A Nations Curse a Sermon Preached in Westminster Abbey Upon the Occasion of
A Nations Curse a Sermon Preached in Westminster Abbey Upon the Occasion of
Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William), 1831-1903
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The Spartans, when they wished to turn their children from the shame of Intemperance, showed them the physical degrada- tion of drunken Helots ; but the physical results are nothing to the ?norai devastation, the abject servitude, the spiritual ♦ R. South. A NATIONS CURSE. *j catastroplie of the man who has given himself over to the bondage of drink. When he recovers from the degradation of the animal, it is to feel the anguish of a lost soul. That is the reason why, year by year, drink not onl...y crowds the workhouses with paupers, and the jail with felons, and the asylum with lunatics, and the hospitals with disease ; but also swells more than any other cause — swells week by week, and year by year — the list of those who through the awful gate of suicide rush, with rude insult, into the presence of their God. *' The measure of alcohol consumed in a dis- trict, " said Baron Dowse, *' is the measure of the degrada- tion. " Whenever the drink tide rises highest, there, too, is the high-water mark of suicide, mortality and crime.
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