The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1819-08-17
MISCELLANY.
A GRAND PROJECT.

the success of our friends IN Maine, and any
thing which tends to promote their welfare,
causes pleasing sensations.
Warning TO Drqnlknrds and Sabbath breakers.
A writer in the Chillicothe (Ohio) Recorder
states the of man of very respectable con-
nexion, who commenced the world under the
very best auspices, and early connected himself
with a most amiable young lady-accomplshed
amiable and beautiful, and possessed OF consld-
cradle property. He had not long enjoyed the
sweets of domestic felicity before he began to
attend grog shops" those places where the
pr. &c Of darkness erects his standard" After
the apse of few years he became deeply I'm
pressed with a sense of his sins and the .evlI ne
was bringing upon himself and family, and prom
ised to quit drinking and lead a new life. But,
says the narrator, Z" know, that in less than SIX
months be threw off all restraint, and drank IN
niquity, as the OK drinketh in the water; and
that in about three years he spent all that he
had. When all was wasted, he purchased small
quantities Of leather, and made it into shoes,
wherewith he procured ardent spirits. The
purchase of the leather and the sale OF the shoes
was effected on the Sabbath day. tie resorted
to those who he knew were disposed to trafhc
with him on that holy day: and it is lamentaoie
fact, that there are many such In our country.
On the 25th day of last April, being the Lord
Day, he set out with shoes for sale went 10
tavern about two miles from his home, sold one
pair and debased hi nself with strong drink On
Monday morning, he told the woman OF the mouse
that he was hungry and desired some food. she
informed him, that breakfast would soon ne ready.
But while it was preparing, he fell of his seat
and Immediately began to snore. When the wo-
man called her husband and two other men 10
breakfast and they went TO raise him, they found,
to their surprise, that he was breathing his last
SO ended the life Of drunkard and a oaooath
breaker. He has left behind him heart-oToken
wife and eight or nine children.
We recommend to the attention of our readers
the following forcible remarks on the subject OF
DRUNKENNESS.
Extract from the Works of DR.. Dwight
" No reputation, no wisdom, nor hardly any
worth, will secure man against drunkenness.
This sin is found in the cottage, and the palace !;
in the study of the philosopher, and in the sacred
desk /; in the hall Of council, and on the bench
of justice and, contrary to what would seem
the dictates of nature, well as delicacy, in the
female sex even in instances, where distinction,
understanding, amiableness, and refinement,
would appear to forbid even the suspicion. In
most If not all of these cases the evil creeps in
sensibly on the unhappy subject; and overcomes
him before he is aware. A prime object, to be
here regarded, is, therefore 10 keep III. danger az
qraus before our tves. We are ever to feel that
we ourselves are in danger and to consider a
habtual and lively dread of as our first safety.
We are to form, also, vigorous and standing res
olutions. that we will not be overcome. These
we are invariably TO form in the fear Of God );
with solemn recollection of his presence with
humble dependence on Him to bless us and
with feryent applications for his blessing. To
strengthen our resolutions, and keep our fears a.
wake, we are TO mark the miserable victims Of
this sin with anxiety and terror to regard the
sin itself a. N, high tr0y 10 Hell and to realize,
that in yielding to it we seal our own reproba-
ton.
To all this conduct motives can never be
wanting Multitudes of the highest import, and
the most commanding efficacy, have been already
suggested IN the progress cfthis discourse. Every
heart which is not formed OF adamant, must have
felt their force. Nothing pleads for it except the
mere appetite for strong drink AN appetite,
ally nnatural, and created by casual indulgence.
All thi gs else in heaven, and IN earth, exclaim