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porting Total Abstinence principles, because OF
their happy effects upon our relations 70 society
and TO our own happiness.


But being any thing else but skeptical in re-
ligion, regarding the law Of God as the highest
rule of action Tor man, we contend, with SO
much the greater force, for the banishment OF
intemperance from among us. IL is not only
cursing sin, but a burning shame, that men
who profess desire to promote human veal,
will deal out to their neighbors or use them
selves the liquid fire which destroys Its victims,
soul and body, now and forever, and dihuses
nothing but misery aad death in all It's course.
No friend Of God can encourage this traffic
with his eyes open; neither can any true friend
Of man; and the day is coming, thank God,
when those who will not cease to deal out
death to their fellows will be looked upon as
being what they are, and not what they vaiily
profess to be. Our enemies may now ''laugh
us to scorn," and call us "ultraists" and the
like, but our course is onward, and by the d.
vine blessing, which we humbly invoke up,
on our efforts, we shall glorIously triumph
over all opposition. The work in which we
engage is religious work, because we can ask
Gods blessing upon it, with the assurance
tina, he hears and answers our prayer; but whe
ther considered as religious or merely human
movement, it is good, and can produce no other
effect than to benefit and render happy all who
embrace and follow it.