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open before us, which every individual is
called to improve? Cannot the friends of
temperance encourage, more generally, the
public meetings which are held? Can they
not seek the victims of intemperance in the
haunts of pollution and wretchedness, and by
the "word ftly spoken" endeavor at least to
point the unfortunate the way to honor, to
happiness, and to God? None can tell the
influence of kindness in cases like these The
drunkard is not lost to feeling-to sensibility
Every vesiige Of goodness has not been oblit-
Grated from his drunken mind-hs sinful heart.
The loving Father of erring and sinful man
has not given him up. There is hope for the
drunkard.


Let every man, woman, and child, look about
him, and inquire whether some duty has not
been neglected-whelher some opportunity to
do good has not passed away unimproved.
Our past successes must not satisfy US, but
only urge us forward to new enterprises. We
mediate better state of things than many
of our friends have permitted themselves to
hope-even the entire suppression of the traffic
and use of Intoxicating drinks in the commu-
nifty; and to secure this desirable end, we
"expect every man to do his duty" Shame
shame to the careless and Indifferent! Go
and look at the miseries which still exist
think how God is dishonored- his Sab
baths are profaned--how crime and misery
swell up to Heaven; listen to the wailings
which come to US upon every breeze, and then,
turning away from these scenes of guilt, and
pollution, and misery, think of tina, cause,
stamped with the seal of Heavens approba-
lion, which proposes the remedy for many Of
these evils. Then ask the question, what
have done to promote the cause of temper
ance?