USEFUL MISCELLANY.

A Temperance Pledge 200 years ago.
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ATemperance A Pledge 200 years ago.
I. The following pledge was found written
ON the blank leaf Of an old English bookt
which has been handed down from paren,
to child for several generations. Robert
Bolton, the writer Of the pledge, was
preacher Of the gospel at Broughton, Eng
land:


Broughton, 1887 Ffrom this daye for
warde to the ende Of my life, will never
pledge anye health, nor drink whole car
owse in glasse, cuppe, bowie, or any other
drinking instrument whatsoever whoever
it be, or from whomsoever it come, except
the necessity Of nature doe require il. Not
my owne most gracious kinge; nor anye
the greatest monarch or tyrant on earth.
Nor my dearest ffriende nor all the goulde
in the world, shall ever enforce me or al
lure me not an angel from heaven (whoe
I know will not attempt it) should per-
suade me, Not Satan with all his old
suuueucs, uoi oil tuc PoWctS VI AiCh ~
self, shall ever betray me. By this very
slime (for a slime it is and not little one,)
! doe plainly fnde that have more Of
Tended and dishonored my create and glo-
rious Maker and most merciful Saviour,
than by all other shines that am subject
unto and for this very slime know it is
that God hath often bene strange unto me.
And for that cause, and noe other respect,
have thus vowed and ] hearlilye begge
my good Father in heaven OF his great
goodness and infinite mercie, in Jesus Xt.
able untoe me flor what is past. Amen!
R. BoLToN.


AprH 10, 1857.