/ THE CLAIMS OF TEMPERANCE.
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We claim great deal for Temperance
We claim that the Temperance reformation
has already conferred upon its advocates, an
exceeding great reward, and upon mankind
blessings ineslimable. We claim that sher
ever temperancs has advanced, vice has re
coiled. We claim that in many nations--in
the North and in the South---in the East and
in the West--in cases innumerable, through
the influence Of the one great principle, TEN


perance, wealth has sprung up where before
there was poverty wretchedness has given


place 10 comfort; poorhouses and Jals have


been ,hinned of their victims; haunlSot SIN


have been broken up, and Sabbath breakers


have become orderly and honorable citizens.


We claim that temperance has already ac-
compshed SO much, that it merits the love
and support Of all good men. AN this and
much mneh we claim for temperance
But heaven forbid that we should ever be
found in the ranks Of those who set the tenn


perance cause above, or in any way compare
tito the Gospel Of Jesus Christ. Be our right
hand palsied before we ever admit that tenn
erancc alone can redeem men from the thral-
dom Of sin. One who is perfect in his ad
herence TO the principles Of abstinence from
Intoxicating drinks--one who has solemniy
pledged himself to total abstinence, and has
kept his pledge with inviolable sanctity, may
swear, may lie, may be guilty Of dishonesty /;
but were he perfect 10 obedience 10 the Gospel
of Christ, he would be free from all sia---
Were all men temperance men there would
be no drunkenness;and were drunkenness banish-
ed from the world, it would carry with it host
of accompanying crime. But were all men i'm
bued with the spiritof the Gospel, all vice, adul-
tury, fornication, uncleanness, lasciousness,
2idolatry, witchcraft, hatred variance, emula
iions, wrath, strife, 'sedi,ions, hersies, mur-
ders. drunkenness, revellng, and such like,
would perish from among men; and in their
stead would abound every where, among all
nations and in every family, love, JOY, peace,
long suffering, genueness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance. Glory and success
to the temperance cause, but woe to the man
whs maintains that any thing bat Christ
cruc6ed, can redeem the world from sin.