Northern Times. — 1857-09-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

RIZ3 OF ADDRESSES DELIVERED MI  CONNSCTION WITH ST. MARY'S TOTAL ♦BSTINENCE SOCIETY  KIS EDALE.  DEDICATED TO THE REV. C E. TMERTON,  BY A LIVERPOOL WORKING MAN  " Woe unto h'm that giveth his neighbour drink, that putiest thy bottle to h m and nukes: him drunlen."—Babak. it 15.  may eat the increase of the field ; butter of kine, fat of lambs, with the fat of kidneys of wheet."—Daut.xxxii. 13 14. mesas:mow leads into labyrinths, intricate sounding, wato.-s, dark forests, deafly jungles, pestiferous swamps, barren deserts, or to some scanby beach, at the foot of which is a perpendicular cliff, with the raging at.d focmin tide coming in. It is, in fact, a michievous fallacy ; as there is no other name whereby we e.aa be saved, than His whom the Bible proclaims amidst babel vo'ces, crying lo Jere, ar.d to Care, so the benign, ennobling, an e!evatin;.principles of total abstinence are the only safe footnold for the present and the future; the only safe theiter from the avenging power cf alcoholic drink. Medcration is like a landscape, contemplated nh.n the ca'm an I silver beauty of the boclonded moon cf midnight rests upon the panorama you stay, indeed, comprehend the general outline, but a must/ haze dims tho whole; retiring can be di dingaished accurately; the whole scene is overhung with murky darkness, and enveloped in the mist of eventide gloom. Wi.ereas, the high and e'evatMg priacip'es of total abstinence unfad the magnificence. grandeur, and beauty of the scenery, amid the sunskne of noon-day sp7en•lour ; the tint of every flower, .he Flatus,/ of every ti ea may be discerned, •an I th 3 meandering of ea ,ry stream trace I. In fact, total abstinence principles are replete with consummate love, joy, peace, happiness, prosperity, and length of days. Drunkarth, let me in all :If :etion sit eat of .you, f f ter weighing the a-guments I have adduce I, and the evils of drunkenness which I have feebly endsaveured to pour trey, to decide and net like men ; do not palter with 3our best esrtlaiy interests; do not halt between two opinions; do not put off decision till t,-morrow, or next week, or next mumh ; it is life or death. Indecision and inrtensideration are the very panders of vice.l Abandon at once all connection with intoxicating drink, ehicir, according to the concurrent tentirnony of the judges of our land, chaplains of gaol, gaokr9, magistrates, and other law functionaries, is the cause of 75 per cent.:of all the crimes committed in this ecuiitry.  Let your choice no v be made in Cod's name, and in His strength, and your resolve will doub 1 SS be attendel with ills b:esslng. Then will you b 'come happy me 3, h-ippy women, hap' y n all the chances and changes of your future life ; ever looking back with comp's-eniy to the moment when you protested by s'gning the pledge against atmilfi„: which d. es not simply expo <e to enqu ry now and again, hut which in truth is perpetually exploding in prostitution, murder, d bas,hery, adoitry, fornication, treason, tumult, riot, famine, pes,ilence, disease, and death—a traffic which blasts the boan`y and innocerw of you'h, co, rupts the purity of women, prostrates manhood, paralyses Indus ry, spreads confusion, disorder, and crime, over this otherwise Heaves, b essed, fair, and happy country.  (To be continued )