Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27

Isq1o pus suIulub 'muIdo 'oIussIs s9II uos medicines; should be employed only when scientifically prescribed. It is not @ food and should not be used as a common bever- age. It has been proved also that when taken into the system it diminishes the tenn perature, lessens the strength, and shortens human lite,"
 A distinguished English physician says
 "We hear adulteration talked of very much. do not know that there coulL be any adulterant put into alcoholic beverages that would be much worse than the alec. hol contained in them. When we come to talk of the difference between the various kinds of wines, beers and spirits, we find that they are all taken for tho alcohol
 which they contain; that none of them
 we should take if their alcohol were ab- stracted. What do we know about alco-
 hol2 If man takes pint of brandy it intoxicates, it poisons him. Of course you
 know 5nt0CicGnt is modification of the | Greek word tortcGn. A man who is intox- icated is poisoned; we simply use 8 Greek
 instead of Saxon word for it. It is ad-
 mitted by every one that it is the cause of
 more than half the insanity which we have
 Lord Shaftsbury, chairman of the commis- sion on Sunday in England, .said in Par
 liamentarY report that six out of ten luna
 tics in their asylums were made lunatic by
 the use of alcohol.
 But it is not so much what physicians
 and statisticians say, that should affect us,
 as what we see and know. The apalling evils of intemperance lie all around us, and
 touch us on every hand. It is not mad.
 ness, but sober reason, that calls intoxicat-
 ing liquor distilled damnation." It was
 not passion but piety that led MT. Moody to
 say, Fling away the internal stuff." Oh, I hat foo ia io fat ho hod;ae ,;,,lo
 souls of men! How it separates from God!
 How it desolates homes! How it debauch- es and imbrutes humanity! Let this tenn
 perance revival go on then; let pulpit and
 press, parent and teacher, church and Sun
 day school, good men and good women, speak with clarion voice, and work with
 purposed hearts and earnest hands, to rid
 society of the curse and presence of strong
 drink.
 One thing that we are to do is to become
 total Gbstaiaers oursel0es. Moderate drink.
 Ing leads to incompetence. No mau is so
 strong that he is safe. The drunkards
 come from the moderate drinkers. No
 man becomes drunkard at once. It has
 been found out that the drunkards who gave up distilled liquors remained drunk.
 ards on fermented liquors, and what was
 more, that fermented drinks were the edu-
 cators ot drunkards among the young. Dr. Reynolds, who is carrying forward the Red Ribbon Reform movement at the
 West, on being interviewed lately, said |:
 "You will observe that my pledge is to-
 tai abstinence pledge. It includes wine,
 beer, and cider. l consider cider the step
 ping stone to drunkenness. A child that
 swallows one third of an ordinary goblet of
 cider gets as much alcohol for it to bear. as
 a man gets out ot full glass of rum. If l
 should drink glass of cider now I should
 not be able to stop short of getting drunk.
 Total abstinence, then, must be our
 pledge. Beginning his reform movement
 two years ago. Dr. Reynolds has organiz--
 ed clubs, adopting this pledge, with mcm- bership numbering 2S5, 900 men. Every man enrolled IS over Is years of age. They are called Red Ribbon clubs from their
 wearing red ribbons in their button-holes,
 as badge. The membership in Michigan . alone numbers 80, ,O00. In that state, be- sides these good men. over 200, ,OOO men,
 women and children, within the last eight months, have enrolled themselves in the work, and signed the following pledge: i've, the undersigned, for our own good
 and the good of the world in which we
 live, do hereby promise and engage with the help of Almighty God, to abstain from buying, selling, or using alcoholic or malt
 beverages, wine and cider included"  ought to be abstainers just the same for their own sakes, and for the sake of others. . Ministers who attempt to save the lntem- perate, must adopt total abstinence or abandon the work. The late Dr. Guthrie said, when he went down into the caves and dens of Edinburgh, to seek and save
 the lost, Il soon found that I must give up the hope of saving these lost souls un. less took with me the principle of entire A. 4uR1~ NysaA- z promises of God, and the blessings of the the Holy Spirit, felt that must be able, as worthy leader. to say to the people, mot forward, but follo,op This first induced
 me to become an abstainer, and I am con- :, vinced that it is the duty Of every man who would do his duty for the glory of God and the good of his fellow creat- ures. to discountenauce by his example, the , use of intoxicating stimulants." With the example of total abstinence, let us look after tue children. An ounce 2 of prevention Is worth pound of cure Let us call the attention of children to n cases of death and woe, and warn them o against the consequences of this terrible :. evil. Let us instruct them, if we do not ' pledge them but pledging them believ, . to be safest and right. The pledge help, . . enthusiasm, and shows that we are in ear . nest. As for legislation, let us have il when we can, and as much of it as, and nc 7. more than. the people will sustain. Prohi- . bition IS right if the people will prohibit ! bu: laws do not enforce themselves. It is pity to make laws to be trampl.d under foot . I'he churches hG0e e so0rk to do, in disci ' plining and purging themselves from al o complicitY with this evil. If member g g drink or rent their buildings for liquor pur poses, let such members be disciplined
 And if wine at the communion table be a comes snare to any, let them be excused # from receiving it, or let there be subsItu v the pure unfermented juice of the grape
 And let us not spend our energies simply in talking tt tmperance, or in hnding faul = with other peoples methods, but let u s,' help by gitSs cf money, those who are en '; listed in this good cause. Even moderat ~ v drinkers in New York are contributing t 't suppress the dram-shops and prevent crime # and if you cannot sign the pledge, we wan s you to help otherwise in checking th ia great evil of intemperance.
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