'rrell me I hate the bowl,
Hate is a feeble word!


] loath-a abhor--my very soul


With deep disgust is stirr'd. ;.
: Whep e'er | think, or hear, or tell


or the dark beverage Of hell \"
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Let US also stretch our contemplation abroad
beyond ourselves, 10 our duties TO our fellow
men. Let US look into the abodes Of wretched-
ness-into the annals Of crime--into our jails
and peniteniiaries--iuto our poor houses and
asyums-ay, look around home. and into our
own grave yards--to zee what the hydra iniem-
perance has done. and is doing. in our midst;
and, be assured. every feeling ofthe heart will
nerve and prompt US TO the discharge Of all the
duties embaced in the solemn and binding OBJ
legation which rests upon every "Son Of Tenn
peradce." Firs, and most prominent among
these, is the obligation, and what is necessari-
ly implied in the obligation, neither 10 "make
any, OF selp' intoxicating drinks; and mos,
properly frs, and prominent; for, il none were
made, bought. or sold, for use, Gas bever-
age" Gin the words Of the Pledge what would
be the use of pledges and organizations TO pro-
tect ourselves and the country. against The evils
Of in,emperancef Phere could be no intem
perance. The effect ceases when the cause is
removed. 1t is that binding, and blunnng.
and seasias passion for gain which prompts
men to pursue the tra6c AMID all the clear lgh,
which now shioes around Them, and in which
III Others but themselves can see tina, traffic, in
IL effects, "evil only and that continually"
without sny consequent countervailing good,
that has done, and d doing, oil that we are or
ganized 70 gnard against, and 10 remedy. a
passion which prompts iw victims. and blinds
them into the belief that i, Is all right, even to
put the cvpof death iute abe hands Of boys and
children, and to mar, and scathe. and blast the
fairest works Of God--,o stoop. for qualification.
to the lowest and mos, palry meanness, or
rise to the highest and. nost heayen.daring sa-
crilege; passion that, subject 10 no apparen,
limit or restraint, il really seems would


"Strip the dead,


And rob the orphan Of his cras, Of bread;


Pillage the palace ofihe King Of kings,


And clip the gliding from an angels wingsl'