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The last witness we will call (though


many more might be called y is Intellect
And what says Intellect? .a." ". o',g. NV . II


Have you ever derived any benefit. from
alcohol aatA .o "H"8a "@6 Hs$' .El IA
Z No, never: Alcohol produces J. perni-,
cious effect upon all the powers of the
mind. All the intellectual faculties, which
raise man above the brute and rend er him
lord of this world, are intimately y ass ociated
with the brain. .r,N .t..ua taaaun4.ua Fta.
A They grow with its growth, strengthen
with its strength, and decline with its decay.
Every temporary excitement of the. brain,
arouses the operations of the mind in a cor :
responding degree, and when this. is done,
the excitement soon produces fatigue. Al
cohol has often been taken to excite the
powers of the mind, and unquestioalahly
has often done it for time. But then, lis,
effect has been ultimately injrtrious. know
not that any ofmy audience read the poetry
Of Lord Byron, and probably the less of it
you read the better. His Childe Harold
was written when the author practist;d to-
tai abstinence from spirituous liquors., and
his Don Juan when he jad ed his muse with
gin. The former is amusing, chaste, stir
ring, and beautiful; the latter presents a g ood
commentary on the demoralizmg infue nee
of such stimulus, 1t creates debasing AN d
polluting atmosphere a, e, se,.a. .awe,rare.
In past ages, the study, the bar, the pul :
pit, and the hall of Legislation, have b beel l
rueful testimony to the direiul effects OF
alcoholic drinks upon the intellect of m an I;
for alcohol has pervaded every rank sind
class of society. Like the oppression of The
British lion upon the Colonies, it has oppr es-
sed all ranks and classes of society. No
place has been too elevated, no profess ion
too sacred, for the touch of this harpy to
polIute. .--.-.-a--...--'


Go to our hospitals. Three-fourths Of
their wretched inmates in one or anot her
have been brought to insanity by ardent $ pi-
rit' Could all the sufferngs of the min, q
man be brought bfore you, no doubt 20,
would find far the greater proportion o
them have arisen from the use Of alcohc vi
liquors. Thus the testimony of intellec /!
that alcohol is an oppressor. as-af 1&


Now in the mouth of these witness les
IExpense, Peace, Health, ans Intellect, la 81