An Address Delivered Before the Southbridge Temperance Society On the ...
An Address Delivered Before the Southbridge Temperance Society On the ...
Addison Parker
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Deluded man ! ! He knows not, and wishes not to know, that the only thing that | can save his life, ai;id ease the pains that keep him on the rack, Digitized by Google -rr*r-i 10 and repair bis broken beattb, is abstlnenee from tbis poisoD. — The physictan can afford hitn no substantial relief, as long ai be contiuues the use of his wonted beverage. Medicine can- not even smoothe the rugged path that the wretched man is travelling. The fire that he constantly carries in his bosom will burn. The... course of nature must be reversed before it can be otherwise. £very man, whatever his habits may now be, baa seen the time when he was temperate. Men are not bom drunkards.-^ The situation which I have just been sketching, is one into which every one who is in the habit of using spirit at all as an article of diink, is in danger of falling. The appetite for intoii* icatiug liquors that is created by use, and pampered by indul- gence, will, in multitudes of cases, continue to cry, give, give, till the mau has lost his self command ; till he is in a current that will carry him irresistibly onward ; till he founders in the gulf of absolute sottishness and ruin.
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