Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

Date:: [1874?]

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

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this subject, a lady was listening to me who had been a victim to drink for some thirteen years. If you could know or I could tell the .agony that was pressed into those long years for herself and for her relatives, it would move the stoutest heart among you: the anguish of re- pentance, fresh endeavours made, to be again paralysed by drink, the ruin to every prospect in life, and at last the loss of mind and the slow wasting of a lingering death, would make even a hard heart relent—with that last and latest work of drink before my heart, wrought on an educated, cultivated woman—can I do otherwise than implore you to point out by example and precept to the children confided to your care the danger of strong drink ? Moderation forges a chain in many a case that may look very light at the first, but at' the close it drags heavily and with ever-increasing violence, and its bright links are stained with blood. As you value the happiness of the children given to your charge by God to be educated in true knowledge, teach them early the mockery and misery consequent upon false ideas of the nature and effects of strong drink.