The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-12-25
temperance Literature of 1881.

| temperance Literature of 1871.
| The following selections are taken from
| A publication called ''Tlle Christian Alma
nae for Pennsylvania. Delaware and
| Western New Jersey published in Phila-
adelpha in 1881 by the American Tract
Society Besides possessing marked liter
airy merit they are interesting as indicative
of the advanced state Of public sentiment
| in regard to the temperance question fifty
four years ago.
| BITTER SWEET.
4 certain cure for drinking Sprituous
Iiquors.-Take two ounces of the flour OF
ideration-dissolve it i'll a pint of the
| spirit of sclf-denial: then add one quart of
| the Juice of resolution. Shake it well to-
gethor, then put it into the golden bowl,
(memory,) il the golden bowl be not brok
en-. then swceten it with the sugar of high
reputation 4 dram of these bitters may
| be taken as often as the appetite Graves
strong drink. a larger portion of juice
may be added if necessary; and if one
bowl full should not perfect a cure, it must
be filled up again with the same kind.
| The longer one takes these bitters the less
bitter they will taste. They have been
found by most who have used them, very
beneficial to the conscience as well as the
body.
ABSTINENCE \ CURE For DYSPEPSIA.
\ venerable clergyman residing in one
| 4 =, II. cd in
the habit for fifty years of taking little
brandy or Wine and thought il necessary
to promote digestion, as my habit was
dyspcptic. About year since, silently
abandoned the use of all stimulating
| liquors. and as the result of my own eX-
perence can testify that the tones of my
stomach are restored 10 a perfectly health
full action, and that my general health is,
in every other respect, greatly improved. y
| Let others follow his example. and il is
presumed that far greater number of
certificates to the sovereign virtues of total
abstinence can shortly be obtained, than
are now fixed to any of the anti-dySpeptic
elixirs which are ycnded by the apotheca-
res
| Poinsart lays it down AS general rule,
that those who live life of sobriety, and
drink water only, are but rarely affect
ed with rheumatism.
INvETERATE APPETITE FOR STRONG
DRINK.
Anecdote OF DR.. Finlcy.-The thirst
which is produced by drinking distilled
spirits is entirely unqucnchable. 1t is of
all human appcttcs the most unappcasable,
and the least capable of being controlled
denied, or regulated. That remarkable
man, the late Dir. Finley, president of
Princeton College, says the Hon. S. Hop
kins, of Albany, lad once in his congrega-
| ton, perhaps i'll his church, man over
whom the same appetite had got dominion
| But when the pastor discovered the fact,
he applied himself most anXiously to the
reformation of the wandcrer. His com
handing eloquenee in the pulpit was sec
onded by most earnest and impressive
appeals in private. Every thing was
united in Dr. Finley to show the utmost
effect Of talent and picty: the power cf his
personal presence: his watehlul care and
tender solicitude; and, when he preached
on the end of the drunkarl. the thunder of
his eloquence. The effect was irresistible,
and the parshioncr abstancd from liquor
many years; my impression is that it was
twenty years At length Dr. Finley took
sick, and the unhappy man, in his turn,
showed corresponding anxiety for his
minister's health. He often sent to inquire
how the President was: and as the ac-
counts became more unfavorable, his anx-
iety became more distressing. At length
the answer came that DR.. Finley was dead.
Then said he, II am u lost man." He
returned to his house resumed his cups,
and soon drank himself to death.
TEMPERATE Use or ARDENT SPIRITS.
At meeting III one of the western towns
of Massachusetts, for the purpose Of form
ing a Temperance Society, a gentleman,
who shall be namelcss, occupied the floor
for time, advocating the suppression of
gross drunkenness; bnt at the same time
disappearing of the principle of entire
abstinence. pleading the necessity of the
temperate use, L. e. Il little every day, in
the case OF some persons. When he took
his seat, a man more than half intoxicated,
ragged, filthy, with a long beard. started
up in a distant part of the house, and cX-
claimed, ''Mr. Mod rator. Squire -- has
'spresscd my mind xactly = This short
speech oversct the gravity of the assembly
and the argument Of Squire -, both to-
gcthcr: and society was formed without
further difficulty. on The principle of entire
abstinence.
TEMTERANC AND PROSPERITY.
a distinguished merchant of Boston re-
Gently informed the Rev. Mr.. Cleveland,
Of Salem, that the principal trader in Il
town in New Hampshire who had rcgu-
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