BAD PROMISES.
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Many persons who have in years gone by
pledged themselves to continue in certain
practises, but who are now convinced tina
these practses are wrong, will not leave them
of because they say am pledged. But they
should remember that bad promises are better
broken than kept. One of tho greatest Of the
English poets has said, etsj s#.
"Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken,
And he wants wit, that wants resolved will
To learn his wit to exchange the bad for bet
ter"


If men were once careful 10 keep their good
pledges, such as the temperance pledge, and
less heedful about their vows to do evil, they
would find themselves the gamers