the reflection of the w-fsefivie
—and it is important but—the greatest part of tee op!"
pending, I shudder at the thought, and the startling 4. 'l Or II
Englishmen to solve is, shall it come to the ChriPas'"
trophiet patriot and citizea. I deera to speak in th 3 laioze
duel
Holy Writ. "To Him that knowath to do ge'll'seo.so
t not, to him it is sine's—James iv. 17. You mu't he e
rtesevtie,
that these horrors, consequent on 13 liaises fall throttle], drip d°
with an unprecedented crash, shall not come. In order :010
each professing Christian minister and laymaa Platiis°oo
parent, patriot and citizen, mast give up his own giess' t.
himself with the great moral total abstiaonce moire°os pti%esi
this is done,—when tae benign, elevating and enobling fop et,
of total abstinence reign and triumph, there will be Peace' be 8f
and prosperity in the land. England will then, ledee-e'seeff
glorious, and free. Lightning and steam hear the voice as- 4e,
man, fall at his feet, and at his command with winged :PI eic°l;o'
the deepest throbbings of the mind to a remote brother' 'oos
however, prostrates that dignity, and thus impedes the ° torP
gress of intellect, and protracts the realization of the es
De
of human existence.
If total abstinence principles were to be universeWsdollogitPCD.'
the nation a stimulus Would be given to the coaethl, to 1 000
nature as to thrill from heart to heart, from Weill 00° ell
and thus threughout our social relations, until all tie
used 01
events of England's past history wsuld be thrown lute
6000
great moral revolution which would be produced. dreeVe:
Thus, I have endeavoured to demonstrate ssee tbe oete-
pervades the land; the extent crime is dependent on it tOlO et 4
social and domestic evils inflicted by the drinking pee 4.0:174
age ; the injury done to religio.i by drunkenness'
iri tl_dfr
death resulting from it; and the mental, commercial t°
OP,„
derangement caused by it. I have also endeavoured It etov,
the advantages of total abstinence are immeasurah;;oo,l"
only for me to thank the Proprietor of the 101 Woe°
for the privilege of recording in the columns of tteslett
journal my protest against the continuance of the 01'
00,.
alcoholic drinks a single day. Joe°
Melling, near Liverpool, 1857.

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many families by the following statement °hipster P" 18011
reported in the four divisions of the Manc";i-e55%,ee ea,
lo if :-1353, 3,458 ; 1854, 3,214; 1855, ",!,- to r
4,474 ; 1357, 4,568. 'The years are made,tire tge coo"
of September. It will be seen that the I'teiteleu'ageitt
within a small fraction of 13 daily, Sundaiseifontldt 00,1;
assuming that all the lest are in each Os' ehou'io '-
within 24 hours. Those who are clarion° t to
or fro if, tf
matters, may frequently see a company, trey '1! retes„
half a &sett or more of there poor little s' An 111,00 Y
" the lost child" room et the police stetti°l3ll'therlY ,w,Dettl„'
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and has an onerous wofk in stilling the ts- eps ur er-
a chubby lad, his face streaked with dirt, dap jesh
tinuous and deafening scream, as if his rer9 Lee littleedee!
on his energy and perseverance : tkcre 137trettlei's 001
exhausted with crying, heaves at inter"l6, seho the
sob, and plaintively invokes the " wanly"' ohcllll-'botii:
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found temporary rest and oblivion in the.,Pyret
where she sleeps quietly, the rays.
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