Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-12
TEMPERANCE,

"NO government can move along, gem
Grafton after generation, with right and
wrong working side by side"
just in proportion as the good and
true have united IN this work and Fe'
doubled their efforts to save tho lost,
Just IN that proportion have the liquor
dealers united against the temperance
element,-EG
Prnssic acid IL useful Int who would
think II necessary 10 cat II on that No.,
count, as q "goOd creature Of God, and
not TO be refused" when one drop on
the eye or throat Of q dog will produce
commissions and death, and even the
seeds Of plants immersed In twill never
grow
No one disputes that liquor causes an
Infinite amount Of crime and misery,
hut II II not wise TO overlook tho pre-
dispoaing cause 10 drink, Conditions
that result from want, Ignorance, inner
tied tendencies, weakness of VIII, men
tai and physlcal exhaustion, and all man
ner Of excess should be taken into ae'
count In waging war against tho foo, An
eminent physician declares that the
tables OF our flrst-class hotels aro a-
fruitful source OF evil a. their bars,
Another temperance lecture, Ffeder
ick Latheimer delivered II Yesterday,
In a III Of drunken fury he shot his wife
and father'in.law, and then himself
Fortunate" for his intended victims
their wounds ad not mortal. Now
Lathoimor, who was fatally wounded'
will have an opportunity to got solt'
but as hc has already served term IN
prison II IL not likely that his incarcem'
ton In tho Tombs will be OF any great
advantage TO him, and when he is again
sot at liberty no that ho can craze his
weak brain with rum, another tragedy
will not bo ut all improbablc,-Nen
York ISbm.
keep under my body-litcrally 81
smite II under the eye" "bruisc" IL
We SEQ hero tho enemy with which Paul
contended -"the body ofthis flesh.' liC
also calls IL ",ho members And he
claims that in tho warfare OF flesh with
spirit, he treated the former with such
severity and rigor, chastising II in every
net OF rebellion, in every uprising OF
passion or appetite, in every pleading
for indulgence, that il never was able to
gain the mastery. just this rosolutc,
uncompromising treatment OF solicita'
ton 10 partake of intoxicating drinks Is
demanded Of every follower of the great
apostle. W, o. HoirGy, L. S. ~
The following testimony as to
chemical law stated in "rhe Divine law
rs TO Wines,' and in confirmation OF the
scientific laws for preventing fermont
practically known to the ancients, is
from DIR. L. ID. Gale, the veteran chem
ist, who was, rs professor OF the New
York city university, the associate and
chemical adviser and assistant OF Prof
Morse in his application of electro
magnetism to the telegraph, and who
afterward became the able commissioner
of patents at Washington, ID. G., ap
pointed because of his scientific know
lodge. 81 have examined with care DR.
Samson's Divine Law as to Wines.
The laws of alcoholic fermentation in
wine making, as stated by chemists, arc
correctly presented. The view that the
fermenting element is in the pulp, not
in the saccharine juice of the grape, is
accordant with fact and the conclusion
that, if entirely separated, alcoholic fer
ment would not occur is Legitimate
The fact that the Romans before Christ's
day, and that the Egyptians before
Moses wrote, had, by straining the juice
of the grape, obtained an unfermented
wine, seems to be established by his
torical citations. The truth thus attest
ed by early Christian interpreters of the
Old and New Testamentsis of the great
est importance in the effort to secure
on the grounds of Christian precept
abstinence from Intoxicating wines"