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At the last it biteth like a serpent, SelSs alU ^^If "^'"^'^ ^•-^^"1'^ «t''^"g« women; and down ifthe mid t or t'^P""'^'"^ '^'"^^ Yea thou shall be "as he that lieth They a e "Sen 1 !f ^' "[,^« ^e that lieth upon the top of a mast, beaten me ■« ; f»u !' 'l'''^* t*^*^" '^'>'' 'inJ I was not sick ; they have ocaten mt, and i felt it uot : when siiall 1 awake ? 1 will seek it yet again. This is a glowing description of the sin of intemperance. None but the poncd of msp.ration, eould have thrown upon the canvass so many and such MMd traits of this complicated evil, in so short a compass. It exhibits ite .v-oes and soriows, contentions and babblings, and ^.ounds and redafss.of ■yes ; Its smiling deceptions in the beginning, and serpent-bite i the end ; he helples^uess of its victims, like one cast out upon the deep ; the danger ■fdestruction, like that of one who sleeps upon the top of a mast ; the uL 'Tli^virTT'''''' ^7^-«^-d the giving up of hope and effort. hey have stricken me, and I was not sick ; they have beaten me, and 1 -; I not : when shall I awake ? I will seek it yet again :" again be stricken ..d bealen ; again float upon the deep, and sleep upon the mast. JNown has fewer apologies than intemperance. The suffrage of the orldu against It; and yet there is no sin so naked in its charTcter, and •hose commencement aaid progress is indicated by so many signs coneern- >g which there is among mankind such profound ignorance. All repro- ate drunkenness ; and yet not one of the thousands who fall into it, dreams •f danger when he enters the way that leads to it . The soldier, approaching the deadly breach, and seeing rank after rank •.rthose who preceded him swept .way, hesitates sometimes, and reol, .romcertam^eath. But men behold the effects upon otl^ers of go ng L „iven courses, they see them begin, advance, and end, in confi med in em iterance, aaduBappalledrush heedlessly upon the same ruin. . , :/ ii If •1661.1.6 action,. B„. TnTemZ/ '^'"°°''''' ^'"" ""'' ''''l'«l'««l ar= .w«.tl.at .l.4.«.U,r.ta. of i7 '■''""' ""' """J'" of 'hen. no, W advanced now „w,o„,p,;:„„., o'r ,„:., X^ce ' "^ '"""'""' '' i. cr„r:TJ"J'n:Li:r::dV°::;;.tLr; ^Td-r the world, wj.ich ),in.. „n.n .., ^^ '''"" ^^^"^'^t the hopes of tonding around an at.„;sph;;;':rt^^^^^^ ^'* ^'*^ ^''' -^ «" 4r::::;i:;^:^:r-r--^^^^^^^ .« n. In thi, discourse we shall rou.ider '"''"^^ "' ^temperance.. THE NATURE AND OCCASIONS or intempeAah'ci:. cic:j':::;:z:°s:r t::; ^'^' r i'-^ '^ '"-^p---^ ' >vhie. l>odiJvorgaL. HbwevcrTn'h °P*'''^''°"« ^^^ '»>« '"^"tal faculties and th« to.perate J re.;:ct ^"i^irt^^: ::::ti:n:!^' '- t ^ '- ^odi,and n>entaUnC:ir:::i^;;rCr --^^' "^^ a.ate..andtho^ch::t^irn:^^^^^^^^^^^^ puts the whor ystem 'ntrd ^ H ' "f '•"'""•=' *" *^« '^^^ "^ ^^ "ature. tellect ralter^rrcTotZtr:;; '' ''"'''''''' '^"^ '^^^'^ ^^^ ^" ' ort^ .1 u is thf r [r r:^'^ 3 1 rir r ^^ ^-^ the denomination of giant wickedness. If all wL\ri„, ^""^^^ " to insensibility, and on awaking, eould ar se fm,^ T "k'T"^*^' '^'^'' !ect and heart uninjured itwnniH . ^ ^ ^ *^® ''*'''"^'^ *'»'• ^nt^I- B«t among the wZ whth 11," r""' "''*^ ™°^^ 'PP^"'"^ «->- " wo unto them t^ le mi.htv ^d T "'""'^^ "^^'"^^ "''"*' «- - uiat are mighty to drink wine,«,dmen of strength t«cw. I I atjreofthe crimff vhat may be term- and falsehood are sensation, and the 'ct of them not be 't unfrequent, that picion of danger, lescription ofthia lerate, when they and turn away. I for several years, er labors, and is dless prosperity, feat the hopes of y, it is that river atal air, and e,T- ionsider the na- 'f i'ntemperance. 3erance, which culties and the ent spirit, if ha r». he is not to--, he may be in- humed, the ex- noraJ sensibili- iblo results of sleep, and th» ' of the moral 4ind whoever, t, applies habi- • of his nature, before the in -. of the bod V . 3tructive part that gives it )erate, drank h with intel. ipalling evils, ime, one ia ngth tocQu, ■ume strong drink." These are captains in the bands of intemperance and will drink two generations of youths into the grave, before they go to lie down by their side. The Lord deliver us from strong-headed men, who can move the tongue when all are muto around them, and keep the eye open when all around them sleep, and can walk from the scene of riot, while their companions must be aided or wait until the morning. It is a matter of undoubted certainty, that habitual tippling is worse than periodical drunkenness. The poor Indian, who, once a month, drinks him- self deod all but simple breathing, will out-live for years, the man who drinks little and often, and is not, perhaps, suspected of intemperance. The use of ardent spirits daily, as ministering to cheerfulness, or bodily vi- gor, ought to be regarded as intemperance. No person, probably, ever did, or evsr will, receive ardent spirits into his system once a day, and fortify his constitution againet its deleterious effects, or exercise such discretion and self government, as that the quantity will not be increased, and bodily infirmities and mental imbecility be the result, and, in more than half the instances, inebriation. Nature may hold out long against this sapping and mining of the constitution, which daily tippling is carrying on ; but, first or last, Uiis foe of life will bring to the atsault enemies of its own formaUon, before whose power the feeble and the mighty will be alike unable to stand. All such occasional exhiLiratioB of the spirits by intoxicating liquors, as produces levity and foolish jesting, and the loud laugh, is intemperance, whetlier we reprd those precepts which require us to be sober-minded, or the effect which such exhilaration and lightness has upon the cause of C:iu-i3t, when witnessed in professors of religion. The cheerfulness of health, and excitement of imhistry, and social intercourse, is all which na- ture demands, or health or purity permits. A resort to ardent spirits as a means of invigorating the intellect, or of pleasurable sensation, is also intemperance. It is a distraint upon nature, to CAtort, in a short time, those results of mind and feeling, which in her own unimpelled course would flow with less impetuosity, but in a more equable aiid healthful current. The mind has its limits of intellectual ap- plication, and the heart its limits of feeling, and the nervous system of healthlul exhilaration 5 and whatever you gain tlirough stimulus, by way of anticipation, is only so much intellectual and vital power cut off at the latter end of life. It is this occult intemperance, of daily drinking, which gene- rates a host of bodily infirmities and diseases : loss of appetite— nausea at the stomach— disordered bile— obstructions of the liver— jaundice— dropsy —hoarseness of voice— conghs-consumptions— rheumatic pains— epilepsy — gout-colic-palsy-apoplexy— insanity— are the body-guards which at- tend intemperance, in the form, of tippling, and where the odious name of dnmkenness may perhaps be never applied. A multitude of persons, who are not accounted drunkards, create disease and shorten their days, by what Oiey denominate a '' prudent use of ardent spirits." Let it tlierefore be engraven upon the heart of every man, that THE DAILt USE OF ARDBRT SPIRITS, 15 ANT FORM, OR IN ANT »■- ^■''.% 'J 1 li ^i " * war upon the huma^ ^r; . ? "" "^ ""•''«^ »° *^« '««»' ca«,«. It "7 '«tting out of watln. ' .1 ^M^ Tl' ''T ' '""'''''■ '^^'^ «elfi. poured out. If all diseal Ih k ' ^''^ ''^«ach widens, till life it- °"t at the grave orteUthr '"''"''" *" ^''''^' '^^"'d speak avoids the appearance of evil „. ! /,"'"''''• "WX the man. who so cajitheprurrntuseofardenl'snlir '"'^" "' '''' ^^ -»- ^e -, -our, and si,|, convers^ionrpour ng o^ ZT' " '""''' ^""'^ ""■ •torehouse of secrets th^ir nJl , ?r ' ^ *^"'"'^'' °' «?«»'"? tJ'« havel>een thoug 1 1 ffi enTe^:;':c ?• ^"' ^«'' ^^ --, all these and to justify a process oTr^ 7 . ? '"^P""" ''^^^ "»'»'g« of drinking. «>lter, ind tlL fe'et Zt t in b'^r T ''' ^'""^'- '^'^ '-^« -- ofrcligion cant cZcL of r' " ''' '''""^'^" '^^ «--' P^-*'— To « in.f 7 ^^'"'"''^^'^ ""^ tf'e crime of intemperance. interest, and family endeann;.nT h ' ""'"^' '"'^ character, and der will'cease, ^lllelTZl th? ''''T' "°"''^^"'- ^"* ^'^ — tlie hand of torment wl.ch it l.t ''"'"« f^"-« ^^i^^'' ^^ enkindles, and the soul. ^'^'' '"^ '"'"y ^^'^ '^ ^'o ^ody and faculty ,.r elltidlHole InraltT ''eT''''''' ^'''^^^'^^ ^'''^ ^'-''- "^ nerves, ofngrlThe It nltf'r""?^^^^ soul. Here L t!^ ZIT Tr "^ """'''' *^ '^« "^'^'^^^"^ ^ff^^^t'ons of the m«r^t^.°^ ''°' '"°''''"'' ""' "-J"'™"!"' applied .tatedlv to the , to. re.„.r„ ^S 'oTelw :;r:rr'' ""'^°J' "" ^^«' '-^' ^"""'^ » citemen. TK. °'". """'«'' "ea". proportioned to its preternatural ei. MoX tol' o S^^^^^^^ ^^'- o^ — - -h above it. If the exnenl ? k ' " '* "^^ injudiciously raised toneof ,tnJ., ?''"P""™«"t be repeated often, it produces an artificial tone of stomach, essential to cheerfulness and muscular vigor, en Ij^ i deeply injurioud, ' the real cause. It •Wy by an auxiliary 1 it imparts. Like widens, till life it- leath, could speak we should witness the man, who so '8 by what he may t is supposed genp- n when the empire prompting to gar- >r insipid good liu- les, or opening the )y some, all these :barge of drinking. The tongue must some, professors * the crime of in- >phica] analysis of e triumphs of in- nd character, and •• But the won- »t enkindles, and dy and faculty of 1 of the blood, of vibration to the affections of the at the fountain, y, the muscular -'Stem with vigor the Strength of melancholy, and : of life becomes tedly to the sto- which it can be iway, debility, a tretematural es- course as much Hciously raised es an artificial vigor, entirely iboYC tlie power of the regular Witenancu of nature to lustaiit, and create* a T*cuum, which nothing can fih, but th« destructive power which made it— and when protracted use ha« made the difference great, between the natii- ral and this artificial tone, and habit has made it a second nature, the man is a drunkard, and, in ninety-nine instances in a hundred, is' irretrievably undone. Whether his tongue falter, or his feet fail him or not, he will die of intemperance. By whatever name his disease may be called, it will be one of the legion which lie in wait about the path of intemperance, and which abused Heaven employs to execute wrath upon the guilty. Butofidl the ways to hell, which the feet of deluded mortals tread, that of the intemperate is the most dreary and terrific. The demand for artifi- cial stimulus to supply the deficiencies of healthful aliment, is like the rage of thirst, and the ravenous demand of famine. If is famine: for the artificial excitement has become as essential now to strength and cheerful- ness, as simj.le nutrition once was. But nature, taught by habit to require what once she did not need, demands gratification now with a decision in- exorable as death, and to most men as irresistible. The denial is a living death. The stomach, the head, the heart, and arteries, and veins, and every mnscle, and every nerve, feel the exhr.ustion, and the restless, unutterable wretchedness which puts out the light of life, and curtains the heavens and carpets the earth with sackcloth. All these varieties of sinking nature' call upon the wretched man with trumpet tongue, to dispel this darkness ' and raise the ebbing tide of life, by ftie application of the cause which produced these woes, and after a momentary alleviation will produce them again with deeper terrors, and more urgent importunity ; for the repetition, at each time renders the darkness deeper, and the torments of self-denial niore ir- resistible and intolerable. At length, the excitability of nature flags, and stimulants of higher power, and m greater quantities, are required to rouse the impaired energies of life,' until at length the whole process of dilatory murder, and worse than purga- torial suffering, having been passed over, the silver cord is loosed, the gold- en bowl is broken, the wheel at the cistern stops, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit to God who gave it. These sufferings, however, of animal nature, are not to be compared with the moral agonies which convulse the soul. It is an immortal being who sins, and suffers ; and as his earthly house dissolves, he is approaching the judgment seat, in anticipatien of a miserable eternity. He feels his captivi- ty, and in anguish of spirit clanks his chains and cries for help. Consci- ence thunders, remorse goads, and as the gulf opens before him, he recoils and trembles, and weeps, and prays, and resolves, and promises, and re- forms, and " seek* it yet again,"-again resolves, and weeps, and prays, and " seeks ,t yet again!" Wretched man, he has placed himself in the hands of 1 giant, who never pities, and never relaxes his iron gripe. He may struggle, but he is in chains. He may cry for release, but it comes not ; and lost! lost! may be inscribed upon the door posts of his dwelling. In the mean time these paroxysms of his dying mortal nature decline, and a fearful apathy, the harbinger of spiritual death, comes on. His resolution I (III 4 I.»"t,„„ expi™., b„.,„.„ f^^„ „, b«com» "Xd JT ■ "" "trive.anddiaappear, '^ heavens, },e ccueuto vast importance therefore that th« . "uspicion of danger. It j, of perceive their danirer, andescarv.- nn.l th.* n . I "-retrievable, majr bcnn ensnared and Octroyed ">• « ""Jlanng u,a„ ha. of intemperance. No familv .. j^k!,?^ . ' ^''^^'^P^'*'' ^« ''^'"t- sooner or laterprodncod a harvest of w». The nnterkl lr.7 t' .a.,o„ and mischief, „,„h.„o. ,„ be aUowJa ,C n ,h ' 3v '"°'" only as a medicine, and even then it „„„,d be ^ iltl „ ha I ofth'r''' thecap,, ,0 be sen. for iikc other medicine, when prescle; '^' jr x:rm?i':;c:. ' r„r eL?.rs .'- -' """-™"-' -"^ ri's^rrrr--^"^"*"""^ .»ot„er,andrrda:;h:: .op.«.o.,.e,.e.a.d,hcm;;^:irtroer.r.:i;:.:;S'""'' ' i »nd ncrvom irriti- leir fullness and ten- I •emibility, until all • the wretch aban- able condition, r*- d, and temptations power of resiitance victim buffeta the until despair Hash- vens, he ccuea to ingled in the era- ^e hope of reforma- f danger. It is of emperance should irretrievable, may e, may be warned lefit of the young, estruction, and to ayfaring man haa m, is found in the incentive to ap- "heerfulness. In ike, and the ten- jposed to habita • the dnily use of 1 disease, which rso much temp. ' family, except lands oftheapo- 1 ilrequently tin stated inmate of >r their use are the liquor, tlie the propriety spetition, habi- ance. In this and daughter, the number is ose profession f, Instead of of friendship, tof incirility, iptatioD. I Day. of puU.e conrocation are ««ton.i.ely the occasions of o,r e.s wh.ch eventuate m intemperance. The means and temptation, are ostentatiously nult.pUed and multitude, go forth prepared and resolred to yieldto temp' Ut.on, while example and eihilarated feeling secure the ampL fu fl L " of tho.r purpose But when the habit is once .c.,uirod «. drinking" et 'pn^Uentty; „. .t will be called, on all the day. of public convocatLr wh.ch occur .„ a year, a desire will l,e soon formed of dr.nking at other ime7 :;r:i^: -r " -'-'- ' ---^^^ ^^ - --^^ -- Kvening resorts for conversation, enlivened by the cheering bowl have proved fatal to thousands. Though nothing shoul.l be boi ero«r„nd7l should seem only the "feast of reason, and the flow of soul,'' ye tat the atto end. bUethUke a serpent and stingeth like an addc.^ m^ wre 2. nan ha, shaken his chams and cried out in the anguish of his pTr t ol • ' "Tr tt""^f °";' '"""•"« ^ ^«™ "^y "«"'^- -- ^-"^ -vhich young men of sp.rit fear less, than the exi. rtorol t";:"',:'?' ---"^ nor any thing which 'they are Z. able to resist, than the charge of cowardice when challenged to drink But there .s no one form of temptation before ^vhich more young merofpro uns. have fallen into irretrievable ruin. The connexion' between such be K-nnings and . fatal end is so manifest, and the nresumntuou, .l^" -. "r". . -n »s so great, that God in his righteous displeasure is'accustonT;?t; wUi: draw ins protect.on and abandon the sinner to his own way <;eeblc health and mental depressionare to be numbered amon. the oc as,onsoi.ntemperanoe. The vital sinking, and muscular IbUity and .ant.. But the cause of this momentary alleviation is applied and repeat- od. unt., the habu of excessive drinking is formed and hal'become uTest Medical prescriptions have no doubt contributed to increase the number o the intemperate. Ardent spirits, administered in the form of bitleror L ■the medmm of other medicine, have let in the destroyer 3 and wh"; he The distillation of ardent spirits fail, not to raise up around the establish- ment a ganerat . of drunkards. The cheapness of the article aid t J ease w.th which families can provide themselves with large qu n'titTes the ^C^nt^ ""•^'"'' ^""""^ "• f>oq«entdrinking,'LdVide ^^^ The vending of ardent spirits, in places licensed or unlicensed, is a tre- mendous evU^ Here, those who have no stated employment loi er away toa, or the da;r ,ncet to spend a vacant hpur j nut no fact i« more completely establislied by experience than that it is utterly t.e.ess, and ultimately injurious, be.ide ail tiie fearful evils of habitual ii;. tcMnperance, to winch it so of.en loa.ls. Thkke is .o nutkxtiov i s- ah- i.K.-rr .sriuir. Ai.r. that it doks, is, to cunckntkat^ tiik snu ^gth ;';";; ^™7''"'^^'^^'«^^"--«--rAciTv kux kkcu.ah I.N •-K u. N. It is borrowing strength for an occasion, which will be need- :^!zz:t:::;Z^' ''-''''" ^''''-^^' ^"' ''''''- ^^^'-'^^ Th. early settlors of New-England endured r.ore hardship, andperform- d more labor, and carried through life more health and vigor, than apper- tuu3 to the existing generation of laboring mea. And thev did it without the use of ardent spirits. ' «•""•""»«. I^ot twomen, of equal age and firmness of constitution, labor together through the summer, the one with andtlie other *vithout the excitement of .-ardent sjunts, and the latter will come out at tlie end .ith uiumpaired vl or, while the other will be comparatively exhausted. Ships n^vl^ed as . 1 e now are withoutthe habitual use of ardent spirits-und manufacturing -a rn'ro^^ without-and extended agricultural operatio«t -all move on with better industry, rnurepoac. more heidth. „„Hn ....... income to the employers and tJie employed. The workmen are" cheerful •ud vigorous, friendly and mdustricus, and their families are tWl^ wl^ perately. Here too 9, associate for so- re manhood. And I, at a period when il observation, various forms and '"king, and drink- isults often in lia- rple.\ities of busi- the distractions of their cares upon efore tlie occasion I more intolerable f/, they have mul- restore exhausted ilighty men have kened circulation nature. But for ergy of the soul, ts, which cry in- , say it is enough.. labor, is urnonn- ted, causes of iu- 5 necessary : f>uf that it is utterly s of habitual iu- rRITlON J.N AH- Tlli; bTUK.NGTH KOI KEGULAK h will be necd- th the certainty ip, andperform- or, than apper- ■ did it witliout labor together ! excitement of uniinpaired vi- s navigated as manufacturing iral operatioBs ii and a bsttf»" :i are cheerful e thrifty, we^ i n fed, well clothed and instructed ; and instead of distress and poverty -^ncf disappointment and contention-they are cheered with the full flow of so cial affection, and often by the sustaining power of religion. But where ardent spirit ,s received as a daily auxiliary to labor,it is commonly taken at stated times-the habit soon creates a vacancy in the stomach, which indi cates atlength rhe hour of the day with as much accuracy as a clock It will be taken besides, frequently, at other times, which will accelerate the destruction of nature's healthful tone, create artificial debility, and the nc cessity of artificial excitement to remove it ; and when so much has been consumed a^ the economy of the employer can allow, the growing demand will be supplied by the evening and morning dram, from the wages of labor unti the appetite has become insatiable, and the habit of intemperance nearly universal-until the nervous excitability has obliterated the social sensibilities, andturned the family into a scene of babbHng and wo-until voracious appetite has eaten up the children's bread, and abandoned them to Ignorance and crime-untd conscience has become callous, and fidelity and industry have disappeared, except as the result of eye service- and wanton wastefulness and contention, and reckless wretchedness charac- terize the establishment. ■00- SERMON II. THE SIGNS OF INTEMPERANCE. Proverbs, xxiii. 29—35, bli'SJ^ViSwJ ^^J^o hath sorrow? who hath contentions ? who hat}, bah- TLvTh.t t T""^? T'^^""^^ •=""'« '■ ^J^" hath redness of eyes ? ^ ^ Thev that tarry long at t e wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine Look not thou upon the wine when it is redfwhen it giveth hi7?olo,,r In I^ the preceding discourse I considered the nature and occasions of in- temperance.^ In this I shall desclose some of the svmntnms .f fU. f.,^.., ral?dCJe'Hfri '^r'^ '^'^^ ^^^ themind;iateve"ry'c;n;,who"i; V I* Legming to the e„d, that every one „>, s«e tid L^ Z ^'' "^ '^' l.arbi„gersofdeath,a,soo„Jlhe,bel ,!'! !^' , """^^ """ I . One of the e«]v i ndioa" », of t„ J "-""el^s npon him. .ociation. oftime and place "'""""P^'™' "V !•» found in the ae- r.ive„a,,of :„, independL'er^eTi;^^ d 7 :fZ^V: °"- ry city, town, and village, places of resort which in lil„ „ U.e eye fall, upon then,, ;Lte the .hirstVd, nkin ' 1 ZT'I '°°" "" they do at the gates ; and sometimes both when thev r -np in .nVT In cities and their suburbs, there are hundreds "shops at wh oh a W T porter those Who bring in produce stop re^lar,, i rec^t tL'^Z." In ever, eommunity you may observe particular persons also wh„ „ never meet without feeling the simultaneous desire of .30, Zl, wt " can be Ure reaaon of this T AU men, when they meet, „!not ^ eted tof practicable. The ca- ■ most men go on to ir- but unavailingly, be- oms of intemperance ts of the Bin upon the 1 ita stages, from the and recognise these mselves upon him. ly be found in the as- any who drink to cx- y exhibition, the an- shington, Christmas, ^Vhen any of these days in the calendar, f drinking, as well as to the conscience, i the multiplication temperance :— about louses to supersede of the stage, ed up within them d to end of a day's the road. But t'le lesire " just to step ssociation become, »uld pass a fortified There are in eve- manner, as soon as d many, who, com- Jre as regularly as •ne in and go out. t which a large pro- jceive the custom- 1 )ns also who can ong drink. What not affected thus, drawn by associa- tion : -physicians, the events of the mmon interest to inn tho nrinninl«. 1 •■•ysrr it hold upon the ipted on meeting IS 'J..8compamonorfriendt08ay,'comeandletU8 go andtake something,' or,t<^ make u his tim business to set out his decanter and glasses, ought to in- that erery one w.ll enfeeble his body, ge^atrdisel „ V ." """""' days. It may not be certain that eve"; o„rwi 1 sac Te h "'" '" squander his property, and die in the Lns hou e butTt f' T 'T' "^ large proportion will come to poverty Cin fZv r 1 u'^''"'" '^''"' to thoperiodicalappetiteforTden s^^' '^ ;^^^^^ f^^^ and though beyond it men may stru Je, and ret!;, lllTZ-^'Z: gress, none, comparatively, who go by it, will retunl agaiHo pL I of'T ".tw-rr ^7~;--^ -- -nt hasTre I- even b;fore tl^ timAh "T T' '"^''' «*'«corpions, ho will torment 4 AnnZ *'"!«' the candidates for misery in a future state. ment wtn'a'L; filTr""?.':^ ''""' '" '''' ^^^'^ "^ -"-^- he is wilhn 'to d^h r I '"'''^'^''^"^"^ *° '^""^ °"«""' ^"^ '"^re than more thTn to otr^' n ''"'^ ' --piousness that he isdisposed to drink tilers may tlkh; "'"^PP'^^'' «^^« -^ P-Pe''. and what he ^.pects o- ranee where fhr^ ^^' ^"''^^ at a period in the history of intempe- movoCnt So fn r' '*"''' '^^ "'" '^^^^" «" ^-^ »•"'" ^'^^^ accelerated vation Lnt V !"' ?"' "^" of friendship and a regard to public obser- whrhe e t 'tT". ;"'T''^'''^""" ^"'"^ ^°P« °f reformation; but tTe he Lrc. r r''' '"' ^'^"'^^'^^^ -^"^ '^''^"'^ -'th his boat and bot- hemaTthi'!kr'"r''T''''''""'^^""-^" in company so much a. bri.Tinn T u r" ^"■■^'■^^thout awakening in others the suspicion of ine- ste ani 2" H t "^^^^^ '" '^« ^'-^^^ countenance, and flushed vi- sage, and tamted breath, and inflamed eye ; and were all these banners of intemperance struck, the man with his own tongue will reveal hirshTe At first there wdl be something strange in his appearance or conduct to AtdZtr" "''"''' ""™'"^' '""'" ^^ --^t'^- he can bear- And now the secret ,s out, and these unaccountable things are explained • tThaTr^rr'" '"'^"^ "''" ^^^^"^"^^ ^^^ unhappy^man still d!!' ing that though he erred a little, he took such good care to conceal it that to :ToZ ' '''""' f u "^ '-'' ^^^" '^'' -^-^ ^- 1-^- - p'i« not d^nk '^'''""' ""' ''*^"^' '^'""^^^' ^"^^ ^«™P--^' to «how that he is whlTff '? P"'""^^h« ^"'i themselves for some cause always irritated when eff-orts are made to suppress intemperance, and moved by some in- tmcave impulse to make opposition, ought to examine instantly whether the love of ardent spirits is not the cause of it An aged country merchant, of an acute mind and sterling reputation, once said to me : " T nnvor !,„„,„ „„ ... . . ^ . ^"'"*"""' inf.*. whi^K . "•" a..cmpi maac lo suppress mtemper- havI'Jn. t T "°*."PPO'^^ ^y «•""« P«"ons, from whom I should not have expected opposition ; and I never failed to find, first or last, that these >t 3 but it is certain ise, and shorten his ce his reputation, or ■ it is certain that a lose who yield daily the stopping place, i modify their pro- ?ain to purity of en- ant has become the IS, he will tormant iture state. ' desire of conceal- ener, and more thaii begins to drink slily is disposed to drink liat he suspects o- I think, and reform istory of intempe- n with accelerated I to public obser- reformation ; but his boat and bot- urious winds, and pany so much as e suspicion of ine- 'or abused nature e, and flushed vi- these banners of eveal his shame. i or conduct, to tvith all his care- an he can bear| } are explained ; man tUll dream- > conceal it, that ngue is palsied, show that he is always irritated ed by some in- stantly whether ling reputation, )res8 iii temper - >m I should not r last, that these 19 * persons were themselves implicated in the sin." Temperate men seldom if ever oppose the reformation of intemperance. 7. We now approach some of those symptoms ofintemoerance which abused nature first or last never fails to give. The eyes. Who hath redness of eyes ? All are not of course intemper- ate whose visual organs become inflamed and weak. But there are few in- temperate persons who escape this malady, and yet when it comes, they hare no suspicion of the cause-speak of it without embarrassment-and won- kier what the matter can be— apply to the physician for eye water, and drink on. But every man who is accustomed to drink ardent spirits freely, whose eye begins to redden and to weep, ought to know wliat the matter is' and to take warning; it is one of the signals which distressed nature holds out and waves in token of distress. Another indication of intemperance ia found in the fulness and redness of the countenance. It is not the fulness and freshness of health-but ra- ther the plethora of a relaxed fibre rnd peccant humours, which come to oc cupytlie vacancy of healthful nutrition, and to mar the countenance with pimples and inflammation. All arc not intemperate of course who are af- fected with diseases of the skin. But no hard drinker carries such a face without a guilty and specific cause, and it is another signal of distress which abused nature holds out, while she cries for help. Another indication of intemperance may be found in impaired muscular •trength andtremour ofthe hand. Now the destroyer, in his mining process, approaches the citadel of life, and is advancing fast to make the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves. This relaxation of the joints, and trembling of the nerves, wdl be experienced especially .n the morning-when the system, unsustained by sleep, has rundown. Aovv all .s relaxed, tremulous, and faint-hearted. The fire which sparkled m the eye, the evening before, is quenched-the courage which dilated the heart IS passed away-and the tones of eloquence, which dwelt on the in- spired tongue are turned into pusillanimous complainings, until opium, or bitters, or both, ore thrown into the stomach to wind np again the run-down macliino. And now the liver, steeped in fire, begins to contract, and refuses to per- form its functions, in preparing the secretions which arenecess.y to aid digestion J and loss of appetite ensues ; and indigestion, and fermentation, and acid.ty, begin to rob the system of nutrition, and to vex and irritate the vital organ filling the stomach with air, and the head with fumes, and the soul with darkness and terror. co'me''„'r''T'^i',"''''°"f ''"''' ^^ sympathy to the lungs, which be- come .nfl^^ed and lacerated, until hemorrhage ensues. And now the tcr- whicl.'into ' '''"' ;.' "^l P*'^'''"'" '" '""y *''« P'^^^'^^ «'■ '^ consumption which inteinperance has begun, and which medical treatment, while the cause continues, cannot arrest. the'lhl?" *\";V''^ '"/"«« "f '^^ scalding furnace below begin to lacerate iuJkd m to easeUiese torments 3 but until the fires beneath are extinct. ll ■ i 1 . 't 16 Hiiat can the pliysician d6 ? He can no more allevi.fn ♦! can carry allevrttton to the torn.ented. Tt ,e fli^e 1 . .T' """'^'*' sad prcparatH^ , ^ ""''^ '^'" "'^'"^1' these are tha Another indiBno»'(Jinten.perance ia irritability nM„l. anger. The great organ of nervous sensibilitT L' , t' ""'^ ''°''"' of tremulous excitement. The slightes touch . ^"^ '"'^ ' ''"'" and irritations, which defy sel4o ot-en -The t^:" T'""' '^'"*'°"«' flash orpowder, or «ngo4r.abfe and .Int ^^1:^^:^?^ ''' thither by raging winds, and mountain waves. " ImlierauU Anotherindication of intemperance is to be fo.MiH ,„ h .he fine, fcel.ng, and amiable 'di-pci.,:: of Z ,„ ^^ ^"r'"" f "" ever seemed to be religious affeetion., of these also TV t '"' ha, raisedthc organ ofsensibility above the Lt „p ■ "' """'""' tive, addrcosed to tl,e CoerfeeliJg-. ef tie oul a„d of « T T"' '" '"»" .eaHerfeen„,ofLrar'T;r^,;vi^:rv::r:irr'''r move, IS ardent SDirit.! -,,,,1 v.„ i , /'*"'' ""»cn now has power to Heh.ie.farb:hTr.;:tL\:';: :;jre r"„:*:: '-'-■ J'usband, or father, or brother, or friend The «.. / ""^ ''"^ ~,.^_^s.,ta.va,fo;ove.i^^^^ eni.noe.„tio/jd;::fa:;:-rr:btri:t;T witi-c ^ave, or tne nopes he once insnirprJ Tr., ^_ i ^ more than murderers, shall inherit the kingdom of God "'* "' th;XhotttTste"m'%rmT"' t""""'^ P^^"^"^^^«- ^^-"-'ves «houidbe visLdtTuch?coroIir^^^^ be the reason that he «elf tothe Phy^ician'/and tWes^;^^:^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^f^ ''''''' ''''' ance. For these paina are onlv *1.; ^""^^ -^^^^ *^« ^''"PJ^ «ne of temper- ture, through all rsX^v'i^r;;^^^^^^^^^ r^'-r'' °^ -- rheumatic pains ensues a debUity of the system 'whhh " "' ^'' '" sustain the circulation the flniH. f.ii « ? ' becommg unable t^ -es tl,e .,est is invrdeta^rt^ ^irX tolTi VT'tT inundation t is stopned Or if in ♦»,;=<• i , ®°' """* »> a 8uddei> ■net in ano«,er-:S.a^^' „ 1 Ttetl^'c "^ ""'' " ^' °"'^ '" ^ last catastr.-ohe-the sudden „.„.,. r' """ ^emes on the creased m.«^ty'^;:^'il7ZZZfoCmC^'' ,T*"V" '"- nics^nteUeformationsJus^ on the ,fd , ofT pft Strr? .!'"■ come. fr„„,whieh,here isnoresurreetion iJ.Kr.i:.!'-.*^'^.''"''"''' the judgment day. " *" """'P "' ^*oa, aiid at And now U,e woes, and the sorrows, and «,e contomions, .„d .1.. wound.. these woes tlianli«i vfhich these are tho 'l.iiice. and violent t>rought into a stnte painful vibrations, r becomes like the tlrivcn hitlierauU te extinction of all and, if there have he liery stimulus xcitement by mo- moral nature, and ell fling out music •rm within by the now has power to condition is lost, fe is not the same ie a clear breach pure, aad lovely,. h affections de- 1 conscience has the wing and ter- I sober, and rise '. Dead, twic(^ indulged, or the or drunkard* no use themselves 3 reason that he lin betakes him- one of temper- >lainings of na-- i lost. For to sming unable to i, as the delunre '1 by a 8uddei> , it is only to be comes on the ippetite— an in- ants — a few pa- ^ lie last sinkinu ff J of God, aiid at ad the woundi^^ 17 and babblings, are over— the red eye sleeps— the iortured body rests— tlie deformed visage is hid from human observation— and the soul, while t> a dust crumbles back to dust, returns to God who gave it, to receive accord- ing to the deeds done in the body. Such is the evil which demands a remedy. And what can be done to ' stop its ravages and rescue its victims ? This is not the place to say all that belongs to this part of the subject, but wc cannot close without saying by anticipation a few things here ; and, 1. There should be extended through the community an all-pervadin.,' sense of the danger Uicre is of falling into this sin. Intemperance is a dis- ease as well a.'i a crime, and were any < ther disease, as contagious, of as marked symptoms, and as mortal, to per, ade tlie land, it would create uni- versal consternation : for the plague Is scarcely more contagious or deadly; and yet wo mingle fearlessly with the diseased, and in spite of admonition we bring into our dwellings the contagion, apply it to the lip, and leceive it into tho system. I know that much is said about tlie prudent use of ardent spirits ; but we might as well speak of the pradent uie of the plague— of fire handed pru- dently around among powder— of poison taken prudently every day— or of vipers and serpents introduced prudently into our dwellings, to glide about .is a matter of courtesy to vibitors, and of amusement to our children. First or last, in spite of your prudence, the contagion will take— the fatal spark will fall upon the train— the deleterious poiRon will tell upon tho syatpm- and tlie fan^s of the serpent will inllict death. There is no pru- dent use of ardent spirit's, but when it is used as a medicine. All who re- ceive it into the system are not destroyed by it. But if a-iy vegetable were poisonous to as many, as the use of ardent spirits proves destructive, it would be banished from the table : it v.ould not be prudent to use it at all. If in attempting to cross a river upon an elastic beam— as many should fall in and be drowned, as attempt to use ardent spirits prudently and fail, the attempt to cross in that way would be abandoned— there would be no prudent u:?o of that mode of crossing. The effect of attempting to use ar- ' ^truction on this subject should blT ' ^^■''^- '^^" ^" '^"^ «^hools in- -w spreading through he hnd '^^7!"7"'-tod, and the Sabhath schools -haj::L;::s::t:rrrr:rb:r t ^^" "^^— -olve upon immediate and entii^ abstinence ^^^^^-*'— ^^^y must n"a:cT B^t rm:„t;::it :::rtrd"^'"^^"' ^ ---• -^-- formation in this way. If the "ILnt w T '^"'^^ *" "'^ *-•< «^- -"MnothelphimseVjL'mTghT^ X^^^ be cruelly protracting a course of suffn I •"'»« manner, but it would ended in afowdays. But no ^at ,! *^""S'' -«""-, which might be trenchment-Substitutes h"ve ^be '' "'" "'""" '^ ^^^^^^ - reformation, such as opium wLt.sov ''r™^"^«^' - the means of hnation,i8 often a temptaUonto in ^ '""'''" '"^^^ "^ P'-^^ucing ine- it^. own forces with thoCf ^ S^^^^^^^^ '^'T ""''^^'^"^""^ ""'tes 't -"a preternatural stimulanrlilri^. t™Pr,'"'''' ^"'^^^^^^^ '•^- «bearha.be.arecotnmendedasasubstitute'for .dent .pirits, and ) » an innoTation upon tfail to generate di». thout producing ma- nark the spot whore ! of his course, pro- JCATH ! ! Over the rn. For if we can- tween that and the hiJed with, is safe, article, or if it is y- It fihould be la- »0T, HAITJn.E NOT, and danger of this To save my own citude as a parent, 'h in this way, they 3mber that I ever e a pittance of mo- e earnest injunc- and I cannot but > apprise children guard against it — : the whole youth- the fiery waves of hou come, but no 1 our schools in- Sabhath schools niigj]iy influence Wt of intemprr- tive— they must gradual disconti- ' the task of re- inent, where he ir, but it would which might be by gradual rc- s the means of producing ine- 'qnently unites nd destroy life tone of health. nt spirits, and % 19 a means ofleading back the captive to health and liberty. But thou;{h it may not create intemperate habits as soon, it has no power to allay them. Jt will finish even what ardent spirits have begun— and with this difference oidy , thatitdoes not rasp the vital organs with quite so keen a file— and ena- , hies the victim to come down to his grave, by a course somewhat more dilatory, and with more of the good natured stupidity of the idiot, and loss of the demoniac frenzy of the madman. Wine has been prescribed as a means of decoying the intemperate from the ways of death. But habit cannot be thus cheated out of its dominion, nor ravening appetite be amused down to a sober and temperate demand. Jf it be true that men do not become intemperate on wine, it is not true that wine will restore the intemperate, or stay the progress of the diseate. Enough must be taken to screw up nature to the tone of cheerfulness, or she will cry " give," with an importunity not to be resisted, and long'be- fore the work of death is done, wine will fail to minister a stimulus of suf- ficient activity to rouse the flagging spirits, or will become acid on the en- feebled stomach, and brandy and opium will be called in to hasten to its consummation the dilatory work of solf-dcstruction. So that if no man be- comcs a sot upon wine, it i^ only because it hands him over to more fierce and terrible executioners of Heaven's delayed vengeance. If in any instance wine suffices to complete the work of ruin, then the difference is only that the victim is stretched longer upon the rack, to die in torture with the gout, while ardent spirits finish life by a shorter and perhaps less painful course. Retrenchments and substitutes then are idl^, and if in any case they suc- ceed, it is not in one of a thousand. It is the tampering of an infant with a giant, tl>o effort of a kitten to escape from the paw of a lion. There is no remedy for intemjjerance but tiie cessation of it. Nature must be released from the unnatural war which is made upon her, and be allowed to rest, and then nutrition, and sleep and exercise, will perform the work of restoration. (Gradually the spring of life will recover tone, appetite will return, digestion become efficient, sleep sweet, and the muscular sys- tem vigorous, until the clastic heart with every beat shall send health through tlie system, and joy through the soul. JJut what shall be done for those to whom it might be fatal to stop short? Many are reputed to be in this condition, probably, who are not— and those who are, may, while under the care of a physician, be dealt with as he may think best for the time, provided they obey strictly as patients his prescriptions. But if, when they are committed to their own care again, tlioy cannot live without ardent spirits— then they must die, and have only the alternative! to die as reformed penitents, or as incorrigibly intemperate —to die in a manner which shall secure pardon and admission to heaven, or in a manner which shall exclude tliem forever from that holy world. As the aonlicntion of thin (liscoi't-op I i«r»M.i^ -«« .j »- -r- c ,, — -1 jii„ — 3< 1., s — „,,, ,v viiiutcnu to cvcry one of you who hear it, immediate and faithful self-examination, to ascertain whe- ther any of the symptoms of intemperance arc beginning to show them- selves upo I. And let not the consideraUon that you have never been so sunpected, and have never susnccted vrturBrUoa ,<• . you o. the benefit of tins «cruZ Tn?* ''^'"'^'"P<^'«^«, drpri^P i,uin\ . . '"^™"ny- f or It 18 inattention and self-conWdrnr*. wh.ch superBede descretion, and baniah fear, and let i„ the des^e Jo ^ tea upon h,. victim, before he think., of danger or attempts re'^sl 'e .ua{,e, town, or c.ty. This frequency of drinking will plant in your system iUcts hunun.ty. Have you any friends or companions whose nresenct- whe-, you meet Uiem awakens the thought and the desire of dri. kLT Bo f Zntrrrer ' '''''' " ^^'" '^ ' "-"" ^^-^^ ^ C- 1 Do any of you love to avail yourselves of every little catd. and circum- ance among your companions, to bring out " a treat V '• Alas my iZ there is death in the pot." ' ^ ' hour" runt! "" '^;'^^/^ «^-"^ ''""k -turning daily, and at stated hours ? Unless you intend to travel all the length of the highway of intern- perance, it is tune to stop. Unless you intend soon to re' g„ you 1 be", orever, and come underade«poti.m of the mostcruel and ir^ZZ^Z :;: Tv;::;:::..^""" ''- ^'^^'-'-^ ^^"-^^ ^^« ---^^^ -^-^-t, an. Do any of you drink in secret, because you are unwilling your friends •- ''.^ t]>eir weakness cr lafkmm.tion ? If you are in the habit of drinking ardent spirits daily vo , need not ask the physician what is the matter-ncr inquire for eye wa/ ^our redness of eyes is produced by intemperance j and abstinence ami hat only, will cure them. It may be well for every man who drink da"v t look in he gla^s often, that he may see in his own face the sig, aJ^o^ hoiS^itttr^^^ '^''''' '''''-'' "^-^^ -^'-' -'^ - o^- oft°irUs iHo'"'; '"r" °'''' J-nd coming upon you, and sinking oi .pints, and ess of appetite in the morning ? Mature is failing, and giv- ing to you timely admonition of her distress. ^ Do the pains of a disordered stomach, and blistered tongue and lip be^in o onnent you T You are far advanced in the work of se^-destruc^io'a-a tew more years will probably finish it. aesuuctioa-a emperance, ilrpriup and sell-confidenct; le dcitroyer, to fju- pts resistance, calculate always ta stop oilen to takij en you conio to tho lant in your system, : disease -which af- ose presenco wJicii rinking? Both ( T aft' ty nor hope, but :atf;h and circum- '' Alas, my lord, ly, and at state. I lighway of intern- csign your libcrl/ \ inexhorable rJir.- de stimulant, and ig your friends (r as well cut loos^» 1 are gone, gonj sent, as much a t 'ou are an inteir ■ become rapidly mpossible. iieir weakness rr pirits daily, yo i for eye water, abstinence, and 'Vho drinks dai'y e the signals of -, and too often ou, and sinking railing, and giv- e and lip, begin -destruction — a SERMON nr. THE EVILS OF lINTKMrKRANCE. Habakki'K, ii. 9— 11, 15, IG. Woe to him that covett th an evil covetouBness to his house, tliat he may fict Jiis ne.st on high, tiiat he may be delivered from the power of evil ! Thou hast consulted shame to thy iiouso by cutting off many jjeoule, and hast sin- i^d against thy soul, tor the . ae shall cry out of the wall, and the beam oMt of the timber shall ansvvck it. Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou maye.st look on their naked- ness ! Thou art filled with shame for glory : drink thou also, and let tliy foreskin be uncovered : the cup of the Lori»'s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. Fn the preceding discourses we have illustrated the wature, the occa- sions, AND THE SYMPTOMS OF INTIMPEUANCE. In this discourse we propose to illustrate the evils of intemper- ANCK. The physicial and moral influence of this sin upon its victims, has of ne- cessity been disclosed in giving an account of the causes and symptoms of this criminal disease. We shall therefore take a more comprehensive view uxury produces effeminacy, and transmits to other gene- nerations imbecility and disease. Bring up the generation of the Romans who carried victory over the world, and place them beside the effeminate Italiansofthepresentday, and the effect ofcrimenpon constitution will be fHifficiently apparent. Excesses unmake the man. The stature dwindles, the joints are loosely compacted, and the muscular fibre has lost its elastic tone. Ko giant's bones will be found in the cemeteries of a nation, over whom,forcenturie8, the waves of intemperance have rolled 5 and no un- wieldy iron armour, the annoyance and def«nce of other days, will be dug op as memorials of departed glory. ^ TUe duration of human life, andth« relatiTC amount of healtk or diseasci. ss A. 11,0 jackal follow, II,. li„, ,„ "°""" ""' '■•lftl,eir day.." mtox,ca,,,,„|i,„,,„f,„,';,„;~ -nivoml u.o „f rromtl,c„,aj,,,iic.all,leticr„r,„.„ , . '■""" ''""S «»- -/^vas not that ,odJL:;ra;r:^^^^^^^^^^^ ^vithoul a rival-and Bonu.arto if 1 ."^'"'^ *^'« republic, and reigned paipn bv a fever T'T'^']'''' '' ''^« l>«e» «aid, lost the Russian cam- onL^rtalurnouiLS^^ ».adunhaniess dt t,; S n'T """'k'"'"' ^'" '-bits of effeminacy and JJemostheLs andMiltl :1TI''^"'"'- '^''"'^ '« ^^^ «^ "--r" >vieldsuchapena-t...;menwie!!;;Tndl:rtr ^"^""'^^^ "^^^' flo ril iTLai^Usrl"^"'^"'^^^^"'' effeminacy, and mus. may fitful .laches fil ; "^^ '' "P"" '''^ '^''^''''' ^"d there may be some "ervo retil" r: 7 'T'^l' "'"' "" theoffspringof a ciprieious ed stillness rf-slral^^^^^ '^^ --«^"-» - unimpas.or.. lectual discr Za t'n B t't ^t 'f^ 1 ' f »",^^P-'^*^« ^^^ "-P'^ -tel- >"in"^ talent in all its diversified rn.i. cula;syster '' '" '"'""'' ^'"^ ^ ""'^^^''^^d ^^ vigorous mu.- piritii ronsumcj in hs which annually who have b«t«ii irectly, fallen vir- ll«nR, with fearful t half their dayg." *> do disease and 1 universal use of S down our race militudo ofadeg- ent ofthedeciinft 58 continue, will >n national intel- rame is, as a go- , in its efforts, ro- e. The mental energies unsus- to despondency ;or of the imagi- on and grasp of ilectrical energy e of the animol ijrit languishes, 3 drink, Titini- lie, and reigned Russian cam- on the records i of effeminacy rue of Homer, to be classed >r beauty, pro- they lived, tlireescore and days with un- minacy never id music may > may be some fa capricious, unimpassiun- r simple intel- ied energy of rsiiied anpli. igorous rnui- £1 The history of U.C world connr,,.. thi. conclusion. E,jypt, om . atlhfl heado„at.on, ha- under the weight of her own eff.mi^;. gone lowu to the dust. 1hevu.tor.es of Greece let in upon her the lu.urio. of th« .as and covered her glory with a night of ages. And Rome, whoso. : AH>t trod down U.e nations, and shook the earth, witnessed in hor latter days-fa,„tnes.o heart-and the shield of the mighty vilely cast away, J. rho effect of intemperance upon the military prowess of a natio,., can- not but be great and evil. The mortality in the seasoning of recruits, al- ready half destroyed by intemp.ru.ico, will b« double to that expenouced among hardy anil temperate men. If in the early wars of ourcuntry the n.ortality of the camp had been as great as Uhas been «i,.ce iutemj.ranco has facilitated the ra.s.ng of ri- cru.ts,jyew England woul.l have been depopulated, Philip had remained lord ot h.s wilderness, or the trench had driven our Fathers into the sea extending from Canada to Capo H«rn the empire of despotism and sup<..sti ' tion. An army, whose nnerpy ia conflict depends on the excitem. ,.t of ar- dent spint«, cannot possess the coolness nor sustain the shock of a powerful onset, l,keauam.y of determined, temperate men. It was the relisious principle and temperance ofCromwell's army, that made it terrible to Uie licentious troops of Charles the First. 4. The effect of intemperance upon the patriotism of a nation is neither obscure nor doubtful. When excess has despoiled tho man of the natural uifcctions of husband, father, brother, and friend, and thrust him down to the condition of an animal ; we are not to expect of him comprehensive Views, and a disinterested regard for his country. His patriotism may serve as a theme of sinister profession, or inebriate boastin-r. But what IS the patriotism which loves only in words, and in general, and viokites in detail all the relative duties on which the welfare of country depends • The man might as well talk of justice and mercy, who robs and mur- ders upon the highway, as he whose example is pestiferous, and whose pre- sence withers the tender charities of life, and perpetuates weeping, lamen- tation, and wo. A nation of drunkards would constitute a hell. 5. Lfpon the national conscience or moral principle the effects of intem- perance are deadly. It obliterates the fear of the Lord, and a sense of accountability, paralyses the power of conscience, and hardens the heart, and turns out upon socie- ty a sordid, selfish, ferocious animal. 6. Upon national industry the effects of intemperance are manifest and mischievous. The results of national industry depend on the amount of well-directed intellectual and physical power. But intemperance paralyses and prevents both these springs of human action. In the inventory of national loss by intemperance, may be set down— the labor prevented by indolence, by debility, by sickness, by quarrels and liti- gatsfin. by gambling and idkiiOss, by misiakea and niisdirecled effort, by im- providence and wastefulness, and by the shortened date of human life and activity. LittU wastes in great establishments consUntly occuring raay :» .Mi it 44 power of artifidal .L1,.Z?^' , °'^ * °''"°» '"»•» "■> by the well di,oe.e., „,./;„ It S^ ^^ZT'tZ m'"" immense cterp,,,,, is, h,„„f„,.,,,j by the stil „. „f / " "''°" »o, „ .taately escape debility .„d U.I^t:'"°^'"" '""■''•" '""'"• — ne::, :::x't:i'rtr; °''- t*- °' '- ""■">" ^'- - «»■ i.i»ta.a,,„,,e^^tLre;:d7et"::rac "f *r°"'°'" "''^^^^ «very department of labor, »,d tlie anionnl „f ! ■" '°''"'' '" deed 1. incalculable • to all .,h cK m, . >, w '"^ Prevented or s,i„,n. rrishtfnl expense incur red for^rslprt cfV^ ""' ?t accumulating and .ntcmperance has made paupers 3 "^^^^^^ '".f ''™"'"' ""o"' oJ chicllyby intcmper=!,,cc, is .^Z^Un/rt '''''''-''^' "''''■ are becoming too strait for their accTn^dZn W ''"P'""'" '''"• ""= P"" and build greatc, to provide aeco™Z , , """" 1"'" """" <><»" for the frequency of goi„„ „„1 the , I ^ "'"'''^ "^ '"""-'ion i pride, and Ltr^ed fte mX * r° ,""" '^''" ""^ the reluctance e and sua-eriug once suppLd Ten '""■'"'''r" ""'"''""' '"' "fpoverly -■-".gfamily n» lonXut'es fte'vTou ""'"""' ''"'•^''' ■""''-'"^ ■■'ink up their daily Lning. d b ess oXre °' ""'""""■"'""^ They look upon itas, of right, the druntod s h„ , '"""■^'""''' ""^ l-ogin to a« early as idle„ess!,nd excos" J^^U gi^e ,"m T ""*"" '" '""' "■'"- vice. ThusisUte insatiable deMroverof ., T'"""" '° ""' ^'"^-'a of land, rearing poor-houses, „d dentin' '^T """l^"'"^ """"«'' "■" sleepless acti.i.,, squandering prope"'°'„„':,'™,"'='" »"" "'y- w,.h undermining viaor e]i™nd„ri„„ r ' "° """^"s o' industry invlsible, but real and terrific as Te debt nfP /'"'"^ v ) a national debt, larger and larger bodies of nZ from thf^"' "^ ''"''"'^^"^ '''^^'^^'"^ the nation is now^axcdannuarZ 'hr^^^^^ "''''' '" intemperance 3 and «ite for the maintenance of goierTment w r 'T"" "''^' "°"^^ ^« --^q"*- and colleges, and all the reSsTnltrlTo VI" "'^"^ ''''' °"' -'>««'• tion of the entire capital of te naUon !.! . . "''^'"- ^''^^'^^ ^ P"^" ards. There seems to be «o T^rLT'""'' '"' ^^'^ «"PP-* «f ^'"nk- heritanceofthe mtempera^ alUth^^ Se"'' " "" ^^■"'' '"* ^^^-"■ wngs and fly away. But until tl»w '"'^ ""^^^ to themselves or the State, the drunk d'h" Sv" 1""'"^*' "^^^''"^^« ^^« ^-- lie intellectual and ly by ardent spirits, on move on by the maintained, which be preserved and The nation wJiose ardent cpirits, can- middle age, or wit- ness of a neigijbor, it ; but such in- 1 are to be fo'ind in •evented or squm- accumulating and ir tamilies, whom le poor-tax, creat- tacies for the poor '■ pull them dow-a 3s of inebriation ; the reluctance of e fear of poverty tdage, orofasuf- iommunity. They 'Use, and begin to to arrive thither ' this sinecure of 'ing through the ■ and day, with 5W-3 of industry, t, impairing mo- i national debt, ually transferii^r Jtors to tJie na- ■ shortened dato niperance ; and would be requi- fall our school* Already a por- pportofdrunk- nd, but this in- to themselves ing to the laws • Should the r -i few ve,">-3 'e come upon luse the poor as tax exceeds the annual income. You who are husbandmen, are accustomed to feel as il your houses and lands were wholly your ownj but if you will ascertain tne per centageof :;nrual taxation levied on your property for the support of the intemper.-te, you will perceive how much of your capital is held by drunkard., by a tenure as sure as if held under mortgages, or deeds ol warranty. Your widows and children do not take by descent more, cer- tainly, than the most profligate and worthless part of the community. Every intemperate and idle man, whom you behold tottering about the streets and steeping himselfat the stores, regards your houses and lands as iledged to take care of him,-puts his hands deep, annually, into your pockets, and ei'ts his bread m the sweat of your brows, instead of his own : and with mar- vellous good natu-e you bear it. If a robber should break loose on the highway, to levy taxation, an armed force would be raised to hunt him from society. But the tippler may do it fearlessly, in open day, and not a voice is raised, not a finger is lifted. The- eflects of intemperance upon civil liberty may not lightly be passed over. It is admitted that intelligence and virtue are the pillars of republican in- stitutionr and that the illumination of schools, and the moral power of reli- gious institiitions, are indispensable to produce this intelligence and vir- tue. But who are found so uniformly in the ranks of irreligion as the intemper- ate ? Who like these violate the Sabbath, and set their mouth against the heavens-neglecting the education of their families-and corruptina their morals? Almost the entire amount of national ignorance and crime is the offspring of intemperance. Throughout the land, the intemperate are hew- ing down the pillars, and undern.ining the foundations of our national edi- hce. Legions have besieged it, and upon every gate the battle axe rings ; and still the sentinels nleep. Should the evil advance a^ it has done, the day is not far distant when the great body of the laboring classes of the community, the bones and" si- news of the nation, will be contaminated ; and when this is accomplished, the right of suffrage becomes the engine of self-destruction. For the labor- ing classes constitute an ijnmense majority, and when these are perverted by intemperance, ambition needs no better implements with which to di- the grave of our liberties, and entomb our glory. Such is the influence of interest, ambition, fear and indolence, that on. ZlZ '?«"'? "f f'""^''"^ of disciplined troop., may overrule tlie in- fluence of five hundred temperate men, who act without concert. Already IS the disposition to temporize, to tolerate, and even to court the intempe rate, too apparent, on account of the apprehended relribution of their per- statute book, and until public sentiment is roused a«d concentratei, it mar bg doubted whether its execution is possible. Wherr * the city, town, or villajre. in whirl. tb« l,wc ..« „ _,,. ^- against th« rending or drinking of ardent spirits? Here then an aristocracy ;ai 55 olbad influence has already risen up, which bids defiance to law and thrra tens the extirpation of civil liberty. As intemperance increases,' the powe^ of taxation will come more and more into the hands of men of intemperate habits and desperate fortunes; of course the laws gradually will becomn subservient to the debtor; and less efficacious in protecting the richts of property. This will bea vital stab to liberty-to the security of which oro petty IS indispensable. For money is the sinew of war-and when thoso who hold the property of a nation cannot be protected in their rights they will change the form of government, peaceably if they may, by violence if tJiey must. In proportion to the numbers who have no right in the soil, and no capital at stake, and numeral principle, will the nation be exposed to violence and revolution. In Europe, the physical power is bereft of the right of suffrage and by the bayonet is kept down. Cut in this nation, the power which Z^ be wielded by the intemperate and ignorant is tremendous. These are the troops of the future Cssars, by whose perverted suffrages our future elec tions may be swayed, and ultimately our liberties destroyed. They are the corps of irreligious and desperate men, who have something to hope and nothing tofear,from revolution and blood. Of such materials was the 'army of Catiline composed, who conspired against the liberties of Rome And in the French revolution, such men as Lafayette were soon swept from the hem, by mobs composed of the dregs of creation, to give place to the re- volutionary furies which followed. We boast ofour liberties, andrejoice in our prospective instrumentality m disenthralling the world. But our own foundations rest on the heavinr, sides of a burning mountain, through which, in thousands of places the fire has burst out, and is blazing around us. If they cannot be extinguished we are undone. Our sun is fast setting, and the darkness of an endless night is closing in upon us. to law, and threa- sreascs, the power len of intemperate ally will become ting the rights of irity of which pro- -andwhen those their rights, they ay, by violence if oil, and no capital i to violence and ! right of suffrage, power wliich may . These are the our future elec- id. They are the ng to hope, and lals was the army of Rome. And 1 swept from the B place to the re- instrumentality t on the heaving f places, the fire 3xtinguished, we endless night is SERMON. IV. THE REMEDY OF INTEMPERANCE. Habakkuk, ii. 9—11, 15, 16. Wo to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he mav set •inriK !!!!!' T^ r'*^ ^'' .f '^''^'" ^""^' *''«^ P""^st thy bettle to him, Tho^S^filp^lffh""^^"*'^ .™."-^*'^* 1«^-J^«" tJ'«"- nakedness 1 liou art filled with shame for glory : drink t!,ou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered : the cup of the L«r,>', ri^ht hand shall be turned Lto thee and shameful spewing shall beou thy ^loiy. ' We now come to the inquiry, sr what means cajt the evil of in- TEMPERANCE BE STAYED ? and the answer is, not by anv one thing, but by .^very thing which can be put in requisition to hem in the army of the des- troyer, and impede his march, and turn him back, and redeem the land. Intemperance is a national sin, carrying destruction from the centre to every extremity of tlie empire, and calling upon the nation to array itself, en masse, against it. It is in vain to rely alone upon self government, and voluntary abstinence. J ins by all means, should be encouraged and enforced, and may limit the fvil, but can never expel it. Alike hopeless are all the efforts of the pulpit and the press, without something more radical, efficient and permanent. If knowledge only, or argument, or motive, were needed, the task of reforma- t.on would be easy. But argument may as well be exerted upon the wind and motive be applied to chain down the waves. Thirst, and the love of fil- thy lucre, are incorrigible. Many may be saved by these means : but with nothing more, many will be lost, and the evil will go down to other agPs. Alike hopeless is the attempt to stop intemperance by mere civil coercion There IS too much capital vested in the importation, distillation, and vend- ing of ardent spirits, and too brisk a demand for their consumption in the market, to render mere legal enactments and prohibitions, of sufficient influ- ence to keep the practice of trafficing in ardent spirits within safe limits As well might the ocean be poured out upon the Andes, and its waters be stopped from rushing violently down their sides. It would require an om- mscient eye, and an almighty arm, punishinir witli flnfi«Hv n^d — *oi„ -„»,. buuon all delinquents, to stay the progress of intemperance in the presence of the all-pervading temptation of ardent spirits. Magistrate* will not, and cannot, if they would, execute the law. fS against the unlawful vending and drinking of ardent spirits am.d « n«n,.i ^rttforf th: r '''-''-''' ^'^ "« ^" ^a JofT:;^dCerT : eriort, before the public sentiment wa» prcDared for it «,«,.m k wu Voluntary associations to support the magistrate in the execution of th« aw are useful, but ailer all are ineffectual-for though, in alTtown t ate, he, may effect a temporary reformation, itrequ.'res an el t tomike ^v::nrm:d"e. " '^^^^-^ '''"-''''' -'-' — ^^-^-^ -^ its watt';i!''K 'f T''^°" "' ' *"""' ''^ ^"^" '^^'^ ^t^^«' i^ but emptying of bove o U . ' "'"' '' '^ '"^^"^*^^ ^^P^^'^^^ by the waters from a- fi lid 'bv ""*•;" °'' '""""^ '" *^« ^^"^-Pbere, which is instantly hJled by the pressure of the circumjacent air. ^ The remedy, whatever it may be, must be universal, operating nerma nen ly,. at al Umes, and in all places. Short of this, eve v Zt"vhichTa n be done, will be but tl.e application of temporary expedients. rhere is somevvhere a mighty energy of evil at work in the production of r ^Xi ir ;;; zr '-- -' ^-^- -^ -^ -- -^^ practice as a nation, there is something fundamentally wrongT'an'u e r ciplL.. It must be a universal and national remedy ^JJiat then is this universal, natural, and national remedy for intempc- •TtSTHEBANlSimEI^T OF ARDEXT SPIRrTS FROM THE LIST OF L4W rVU ARTICLKSOK COMM.UCK, „V A COHRF.CT AX. EFFXCIKXX P.Br C 4. T K.T ; SUCH AS HAS TCHKKD S.AV.RV OUT OF HALF O.R " :" Tj WILL YET EXPEL IT FROM THE WORLD. ' Nothing Should now be said, by way of crimination for the past, for verily «e have a! been guilty in this thingj so that ihere are few in Z laid whose brother's blood may not cry out against them from the g..und on :rd::rc:iii: "'" '^'^^-^^ ''''-' '-- ''-'' ^-^ ^" -- ^^A'ztz We are not therefore to come down in wrath upon the distillers ind in, Tcr itrsf ^ of ardent spirits. None of JS are enou fX'tl d ?,. t "n '"■ ^'^^ ^'"^'^ ^''' ™P«^*«^' •>•• distilled, or vend- ed. ,f all the nominally temperate in the land had refused to drink ^ It is thl buyers whohave created thedemand for ardent spirits, and mad dis 11 t o! and importation a gainful traffick. And it is th^ .u-tom of the t perate too, which inundates the land with the occasi^rrf so ,fu h Jd" 3UC11 unmanagable temptation. Let the teoiperatc cease to buy^^ it amid a popaFs- ndulgence. The ould hurl them 10 terror to evil : the times are secure morality 3cution of 111- single town, (. I effort to make has been, and ut emptying of Abaters from a- ch is instantly rating perma- ng wjiich can production of power of rois- Jon us by the s, and in our ; and the re- general prin- for intempe- ST OF LAW- PUBLIC SEN- LAND, AND t, for verily in the land, giound, on o the work 3rs. and im- without sin d, or vend- t ? It is the distillation f the tem- ' much and '—and the S9 demand for ardentspirits will fail in the market three fourths, and ult.nato^ ly will fail wholly ,xh the generation of drunkards shall hasten out of time I o msist that men, whose capital is embarked in the production, or vend- ing of ardent spirits, shall manifest the entire magnanimity and self-deuiai wh.ch >s needlul to save the land, though the example would be glorious to' them, ,8 more tiian we have a right to expect or demand. Let the consu..er ent sp.riis is such, that, surrounded a« it is by the seductions of company |.ndeveryartihceofentertainmont,itis more tempting and flital than if U flowed freely as water. Then, like the inferior creation, men mi.ht be e.- pncted to dnnk when athirst, and to drink aiono. But intemperance now is . Hoc.al sin, and on that account exerts a power terrific and destructive u. liie plague. That the traffic in ardent spirits is wrong, and siiouid be abandoned as a ;.'reat national evil, is evident from the following consideratiors 1. It employs a multitude of men, and a vast amount of capital, to no useful purpose. The medicinal use of ardent spirits is .allowed , or thi an article of commerce, for ordinary use, it adds nothing to animal or soci-d -joymnt, to muscular power, to intellectual vigor, or' moral ^^^ X does, indeed, produce paroxysms of muscular effort, of intellectual vfw ;;:it.th '"/"""'' '"' '' '^'^"^ """"^^'y - ™p--^-^t ''-git upon nature by anticipation, to be punished by a langour and debility pro- portimied o the excess. No man leaves behind him\ more valuable p"- f Ir l7r "" --'^^f^^'fi-^ stimulus, than the even industrv of unstimulated nature would have produced ; or blesses the world wh better specimen, of intellectual power; or instructs it by a beTte ex!m l^le; or drinks enjoyment from a fuller, sweeter cup. than th.t ^J^Z v^hat purpose is all this waste ? Is it not the duty of every man to -rve his generation in some useful employment / ,. Lt idleneTa Tsin ? i SO n^^LUl^'TT ^""' '''** '>*=«»P»t'«n differ from idleness which M nothing to national pro»perit^ or to individual or ,ocial enjoyment 7 ZZ cnlture commerce, and the art, are indispensable to the Jerfcctiol of hu aomctr''^' "' ^\f ""«*'- ^'^^^ happiest state of'soc ^ a„d f .omc e,U. are mseparable from their prosecution, there is a vast overba Z7:zTt:T^'^- H "' "'"^ '^ "'^ '^"^ '^^^"-^ ^^ ^h« ^-'fi^^^" Whatdronor' *\'t"' "'"'""*'"' evils inseparable from the trade? Id Liz ^° does upour intathe ocean of misery which it creates 1 nothl /o7?r •'?"'"' "^"^ '™'' '^"'^ ^^"^'' »° •'^ -stained for nothing 1 Look at the mighty system of useless operations-the fleet of ^esselsp „,eo and fro-the sooty buildings throughout the land, darken Zt^ anr"'"'" 'rr^'""^"' """"^^-^^^ innumerable company of boats, and waggons, and horses, and men-a more numerous cavalry than evershook the blood-stained plains ofEurope-a larger con oytha^ ve" bore on the waves the baggage of an army-and more men than we e ever devoted at once to the work of desolation and blood. All these be7n o^ntinue, and end their days in the production and distribution of a 1 nu d the entire consumption of which is useless. Should all the capita 1. z:z' "' T' *''" "^"'^^'*' ''^ ™^'^^^ -^« -« mass, a St:: nt STn '"' would be substracted from national weallh or enjoy. Zl'u 1 ' '"'" '"'^ ''"'"^'^^^ ^^^P' ^h« ^hole time, no vacancy of good had been occasioned. '^i-rtni-y or J^Ji' "'°? "'' '"'"""' '" ^'"''' •■^'^'^"^1 ^^'^^S^ should be willin. to apend their days-iu which immortal beings should fill up the short p Triod ohe.r probation, and make up the account to be rendered to God o he deeds done m the body-in which benevolent beings, desiring to emulate thc^ goodness of the great God, should be satiffi'ed to em;:;or:he!: It is admitted that the trade employs and sustain, many families and that - many .atancea .'le profits are appropriated to useful purpose * But tli s no more than m.ght have been said of the slave trade The same fun hes might boa. well sustained in some other way, and the same pofis m.g^.t be earned and applied to useful purposes in some other' calling To earUi ,8 not so narrow, nor population so dense, nor the useful avocations «o overstocked, as that large portions of time, and capital, and labor my pu^tSt;: ^' '"^^"^ ^'^"^^'^"'"° '''' '''-'-'y ^'^^-^ -^--e ti IV merchant who deals in ardent spirits is himself a loser ; for a tem- perate population coLBume more, and pay better, and live 'longe , Z hcmtemperatci and auiong such a population merchants would do more business, and secure better profits than when they depend for any part of *euga.„supon the sale of ardent spirits. What merchant, looking ou for a^^acc where to establish himself in trade, would neglect the invitation 1c1?:T1' T' ^"— "'^'"-i-nics, and settle' down in T^ „ .ni houses, broken wiudows, and dilapidated fences ? puri. not Una argument reproachfully, but for the purpose of awakening SS8 which a(fd« yment 7 Agri* rfection of hu- aciety ; and if a vast overba- ' the traffick in m the trade ? ch it creates ? sustained for —the fleet of land, darken- e company of cavalry than oy than ever n were ever these begin, 1 ofa liquid, '■ capital thus 3, and thrown 1th or enjoy- vacancy of »e willing to ! short period ) God of the ? to emulate imploy tlieir ies, and that Js. But this same fami- iame profits ailing. The 1 avocations 1 labor, may eference to for a tem- onger, than lid do more any part ol" looking out 9 invitation n a village gared chil- awakening conscientious inveatigation. We are a free people. No imperial uka$e, or forest of bayonets, can make us moral and industrious, or turn us back if we go astray. Our own intelligence and moral erargy must reclaim us, or we shall perish in our sins. 2. The amount of suffering and mortality inseparable from the commerce in ardent spirits, renders it an unlawful article of trade. The wickedness is proverbial of those who in ancient days caused their children to pass through the fire unto Moloch. But how many thousands of children are there in our land who endure daily privations and sufferings, which render life a burden, and would have made the momentary pang of infant sacrifice a blessing ? Theirs is a lingering, living death. There never was a Moloch to whom were immolated yearly as many children as are immolated, or kept in a state of constant suffering in this land of nomi- nal Christianity. We have no drums and gongs to drown their cries, nei- ther do we make convocations, and bring them all out for one mighty bum- ing. The fires which consume them are slow fires, and they blaze balefullv m every part of our land ; throughout which the cries of injured children and orphans go up to heaven. Could all these woes, the product of intem- perence, be brought out into one place, and the monster who inflicts the sufferings be seen personified, the nation would be furious with indignation. Humanity, conscience, religion, all would conspire to stop a work of sucli malignity. We are appalled, and shocked, at the accounts from the east, of widows burnt upon the funeral piles of their departed husbands. But what if those devotees of superstition, the Brahmins, had discovered a mode of prolong- ing the lives of the victims for years amid the flames, and by these pro- tracted burnings were accustomed to torture life away ? We might almost rouse up a crusade to cross the deep, to stop by force such inhumanity. But, alas ! we should leave behind us, on our own shores, more wives m the fire, than we should find of widows tJius sacrificed in all the east; a fire too, which, besides its action upon the body, tortures the soul by lost affections, and ruined hopes, and prospective wretchedness. It is high time to enter upon the business of collecting facts on this sub- ject. The statistics of intemperance should be published ; for no man has comprehended as yet the height, and depth, and length, and breadth of this mighty evil. We execrate the cruelties of the slave trade-the husband torn from the bosom ofhiswife-the son from his father-brothers and sisters separated forever— whole families in a moment ruined ! But are there nopimilar enor- mities to be witnessed in the United States ? Wone indeed perpetrated by the bayonet-but many, very many, perpetrated by intemperance. Every year thousands of families are robbed of fathers, brothers, husbands, friends. Every year widows and orphans are multiplied, and grey hairs are brought with sorrow to the grave-no disease makes such inroads upon fa- milies, blasts so rnariy hopes, destroys so many lives, and causes so many mourners to go about the streets, because man goeth to his long home. We have heard of the horrors of the middle passage-the transportation 91 relem.|romsujrerin„b„!.,f,l , ""'"f "l«'e>i »hori doall, will Hi.. Could an rv.^ "''°" '"'f'"'"!''" " ''«»>i' J" i""ju»t be- tl>e.ea. ^""^ ""*""<=«« !-« "'Miblcd, the, would be lik„ fever, for lll.l,v,„o„.^lrll.^K 'T ''™ "'"' '""'""■"■'tion of » per, ,„d p,a„^e .^d:?!^: t^^^rtt;,::!^ * "■°"' - ;oou be-.ep.ed bT^.l^prLtTr'td TS aT"' "°"'^ It is 0,1. i., r^. "f """'S"""™ 'tat would ovc, wbelm it. .< ' er i '; : ::; ° -*"•■ =Pi'"V" '^e way ofa lawful „ado euend- ™d a moral -..teL so,' J „,~1' na,"" IT?""" '™^ '"=''■'=""" li^d, loicv,uDO,n.»„„„ nation-and that au armed host ma, yet the nation sleep, Sav n 1 th ,' ,i . ""'' '" «'""' ""■ »"'' ardent spiriu ; for L I umTnT', "' "'"' "'™" '"'■°'" "'« »'"'» " ' any ef the la, s of natTe T " "°""-'°'"'' ""= »'»'''= " "» ""''"' " which produce, uoC,™ I °°°'"'"°'' "'""■""' '" »"1<^"« »Pi'"»- ITtaipleofhumari V andt, ; "T""""' ""•* ""sl"" "P™ "^^ aband n„d andpT^ibe ' "• ""' '°-"=''"«' -" -"S-"- '" "' r alityand living > victimi ol" jn- i' l-e heard in heaven Id rrI7'' " '"'^ "^ ^''^"^^ '^"'' ^'•pJ'^^"^ will wUlbe reseved ;^td^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -"-t award tj- ;oii3 up a. estatJ;t;::2r I vr ^'b:;:;irT""^"^^" blood, and establishing a city with iniouitv " a ^ u " *""'" ''''*'^ escape the wo denouLed L^st hir'*th.t ?.\ ''' "'" '" ^'^"^ tbatputteth bis bottle to him:rrr^:;,rdre?;^ ''''''''' ''-'' -ord,aldLr;'bLo: lla ts ed b:i^"t '' ''^'' ''''"' Witnesses than physicians, and, I^'orll J t resCnrL" ^ ''^"^^ .« one ofthe greatest destroyers of virtue! health and liT'' "''^'^'''''^'^ tually indispensable to ^ 2 :'^ condUion seems todepeTd poTit so It" ™<^l--''«« "^ the human culture would fall back to Z , . '^'"■* commerce to cease, agri- deatrnvi.„ .;.: „ 1 ^V ""^^^ P'"^"'* °^" ""PP^^ without sumhj,, in ardent'Viritrs^tludtoTa dfff '" f ' '^'"'"*'^- ^"^ "^ --™-- P stauds on a different ground : it, evils are compensated by ^, or as if a. mail oit mustbecer- '»s to intemper- 't regard to t)ic 1 requires. All ties, do not of 'ence they pass tid tasting, has 1- It innl^io a crty by promo- by fulling un- h his neighbor in also— Thou »reskin bo iin- nto tJiec, and irdent spirits. customers, in take care of 1 slack hand, and, to save ^ages on the ose, andthuy the nieltinj» an all this be m laws may orphans will nnot award vetousness" I town with ho do thus hbor drink, I fearful ha- JaJly as tJie are better emperance n life and hich is ac- he human ease, agri- it surplus, commerce nsated by 96 tycan neverbeatird t rTtlrH ' ""' "'''^ «- '"ch a state of ,ocie- of Bcripturo which foretlls ho >' '''=^°'"P»-'>'"ent of that prophecy cover L earth, and^^rirrdTa J^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ ^ -^ -" agenoy-andtha't the^viltren t^BloV I'^r'"?" "' ''"' """ ''"^^ But all this alters not the case. He who delih^r^fni^ • « i ■ We to punishment at the hand of God as re-illv a« ifit i i , no one would have done the deed, if we JS^^n^ '"" ^"'"'" "'^' The ungodliness in time, and the everlasting ruin in eternitv, inseparable Who can estimate the hatred of God, of his word and worship, and of hi, people which It occasions ; or number the ,.aths and blasphemiei cause o be uttered-or the violations of the sabbath-the impuriLs a d indeo " cies--v.olence and wrong-doing-which it originates 5 How many thou sanddoes It detainevery sabbath-day from the house ofGod-euTng m bro d ir^ "^Tir^' "' ^'^''^-'"""^hem against their efficacy How cdti;: trrs^'"^' •""'"^^^^'^^^ ''-' «^- - ^«"' -^ '-throng- Why is all this Increase of ungodliness and crime ? Is not the desoerat^ wickedness of the heart sufficient without artificial excitemen 'if X comn^erce were inseparable from all the great and good ends of our sociS being, we might endure the evil, for the sake of the good, and thev onTv Le accountable who abuse themselves. But here is an^t cle of com" ^^^^^ spread over the land, whose effect is evil only, and that continualTya„d :r.r4"Z/..^::l-^-^'^^^ -^^- «^ ^^-^ depravity, Ji Te Drunkenness i8 a sin which excludes from Heaven. The commerce in ardentspints, therefore, productive on.yofevilin time, Ats fordesTructU and turns mto hell multitudes which no man can number ^"^^^'^'='*^' 'S'l II t .1 96 Um aware that in the din of bu.incs., and th. eager thirst for «.„ th« .on.e,uencosofour conduct upon our v.owh. and the future do'' nyt^ our ( ei ow ,uon, arc not apt to be realized, or to modify our course ^ liutha«,.ot (Jod connected with all lawful avocutiouB the weifa;^ of the i.(o that now .s, and of that which iH to con.c 1 And can we lawfully an.a«H property by a course of trade wluoh ,ill« the land w.th be,«ar I .JiZ: "i.d orphans, and crimes j which p.oplcH the grave-yard wihnr 7 ' mortalUy, and the world of wo witi, th'o victin. of d^^ l^^^Z orn. 01 ovd produced in the land by u.tcnporencc. con.o upon i o , 1 orr.d array-.t would appal the nation, and put an end to he tra lie n a" . ent «p.r,t«. If i„ every dwelling built by biood. the .tone fro n t e ^ ,' Hhoulduttcralthe cries which the bloody truHlck cxtort.-a„d he b a out the tunber «hould echo then, back-who would build such hou e --and who would dwell in it T What if in every p,.t ofthodw i.rin he cellar upward, through all the hall, and chau.ber.s-babbli„gs, and coT tcntions and voices, and groan«, and shriek., and wailings, were he'd day, and n.ght ! What .f the cold blood oozed out. an.I stotd in c op upon he walls 5 and, by preternatural art, all the ghastly skulls and boneTo tl e v.c uns destroyed by intemperence, should stand upon the walls i„ hor i ing ? What ,fat eventide, and at midnight, the airy forms of men destroy- edby.„tcmperence, were dindy seen haunting the distillor.es and s^es where thoy received their bane-following the track of the sh p en 2 in the commerco-wolking upon the wave-llitting athwart the cl kZ Uti ' upon the ngg.„g-and sending up, from the hold w.thin, a L.r 1 e waves without, groans, and loud la..ent8, and wailings ! 'who wo Id tend such stores 1 Who would labour in such distufcries ? W^o ould navigate such ships ? »v no would Oh ! were the sky over our heads one great whispering gallery brimrin^ downaboutus all the lamentation and wo which inLmpfran e L s 'a d the firm earth one sonorous medium of sound, bringing up around us frombe sent thither ;-thcse tremendous realities, assailing our sense, would invi- gorate our conscience, and give decision to our purpose of refo mation But these evils are as real, as if the stone did cry out o7the wall, ani he beam answered it^as real, as if, day and night, wailings were heard in every pa^ of the dwehng-and blood and skeletons were seen upon every wLl-1 real, as if the ghostly forms of departed victims flitted about the ship a sl^ passed oer the billows, and showed themselves nightly about stores Id Itt Th " "'"T"'''^^^'^" ,„eamed in our 'ears their loud ,a- down h ? "' "n 't '"" '^ '^' '^^ "'" °"^ heads collected and brought down about us all the notes of sorrow in the land-and the firm e Ju ^ ^^ r'nK ^''•T''"'' ^^^^'^•""g^^fdespairtocomeupfrom beneath, repl 'n1""V''''.'*'^" bedoneT-andten thousand voices wil, Zl „;"S~^^"^"''"8-'"«"alw»y8 have drunk to excess, and they always will, there » so much capital embarked in the busine«« nf , ...;1 ana distUIation-and «o much 8uppo.ed gain in Tending ardent VirTtsI St for gam, iho tiire destiny of course, wtjfure of the lawfully aniasa rs. and widows, k'itli premature Could all tho 'f>n UH in one lio trafllc in ar- from the wall and the beam ucha hou8o .' Iweliinjr. from iigs, and con- . were heard, in drops upon bones of tho lis, in horrid inch a build- 'mendcstroy- 9 and stores, ship engaged deck— sitting id from the 10 would at- WJio would 'ry, bringing creates, and d us from be- lt spirits had would iiivi- niation. But id the beam 11 every part Jry wall — as ship as she t stores and leir loud la- nd brought firm eartli m beneath, voices will , and thej it spirits — men tarowell, a Uw^ larj^wcll, to all our trreatnrsa ' Tho ^ . . ofnrdentupiritsh.Bm-r.u, r . ""^ Krtatncss . I he present abuse onohundred a 5T '^ ''"'"''^ 'ho prudent use of it, less than -n,ost In,'w "dn„V [''dl i" T? "'' ""'^ •^ntou.,or..oo in U.o land of ardent spi^itr lo i ' »«'"P«'-'»tely. But if the prudent u,o What if all men had cried out, as somo did nt n.n „ revolutionary struggle-' Alas ! 'we Z subl t- e 1^^ tiling can be donc-Oh ! the fleets and armieoEnir "°' before them ! !' Had such counsels prevrd erSTr "hT'T' righteous cause, and forfeited that aid of Heave fo J ' 1/ "'?'' * authorized to trust in God, who are disposed to do [^s wi;"' "" "' ''^"^• Nothing ran be done ! Why can nothing be done ? Because tho int» perate will not stop drinking, shall the tcmnerito ko.n ' '"^ '»'«"- ttle to him nakedness ! fiy foreskin . unto thee, e to resist is chimeric 3D t;al, nothing which will not commend ittolf to every man's judgment, as en- tirely practicable. 1. It is entirely practicable to extend universal information on the sub- ject of intemperance. Its nature, causes, evils, and remedy— may be uni- versally made known. Every pulpit and every newspaper in the land may be put in requisition to give line upon line, on this subject, until it is done. The JNational Tract Society may, with great propriety, volunteer in this glorious work, and send out its warning voice by winged messengers all over the land. And would all this accomplish nothing ? It would prevent the formation of intemperate habits in millions of instances, and it would reclaim tliousands in tiie early stages of this sin. 2. It is practicable to form an association for the special purpose of su- perintending this great subject, and whose untiring energies shall be exert- ed in sending out agents to pass through the land, and collect information, to confer with influential individuals, and bodies of men, to deliver address- es at popular meetings, and form societies auxiliary to the p.ircnt institu- tion. This not only may be done, but I am persuaded will bo done before another year sliall have passed away.'* Too long have we slent. From every part of tlie land wo hoar of tlie doin-s (,f the destroyer, and yet the one half is not (old. Hut when the facts are collected and published, will not the nation be moved ? It will be moved. 7\!! t!;e laws of the liiimau mind must ccaae, if such discloeureis as may be lar.do, do not produce u great efi'ect. 3. Something has been done, and more miy l)o dyne, by agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing establishments, in the exclusion of ardent spirits as an auxiliary to labor. Every experiment which has been made by capitalists to exclude ardent spirits and intemperance, has succeeded and greatly to the profit and satisfaction, both of the laborer and his cm' ployer. And what is more natural and easy than the extension of sucli ex- amples by capitalists, and by voluntary associations, in cities, towns, and parishes, of mechanics and farmers, who.se resolutions and Success may from time to time be published, to raise the flagging tone of hone, and -is sure the land of her own self-preserving powers ? Most assuredly it is not too late to achieve a reformation ; our hands are not bound, our fret are not put in fetters-and the nation is not so fully set upon destruction as that warning and exertion will be in vain. It is not too much to be hoped that the entire business of the nation,, by land and by sea, shall yet move on without the aid of ardent spirits, and by the impulse alone of temperate freeman. This n'ould cut oft' one of the most fruitful occasions of in- temperance, and give to our morals and to our liberties an earthly immor- tality. The young men of our land may set glorious exampleg of voluntary ah- fitinence from ardent spirits, and, by associations for that purpose, may ar- ^pmperanc.ha;bc^;;fbr;ued;'anK;owI^cS.Slopm^^ %^ ii I 40 down the good example of their firmnes andTndon 7 " "^ '^ ^^"^^"^ of long-established, L corrupting hTbl 'P"''' '" *'^ '^'«''"'^» All the professions too may voluntrer in t\ io u i up it. warning voice, and eacLo centr e t l';^^ «"J,-'^^' ^'^ ample. Already for all clerical meetin^Ie seTf ard nT """ ^""' ^" cd ; and the medical profession have alsoLZf 1 ?'" " '''^"'^■ pect, which, we doubt not, will S l^'^^^'^^^'^"™ - this res- bar, or the agricultural inte est s^epr Lt!r n ' '?"*'' ''''' "'« bo deficient in magnanimity and paS^ i St t"^"^^^' ^^^" per, otuating the liberties of the nation A hi ^^ '"°'''''' ^""^ .ntemperance which no ^nan can nlber^nr a Za L:!^?' ^^"^"!! 'tga.nst it, which nothing can resist ^ " ^^ ""^^^^ They aliUe feef^d de or L tran^^^^^^^^^^ '' r'^" ^P^'^^' Putastoptoit. This^union^mariato: liSdt::^:; 3^^^^ Tf Cloud passing o., and le^g ^ l^eTdr ^^ ^^^" '^^ ^ ^^^ ««dtoavoi;:rv:rappeare7eri':^^^^^^^ demanded in the cL^ memberl^l ^e:?:t":Tdtb;r^^^^^^^ m respect to .ntemperanc. It i. not enough to cut off those w^ "e p^^ reformation, and to keep those who, by close watching, can be pre erv^d m the use of their feet and tongue. Men who are mighty to o„s„me srongdnnk are unfit members of that kingdom which consistethnot^n meat and dnnk," but in " righteousness and peace." The time J" ote'of an't "'T'' t"" ''' "" "'^"^^"^ ^P'"^^ -" ^« proscribcl'b;: vote of a 1 the churches an our land, and when the commerce of that ar^ t.clc shall, equally wUh the slave trade, be regarded as inconsistent w tl . credible profession of Christianity. All this, I have no doubt, can be o! comphshed with far less trouble than is now constantly occasioned by U.e mamtenance, or the neglect of discipline, in respect to cases of intern^ perance. ""cm The Friends, in excluding ardent spirits from the list of lawful arUcIes of commerce, have done themselves immortal honor, and in the temperance* of theirf^^milies, and their thrift in business, have «et an example which U worthy the admiration and imitation of all the churches in our land. When the preceding measures have been carried, something may be don© by legislation, to discourage the distiUaUonand importation of ardent spi- rits, and to discountenance improper modes of vending them. Then, tho syiTrageofUie community may be expected to put in requisition nven ok d destroyer j: 18 by sending the abolition nd each lift 1 blessed ex- its is exclud- n in this res- cted that the 'cieties, will morals, and isted against be arrayed eat ease be dent spirits, ir power to medium of iety is more lappier aus- the entire like a dark io mucJi to the world,. s doubtless il morality w are past 5 preserved o consume teth not in 2 time, we cribml by a "f that ar- tent witji a can be ac- asioned by s of intern- articles of emperanco le which is nd. lay be done ardent spi- Then, the )n men ot 41 talents and integrity, who, sustained by their constituents, will net hesitate to frame tlie requisite laws, and to give to them their salutary power, liven now there may be an amount of suffrage, ciuld it be concentrated and ex- pressed, to sustain laws which might go to limit the evil ; but it is scatter- ed, it is a dispersed, unorganized inHuencc ; and any effort to suppress in- temperance by legislation, now, before the public is prepared for an efficient co-operation, coukl terminate only in defeat. Republics must be prepared by moral sentiment for efficient legislation. Much may be accomplished to discountenance the commerce^ in ar- dent spirits, by a silent, judicious distribution of patronage in trade. Let that portion of the community, who would exile from society the traffick in ardent spirits, bestow their custom upon those who will agree to abandon it ; and a regard to interest will soon produce a competition in well doing. The temperate population of a city or town are the best customers, and have it in their power to render the commerce in ardent ijpirits disad- vantageous to those who engage in it. This would throw an irresistible argument upon the side of reformation. There are many now who Avould gladly be released from the necessity of dealing in spirituous liquors, but they think that their customers would not bear it. Let their sober cus- tomers, then, take off their fears on this hand, and array them on the other, and a glorious reformation is achieved. When the temperate part of the community shall not only dcclaim.against mercantile establisimients which thrive by the dissemination of moral contagion, but shall begin to act with a silent but determined discrimination, the work is done ;— and can any conscientious man fail to make the experiment ? " To him that knoweth to do cood and doeth it not, to him it is sin." If we countenance estab- lishments iu extending and perpetuating a national calamity, arc we not partakers in other men's sins ? How many thousands may be saved from entering into temptation, and how many thousands rescued who have enter- ed, if temperate families will give their custom to tiiose who have aban- doned the traffick in ardent spirits ! And to how mucli crime, and suffer- ing, and blood, shall we be accessary, if we fail to do our duty in this res- pect ! Let every man, then, bestow this custom in the fear of the Lord, and as he exixjcts to give au account with joy or grief, of the improvement or neglect of that powerful means of effecting moral good. When all those preliminary steps have been taken, petitions may be ad- dressed to the Legislatures of the States and to Congress, by all denomina- tions, each under their own proper name, praying for legislative interference to protect the health and morals of the nation. This will call to the subject the attention of the ablest men in the nation, and enable them to touch some of the springs of general action with compendious energy. They can reach tlie causes of disastrous action, when the public sentiment will bear them out in it, and can introduce principles which, like the great laws of nature, will, with Silent simplicity, reform and purify the land. And now, could my voice be extended through the land, to all orders and !paic . uisi Tf albu- men upon Zion'a walls— appointed to announce the approach of danger, and / m \ to My unto the wicked man, " (hou nhalt surely die"-I would ear-^rf ^e hold our peace, or withhold the influence of our exaZe in ZT^ emergency as this, and be gtliltless of blood ? A eTe noTclnrH !" ^^>t;:T'''T: ^"',r«^«' -b«ke,a„dexhort: ™„ Thi. i i ''""^^"* "'°' ^"'^ '^ ''«le for the " stomach's sake " 7h..nthe way in which mdft become drunk.^ds. Our sec^Uy and our e v^rrhoir'^T^^'r ^-^ ^-"^^ ^^«^^-"-- ^^ ----^^^^^^^ lonlH^l ^ ^'"'^"■'^°""=^''""' '* P'°^^« that it has already been too long dalayed, and can safely be deferred no longer wiSl'hUbloritt"'^"' Jes* Christ Ahom he hath purchased «n ms blood, that he might redeem them from all iniquity and nnrlfv ird h ;rf '';r ""^^^^^^-^ -^-^'^ -y-Beio;?: r^t : s ^T Wm v"™tr"'' f intemperance, if professors of religion will not ? W.ll you not, then, abstain from the use of it entirely, and exile it ^ZZ T^rf ""r' ^■^"""' -"'''' overoneanoth/; :! l^n o tXwv 1 r " ; "'' "^''^'^'"^"•^-"' »nd draw tighter the band. Of brotherly disc.phne, and with a more determined fidelity, cutoff those c randTeTrrr"^'''"- ^''P-*^' ^-^hren, beLen the pr" that ho n, ' T '"^ '"'^ '^' ^''^' ^"^ ^"™ '"^^"^^ between them, that the plague may be stayed. ' the''ml7o?:i^!,"%°?' \"' ' ""^' "^ '"^'^^^P' ^"^^''^ '^"-P"'' «ta7 r„H Trt Ik '"'"'^ ^''n-possessirtg our confidence by your skill bine lb .' y— ssiduities in seasons of alarm and distress, com- bine, I beseech you, and exert, systematically and vigorously, the mi.hTr pwer you possess on this subject, over the nationa? undersLnding tj r^r« ^'""\'^^P''^"^'"=^»^««««ds of intemperance in the conrs. of your n^IrnTh" , f"^- '"'"'^'^""^ ^"'^"-•^'^ angels to conduct us n'th" pth of health and of virtue. Fe.r not the consequence of fidelity in admo! TetmL" ofr*'' ?; "' '•""^' '^ intemperance, of the cause, and ,n .Jf 1/ , ""'^'^^ ^ '"'^ ^'^''""^^^ «"^ "^J'^" «»>^H be rejected for your faithfulness, and another be called in to prophecy smooth things let ^llhe intemperate and all the land know, that in the whole nation'lLeL are no false prophets among physicians, who, for filthy lucre, will cry peace to their intemperate patients, when there is no peace to them but reformation. Will you not speak out on this subject in all your medical toc^ties, and provide tracts sanctioned by your high professional authority to be apread over the land ? ' Te magistrates, to whom the law has confided the discretionary power of giTing license for the vending of ardent spirits, and the sword for the pu- Bwhment of the violations of law-though you alone could not resist the burning tide, yet, when the nation is moved with fear, and is putting in re- quwition her energies to strengthen your hands-will you not stand up to -^--w duty, and do it fearlessly and firmly ? No class of men in the com- {(OBsess as much direct oower an vniinnao<.«<. o„j ».u— •_ _, ■ • — J -- 1 ,- "•■•-I, rrijcii ausiaisicd fc ■entiment, your official iafluance wid authority may be made irre. \ V )le in such an lalledupon to we be able to rt? Talk not nach's sake," urity and our tre would re- fady been too th purchased y, and purify the Lord, tlie nake a stand religion will and exile it with keener ter the bands cut off those een the pre- Jtween them, tempt to stay by your skill, istress, com- , the mighty landing and orss of your ict us in the lity in admo- e cause, and ! rejected for 1 things, let nation there re, will cry to them, but our medical nal authority iry power of i for the pu- ot resist the itting in re- i stand up to in the com- ■Ti sustuiricd Bmade irre> •Istlble. Remember, then, yotir designation by Heaven to office for thif •elf-iame thing -, — and, as you would maintain a conscience void of offence and give up to God a joyful account— be faithful. Through you let the vio- lated law speak out— and righteousness and peace become the stability of our times. To the governments of the states and of the nation, appointed to see to it, " that the commonwealth receives no detriment," while they fa- cilitate and glide the energies of a free people, and protect the boundless results of industry— I would say— Beloved men and highly honored, how ample and how enviable arc your opportunities of d. ing good— and how trivial, and contemptible, and momentary, are the results of civil policy merely, while moral principle, that main-spring of the aoul, is impaired and destroyed by crime. Under the auspices of the national and state govern- ments, science, commerce, agriculture and the arts flourish, and our wealth flows in like the waves of the sea. But where is the wisdom of filling up by a thousand streams the reservoir of national wealth, to be poured out again by as many channels of profusion and crime '.' Colleges are reared and multiplied by public munificence, while academies and common schools enlighten the land. But to what purpose— when a single crime sends up exhalations enough to eclipse half the stars and suns destined to enlighten our moral hemisphere, before they have reached their meridian. The medical profession is patronised, and ought to be ; and the standard of medical attainment is rising. But a single crime, unresisted, throws into the distance all the achievements of art, and multiplies disease and dea^, much faster than the improvements in medical science can multiply the means of preventing them. The improvements by steam and by canals augment the facilities and the motives to national industry. But, wiiile intemperance rages and increas-- 68, it is only to pour the tide of wealth into one mighty vortex which swal- lows it up, and, with a voice of thunder, and the insatiable desire of the grave, cries, Give, give ; and saith not, it is enough. Republican institutions are guaranteed to the states, and the whole na- tion watches with sleepless vigilance the altar of liberty. But a mighty des- pot, whose army is legion, has invaded the land— carrying in his course taxation, and chains, and fire, and the rack— insomuch that the whole land bleeds and groans at every step of his iron foot— at every movement of his massy sceptre— at every pulsation of his relentless heart. And yet in day- light and at midnight he stalks unmolested— while hi.s myrmidons with in- fernal joy are preparing an ocean of blood in which our sun may set never to rise. The friends of the Lord and his Christ, with laudable enterprise, are rearing temples to Jehovah, and extending his word and ordinances through the land, while the irreligious influenccof a single crime balances, or near- ly balances, the entire account. And now, ye venerable and honorable men, raised to seats of legislation «*4MifAAf ar in a nauon v.nicn is inc ifccsi, ;ii:u 13 ucamscu may become the happiest upon earth— can you, will yoa behold aomorcd 1 U »he march oftbk mighty evil? Shall it mine in darkness, and lift fearlessly .ts giant form .„ daylight-anddel-beratcly dig the grave of ou li^^er ,.« ^ and entomb the last hope of enslaved nnt.ons-and n'othi^g be o e t" li^ e h:S::r""7"'?^ aeBtroyerMVUh t^ coLurrenraidVa JeSt^on n "' ' '■"' '""'" *''« P°"^^ ''^ »"««» efficacious es 0^,;; 1 1 ■ fr""" -•'^ -«-"-•• yo" of all men possess the til .7^°'/""'*'"' "^ ^""»'"y '-i correct .-ul irresistible public sentiment on Hte 1 . ov„. and to ro,. ,own to d.stunt ages, broader and deeper, and pu- ness !v ' " ' '''''''"''■ '''''' "^ ^^ -^«- ^^■'■-'"'» ^-l «'n.. ^^^.^^^ , your own e.ampte, and, " as .u duty bound, we will eve. of our land, 1 would Hay-}fope. of the nation, blessed be ye ofthe Lord now mthe dew of your youth. «ut look well to your footsteps fo vine' and scorpions, and adders, surround your way-loik at the ge'e^^^^^^^^^ a::fdlTrHt;.'°"'-^'^'"^';"'"^' ^''''''- '^^ -cLdless 1: ^.x5!l::^dC^^ ■,.,i,;„i, u t,rjvt. in,it IS a sister, weeping over ovil« wichshe cannot arrest-and there is the broken-hearted wife-aul there aethecluldren-haplcss iunocents-for whom their father has ^ro ided he mhentance only of dishonor, and nakedness, and wo. And is this be yo:trold r"' ''' 'T' "'-^""^ ^""^^^-^" ''' --« of desolat! , ; you benold the image ol your future selves-is this the poverty and disease wh h as an armed man shall take hold on you-and are your fathers and mothers, and sisters, and wives, and children, to succeed to toe ho now move on m thi.. mournful procession-weeping as they go 1 Ye-Llt a" your morning now opens, and high as your hopes be^Us th s Iv ^ and your night, unless you shu.rthose'habits if inte:^; U^ ^ ^C quent places of evemng resort for social drinking-if you set out w th tn^Z:^:^. ''•'"-^^^'- --'""- ^^ ^.ouLv:i;:i:" Jltic-lTouuf'' „" -'"'^ «^-l^-ss-to the young husbandman or Tr^W , u ^"^"^''Py man-your employment is Useful and ha rtdrable,and with- temperance and. industry yeu rise to comnetp'nl t gone. What would te.pt you t<;e^ange ^Z^fla^T'^^ ift rcarlesaly ' liberties- one by the nt aid ol'an efficacious possess the ;ntiment on and cxtir- ler, aiul pu- 1 and fipm- 3 will evei oung men "the Lord for vipers, ation who ess, and it Ml, enfec- ith halting ipects are- own re- ul, and to ;es. And s and sa- il airs are ver evile nd tliere provided this be- ation, do 1 disease ers, and tvlio now t)riglit as ir noon, ch have 'ou fre- lut with lich, at iman or and ho- ce, and is lega- ) were ce, are lure as seed-time and harvest, if you drink daily, at stated times, and visit from evening to evening the resorta of social drinking, or stop to take refresh- ment as you enter or retire from the city, town or Tillage, yours will become the condition of those ruined farmers and artisans around you. To another I would say — You are a man of wealth, and may drink to th« extinction of life, without the risk of impoverishment— but look at your neighbour, his bloated face, and inflamed eye, an J blistered lip, and trem- bling hand, he too is a man of wealth, and may die of intemperance witliout the fear of poverty. Do you demand, '' what have I to do with such examples ?" Nothing — if you take warning by them. But if you too should cleave to the morning bitter, and the noon-tide dram, and the evening beverage, you have in these signals of ruin the memorials of your own miserable end ; for the- same causes, in the same circumstances, will produce the same effectis. To the affectionate husband 1 would say — Behold the wife of thy bosom young and beautiful as the morning — and yet her day may be overcast with clouds, and all thy early hopes be blasted. Upon her the fell destroyer may lay his hand, and plant in thathealthful frame the seeds of disease, and transmit to successive generations the inheritance of crime and wo. Will you not watch over her with ever-wakeful affection, and keep far from your abode the occasions of temptation and ruin ? Call around you the circle ol your healthful and beautiful children. Will you bring contagion into such a circle as this ? Shall those sparkling eyes become inflamed, those rosy cheeks purpled and bloated, that sweet breath be tainted*-those ruby lip» blistered, and that vital tone of unceasing cheerfulness be turned into tre- mour and melancholy ? Shall those joints so compact be unstrung, that dawning intellect be clouded, those affectionate sensibilities benumbed, and those capacities for holiness and heaven be filled with sin, and " fitted for destruction ?" Oh thou father, was it for this that the son of God shed his blood for thy precious offspring, that, abandoned and even tempted by thee, they should destroy themselves, and pierce thy heart with many sor- rows .' Wouldst thou let the wolf into thy sheep-fold among the tender lambs, wouldst thou send thy flock to graze about a den of lions ? Close, then, tfiy doors against a more ferocious destroyer, and withhold the foot- isteps of thy immortal progeny from places of resort more dangerous than the lion's den. Should a serpent of vast dimensions surprise in tho field one of your little group-, and wreath about his body his cold, elastic folds, tightening with every yieldihg breath his deadly gripe, how would his cries pierce your soul, and his strained eye-balls, and convulsive agonies, and imploring hands, add wings to your feet, and supernatural strength to your arms ! But in this case you could approach with hope to his rescue. The keen edge of steel might sunder the elastic fold, and rescue the victim, who, tiie moment he is released, breathes freely, and is well again. But the serpent intemperance twines about the body of your child a deadlier gripe and extorts a keener cry of distress, and mocks your effort to relieve hirabv a fibre which no, steel can sunder. Like Laocooa, you cau only <=HJesyour desti.., rurcvcr. As you dccH ""'' '' ^'" °"^ ^^-hde- tinned indulgence, so n..y,ou7ont ' ."T,"'"" "'^""^"^^^ ^ '^^H" He«olve also instantly to oxclucb atloTt .^'Z^'^""^''' »'-« ^"d eternity. "'•«i?'.t the n>en.oriaL of ^a t S,!" , '' "." ^"^ '"""'>' ^'^ P"^ -^ I^^^--^^ you retain ardent sn \^i '] ^'"^^''■- ^"'^ ''" '""'• '"'^'^icinal pur- -;;iabeiied. " T..., .:;:Z:: ^ ^ ^:: ^ ^— , oth. drSg, --t spirits LVnla:^! n t iroTc^d'^/r ''^'""^ '''''^^^^' "^ ond thee cut it off. If thy rilht ovf J^ , ^ '^"'' "'^^^'^ '''g''* ^'^"d of- of loss and g.in, for wha e ^ Jertrt ^^7' P'^'-^ -^' ' Talk not ^'■all itproiit a n,a„, if he ZZZu^^ n "' "' '^"^^ ' ""'^ '- -'^^^ •' ^Vo to hin, thatc^veteth r ev^^ ' ^"'^'^ ""'^ ^"^'^ ^^'^ °^^" ««"1 '" -t his nest on hi,h, U^Jit^^t ^^:Z::^'' '^"^^' ^^" ^^ ™^> ^. hast consulted shame to thy house c„nt P"^ver ofevil ! Thou =»?ainst thy soul. Fo, the s*o„e li^ ^^ """'' ''''''''' ^"'' '"^^ «-"-l outofthetin.hcrshail as"; e Wo7 T' '?" "^"' '^"'^ '^« ^-- blood-andetablishcthacity I,; iLul bh""^ i '"'"'''' *°"" "^^'^ hosts that the people shainalfor"h?verv fie ' T ^ "^'^''^'^ ''''' "^ ry themselves for very vamty ?" "^ ' """"^ '^'^ P'«P^° shall wea- evil may not iLen unp o'e d LsTon' ''"' '"' '" '^^^'""'- ''^^''^' household, andthat.iLne .l/n: IS '^^ '^"^ °^>«"^ ^rive the lia^ely warninc. Thousands /v. ^"^"■' '""''''■• '"^J'' ^'"' destruction, l.y the sinr;ieX^':^^rLs^^^ '''''''''' ^-- perance. And, "^ "'^^ '^"^ symptoms of intern- .ne:r::^:;r;jr::::nufT""'"^°"^^'"'^'^^ ^-^«- ^-e.. throughout the whole oreofCi"" " ^'"" -'^"hborhood, and afi-eetionato, determmedtllrmrVt tr^^^^^ '"""^r^' ^ '^"'"^'^' symptoms, evik, and remedJTn . P"'P"'° *''"^ *he causes, • little volume be eft Iw" V K ''""'' ''"'' '^^" '^'^^^^^^^ i^ thij . hut if every on 1 app v ^tT'.r'f ^'"^ '"'' '''^^^' ^« '-^ : ruin. ^ ^' ^'^ '"^'^ '"'^^'O"' from temporal and eternal ^ i is agonlca are iges, r would ou close the sh, and your rsuaded, not 10 which de- lice, or con- ic! eternity. , and put out Jicinal pur- thcr drugs, ip your last } traffick in it hand of- Talk not nd '•• what tn soul 7" at he may vil ! Thou ast sinned the beam own with liord of liall wea- rancc bo dreadful ' of your nay, and ck from f intern- benevo- od, ami' bumble, causes, if this e land ; find a eternal ::0 desira im ID' eCQWQ