of duration, as the other does when it causes us to soar outward into an immensity of space.

WHO

WHAT SANCTIFIES CIVILIZATION.

HO shall contradict the saying of Adam Smith, that "he is a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before "? This the scientific man does. Wherever the intelligent and industrious man goes, though it be to barren waste or pestilential morass, health and abundance follow, if any regard for the common weal sanctifies the civilization.

IT IS EASIER TO DIE FOR OTHERS THAN TO LIVE

FOR OTHERS.

E feel within ourselves the power to die for

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others as Christ did. But can we live for others as he did? It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it. I have seen the time when, if that would have answered as well, I could have died for a cause as easily as a babe falls asleep; but to live for it-that is the cutting off of the right hand, that is the plucking out of the right eye. Patient perseverance in well-doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice. And hence this "patient

continuance" is the brightest jewel in the diadem

of Christian virtues.

TEMPERANCE.

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BOVE all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

SPEAK against the entire operation of the system, the manufacture, traffic and consumption of ardent spirits; I speak against the whole accursed process and all its several parts, from the time when we take a last look at the simple, healthful, life-sustaining fruits of the earth before they are subjected to the action of the distiller's fire, until after they have passed through all the transforming processes, and clothed with another nature, and distributed through the community, come forth imbued with a new and terrific life, gigantic, multiform, resistless, stalking over the earth in the thousand shapes of poverty, disease, anguish, death, incendiarism, murder, and undying ignominy.

I

CANNOT approximate to any just and adequate enumeration of the pernicious results of intemperance. When I pass in review in my mind the boundless variety and extent of its calamities, I

feel as though I were moving round in a circle large as the orbit of Saturn, where upon either side, farther than the eye can reach, there is nothing but desolation and woe, by which mankind have been a tenth part cut off and dissociated

decimated,

F all the wealth now sunk in the bottomless pit

were uppropriated to the pur

chase of libraries, philosophical apparatus, or cabinets of natural history; - if all the time, that element of priceless value which is now worse than lost in the various haunts of dissipation, were devoted to the reading of well-selected books, to lyceum exercises, to music, or other social and refining arts, it would give to society a new moral and political sensorium. How can any man witness without pain this great deformity, where there should be beauty and divine grandeur?

HEN Solomon says, "Wine is a mocker,

WH

and strong drink is raging," and when the apostle Paul repeatedly classes "drunkenness with the most foul and fatal of crimes, what confirmation of his texts does the Christian minister find in the sciences of Pathology and Psychology,

which show alcohol to be among the deadliest of poisons for the body, and endowed with demoniac power over the soul!

N the march of universal improvement, educa

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tion must lead the van, but, in certain passages of this march, temperance must be the pioneer of education. On human beings, as nature leaves them, education can do a transforming work; but on human beings as intemperance leaves them, education falls as fruitless as water upon flint.

OUR fifths of all the sufferings endured by the

FOUR

poor are caused, directly or indirectly, by the use of ardent spirits. Such sufferings never come in the course of nature, nor are they any necessary part of the dispensations of Providence.

NTIRE absence from all intoxicating drinks,

ENTIRE

as a beverage, would, with all its attendant blessings, in the course of a single generation, carry comfort, competence, and respectability, with but very few exceptions, into all the dwellings in the land. This is not a matter of probability and conjecture. It depends upon principles as certain and fixed in their operation as those which regulate

the rising of the sun and the revolution of the

seasons.

I

BELIEVE the general opinion has been, and to

some extent, still is, that intemperate men are the grocer's or retailer's most profitable customers. Certainly, in all the efforts which have been made for a reform, whether by means of legal restraint or moral suasion, the grocers and retailers, as a class, have arrayed themselves among its opponents. I believe it to be perfectly demonstrable that they are losers, instead of gainers, by the traffic they carry on and defend. I believe the profits of their business will be greater just in proportion as the community becomes more sober. The poor intemperate man and his family remain fixed and stationary, at the point of bare subsistence.

(OMPARE, or rather contrast, the pecuniary

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benefits which tradesmen and mechanics, of every kind, receive from a company of a thousand squalid and destitute immigrants, however much. these may need for food, clothing, or shelter, with the profits which the same classes would derive from a village of a thousand educated, industrious, temperate people; and we see how deeply inter