The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-06-16
VALUE OF TOTAL ABSTINENCE
Interesting and Able Address Deliv
cred by Sir Alexander Russell
Simpson, NJ. D., D. Sc.

All interesting ana dDle ADDRESS on
the value of total abstinence was re-
Gently delivered by Sir Alexander
Russell Simpson, NJ. D., D. Sc, dean OF
the faculty of medicine, Edinburgh
university, before an immense assem-
blage gathered for the Scottish ma
tional Sunday school convention, held
in the great Scottish center Speaking
from the standpoint of morality and
science, Sir Alexander said in part:
About a quarter of a century ago
some friends in Kingston, Ont, took
me on an excursion on the St. Law.
renee river. The speaker of the Ca
madam parliament, who was of the
company, made me take notice, as we
sailed out from the town, that the first
imposing building we were passing
was a distillCry. Near by was an in.
Urinary, then a lunatic asylum, then a
prison, and after these a cemetery
Il take it for granted that every
teacher before me has so far consid-
cred the relation of the use of alco-
holic liquors to disease, arrangement,
degradation. and death, as to have
seen the advisability of becoming a
personal abstainer. Supreme among
the dangers that beset all our lives is
the danger inherent in the common
use of alcohol Whatever be the form
in which it is taken-wine, beer spir-
its, or what else-it is more com
mon cause of loss of health, of loss
Of reason, of loss of character, of loss
OF life, than any other of the infu-
ences that tell upon our complex
mechanism. An intoxicated man is
simply a man that is in the clutch of
a poison.
This leads me more Immediately in
the direction in which suppose you
expect me, as a member of the med
zeal profession, to offer some sugges.
tions as to what instruction it might
be desirable to impart TO our young
charges if much of the result of all
your labor is not to be blotted out of
their lives in later years through Ig
norance of the influence of alcohol on
the body and even more on the mind
Of the man
TO begin with. young PEOPLE should
be taught that We is not necessity
OF life. 1t is no more necessary for
man that for any Of the creatures
around him. There are trib S and
communities who live and thrive with
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urv in which a human being can in
dulce. because of the risk to life and
health attendant uuon it's use. apart
altogether from its contramoral and
antisriritual influences
In q graduation address is wears
ago took occ2sio, to ccncratulate
the vourg doctors who during their
student curriculum had had the wis
do,, and the courage tn he members
of tbc Total Abstinence sorietv and
tn cav To all the graduates Won will
rot he long in nractice before Won
win rrove tbeee five things.
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INJURY thah an apstalher.