Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

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[1874?]
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Credit: Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cellence and a model to be unhesitatingly followed. I have often heard children in conversation with others say, in their artless faith and strong confidence, “ Teacher says so,” considering the dictum to be final and un- answerable. Let your influence be on the right side. Many of the little ones will follow you, and who shall say how much pain you may avert from our English home-life, how much shadowing evil you may dispel if you teach by precept and example the bane of intoxicating drink. The question naturally arises, What can be done by you as teachers to roll away the reproach from our land ? I should give the first place to example. Abstain yourselves ! It is safe. I have abstained for the last eleven years, and only had the doctor’s attendance once, whereas previously I was often obliged to ask his services. It is safer to abstain than to drink for all of us who are brain workers, seeing that alcohol only whips the brain on to exhaustion, and then cries' for more whip and spur, and so on, till disease and death ensue. It is the safest practice, for if you never touch the drink, you are out of reach of danger from it; you know exactly the condition of your nerves, you can measure your power with a nicety that those who take strong drink do not possess, you know when your strength is declining, the fact not being concealed from you by the narcotic influence of alcohol, your sentinel nerves are not drugged at their posts, and they cry out