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, and some may consider it impossible; but, alas ! it is but too true. When those Sunday-school teachers first took their places in the class, had we begged them to sign the pledge of abstinence, probably they would have said, as some of you do now, “No, / am not likely ever to take too much, I am not likely ever to fall into such a degrading vice.” “ Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” Satan’s plea is still the same : “Ye shall not surely die. You may safely drink; you are never likely to exceed the bounds of moderation.” Satan is a liar, and the father of lies. Believe him not. You are no more safe than others if you partake of what God calls “a mocker.” He forbids you even to look upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its bubble in the cup, when it moveth itself upwards, for that (which exactly describes fermented wine) is the more correct rendering of the text. I heard of one Sunday- school teacher whose steps were bent direct to the public- house on leaving the class, and who was several times found intoxicated in the streets. Oh, dear friends, strong drink is indeed raging and spares none. The Band of Hope movement is most important in rearing up a race of children who, being free from the love of intoxicants, can move in our drink-cursed country with- out being tempted at every turn by this hydra-headed monster. They will grow up free, because they are sober ; free from the despotism of alcohol, free from the tyranny of the drink customs, free to fight against this iniquitous traffic, free to help others to break their chains, free to rid their country of this gigantic evil. In the year 1879 the number of persons charged with drunkenness in London alone was 33,892, of whom 15,612 were females, and amongst the men were two clergymen, twenty-three lawyers, and eighty medical men. Who then