within the pule of the church. It may be the opinion begins
to prevail that salvation is any where else, any salvation of any
worth. But we need not discuss further this proposition; for, as
we said, it is not likely that the churches will precipitate their end
by such a coup de main. They are wiser in their generation.'
But I may take this opportunity to say that such a proposition,
even, savors not a little of Intolerance; and that it is an indica-
tion of what begins to peer out in many other ways, that the tem-
perance church, even the Washingtonian church, is not alto-
gether free from the stain which has darkened the calendar of
most other churches, from a spirit of Intolerance, and proscrip-
tion, and persecution, namely. Have you yet to learn, my
friends, that no cause was ever yet advanced by these, and by
bigotry and denunciation? Why no fruit-seed, even, will germi-
nate and grow where there is naught but cold and bleakness
around. There must be loving warmth, and gentle light, that it
may sprout and spring up. Hast thou forgotten, or never learned,
that wise old fable of the contest between the Sun and the Tem-
pest, as to their respective strength, of which they made trial upon
the passing traveller, in which the furious blast of the cold North
wind and the beating of the storm, but made the unhappy traveler
wrap his cloak more closely about him, and march resolutely on
his way; while the mild beams and warm rays of the Sun soon
overcame him, and he was led to throw off his thick encasements,
and speedily to seek shelter and rest in a neigboring shade?
Or what right hast thou to proscribe and ostracise thy Brother?
Thou art not thy Brother's keeper, altogether. To his own mas-
ter he standeth or falleth, not thou. It is for thee to Enlighten
him, to strengthen his hands, and encourage his heart, to sustain
and cheer him; and, if you will, te 'exhort' him, though we
fear thy exhortation will have little effect, if the simple truth,
working conviction upon his own heart, doth not move him.
Thou art, above all, to be careful not to place a stumbling-block,
or rock of offence, in thy Brother's way; to be careful not to be
a stumbling-block, thyself: Thou art not to pioneer him into the
evil way, whether by one path or another; thou art not, by thy
meanne-s, or Injustice, to make him distrust, or ignorant, of the
Right, the True, the Good. All this thou art to be careful To do
and not To do, as thou wilt answer to his Master and thine; but
thou art not to clap gyves upon him, nor to proscribe him from
• Good society. One would think that if he is in error there is
the more need that he congregate with the true and the good,
that he may have their sympathy; if perchance a true fire may
be kindled in his own heart. Surely, it is only by contact with
truth and goodness that he is to be made true and good, even as


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and with Tyranny. And Tyrants are always Hypocrites, and all
Tyranny is Hypocrisy. Licences you cannot grant, upon your
own principles; because hence comes Cost, `Expense to Soci-
ety,' and all our woe.' "And I pronounce it further, a Tyranny,
for it is granting a monopoly, a special privilege, of that which
should be fuee alike to all; which, if I mistake not, contravenes the
very letter, even, of our Constitutions.' I say again, if the
traffic is legitimate, and · fit,' it should be free to all; and if it is
not, in God's name, let it, with every other "unfit' thing, be 'sup-
pressed.' But if the sale of spirituous liquors may be permitted
at all, it is partial and tyrannous to sell the right,' to demand a
bonus from those who would engage in it. All may not be able
to purchase this license, and they are, to that extent, disfran-
chised. You might as well demand a license of the apple-women,
or of those who would turn an honest penny by the sale of the
news. You do not deinand a license of the retailer of shoes and
of sugar. Nay, you do not demand a license of the Wholesalers
of this very article of which we write. Any interference with the
Freedom of Trade, of legitimate trade, is Tyranny.
And it is Tyranny, too, to prohibit the sale. You have cre-
ated the demand, and will you now cut off the supply? It is
tyranny to prescribe what a man shall eat, and what he shall
drink, and what he shall not. This, I should think, is one of his
personal rights,' which he has never ' yielded up to Society.'
But we would protect him from destruction, even against him-
self, say you. Thy care is suspicious. Thou dost not betray
the same solicitude in other respects. Man suffers many things,
of which neither is this the saddest, and thou takest no note of it.
And this, too, as I have shown, is an effect, the result of Suffer-
ings and Wrongs innumerable. How canst thou say to thy
brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye,
and seest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypo-
crite! cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt
thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
For a corrupt tree bringeth not forth good fruit, neither doth a
good tree bring forth evil fruit.
This care of thine for inan, that he shall be Temperate, and
Abstinent, is suspicious; it is akin to the starvation which he
sometimes suffers under thy solicitude.' The diet is much, but
it is not all, nor chief. The Life is more than meat, and the
Body than raiment.' Abstinent, necessarily abstinent, he is,
Heaven knows, of many things, which would that he might
enjoy. But canst thou, can Society, Purvey for him only in this
matter? Shall he, having been robbed, and scourged, and
cruelly broken,' be finally starved? Why dost give this pre