Number lO4.
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affr'ghed from the pit /, and, through grace,


many lift up their hands imploringly to Hea-


ven, as the only refuge for the outcast--the


home forthe weary! This has been the result


with many reformed drunkards in time past
and gone. They have become members Of
Christian Churches, having hope in God and
Joy Ir the Holy Ghost; and so will it be
4 more and more, around the world, as min
listers and Christians meet them in kind
ness, and lead them to the waters Of saliva
tlon But what can we do9 How can
We aid the poor, unfortunate drunkard
This is the question. All can do little;
some, can do much. Every man can get
OH of The moy Of his reform-cease setting
him an example which proves his ruin
cease selling him an article which is death
to the soul--disc nance the drinking
US 'ges of society, and those licensed and
unlicensed dram-shops which darken the
land.


Every man can speak al encouraging
Of what is doing in the land; allure and
20 with him to the temperance meeting,
and urge him to sign the Pledge; and
when he has signed, comfort and strengthen
him; give him employment, give him clo-
AZ 4 T. A.
he falls seven times raise him up and for
give him, Try II, Christian brother.
know your heart bursts forth in gratitude
to God for what he has done; that he has
raised up new instrumentality for rescu-
ing thousands of our race from the lowest
degradation 1t is a token Of good for our
country and the world. Enter into this
field of labor: 6 You know the grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was
rich, yet, for our sakes, he became poor,
that we, through his poverty, might be-
come rich" Go initiate his example; be-
come poor, if need be, to save the lost 20
ou, into the highways and hedges, and
compel them to come in: Try it, Chris
tidn phiianihropist 8 II is good neither to
eat flesh nor drink wine, nor any thing
whereby thy brother stumbeth, or is Of
Tended, or made weak" Sacrifices make
The world happy, and glorifes God. Try
IT. Christian female. 1t is work for your
sex. Woman is the greatest sufferer from
lntemprrance driven by it from her home,
made an ontcast from all the comforts of
domestic love, while her babes cry for
bread, and she has no relief. Lost men
will listen to your words of kindness, be
cheered by your beneIactions, encouraged
by your smiles. Try II, young men. Have
you no companions ear y paIsed, withered
and scathed by alcoholic fires, treading now
on the verge Of the drunkard's graves &c.
after them in their misery, go, thanking
God that YOU are not as they are 90, b.
lIevIng that you may save them; that they
will receive you thankfully; that they
must have your help or be lost go, and
be strong in this work. The movements
Of Providence call you TO effort for the un-
fortunate and ~retched, that you may pull
them out OF the fire. What you do in the
blessed work, do quickly. o, if it be in
your power 10 save one young man, do il
9n'ckIy. Run, and speak to that young
man he will thank you for it; his father
will thank you, his mother will thank
you; his sisters will thank you; his i'm
mortal soul, rescued and saved, will lone
you for euer, w.