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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    TOTAL ABSTINENCE IN ITS PROPER PLACE. -O— THE Temperance Eeformation, based on the principle of Total Abstinence from all Intoxicating Liquors, has been for many years so fully and publicly discussed, that it is not proposed in this little tract to enter upon the general merits of the question; though we fear the subject is still very imperfectly understood in some of its bearings. Our object is to remove, if possible, some of the difficulties and objections which we believe have prevented many religious persons from joining the movement. It has been objected that the principle of Total Abstinence, by being brought to bear on the habits and conduct only, without affecting t‘he heart, is inimical to, if not subversive of, the principles of the Gospel; and that the renovation which the grace of God effects, by making the tree good that it may bring forth good fruit, is the only remedy for sin, whether displayed in intemperance or in any other form. Now we freely admit that, in so far as drunkenness has its root in the sinful propensities of our fallen nature, the remedy which we propose is altogether inadequate—that it cannot taJce away sin. But we demur entirely to the prin-