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 ' Sb.u.'beziacadie, Sept- 18, 1837, 
 
 And, loith his permission, published hj Mayflower Lodge, I.O.G.T, 
 
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 ' ' When thou buildest a new house then thou shalt make a battlement 
 for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall 
 from thence." — Deut. xxii. 8. 
 
 "It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor anything • 
 whereby thy larother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak." — Rom. 
 xiv. 21. 
 
 A battlemei 1 1 What is that 1 For thy roof ? W!iy for the 
 roof 1 Old IVstainent houses were built very differently from what 
 ours are. Instead of being as ours are, tliere was an open square 
 or court in the centre, open to the sun and rain of heaven, and 
 around this court the house was built. It was generallv rather 
 narrow, and was built of stone, brick or mud, one storey high. 
 The better class had a room for strangers, built on the top of the .' 
 house at one corner^ and was called the " prophet's chamber on the 
 wall." The roof was flat, and was covered with cement or bitu- 
 n)en to make it shed the rain. During the heat of the day the ' 
 people sat in the f pen court in the shade of the wall, with an 
 awning overhead., ]}ut in the cool of the day they spent most of 
 the time on the roof. Travellers tell us that even at the present 
 day the people sleep on the roof with an awning over them for 
 protection. As a matter of safety we have the direction of the 
 text " to build a battlement for thy roof," which, according to 
 Jewish law, was >to be three feet and a half high. 1'he meaning 
 of this battlement or railing i^ now clear. It was for safett/, to 
 prevent accidents. No one could fall from the roof of the house, 
 unless they did it on purpose. 
 
 Our text is of wide application. " When thou buildest a new 
 house," etc. Whe'n founding a new home surround it with such 
 
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 (iefences as will proservo life and happiness. Put around your 
 homo the battlement of faith, secret prayer, family worship, church 
 attendance, liible instruction, purity, honssty, temperance, «tc. 
 To-day let us read our text in this way : " When thou l)uildest a 
 iiow house thou shalt put the battlement of temperance anmnd 
 it," etc. 
 
 I. Let us look at the effect of alcohol upon the individiial — 
 upon the health. I think we may take it for j^ranted that alcohol 
 has its own medicinal properties, just as well as any other drug. I 
 do not go so far as some, who say that if every drop of alcohol in 
 the universe were destroyed medicine would get along just as well 
 without it That may be true or not. It is not for me to dt'cide. 
 Hut we wish to look at the effect of alcohol as a beverage on tlie 
 health. It shortens life. One of the largest insurance conijjanies in 
 the world has paid special attention to temperance for a period of 
 seventeen years. They divided the persons insuring into two classes : 
 (1) Those who were total abstainers ; (2) moderate drinkers. Cal- 
 culating by the general insurance statistics, laws and experience, they 
 exi)ected that 2,644 temperance persons would die in these seven- 
 teen years, but actually only 1,8G1 died, thus leaving the large nund^er 
 of 783 to the good. Of the moderate drinkers they expected that 
 4,408 would die in those seventeen years, but the actual deaths were 
 4,339, or, in other words, all died except 69. The actual deaths 
 of abstainers was 70% of expected deaths ; moderate drinkers, 
 100%. This fact, proved by a disinterested insurance; company, 
 speaks ^ olumes for tempmance. The same company gives the 
 following computati<ms : 
 
 Total abstainer at 20 years old has chance to live till 64 
 
 Moderate drinker at 20 „ » „ 35^ 
 
 Gain in years 28J 
 
 Total abstainer at 30 years old has chance to live to 64^ 
 
 Moderate drinker at 30 n n i 44| 
 
 Gain in years 19f 
 
 Total abstainer at 40 years old has chance to live till G8f 
 
 Moderate drinker at 40 m h n 51| 
 
 * Gain in years 17 
 
 Probably no business on the face of the earth is so mathe- 
 matically correct as the insurance business. Its figures are not 
 made up in the interest of any church, creed or party. They are 
 not the result of what some persons sneeringly call " temperance 
 fanaticism," but simply from stern, cold, hard business calculation. 
 " Whenthou buildest a new home" put the parajjct of temperance 
 aroundit, as it will give the length of days. Surely it is not 
 ])utting it too strong to say, " In her right hand there is length of 
 days, and in her left riches and honour." 
 
 Look at the action of alcohol upon the vital organs of the 
 
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 human body. Take, for example, its action on the heart. The 
 human boily is the grflndest example of skill and design that God 
 has created in the universe. Look at the heart. It is a pump that 
 never stops. Stroke after stroke it goes on, from the hour of birth 
 till the hour of death. It pumps the blood through the large 
 arteries to the extremities — to the head, the hngers, the toes. The 
 blood is pushed along by the force-pump of the heart, and has to 
 come back through the innumerable small veins till it rejiches the 
 heart ami lungs, again when the same process is repeated over and 
 over again, (svery hour and day of your lives. 
 
 Here is an experiment wliich all can verify for themselves. 
 You can ctjunt the heats uf your own pulse per minute. Scientists 
 state that the tiverage beat of the pulse per minute, is 60 when 
 lying in bijd asleep, 70 when at regular work, and 80 when engaged 
 in running or vioh-nt exercise. See the provision (iod has made 
 to give the heart a rest. The average beat per minute is 70, but if 
 asleep it is only 60. In other wonls, the heart rests when sleeping 
 to tlie extent of ten beats. The average number of beats per hour 
 is -1,200, but if asieei* it is t»nly 3,600 ; that is, the heart rests to 
 the extent of 600 beats every hour you sleep. The average num- 
 ber of beats per day is 100,800, but if you slept for the twenty- 
 four hours it would be (»idy 86,400 ; that is, the heart would rest 
 to the extent of 14,400 beats per day. 
 
 Now at (iach beat tin; heart pnm[)s out 2i ozs. of blood, that 
 is, the heart has to lift up and iiump out 17;") ozs. of hlootl per 
 minute, but if asleep it only has to pump l.')0 ozs. It rests to the 
 extent of iT) .ozs. per minute. Every noun it pum|)s 6J6 lbs. of 
 blood, but if asleep it only has to pump r)63 lbs. ; that is, it rests 
 Avhi-n asleep to the extent of 1)3 lbs, Ev(!ry DAY it pumi)s seven 
 tons of blood, but if asleep for the twi;Mty-four hours it would only 
 pump six tons j that is, the lujart would rest to the extent of not 
 having to lift up and i)uni[) (tut a ton oi blood every twcmty-four 
 hours. 
 
 What action has alcidiol on tlie heart ] It increases largely 
 the nuud)er of pulsations. fhe celebratcil Dr. Kicliardson is the 
 authority for the statement that four ounces of alcoliol per day will 
 increasu the action of the heirt so much that it will have to lift an 
 extra ton weight during the; twenty-four hours, (lod has arranged 
 that tlu! heart should rest by sleeping, but alc(»liol, with a task- 
 master's whi[), lays on extra burdiuis. Tiie man who takes alcoliol 
 to any extent cannot get the r.^st from sleej) which (rod intended. 
 lie rises in the morning wt'ary and tired and sore. And no wonder, 
 for the heart, instead of loirig less work tlian usual, has to beat 
 faster and do ni>)re work. In a word, alcoliol burns out the 
 candle tjf life at iioth ends. " When thou buildest a mnv house," 
 etc (iod has maile yiuir body like the choicest temple in all 
 cr4;ation. Put up a battlement against alcohol, which can enter in 
 oidy to iilast, ruin, ilet'ace and destroy. 
 
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 Need we stop to consider the disastrous effect of alcohol as a 
 beverage on all the other vital organs of the human system 1 We 
 will ni t, for thousands of the greatest physicians of the age liuve 
 given their testimony against it in the most unmistakable words. 
 Wo pass on to notice 
 
 II. Its eliect upon the home and community. The infiuenco 
 of intemperance upon the community and home is bad, and only 
 bad. The saloon is a constant menace and curse to the community. 
 '• It takes the wages of the workers and gives them poisoning, 
 maddening drink in return. It provides no food for their bodies, 
 no medicine for their sickness, no comfort for their alHiction, no 
 hope to cheer their dark days, no peaceful retreat in old age, no 
 loving care for them in declining years. It gives tiiem drink, 
 makes them drunken, takes their money, and when they are too 
 sick to work and too poor to pay it hands them over to the cold 
 charity of the world." The saloon is u manufactory. If you go 
 into a piano manufactory and ask for ;i finished product they will 
 show you a finely finislied piuno. The saloon is a manufactory. 
 If you ask it to show you a finished product it can only point you 
 to a drunkard as its masterpiece. The logical outcome of the 
 saloon is drunk enn(3ss. Set up a saloon, and, sure as the laws of 
 gravitation, its tendency is to drag everything down around it. If 
 then, you would keep the community and home .safe, put the 
 battlement of temperance around them. 
 
 III. Lot us look at our subject from a national standpoint. 
 Rev. Newman Hall, speaking in Exeter Hall, London, lately, on 
 the causes of the present distress among the poor, says there is 
 great poverty with insufficient fooil. Vet there is pleifty of bread 
 and money, but the money is spent for that which is not l)read. 
 The drink bill of (ireat iJritain for 1885 was $625,000,000, a sum 
 e(|ual to the amount spent in bread, butter and cheese. More than 
 the rental of all the houses and farms and all the coal used for 
 house puri)oses in (ireat Britain was spent for drink. Men talk of 
 the rents in the old country, and so well they may, but give me 
 ilie money spent f( • drink and I will pay for the rents of all city 
 buildings and rent of all the farms and the coal besides. The 
 drink bill cost $150,000,000 more than the (;ntire outlay of the 
 government for the nation. One month's drink bill will etjual all 
 the expenses for England's national school system and all her chari- 
 ties. Ten days' expenditure etpials that for foreign missions. $85 
 per year is the average cost to isach family for drink, and $20 per 
 year for each individual. More than a thoussnd million gallons of 
 wine, beer and li(iuor are used annually. 
 
 Out of $60,000 paid in one week by one ship-building firm on 
 the Clyde for wages, $20,000 was spent in drink The grain 
 tlestroyetl as food in making all this drink in (Jreat Britain, if 
 made into four-jjound loaves, wonld pave a road 30 feet wide from 
 Halifax to Liverpool, or from Halifax to Winnipeg ; and the grain* 
 
tlestroyeil in nritain, ('aniidji atul tin? UtiitcMl Statns would inaki' 
 loavos (Uiou^h to pave a road 40 foct widr fioiii Halifax to l>ritisli 
 (Columbia. In ('unada the \vaat<! is simply enorninus We speak 
 about the war in tin? Xortli-West as costinj^ nearly $6,00(),0(K), and 
 we wax very patriotic over it, but we should hang our heads in 
 shame when we think that ^30,000,000 is spent each year for 
 <lrink in Canada. In that same war a lew score of soldiers were 
 killed. They Were buried with national honors. Cities vied with 
 each other in doinj; honor to the fallen lienK's. Hands played 
 "The Dead March in Saul," and the thousands of fellow s<»ldiers 
 tired farewell shots o'er the {graves of the heroes when buried. 
 Hut what a contrast l)etween them and the 10,000 ('anadians wh<» 
 <,'o down in silence, shame and disj^race to a drunkanl's >;nive and 
 tloom each y(!ar. We speak of Canada's national delit as j^n-at, and 
 80 it is, but if you <(ive me the money spent in drink — .f 470,000,000 
 since Confederation — I will pay all the national debt twice ovim". 
 
 IJut this (Question not only concerns th(< nnfioiinl, f/rnM/irriff/ of 
 our land, but it enters into i>rnctic(il /lo/ifir.'t. .ludging Ity tlie 
 tendency of affairs at present in all Kii;,'lisli-speaking lands, it 
 would seem as if in the near future we would have universal suf- 
 frage, that is^ every man wh(» jtays his propcirtioii of taxes, whether 
 rich or poor, will hav(! an cijual riglit to v<tto. The Cnited State.N 
 have it already, ami in our Dominion we are drifting V(M-y rapidly 
 in that direction. Now theoretically this may be all right, but 
 practically it is fouml sonietimes to be all wrong. If iill were 
 intelligent and sober, and t(t()k a hearty interest in the welfare of 
 our land, the result would be all right, but, as it is, there is great 
 danger. In t4ie United States the salo(»n o|)enly boasts (tf con- 
 trolling 2,000,000 voters— in other words, 2,000,000 can be liought 
 on election day with a bottliM)f rum — and these, led by Anarchists, 
 Socialists, in the near future may i)ro(luce untold ruin, shame and 
 disaster. In eight of the largest cities th<! mob controls the 
 election, and elect whom they phrase, llc^fore <»ur fair and beloved 
 land reaches this stage let us \)\'t the battlement of tempi^rance and 
 prohibition aroijnd it. 
 
 We have considiMed the bearing of temperance upon health 
 antl long life, upon the home and the comnmnity, upon the national 
 prosperity and the practical politics of our land. We must now 
 look at its 
 
 IV. Hkaking upo.\ ouiwklvks A.S Ciiiu.sTiANH. Ill INunaiis 
 xiv. 20 the Apostle lays ilown a wide and far-n^aching principle, 
 applicable not only to that age but to all ages. JI(! says: " It is 
 goinl neither to <'at ih'sh, nor drink wine, whereby thy brother 
 stumbleth, is oll'eiwled or made weak." So cautious and conservative 
 a commentator as I)r. ('harles Ilo»lge, of Princeton, interprets this 
 passage as follows: "That is, abstaining from iit^sh, wine, or any- 
 thing else which is injurious to our brethren is right, that is, is 
 morally binding and obligatory." In other word.i, we ai-e to be 
 
^illiii;; to },'Jv<' u|) a needless luxury or self-indulgence in order tor 
 help 1m save utliers from a fearful curse, Paul in his epistle to the 
 chunli at Corinth, when s|»eaking of meats otlered to idols, lays 
 down the same j,'reat j)riiiciplo : " If meat make my hrother to 
 olVi'iid I will eat no meat while the world standeth." Things which 
 iirt' lint sinful in themselves should \w givc^n up cheerfully for the 
 sjiuiliial welfan; of ttthers. The legal liberty of any man or woman 
 sliouhl never he exercised when evil is likeiy to flow from such an 
 action. Ivspecially an! we not to eiK.-ourage any social usage which 
 tends to the physi(';il and spiritual destruction of those; "for whom 
 (,'hrisl died." Take an illustration. Suppose that .1.,!}. (Jough 
 weiH! still living, and you were well ac([uainted with all his hist(»ry. 
 Yitii knew him wIumi he was a common street drunkard. You 
 know how easily the old tirehrand of drink would he kindled in 
 him. You know how strong a hold drink had on -Isis system. 
 You know that for nearly all his reformed life he dared not for his 
 lil'e taste a siiiLjIe drop of liquor, even at the table of the Lord. 
 Knowing all this, even though you take a glass yourself, yet wotdd 
 you not hesitate to uig(! him to drink? Would you not say: 
 '' (lod forbid liiat I should be a stuiiililing block over which he will 
 trip into perdition ; I will not make him to stumiilc and fill a 
 drunkartl's grave ]" 
 
 (Iranting that you had a right to drink a glasH, even though 
 you had no fear of it ever bringing you to ruin and disgrace, yet is 
 it not b(!st for you to abstain for the sake of yourself and family 
 and friends'? I read not long ago that at a temperance meeting, 
 after a great many had s|)oken favor (»f it, a very [)o^ular clergy- 
 Jiian got up and (tppitsed all that was said. Fie raved against 
 temperance fanatics, as he called them. He said he drank wine, 
 had it on his table, ami always would drink it an<l give it to his 
 friends. Then an old m;in, grey-haired and tottering, got up and 
 saitl : I know a young man. He is fast going down to a drunkard's 
 grave. He led his class in college, and graduated with the highest 
 hnnois, hut he is ruined now. When I nrg(! him to give up the 
 wine eu}) he always pleads the example of a certain* po[)nlar cler- 
 gyman. He says that while that miiiist(>r can take his glass and 
 defend it he will do the same, (ientlemen, that poor drunkeii boy 
 is my only son, ami the person at wh(»se table he first drank, and 
 whdse evil example he is following, is the person' who has last 
 spoken." Abstain for the saki; of others. It' you drink one glass 
 a year your name will be (pioted in favor of drinking custt)ms. I 
 was struck witii what I read last autumn about ei>dit of the most 
 proiiiiiuMit preachers of Edinburgh and (llasgow. Tln^y came out 
 l)ul)licly in their pulpits and s.iid : " AVe have signed the jiledge." 
 They said they could not iutluencii fhe crowds of drunken men and 
 Women that throng the streets Saturday night. If you want to 
 see crowds of drunken ])eoplt! go to the old, old historic streets of 
 Edinburgh and (Jlasgow Salunlay night. Nearly every man. 
 
Xvoinaii aii*l child yuii nroet is diuiik. Tlioso niinistors, wliilc tlicy 
 ilniiik anything,' at all tlicinsclvt's, had no iiiHu('ii(!(! whatever on 
 thcso drunken people. They \void<l I'O told when pleading' with 
 those drunkards to *' stop diinkin-; yourselves, and take it off your 
 own tables tirst, and then wlicn you have done that come to us and 
 we will listen t(» you." 
 
 Abstain for the sake of others, for^tlie .sike of your fandly, 
 for the sake of youro.vn boys. You know not where they may 
 yet be; how many thousand unhss awav from h(»me. Then let the 
 li(»me example bo true and ^'oo<l. Let Us set in our homes sueh an 
 exam[)le bet"|ire <n«r children that^ when thousands of miles away, 
 in the midst of the most terrilthi temptation, the cables of home 
 trainiu}^ shalt hold them safe, and they sItmII be Rtron>; in advance 
 of their period of trial. And not only d«» I ask you to be an 
 ul)stainer, but also a worker in the cause. 'J'emperance sentiment 
 is now a " <,'reat tidal wave anionj,' the nations." In the neij,di- 
 boring republic the followin<,' States, viz. : Alabama, Connecticut, 
 Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mas.^achusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, ()re;.^fon, 
 Pennsylvania, Tennessee?, Vermont, Wiscnfisin, Washini^'ton Terri- 
 tory, and Missouri have passed laws niakinj^ ** ScicMitific Temperance 
 Instruction" ^Compulsory in all public schools. The nund)er of 
 States and counties that have ])assed local option laws is le;.fi(>n. 
 There has been more progress in temperance laws in the States 
 during the last three years than in any thirty years of its instory. 
 
 Finally, not only is temperance lieneti<!ial to hejilth and long 
 life, to the home and community, to national j)rosperity and prac- 
 tical politics, *>iut it is also one of the. foimddtioii dones of the 
 heavenlij city Siove. Not long ago, wlien reading Rev. xxi. 20, in 
 a short paper by Canon Will)erforce, I was surprised to learn the 
 literal meaning of the word amethyst. " And the twelfth was an 
 amethyst." Iti)ccurs as a jiart of the description of the lioly city, 
 the New Jerusalem, which John saw coming down from Ciod, ])re- 
 pared as a bride adorned for her husband. I need not go over the 
 whole description. I will only state one point and leave you to 
 think it out for ^ourselves. The city whose streets are ])aved with 
 gold and whose walls are of jaspf'r, and which needs not the light 
 of the sun or the moon, is supported upon twelve foundations 
 which aie twelve precious stones. " And the twelfth an amethyst.'* 
 I am not giving a^anciful meaning, but the strictest, sternest and 
 most literal meaning of the word, when I say it comes from two 
 Greek words, *' sw" meaning " not," and " metliustos " meaning 
 "strong drink." The literal meaning of ametfiyst is '• abstinenc(i 
 from strong drink." That is the twelftli regenerating principle 
 upon which, as up<$n a foundation stone, the New Jerusalem above 
 is built is " a])stinence from strong drink." And surely it must be 
 so if there is to be no more death or sorrow or pain or tears tbere. 
 How manifestly true and plain to the dullest comprehension that 
 one of its foundation stones must be the victory over strong drink, 
 
 'If; 
 
which Ims ono million Kn^Iii^li-Bpeaking victims bouiul as slaves to 
 its cluiriot whooln, jiiul which y«'arly britigs down to a drunkard's 
 grave and (h)om onu iiundred and tifty thousand Kngiish-npeaking 
 men and women for whom C^irist died and for whom the foUowovs 
 of (y'luist ixvii in u larj^o moai^^ro respomiiblo. '* No <lrunkard shall 
 inh(!rit tho kingdom of hoawn." No strong drink there. 
 
 I^'t UH, therefore, \)o htlyxiVA in this great work. The ciiurch 
 of (fod should lead in thi8''great work of refornj. It should take 
 its pl)i(;c in the front rank of the battle line, and not away back in 
 the rear among the baggaga The churches of Christ are lieginning 
 to wake u[) to their duty. |They all give no uncertain so|nd. The 
 ^public opinion on this snl)|bct is ra[)idly changing. Thd world is 
 iMjginning to realizcj that tUt! drink tratHc is directly ant<^onistic to 
 the spirit and teaching of Christ. It antagonizes health and 
 home, the school and church, prosperity and politics, ^ commu- 
 nity and nation. p, >' ' 
 
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