8 INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 was spent in one year. The great city of New York was 
 favored, in 1870, with 7,000 licensed drinking saloons, and 
 spent for intoxicating drinks the modest sum of $60,000,000, 
 having 35,000 persons engaged in the liquor traffic. At the 
 same time she had 475 churches and chapels, and 3,000 persons 
 engaged in preaching the various gospels and teaching the 
 public and private schools, at a cost of only $4,500,000 for 
 both religious and secular education. 
 
 It is estimated that there are "400,000 more persons 
 engaged in the liquor business in the United States than in 
 school teaching and preaching the various gospels;" that 
 said business is making, annually, "50,000 confirmed drunk- 
 ards;" that it is "sending to prisons 100,000 annually;" 
 that by it "200,000 children are annually reduced to want;" 
 that every year it "sends 150,000 persons to drunkards' 
 graves;" that it is costing this nation a yearly expenditure of 
 "$1,500,000,000," which might be spent for many better pur- 
 poses ; that it is converting millions upon millions of bushels 
 of grain, which God has given us for food for man and beast, 
 into beverages which inebriate, corrupt and destroy ; and that 
 it is the primal cause of a vast amount of the crime, poverty 
 and misery with which this nation is afflicted. 
 
 Again we ask, does it pay financially ? No ! verily no ! 
 
 A BILLION AND A HALF OP CASH ! 
 
 It is easy to speak the words, but who can conceive the large 
 amount expressed by those words? And who can count that 
 large number? Where is the boy who will live long enough 
 to do so? 
 
 Could a boy commence counting with his first breath, and 
 continue doing so, at the rate of one a second, 1 2 hours a 
 day, 365 days a year, for 95 years, he would then find that 
 his task was hardly finished. 
 
 Such a sum of money would be sufficient to gather 15,000,. 
 000 of Israel, at $100 each, to the present gathering places 
 of the Saints of Grod. And, be it remembered, this large 
 sum is simply the estimated expenditure of the United 
 States for intoxicants for one year. 
 
 Again, does it pay individually? Does it pay the nation? 
 Do the broken hearts, the blighted homes, the squalid pov- 
 
EXCUSES FOR DRINKING. 9 
 
 erty, the untold misery, and the almost incredible amount of 
 crime committed in this "Christian land, where men oft kneel 
 and pray," bring any commensurate returns for such an 
 enormous outlay? Verily, no! It is a bad investment, 
 individually and collectively, socially and morally, financially 
 and politically, religiously and eternally. 
 
 WHY DO MEN DRINK? 
 
 Numerous are the reasons assigned, and excuses furnished. 
 We once saw an alphabetical list of reasons, and have forgot- 
 ten them in form, but remember some of their substance. 
 One drinks to warm him in cold weather, and another to cool 
 him in warm weather. One because he has a pain in the 
 head, another because he has a pain in the back ; and others 
 because they have pains elsewhere. One because the doctor 
 recommends it, another because he does not, and he believes 
 a little would do him good. One because he is married, 
 another because he is divorced. One because he is going on 
 a journey, another because he is just returning from one. 
 One because he is parting with his friend who is going to a 
 foreign clime, another because his friend is just returned 
 from abroad. One because he is filled with joy, another 
 because he has much sorrow. One because he likes to be 
 sociable with his friends, another because he has not a friend 
 in the world. One because he is successful and happy, 
 another because he is unsuccessful and miserable. One 
 because he is sick, another to prevent sickness. One because 
 his uncle died and left him a legacy, another because his aunt 
 died and didn't leave him one. And so on. Thus reasons 
 and excuses might be furnished at great length. But these 
 are easily disposed of, and are as nothing compared with the 
 reason, "because I love it!" For this will prompt a man to 
 barter property, self-respect, reputation and the authority 
 and favor of heaven to obtain gratification. And what is the 
 sequel ? 
 
 WHAT PROPERTIES HAVE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES? 
 
 They stimulate and use up nervous power, and, after their 
 action, leave the system less powerful than before. 
 Are they medicinal ? 
 
BANCROFT 
 LIBRARY 
 
 o- 
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
INTEMPERANCE: 
 
 AN 
 
 PPEAL TO THE YOUTH OF 
 
 THE FOLLY OF IIRUNKEXXKSS AND THE NOBILITY 
 OF A TEMPERATE LIFE COMPARED. 
 
 X THAT TELL A PEARPrL HTOR 
 
 EXAMPLES FROM REAL LIFE. 
 
 Instructor Oilic'o. 
 
 L.A.KIEl OIT-^T, TJTA.H- 
 1881. 
 
 
INTEMPERANCE; 
 
 AN APPEAL TO THE YOUTH OF ZION. 
 
 THE FOLLY OF DRUNKENNESS AND THE NOBILITY OF A 
 TEMPERATE LIFE COMPARED. 
 
 DURING the past few years we have observed, with much 
 regret and apprehension, the gradual growth of the 
 pernicious habit of tippling. 
 
 Some of the male youths of our community are pouring 
 down their throats an "enemy which is stealing away their 
 brains," and thereby unfitting themselves for the labors it is 
 their privilege to perform in the great drama of the last days. 
 They are feeding, and, in some instances, creating an appe- 
 tite for intoxicants, which, unresisted, will push its unfortu- 
 nate possessors to terrible extremes, and cause them to descend 
 very, very low indeed to obtain gratification. 
 
 The prayers, entreaties, and tears of parents, supplemented 
 with the teachings of inspiration through the Priesthood of 
 the Almighty, are not sufficiently potent, at present, to induce 
 every one to be sober ; and one cause of weakness in this 
 respect lies in the solemn fact that the evil is not confined to the 
 young, and the consequent fact that, 
 
 "Example is a living law, whose sway 
 Men more than all the written laws obey." 
 
2 INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 \ 
 
 With these facts before us, we are prompted to make an 
 attempt, assisted by our heavenly Father, which shall be 
 preventive and reformatory in its character. We are per- 
 fectly willing that the elderly and aged of every clime, creed 
 and color shall derive all possible benefit from our feeble effort, 
 but our chief object is to bless the young. 
 
 The Lord has blessed His people in the vales of Utah and 
 adjoining Territories and States with a numerous posterity, 
 and they will continue to come to His faithful sons and 
 daughters in an ever-increasing ratio, until they are as num- 
 berless to man as the sands upon the sea shore. Their work 
 is important, and their destiny is great. 
 
 Knowing this, the adversary has introduced modern civili- 
 zation, with which to allure and destroy by making them 
 drunkards, and setting traps for their drunken feet, into which 
 they may walk and corrupt themselves- in body and mind, 
 render themselves unfit to fill their life's mission, and rob 
 themselves of the glorious destiny which awaits them. 
 
 Hence, we wish to exert an influence with the younger por- 
 tion of the rising generation, to induce them to shun bad 
 compan3 T , to contract no bad habits, and to live pure before 
 Grod ; and with the elder portion, who may be too rapidly 
 forming within themselves monster appetites for tobacco and 
 intoxicating drinks, to stop self-destruction in every respect, 
 and preserve and exercise their God-given physical and men- 
 tal powers in the great work of a world's renovation, that 
 they may stand as saviors and not as destroyers upon Mount 
 Zion. 
 
 We would do this, and labor in faith, too, for we feel assured 
 that the labor will be of benefit to many, and not without 
 effect upon any; for the ''bread cast upon the waters will be 
 seen after many days, ' ' and Grod will bless the precious seed 
 sown by the honest sower, and cause it to produce celestial 
 fruit to His glory. 
 
 "Then sow, for the hours are fleeting, and the seed must fall 
 
 to-day; 
 And care not what hands shall reap it, or if you shall have 
 
 passed away 
 Before the waving corn-fields shall gladden the sunny day/' 
 
THE USE OF TOBACCO. 3 
 
 We have connected tobacco with intoxicating drink, because 
 the habitual smoker is frequently an habitual drinker, or is 
 likely to become such, for an appetite for tobacco often pro- 
 duces a thirst for liquor, and the customs of the age fayor the 
 use of both. 
 
 The time was when smoking was not customary as at pres- 
 ent. 
 
 During the last quarter of the 16th century, Sir Walter 
 Raleigh took tobacco from Virginia and introduced it into* 
 England. One day his servant entered his study with a tank- 
 ard of ale for him, and saw Sir Walter for the first time with 
 a pipe in his mouth, and enveloped in the clouds of smoke 
 he was puffing out. The servant, having never seen any- 
 thing'of the kind before, "and believing his master was the sub- 
 ject of an "internal conflagration," dashed the ale in his face 
 with a view to extinguish it, and ran down stairs alarming 
 the other inmates of the house with the cry that his master 
 was ' 'on fire, and would be burned to ashes if they did not 
 hasten to his aid." 
 
 Not much alarm is created, to-day, when a man is emitting 
 smoke from his mouth, and nostrils, too ! 
 
 An anecdote of Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh 
 may not be out of place here. 
 
 Raleigh told the queen one day that he could tell her what 
 "the smoke weighed of every pipeful. of tobacco he con- 
 sumed." She laid a considerable wager that he could not, 
 but he proved the fact by weighing the tobacco before putting 
 it into his pipe, and weighing the ashes after he had smoked 
 the pipeful, showing that the difference was the weight of 
 the smoke. The queen admitted that he was correct, and 
 jocularly remarked as she paid the bet, "that she knew of 
 many persons who had turned their^ gold into smoke, but he 
 was the first who had turned smoke into gold. ' ' 
 
 Young men, do you 
 
 CONVERT GOLD INTO SMOKE? 
 
 And, viewed from a financial standpoint, does it pay? Ben- 
 jamin Franklin says that "What maintains one vice would 
 bring up two children." Reflect seriously upon this matter. 
 
4 INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 In regard to the use of tobacco producing an appetite for 
 strong drinks, we will introduce the testimony of one who 
 ought to know : 
 
 "A French physician has investigated the effect of smoking 
 on thirty-eight boys, between the ages of nine and fifteen, 
 who were addicted to the habit. Twenty-seven presented 
 distinct symptoms of nicotine poisoning. In twenty-two there 
 were serious disorders of the circulation, indigestion, dullness 
 oT intellect, and a marked appetite for strong drinks." 
 
 Man says it softens the bones, injures the brain, corrupts 
 the blood, and robs the human system of muscular and men- 
 tal energy ; and God says : 
 
 "IT IS NOT GOOD FOR MAN." 
 
 When men are in training for the prize-ring, for the bil- 
 liard match, for the foot-race, and for other purposes, requir- 
 ing the best physical condition, so that the best and most 
 that is in man can be got out of him, whether the purpose 
 for which these God-given powers are used be good or bad, 
 they are not allowed to use liquor or tobacco, although they 
 are apt to indulge excessively at other times. And if man 
 desires to put forth his best mental efforts, his system needs 
 to be free from the influence and effects of alcohol and 
 tobacco. 
 
 This statement is supported by a declaration published in 
 1874, as follows: "No man who has graduated at the head 
 of his class in Harvard College, within the last fifty-five years, 
 has used either spirits or tobacco in any form. ' ' 
 
 Of course, this is equivalent to the assertion that no man 
 who used these things had graduated at the head of his class 
 during that period. 
 
 What a powerful testimony against its use ! 
 
 If the physical and mental powers are injuriously affected 
 by these articles, how fare the spiritual? And can the 
 young Elder in Israel, who requires the fullest strength of all 
 the powers . of his being, expect to graduate at the head of 
 his class in the kingdom of God the university of heaven 
 and reach a celestial crown, if he persists in paralyzing and 
 destroying those powers by which alone he can win and wear 
 his crown? 
 
WHAT IS INTOXICATION? 5 
 
 We will conclude our reference to the use of tobacco, by 
 introducing an anecdote on the filthy habit of chewing, from 
 the Boston Commercial Bulletin, entitled 
 
 "A KANSAS SPITTER." 
 
 "As the train stopped for ten minutes, and that individual, 
 who goes along tapping the wheels with his hammer, was 
 passing rapidly by the smoking car, one of the windows was 
 hoisted and a torrent of tobacco spittle was ejected which 
 completely deluged him. The machinist paused for a mo- 
 ment, and, wiping some of the stream from his person, said 
 to the offender, 'Mister, what part of the country did you 
 come from?' 'Me?' said the spitter, puckering his lips for 
 another expectoration, 'I come from Kansas.' 'I thought 
 so,' said the machinist, 'for if you had lived in Massachusetts 
 or Connecticut, they would have had a water-wheel in your 
 mouth long ago.'" 
 
 We will now turn our attention to the principal subject 
 before us, viz : The intemperate use of intoxicating drinks. 
 
 What is intoxication or drunkenness? 
 
 Here is one definition: "A man is intoxicated when he 
 knows what he does, and does not care ; and he is drunk when 
 he neither knows nor cares what he does;" and here is a 
 poetic definition: 
 
 "Not drunk is he who from the floor 
 Can rise again and drink some more; 
 But drunk is he who prostrate lies, 
 And who can neither drink nor rise." 
 
 And our readers may choose the prosaic or poetic, or sub- 
 stitute any other definition which may suit their fancy most. 
 
 It was an ancient custom of the Spartans, in order to 
 inculcate among their youth an abhorrence of intemperance 
 and its kindred vices, to make their slaves drunk with wine 
 in the public market-places, so that the rising generation, 
 "upon whom would some day devolve the honor and safety of 
 the Lacedemonian Republic, might see before them all the 
 ghastly details of the drunkard's disgrace, his loss of reason 
 and of physical strength." 
 
 If the necessity for such an exhibition existed among the 
 Spartans, modern civilization has rendered such an exhibi- 
 
6 INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 tion unnecessary in our day, by supplying ample evidence of 
 the "drunkard's disgrace," in the natural, or unnatural order 
 of things, on a smaller scale, and no doubt at more frequent 
 intervals; and we heartily wish that the evidence thus fur- 
 nished would accomplish the Spartan object with the youth of 
 the present century. 
 Viewed from a financial standpoint, 
 
 DOES INTEMPERANCE PAY? 
 
 We will introduce some statistics showing the amount of 
 means spent in the United States and Territories, during the 
 year 1870, for intoxicating drinks; but we do not wish to imply 
 that the whole amount was spent by drunkards: 
 Imported and domestic distilled and spirit- 
 uous liquors - $1,344,000,000. 
 Brewed and fermented - 123,000,000. 
 Imported wines 15,000,000. 
 Domestic wines - - - 5,000,000. 
 
 $1, 487,000,000. 
 
 "New York spent $246,617,520; Pennsylvania, $152,663,- 
 495; Illinois, $119,932,945; Ohio, $151,734,875; Massachusetts, 
 >7'.i.572: Maryland, $40,561,620; Missouri, $54,627,855; 
 Indiana, $51,418*890; California, $59,924,090; Kentucky, 
 $50,223,115; Wisconsin $43,818,845; Michigan, 952,784,170; 
 Iowa, $35,582,695; Connecticut, $35,001,230; New Jersey, 
 740; Maine, $8,257,015; Rhode Island, 810.234,240; 
 New Hampshire. SI 2. 629, 275: Minnesota, 814.394,970; Dis- 
 trict of Columbia, | '.0; Vermont, $6,785,065; Kar 
 $8,503,856; Louisiana, $48,021,730; Tennessee, $20,283,635; 
 Georgia, $25,328.465; East Virginia, $26,132,903; Alabama, 
 $2^,025,885; Texas, $21,751,250; South Carolina, $10,610,625; 
 North Carolina, $13,224,340; West Virginia, $8,806 : 
 Arkansas, $7,858,320; Delaware, $3,770,355; Mississippi. 84,- 
 493,303; Oregon. S4, 261,240;- Nevada, $4,838,735; Nebraska, 
 _0,515; Colorado, $3.745, 215: the Territories ; $14,169, 
 400; total $1,480,132,679." 
 
 Add to this a legitimate percentage of $90,000,000 the cost 
 of litigation, crimes, prisons, etc. caused by intemperance, 
 
DOES INTEMPERANCE PAY? 7 
 
 and we have the enormous sum of $1,500,000,000 spent for 
 intoxicating drinks in the United States in one year. 
 
 In 1870, there were in the United States 140,000 licensed 
 liquor saloons, which had an estimated daily average of 40 
 customers, making 5,600,000 drinkers, who, it is estimated, 
 spent their money during the year in the following pro- 
 portions : 
 
 Drinkers. Each spent. Total. ** 
 
 100,000 $1,000,00 $100,000,000 
 
 100,000 900,00 90,000,000 
 
 100,000 800,00 80,000,000 
 
 100,000 700,00 70,000,000 
 
 100,000 600,00' 60,000,000 
 
 100,000 500,00 50,000,000 
 
 1,000,000 400,00 400,000,000 
 
 1,000,000 300.00 300,000,000 
 
 1,000,000 200,00 200,000,000 
 
 1,000,000 150,00 150,000,000 
 
 1,000,000 75,00 75,000,000 
 
 5,600,000 $1,575,000,000. 
 
 An average of about $280 dollars for each drinker. 
 
 Here is the cost of the following articles for the same year. 
 Compare and reflect : 
 
 Flour and meal, - - - $530,000,000 
 Cotton goods, 115,000,000 
 
 Boots and shoes, - - - 90,000,000 
 
 Clothing, 70,000,000 
 
 Wollen goods, 60,000,000 
 
 Newspaper and job printing, - 40,000,000 
 
 Total, $905,000,000 
 
 The State of Pennsylvania spent during 1870, for liquors of 
 all kinds, $152,663,945, for her schools and teaching only 
 $5,833,945. That State had 78,800 persons engaged in the 
 liquor business, and only 16,870 engaged in teaching school. 
 It was also burdened with 24,000 criminals, four-fifths of 
 whom, it was estimated, were made such by strong drink. 
 
 The city of Philadelphia had 4,160 drinking places, and 
 spent for intoxicating drinks in one year $38,000,000. Chi- 
 cago had 2,300 drinking establishments, in which $14,000,000 
 
8 INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 was spent in one year. The great city of New York was 
 favored, in 1870, with 7,000 licensed drinking saloons, and 
 spent for intoxicating drinks the modest sum of $60,000,000, 
 having 35,000 persons engaged in the liquor traffic. At the 
 same time she had 475 churches and chapels, and 3,000 persons 
 engaged in preaching the various gospels and teaching the 
 public and private schools, at a cost of only $4,500,000 for 
 both religious and secular education. 
 
 It is estimated that there are "400,000 more persons 
 engaged in the liquor business in the United States than in 
 school teaching and preaching the various gospels;" that 
 said business is making, annually, "50.000 confirmed drunk- 
 ards;" that it is "sending to prisons 100,000 annually;" 
 that by it "200.000 children are annually reduced to want;" 
 that every year it "sends 150,000 persons to drunkards' 
 graves;" that it is costing this nation a yearly expenditure of 
 "$1,500,000,000," which might be spent for many better pur- 
 poses ; that it is converting millions upon millions of bushels 
 of grain, which God has given us for food for man and beast, 
 into beverages which inebriate, corrupt and destroy ; and that 
 it is the primal cause of a vast amount of the crime, poverty 
 and misery with which this nation is afflicted. 
 
 Again we ask, does it pay financially? No ! verily no ! 
 
 A BILLION AND A HALF OF CASH ! 
 
 It is easy to speak the words, but who can conceive the large 
 amount expressed by those words? And who can count that 
 large number? Where is the boy who will live long enough 
 to do so? 
 
 Could a boy commence counting with his first breath, and 
 continue doing so, at the rate of one a second, 12 hours a 
 day, 365 days a year, for 95 years, he would then find that 
 his task was hardly finished. 
 
 Such a sum of money would be sufficient to gather 15,000,. 
 000 of Israel, at $100 each, to the present gathering places 
 of the Saints of Grod. And, be it remembered, this large 
 sum is simply the estimated expenditure of the United 
 States for intoxicants for one year. 
 
 Again, does it pay individually? Does it pay the nation? 
 Do the broken hearts, the blighted homes, the squalid pov- 
 
EXCUSES FOR DRINKING. 9 
 
 erty, the untold misery, and the almost incredible amount of 
 crime committed in this "Christian land, where men oft kneel 
 and pray," bring any commensurate returns for such an 
 enormous outlay? Verily, no! It is a bad investment, 
 individually and collectively, socially and morally, financially 
 and politically, religiously and eternally. 
 
 WHY DO MEN DRINK? 
 
 Numerous are the reasons assigned, and excuses furnished. 
 We once saw an alphabetical list of reasons, and have forgot- 
 ten them in form, but remember some of their substance. 
 One drinks to warm him in cold weather, and another to cool 
 him in warm weather. One because he has a pain in the 
 head, another because he has a pain in the back ; and others 
 because they have pains elsewhere. One because the doctor 
 recommends it, another because he does not, and he believes 
 a little would do him good. One because he is married, 
 another because he is divorced. One because he is going on 
 a journey, another because he is just returning from one. 
 One because he is parting with his friend who is going to a 
 foreign clime, another because his friend is just returned 
 from abroad. One because he is filled with joy, another 
 because he has much sorrow. One because he likes to be 
 sociable with his friends, another because he has not a friend 
 in the world. One because he is successful and happy, 
 another because he is unsuccessful and miserable. One 
 because he is sick, another to prevent sickness. One because 
 his uncle died and left him a legacy, another because his aunt 
 died and didn't leave him one. And so on. Thus reasons 
 and excuses might be furnished at great length. But these 
 are easily disposed of, and are as nothing compared with the 
 reason, "because I love it !" For this will prompt a man to 
 barter property, self-respect, reputation and the authority 
 and favor of heaven to obtain gratification. And what is the 
 sequel? 
 
 WHAT PROPERTIES HAVE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES? 
 
 They stimulate and use up nervous power, and, after their 
 action, leave the system less powerful than before. 
 Are they medicinal ? 
 
10 INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 A geDtleman in "Washington, apparently in a decline, called 
 in one of the most eminent physicians, but as he did not 
 rapidly recover, he told the physician that whisky had been reco- 
 mended to him, and asked if it would do any good. "Yes," 
 said the doctor, "it would help you." "Why, then, do you 
 not give it?" said the sick man. "Because I have given it 
 to a dozen gentlemen, and aU have become drunkards." 
 
 Are they tonic ? 
 
 Professor Miller says, "People consider alcohol as a simple 
 and common tonic, and are ready to accept its supposed help 
 as such in every form of weakness and general disorder of 
 health. But it is ordinarily no true tonic. In its primary 
 effect it is merely a stimulant, with narcotic action when given 
 in large doses. In its secondary action it is the reverse of 
 tonic. ' ' 
 
 Are they nutritious? 
 
 Liebig, the great German chemist, declares, in regard to 
 beer: "We can prove with mathematical certainty, as plain 
 as two and two make four, that as much flour or meal as can 
 lie on the point of a table-knife, is more nutritious than nine 
 quarts of the best Bavarian beer ; that a man who is able 
 daily to consume that amount of beer obtains from it, in the 
 whole year, in the most favorable case, exactly the amount of 
 nutrition which is contained in a five -pound loaf of bread, or 
 in three pounds of flesh. ' ' 
 
 What other properties have they ? 
 
 The old Indian thought one barrel of whisky contained a 
 good many fights. 
 
 Wellington thought tierces of wine contained something 
 which he feared more than an army, for, "during the Pen- 
 insular war, he heard that a large magazine of wine lay on 
 his line of march, and he dispatched a body of troops to 
 knock every wine barrel on the head. ' ' 
 
 Dr. Gutherie declares: "I do in my conscience believe that 
 intoxicating stimulants have sunk into perdition more men 
 and women than found a grave in that deluge which swept over 
 the highest hill tops, engulphing a world, of which but eight 
 were saved." 
 
ARE STIMULANTS NECESSARY? 11 
 
 We concede, therefore, that they have some properties and 
 powers ! 
 
 Are stimulants necessary, in summer or winter, or in warm 
 or cold climates ? 
 
 Men have labored in every clime from the equator to the 
 arctic and the antarctic regions without their aid. The cele- 
 brated General Havelock, under the burning sun of India, 
 ''abstained from their use." The world-renowned and 
 adventurous traveler and explorer, Dr. Livingstone, "adjured 
 their use ;" and the motto of Sir John Ross, amid the eternal 
 ice and perpetual snow of the artic regions was, ' 'Touch not, 
 taste not" 
 
 Horace G-reeley was a home-laborer, but a hard worker, 
 and he declared at sixty years of age that "he had worked 
 for forty years without intoxicating drinks, and had lengthened 
 his life by doing so." And we could give the names of a 
 number of the Elders of Israel who have labored long and 
 hard in the cause of truth and righteousness without the aid 
 of that which unmans, inebriates and destroys. 
 
 We once questioned an Elder relative to the propriety of 
 his going into the liquor business, the consistency of the act, 
 and the reason why he did so, and he honestly acknowledged 
 that there was 
 
 MONEY IN IT, 
 
 and he thought he might as well make it as anyone else, he 
 was after the dollar ; that was his only reason. We asked 
 him if he had reflected upon the moral effect his business 
 would have upon the youthful portion of the community, and 
 he replied that he had not he thought of nothing but the 
 almighty dollar. 
 
 This is the object of many, and they have but few scruples 
 as regards the nature of the business they engage in, so long 
 as the object is reached. 
 
 Many will remember the anecdote of a man being drunk 
 and apparently asleep in a tavern, when it was remarked by 
 the landlord that the drunkard was taking the shingles off 
 the roof of his own house and putting them on the tavern- 
 keeper's, which remark the drunkard heard, and ceased visiting 
 the tavern. He was subsequently met by the tavern-keeper and 
 
12 INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 asked why he did not come and enjoy his glass as usual, to 
 which he replied that he had concluded to put the shingles 
 on his own house. 
 
 Judging from the disposition manifested by some, liquor 
 dealers they would not only take the shingles, but the house, 
 too, the land upon which it stands, and every dollar's worth 
 of personal property, from a man, and then kick him out. 
 
 But all liquor venders would not do this. At least, one 
 notable exception comes to mind. Three or four years ago 
 we read the following and preserved it: 
 
 "At a second class hotel in Frankfort, Kentucky, a few 
 days since, a little girl entered a bar-room, and, in pitiful 
 tones, told the bar-keeper that her mother had sent her there 
 to get eight cents. 'Eight cents ! ' exclaimed the bar- keeper. 
 
 '"Yes, sir.' 
 
 "'What does your mother want eight cents for? I don't 
 owe her anything. ' 
 
 "'Well,' said the child, 'father spends all his money here 
 for rum, and we have had nothing to eat to-day. Mother 
 wants to buy a loaf of bread. ' 
 
 "A loafer suggested to the bar-keeper to kick the brat out. 
 
 "'No,' said the bar-keeper, 'I'll give the mother the 
 money; and if the father comes back again I'll kick him out!' 
 
 "Such a circumstance never happened before, and may 
 never happen again. Humanity owes that bar-keeper a vote 
 of thanks." 
 
 Among habitual drinkers can be found some who have 
 nherited the 
 
 LOYE OF LIQUOR. 
 
 Their parents, in a few instances, may have fostered and 
 strengthened this love, and they themselves have fed it until 
 it is a part of their being an insatiate monster continually 
 crying, give ! GIVE ! GIVE ! and dragging its victim down to 
 penury, disgrace and hell. Such have but little power 
 of resistance, and it gradually grows shamefully less. When 
 once the taste, or even the smell greets their olfactories, 
 resistance, resolution, self-control and reason seem powerless, 
 and the unscrupulous fiend within bears sway and accom- 
 plishes his deadly purpose. 
 
LOVE OF LIQUOR. 13 
 
 While writing upon this point, we are prompted to introduce 
 an anecdote of Dr. Samuel Johnson, one of the greatest, if 
 not the greatest, of the literary men of the 18th century: 
 
 '"Pray sir,' asked Dr. Aston, 'what objection have you to 
 wine?' 
 
 '"A sound one, sir,' answered Dr. Johnson, 'it disagrees 
 with me.' 
 
 "'And yet, sir,' says Mrs. Thrail, 'you will eat heartily of 
 a veal pie, stuffed with plums a mess that would poison an 
 ostrich. ' 
 
 "'Madam,' he answered, 'you have to accept life on the 
 conditions under which it is offered. I can eat veal pie and 
 plums without injury to my health, for when my hunger is 
 appeased, I eat no more. But of wine, madam, I am never 
 to know when I have had enough. One glass creates the 
 want of another, and a second demands the support of a 
 third. Besides, madam, I have no confidence in my powers 
 of resistance. There is a heedless vivacity in wine that is 
 above the reach of judgment. Come, Dr. Aston, let us pledge 
 one another in water and put in for a hundred. ' 
 
 " 'Well,' said Sir Charles Bracebridge, 'for my part I had 
 rather die at fifty a wine drinker than to live to a hundred on 
 water. ' 
 
 '"And, sir, you will have all the fools in the country 
 to agree with you,' answered Dr. Johnson." 
 
 And what is to be done in such a case? Why, never to 
 touch the accursed stuff, to wake up or give sway to the 
 destructive fiend. This is the only sure remedy. Apply it, 
 and let "all the fools in the country" benefit by your example. 
 
 While writing the word "fools," we were reminded of some 
 of the sayings of the great temperance orator, 
 
 J. B. GOUGH. 
 
 He, no doubt, has done much good. But he, too, found his 
 powers of resistance insufficient, for he "lapsed" sometime 
 ago, so we read in a public print, and now pays a person a 
 large salary to travel with him to prevent another "lapse." 
 Read, young men, what he says for your benefit : 
 
 "Young men, as you lift the gleaming wine-glass to your 
 lips in the jollity of the night's spree, will it pay? It is a 
 
14 INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 gross insult to call a man a fool. Every man would resent it; 
 but in the suffering of the next morning, with disturbed 
 conscience, aching head, throbbing temples, racking brain 
 hot, fevered tongue, and all the horrible reaction that might 
 come, does not the victim of aches clasp his burning hands 
 and bitterly call himself fool ! fool ! It does not pay to begin. 
 First you tolerate it, then you touch and taste it, then you 
 jest and laugh at it, and then revel in it. When it becomes 
 your master, then what ? What numbers have been swept 
 down in the hurricane of temptation! In the mad power of 
 this passion they have burst the bonds of a mother's love, 
 trampled a father's counsels in the dust, mocked at reproofs 
 and tears and prayers ; and now, with tattered sails, leaking 
 hull, and spHntered masts, are drifting on amid howling 
 winds and wintry skies to utter ruin; when they might have 
 reached the haven of peace and security laden with honor 
 and happiness. Verily it does not pay. ' ' 
 
 RESIST TEMPTATION. 
 
 Some bright examples, may be found of resistance to the 
 temptation to become uneober, and of firmness in the practice 
 of sobriety. 
 
 General William Henry Harrison, born at Berkeley, on the 
 banks of the James river, in Virginia, February 9th, 1773, 
 became the ninth President of the United States on the 4th 
 of March, 1841. He died on the 4th of the next month, 
 thus serving in that responsible position only one month. 
 
 He was successful as a general, as governor of the "Indiana 
 Territory," comprising the present States of Indiana, Illinois 
 and Wisconsin, and would no doubt have been successful, had 
 he been permitted to live, as President of the United States? 
 during one or two terms of office. 
 
 His historian says: "Not one single spot can be found to 
 sully the brightness of his fame ; and, through all the ages, 
 Americans will pronounce with love and reverence the name 
 of William Henry Harrison." 
 
 Now, to what was this attributable? Was he a sober man? 
 We will introduce him and let him speak for himself. 
 
 While he was running for the presidency, he was asked at a 
 dinner to take wine. He declined. He was urged, and again 
 
RESIST TEMPTATION. 15 
 
 declined. Again he was requested and urged. This was too 
 much. He arose from the table, his tall form erect, and in 
 the most dignified manner thus addressed those present : 
 
 "Gentlemen, I have refused twice to partake of the wine- 
 cup; that should be sufficient. Though you press the cup to 
 my lips, not a drop shall pass the portals. 1 made a resolve, 
 when I started in life, that 1 would avoid strong drink, and I 
 have never broken it. I am one of a class of seventeen young 
 men who graduated, and the other sixteen fill drunkard's 
 graves, all through the pernicious habit of social wine-drink- 
 ing. I owe all my health, happiness and prosperity to that 
 resolution. Will you urge me now?" 
 
 This example, and similar ones which the world's history 
 furnishes, to which may be added the illustrious examples of 
 many of the Elders of Israel now living, is the kind of an 
 example for the youth in Zion to pattern after. Our young 
 people of both sexes need bodily and mental vigor for the 
 life-work before them. They also need "the faith once deliv- 
 ered to the Saints," and the power which comes by faith and 
 through the authority of the holy Priesthood ; for the work 
 in the near future is great, and it devolves upon them to per- 
 form it to the acceptance of the Almighty. 
 
 Can this vigor and faith and power be obtained by the hab- 
 itual use of intoxicating drinks? No. Drunkenness weakens 
 physical strength, makes lunatics, and destroys in man the 
 soil in which the seeds of faith and power may be planted 
 and nurtured until they mature in the Godship in celestial 
 mansions. 
 
 The adversary knows this. He also knows the brilliant des- 
 tiny which awaits many of the young, and he is toiling 
 energetically to rob them of the thrones for which they are 
 destined. The effects of his work, when he succeeds in cor- 
 rupting the young, reach into eternity. He is working to-day 
 to accomplish a specific object in ages to come. The seed he 
 sows will bear its legitimate and natural fruits. 
 
 As a writer once said, "Strong drink is not only the devil' 8 
 way into a man, but it is man's way to the devil. ' ' Let his way 
 in this direction be hedged up. 
 
16 INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 "Though you press the cup to my lips," said General Har- 
 rison, "not a drop shall pass the portals." In this course 
 there is safety. In the other course there is danger. 
 
 The results of a course of sobriety are also far-reaching; 
 they reach into the eternities, and their influence will be felt 
 forever. 
 
 This course will also bear its natural fruit, And what will 
 this fruit be? "Why, in this life, health and happiness, peace 
 and prosperity, respect and influence, the favor of the honor- 
 able of earth and of the hosts of heaven, together with 
 blessings and advantages which mortal tongue and pen can 
 not make known; and in the life which is to come the prob- 
 able fruit will be the fruit of immortality, and the pen of an 
 immortal must be wielded to make known what that fruit 
 shairbe. 
 
 But trust in our Heavenly Father for the benefits to be 
 derived in the hereafter, and you will not be disappointed. 
 And even were there no hereafter, for the sake of the comfort 
 and peace, and joy and satisfaction, and conscious innocence 
 before God, which a life of sobriety imparts in this life, be 
 sober. 
 
 When liquor's direful power is working on the brain 
 From what infernal crime will mortal man refrain? 
 
 LEARN TO SAY NO. 
 
 In every condition and circumstance of life, young men 
 need decision of character the Yes and No faculty and it is 
 especially needed when the tempter says, "drink !" For the 
 want of this many are started on the road to ruin, and kept 
 traveling thereon. They may say "No," but the thing is too 
 weak to live, and very soon becomes Yes. 
 
 It may not be necessary to always blurt out the blunt, "No, 
 sir!" This is not our meaning. Kespectful language, suitable 
 to person and occasion, embodying a healthy, well-meant 
 negative, is what we mean, and not a "No" that is a puny half 
 yes. The "No" which has the backing of decision of character, 
 firm resolution, stern determination, and the Spirit of the 
 living God, is the no that will live and prosper. It is under- 
 stood to be all "No", it is not tampered with much, and it 
 carries salvation with it. Young men need not fear to prop- 
 
LEARN TO SAY U NO." 17 
 
 erly use it. They will be respected for doing so, and will 
 grow in power to use it effectually. 
 
 "But," says one, "suppose I am invited or requested by 
 my particular friend, or by one in authority over me, must I 
 decline, if by so doing I am liable to offend?" 
 
 We will ask, what kind of a friend or person in authority 
 must he be who would take offense were you to respectfully 
 decline? From such friendship and authority, good Lord 
 deliver us and you, and the sooner the better ! 
 
 George Washington, the "father of his country," and, 
 under God, its principal preserver and savior, while he lived, 
 was once a "friend" and "in authority." Read the following 
 beautiful incident in the life of that true friend and noble 
 
 Officer. BANCROFT 
 
 "Toward the close of the revolutionary wws^tSSfs' BP.'tSx, 
 "an officer in the army dined with Washington. Just before 
 the dinner was concluded, General Washington stood up and 
 called him by name, and requested him to drink a glass of 
 wine with him. 
 
 "'Will you have the goodness to excuse me, General?' 
 replied the officer. 'I have made it a rule never to take 
 wine.' 
 
 "All eyes were instantly turned upon the young officer, and 
 a murmur of surprise and indignation ran around the table. 
 
 ' 'That a person should be so unsocial and so mean as never 
 to drink wine was really too bad ; but that he should abstain 
 from it on an occasion like that, and even when offered to 
 him by Washington himself, was perfectly intolerable! 
 Washington at once saw the feelings of his guests, and 
 promptly addressed them : 
 
 " 'Gentlemen,' said he, 'our friend is right. I do not wish 
 any of my guests to partake of anything against their incli- 
 nation, and I certainly do not wish them to violate any 
 established principle in their social intercourse with me. / 
 honor my friend for his frankness, for his consistency in thus 
 adhering to an established rule, which can never do him harm, 
 and for the adoption of which I have no doubt he has good 
 and sufficient reasons. ' ' 
 
81 INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 All with whom you have intercourse may not be Washing- 
 tons in this respect, but be not discouraged; your influence and 
 example may help to make them such ; and, should this not 
 be the case, remember that the bitter and sweet are inter- 
 mingled in this life, that it is your privilege to enjoy the 
 benefit of opposition, which helps to establish the right; 
 which, in connection with the love of right, rouses into active 
 energy the noblest, the brightest, and the most G-od-like pow- 
 ers of its champions, makes of them the men which they 
 otherwise would not be, and adds to their honor and glory in 
 time and eternity. 
 
 It may be that some young men may consider themselves 
 too young to form resolutions, or that they cannot break off 
 their evil habits, which have become comparatively old and 
 established in them, or that there is no use to do so all 
 will be well with them. They will not become dishonored or 
 disgraced, or be any the worse for their present course, 
 oh, no ! 
 
 Will such please to read carefully the following statement 
 of Admiral Farragut ? 
 
 "Would you like to know how I was enabled to serve my 
 country? It was all owing to a resolution I formed when I 
 was ten years of age. My father was sent down to New 
 Orleans with the little navy we then had, to look after the 
 treason of Burr. I accompanied him as a cabin boy. I had 
 some qualities that I thought made a man of me. I could 
 swear like an old salt ; could drink as stiff a glass of grog as 
 if I had doubled Cape Horn; and could smoke like a locomotive. 
 I was great at cards, and fond of gambling in every shape. 
 At the close of the dinner, one day, my father turned every- 
 body out of the cabin, locked the door and said to me : 
 
 " 'David, what do you mean to be?' 
 
 " 'I mean to follow the sea.' 
 
 '"Follow the sea! Yes, be a poor, miserable, drunken 
 sailor before the mast, kicked and cuffed about the world, 
 and die in some fever hospital in a foreign clime!' 
 
 "'No; I'll tread the quarter-deck, and command as you 
 do.' 
 
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT. 19 
 
 " 'No, David ; no boy ever trod the quarter-deck with such 
 principles as you have, and such habits as you exhibit. You'll 
 have to change your whole course of life, if you ever become 
 a man!' 
 
 "My father left me and went on deck. I was stunned by 
 the rebuke, and overwhelmed with mortification. 'A poor, 
 miserable, drunken sailor before the mast, kicked and cuffed 
 about the world, and to die in some fever hospital!' That's 
 my fate, is it? I'll change my life, and change it at once. I 
 will never utter another oath ; I will never drink another drop 
 of intoxicating liquors ; I will never gamble. And, as God 
 is my witness, I have kept those three vows to this hour." 
 
 What think you of this case, young men ? Here was a 
 boy of tender years but precocious in vicious habits. At this 
 very early age he had a good start on the road to ruin. The 
 idea of a boy of ten being able to "swear like an old salt;" 
 to "drink as stiff a glass of grog as if he had doubled Cape 
 Horn;" to "smoke like a locomotive;" and to be "great at 
 cards, and fond of gambling in every shape !" 
 
 But he had a father who desired his welfare, and sought to 
 reform his boy, and that boy could form a resolution and keep 
 it, thus making himself an able officer and an honorable man, 
 and leaving on record, for the benefit of others, his testimony 
 of his experience in vicious habits in early youth, his father's 
 effort, his own resolution, .and his testimony before God that 
 he had kept his vows. 
 
 And we will say to the young man whom it may concern, 
 "Go thou and do likewise !" 
 
 "Evil communications corrupt good manners. " Bad com- 
 pany proves the bane of millions. Young Farragut must 
 have been in very bad company to have been what he was at 
 ten years of age. Purity of language and refinement of 
 manners are not cultivated by many young men as they should 
 be, neither is the moral tone which characterizes their inter- 
 course with each other as high as it might be. 
 
 Boys associate with young men, young men with their 
 seniors up to seventy; sufficient caution is not "used in conver- 
 sation; the force of exam pie is not thought of, or else disregarded; 
 'boys learn things which it would be well for them to be igno- 
 
20 INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 rant of till they attain manhood ; and young men, and boys 
 too, learn some things which it would be a blessing to them 
 to remain ignorant of through life. Many of them would 
 grow up much freer from the vices of the age were it not for 
 the lax conversation and contagious example of their elders. 
 Boys are imitative. They learn many things as birds learn to 
 chirp. 
 
 We say, young men, keep good company ; but as we write 
 the advice, the Spirit say*: ''Make good company for the 
 young!" And we humbly acknowledge the necessity of the 
 admonition. Purify thyself, is the injunction to each. It is 
 an individual labor. God speed its accomplishment ! 
 
 But the young have their agency, and we say to them : be 
 wise, careful, and discriminate in selecting your associates. 
 Keep good company, and avoid in wisdom that which is bad. 
 Some years ago we saw in a New York publication an incident 
 in the life of a lady, which, being apropos, we embody here : 
 
 "One evening, a lady, who belongs on the editorial staff of 
 one of the leading dailies of New York, had been detained 
 by official duties until a rather late hour. Living on the 
 Heights of Brooklyn, it was not much of a venture to go 
 home without an escort, so she started. On the boat a gentle- 
 man (?) said to her : 
 
 " 'Are you alone?' 
 
 'No, sir,' said the lady, and when the boat touched stepped 
 off. 
 
 ' 'I thought you said you were not aloue.' said the fellow, 
 stepping to her side again. 
 
 " 'I am not,' replied the lady. 
 
 " 'Why, I don't see anyone; who is with you?' 
 
 " 'G-od Almighty and the angels, sir! I am never alone !' 
 
 " 'Madam,' he replied, 'you keep too good company for 
 me , good night. ' ' 
 
 That is the sort of company to keep. Blessed is he or she 
 who is favored with it. Seek for it. Live to be worthy of 
 it. Evil companions may turn away from you, but do not 
 utterly forsake them. Be the good Samaritan. When 
 proper opportunities offer, help to raise the fallen to a higher 
 
UTAH'S "REFORMERS." 21 
 
 plane, and encourage them to seek, by purity of life, the 
 enjoyment of the same "good company." 
 
 LEARN WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE. 
 
 Utah abounds in self-styled, blatant pseudo-reformers, who 
 publish to the world that they "believe that billiard halls, 
 saloons and houses of ill-fame are more powerful reforming 
 agencies here in Utah than churches and schools." They ask 
 the question : "What is a game of billiards, a glass of beer, 
 a cup of coffee, a cigar or other petty vice, in the span of a 
 strong human life, filled with endeavor in the right direction?'' 
 And, at least, one of those loud-mouthed, would-be-reformers 
 exhibits the purity of his heart and motive, and the excellent 
 reformatory influence(?) he would like to wield among Utah's 
 youthful sons, in the following elegant sentence : 
 
 "I rejoice when I see the young Mormon hoodlums playing 
 billiards, getting drunk, running with bad women anything 
 to break the shackles they were born in, and that every 
 so-called religious or virtuous influence only makes the 
 stronger. ' ' 
 
 Young Israel ! ye fortunate, ye promising, ye honored sons 
 of noble sires, what think you of the reforming agencies by 
 which your professed friends would reform you? What think 
 you of the very peculiar reformation which would be wrought 
 in you were these agencies exercised upon you in their 
 full reformatory force? What think you of the meek-faced, 
 oily-tongued, spiritually-minded and extra-philanthropic re- 
 formers who would use such heavenly agencies to produce 
 such a glorious effect? 
 
 Aye, what think you ! And be sure you do think. Think 
 seriously, think deeply, think frequently, and think in the 
 light of revelation and heaven ; for your present and eternal 
 interests are at stake. A deadly aim is made at your destruc- 
 tion. Insidious influences are at work to effect your over- 
 throw. Therefore, be on your guard, and give diligent heed 
 to your true friends and Utah's long- tried and well-proven 
 reformers. 
 
 Who is this other class of reformers, whatagencies would 
 they use, and what reform do those composing it essay to 
 effect? This class is mainly composed of the Elders of Israel 
 
22 INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 the servants of the living God men in whom dwells the 
 inspiration of the Holy One, which prompts them to almost 
 incessant labor, and to spaie neither time nor means to accom- 
 plish their God-given task. And the reform they would 
 effect is the salvation of a fallen world, some of the details 
 of which they have been working at, with varying success, for 
 over half a century. Alter arriving in Utah they toiled to 
 cultivate and redeem this portion of the earth, and there is 
 plenty of evidence to-day of their success in "turning the 
 wilderness into a fruitful field." They strove to displace the 
 howl of the wolf with the hum of industry, and their success 
 is seen on every hand. They labored to establish a commu- 
 nity in these mountains second to none on earth, in morality 
 and true religion, and they have done so. They have striven 
 for possible reform in every reformable thing, and God has 
 abundantly blessed their efforts. And lastly, and definitely, 
 they have labored under the pressure of poverty and national 
 opposition to raise up a generation of men and women of 
 which the heavens should be proud, and they have succeeded 
 in this, too. 
 
 Now, ye youth of Zion, need we ask you who are your 
 friends 
 
 UTAH'S TRUE REFORMERS? 
 
 We think not. You know them. Experience, observation 
 and the spirit of truth teach you who they are. Then respect 
 them. Obey their wise counsels. Heed their fatherly admo- 
 nitions. Receive their saying corrections. Be cautious and 
 careful, be prudent and discerning in the choice of your 
 society. Place yourselves on the list of Utah's true reformers. 
 Live, labor and remain there tiii your f^aucis of time have run, 
 and you will find yourselves listed for high honors and heirship 
 with Jesus the beloved of the Father. 
 BE SOBER. 
 
 Young men, we do not write for money. Our sole object 
 is to do you good. Please allow us the pleasure of doing so. 
 Read carefully, studiously and prayerfully. Read again with 
 a fixed determination to profit aud reform. Cease to sap 
 your physical and mental power by indulging in vicious 
 habits. Remember those powers were given you to be used 
 
BE SOBER. 23 
 
 for your own elevation and salvation, and to aid in the hercu- 
 lean task of the world's redemption. You will have to render 
 an account of the use of those "talents," therefore do not 
 abuse them, but use them carefully and wisely; exercise them 
 that they may shine brightly, and grow in strength, prepara- 
 tory to immortalization. 
 
 Immortalization ? Yes ! verily, yes ! Do you know that 
 the time draweth nigh when the Son of Man "will come in 
 the clouds of heaven, in power and great glory," accompanied 
 by a heavenly host, and that the righteous will be "caught 
 up to meet Him" at His glorious appearing? 
 
 And do you know, young men, that it is not the privilege 
 of many of you to be among the number who will be "changed 
 in the twinkling of an eye," from mortality to a degree of 
 immortality ? 
 
 And who will have the glorious privilege ? Do you want 
 it? Then live for it. 
 
 Do you want healthy, vigorous and pure bodies ? 
 
 Do you want your spirits to hold righteous dominion over 
 your bodies, and to be as untainted by sin as whea they left 
 your heavenly home? 
 
 Do you desire intellectual ability and superiority to enable 
 you to mold the minds of millions yet unborn? 
 
 Do you wish to become the kind of men, physically, men- 
 tally and morally, through whom the Lord delights to operate, 
 to perform His magnificent latter-day work ? 
 
 Would you like to impart joy unutterable to the bosoms of 
 loving and anxious parents? 
 
 Would you like to experience the exquisite satisfaction 
 which conscious innocence before Glod imparts? 
 
 Do you desire your minds to be holy tablets, upon which 
 the Spirit of inspiration shall delight to indite the will of 
 heaven, daily, for the benefit of yourselves and all others who 
 may be affected by your counsels and example ? 
 
 Would you be the happy recipients of the choice and 
 inestimable blessings the Lord has promised to those who 
 keep the "Word of Wisdom?" 
 
 In brief, do you desire to become the strong-bodied, vigor- 
 ous-minded, pure-hearted men of God the holy temples in 
 
24 INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 which the Third Person in the Trinity can dwell and operate 
 for your salvation, and that of the salvable of Adam's race- 
 such men as He can use and honor in life and eventually exalt 
 and crown in His celestial kingdom ? 
 
 Then be humble and pure, be prayerful and persevering, 
 he honest and wise, be virtuous and obedient be all that 
 Grod desires you to be! And. as an initial, fundamental and 
 powerful means by which to attain the position and glory of 
 the Highest besoberl BE SOBER! BE SOBER! 
 
 TAUGHT BY A GOAT. 
 
 "A thoughtless Welshman, with a thirsty throat- 
 So goes the tale possessed a favorite goat, 
 Which follow' d him, when once, to play the sot, 
 He sought the taproom and the foamy pot. 
 He gave her drink, when, by the cheerful blaze, 
 Strangely forgetting all her sober ways, 
 She rel ! d about and roll'd upon the floor, 
 As never goat had roll'd about before. 
 The giggling topers so enjoyed the sight, 
 That they would have the fun another night. 
 The Welshman took her, but the goat, alas! 
 The portal of the pot-house would not pass. 
 Her master uselessly tried every mode, 
 And pats and punches freely were bestowed. 
 The landlord strove, and did his best, they say, 
 But all in vain, for Nanny won the day ; 
 Cuffing and coaxing, both alike she bore, 
 Nor could they get her through the pot-house door. 
 The wondering Welshman, now no longer blind, 
 Pondered the thing a moment in his mind; 
 Then prudently adopted, in the end, 
 The wise example of his shaggy friend 
 Forsook the pot-house, and reformed his plan, 
 And from that hour became a sober man. 
 Ye drunkards all, this prudent lesson follow, 
 Or own, in sense, a goat can beat you hollow." 
 
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