{"newspaper_name": "The Columbian fountain.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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Mr.. EDITOR Beautiful are the ways of tenn
perance: truly ''her ways are ways ofpleasant-


ness, and all her paths are peace" But, after
all, Mr.. Editor, the most beautiful, lasting, and


beneficial of her operations is the influence she
exerls upon the mind. Here only is seen the
hottest and happest OF her influences. Great
as are the benefits she conlers upon humanity ;,
physically-happy as are her influences upon
the temporal condition of man--ennoblng as
are her operations upon his form and features,
restoring, as she does, his similitude to his
Creator, causing him to walk erect-the no
blest OF Gods works--these benefits, great as
they undoubtedly are, dwindle into nsignif-
canoe when compared to that which she exer-
cises upon his future and eternal destiny.


Here are her projections displayed She first
fits him for the enjoyment of happiness here,
and opens the way 10 proper appreciation of
that existence which begins with the end Of
time, and is so fully expressed in that dreadful
word ETERNITY Dreadful, did ! say, yes,
feaJhlly so to the drunkard---for, through its
countless ages, there is no hope for him. But
the star of Temperance has arisen--and hope
dawns 10 the benighted mind Of the inebTate.
He seizes upon it, and the struggle com
mence. Temptations beset him on every hand;
but, with his eye fixed upon the star in the
East--he presses forward--hope buoys him
up--grows lighter and stronger as he advances,