this for excitement and amusement. This is a great encouragement to intemperate habits.

9. Again, disappointment in business, and the blighting of hope, is a prolific cause of drunken

ness.

All are liable to reverses; and when troubles have come thick upon a man, there will be a tremendous revulsion of feeling, and mortification. Multitudes under such trials fail to resort to proper means for consolation, and fly to stimulants. They obtain a soothing but fatal hallucination in alcoholic beverages, and make a wreck of body and soul, and every interest for time and eternity.

10. Stimulating food and alcoholic mixtures, administered to children in infancy, contribute to the same result.

When the diet should be of the most bland and unirritating nature, how often have we seen nurses and mothers feeding the little sufferer with toddy in various forms, peppermint, and a great variety of the most heating articles! When the child has a pain in its stomach, it must have brandy toddy. Nothing is regarded as so efficient to remove nausea as peppermint and gin. When the child is restless and cries, paregoric, made of alcohol, spices, and opium, must be administered. Thus the nurse seems as if she were making an experiment, to see how much injury, moral, intellectual, and physical, she can inflict on the helpless being committed to her charge.

11. The sensuality and earthliness of the community, is a fruitful occasion of inebriety.

Great multitudes live unduly for the body. Multitudes who are never drunk, place their chief happiness in pleasures of the table. How much of the intellect of this community is palsied-how much the expression of the countenance blotted out-how much of the spirit buried by unwise indulgence! It is the sensuality, the earthliness of those who give tone to public sentiment, which is chargeable with a vast amount of intemperance among the poor. How is the poor man to resist intemperance? Only by a moral force, and energy of will, a principle of self-denial in the soul. And where is this taught him? Alas! the great inquiry which he hears among the better educated, is-What shall we eat and drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed ? Unceasing struggles for outward earthly good, constitute the chief activity which he sees around him. Thus he is encouraged to seek enjoyment in intoxicating beverages.

12. Auctioneers, merchants, and others, have often done much to encourage intemperance, by furnishing alcoholic beverages to their customers gratis, with a view to make them feel richer and more liberal. This is utterly wrong.

A number of gentlemen met to consult upon the value of certain lots of land that were to be offered for sale. After due inquiry, they concluded unanimously that the lots were not worth more than a certain sum, and that they would none of them bid more. The sale was opened, and no man bid higher than the sum which was named. The owner would not sell at that price, and stopped the sale. It being

cold, he invited them to go in and warm. While the fire was warming them without, he prepared some alcohol in a very palatable manner, to warm them within. He offered it gratis-and they drank freely. When he thought they were warm enough, he again opened the sale. One of those men felt so much richer, and the land appeared to be worth so much more, that he actually bid and gave for a lot four times as much as he or any of these men, when not poisoned, thought the land to be worth.

Is it wise for a man to consent to be thus deceived and robbed of his money?

CHAPTER VI.

REMEDY FOR INTEMPERANCE.

How can the evils connected with the use of Alcohol be arrested?

In reply to this question, I would say, there are two modes of action. To rescue men, we must act on them inwardly and outwardly. We must either give them strength within to withstand the temptations to intemperance, or we must remove these temptations from without. We must increase the power of resistance, or diminish the pressure which is to be resisted. The first of these modes is the most effectual for individual security. No man is secure from the blighting influence of this scourge, unless he has a moral force, a pure and strong principle within, which will resist every solicitation to improper indulgence.

Religious principle in the soul, is the surest safeguard against the baneful influence of intemperance.

Christianity is a mighty power, before which this destroyer is to fall. It brings to bear the most powerful motives that can act on the human mind; it speaks to the conscience in the name of the Almighty Judge; it speaks to the heart in the most moving accents of love; it proffers strength to the weak, and pardon to the guilty; it reveals to men an im

mortal nature within, and an eternal state before them; it awakens generous affections, and binds. man by new ties to God and his race. We must secure to virtue and temperance, the power of conviction. Nothing is sure but truth. No other foundation can sustain a permanent reform. The power of the Gospel on man's moral and intellectual nature -securing reform from conviction, and true repentance is an influence that will be permanent and enduring. It is the true power to subdue sin everywhere and in every form. In distant, heathen India, it can break down the power of caste. In Africa, it will annihilate the traffic in human beings. In the isles of the sea, it changes fierce cannibals into mild and gentle beings, who are ready to sit at the feet of Christ to receive instruction. It will transform the savage warrior of the wilderness, into a peaceful husbandman, ready to render a tribute of praise to the Great Spirit. In civilized, enlightened lands, it has power to humble the blasphemer-reform the drunkard-prostrate the infidel-melt the heart of the oppressor-break the chain of the slave -open the purse of the miser-make man ashamed of war and carnage, and fill all hearts with gratitude and love.

What cares the reformed inebriate, when his tyrant appetite comes upon him, and he is urged to partake of the poisonous beverage; what regard has he then for his respectable standing in society,pecuniary advantage, or family claims—or life, or death, or heaven, or hell? These things influence him but little. If he has not the fear of God, and