Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-07-13
TEMPERANCE NOTES,

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that tho evil II intemperanee may DO re'
dueedg How can I help 10 save the In.
ebriatef How can prevent the sale Of
strong drink When Christian men
and women take this matter TO their
hearts, and really want to do something,
then something can and will DO dome
Rec u, H. 4aylor
Every member must be temperance
refOrmer, and every church must extend
the helping hand 10 every pellteht who
seeks 10 be saved, Especially should
Christian people feel this Obligation
Tor they represent the drunkard's diyih'
est, truest helper,-Christ, Knowing
that he redeems the fallen, they should
hiring tho penitent to his feet, From
tho days of the apostles TO the present,
the Gospel has been acknowledged TO
possess peculiar eiiicaey,-Rer Geo- q
I0rimer,,
The experience Of more than half q
century has proved the license system
to be failure, II Ia not efficient 10
stay tho vice at which II Processes 10
ain, II feeds tho evil II itpr0fesses TO
punish, But wherever the prohlbitoy
law has been adopted and faithfully
executed, the sale and tho use OF intoki'
eating liquors have diminished, drunk
enness has fallen Of, public and private
tranquility have been better preserved,
pauperism and crime have been lessen
ed, taxes have been reduced, and tho
public good has heen materially pro-
moted,-tior. lYdskbuTT, W.
DO you wonder then that men and
women become ianatical ~ they con
front this owl, which they must kill, oi
consent to be killed by ~ Ia II sur,
prIalng that women and children hold
out their hands, and, with trembling
voices, cry upon those who are strong,
"AyGngo us on our adyorsaryy IL II
amazing that, deSpairing OF help ir0m
man, they besiego Gods throne day
and night, sobbing, in their crushing
agony, "Ayengc us on our adyersary"Y
No; II IL only surprising that any ono
can DO dumb or idle or indifferent, when
such q curse as this rcigns no feafiully
triumphant In the land especially that
any one loving the Lord Jesus Christ
should be able in quietness to cat bis
bread aud say his prayers, while the
very breath Of hell is shrivelling up and
destroying the strong and noble at his
side.
The straits to which the subject OF tho
inherited drink taint are, by the condi.
tons Of their fell birthright, subjected
from their earliest years, appeal to us in
the most imperative terms for wise and
Just lcgislotiyc action. Whether II bo
right to throw the sanction OF the law
over the public temptations to drinking
which abound throughout the kingdom,
or even TO allow the continuance in our
midst OF these licensed traps for the
snaring of the heavily handicapped sub.
jects OF the law of heredity in alcohol, is
not for MS to discuss at present. But !
cannot refrain from the expression OF
the opinion, that such an act ofrighteout
legislation as the efiectual prohibition
of the liquor traffic, would be as advan.
tageous to the common veal, as 1t would
be Just and merciiul to the struggling
ones whose piteous case We are now
consdering.-Dr. Norman Kerr, Lon
dOn, q. u.
Judge Aldrich, in an admirable short
address before the Massachusetts, tenn
perance society, said "If there is still
within the limits OF this commonwealth
a clergyman of any denomination who
uses any kind Of intoxicating liquor as a
beverage, we commend to his prayerful
consideration this language found in an
address from members of the clergy OF
the Church of England to their brethren
of the same church: We abstain our
selves because we believe that the
drunkenness which prevails may be
traced back to moderate drinking as its
great cattsv. W. aro oonvinood that
moderate drinking, and not drunken
ness, only, supports the traffic. The
traffic tends to foster drunkenness and
drunkenness produces bodily misery,
social degradation and spiritual death.
So long as drink IS supplied, there will
be drunkenness. Which is most in ac-
cordance with common sense-to supply
the cause, and labor in voice to prevent
the effect, or to get rid of the effect
through the Punishment of the cause?
And we have found from observation
and experience the impossibility of
exercising our effectual influence over
other classes without setting them this
example,"
"Please come and say couple of
prayers over my father" was the request
made by young man to one OF our
last Saturday morning. The
dead father of this boy was once we'll
known and capable compositor on a
prominent morning newspaper in this
city. Drinking became his besetting
sin, and he passed through hardship
enough to kill any ordinary man long
ago. He made several attempts to re-
form, but as often fell back to his old
habits. Friends forsook him, and after
living the life of tramp on the street,
he finally sickened and died on Black
wells island His faithful wife, who
had kept his children together by hard
work, had his body brought to the city,
and in the store of an undertaken few
friends and a city missionary paid the
last tribute to him who once made
Cooper institute ling with applause, as
he stood beside Francis Murphy, and
promised for his wife's sake to live
better life but who was too weak to
resist the tempters power in this city of
hell-holes. Was this man always
or did he reach that state
the highway of moderate drink
ing? And how could he reform when
ministers of the Gospel gave him pre-
cept and example for using intoxicating
drinks, and state and city continued to
surround him with liquor shops.-N 7.
Witness.
FAILURE OF A COLONY.
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