Yours in haste,

For the Columbian Fountain
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For the Columbian Fountain.


When will the moral man and the Chris
tian withdraw altogether from countenanc-
ing, either directly or indirectly, the manu-
tacture, sale, or use of distilled or fermened
liquors, which are SO prc-eminently Satan's
instruments of,eyil to gully world.


Let him who sells intoxicating liquors
bring the practice Of his daily calling to the
standard Of the Bible; and when he stores
his ships with this body and soul destroying
agent; when he holds out the tempting SYM
bols To his friends and to all around him i;
when he knows its deleterious nature, and
sees its demoralizing tendency; when his
hands are polluted in transmitting it TO the
hand Of the drunkard--when husbands and
wives, and mothers and children are pining
in indigence and hopeless sorrow, caused by
that very article which it is his business to
reiail,-let him inquire whether he can be
a participant in, and cause of such scenes,
and yet be free from guilt. Let him inquire
whether he can conscientiously go on his
knees and pray for the blessing Of God to
rest upon, and to prosper the work Of his
hands. Let him inquire whether he seri-
ously believes that God will send forth his
hogsheads Of whiskey, or rum, or brandy,
to be blessing to his fellow men; or whe-
ther he can lie down on his pillow, at night,
with a calm and tranquil mind, when lie
thinks on the miserable and wretched be-
ings whom he has been helping to destroy,
some of whom have passed into eternity un-
der the influence Of liquors provided for them
within his door. Let him ponder we'll such
passages Of the word Of God as these, and
let conscience give the verdict :-"Wo unto
him that givelh his neighbor drink, and
maketh him drunken" 6 Let no man put
stumbling block, or all occasion to fall, in
his brothers. wayp "Have no fellowship
with the unfruitful works of darkness" Let
no man seek his own, but every man ancth-
er's wealth." Whether, therefore, we eat
or drink, 6r whatsoever ye do, do all to the
glory to God" P.