The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-07-18
A strong plea for Total Abstinence.

DR.. Carpenter, a prominent English tenn
perance lecturer. in the course Of a recent
lecture said that as soon as a person mad
had a glass OF wine, spirits or beer they
felt jolly, and it was of no use talking to
them while such influence was pom them.
They would assert that none were so hap
Ply as they, but let them visit the same
person next morning and they would find
the happiness OF the previous evening had
departed, that the person had a headache,
was not ready for his breakfast or had a
nasty taste in his mouth. Then some
would say never mind, old fellow, have
a glass of brandy that will set you right
again" 1t did SO. and they thought "w hat
wonderful stuff this brandy is But the
person who took no wine, beer or spirits
over night had no Easty taste, ne loss of
appetite mex morning. Such happiness,
he contended, was much better than the
boisterous% happiness created by the drink
the night before. No sound person could
come to the conclusion that he who rose
with a loss OF appetite in the morning was
the better for it. He commended rather
that he had received more harm than good.
A person might say he felt chilly or cold,
and a glass of liquor warmed him and
made him feel a man again. Now this
was a complete delusion. Oar bodies we're
all burning carbon precisely the same as a
lamp did. We took in oxygen and threw
out carbonic acid. This could be collected,
and by instruments OF precision measured,
so as to ascertain what mount of heat had
been produced in the body during the day.
Were he to test all persons present who
had had no alcohol lie should find that, if
healthy, their temperature averaged 9s3 or
90 degrees FAM enheit. The degrees or
heat could be increased by increasing oxi-
dation in the body. This would be done
by giving a person strong tea, but a lew
glasses of brandy and water, though max
ing a person feet hot all over, would, as
could be proved by placing a thermometer
in the mouth, reduce the temperature of
the body. This WAS explained by the fact
that the alcohol brought the blood from
certain centres to the surface, and while
themselves. The more hot people We're in
real lily cooling themselves. The more al
cohol one had III any form, whether as
beer, wine, or still worse, as spirit, it
the carbon from being burntnp. and so pro-
ducing heat. The amount OF carbonic acid
which came from the lungs vas smaller,
after taking alcohol, than before. The blood
being brought to the surface and made slug
gish, tended to disease in the blood vessels,
and naturally to i'll health. "Grog bios
SONS" existed all over the body and in
the liver, heart. brain, lungs, kidneys,
and other organs, though it was on the
nose they were seen to perfection (laugh-
ter). Alcohol enlarged the vessels, stop
ped the functions of the sweat glands, aud
so destroyed softness of skin and purity or
complexion. Abstaincrs were far better
able to bear cold than were non abstainers,
and 1t was a fact that many Of the deaths
attributed to drink were practically deaths
from cold through bodily temperature hav-
ing been so reduced by drink. Going To
the Bible forexamples of temperance lie
might mention Samson, the strongest man
that ever lived, Samuel, one OF the wisest,
Daniel, who controlled the Assyrian mon
archs, and John the Baptist, of HON on
Savior said that amongst men born of a
woman there was not a greater.