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tter to offend. IioiA eat no flash ,ohik the ioo'1a
staadsth, lest make my brother to offend. on
this principle they signed the pledge and com
menced the reform; and their efforts were ap-
proved, and received cordial response from
such as sympathized with them IN their views
OF truth and duty. Ministers, phllanlhropislS'
and the more thoughtful members OF the
churches, in great numbers, enrolled their
names upon the pledge and gave their infu-
ence to the cause.


The experiment was successful beyond the
anticipations of its warmest advocates and as
it progressed, it was found, that what had been
done, under an expectation of submitting to
personal sacrifice, was attended with perso-
nal benefit. Facts were collected and publish
ed; the experience of different individuals was
compared; and the result was that the principle
was at length fully established, that intoxica
ting liquors are not necessary as beverage,
but in all cases injurious; that all the appro-
pirate duties and business of men may be per-
formed without resort to them that they are
not nutritious; that they impart no strength,
physical or moral; that they ward off no dan
ger; while their use occasions immense injury
to all the great interests of society. In view o.
these facts, established by abundant testimony,
confirmed by experience, and conformable to
well established physiological laws, the friends
of temperance have adopted the resolution, the
one idea, not to use intoxicating liquors as a
beverage; not to provide them Tor the use Of
others, but, in all suitable ways, to discounte-
nance their use throughout the community.


Reader, is your name attached to the tempe,
rance pledge? If not will you place it there.
on the ground of truth and christian philan.
thropy, as well as on the ground of health and
personal safety?