A WORD WITH YOU!
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Are YOU member Of a christian church!
Then how can you, consistently with your
weighty obligations, withhold your influence
and example from the cause oftolal abstinence!
Can you read in your bible, "whether ye eat
or drink, or whatsoever ye DO, do all to the
glory of God,' then close the sacred book,
open the sdeboard, take dht the decanter and
help yourself to glass of brandy, or enter
eroggery, and call for the drunkard's drink,
without incurring the reproach OF neglechng
to heed the admoniton ofthat voumne which
ought 10 be your gulde2 You are Cor should
be) one of the lights of the world, and II your
light be darkness how great will that darkness
be! The temperance enterprise is unquesuoon-
ABLY benevolent. Under God, il prepares the
way for christianity. How can you stand
aloof? ssHe that knowelh to do good and doeth
it not. to him 1t is SIM" Can you avoid this
condemnation if your refusal to cooperate re-
tards the progress OF this great moral revolu
ton? Come, let your light shine! Act con-
sistenty, or receive, as you deserve, the scorn
of jeering world.


Are YOU a member of an interesting family!
Perhaps pious father is now bowed IN prayer
for you, or awaiting with an anxious heart,
the return of his prodgal son. It may be that
fond mother weeps many bitter tears, as IN
her loneliness she medtates on your intemperate
life. Brothers and sisters, perhaps wife and
children, are touched to the heart 10 behold IN
YOU dissipated brother, husband, or iather.
Will you not chase away their tears and glad
den the home circle, when you can DO 1t with
so little effort? Come! come! append your
name to the pledge! Then feel that you are
freeman! Then know that society will re-
spect you! Then; with light heart and bound
ing step, 60 home TO your freside, to witness
the smile which beams sweetly from the lace
OF your wife, and the joy-brightened glances OF
your children; to receive the benedicuon OF pa
rents, who love you with the deep, fond aiiec-
ton which none but the heart OF parent can
feel; to enjoy the approval of conscience and
the blessing Of God.