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TRACTS FROM AN GRAFTON,
RELIYERED AT EAST BETHEL,
II. JULY i, 1887.
7 luch has been said about the evils Of
appearance. We have been often point
% the waste Of property, the ruin Of
lies, and the loss of character it occa-
S. These are sore and alarming evils,
ust be admitted; but there is some
. e worse by far than this, connected
It. Property might be wasted, fami-
ruined, and character lost, but if the
i, the heart, the soul, still retained its
nal innocence, its independence and
ghtness, these are evils that might be
c. We should then deeply regret the
and mourn the desolation which it oc-
pms, but the unfortunate sufferers would
css principle within Of redeeming,
u Wing influence. He takes but a super
4 view Of this subject, who contents
elf with sitting down, and counting
dollars and cents which inLemperance
Iquandered, NE families it has clothed
gs, and the regulations it has destroy
Deep AS are these inquiries, they are
he beginning Of sorrows. They are
he sport, the play of intemperance I;
are not its serious ocork. The "dy-
grapes" have faithfully fulfilled their
when they uttered the following de-
iation -
the purse will oft unclasp,
III its golden treasures take,
j, the husband in our grasp,
.eave the wife with heart 10 break.
nile his babes are pinched with cold,
We will bind him TO the howl,
his features We behold
flowing Ike living coal.
en- we've drowned their peace and health,
Il ength and hopes within the bowl
re we'll AJAX than lifo or wealth,
Ve'Arequire he very s,al.
phiIanthropist and tie patriot are put
forth their energies upon this subject.
hey who only lock at the outside, the
zee Of this evil can never satisfactorily
mt for the reasons of the exerlions
they are making. 1t was not the a.
t Of the tax imposed by Parliament
the colonies, which determined the
ress OF l776 to rebellion. The amount
e tax might have been paid, but the
nption by Parliament Of a right to tax
olonics in all cases whatever, was an
nplon to which our patriotic fathers
could submit. Ii was the principie
Ration, not the amount imposed, which
toned the difficulty. So too it is no
y the loss Of property, or the pauper.
Which intelnperance occasions, which
d mainly induce us to make war a
it.
us examine, for one momeut, the in
PC Of inlemperancG on the moral an,
Pctual character Of man. 1t was tn
FIX Of heather historian lhat reason
given to man as his governor or dlrec
That man only can he denominate,
who is governed by the dictates of rea
What is it that constitutes the man
lis animal propensites, which he pos
in common with the brulcs If h
S these to govern and lead him, it i
imseli' that leads, but his propensitie
PASSIONS. When we speak Of man a
guished from the animal creation, W
of him as a rational, thinking, an
telIectual being. Man, Invested of hi
n and his intellect, is not himself
|ned by his animal propensites an
pms, he 10, strictly and properly,
A slave is one who is wholly sui
b the will Of another; lie is one VIII
pst the power Of resistance, or or
urcenders himsefto any power who
= freeman whom tho truth makes FREQ,
all are slaves beside
reeman may be governed, but he 90,
himself; he is his own master. II
ard is a slave, because he is govern
power which his reason, that
#, acknowledges to be a hard on
master.
e danger and the evil OF intempe
both consist n the itrt that there
gree Of intellect that is safe from
aches. Let the habit OF indugen
hiking spirituous liquors once be torr
d no man is safe from beast!y intoS
1t is not the weak in intellect, Il
classes in community only, that a
It in the snare. The wise and the n
le highly gifted poet, the eloquent G
he profound statesman, philosoph
me, yield to the influence of tempt
apparently as readily, as the SIM
nan, or the ignorant day iahorer. 7
Mt Burns and the noble Byron n
y exposed to temptation, and eaua