Annual Address Delivered Before the Massachusetts Temperance Society, May 29, 1836J. Ford, 1836 - 39 pages |
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... it has no power to destroy the truth ; this is essentially immortal in its very nature , for the truth is an attri- bute of divinity . There it is , always ready to minister to our highest wants , -to aid us in the greatest and 14.
... it has no power to destroy the truth ; this is essentially immortal in its very nature , for the truth is an attri- bute of divinity . There it is , always ready to minister to our highest wants , -to aid us in the greatest and 14.
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... destroy it ? Should not every friend to this cause take the high and noble ground of an apostle on another occa- sion , and say to the world , that neither height nor depth , nor any creature , shall separate him from this good and ...
... destroy it ? Should not every friend to this cause take the high and noble ground of an apostle on another occa- sion , and say to the world , that neither height nor depth , nor any creature , shall separate him from this good and ...
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... destroyed , making home with all its associations utterly , utterly wretched . Look at the public receptacles of pauperism , and crime , and learn from the record how largely both depend on intemperance for their wretched occupants ...
... destroyed , making home with all its associations utterly , utterly wretched . Look at the public receptacles of pauperism , and crime , and learn from the record how largely both depend on intemperance for their wretched occupants ...
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... destroy its peace , and poison its virtue , -lotteries and all other forms of gambling deeply injure its prosperity and its morals . Society will not , or does not tolerate these or any of them in its laws , —it de- clares them to be ...
... destroy its peace , and poison its virtue , -lotteries and all other forms of gambling deeply injure its prosperity and its morals . Society will not , or does not tolerate these or any of them in its laws , —it de- clares them to be ...
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... destroyed by drinking cus- toms . " It is the social drinking usage of Ireland that has done so much to injure the people . Solitary drunkenness is hardly known in the country . But not to treat and be treated , has heretofore been ...
... destroyed by drinking cus- toms . " It is the social drinking usage of Ireland that has done so much to injure the people . Solitary drunkenness is hardly known in the country . But not to treat and be treated , has heretofore been ...
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abstinence American Temperance Society annually appetite ardent spirit become blessings body Boston cause of Temperance cease character cholera Christian church Committee continue crime Daniel Waldo death disease distilled divine drunkards drunkenness duty effects efforts Eleazer Lord ENOCH HALE eternal evils facts feel Felix Grundy friends of humanity friends of temperance furnish Gerrit Smith habits heart hope human hundred immorality increase individual influence intemperance interest intoxicating liquors John JOHN FORD JUSTIN EDWARDS labor land legislation license lives Massachusetts means meeting mind moral never object occasioned paupers perance perpetuate persons pledge poison present principle produce promote religion render Report resolution Resolved respectable ruin Samuel Secretary sell sober soul spirituous liquors temperance cause Temperance Reformation tends thing thousand tion town traffic in ardent truth United vice whole William York
Popular passages
Page 1 - Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Page 86 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Page 46 - For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still : woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless...
Page 2 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll ; Till like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole : Till o'er our ransomed nature, The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page iii - I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
Page 17 - But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
Page 50 - Most precious the opportunity of becoming wise, in turning many to righteousness, and of shining, at last, as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars, forever and ever.
Page 2 - From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 37 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; that he may bring forth food out of the earth; and wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.