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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    of the field ? ” It is a bloodless field in which we aie called to fight, but courage and endurance are needed as much in our battle as in theirs. Everyone who, in waging a war against alcohol, resists the tyranny of custom, the pleadings of friends, the warnings of relations, the prescriptions of medical men, “ fights a good fight,” and needs a strength which God alone can give. All honour to that Christian mother who, lately, when a doctor prescribed spirits for her young daughter, told him plainly that “no child of hers should ever, with her consent, touch one drop of such a dan- gerous potion.” Oh for more of such mothers ! Thousands are sinking into a drunkard’s grave through this fatal pre- scription. Let us be firm in refusing this deleterious drug, this subtile and destructive agent. It requires courage to do this, but God will give us all needed strength. Then, clear from even one shackle of this terrible chain, we shall be free to devote every faculty to our Lord’s service in “ the splendid liberty of total abstinence and as “ ensamples to the flock ” we shall not lead them into “ slippery places,” but into “straight paths,” so that “ when the Chief Shepherd shall appear we shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.”