in this direction have failed; that we have tried legislation, and have not succeeded.-In order to show the incorrectness of this statement, we must consider that so important a change in legislation as is contemplated in this reform, must be attended for a season with popular revulsions. There will be a period of fluctuation. The masses of the people do not fully understand the subject, and are not prepared for a stable course of action. The popular voice is uncertain. This is to be anticipated. The cause has long been familiar with agitation. It has won its glorious triumphs in the midst of such debate and agitation; and now, with its strength of principle and vigorous maturity, we need not fear to trust it once more on the wave of popular agitation. It will be tossed about for a while, but will return again, carrying all obstacles before it.

We should have more confidence in the strength of great principles. In the midst of apparent defeat, by God's assistance, there is a blessing and a victory. We cannot expect that a new law will have all the force and easy applicability of that which is old and well established. We must have a little patience, till it goes into easy and successful operation. To have righteous law on the statute book, is a great point. It will be much that it stands there, for there is a power in right law beyond its immediate availability. Like wisdom, it standeth in the top of high places, and its voice is to the sons of men. If it exist, it will gradually develop its energies, and it can be gradually enforced.

But others object to effort at this point, be

cause the popular mind is yet so divided and unsettled, that they allege it is premature to demand legislation.-We are told that it will be better policy to wait until the public mind is fully enlightened and settled, with reference to legislation to curtail the traffic. Wait, it is said, till there is a general concurrence of desire to prohibit the traffic.

But should we not be criminal, by postponing attention to this matter? We have taken a view of the evils that flow from the traffic. We have seen how our laws protect it. We should ourselves become deeply criminal were we to continue to neglect effort at this point. And we may be sure that the enemy will become more bold and daring, if he discovers that we are daunted and afraid to proceed. We must be decided and courageous, and connect our cause with God; and then one can chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight.

We shall not gain any thing by delay. If we wait until this point can be carried without effort, we shall never act; for while we hesitate, the evil work is progressing, and gaining new victims. And however long we may delay, there will still be this great difficulty, arising from a new law, and the fluctuations of public opinion. It is not premature then to demand restrictive legislation; and however arduous the struggle, duty imperiously calls us to the encounter and with God's blessing we shall succeed.

3. Besides this, the drunkard is to be reclaimed. It has been demonstrated, in the history of this cause, that this unfortunate class of our fellow

beings may be recovered. They are not lost to all hope of recovery: and they make a strong appeal to our sympathies. You have seen the concern of the robin for her immature child, which some careless boy had stolen from the nest, wounded, and left half dead on the ground. How patiently she brings it food and water, and nurses it! Tenderly she broods over it all night, sheltering its tortured body from the cold air of night, and morning's penetrating dew. She perils herself, never leaves it, while her young has life. This is a touching instance of the strong protecting the feeble. How strikingly tender and touching!

How much pains will a tender father sometimes take to subdue a wayward child! What admonitions will he administer; what teachers will he consult; what expedients will he try; what prayers will he offer, for his rebellious son! He sees good mingled with the evil: and if he succeed in winning back his son to virtue, he rejoices over him more than over all the rest of his sons. Well has the poet said

'Oh, if there be within the human heart
A feeling holier than all else beside,
It is the love that warms a parent's heart
E'en for a sinning child-the only tie
That death alone can sever, and is felt

Till the last throb of feeling is at rest.”

From such examples we are taught, not to cast off even the fallen and degraded, but, by kindness, to recover even the inebriate. The

was not always as you see him now.

poor outcast

He was en

dowed perhaps with a noble mind, and a kind and generous heart; and if saved he may be extensively useful.

"Give the aching bosom rest,

Carry joy to every breast

Make the wretched drunkard blest,
By living soberly.

Raise the glorious watchword high,
"Touch not, taste not, till you die.'
Let the echo reach the sky

And earth keep jubilee !"

4. Treat also with kindness the drunkard's family.-You will sometimes see the wife of the drunkard struggling with difficulties to rear a family, amid the most pernicious influences. You may do a great kindness, and call forth the gratitude of that unfortunate woman, by interposing your counsels, and imparting such principles to the children as shall counteract the father's example.

5. Children, too, must be interested in this cause.-Teach the child that he must touch not, taste not, handle not, the accursed thing. If he learn the lesson to abstain utterly from the poison, he is safe.

6. Greater caution is demanded with reference to a corrupt literature, which is calculated to give a bias towards intemperance.-Multitudes are ruined by reading the corrupt writings of Moore, Byron, and many writers of our own age. The dangerous influence of an improper advocacy of alcohol by some writers, is thus alluded to by a Scotch poet

"Robin Burns, in mony a ditty

Loudly sings in whiskey's praise;
Sweet the sang; the mair's the pity,
E'er on it he war'd sic lays."

7. Be consistent.-Patronize temperance stores and taverns in preference to rumselling ones. If your principles are opposed and ridiculed, be firm and consistent in the maintenance of them. Join heartily with temperance men in their efforts to oppose a common enemy. Do not refuse to act in the cause, because all who are connected with it, .do not sympathise with you in politics or moral subjects. This is a great cause, and should enlist and combine men of every class, party, profession, and pursuit.

8. Lecturers must be employed.-From the first, this cause has prospered, through the public advocacy of men possessing suitable qualifications to instruct and guide the public mind in relation to this movement. And the history of the temperance reform will show, that it has prospered in proportion to the amount of this instrumentality judiciously employed. When Hewitt and Frost, and Hunt and others were travelling over the land, and lecturing on the subject, great numbers were flocking around the standard of temperance. And wherever suitable men now go out to advocate this cause before the public, they are successful. In some states, Grand Divisions of the Sons of Temperance have appropriated funds for the employment of travelling lecturers, with decided advantage to the cause. A