Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-01-30
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
A TEMPERANCE LESSON.


Let Strong Drink Entirely Alone.
Twenty millions of dollars are spent
each day in this country for intoxicating
drink.
One million men are employed in the
manufacture and sale of liquors. Their
wages amount to about three hundred
millions Of dollars.
1t has been estimated that the money
spent for strong drink last year would
have supported one million and half of
missionaries. 1t would have supported
our public schools for fifteen years.
Two-ifths of all arrests in the year
are persons who were intoxicated when
arrested. Noah Davis says that three
flfths of all arrests may be directly
traced to the use of intoxicants.
Here are some excellent reasons why
our boys and girls should not use intox-
icants:
1. Gods word says that no drunkard
shall inherit the kingdom of Heaven
Il Cor. 6:1O). II we do not use intoxi-
cants we certainly shall not become
drunkards. This is the only safe side
to take.
2. History proves that some OF the
wisest and best of men have been
crushed in the deadly folds of this SER
pent.
8. Statistics prove that large per
cent. of the insane have become 80
through the use OF intoxicants.
T. The influence of the life Of the in
temperate man extends to others as well
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suffer He spends money for drink that
should be used to buy the necessities Of
life for those who are dependent on him.
Suffering, hunger, tears, have been the
meat and drink of many drunkard's
family. We have no right to believe
that we can escape such misery unless
we abstain from the use of that which
causes it.
5. The hereditary influences of in
temperance are fearfully far-reaching.
Many one who is drunkard to-day is
so because of an inherited appetite.
o. If we once begin the use of intoxi-
cants tho difficulty Of breaking away
from the habit becomes greater and
greater.
z. The use OF intoxicants weakens the
mind, the body, and threatens the soul
with destruction.
8. We can put our money to much
better use than to spend it for intoxi-
cants.
incompetence is a hydra with hun
bred heads. She never stalks abroad
unaccompanied with impurity, anger and
the most famous proAigacies (Chrysos-
toni.
Intemperance is deaths prime minis
ter.
Maudsley, in his "Crime and lnsani-
ty," says that an irresistible impulse to
steal, to set fire TO houses and to com
NIT suicide often accompanies alcoholic
excess. This shows that intern perance
must be Of the devil.
Ribot, in his Diseases of the VIII"
declares that intemperance is one Of the
causes of the loss Of will power.
Shakespeare says; 80 thou invisible
spirit of wine, IL thou hast no name to
be known by, let us call thee Devil.
Four-ffths Of those who were swept
away by the cholera in 1882 were ad-
dicted to the use OF strong drink Out
Of twelve hundred attacked in Montreal
not drunkard escaped.
{ OF the 80, 600 victims in Paris nearly
every one was user Of intoxicants.
DIR. Huber saw 2,16O perish in twenty
five days in Russia. He says: persons
given to drinking we're swept away like
flies"
Dr. Sewall stated that Of 2O4 cases in
Park Hospital, New York, there were
only six temperate persons, and they
recovered.
Out of 500 who died in Albany 326
were habitual drinkers These things
show that alcohol is indeed a mocker.
For while it seems to strengthen the
body it is only making it weaker and
weaker.
The microscope reveals the fact that
alcohol deteriorates the blood.
Experiments prove that it infiames
the stomach and the brain and causes
the heart to work much harder than
otherwise would be necessary.-Rev. A.
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