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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 194
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ...would perish in the field. ' We cannot hire labourers, and our neighbors will not assist us unless we treat them with strong drink." it is nearly certain that no man in a christian country ever said this without slandering his neighbors. We know in deed, that the poor Indian on whom the light ofthe Gospel has never shone-----at the moment when that hell which he carries in his bosom, is set on flame with whiskey, would shoot you ifyou would. not give him more: but when sober a refusal would neither endanger your life nor property. And do you believe that your neighbors are so much worse than savage, that even when you pay them an equivalent for their labour, they will not assist you unless you feed them withstimulating drink? No. The fact thatyou continue to live in hear of as so dangerous., ' such a neighborhood shows that _you do not believe it. Facts in your.own neighborhood, and others, show that it is incredible. The history of all fair attempts to banish ardent spirits has been substantially thesame. Atfirst there is considerable excitement. Satan comes dwn gvith great wrath, because heknows that his time is short.---_ intempepate lovers of drink will be roused. They will threaten ' ith desertion. They will try to sting you with hard namcs----I I "with flings at hypocricy, and preciseness, and stinginess. But the 15' moment they discover that you are not to be intimidated the'diflicul ty is over. It is questionable whether this globe can produce a man who will say in truth, that he or his family are sufieringloss ofeithet" comfort or property, in consequence of banishing ardent spirits.--The hundreds who have done it, will tell you that in both these res-' pects they have gained much. i 'We...
