For the Columbian Fountain.
Contributions from the Highlands.
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The justice of the divine Being appears
to me in very striking contrast with the cru
city and injustice of our fellow men, espe-
cially of those connected in any way with
the traffic in ardent spirits should de-
part from principle hold very dear were
to make this assertion rashly, or without
proof; but this is not the case: it is made
with the best of feelings towards those who
engage in the thing condemned, and with
evidence al hand which ought to be con-
vincing II is, ] doubt not, in many cases,
only for want of reflection that men will
employ themselves in work so contrary to
wisdom, to piety, and especially to justice.
As my meditations among the mountains
have led me to speak Of this subject,
would affectionately ask any concerned in
the use or encouragement of alcohol as a
drink for man, how the matter appears to
him in connection with view of God? In
following the lines wrote concerning the
propriety of being taught of God, and then
those which related to his wisdom and no.
illness, you had no objection there was no
application made to your case. But now |
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vine nature; and taking you (of course) for
a believer in God, ask you if your busi-
ness is not sad contradiction Of your de-
sire to initiate Deity9 Were He to act so
unjustly towards you as you do towards
your fellow men, in dealing out the cause
of their ruin, what different ideas would
you have of Him to those which | hope
you now entertain ? Now, with tenderness
| say to the distiller, the tavern-keeper, and
all who promote the traffic in this death
difusing article, that their course is very un-
like that Of the God who gives them their
existence for purposes Of a far nobler char
acter. And let such consider, too, that ex-
ercising His justice towards them, after they
have been led to see the evil Of their way,
God will destroy them for ever; or, to
speak perhaps more properly, the natural
tendency of their own injustice, in robbing
the poor, in making miserable the formerly
happy, in giving poison to their neighbors,
and multiplying the ills of life upon them,
will be to drive them far from the presence
of that God who is just in all his ways.


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