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golden treasure? or would you keep his heart
uncorrupted with the maddening scene? Why
is it, that in every city there is more vice than
in the peace and retirement of the country?
Is it not because the temptations to crime are
more rfe7 But suppose the argument were
true, that men would drink at home, if no
public resorts were provided What follows?
Why this: that moral means could more ef-
fectually be used to stop the increase of In
temperance. We could then go to the man
and tell him of the wrongs he is;inhicting up
on that family-of the thorn seeds he was
planting for his own wounding-of all the
serious consequences intemperance would bring
around his hearth-of weeping wife, of hun
CRY and squallid children, whose early years
passed amidst the miseries Of the bowl, would
grow up marked with vice and licentiousness
of the duty he owed to those children whom
God had given him, the duty he owed to his
Creator, the world, and himself We could
throw around him the arms of love and kind
ness, and he would be more than human if he
could resist all this.
The prayer" deliver US from temptation"
lis daily and hourly lifted up to heaven. And
shall it be in vain9 Will the law still place in
"honorable" stations those who are far worse
than the drunkard. He may drink and be led
to ruin; we may pity him, but despise the