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Page 6
... annually conveyed to the grave by this vice - a number greater than war and the pestilence has ever swept annually from our land ; -from the fact , that this vice consumed not less than $ 100,000,000 of our wealth annually , a sum ...
... annually conveyed to the grave by this vice - a number greater than war and the pestilence has ever swept annually from our land ; -from the fact , that this vice consumed not less than $ 100,000,000 of our wealth annually , a sum ...
Page 8
... annually , and renders us no compensation , but poverty , want , curses , loathsomeness , and tears . In any single year in this Union , could the effects be gathered into one single group , they would present to the eye the following ...
... annually , and renders us no compensation , but poverty , want , curses , loathsomeness , and tears . In any single year in this Union , could the effects be gathered into one single group , they would present to the eye the following ...
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... annually ; that not less than 300,000 of our countrymen are intemperate ; that it is the source of nine- tenths of the pauperism and crimes of the nation ; that more than 600 are reduced by it to insanity , and more than 30,000 annual ...
... annually ; that not less than 300,000 of our countrymen are intemperate ; that it is the source of nine- tenths of the pauperism and crimes of the nation ; that more than 600 are reduced by it to insanity , and more than 30,000 annual ...
Page 14
... annually , from one hundred men to whom the Lord has committed property , do more good to the temporal and eternal interests of men ? " But why not from a thousand men , dear , departed , sainted Doctor ? The blessed seed thus early ...
... annually , from one hundred men to whom the Lord has committed property , do more good to the temporal and eternal interests of men ? " But why not from a thousand men , dear , departed , sainted Doctor ? The blessed seed thus early ...
Page 15
... annually a pretty considerable bill of expense . Thousands of private and of professional gentle- men no longer replenished their sideboards with a variety of expensive liquors as formerly , and thus they were saved heavy bills of ...
... annually a pretty considerable bill of expense . Thousands of private and of professional gentle- men no longer replenished their sideboards with a variety of expensive liquors as formerly , and thus they were saved heavy bills of ...
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ALBERT BARNES alcoholic alms-houses annually ardent spirits blessed Christian Church Committee commonwealth Convention county Temperance Society court crime curse death deemed delirium tremens dram shop drunkard effect employment engaged enterprise evil expense fact fathers fee simple fellow citizens friends of Temperance grave happiness Harrisburg honor houses hundred influence intemperance intoxicating drinks intoxicating liquors John Jonadab justice Justin Edwards labor land legislation Legislature liberty license liquor system Massachusetts Mayor mechanic meetings moral nation Nazarites NEAL DOW organization paid a dollar patron pauperism perance person Philadelphia pledge poison Portland principle promote Rechabites regard Resolved retail ruin secure sell Sons of Temperance strong drink tavern temperance cause temperance organizations thousand tion total abstinence town traffic in ardent traffic in rum traffic is entirely vice violation virtue virtuous Washingtonian movement wine woes
Popular passages
Page 21 - But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way ; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink ; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Page 21 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Page 3 - He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
Page 11 - Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 10 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 2 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die : it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations...
Page 9 - It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink; lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Page 11 - Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink ; that continue until night, till wine inflame them...
Page 14 - We consider the voluntary enslaving of one part of the human race by another as a gross violation of the most precious and sacred rights of human nature, as utterly inconsistent with the law of God, which requires us to love our neighbor as ourselves, and as totally irreconcilable with the spirit and principles of the gospel of Christ, which enjoin that "all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.
Page 12 - It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or is made weak.