INTEMPERANCE.
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The law forbids the keeping OF disorder
ly houses. Does any lawyer pronounce the
law unconstitutional! No. And the law thus
prohibits them, because the proceedings
which they encourage are injurious to the
public welfare. Some may say that such
proceedings are sins directly prohibited by
Scripture, and that this is sufficient rea-
son for the legal prohibitions. For the sake
of argument we grant this, and ask if fthose
reasons, together with those already urged
against gaming houses, are not equally APP
plicable to houses of intemperance , Rev
elation is quite as imperative against inte,n-
pera,e against .intemperance, as it is against
violence, fraud, adultdry, profanity, or any
other sin and intemperance produces more
injury TO public welfare, than all 'other sins
combined, and is the source whence nine
tenths of them flow Then wha tever log
ic, Scriptural or legal, speaks against gam
ing, impurity, profanity and other vices, il
equally loud against intemperance and as
"A carrollry, if laws against the firstare con
sttutional, as every one admits, SO must be
laws against the last. ......,.i 81


But we shall be told that all drinking il
not intemperance. Neither is all lcenti
BUSINESS seduction or adulnry IS But w
may add that, authorizing the indiscrimi
nate sale of alcohol, because every drinke
does not become intoxicated, is like author
'izing the indiscriminate sale Of obscen'