ways on hand, and spreads them out in
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ways on hand, and spreads them out in


tempting array before all who may enter
his house. Is this not "puttlng STUN
blipp-block or an occasion to fall in his
hrotbar,s way?n Is it not directly and
openly tempting him to do wrong Every


man who sells spirituous liquors to be
DRINK as beverage, and every man who
furnishes the facilities for such saes-the


house and appurtenances for doing it
knows that he is doing that which lnf1icts
an injury on the consumer. He knows or
might know-for the testimony of the
whole medical faculty shows it, and the
moral sense of every dsinterested and So
ber man confirms it---that no man can
drink spirituous liquors without injury.
Every glass taken by person in health,
invariably, to some extent, is both physl-
caIly and morally injurious. And yet he
will continue to furnish it and spread it out
in tempting array in order to induce his
fellow-man to purchase and drink it. Is
not this tempting men to do wroug' Is it
not putting stumbling block or occasion
to fall in brothers. way


I know indeed that the man who sells
spirtuous liquors, and the man who pro-
vides house for doing it, have different
object in view from that of injuring their
fellow men. They DO it fol pecuniary
profit. Their object is gain. If they could
only secure their profits, they would doubt-
less be willing that their fellow men should
escape injury. they know well enough
that they cannot have their profits without
inAicting the injury. And so, rather than
lose their gains, they will do the injury
0 how opposite is this from spirit of kind
ness and benevolence. What spirit Of
selfshness does it show What proof it
gives of a willingness to rise on the fall and
ruin OF others How like is it to certain
other tempter who "goelh about as roar
ius lion seeking whom he may devour!"


~ (To be continued)