Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-08-29
Written for the LKraER.
INTEMPERANCE.

IErEMPERANCE. :,
Intemperanee does not consist
wholly in drinking Intoxicating bev-
erages; anything that is carried to
excess is intemperance love Of dane
ing is as much intemperance as drink
ing whiskey. Although the evil ef-
fects are not as apparent, many a
time have / heard young girl say:
ssWhy, I'd rather dance than eat!"
Is not the expression of the couhrm-
ed drunkard the same? Anything
that wholly engrosses the mind. Or
turns it from God is wrong; it n O.
child Of intemperance. Tsh me. yoni
devotee Of the dance, can you in MI
earnestness ask Gods blessing ON
you while you may dance! Are
your thoughts ever of your Maker ss
you 20 whirling and farming like q
thing without a soul, as il yon had
no more concern and your life were
to last no longer than the willow
lowering over yonder sicksning
swamp, thst Gances and hirts with
every breeze and dies ere morn.
Evil speaking is another form OF
intemperance-we cannos allow .
chance to 60 by to speak Ill Of our
neighbor. I would give my lefs
hand to be rid Of that ugly, debasins
habit II could scarcely spare my
right one.) What would you give
my neighbour Here goes for pledge,
/ will never speak Ill Of anyone il
you never will by Gods held my
friend. 1t will be like tearing down
mountains to uproot this habit tha
has grown with our growth and
strengthened with our strength.
verify believe the habit is harder t
break than the drunkard's.
A passionate temper 10 the hardes
of all Incorporate habits to conquer
it does its possessor and his associ
ates more harm. Prayer and perse
verance are its only remedies.
There is another giant dissipatio
stalking through our land, tesr'n
spr young men and our maiden
from VI and transforming thsaa in.
IsolS- hearted. sslash uses and woraer
His nxina . novel reading. look !
his victims, me thinks you viii hs,
pity for some intsnperate onas. b
sides the drunkarlis. See that youn
girl, hitherto she hae gone 70 rsa
when the FIRST stars we're peepins
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lips and Gods blessing on her hear
by that fair brow and calm cle'
: eyes, l judge she can be no mo-
: than thirteen years of age. 1t
past midnight, yet there she sits 10
= lowing the fortune OF heroes wh
"Thank God" never existed save
the heated and corrupt brain Of &
writer, starting With terror at eve
sound, weeping over what sssns I
inevitable fate Of her heroine. Thr
times has her mothers voice Col
msnded her to retire, each time Z
promise was given and broken 7
Giants chain is fast around her dra
ing her on. She has lied tp b
j. mother for the first time. II stril
is one, she can see to read no taong
J. there are shooting pains in berh es
Of when she rises she is too dizzy
ne walk, her eyes feelas if sand had b
& thrown in them. she goes toped W
ut ry and dissatisfied, dreaming. q pa
* css and fountains and princesan
is gui.e in contrast With her own hu
he bic lot. / have no time -. spe,
sst servants who neglect their wot =
he their business, and svsx Mabt
Al, their children for this most anss
er factory employment ! ase
OF. Such are soms * " syn0Aoe!
lay this disease at ssa<tings yoa IN, "a,
Ing sure they grow no bsstsr q sas1
&C. vance. 1 dare not dvy ths sAr
Ton farther back and bQr nhH i
passions are raised iR breaat s
as snow, how tin.liyhS hss4 8
callus to all hum.k ,tafsriIHg r
,ou real sorrow. sslfthsP, ,bsssyiss 7.
md center of oil things, M.y arg 81
,,h weaving romances of which .
lat selves are the much Abased hs' hs'
ll.., whereas, it they would 'Shre~ !.
Al, novels asiAe, leave ths giants do
ions, give their rsal hessty symg
or to poor suffering humanity, ts'
Kill would nock around than aad
in would be no more need for sell;
sny Finally brethren, I can ask no
ave better Of you than Christ has
,wn- mandsd. "be temperate in al thi'
.,.cht a-S-O~ =
-. A Boston woman pus hsrself !
hands Of Boston dsntist 10 hss
40 teeth rsorganizsd. He found