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 TEMPERANCE SOCIETY; 
 
 THE YOUTH OF CANADA," 
 
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 THE REV. C. CHINIQUY. 
 
 TRANSIiATED FROM THE FREXCll BV 
 
 PIERUE OCTAVE DfiMARAY, 
 
 STrDENT AT tAW. 
 
 " He sliali bo great before the Lor J, and shall drink it ; nine nor strong 
 drink, oud lie shall be filled with the Holy Ghost."— St. Lviik, Chap. I, v. 15. 
 
 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 
 
 iKontrral: 
 
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 1847. 
 
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MANUAL 
 
 OF THE 
 
 TEMPEUANCE SOCIETY, 
 
 DEWCATEI) TO TUB 
 
 YOUTH OF CANADA, 
 BY THE REV. FATHER C. CHINIQUY, 
 
 N. Olil.AT OF MAKY IMMACULATE. 
 
 TKAXSI.ATED FUOM THK I'RENCII UY 
 
 i>ii:uui: OCTAVE demauay, 
 
 STUI>i:NT AT l.AAV. 
 
 .. U,. sh.U l.e ^M-cat h.fove lac Lord, uu^ .h.l! drink , n>o uor .trong d. ink, ar.d 
 
 ho sU-,.ll be tilled willi tlic Holy Ohust." ^,^_ ^^^^^^ ^.^^^^,^ ,_ ^. 15 
 
 FIRST I-NCEISII EDITION. 
 
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 1847. 
 
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 TH lu: liA!) AT THE riuNCirAL rur.LisiiLUc 
 
MAXliAL OV TIIK TICMPKlIAXCr: SOCIKTV 
 
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 ^'•^ promise to ''-■^' 
 Ir i« SO<<(i not to (li-ink wiiio ^'', - utistiiin ';'-p Wo^.- (r, i,im tliuf •-rivet li drirtc 
 ■nil i.'li.. tf'V t«njtlicr is ol.tMiil- ^iT^ from idl in- ^'--'' to liis tVii-iiJ, uiid iiii.L(.'tli liii.^ 
 H.i, ,.r »r,ii>ilali/.0(l, or inutle ^^ tuxii-ntiii" 'v'^ druiil<. 
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 Woe to yoii tiiat ii?u tip e.-n-- 
 Iv to r'oHiivv diunUi niH'.is, uimI 
 todri.ilvlill tlie eveiiiuj; to !>. 
 iiirtueiiced witli wine. 
 
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TKSTniONIALS. 
 
 I'ntw tin Jiiijhl Jirrcrcnd J<;N'ATirs lV>UR(iKT, IlUhop of Mov- 
 
 tn'((l, iSy,'., tSr., ^'c. 
 
 We lin'o soon iiii'l a]iiirnv»Ml an oxci llcnt littlo work ciititlfd, " Mamt I 
 
 •'/ l/ii' Tviniicniiicc i>ifir>/" W»; ri'Cniiitllfllil all llic lailllflll of mil' IHucf''' 
 
 I'l ppru.^i' it. 'I'lioy w ill liiiil iii it striiii,' iiintivi's tn pr('.-.crv(' tliciiisilvcs fn i i 
 t!u» (Ii"l('^tal)lc vico of tiriiiikcniirss. It is tlio last rccommcinhilion wt- a i- 
 (Inss tliotii in s"tli)i,'L;' out lor the ITuly Sir>. uihI tlio last act wo ^iJ;ll. a.s ■< 
 ].rtMif (if (Mir siiii' ro ilisi.-o to m'o ixUiid.-d ovorv wIutl' iht' .siiMiiiie an! 
 ii"lv virt lie of soUrioiy 
 
 <Iivon iindor my liaiid, at Montroal, lliis twenty-sixth day of Soptomh^ i , 
 
 (Si-uod.) 
 
 )^ I.iXATirS, ]il?HOr OF MoNTUKAl.. 
 
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 Iro}n the Iihjht Hcccrcnd Kkmv G.'.ulin, Biahop of Kiiujslou. 
 
 tSv'., tV6'., iV<". 
 
 It is with ploasiiro that wc pi'vusod tlio " Tomppranco ^lanual," writff", 
 liy the liov Father C. Chiiiiijny. This o.xcelli'iit littlo work is well fiite-l 
 t(i show our people the ovils arisinj]; from stron;^ dritdvs. We hnpo th;il it 
 WAX bi-" poriued thrnii'^hoiit Canada, and we recommend it raure parti'-u- 
 larly to tiie faithful of liie Diocese of Kingston. 
 
 (Siguod,) 
 
 ►^ K., rji.-^iiop OF Kingston. 
 
 l.'As«('iapti(jn, Novomher 'Jf), l'^4('(. 
 
 rmm flic BiijJtt Bcrrroul ,h C. PitiVCE, Biti/wp of Murfi/r- 
 
 y\r 1)i:mi '^m, 
 
 I'lie TeiiiLraneo oans-^ is of so import int nn interest, both for the m'lral 
 ii'id tenipoi;iI wolfan- of onr dear eoiintry, that I eaiiiiot bnt congratulate 
 rliose will) advfK'ale its princij/lvi— how ninch niuro vhall I not congratnlaro 
 r';o-;o wh". lik ' yon, co-operate in it in a jirovideiiti il way It is then with 
 s iti.-faeiion, lleverend fSir, that J see yon bu->y in reproducing and f'idarf;in.,' 
 l',e MMiiual already so interesting, with which yiui have eiKU)Wi'd the 
 'i\Mti))i'rance Assneijuior. 
 
 ("lol will undouhteilh" l)less tliis new work ; and the nuniomus exampli'- 
 which y"U are adding in this soenad edition, accompanied with the rypf'- 
 iri';i!ihiea! ameliorations, will ensure i;s circiihitlon, and cause it to bo fe!- 
 lo\vi'(i hv the inosi liappy results, 
 
 Aiay the ]<ord bkss you in the noble cause you have undertaken. 
 
 (Signed,) 
 
 ►J^ J. C, BI^llOp OF Martyropolis. 
 
 Montreal, November 29, 1846. 
 
From the li'ujht Ucvevrud A. M. I3i.aN( iikt, BUhnit of IVulla- 
 
 ]\'ull(tf i)x'., tjr., i)^. 
 
 I{ev. F.vrnrn, 
 
 Although thifro is only mic voice umfdijj oiir roiintryrtiPM, to prni>o thov" 
 nlio U'lvcifatc strongly lli<' 'l\'ni|»'riiii(u? iiiiisf, uitd iittviniit to propa^MtH 
 evoryNvhcrf ii". salutary <lottriii(', a lnr;,'o niiiulicr yt-t n'mitiiis who arc not 
 nwuii'of the evils of llu' \>niv\v\\'i\ mmlfinlv use <<i stroiiij tlrinks in ('ariiidii. 
 Oil pt'ni>inf; your 'rt>iiij)eraii('e Manual, they will he eiiliuhti'iicil, uiid will 
 •soon help you hy their ailvice ami cxauiple. In republishini^ a secfupj 
 I'lliiioii ot" this worl<, yoii will ri'iwUr an iinporianl servii-c to your country, 
 I rejoice, with all I'ainulians, anJ wish you all the success which the causi* 
 yuU are ilffondinfi; deserves. 
 
 I am cordially, 
 
 My Ui'ViTcnd Father, 
 
 Your Inuublu servant, 
 
 (Si;,'n.Ml.) 
 
 ►J< A. M., Bishop of Walla-Wal: a. 
 
 November 27, !?lf.. 
 
 '1 
 
 From the Physicians of QkcIcc. 
 
 Wo, the undersi;>ned I'liysicians, have perused with a firoat dtul nf plea- 
 sure, n book written hy Fatlier C'hinicpiy, hearinif the title, " Manual <.t' 
 the Teniperanoe Suciety." The; learncfd t^entleman (le>crilie> in a strikin;^ 
 manner the dremllul ivils arisin<j fVoni the use (.f siron;; (h■ild;^ ; we know 
 of no book at this moment more fitted to do pood among us, and it is to be 
 hoped that it will be circulated in every family. 
 
 (Signed.) 
 
 OL. FvOr.ITAIfJJ:. 
 JDS. FAIXrilAri), 
 A. SEWKLL. M. 1). 
 ,f. Z. NAILT, 
 
 •lOS. MUKUiy, 
 
 Quebec, October 21, l^JO. 
 
 FPvS. J. SEOriN, 
 JN. IJACKY, M. D., 
 T. DOUGLAS, 
 .lOIIN ROWLEY, 
 C. FIIEMONT, 
 
 P. nArLLAFvOEoN, 
 J. PLANrllET, 
 A. JACKSOV. 
 El). ROOSEAF, 
 J. BLAIs. 
 
 From (he Phi/siciayis of MotifrcnK 
 
 We, the iinder>;"i;ne(l T'hysicians, have examined the part of 'he Tempe- 
 rance ^Lannal of the Rev. ('. Cliiniqny, whi li treats upon the lad effett of 
 stron'j; drinks upon ttie con-Mitnt'on, and \\e are tuppy t«> s-iv, iluit our iwrj 
 experience h.is more than once convinced ns of the iruths of tlie prineiples 
 which are unfolded. It is to be desired that ihi > little wnrk nvd\ be ""pn ad 
 among the people, for it is calculated to do good eM.TVwhere. 
 
 (Signed.) 
 
 J. B. MElLLli:UU, M. D., S'lpfvintnhh'tit 'jf f.diicfi.oiu 
 
 r. BEATBIEN, M. D, 
 15. It. CIIAHLIiBOIS, 
 
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 j h. i.ebol'iiuais, 
 
 W.N'E I.SOX, 
 
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 .\Li;X. IJOWANI), M. 1)., 
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 In prfsi'iitin;.' to tli" jmblic iiii |ji;ji:li<li Translation of fir 
 l*i'v. ISIr. C"Iiiiii(|ny'."< work on 'r<iii|ifiauc(', the 'J'ni I'lator li«< 
 liail iio u\\\vr oltjcct in view, iluui to ])roniol<! the Total Ab^ti- 
 jicrii'c Kfloi'ination. wliii-li the Ti-niixTance Socictv has so iiohlv 
 
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 conuncnccl in tliis I'rovim'c. 
 
 It is to lit! cx|v.'ctiMl that IMr. Chini(Hiy'.s title o{ Koman 
 ('atholic I'licst will not liavci tin* olHM't of liitKlcring tiiosc wli'> 
 do not hhaio his religions I'aith IVom iieiusin;* hi^ work. 
 This! can he said with conlitlenee, when, at the present nioment, 
 Christian liberality is now |»r('vailin_i? nioro than ever between 
 the diirercnt classes of society. lJesi<le«J, is not T<'nij)erancP a 
 <'ati.se free iVorn all others, r«>fjniring the help of owry mcniber 
 of the conunnnily ? Yes, it is ati association of love, whose 
 L'lorions Ir.mner, invitee all (hnotnintitions of Christians to feather 
 round, there to I'oi'LM't their past animosities, and unite hand in 
 hand to resi^t tlie eonirnon eneni}'. 
 
 'J'he work l>eing written in its original, solely for the French 
 portion of the popnlatioii of this country, the 'JVanslator has, 
 with the perinis-ion of the Autlioi", niad(j souje fclight changes 
 t-o as to suit all cla-ses ol' society. 
 
 The pariicular motive? which induced the Author to write 
 this work, was to promote the glorious* cause of 'JVniperanoe, 
 without hurting the natiomil or religi(.)us fetdings of any one, — 
 such will be, the Translator trusts, th(! convi«'tion ol' the reader 
 in perusing it. It nrty be said that the Author has imited in 
 this little volume the vtilc (hdci. The wdiohi is replete with 
 thrilling facts, which cannot but strike the eye of the reader, 
 and insjiire him with awe, on behohling the evils caused by the 
 jiernicious habit of strong drinks. AVhen we look abroad upnn 
 the world and see the miserv caused bv intoxication — theci'ime^. 
 diseases of all kinds, aud wretcdu'dnes'^, "whicdi follow in ii< 
 train, we have indeed great reasons to make known to all classes 
 I'f the community any woi-k whi(di tends principally to stem 
 tliat destructive tide of moi'al evil which has long been wagiiej 
 <](-adly war against our pocial. domestic and national prospeiitv. 
 
 The Translator has ccrtainlv a claim on the indul'''ence of the 
 puldic — the English language is not his \ernacular tongu( — 
 but his sine(Te desire to see all classes of the English population 
 lienelitted by smdi a work, Avill aecount lor his v(;nturing to 
 iriake known in English what he thinks most likely will !.♦• 
 b Mi'-iicial to them. 
 
 .May this little work, translated into the Enilisli language, be 
 ]i-ft to work itsfjuiet ami unobtrusive way in Canada. If nuiny 
 sliall approve of it, aud aid its circulation, it may yet lind its 
 way into nunu'i-ous families, and prevent a ga-at nuniljer from 
 \nA\vs ensnared bv that deadlv foe — l)i:uNKi;N.\i.s>s. 
 
 Muntreal. September, ISl' 
 
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 To ti'iV lii</lit lUvei'tnl I. ljuLi{<.i:r, ll.hopnj Monlrtat. 
 My Lonn, 
 
 'J'lie fiivur with \\lii< Ii Your Luidsliip has di Ij^twd to rccflvt' the Tfiii- 
 piTunoo Miiiiiiiil, iinpi'si s \\\\<n\ nu! ilir [iluiiiing <liiiy nf [jrcb' iiliny; yu 
 vviili tlic Stroi (1 Kihiinti. 
 
 I'hi-. huinlili.' |ii'iiuiu-tio'i, nhhuii^li (h'mivnl uf ihu |,ritici|!il miulitios 
 which urt! rt(|iiirt il in u wuik lo ih» y;'""'» ^^''^ I'l'i'Vrv, m'\i'rih"li."«s, iib I 
 mil ciiiiliihir, I'niils uf ^iilvtitinii, siiui' it willl.i; IVniu ymir liainl.s th;it it 
 will j'UvA intu thiol' (if iIicyi'iuliMiiil |icii|'li' of t'aii.ida, t' r wliom ii is wri'tt'ti. 
 AiTnin|i;mii il wiili til' !iiis--iii!;'« (f Vnia- L iiiUhiji, it will lie u!mj iiiToii;- 
 
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 iiliiii'd l-v till' hlrs>in},s nf Ilcim ii. 
 
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 My I.itrd, at this inttiiiciil iiiort' ihini i\> r, tliist' ulm lidican iiitcreyt in 
 ihc Ihi!} CaiiMt' id' Tt iiiiMiJiiicf, lire I'lill iif '•"liH.Ii'iu i- t'.ii thf I'litiin!. F'.r 
 ulm ciiiiid n I'liM' to CiiiiJ ilu' sifrlH.'t' driii.ui k d liy tl.I.-i ri ^i lu rai iijj .^ucit fy, 
 xi\w\' the i'Xaiiii>lo nivm hy Vtuir Lorddh|i? 
 
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 " nlVciid, I will IK vir eat Ihsli, U'.st I .^Imuid caiiM- my brotlur tu uiKiid. 
 "• Li t 1111 uuui sri'k his i)\Mi, hut llu- util'.iio i.l" aiii'llu'r." 
 
 Til'.' hiuli 5.i(.''ul rank td' Yniir l-nivMiiji, t'< chic lu ulili, aiid cDiitiinial 
 labdi'^, (.'vonthln^f sicimd to itiviU' yini lu tnllcw iht' luKii-c of rmil to 
 'riainihy. \^ V lune s. I'li what llu- Uhrisiiaii cnuld dn, \\ lien charity hud nmi' 
 ]c-M'.>M d his hiart. Ntuhiim Is paiulal to Idiii. lie foi-j^ij'.s hiiust'lC, to 
 iliiiik of till' Miivaiioii tit' L'.s hrt thnn. 
 
 The huiable hut udinirahle sii'Tiii.e wliiili Vo'ir r-ordihin has made, h;.s 
 already iiriidiii'cd it.i fruits. IJn'h llu Clei: } a; d l'i'o|.le » xclaiiiicd: "I, ft i:-. 
 " folluw our Leader, and imitaie our I''atiiei-." And ah-' ady many lea* s 
 have eeased to llow, and u hir^^e auUihur of dlscoii. olatu funidh b have s. en 
 i)e;ti'r (!av«. 
 
 1)1. 
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 el. 
 
 > I'll 1 uuj i/iiieesi', may you aiso j'Taj 
 e hill ai duiost uiiworihv of voia I'lits;; 
 
 Has the hoiinr to he, My F-oid, 
 
 Willi the iii'tflt pi-iifniind rcsj^'cet 
 fill' your 1-iird hip, 
 Vour D.oit luiiiii.lc and obedient serv.int, 
 
 C. CIIIXI(,)L'Y, 
 
 O. •'. /. 
 
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DKDiv .,,v)KV ADDUl.SS TO T!H: VOnil ()!• CANADA. 
 
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 I. 
 
 M^ Viil Mi Kuil.NI «, 
 
 Til }(iu I tlcilini'i.' tljis \mmI<, I tier. II ii,' Vi>ur iiinirnviMijfMit iind y ur ti:i] i'- 
 rio^s Wfic 111) I'liji'ct ill >Miiiii^ it, III). I we iini) imw iii'rc ilitui t \' i' I'l* 
 prniullrij to I iiji>v til"' rhiiTJii^ Iiujk' iliiii ilic riMiliii;^ nf" it w ill pnivc ichm.- 
 in;;t'tiiis to yoii ; fur it litis |il.'iisi il till' SiiirUiiiil I'list r nl' ilrn |)ii.i'('-(' ti 
 
 (•ollffl- ll|lii|l it Wnld'; nf ll.'licliciol) ; illilix i|, it H III U lIKlllllLr flHin ||1> n. II 
 
 liiiiii|.> iluu ymi rt'ii'ivc ilii.t i>'i-iiiiil (vliilMi). 
 
 Altlioii<;li Dur liiiiittil tall Ills li;i\i' Hot prmiitfc'il ms ti pmI r ih-'t 
 work as iiiti'ifNtinn in a litci.irv piint of vii vv .it it, mi^lii l';i\f Imm n nii'li* 
 l^v a iimrc nilit il aiiilmr, Wf will in.t, linwi vt-r, In; iii'ltii'Ml liv "ii' li a i"':- 
 itiiirratinii in vsiiliimld Iimiii n "ii iliiit •.«■('• >ii<l t'lliiiuii, hi caiisc, \\n\\\ Itli'^tniiiltiLC 
 its iiiiiiH rmis (li fi i't>., «!• !)i li. vc it is Miisii itiil to [Kiiiit out tu V' ii, ii'ai ii' 
 ll^1i■it 3'oii ill iiviiiilini^, tlii' iii"st ilaii;^iroi'.s .siiai'i~( U'.i d liv tlic i iit'iii\ ^t' 
 iiianlviiiil III ruin iiiul ilc li'nv vuil even fii llii' tliii -.liniil nf litV. 
 
 W In 11 u tnmiltf, ^lll»^ill'4 ilinui'^li jiii im' iinwn rniiiifv, litis ar-Iii"', 
 wilJHiut in'rcfiviiiL;; it, ui tin' nl;,'!' uf a jin ri|ii('i , wlicn- i1im||>!iiii1- fl' ii:- 
 tni'tiinaic jii'1-.iiiis )iaM' iiiiIIm.I, if ii fri< lally \.iii'i- li'ii'al warn liiiii i>|' ji'-; 
 |ifriliius siiiiiitli'ii, and adui' him to (|uit tho t!uii;i;i'ri'iis jiath, ^'c do » ir t 
 vvuit to coiisidi-r wliitiitr ilu' Miiuds which have hirinli I'li hi- r.ir ih' it •>■ 
 V irdaiil III iwi'rt, hill iia-.ti'ii.^ hark hI.^ '-ivi'S, l>lf-.>iii;; tin- i'mvul iiri' v. h.cii 
 hii> SUM d him. 
 
 IJfliiiiiiii and ymir (.' iiiit.v iwv cijuary ai,d dt'i'ply iilli I'ti il hs' tlu' ja rtt*- 
 I'i'Ui^ 1 c.Miil.i nf i..L''ii.[.i iM;; c. II a h •'iiu'"rfly latiicnt llu rnin 'H' thiai-aiic's 
 III" llu ir ihildri'ii, iha>Mi iiiiu ihu vmlt x uf i.t'i'ilitimi hy ihii-.f i/i'it.irii'Pr. 
 liiiiiurs. Cast ymir t-yi-s annind, tind ymi v\ ill i)i-.-.triu-k ith .v.i' ,11 vif\\iii:.( 
 ('vcrywiitro tho riiiudiis fifiits uf iliat iiii»l (Irliasii.i^ \ i, c. Ii-. di-snliii 4 
 fiiiisiMiiu nccs an.' Ill t uindiai'd to nuiiu- ii,diii|)|iy piniiiii.s of mir iMiiiiit:y ; 
 Ilu, they iiri' f(dt t'\('ry\\li>'.('. It iMin'i-inlias tii.s'.uiioi' iiiid rriaii', as \M'il iii 
 tho l•^•llllllo^t villaji'os as in (i;;r jin[uili lis cilii's. Its (li'lia>in'jj iiiliin ii' o 
 oxti'iuls tn tho hi'^ho.'it idasM-M ul' snii't), a^ Will ua to tin' liiiii ..[ uu'i.diir.^ ■ f 
 tho himitiii family. 
 
 Thiro aro few in this oiaiiitry w ho havo nut, I rr^n t to -oy, tn latm-i I 
 iho ti'iiiporal riii.i and the UMi'al ilc-^ti iioiiuii of sonu' ul' ihoir n latimis cf 
 fi'ii lids. 
 
 It' Villi havo lii'iTi fiirtimato rinuiuh t.i iivnid iiiitil iiuw tho allitrrim iits I'f 
 that iiernioioiis vioo, nl" that (lionilfiil (iiiiuy of y"i;r htiiiiiim s- ; if hx- !if«< 
 imt yot oiirtliiva (1 yuii, ho • 11 ymir miard ; ini t iMt tun imioIi tu mhii-iomi 
 sin iij;th, but tdways ri'oohoot that ymii- iiuli iaii^aljli- fno Iias i.\i I'u In liao I 
 iind riiiiiuil strunjitr and moro vi;;iluat vicliiiis ihtm yuuiM If. Ahliur a \\:\- 
 whiih has ul'ti 11 oaiisul yim | lin ami sou'iw, jioih.ip.i iml hy its di Ui.-iir;' 
 iiilhu'Mof ovor yuiirsolt', hut nvor ymir Ios> ooiini^omis rolatiiiis m- frioi.d-. 
 Who of ymi, I ask, has nut cNporii iicid iht jiaiid'ul fro'itic;s oao-od hy tic 
 ■^ij^ht u'i VAX ohjifi iif y<ur lovt ur !riomMi'[» loduoid Induw tho lovi 1 uf tho 
 hi iito hy Intriiiin-nnioo ? 
 
 Tho ^^ciiuroii.s ih'nrt-, u.it'd tn iutniduce Trini'Ofanoo thr amli^ut iho hnid, 
 have hot n oi'iovii. d with siioi ,.ss in many Incalitirs. Hut the onony i> ivt 
 yot ilrivon out nf all hi.s striinj;-iii>!d-, and tho ii>c of intnxiotit'i'ii; drinks 
 stdl causes inoiilculahlo ovil in mtiny p'tioos ; tn' if in tho iiiidsi nf tiiis 
 oi\iii/i(l oiuniM'y, it do-tmys v'.rtiiO iuul ori'atrs a oriminal di^fo^nrd fur iho 
 duties iinjiustil tipnn us hy our ohar;,otor ;.s i;n n und Christians, aniuiiif 
 lH'iii;^litid mitioii.i it ohfvks tlio lauiiicss of tho hihurors i)'^ Christ in di-;- 
 jK'tisiii;'' tlio iiiNaluahlo ldo»in<.; ut' Chri-tiaiiitv. I.acoralid aiul Immhh-.l 
 l>y tho Humorous wumids intliotod iiiam thorn hy IntompiTiiiico. your rolii:i<iii 
 and yuur oouutjy aujin-o ynu to oxort yniir.-iolvi s in tho j;loi'irtiis oumiiust uf 
 Intompi ranco, that iiioxli:iu.>tihIo suuroo nf tlioir surruw^ aiM muundnt^. 
 (-?iiiiio ilii'U all and oiiiist yuursulvci in. dor ilu' n ^^'iiLrL!'' 4 llaiuii'r '<f Ti ni- 
 peraiico. 
 
DCDICATOUY ADT^RESS TO THE YOUTH OF CANADA. 
 
 :\ 
 
 
 S>imo li(li('Vi< til it tlio Tc'mp<rance Society aims principal!}' at tlio mn- 
 v't-sioii of till' lialtiiiiiil (li'iiiiiianls existing; ainoii;^st iis ; tlioy are niistaiicii, 
 Viiil(ail)te(il_)' till' Apostles of 'rcniperaiici.' do nut ovi-rlook tlio dcsiraltio 
 '•'•jcct of rcciilliiii^ to a scu-sc of their depradation thosu of thoir unliappy 
 lirotlircn wiio are now t lie slaves of inebriatin'j^ liipiors. ]Jiit tliey have a 
 J.; "enter and more eiiduriii}^ ohjeet in view — they aim at the final expulsion 
 of the Demon of Jiiteiiipeiance from (jur laud, and as the most effectual 
 moans of attaininp; this ohjeet, and of preventinj^ its reappearance amongst 
 I'.s, they apply to yon, my youiii^ friends, whose lips have not yet been sullied 
 liy intoxicatinj;: liquoi-s ; for, according to the \variiin<r of the Holy Ghost, 
 '• A youTif;; man according; to his way, even when he is old he will not depart 
 *' from it." — Piorei/is, cIi/ijk wii. 
 
 The children of the druiiUiird shall cease to follow in the footsteps of 
 their father, bi-cause Teriiperanee extends its proteetin"^ hand to them, and 
 will, from their ir fancy, direct them in that path which will, through life, 
 ensure their respectiibility and happiness. 
 
 With unspeakable jilcMsure we already see that the young men of Canada 
 Tinlerstaud that they are particularly destined by I'rovidence to reap the 
 invaluable advnnliiges resulting from Temperance Societies. They e\L'ry- 
 Mlicre crowd around its regenerating banner. 
 
 May this imperfect little work now offered you, my young friends, con- 
 triliute to induce you to adopt the principles of the Temperance Society, 
 iMid to strengthen your laudable resolution for the good of your Country 
 uiid the love of our Holy Keligion. 
 
 Such is the fervent wish of your sincere and devoted friend, 
 
 C. CIIINIQUY, 
 
 O. M. I. 
 
 IMIELIMIXARY OBSERVATIONS. 
 
 This work is divitleJ into six cha])ters, under the followiii;.- 
 lieads : 
 
 (1.) For the love of Jcsu3, whose proffered drink wasliysvson 
 jintl vinep:ai'. 
 
 (2.) With the grace of God. 
 
 (3.) I promise. 
 
 (4.) Never to make use of Intoxicating Drinks. 
 
 (o.) Except as a jNIedicine. 
 
 (6.) Aad 1 engage further, by precept and example, to induce 
 cthiM's to make a like sacrifice. 
 
 Under each of these heads the motives in favor of Temj)er- 
 aiice are set forth ; the arguments against it, refuted by reasnns 
 and authentic documents, and by numerous examples of tlic 
 evils occasioned by Intemperance to individuals aiul society. 
 
 A person, then, as we perceive clearly, on becoming a Membt r 
 (if the Temperance Society, has six things to considr-r : i -t. 
 The motive which ought to make him act. : 2u!l, Tlie seutitn'Mit 
 of his weakness, and the reasons wiiicli induce hiiia to trust in 
 God: 3rd, Tiie nature of the engagement he intends to take 
 4th and oth, The extent of his sacrifice. ^)th. How he i- tu 
 prevent drunkenne.ss in others. 
 
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 listakcii. 
 IcsiraMo 
 inhappy 
 havf a 
 xpul>;ion 
 iifcctual 
 inioiin;st 
 
 M A xN U A L 
 
 OF THE 
 
 TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 1st. Fou the i.ovk of Ji-srs, \vn<)SE rTJOFFEiiKD drinic 
 
 WAS IIVSSON AND VlNE(iAl?. 
 
 Motives which owjht to determine every one to join the Tewper- 
 
 ance Socicti/. 
 
 *' Whatsoever you do," says the Apostle Paul, *' do all Hir 
 tlie glory of" G(>d." If love .should infhience us iu those ol' our 
 actions which are most indifTtM'ent, much more should we I'ortily 
 ourselves by this sublime motive of iov(i, when recjuircd to make 
 a Lacrifice so meritorious and noble, as tliat which is demandi-d 
 of us by the Temperance Society. 
 
 It will be then princii>ally to honor the sufferings of Christ, 
 insulted by the ofier of the gal!, and to unite yourselves to the 
 adorable victim, that vju will renounce tlie use of ardent s[iirits, 
 which have bt"n, if nut for yourselves, at least ii>i' a number of 
 your brethren and fVicnds, an occasion of sin anil a renewal u\ 
 Christ's sufi'erings. 
 
 At the last great day, when we sliall be culled upon to receive 
 from the Son of God, once crucilicd to display his love, but new 
 our Sovereign Ju<lge, the reward of our good actions or tliu 
 chastiseraCiit of our transgressions, it behooves us to remember 
 that no actions will be reputed good l)ut such as have been per- 
 formed from love to God tiu'ougji Christ Jesus. Tlie ofher-J, 
 however good, great and aduiirfitde tliey may be, either in them- 
 selves or in the eyes of meT«, will remain without reward. 
 
 To join the Temperance Society, not for the love of our 
 Saviour, would be t<illy ; for it would be performing a trou'ole- 
 some sacrifice, without being willing to reap ils rirhest ti'uit. 
 
 If this sublime motive was understood by all as it ought to 
 be, the Temperance Society v>uuld soon nundjcr as many zealous 
 members as there are Christians. At least we shoulu cease to 
 hear those silly obj(^ctions, by which a large portion of the com- 
 munity refuse their help to the Tem[)erance Society, for the 
 simple reason that the y are under no obligation to do so. and 
 can save their sovh without becomimi members. 
 
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 MANUAL 01' THE 
 
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 II f 
 
 
 Your Saviour on tlie cross is in agony ! One moment morr, 
 and f(»r yon the last drop of his blood will be shod. A faint cry 
 lias been heard ; the adorable victim will utter hi ^ last woids — 
 "I thirst !" — and in the excess of their malice, his executioners 
 presented him with jxall and vinegar. Hi- lips and tongue are 
 sullied wii' the poison. In disgust and horror he bows his head, 
 and casting a last look of tend(irnes3 and love, exclaims : " My 
 " son, behold what I suffer for you and your brethren : in return, 
 " I entreat you, during the remainder of your days to cheek tlie 
 " prevalence of intoxicating drinks, which send daily to hi;ll 
 " thousands of souls who have cost me so dear." 
 
 What answer will }'ou give to your most beloved Redeemer r 
 Ah I I behold you prostrated at the foot of the cross, and 
 ]iressing it with h)ve to your heart, you exclaim : " Oh ! be- 
 " loved Jesus, I consent with joy to the sacrifice which thou 
 '' demandi^st of me. I have not yet proved to Thee my love. 
 " AVluit thou nskest is very little, and how unhap]>y Avould I 
 " be in giving thee a refusal ! For your love then, Oh ! Jesus, 
 " whose lips have been sullied with gall and vinegar, I renounce 
 '• the use of strong drinks, and jdedgc myself to induce my 
 *' brethren to make a like sacrifice." 
 
 What ! your brother, neighbor, friend, and your own child- 
 ren would perhaps have abstained, for the love of Christ Jesus 
 from strong stimulants ; they will enjoy tl;e sweet satisfaction 
 (,[' having performed an action agreeable to God. An inward 
 voice recalls to their mind that such a saci'ifice cannot remain 
 A.'ithout a rew^ard. They v. ill daily h.ear blessings upon their 
 names, and the worthy actions in which they v/ould have parti- 
 cipated. And you, insensible scofferl you rernain v.'ithout emo- 
 tion in beholding such examples, and you will deprive yourself 
 c.f such a svv'eet consolntion ! Ah ! I doubt if the enjoyment 
 you experience in drinking even mod('rately strong d]ink, would 
 indemnify you for this privation. I would railn^r think that 
 your conscience will reproach you for not havhig performed an 
 >iCtion so agreeable t(. God, and for having refused to partake of 
 a new source of grace and blessing. 
 
 But let us pass to certain objection to which tiie resources of 
 reasoning and the sacred motives of faith cannot be too much 
 vipposed. 
 
 You say that yon do not join the Temperance cause because 
 you never drank to excess, and that you see no reasons strong 
 t'nough to make you abandon drinking. "The drunkards," 
 you remark, " ought to join the Temperance Society, and if I 
 " had been intemperate, I would have long ago acceded to your 
 " demand." 
 
 Be it so ! but we will tell you that it is precisely because 
 you have evt-r been sober and temperate that you ought to es- 
 pouse the Temperance cause It is precisely on account of 
 your sobriety, and of not indulging in Intemperance, that it 
 ■vvoidd be meritorious before God and men to abstain from 
 
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 Vn|ii<'r^. Tlie weak man who lias intlul;^'ed to excess in spirituou,^ 
 *irinks. will avoid tliem, bocanse he tV^i'-.s always to do as hetlid, 
 but Ills niolivt', altUoiigh ^ood it may ai)i)ear, is not so perfect, to 
 noble as the moderate drinker's. The hitter one alone can x- 
 ehiim, " My yavio'.ir, I inakvj this isaerilice neither constrained 
 '• nor force^', for 1 am liy no means compelled ; I did it only on 
 " account of my love f<jr thee." AVho woidd dare say that tliis 
 sacrifice does not evince high reasoning and the holiest Princi- 
 ples of Keligion? 
 
 If some one is indebted to me, under what obligation am I 
 to him. if lie has [);ud to me only the amount of his debt ? But 
 although this man owes me nothing, if he employ all means 
 possible to obliire me, how strong is the obliiration he makes me 
 contracf towards him ! How grateful should I be ? Such is 
 the case with the Master whom we serve ; in his infinite good- 
 ness he willingly n wards all we do for his glory, even things 
 which we are bound to fulfil. ]5ut he especially rewards the 
 sacrifices which, although not strictly commanded, are never- 
 theless advised through love ; and if the limits of this little 
 treatise could permit us, how much more could be said to develop 
 this thought. 
 
 Nevertheless, if one pershded in repeating, " Am I bound to 
 •• abstain from intoxicating drinks?" we should not reply until 
 the following questions are answered : 
 
 " Was Christ bound to descend upon eaith and to be born iu 
 " a manger ?" 
 
 " Was the Son of God bound in the garden of Gethsemane 
 " to redeem your sins and to experience such a suffering, that 
 "• he sunk in a friuhtful a^ronv, and bedcwi'd the earth with hi.^ 
 •• own ' sweat and blood.' "' 
 
 " Was the Son of God bound to boar the insults of an ex- 
 •' avsperated and blind mob and soldiery ?" 
 
 •' Was the Son of God binind to be tied at a pillory, and there 
 " to be whipped like a criminal ?" 
 
 '■ Was the Son of God bound to carry upon his bruised 
 " shoulders the heavy and ignominious cross prepared by his 
 *' executioners ?'' 
 
 " Was the Son of God bound to allow his hands and feet to 
 '' be torn and lacerated by nails ?" 
 
 " Wtis the Son of God boaud to end all his sufferings by 
 
 drinking the gall so bitter, Avhich was presented to him ?" 
 
 " An<l finally, ^vas Christ Jesu> bound to sufier an infamous 
 "' death between two malefactors ?" 
 
 No, lie was not bound to undergo all those sufferings ; 
 hut thrutujh love for you he endured tliem. And we Avho 
 ha\'e so much interest in loving God, and we who can do 
 nothing without him, and who ought to i)ay him constantlv our 
 homage, shall we, unless we are strictly compelled, do nothing 
 for ids glory and divine [)lefisure ? Love engenders love; it is u 
 law both of religion and of our nature, and in spite of this 
 
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 MANUAL 01 llIK 
 
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 sweet lau', so full of reasons and pressing motives, should we, 
 like slaves, act only ^vh('n compelled by a base and sordid drea^l 
 of chastisement ? Ali ! should we need the threatening pre- 
 fiiM'iption of duty and the fear of ludl to force us to love God, 
 while we daily bestow upon thousands of frivolous objects 
 Dur affections ? Ah ! let us ratlu^r love this God of love as he 
 deserves. Let us avail ourselves of every occasion to do sorae- 
 tiiing which will prove agreeable to him, and let ua do it without 
 hesitation and without even thinking of putting the question if 
 we are bound so to do. 
 
 Tlie less there is of obligation in making a sacrifice, the more 
 should we hasten and rejoice to perform it ; at least such is the 
 way that true Christians have acted in all ages. And God, 
 religion and humanity have not yet abolished tliis law of love. 
 
 AVe need not say here that we do not partake of the absurd 
 iilea that each one of tin; fiitliful is bound to practise all the 
 good deeds only advised by tlie (Jospel. No, undoubtedly ; for 
 this doctrine has been justly condemned by the Church. 
 
 AN^iiat we mean t) say is, that our salvation depends entirely 
 u])on two indispensable conditions, that is — Decline from evil 
 and do good, Psalm .''6, v. 27. I'rovidcd that we shun evil and 
 do good according to the true spirit of faith. But if any one 
 entertains the least doubt that to abstain from all spirituous 
 litjuors, for the love of God and the edification of our brethren, 
 is a good action, ought not his doubts to disappear, when the 
 Church, througli the mf'vliuin of her I'ontiils and Ministers, 
 when the unanimous \'oice of the peo[)le, so justly called the 
 Voice of (iod, have united in favor of the spiritual and temporal 
 welfare of the Temj)eranee Society? 
 
 Shall we continue to insist ? AVhat should be our position if 
 our forefathers in regard to faith had accomplisiied nothing, but 
 wh;.Mi forced and co!n[)v!llcd by an explicit commandment of 
 (nxl ? AVhat would have become, for instance, of the admirable 
 Society for the Propagation of Faith, if each one of the faithful 
 became members onlv aftcu* bavin!? received the assurance that 
 they were compelled ? Numerous Avould have b(^en the coura- 
 geous missionaries who would have lost t!ie crown awarded to 
 the Apostles — martys would have been deprived of their glory I 
 Thousands of peo[»le would have remained in the darkne»s of 
 idolatrv ! IIow ni;inv emr)t\' thrones Avould there not be in 
 Heaven and reprobates in lleil. if tlie disciples of Jesus Christ 
 had acted or preached, but especially given .(, <he world the 
 e>ain[dL'S of the most sul)lin;e virtues only when they would 
 have been proved to h ive been strictly compelled to those 
 things ? Oiu'c more, we repeat lliat when we love, we do 
 not measure dilliculties v.itli uur Divine Jklaster, we never fear 
 of having accoyi[)lished too u)uch lor his love : on the contrary, 
 with all the saints who [ireccded us, we only fear one thing, and 
 that is, that avc have not done enough for him. AVe are inge- 
 nious to find out every day s'ome new means to prove to him that 
 we regard entirely his interest and iXovx. 
 
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TEMPEKANCE SOClEiY. 
 
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 Let us cease to say : " I need not impose upon me this priva- 
 " tion ; I am sufficiently temperate as I am." Let us leave this 
 language to Pagans, Pharisians and Sybarites ; and to men of 
 the world this profane language, " 1 am virtuous enough as I 
 " am ; I am sufficiently sober ; I need not cultivate such and 
 " 8ucli virtues ; I remain as 1 am." Nay, never would a true 
 Christian hold such language when he has taken Jesus Christ 
 for his model ; when a voice cries to him from Heaven to ad- 
 vance every day ; and to strengthen continually his laudable 
 efforts^ being positively taught that whoever stops, retrogrades. 
 
 Let then those who are desirous of a positive and divine com- 
 mandment in favor of Temperance, before they becon:e mem- 
 bers, always bear in mind that the conditions of salvation 
 of which we have spoken above, will be one day recalled to their 
 memory precisely as they are, at the terrible moment when the 
 Sovereign tJudge will examine us not only on the evil we have 
 committed, but also on the good we refused to do ; and who 
 will save us then from being ranked among useless servants ? 
 Ah I let us reason like Ciiristians, and be constantly repeating 
 to ourselves, in order to do good with eagerness, *' What am I 
 " doing for Heaven !" 
 
 Our duty is to wrest from the hands of the Evil Spirit of 
 drunkenness a large number of unfortunate people entirely 
 blinded, and who are in a state of bondage. It is your duty to 
 restore to their families, society and religion, those who have 
 forgotten all laws human and divine. Is not such a design 
 worthy of admiration ? Is it not great ? Does it not belong 
 :o the wise man and the Christian ? If in order to succeed in 
 60 noble an enterprise, I were to risk a part of my estate, and 
 even expose my life, ought I to hesitate ? No, for whoever 
 saves the soul of his brethren, says Efemal wisdom, saves his 
 own ; for the charity which ought to enliven us, makes us find 
 the most painful sacrifices sweet, when we endeavor to save the 
 immortal souls who have cosi the Saviour of the world so dear* 
 But in this case we do not require so much of you ; you are 
 only to renounce, for the love of Christ Jesus, the use of alco- 
 holic liquors, the abuse of which is always so easy and always 
 so fatal. God will bless your sacrifice. Your generous example 
 will give strength to the weak, and thus you also will have vtry 
 soon the gratification of becoming a worthy advocate of Temj>«- 
 rance iu your own parish and family. Every one will cherish 
 and bless you. There is no doubt but that the mighty God 
 whom we serve, can work these changes without you ; he is 
 ptrong enough to baffic all his enemies. But as He calls you 
 through the voice of his pasters, to take a part in the war, to 
 share with him, so to say, the honor of victory, why not then 
 marshal yourselves under its standards, especially when it will 
 cost you so little and when you are so sure of success ? Shall 
 we behold you falling shamefully back behind the ranks, medi- 
 tating whether you are under any obligation to engage in the 
 
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 fight ? All I no; this word has ceasexl to be a Christian word, 
 may I be allow ed to say so, in view of the glorious success already 
 atti'ined by the Temperance Society, and of the laurels equally 
 glorious yet to be won. 
 
 Now is the moment to answer an objection which has often 
 and seriously been pi'esented to us. 
 
 " AVe admire the zeal and the elforts of the advocates of 
 '^' Temperance," we have often been told ; " w(; would imitate 
 "' and favor them with all our heart, if we had the least hope of 
 " success ; but we are far from sharing the confidence which 
 •' ihiiy feel. On the contrary, the more we examine what has 
 " occurred since the organization of the Temperance Soeieties 
 " in the country and elsewhere, the more we are convinced that 
 " the good resolutions implanted in the hearts of the people, 
 •* and the sacritices which they have been induced to make of 
 ^' their old habits, are only the fruits of a transient enthusiasm 
 '• and of a rapture which suddenly disappear." 
 
 To this we reply : Was not Moses inf^^rmed by God of the 
 ("iitiire prevarication of Ids people ? Had lie not told him posi- 
 " tively, " Moses, after your death, this stiff-necked people 
 " will return to idolatry ; they will abandon me who am their 
 "■ Lord ami their God, to prostrate themselves at the foot of the 
 ■^^ idols of the Gentiles." After this desolating prophecy, did 
 jNJoses cease for a moment to employ all llie power of his words 
 and all his zeal ? Did he not take the most cautious means to 
 hinder his people from falling into idolatry ?" 
 
 IVhen St. Peter and the rest of the Apostles persuaded their 
 disciples, by precept and example, to dispose of their goods, and 
 to invest the proceeds in a common stock, in order that poverty 
 might be banished from among the faithful, and that they might 
 be more detached from the things of the world, were they re- 
 pressed in their zeal for the sanctification and regeneration of 
 mankind, by the certainty which they possessed (as Prophets) 
 that all this admirable fervor and self-renunciation would be 
 of short duration ? 
 
 When God, in his mercy, gives lis a good thought, when he 
 grants us a grace, let us permit them to spring in our own hearts, 
 let us not repulse them under the miserable pretext that others 
 will not avail themselves of their advantages. 
 
 When our Saviour preached, suffered and died for the salva- 
 tion of mankind, was he not informed, did he not say aloud and 
 everywhere, that his preaching, sufferings and death would be 
 useless to a great many ? 
 
 " T/iis good action cannot subsist always, nor even very long, 
 •• it cannot do for every one,^^ are objections which never arrested 
 the good deeds of Jesus Christ, nor of his Apostles, nor of those 
 who are desirous of becoming his disciples. 
 
 " Strong drinks," you say, " will more than ever overwhelm u« 
 -* as in a flood — our people will become more than ever degraded 
 '' by drunkenn3?s ! ! !" But, pray tell us, upon whom will fall 
 
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 the resj)on,sibility of such a rc-action ? Will it 1>€ upon those 
 who have made thousands of sacrifices ; imposed npon tliem- 
 gclves a thousand privations, and who, to the authority of 
 words, would have joined the powerful autiiorty of example ? 
 You perceive the subtilty, the rage with which the evil spirit 
 of drunk(?nness and his cmmissaries endeavor to hinder the 
 people from making the sacrifice demanded of thorn by the 
 advocates of Temperance, for their salvation. You say that the 
 success is not certain ; that we have not yet enough of strength 
 and power for such a noble and worthy undertaking! Alt 
 jou confess then that we require more hearts and arms, to 
 conquer our common enemy. Yes, we do need all the mind 
 and soul of every true Christian, — Come then and join us in 
 tijis toilsome but noble struggle of the Cross against sensuality. 
 Instead of remaining far from the sacrifice, danger and struggle, 
 always ready to proclaim our defeat, come and help us in gaining 
 the victory. Were we to be conquered altogether, we should be 
 at least blameless before God and men. Our conscience will not 
 have to reproach us one day, that, chased from many localities 
 and on the point of being banished, the use of strong drinks 
 has taken refuge in our houses as in a strong -hold, where it has 
 defied the Apostles of Temperance, and from whence it has 
 ppread among the people to entangle and entrap them in its per- 
 iidious nets. 
 
 Unwilling to listen to the pressing reasons which are given 
 you to join tho infiuence and the authority of your example to 
 help this regenerating movement of the people, which you 
 cannot gainsay ; to answer certain reproaches of conscience which 
 jou cannot entirely suppress, you say that victory will soon 
 escape from tlic hands of the advocates of Temperance. Ah ! 
 are you not tlien aware that there is oftentimes in a defeat, glory 
 in the eyes f)f God and men. Has Judah Maccabeus' name 
 passed to posterity without glory, and has Godrel'used to crown 
 him in Heaven because he had fallen down overwhelmed by the 
 number of hi^j enemies ? 
 
 Were it not better to belong to the few tliat iiad fallen at his 
 side in fighting courageously, than to be ranked amongst the 
 cowards who had abandoned him in the moment of danger ? 
 
 The advocates of Temperanc(^ Avill yield perhaps, but will be 
 only overcome as this immortal defender of his people. Their 
 defeat will be ascribed to the failure of those in whose aid they 
 had confided. Upon whom, we ask, will fall the responsibility 
 of such a misfortune, and against whom will the blood of the 
 people cry for vengeance ? 
 
 And to confute in one word, the objections adduced by thase 
 who refuse to join the Temperance Society, it will suffice to put 
 to them the following question : " Could you conscientiously say 
 tliat it is because you love and endeavor to please your blessed 
 Redeemer, you refuse taking the pledge ? " 
 
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 "Wliocver has considered the irreparable evils done to our dear 
 and good people of Canada by the use of strong drinks ; who- 
 ever has reflected on the good which would result if all werr^ 
 combined to make them disappear ; — to those nothing is more 
 grievous than the reasons, excuses and silly pretexts which an^ 
 repeated for not offering to our God and Country the sacrifice of 
 our taste and habit. It is then that we take; pleasure in directing 
 our thoughts upon those men, so wortliy of the name ot Citizen 
 and Christian, who have not hesitated an instant, not only to 
 follow, but also to direct and accelerate by their example thr* 
 regenerating movement. May the God of Mercy be a thousand 
 times blessed for this ! The number of these choice men, — at 
 the head of whom is the Kight Reverend Catholic lii^h()p of 
 Montreal, who courageously shutting their ears to the timid 
 counsels of a human prudence, trample without fear under foot 
 all worldly considerations, when it is required to work for thf* 
 regeneration of an entire people, — is always on the increase. And 
 with the help of God, everything announces in a future age the 
 return of our people to habits of Economy, Wisdom and of Tem- 
 perance, unknown to our fathers. 
 
 You could doubt formerly the future success of the Tempe- 
 rance Society and the good that it might procure to men ; but 
 at this present moment, thousands of drunkards sincerely i*e- 
 formed, and numbers of people regenerated by the Temperance 
 Society, are there to assure you that it was the Lord Avho 
 inspired mankind with that thought, and that the instituting of 
 this Society is one of the greatest blessings bestowed upon us 
 by Heaven in modern times. If no one is obliged by God to 
 join the Temperance cause, you perceive at least how he blesses 
 in an admirable manner the efforts of those who join it for the 
 love of their brethren. 
 
 And what should we not see if in each locality the influential 
 men were to renounce the use of strong drinks, and employ all 
 their influence to make them disappear from their parish ? At 
 first those who make a bad use of them would have very little 
 occasion to fall, for scarcely any one would offer them to drink. 
 The influential having left otf drinking, every one, even the 
 intemperate, desirous of being ranked among well-bred men, 
 the drunkards would cease to offur or take any, at least in pre- 
 sence of others ; the appetite which would cease to be fed, 
 would gradually become extinct ; Reason and Religion would 
 soon prevail, and ere long you would bless the God of Mercie^i, 
 who permitted you to contribute, by your admission to the 
 Temperance Society, to such firm and consoling conversions. 
 In support of this doctrine, we could cite many facts, but ia 
 order not to be too long, we will content ourselves with the 
 
 following. We will give it as it is told by the curate of , 
 
 who was an ef/e witness. 
 
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 Example. 
 
 It was ten o'clock in the evening. I was very much inte- 
 rested ill reading a work, when on a sudden my ears were struck 
 by an unusual noise. I listened and heard loud knocks at the 
 door. A voice calls and conjures me for help. I had hardly 
 
 opened the door when I recognized Francis . He wa« 
 
 out of his senses ; his half-broken language announced the 
 deepest emotion. However this was all I could understand : 
 " Come immediately, Sir ; if you do not make haste, some 
 misfortune will happen. Ah ! it is dreadful !" 
 
 I need not say what were my feelings on hearing those words. 
 
 I asked him of whom lie was speaking : " It is Louis ," 
 
 answered he ; " he has returned home drunk ; he is like a furi- 
 ous tiger ; he has cruelly struck his unfortunate wife, who has 
 been, as you are aware, confined for a long time. She fainted 
 while he was striking her. He has beaten his brother, and on 
 my leaving the house he held his poor mother by the throat ; I 
 could not get her out of his hands, lest he should split my head 
 open. I determined to come and seek for your help ; perhaps 
 your presence might quiet him. But if you please make haste, 
 too much delay may cost some one's life." This recital, frightful 
 as it was, did not surprise me. Every thing can be expected 
 from a drunkard. The most hideous crimes and dreadful hor- 
 rors are only a pastime with the man addicted to alcoholic drinks. 
 
 I had already known the drunkard for whom I was called. 
 1 had many a time met him drunk on the road. His screams, 
 which were heard at a distance, caused him to be recognized. 
 It was then prudent to make haste: few were in fact disposed 
 at that moment to enter into a conversation with him. 
 
 He vociferated ouths, curses and blasphemies sufficient to 
 make the demons tremble. How many times in those awful 
 moments had he not struck and shed the blood of his best 
 friends ! How many times had he not also beaten his father ! 
 Few were they, however, who pitied the old man ! It was he 
 who had instructed his child in the art of drinking ; it was he 
 who had many times shown him the road which leads to the 
 tavern. As I was thinking on those sad remembrances, I went 
 out, or even ran with Francis. The distance was not very 
 long, so that it was quickly accomplished. I had not yet reached 
 the place when my ears were struck with screams and shrieks. 
 Without knocking at the door, I entered hastily. Merciful 
 heaven, what a sight ! The poor woman hardly recovered from 
 her swoon, was wailing in despair. She pulled out her hair like 
 an insane person. Tears were seen trickling down from her 
 eyes on a young child seated on her lap, and whose piercing 
 cries affected the heart. Unfortunate woman, how loudly she 
 called death to her help ! With what forcible words did she 
 curse the day when she had united her destiny to that cruel 
 monster, who instead of being her husband was her tormentor I 
 
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 I perceived further the brother, whoso face wns covered witli 
 blood, und then at some distance in tlie dark the unfortunate 
 mother. Her hair Imaging in disorder arounc' lier face, attested 
 that one of tlic bhjckest crimes had been committed ; that a 
 rapn had struck licr to whom lie owed life ; that a child 
 had lifted up his hand against his mother ! The blows 
 which he had given her had disfigured and nearly killed her. 
 Her tears, cries, and sobs mingled with those of her daughter- 
 in-law and child. 
 
 And he, tlie Monster, where was he then to be found? 
 
 He was i)!icing the room in quick steps, amidst the broken 
 chairs and tables turned upside down, lying confusedly on the 
 floor. My sudden arrival, notwithstanding his madness, con- 
 I'ounded him. 
 
 Being a minister of religion, my duty was to do all I could 
 to restore him from his degradation, although he seemed lost. 
 T spared no time. On the very next day I began the work. I 
 told him to abandon drinking ; but he answered me with the 
 same words he had already told me several times, that it was 
 impossible ; that he felt sorrow and shame for what he had 
 done the preceding night ; that he would promise to cease get- 
 ting drunic, but that he could not promise to abstain totally from 
 itrong drinks. He had been so long drinking, he said ; he worked 
 80 hard, and was so often exposed to bad weather. After all, 
 added he, there is no harm to take a glass with a friend, pro- 
 vided one commits no excess. lu short, he gave me all those 
 plausible reasons which the intemperate are so industrious in 
 finding 
 
 Although disappointed by his answer and resistance, to the 
 good advice I gave him, I did not feel entirely discouraged. It 
 was not very long since I had instituted a Temperance Society 
 in my Parish, and I perceived already that the Demon of In- 
 temperance had disappeared from many places where he had till 
 then established his sway as a sovereign master. 
 
 That evening I sent secretly for Charles, his nearest neigh- 
 bor and best friend. He was a good man who seldom drank to 
 excess, perhaps not twice in a year, although very fond of Iwe 
 three or sometimes four glasses in a day. Good-hearted towards 
 his friends, he would receive no one's visits without making 
 him partake of the glass that inebriates. He had constantly 
 at home the best Jamaica of Quebec, and his family and health 
 seemed not to suffer much by his politeness towards his friends. 
 He therefore, disliked the Temperance Society. On the first 
 occasion I had spoken of it in public, he had declared himself 
 against it; "This was good," said he, "only for those who are not 
 able to control themselves ; that for him this Society was of no 
 use ; that he could be temperate alone, and never would join it." 
 He expressed to me at home his sorrow, and that of the neigh- 
 borhood at what had passed the preceding night at the unfor- 
 tunate Louis . " Well, then, it depends upon you, my dear 
 
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 Charles, to reform your fnend Louis." — Ah, Reverend Sir," 
 answered he, " if it depended solely upon me, it would soon be 
 done, for I would give the half of my blood and till I possess, 
 to induce him to abstain trom drinking. He is such an honest 
 man, such a good neighbor, and Ik; has a heart so sensitive, so 
 generous, when he is sober! But when once drunk, he is like 
 a wild wolf : for when ho has taken a few glasses more than 
 usual, he knows no one, and I believe that he would strike God 
 himself if he could get a ciiance. To rtiform him it certainly 
 requires a great miracle. lie is so fond of drinking ! The 
 Kev. gentleman who has preceded you did all he could to reform 
 him, and if he has not been able, nor you, notwithstanding your 
 good sermons, how can you think that it depends upon me to 
 convert him ?" 
 
 " Well, yo:, my good friend, I still maintain that the conver- 
 sion of Louis depends upon you. In truth till this mo- 
 ment we knew not what to do to n-form a drunkard, as oppor- 
 tunities for drinking were left around him ; ho hud scarcely 
 tbrmed a good resolution before it was forgotten, with the first 
 friend he met. Nothing then was rarer than the perseverance 
 of that kind of sinners in their desires to be corrected. But 
 the God of Mercies has entrusted us in the Temperance So 
 ciety with simple and powerful means to lead them in the right 
 path ; to admit into the Temperance Society the respectable, 
 sober friends and relations of a drunkard makes him avoid tlie 
 occasions in which he might be exposed ; he could go every- 
 where without anytiiing being oftered to him ; no one will ask 
 him for any: and all these circumstances, with the grace of God, 
 will make his return both lasting and sincere. Join the Tem- 
 perance Society with those of your neighbors who most associate 
 
 with Louis . It will be disagreeable to you, during the 
 
 first few days, on account of the old habit yo\i have of drinking 
 strong liquors, but you will incur no evil, I assure you ; on the 
 contrary, you will feel happy before long. Otfiir this sacrifice 
 
 to God ibr the reformation of your friend. Tell Louis 
 
 ihat you detest liquors on account of the crimes they have caused 
 him to commit, as well as many others. Tell him that in con- 
 sequence, you will cease to take any, and will keep no more in 
 your house for the use of others." 
 
 Charles listened to those words with a respectful atten~ 
 
 tion. " The advice you are giving me, Sir, is a good one ; I 
 will follow it ; and I hope that my neighbors will do the same; 
 (or I must acknowledge that it is painful to perceive that you 
 take so much pains in instituting a thing whirl: is so visibly fur 
 our good, and that we resist it so much. 
 
 " We did not understand when you began first to institute a 
 Temperance Society in the Parish, that it would produce so 
 much good, and we did not regard it with a favorable eye ; 
 but now that we are eye-witnesses of the wonderful changes it 
 has wrought everywhere, wo have changed our opinion. And, 
 
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 after all, if wc Imve not the liappiiioss to reform our friend, 
 no evil will hnppcn to ua in Icuviiii; otl' (Iriiiking ; and wx* 
 "will have the merit of huvinfjf done all we rouhl I I" 
 
 He cordially .shook hand.s wiih nic and wvu*. otf. He kept 
 his word, as I was very certain he would. Tiiat sani' evenin;^ 
 ho came with six of his nei^^hhors, all ^^rcat friends to Louis 
 
 , to join the Teniporanie Society. They made haste the 
 
 next day to announce this news to their unfortunate friend. At 
 first he would not believe their words, but he was soon convinced 
 of the reality. 
 
 Struck with the interest that his friends took in his salvation, 
 he resolved to imitate them. This resolution, which he had so 
 mnixy times taken, and which he had so many tinu's forgotten, 
 when his friends offered him some, or when he saw them drink- 
 ing, became for him of easy execution since he had ceased to 
 see any elsewhere. He reflects and sees with fright that he had 
 not taken the Sacrament for many years. He repents of hii 
 sinful life, makes his confession and participates a few months 
 later to the Holiest of Sacraments. Since that moment he is the 
 model of my parish." 
 
 Members of the Temperance Society, let us be faithful to the 
 promise we have made to God. And may the following example 
 cause us t be attached more than ever to our resolution : 
 
 Michael resided with his family in the beautiful village 
 
 of , and every one loved him. He was frank, honest 
 
 and laborious, — a good husband, kind father, and sincere friend. 
 So acceptable were his services, that every one wished to engage 
 him to work in the adjacent parts of the village ; for he could 
 perform in one day what others could do only in two. But 
 those good qualities he possessed only when he was sober ; and 
 unfortunately for him he was passionately fond of liquors. 
 
 Now nothing could be more insufferable, stupid and vile than 
 the conduct of this unfortunate Michael , after he had in- 
 
 dulged in drink. 
 
 He had then but one thought — one desire ; it 
 
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 was to drink more ; and to satisfy this craving appetite, every- 
 thing else was forgotten, and sacrificed. He had several time* 
 sold his clothes, and even his bed, to buy rum. 
 
 He spent days and entire months in a state of drunkenness. 
 The children w^ould have died with cold and hunger, if his wife 
 had not worked day and night to gain black bread, which she 
 gave them soaked in her tears. 
 
 His carousals over, ashamed and penitent, Michael sued for par- 
 don to God, and mingled his tears with those of his family. He 
 returned to work with an incredible ardor : and possessed of the 
 great physical power which God had given him, and endowed, 
 as he was, with great sensibility of mind, he charmed every one . 
 Everything was soon forgotten ; for every one delighted in for- 
 getting the past deeds of such a man, and wished him a better 
 future. It was, however, remarked, that drunkenness had origi- 
 nated long ago in thif family, and that he must have contracted 
 the taste while at his mother's breast. 
 
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 In 1843 the Tcmpcranc«5 cause hud boon preached in the 
 
 Parish of •, and God himself had contributed to the 
 
 work, Bit that real prodigies were wrouf^ht. 
 
 The Lord was bh.'sstd, and i)raised every where. The aban- 
 doned schools were revived and filled every day with hundreds 
 of joyous children. The dwellings assumed an uir of cleannes.H 
 and liappirKss. Scandals disappeared to make place for pure 
 and good morals. Tavcn iis were unlre(iuented ; and numerous 
 were those who now attiaided to th(jir religious duties. Through- 
 out this hM|ti>y parish men congratulated each other on the ad- 
 mirable change which had been wrought. ICvcry one ascribed 
 the glory of this to (Jod, the only Author of all gocxl. 
 
 Those who did not rejoice in those «luys, were the votaries of 
 Intemperance, who, after having done all tlu^y could to depreciate 
 the Total abstinence Society, and seeing that they could not suc- 
 ceed, called lou<lly lor a re-action. 
 
 Michael , like others, had listened to the words of God. 
 
 He had repented of his sinful life, and recpiested that he also 
 might be admitted a member of the Temperance Society. This 
 favor could not be denied to him. The days of trial having 
 passed by with success, his pastor thought it best to admit him 
 insomur'h as a number of respectable persons of the village had 
 interceded, and answered for his good resolutions and persever- 
 ance. 
 
 Impossible would it be to depict tlie joy, contentment, and hap- 
 piness then enjoyed by Michael's family. His daily work, together 
 with the industy of his wife, was more than sulficient for the 
 chief wants of life. Those, who previous to this happy event 
 had entered this poor house, were now struck by the neatness and 
 cleanliness of the dwelling. His children now properly dressed, 
 Jiad attained by their talent and application, the best place at 
 School. 
 
 " It seems to nie as if I were In a little i)aradise," remarked 
 his wife to her ntiighbors, " so great is the change which has-' 
 taken place around me. Ah ! How kind is God towards me ! 
 He has taken pity on my misery, and on that of my darling 
 little children. Help me to thank and bless Him." — And tears 
 of joy were seen rolling down her cheeks. 
 
 Poor woman, how cruelly rewarded will be your days of hap- 
 piness ! A little more than a year had elapsed since Michael 
 
 was the joy of his family and admiration of his friends, 
 
 when there came a day of misfortune. 
 
 Tlie Rev. Pastor of t!ie Parish, had in the course of a Ser- 
 mon, encouraged his good parishoners to persevere in the 
 noble sacrifice which they had made of abstinence from strong 
 drinks; he had presented a striking picture of the benedictions 
 that God had showered on the parish. 
 
 He had closed his sermon by citing to them certain deplorable 
 facts, which occurred recently, showing them tliat by not keep- 
 ing the total abstinence pledge they could not be in hopes of 
 
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 drawing the blessings of Heaven upon them, but on the contrary 
 would expose themselves to chastisement. 
 
 A few days after Michael was bidding farewell to his wife. 
 "T am leaving off for Quebec," said he to Iier " I shall get good 
 wages ; and I will only be a few days absent." And, if a knife 
 bad been tlirust into this poor woman's heart, she could not 
 have suffered so much. 
 
 " Ah ! unfortunate," she replied, " I perceive what is your mo- 
 tive in setting out to town. You know that o n* pastor has for- 
 bidden it to you. AVithin a few days, it seen s to me as if you 
 smelt of liquor." 
 
 — " Do not be angry, my wife ! I have drank only a few 
 glasses of strong beer." 
 
 — " But have you then forgotton what the Curate told you last 
 Sunday, that strong beer was as dangerous and forbidden as rum, 
 and even more so ; that the devil always began so, when he in- 
 tended to ruin a member of the Temperance Society. Is it pos- 
 sible, my dear husband, tiiat yod desire to involve me a second 
 time in my former Avretchedness ?" 
 
 — " Fear nothing, dear wife, drunkenness has caused me too 
 much harm, for me to return to it." 
 
 He embraces her and goes off. 
 
 — " Captain, will you allow me to go ashore ; I have business 
 to transact in town." 
 
 — " But, poor unfortunate Michael, slicill I tell you your object 
 in going there ? You thirst for intoxiiT.ting drinks ; but it is 
 useless, for I have forbidden my men to put you ashore. Cod 
 be thanked, tliere have been no liquors in use on board of my 
 vessel since I took the pledge, and as long as I shall be entrust- 
 ed with the command, w(^ shall drink only water." 
 
 Towards ten at ni2;ht a frail bark detached from a neifrhbor- 
 iiig schooner, and managed by a young lad, who had received a 
 few coppers from Michael, landed him on the wharf. 
 
 An hour after, the Captain was pacing the deck, wlien sud- 
 denly a piercing cry, like a cry of death, struck his ears ! " Ohl 
 
 lay God r He listens again, but he heard no more ;... 
 
 silence, and the most perfect calm was re-established. A frightful 
 thought, however, has struck him, like lightning ; he darts to the 
 
 chamber. "AVhce is Michael? Where is Michael !... 
 
 ...What, he is r.shore I Ah I I have heard him cry out. 
 
 I have recognized his voice, he is dead Rise up, quick 
 
 to your shallop, Help him." But, it Avas too late. 
 
 On leaving the tavern, where he had drank a few glasses of 
 liquor and filled his bottle, the unfortunate JNIichael had been 
 desirous to return on board ; but in the dead of night, when 
 walking on the side of the wharf he had fallen at the height o£ 
 twenty feet and had been killed by the fall. His corpse was 
 picked up in the mire! 
 
 If, for the love of God and our brethren, we are faithful to the 
 pledge we have taken to renounce the use of strong drinks, God 
 will bless us. 
 
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TEMrERANCE SOCILTT. 
 
 23 
 
 JO contrary 
 
 his wife, 
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 1 if a knifo 
 could not 
 
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 J as if you 
 
 ily a few 
 
 d you last 
 n as rum, 
 en he in- 
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 a second 
 
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 business 
 
 ur object 
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 •e. God 
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 cntrust- 
 
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 ry out. 
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 s, God 
 
 Example. 
 
 it was in the autumn of 1844, a magnificent vessel, richly 
 laden, was s tiling from (Quebec to London ; when near the Bic, 
 she was attncked by a dreadful tempest; and to complete her 
 misfortune, a thick snow prevented the crew from discovering 
 the land. 
 
 Lost in her course, she was driven in an instant on the fright- 
 ful sands of Portntnif I No one but those who have visited these 
 dangerous and deserted places can form a just idea of the posi- 
 tion of this ill-fated vessel. 
 
 It was midnight, and nature seemed buried in awful dark- 
 ness. The roaring waves whicli struck in fury the side of the 
 vessel, and threatened to submerge it at every instant ; the wind 
 which blew with an increasing fury, and carried away the saild 
 turn in pieces; the thick snow v/hich fell an<l rendered the tackling 
 un'nanageable, every thing seemed to foretell to the unhappy 
 (TOW, the last extreme mi^fortune. Death presented itself to 
 them under the gloomiest aspect. Thoroughly Jrenched by the 
 sea, whose roaring Avaves flowed to the height of the mast and 
 fell again, threatening to crush everything ; benumbed and 
 frozen at the same time by the wind and the snow which 
 covered them, they expected at every moment to be driven oft' 
 the deck by one of those mountains of water which the wind 
 rai-^ed up to a prodigious height. 
 
 In order to lighten the vessel, the Captain ordered the masts to 
 be cut away, and very soon, under the repeated blows of the axe, 
 they fell and rolled in the sea. It was every one's expectation that 
 disburdened from her enormous flails and masts, the vessel would 
 be the sooner driven towards the beach, and that it would be 
 the only chance to save their lives. But it was useless ; 
 the vessel having ran agi'ound on the sand could not now 
 be extricated. Tossed by the waves, she falls with violence 
 on the sand, but could not go beyond. 
 
 Her bow was turned towards the wind and the sea, so much 
 so that the stern afl'orded a shelter. It was there ♦hat the crew, 
 composed of twenty sailors, all tce-totallers^ had taken rti'uge. 
 It was there that altogether they waited with inexpressible an- 
 guish the liour of death : for the vessel cracked horribly, and 
 threatened every moment to burst ..junder. 
 
 '•My friends," said the Captain, addressing himself to his 
 crew, "There is no more hope. But, in awaiting our last 
 *' hour, let us go and strengthen our nerves, so as to be able 
 •* to struggle as long as lies in our power, against cold and 
 *' death. I have a barrel of brandy. Now is the moment to 
 " use it? 
 
 " Captain, we have promised to the Most High, in presence 
 of his Minister, Father Mathew, to renounce t>«e use of strong 
 drinks ; we have, till this moment, been faithful to our promise, 
 and shall continue in so doing till death. May the Lord, 
 in whom alone we trust, take pity on us !" 
 
24 
 
 MANCAL OF THB 
 
 It was four worthy sons of Erin who had pronounced those 
 }ieroical words, and the Angels wafted them to the foot of the 
 Eternal Throne. 
 
 The sixteen other sailors, unable to imitate so noble an exam- 
 ple, followed the Captain to his room. 
 
 The glasses were soon filled : but merciful Heavens ! 
 the sea fell from a frightful height, with terrible roaring, 
 upon the vessel. The stern was crushed to pieces, and the Cap- 
 tain and his sixteen sailors, glass in hand, were uashid to Eter- 
 7uty I 
 
 The next day their corpses were seen rolling on the beach. 
 The tempest had abated. A few Canadians, on board of 
 a shallop, coming to visit early in the morning tlie shipwrecked 
 vessel, found there four mariners on their knees upon the deck, 
 who knew not how to express their joy in having escaped from 
 such an imminent danger. 
 
 The angels with their protecting wings had sheltered them 
 from the cold, the sea, and tlie tempest. 
 
 CHAPTER U. 
 
 2. With the uelp of God. 
 
 Tr? distrust ourselves, a/id to trust in God. 
 
 Religion teaches us that, without the assistance of Divine 
 grace, we shall be able lo do nothing aright in the economy of 
 salvation. If, then, you connect yourselves with the Tempe- 
 rance Society, whether for the purpose of becoming more tem- 
 perate yourselves, or of inducing this happy result in othera, 
 you must not rely solely on the sincerity of your resolution, nor 
 on the power of your own will. For, from the moment you do 
 80, you will inevitably miss your end. Trusting in your own 
 strength, which is only weakness, you will fall before tlie first 
 temptation that assails you in the indulgence of intoxicating 
 drinks. It is, th«n, mainly on the aid of Divine grace that you 
 must rely, if you would ensure your own spiritual well-being, 
 or that of 3'our brethren, in entering this Society. Nor should 
 you become a member of it until thoroughly convinced that it 
 is one of the most powerful means employed by Heaven for the 
 showering down of its blessings upon the children of men. 
 It is a fact, tiiat until very recently there was nothing more un- 
 frequent and diflicult than the conversion of a drunkard. This 
 unhappy class of persons, whose numbers were increasing 
 every day, were a source of grief and despondency to the most 
 zealous Pastors. 
 
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TKMl'ERAN'CIi: SOCIETY. 
 
 25 
 
 meed those 
 foot of tlie 
 
 e an exam- 
 Heavens ! 
 e roaring, 
 d the Cap- 
 d to Eter- 
 
 the beach, 
 board of 
 ipwreeked 
 the deck, 
 aped from 
 
 Pied them 
 
 Divine 
 )nomy of 
 
 Tempe- 
 ore tem- 
 ti others, 
 tion, nor 
 t you do 
 >ur own 
 tlie first 
 xicatinir 
 ;hat you 
 l-beinof. 
 ■ should 
 1 that it 
 
 for the 
 if men. 
 lore un- 
 This 
 Teasing 
 le most 
 
 
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 The venerable Mr. BcJard, Curate of Charles-Bourg, so 
 ivell known througliout tiie countiy by the missions Avhicli he 
 pertbnucd for a ^rcat nuuibc'r of years, in ihe train of our 
 Bishopi-, speaking to a Vdiuig cliTgyman, said: "Brother, you 
 will have the joy of seuing many sinner.s converted, in the 
 course of your i.inistry. Eiieiuics will forget their hostility, 
 and will become sincere tViends. You will have the consola- 
 tion oi' being made the di'[iosilory of private restitutions. 
 Persons, of diilerent ages and sexes^ once abandoned to the 
 most shameful })assions, will generously break through the 
 chains that enthral them, and will become the edillcation and 
 example of your parish. But nothing is more difficult or 
 rarer Lliau to see drunkards reform r.nd persevere. A miracle 
 almost, is necessary for tlie eonver,- ion of this class of sin- 
 ners; so degraded arc they by the di-baxing vice, which con- 
 ducts tlient to every species of crime, and places them on a 
 level with the very lowest animals, that one would say God 
 had bliirhted them with a curse more terrible than that which 
 he thundered forth again&t the lieud of Cain." 
 
 Yes, until recently, it wjis too true that the man of whom 
 the Ueninn of Tnteni])eran(,'e oni.'c tocjk j)ossession, might be 
 considered as already seaietl to eternal I'cprobation. He became 
 deal' alike to the voiee of honor and conscience. In vain the 
 iMini.>jter of Christ j>leaded with him iVom the puljjit, and showed 
 him hell opened under his feet ; he waild laugh at these menaces, 
 or drown them in I'oigetfulness, in the leveilings of a low and 
 infamous tavern. In vain a iliseonsolate wife, worthy of a 
 better lot, detailed to him the fri^'.htful particulars of her own 
 and her children's misery ; \ui mueked at their tears and replied 
 oidy by oathi and blasphemy. If the unfortunate woman, to 
 move her hutl)and the more, ])vostratetl herself at his feet, and 
 implored him in the name of (»o(l, to have pity on herself and 
 helpless little ones, who were i)erishing in wretchedness with 
 Gt)ld and hunger ; if she conjured him in the name of every- 
 thing he held most di'ar, no lonntr to si)end his all upon drink, 
 but to reserve something to provide fuod and clothing f()r his 
 familv. he commtiuded her bi-utaliv to be silent, and often struck 
 her cruelly if she had the Uiislbrlune to open her moutli in com- 
 plaint. 
 
 How often have we seen the unfortunate drunkard, after 
 having drunk up the inheritance received from his father, 
 redui i'A to the selling of his wife's or children's clothing for a glass 
 of liquor ; and every one is a\viire that we draw no exagge- 
 rated picture. There is scarcely a piu'ish that is not witness to 
 such sad exam[)les of perversity, obduracy and degradation. 
 The Christian pul[)it, however, has everywiiere denounced the 
 anathemas of religion against drunkennec^s. Everywhere i*astc<i-s 
 of learning and zeal have exerted the full force of their ministiy 
 fur the conversion of its unhappy victims. 
 
 
 
26 
 
 MANCAL OF TlUi 
 
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 How often niter useless efforts to reclaim the intemperate, 
 whose salvation they lelt to be entrusted to them, lui\ e the 
 Ministers of Christ been rediieeJ to tlieir last resources, and 
 liave been drawn lor eonsolation to the foot of the Ilolv Altars, 
 
 to pou 
 
 r out their bitter tears ibr their obduiacy. Arid tiien 
 
 with what fervor have they conjured the adorable and blessed 
 Master to remember again the blood which he shed, and the 
 bitter gall which he was compelled to drink ibr his love to 
 them ;• With how much earnestness have they sup[dicated Him 
 to cast a meiciful regard on so many slaves of the most lyi'uii- 
 nical as well as j^^iost degrading of vices. So nniny prayers, 
 tears and ardenf vows, have at lengt].' been lieard by the Al- 
 mighty, and then the Temperance Society has been given to us as 
 one of the di'o])S of mercy which have des"ended fi'om tiiiie to 
 time into this vudey of tears. It bears v/itl) it all the marks (.f 
 those conceptions which the Lord of goodness draws from the 
 treasiu'es of his knovvledue, and has jiiven to man to assist him 
 in breaking dov;n some of these thorns vvliich grow up every 
 where, so sharp and hard and poisonous, on the borders of the 
 narrow ivati. 
 
 Every I'astor has formed, around him, as it were an army 
 of soldiei's, to aid him in combating and driving away from his 
 parish the Demon of Intemperance. He invit(.'sto enroll them- 
 selves in this army evejy noble-hi'arted and g(Mierous Chi'istitin. 
 He has giventhemthe^^•(■aponoi a Chi-istian: theci'oss, in the mid 
 die of Avhich is inscribed (lie pledge of the Ten)pi;rance Society -^ 
 At ilie name of Christ, A^•Lo^e pi'otl'ered drink Avas hyssop and 
 vinegar, every pastc;r si'ppoj'ted by liis chosen biind, gives the 
 watch word : JVar to tlm lUa/h icith the Demon oj' Iiif<n^pcram e. 
 And wherever those "\v<;ids have been attenci d to, by persons 
 truly imbued with Chri.>iiaiiity, Christ has helped them, and 
 the most signal vietoiy ha.-, crowned their elforts. There have 
 been no blood or tears; shed, in this new struggle ; the only loss 
 is that 0*' the noxious liqi.ors which had ca'iaed so many evild 
 among us. 
 
 A little more i'.eal, courage and understanding between each 
 other, and God would runew among us jivodigies like those he 
 so often inter|)o^ed to save th(i I'eople of Israel from the handd 
 of their enemies. He is always the Omnipodiit Jehovah, the 
 Ciod of llosls ; and, in such a hoiy cause, who doubts that he 
 will send his augi-ls to light at our head? or tluit, by one of those 
 means, the apparent W(;akness of which show the more clearly 
 His power, lb*, only demands that our ^vill be in union with 
 His to conquer the enemy ! 
 
 The following is an exanijile of it : 
 
 " The Ihraelite- had groam-d foi- many ^'-"'ars, under tlie yoke 
 of the jMadianitcs, wiien God deteiniined to deliver them. 
 Gideon was chosen to command the army of Israel, thirty-two 
 tiiousand btronir. 
 
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TKMrF.RANCE SOCIE I Y. 
 
 27 
 
 "■ T>iit (r(i(l, jonlons of liis jzioiy, fcarinc: lliat tln.> obdurate 
 poo]>le ?i!i()iil(l atti'iUutc- to lii.s strciiL'th :iiitl tc the U'lmbor of lii>* 
 soldiers, tlin victory which he woidd ;jain, coininunds Gideon to 
 send back twenty-two thousand men. Ten thousand yet rc- 
 iivinnd to liini : there were yet too many, aceordins; to the order 
 ot' l'^()^•i(h'Ilr•e. The arnij'- was to pass near the lliver Jordan, 
 when God. ppoakiiiir to Ciiileon, tohl hiui : " I promise you 
 " victory ; but I Avish tlie people to know that it is I alone who 
 " p-iv(> it. You have yet too many with you — send buck those 
 ' whom you will see bowiu;^ down on their i.nees to drink : 
 " only keep I'ur fi^^htiuG: tliose v ho v.'ill eontent themselves with 
 " bipj.iug the water witli their luinds to quench their thirst." 
 
 'J'here were only tiiree hundred of tlK>se to be found. And it 
 was at the head of that small army, chosen by God, that Gideon 
 advanced to fiirlit his innumeralde cuemies. 
 
 '' liut in order that the v/holo should be miraeulous in tliis 
 victory, he did not arm his Avariioi's witb s\vord> and lances, as 
 was usual ; actiuG^ undiu' tlie inspiration be had received from 
 God, he contented himself in nruiii);^ their lett hands witb an 
 empty pitcher containing a lighted lamp, and their right with 
 :i trumpet. 
 
 •' CJiideon, favoured by darkness r.nd without being perceived, 
 ?et in oi'der bis three hundred soldiers. At the si";nal <::^iven 
 them, each one of tliese brave men makes the air resound witb 
 die clangor of l.is trumpet,, and breaks the pitcher whicli he 
 carries in his iiand. '^'lie enemy roused suddeidy l)y the burst- 
 ing sound f)f tlie trumjx'ts, and daz.dL'd, dismayed by all those 
 lights by which they are sun'oiiuded, betake thcmsc.dves to llight 
 •lu e\-ery side. Jn ',\ moment the nios^t frightful disorder, the 
 most horrible contusion, reigns every where. Pi'evented by the 
 jtiost complete darkness from knowing each other, they draw- 
 swords, and soon cover the field with their own dead and 
 woundt'd.'' 
 
 Thus it is, that v'ith tbi'« new method of warliire with wdiicli 
 God in his mercy Jias inspired us, we are certain of triumphing 
 over the enemies of onr salvation. J>ut to accomplish it, we 
 mu-*t desii'oy and break the glasses we have had constantly in 
 hand, and which contained the liquors we used, to satisfy our 
 app(>fitc, at the sacriiice of our health, purse, and especially of 
 iur religion. AVe shall then see shining among us, thousands of 
 <.irtues of the pui'est spb'udor, which were hidden and obscured 
 oy the use oi'thosp nn.iions /if/?fo7'S. 
 
 Tiie tnunpet of lame will make known throughout the land 
 the good done in every locality ; wliere (lie Temperance pledge 
 is taken, each will be desirous to participate in the blessings 
 showered by God upon the people where the Society is insti- 
 tuted ; !V()m everywhere our spiritual enemies will be put to 
 diglit ; and (iod will be blessed, praised and loved, in the many 
 places where Tem[)erance and vice had established in their sway. 
 
 Be it ^hen a duty mu) honor foi* every one to belong to the 
 
"H 
 
 il 
 II. 
 
 28 
 
 MANUAL OF THE 
 
 Tempp.rance Society. Let ii.s not deprive cnrfdves of its bcrie- 
 iits. May we cense to hear as in the past : " I would join this 
 " Society, but 1 i'ear not being aljle to pereeycro in the saeriiice 
 '• it demands of me." IlenuMnber that it is for the love of Jesus 
 Christ that you will make tliis saerifice : and lie, for the love 
 of whom you will act, will take u])on himself to sustain you in 
 your noble efforts. You are wi'ak. it is true, but lie is strong 
 and powerful. We praise you lor l)eing ditrident of your own 
 strength ; but should you not be blaniable for not ti'usting in 
 (fod, who has given you his word nev(>r to abandon those \viu>, 
 with confidence and humility, beg any fivor cd' him ? Ouee nujrc*, 
 for the love of Christ drenched with gall and vinegnr, but as- 
 sisted by the grace of God, come and enlist yourselves in the 
 aiTuy of the true friends of the Alniighly, who have sworn to 
 fight till death against one of the greatest enemies of mankind. 
 You are certain of victory. Tiie Almighty God will give it to 
 you. 
 
 Jt would be now convenient to cite some of those striking and 
 lasting conversions effected by the Temperance Society, to prove 
 that the grace of God helps and sustains those wlio take the 
 ]dedge ; but, ns thei';.' are at the ])resent moment few parishes, 
 where the Society has not Cfi':.?ed some wonderfid changes, we 
 should inform no one. We prefer proving this truth otherAvise. 
 
 God has two ways to show when he loves an institution or 
 protects it. The first is to bless its supporters, the second iv 
 ])unish, in a visible manner, those who endeavour to delay and 
 oppose its progress. 
 
 Example. 
 '•' Mr. A pastor of , had instituted, for some time, -a 
 
 Temperance Society in his parish, and the good it had already 
 wrought, was every wiiere visil.de. IMany of his parishoners had 
 not, however, yet consented to beeojue members ; some even 
 Fpoke of it with disres[)ect. Among th(\se v.as a father of a 
 family, who needed its benefits ; fur nothing was more com- 
 mon than to cee him intoxicated. Besides, the sori'ow he 
 caused to liis poor vrife, liy his wrntli, Idasphemies, and th(» 
 bad examples he set before his children, his expenses were, 
 large enough to injure them. This man, however, was endowed 
 with good qualities ; thelvev. gentleman, decided one day upoji 
 making an effort to induce him to take the pledge. Aeeoni- 
 ]>anied by two of his friends, also members of the Teinperaiu-<'. 
 Society, he goes to the individual's dwelling. He exposes to 
 him the sorrow he causes his wife, the bad example he sets 
 before hi.s children. He shows him his decreasing fortune, his 
 health already impaired ; but above nil, the perdition of his soul. 
 At last, this worthy clergyman did all he could to induce him 
 to abstain from ardent spirits, and join the Temperance Society. 
 " I !" answered he, in fury, "join the Temperance Society ! iS'o. 
 " no, never, never ! Swine are the only ones fit to belong te 
 
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Ti-MrKRANCi: SOCIETT. 
 
 29 
 
 its IxM'ir'- 
 join tlii^ 
 sncrifice 
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 the love 
 n you in 
 is strong 
 Dur own 
 istinii: in 
 DSO \vlio, 
 ice more, 
 , but ns- 
 ps in tlie 
 worn to 
 iinnkind. 
 ;ive it to 
 
 kin^r find 
 to prove 
 take the 
 parishes, 
 ifres, \V(; 
 herwise. 
 :ution or 
 ^cond t<> 
 lay and 
 
 time, ti 
 
 already 
 
 lershad 
 
 e even 
 
 r of a 
 
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 nid th(» 
 
 s were. 
 
 ulowed 
 
 y ii]V):i 
 
 ^e^^oin- 
 
 x'rnncc 
 
 OSes to 
 
 ~ie sets 
 
 le, his 
 
 is soul. 
 
 'e him 
 
 loeiely. 
 
 ! ^■o. 
 
 |jng to 
 
 '■ «\U'h a . -eiety." The worthy pistor, aflliotedby this insolent 
 answer, and st 'in;r that nothinjjj eoiild be done with such a mar), 
 retire<l willi l»itterness in his heart. — Three wegks ai'terwanls, 
 this \vrctehe(l man saw his out-buildinirs in (ire. lie rushed 
 out doors to save his cattle ironi the ilames and lalls dead, 
 choked by the fire and smoke, on two swine already half burnt. 
 
 2d. Example. 
 
 The young men of the parisb of had boon zealously in- 
 vited by their Pastor, to become tee-totallers. They were fheAVU 
 both the temporal ami spiritual advaiitages which wouUl result 
 if they renounced tlie use of strong drinks, to which Ihey Avere 
 unfortunately addicted. They seemed determined to follow the 
 
 advice of tlu ir niInis;iM', until a person named John , 
 
 [)erceiving their design, called tiiem to -Llm, after divine 
 service. For a eoivsiderable *' ne he enueavoured lo dissuade 
 them from taking tlie pledge. No told them, that till this mo- 
 ment, many liad been saved without belonging to this Society. 
 '*■ AVhat harm," said he " could there be in taking a glass with a 
 friend 1 It '\\?.s an eniovment which conid not be denied to them." 
 lie had been, he said, not long ago, on a visit to a clergyman 
 who had lion(M-eii him with a gla^s of strong drink, and who 
 t^neers at the Temperance Society. IL3 endeavoured to prove, 
 In his own way, that this Society being instituted to reform 
 drunkards, it was insulting to rr.odest young men to be asked to 
 join it. At bi-t, he ended by telling tln'm that if they followed 
 tlu; advice of their Pastor, they v/ould become the vidieuleof the 
 neighboring parishes. His words -made .I'uch an impression, 
 that no peiTon came on th,at day to join the Temperance Society. 
 
 On the next day. this same John was carrying olf 
 
 earth at lii 3 Toot o^ a l.ijih Iiill, Vvhere many other laborers 
 vvere wovking with him. . oudd(!nly a cry of distress was heard. 
 lie had already disap{)eared under a slide of earth. Every one 
 iiastens to give assistance. It was only with great difFiculty tliat 
 he could be found. He was dead, and his corpse }>resented the 
 most dreadful si^ht ; his face, covered with nuid, was horriblv 
 blackened by coagulated blood ; his tongue, protruding from his 
 ' mouth, half torn, hung besmeared with blood, on his livid lips. 
 
 Third Example. 
 
 It is the Fey. Mr. A who says : " Having preached a 
 
 fcrmon, towards the close of which, I intide an appeal to 
 those of my parishioners who had not yet become tee-totallers, to 
 induce them not to delay in taking the pledge, a young man had 
 ])osted himself at the door of the Church, in order to count those 
 who would follow my advice. Every one receives an insult on 
 passing before him. For more than half an hour, he said all he 
 could against them. 
 
 A fortnight after this incident took place, the unfortunate 
 young man awoke during the night, uttering loud cries : " Mj 
 
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 MANUAL OF TliK 
 
 13 ^ I-;. 
 
 
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 " bowels are torn out ; my head ?qvu\:> ns if l)t'at('n in n mortar : 
 " 1 stand ill tin' midst of tliu tires of ludl ! 1 sliall die ! I am 
 " damned I" The alarm spread like li-litning throiiglioiit th(3 
 neigliborhood. The house was soon filled by an afl'righted 
 throng. A great many of his eompanions in debaueliery liad 
 come with the others. On sceijig liiem : *' Cursed friends," 
 said he, " 1 am dannied I You are the sole cause of tiiis ; It is 
 " you who have induced me to despise my Pastor's advice. 
 " Leave my room immediately." And those young debaucdiec?, 
 overwhelmed by the curse of their friend and more especially 
 by their gnawing conscience, left him. My lielp was sought for. 
 Gracious heaven ! What a sight ! Torribhi starts broke his 
 painful shimbers, and cm[)loy(.d the strength of four n n to 
 hinder him from Icajiing from the bed. He mournfully rttered 
 sighs, groans and piercing crios. — It was every one's e; pecta- 
 tion that my presence would calm him a litth; ; but it was far 
 from j)eing the case. " ]\Iy I'a.-tor," eried he on perceiving me, 
 " lam dying and am damned. OIi ! If I had hut listened to 
 *' your charitable advice, I would not l>c now reduced to this 
 " state I" T told him to trust in God's mercy and repent of 
 his sinfid lil'e ; but it was in vain, for iris fearful ^is^on3 and 
 despair still continued the same. During three days and 
 three nights his screams, madness, and curses spread alarm 
 throughout the parish. They all recalled to their minds, the 
 profane language he uttered a 'ew days previous, against those 
 who ha<l taken the pledge ; I could hardly take the names of the 
 very many who came, especially r.mcaig young men, to inseribe 
 their names, saying : " AVe are desirous of taking the pledge ; 
 " for we are now convinced that it will not do to trillo with 
 " the will of God." 
 
 I visited him twice a day, and impossible Avonld it bo to tell 
 the boding ap|)rehensious whiih then Hlled my mind. In vain 
 did I cast a look upon the image of the Saviour of the world. 
 I perceived no more, his heart opened, his hands stretched out to 
 forgive sinners. I heard no more the ^voi'ds of love, peace and 
 [)ardon of Christ dying for mankind. 
 
 I beheld only the arm of the God of vengeance striking his vie ■ 
 tin). I listened, but heard i^nly the terrible words : In pcccafo 
 vestro moriembi'f, you shall die in your sin I nw7's pecdtoruni 
 pessuna, the death of sinners is most awful ! If the reminis- 
 cence of the divine parable of the Prodigal Son or of the Strayed 
 Shee[), or at least of the poor man engaged in the last hour of 
 day, by the good ^Master, gave me thoughts of peaco and mercy, 
 the words to express them disappeared instantly. On the third 
 day p(rceiving the dangerous and last symptoms of death, I gave 
 him the Extreme- L^nction. But it seemed as if nothing could 
 save his soul. His dying eye, dreadfully disligm'cd with spots 
 cf blood, seemed to l)ehold the burning fires of Hell, and looked as 
 if plunged in the bottomless abyss. Ilis mouth, half opened, and 
 blackened by a burning fevei*, uttered words which we could 
 
IKMPr.RANCi: SOCIKT i. 
 
 31 
 
 I ani 
 
 loiit th(; 
 
 \ovy hail 
 Viciuls," 
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 iulvicc. 
 aiicliec?, 
 5[)('einlly 
 \'j:\it for. 
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 V ttered 
 e.' pectfi- 
 
 was tar 
 
 teiietl to 
 . to this 
 
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 iiys and 
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 inds, tlui 
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 lO to tell 
 In vain 
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 1 pcccato 
 cdloruni 
 renrlnis- 
 St rayed 
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 d mercy, 
 he third 
 li, I gave 
 ng could 
 th spots 
 ooked as 
 ncd, and 
 -ve could 
 
 p<'ar('('ly hoar. TiowcvtM', from time to tlnu^ hi"" -icenied to recover 
 pwilicient j«tren^'lli to prutionncci tlio:<e nionrnfid word;^ : " Curt>t'd 
 li(piors ! Cursed friends I'' \ endea\(turrd to iuduen him to 
 pue for pardon, hut all was in vaiti. Tlu^ thunder roUin;^ above 
 hiiu, filled his imagination with a thousand fears. A cold 
 pfrsj)iiation eoinsed down from ail |»arts of his body. Ho 
 iireatlied with dillieull}'. * 1 v.'as exhausted. Niiilit had nearly 
 j)a.s?ed. 1 had already seen and heard too miieli to feel a desire 
 of assistin;j; in the last act of this dreadfid speetac^le of the wrath 
 of(i()d. 1 retiniied home. A low liom-s, after my dfjiarture 
 had scarc(dy elapsed, when his sold de[)arted tVnm the boily, and 
 was summoned to the presence of its onmipotcnt Judge I 
 
 CHAPTCR IIT. 
 
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 I rUOMISK. 
 
 Nature of tJtc cnrjogcmcrd taken hj Tec- Ti tallcrs. 
 
 Our Saviour, in the Gospel according to St. T^Tatthew, Chap. V, 
 sayf, " But I say to you: Sv/ear not at all, neitlier l)y Ileav<Mi, 
 " for it is the throne of God ; nor by the cai'tli, for it is his 
 *' iootstool ; nor by Jerusalem, .or it is the City of the Great 
 " King ; neitlier shalt tliou svcir by thy h(\ad, because thou 
 " canst not make one hair white or black. IJut let your speech 
 " be, yea, yea, nay, nay, for whatsoever is more than these cometh 
 '* from evil."' 
 
 We need not say after this, tlir.t the Gospel requires that c>n ■ 
 should lake an oath oidv in the "-ravest circumstances. In the 
 ordinary course of things, a peison ought to express his thoughts 
 sini!)ly by an allirmation. And that is what constitutes tlie 
 engagement we take, in joining the Temperance Society. This 
 engagement is neither an oath, nor a vow, but a simple promise. 
 It is the word of a man of honor and the promise of a Chriylian, 
 thoroughly convinced th;'.t Avhocver would not have suiFieient 
 honor to respect his Avord, would not be religious enough to keej> 
 his oath. 
 
 I»ut, altbou'j:h the cn2:aa;ement you take is neither an oath nor 
 a vow, it must, nevertheless, be tv) you S'lcred and inviolable ; 
 for it is generally either in church, at the foot of the altar, or m 
 the presence of your friends and relations that you have pledged 
 v~>urscif to abstain for ever from stroni:!: drink. If von are not 
 faithful to your promise, you deceive your Pastor, friends, rela- 
 tions, and the whole parish, who had conddence in you, and 
 looked afe you as a generous soldier whose example and word 
 would contribute, the remainder of your life, to check the pre. 
 dominance of Intemperance. 
 
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32 
 
 MANUAL OF TUT, 
 
 li :■ 
 
 Tn vjoliilitio" vonr [M'Diniso, witlioi;! nny ffood rcn -on, yoii whijIm 
 not coniiiiit |M'rjiiry iii<li'(!il, ns yon liuvn imr inkvn nn oath. Hut 
 you woiiM, however, !)e a cowaril, a inati totally (lcstitnt<j of 
 honor, and in whose word th(fr(! could I.e. no e(»nlidene(! reposed. 
 Anil even thos<! \v\u> v.-oidd have iir^red yon to think with them; 
 wlio would have solieited you the moKt, :ellin,Lr yoii, that, after 
 nil, von hail oi»ly irivcn your |)roni1se, and that liiere, was no 
 harrn to tako a {.'lass with a friend, v.'onld Ix; the very ])erson3 to 
 make known your cowardice, and tr.rn y-ou into ridicnio without 
 voiu' knowle<l"^e. Thi'V would have *.< < n iorced to admire and 
 respect you, if you had told them conrfi]^rou.dy, as did a worthy 
 farmiM", in the viciinty of Qji:hec, who on btMnu soliciteil l>y his 
 IViends to driidv a ;:hiss of li(tuor, said : " I have not taken an 
 " oath, hut I have iriven my word of honor to tny Pastor ; this 
 " is sulVicient. Jf you v^ct my iViends, you will not induce me 
 " to such an unreasonable action. Vov the Iov(; of Jesus Christ, 
 *' 1 have ple<l<feil ip.y.-elf to abstain from stron'r drink ; it does 
 *' not do, that i'or iii'Tely ;iratit'yin^^ yon, I shoidd be ii;nilty of a 
 " breach of my promise ; you ou<;ht to excite me to be laithful 
 *' to my pledire, and von are (hsirous that I should cease to b(! 
 " so. I wo"l.d liotdiserve to be nu)l-ed ainoiio- your friends, if 
 *' I v.-ere to forjiet myself so far." His friends were eoid'onnded 
 by his words, and soliciieil !nin no more to drink ardent spirits. 
 
 There are .some beior.t!;in<5 to the Temperance Society who 
 iiupiire if it is a ^in to take ;i Ldass of wine ? Wt; ansAver in the 
 fir t place, that a tc.'ototallei' who has the h^ast respi.ct lor him- 
 gfdf, wotdd never put t«nch a question ; i'or \ni lias given his 
 word to abstain totally from licjnor, that is sntlicient. He will 
 not nsk, as an excuse, if it is a .sin to indidf>(i in .stronp^ drink. 
 
 But, grantiiijr. fer th(> sake of arpiument, that there is no sin 
 in not beinsj iaithful to an engagement not taKiMi under pains of 
 sin, could we not say that in almost all cases, whoever does not 
 fullil the enfrnirement he has taken, commits a sin. Ho sins in 
 the first place by indulging his appetite in taking something lie 
 does not need. lie sins acrainst himself in drinking without 
 need, when he is aware (as we shall prove) that it is injuriou-5 
 to his health. St. Paul, in his Epistle to the Komans, says 
 positively : It is r/ood not to drifil wine, tohcichjf thy brother is 
 off ended or seandalized or mode iveok. lie sins against the char- 
 ity he owes to his neighbor. His brother, friend, and even perhaps 
 his own children who are weaker than he, had become sober and 
 religious men, since following the example he had given them, 
 they had entirely renounced the use of strong drinks; but hardly 
 has he committed a broach of his promise, when tliey became less 
 attached to their good resolutions. The evil spirit tells them 
 in a low voice, while his emissaries tell them loudly, " that it 
 " is no sin to take a glass; — that religion forbids only the c\0Q,i>:<; 
 '* that such a one takes some, although he is a tee-totaller; that 
 " it is fanaticism to be under the impression that sins are so easily 
 " committed, and it is ridiculous to remain ucshaken in regaii! 
 " to an engagenent of so little consequence." 
 
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 or ; this 
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 Til \isitin;z their jjerfidloiis fiion«l.% th^y mfict with persons 
 flrinkinpj merrily ami snetriii^ at them, *' Take oaro, tliey are 
 " told, <lo not tiiste it or von ace mined for ever. Jf von drink 
 ** it, you will die ; It is poison." It icfpiires no more to revive 
 old ha'iits and fans(! th(^ rinn of one Avho li:id ah'eady nd'ornied. 
 TIk'v tak(j hold of the <?l;»rs that in"hri,it(>^; !)iit tiiey have hardly 
 tasted it wdien their lormer propensity seems to iiK-rease more 
 than ever. I'nahle to he moderate, lik" their iViends, they 
 plupp"'' them^eKes more than ev( r in the loathsome vice.' of In- 
 temperance ; and their hist (lejrradation l^eeomes still AVorse than 
 hcfore. I will sav, v.ithout the fear of comnuttinL' a mistake, to 
 tJKvse who lun-o the eowaivliee to driid< those li<|nors, after 
 havinir pledixed theii- word: '* '/'//'.¥ is yniir icnrh^' Like a 
 spark (<f lii'e, whicli oltentimes eau-es the most terrible eonll.i- 
 ^ration : so this plass of li(pior, uhiel' you liave taken, althoie.rh 
 little as it seems to he, jius cansed t'l" eternal ruin ol' your 
 brother. You wer«, f^tro^mj^ enon^jh In walk on the verrje of the 
 preeipi; e, yon have taken by the hand yonr brother who wa^ not 
 endowe 1 with the sanje tti'(.n;;tli as aou. \\k\ fidio-wed von. Voi; 
 told him there wonid bo no danjrei- •. tint provided he wonhi 
 follow the same ]>ath as you, he Vv'ould not fall. And wdiile yon 
 werii sijcakinir to him, he lo<t his e(pulibi-ium. Yon b<'Iiold him 
 rollinij down the abvss. Jb; ]>eTlslies bei'ifo von, withotit it;-, 
 bf.'injj^ possible lor you to assist; him. An<l after that you ask if 
 it was a sin to take a ;riass I You S(;ek for an exeuse to cover your 
 .imin'udenee, and you are not deeply afl'ooted ! And yon do not 
 look with horror at thi.-, narroAV and d:!n.<j;erous path wherv> yon 
 have led a- d lost your friend, yoi;r l.r.'tl.er ! Ali! the re.'ison is 
 that althonjih you post^etjs a human faee, you are destitute of a 
 Christian soul. 
 
 Ah ! if one knew" the worth of a. soul ! and how often itsrnin 
 or salvation is cansed l)v a \erv r;lii?ht aet ! St. l*anl said, " it 
 " is g^ood not to drink wine, nor any thini wliereby thy brother 
 " is otlended, or scanoalijced, or made weak. Itom. xiv., 21. 
 
 Sueh is the wav one speaks and acts wb.en he reijards reliiri<'n. 
 loves (ilod, and has 'luirity for his brethren. And so should 
 Hpeak and act the members of the Temperance Society. They 
 should no more pollute their lips with stcomr drinks, which 
 they had renouncnl tor tiie love of Christ, because they are 
 convinced that the least breach of thcdr lidelity and promise 
 would be the total I'uin of miiny of those who had been recalled 
 to the paths o'.' honov and religion by the Temperance vSt)eiety. 
 -rVnd does not St. Paul remai-k, in his admirable Kpistle to tin; 
 (lalatians : " lirethien, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, 
 " you who are spiritiuds, instruct such a one, in the spirit of 
 "• mihlness, considerinji- thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear 
 '■ ye one another's burden ; antl so shall you fulfil the law of 
 " Clirist." rjeflect on those words of the Apostle, and you will 
 not violate your engagement, under the false assumption that 
 you are strong, and that there is no danger of your falling. For 
 
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 till' Apocflonf N'atioMs trlln yoii tliut wliiit Ims raiispil tlio fall rf 
 voiir hrt'tlit r, iituy also caiis" yoiirn. Hi- (\('>in'- liiat you slunild 
 CDiiHilcr ydiirscU' wfak, aii<l tliat you slioiiM take the saino prr- 
 raiition to prevent you from I'alliiij: a^ you rcconunond to per- 
 sons, of wIk^xc I'iII yoii ari' aware ; and wlioin you would luivc 
 relieve*] oud saved, hy yoiu* joining, tliou'rh your love for them, 
 the Teuiperauee Society. 
 
 J>) you desire to remain un-haken in tlie crooil and holy reso- 
 lution you have taken ? Kelleet n.urain upon these other Words 
 of the A|>oslle Paid, wi-itii;,L' to the Corinthians: 
 
 All things nre hiwrul lo me, hut nil thii!;;s are not expedient 
 — V. 22. 
 
 All things are lawful to me : but all things do not edify. — 
 V. 23. 
 
 Lot no innn seek his o^vn, but that which is for the welfare 
 of nnodier. — v. 2-1. 
 
 If you fail ii; your 'J'enqvM-anf e enrrn'^^cment, and talce liquor 
 v.-ithout any n( ed, nf)l;\vit!istandin;r your pronuM', it is ufidouht- 
 cdly because you believe that theiT is no daniri-r ot your becoudng 
 Intemperate. iV.it do you uot feiu* that in this good opinion you 
 have of yourself tliere may be some secret pride? You s;iy : 
 " Then} womM bo danger for such a on(> to take n glaSH of 
 " s[)irituous liquor, but th(M-e is no fear for me." Do yf;u not 
 perceive, by thir; Instance, that you make a comparison ^vhich i? 
 not at ai! in favor of }()ur Iji'other ? that you eoiisider yourself 
 iihnvv l.im, and fori'i t this vv(U'd of the Snipt tires : " Wherefore, 
 *' let him that thinketh him'«elf to stand, take heed lest he fall.'* 
 How many times have we seen ])ersons, who at the ago of 
 twenty, thii'tj- or lt);ty, per.si.-'ted 'n saying, that there was no 
 danger for tliein to take a ghisr no\. . ;d .Mien, v.lio have, never- 
 tliele>^s become drunkards? Theve is uol, perli:\ps one parish 
 in Cnnrid 1. when? eximpies of tiiis kind liav(? rot octurrcd. Jt 
 seems as if (t k] had [k rmitted the fall of those persons Avho had 
 so much conlidence in their strength, in order that no one should 
 be tempted in future to consider himself j'ree from danger. 
 
 You will tell me j^erhaps : " r>ut it is [^ainl'id, i'>r the love of 
 " dnmkards, k:) deprivi; ourselves of the use of those liquors- 
 " which a<ld so great a charm tc our small social meetings. It 
 " is very strange . 1 have always been sober, God be thanked 
 " and b(!cause my neighbor is a drunkard, you v/ant me to ab- 
 " stain from thos»^ li([iiors, which have never caused any harm in 
 " my house; and which have bonelitted me after thi^ hard labors 
 " of the day." Once for all, we Avill answer you : iMy friend, in 
 inviting you to join th(> 'reiiipiTaneo Society, we w('uld observe 
 that you do not do justice to tlie members of the Society, 
 when you say that they av dirfniin<r, ihrtj require^ ih.py comrrKnxL 
 Sec. &,c. he. No, no, we neither dictate nor command any thing; 
 we only point you out a good act to be perfoi-med; we tell you 
 wdiat should be your motives for joining us, for the ufood of our 
 country and reliLnon, the salvati<m of our brethren, the irlorY 
 
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TLMl'tlJANCli SOCIETV. 
 
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 ■)f (io«1, ujul oven pcrliap?! f«»r your own intrrtv-t. If, as you 
 aro told hy your worthy lUshop, in a circular lillitr in r(';^'ar(l 
 to the 'rniipt i'ai>'-<' Society, you have not cnoii;,di --trcn^rtli and 
 cour;ijj;c to follow the ;;ood uthitu which is ^ivcu }ou ; if, for 
 j^ood I'ciHoiH, an I \\\\\ led to suppo.so, you are unaMe to under- 
 stand till- iuiMlcuhiMe L'oo 1 wliich ^^ould be clfectcil, if the 
 noxious li»|uois, u.-ed in this country, were bani^h(;il I'rom our 
 houses — reiiKiiu i[uiet, continue to drink, and instruct vnur (diil- 
 di'cn to do the s.ine : we only wi.-h that anions yoiu* chiblron, 
 addicted to moderate drin!;s, >vo may iKJtico none of tliem losin;; 
 their lieaUli, relitiiuu uud honor, and at last beeoaiin;^ 5az/ic/^</c»H« 
 
 liut «!o notciHUplalu oi' (rnvrn/uiremcnts nr)^\ reL>n!((iions ; for 
 once more, we ohliirc no one. it is an army we desire to form, 
 with which we de>ir(^ to surround ourselv( s, to fi;jlit one of the 
 greatest (.'nemie« of o;ir sahatiou. It does not do to force one to 
 li^dit; — individuals lioiuLj t(» battle without their consent, become 
 traitors at iIkj very lir.-t opj»ort unity, as we are a'.\'are. Tliey 
 abantlon their stauilard, leave tiieir arms, and lice at the appi'oach 
 of the enemy ; we only ^vi.^h for lu'ave men, who do not tremble 
 and lanu'ut. w hen we propose to them a sacrilice for the lovt; 
 of Jesus Chi'i't. V/e want oidy lu'-n ol' honoi", true Christians, 
 'vhose nier(^ ^\'o:•l is worili the best wan ant v. 
 
 It is said- '^' I5ul how can it be conceived that v.'O, wlu^ ar<^ 
 '' sol;er ivnd tcm)»evate men, are to be deprived all our life of 
 *' liquor iziven to u.s by (lod, and of nhieh al'iei' all he has })er- 
 '"' milted tlie use?" Thosi; who holil si'eli lan,Liu:!L!( have never |)e- 
 ruscd St. Paid's l^iiistle ;:lven above; or if they have read it, they 
 nmst have forjr.itten its sublime and divine in.-tru( liouj;. AVhat 
 does the holy Apostle sav? *' l^ear one another's biu'den: and 
 " t-o shall you fulfd the law of Christ. ' AVe v.'iil tell those who 
 complain that we endeavour to compel them to bear a binvlen, 
 which oufrht to be carried only by th(i intem])erate: " Jesus 
 " Christ, ailhon;:!i innocent, has willin;i;ly sidl'ercd. as if he had 
 '•' been guilty, in order to sa^■e us tVom ruin. lie has taken 
 *" char;_'e ot our miseries, to deliver us ot them. He has carried 
 •* the Inu'den in our stead, because he i.)ercciv(id that we were 
 " unable to support the weijiht. We were v/eak, nnfcrtunnt(i 
 " sinners, and to relieve Uo iiom those misiuies he lived and 
 " tasted as if he had been, he also, a wretched sinner." Such 
 IS the great mystery of the salvation of mankind, ^vhose princi- 
 ples we are calli'd to fuhil among ourselves. According to the 
 ^vords of Paul, we ouuht to do among ourselv(.'s what Christ 
 did for the salvaiion (.-f all. Ho requires that those who 
 are strong should carry the burden of those who are weak. 
 And for what reason? IJecause, if left alone, the weak will 
 never be able to bear the burden. They will yield: but if 
 th< y perceive their brothers carry th(! same for their luvo, they 
 will take courasjre, and the burden will seem lii;ht. Jesu8 Christ, 
 iii faiting has taught us to fast; in mortifying and crucifying 
 
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 liis flesh, lie lias taught us to crucify ours. So formerly it wiuv 
 a tliiu<; nearly im[)ossiblc to the intemperate to bear the burden 
 of total abstinence, but at this moment a great many, aware that 
 it is not necessary to wait for a eommamhnent to perform iv 
 good act, have iin]»osed upon themselves the burden of total 
 abstinence, to help their weak bretiiren; nothing is more com- 
 mon than to see jjcrsons addiet-.d to stroiig drinks abstain 
 entirely. No Christian ought then to complain. Evert/ tkuf^ 
 is easy to men of tjood will. And as in regard to the supposed 
 novelty preached by the Apostles of Temperance, it is new, we 
 admit, like what(;ver takes its source from tlio GosjMd, which i^ 
 ;i novelty also. It is an admiraVde and good iiovvlti/, destini-d, 
 if well understood, to eradicate drunkenness from our land ; 
 and, with tliis vice, many others wliicii naturally follov/. 
 
 Those who are not then desirous of becoming members of tiw 
 Temperance Society may live (jHicthj ; no one v/ill compel them 
 by force. They may partake of th(i cup that inebriates as much 
 as they please. Tliey m.vy follow tlic vvonls of I'aul when Ik; 
 says: "All things are lawful to me, but all things do not edify." 
 As in regard to the members of the Temperance Society, who 
 have followed the advice of the Holy (J host, and imposed upon 
 themselves the burden of t(jt;d abstinence for the love of their 
 brethren, may they ble.->s the Lord i'or having inspired them 
 with the idea, and re[)el with a religious in^lignatlon the eliorts 
 of perverse friends to le.id them astra}'' from the glorious path 
 in which they ought to ei)ntinue the remaiiidcr of their lives. 
 May they recall to their mind th(3 "words of Christ, addressed to 
 the labourer who had had tiie misfjitune to look behind. It is 
 certainly better not to begin a ^vorthy action, if at the beginning 
 we cowardly abandon it. 
 
 We think it proper to give here an extract from a discoui-*:- 
 on Tem[)erance by the Right Kev. Doct(n- l'\)ran, IJishop of \Va- 
 terford andLisraore, umpiestionably one of the most learned mem- 
 bers of the Cliurch. After haviiig ekxiuently shewn the spiritual 
 and temporal welfar-: that Ireland has derived from Divine Pro- 
 vidence, he continues in the following manner: " I have ahvays 
 '* taken ii deep interest in the promotion of this wonderful' 
 *' work — this mighty blessing, which I llrmly belie '/e to have 
 " been accorded to the people of this country, in reward for the 
 " fidelity with which they have clung to the iaith as planted in 
 " this congenial soil by its great apostle, Patrick. You must, 
 " my dear pe()[)le, b(; all aware of the fact that drunkenness was 
 " in itself the fruitful source of all tiie calamities, the miseries, 
 •' the contentions, public and domestic, with wiiich this coun- 
 •' try was afflicted. Yes, the fell demon of faction, the Caravat 
 " and Shunavest, the Poleen, Low System, and all those other 
 *' illegal confederacies and deeds of agrarian turbulence, which 
 " alike bid defiance to the laws of God and man, all originated 
 •' in drunkenness — this hideous, this monster vice, whose prac- 
 " tice had become $o universal, unfortunately, that the name o£ 
 
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TLMPERAXCE SOCIETY. 
 
 37 
 
 ['\y it WU3' 
 le burden 
 ware tluit 
 )ertoriu r. 
 1 of total 
 tore ooin- 
 s abstain 
 •ert/ t/ii/i'^ 
 
 suppose* 1 
 s new, \\(i 
 , whicli 'Ui 
 
 destiniMi, 
 nir land i 
 ,v. 
 
 )ers of the 
 npel them 
 s as mucii 
 I when h<; 
 lot edify." 
 iiety, whi.) 
 osed upon 
 e of their 
 Ired them 
 he efforts 
 rious path 
 leir lives. 
 
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 nd. it id 
 beuimiinL' 
 
 diseoui'sii 
 
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 led mem ■ 
 
 spiritual 
 
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 re ahvays 
 
 ivonderfui 
 
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 ianted in 
 
 ou must, 
 
 iiness was 
 
 miseries, 
 
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 lose other 
 
 ce, whieli 
 
 riginated 
 
 ose prac- 
 
 1 name of. 
 
 " Ireland had become a ' bye word ' to tho nntion^i, the * ana- 
 " * thema ' of Europe, and the reproaeh of the civilized world. 
 " Yes, my beloved people, drunkenness it -was that fed tho 
 '* bloodstained gibbet, — drunkenness it was tlr.t peopled the 
 " conviet hidk — drunkenness it was that sent thousands of your 
 *' countrymim beyond the peas to lin^^'er out a living death, 
 " amidst all the aecumvdated horrors of our penal settlements; 
 " but, happily, a wonderful chan,a;c has been wrought in the 
 *' aspect of society since Father Mtitthew and your own no less 
 " zealous apostle, Father Foley, of Youghal, commenced their 
 *' heaven-inspired labours. It Avas in vain that the Legislature 
 " or benevolent individuals opened fields for your industry 
 '•through the medium of public or private enterprise; no per- 
 " manent amelioration could take place in your condition so long 
 " as you remained the willing slaves of the degrading vice 
 " which was alike the cause of your poverty and shame, the 
 " destruction of your earthly hopes and comforts, and alas! the 
 " dire and dreadfrd obstacle to the attainment of this great end 
 " for which you were created — the salvation of your immortal 
 
 *'■ souls 
 
 " At the commencement of Father Matthew's labours I became 
 *' so convinced of their importance to my people; and witnessing 
 " the exr.ense and inconvenience to which they were exposed in 
 " procc'diiig to Cork for the purpose of receiving the pledge at 
 " his hands, that I invited him into my diocese, calculating that 
 *' some two or three thousand, perhaps, would join his standard; 
 " What was the fact ? that in three days no less than cir/hfi/ 
 ** tJinusand took tl^ pledge at his hands, and that since tlien 
 " drunk'^nness is no mon; in "Wateiford. Peace, order, industry, 
 " an<l eiMit.'Htinent. liave followed in tiie path of tempei'ate habits. 
 *' The sp'Midthril't has become frugal, the heartless father, who 
 *' cniisuHK'd his earnings in the public-house, now spends them in 
 " his liax'iv home, cheered liy the smiles of tho«e innocent b>'in.'T;s 
 " to whom Temperance has l)rought plenty and happiness. The 
 *' libertin.' has renounced "the evil of his ways;" the prodigal 
 " irturns to his fatlier's liouse, smote with contrition for his 
 " pai^t niisdi'Ciks — the i)rofane swearer now invokes in penitence 
 " the mercies of t'.iat heaven, which, in h;s impious r(!ve!ries, he 
 " had so often outraged with his blasphemies — the hoary and 
 " hari]('n:'d sinner at h>ngth bends his rebellious knc'c at the 
 " tribunal of reconciliation — men who for years had lived with- 
 " out the ptdo of Catltolirity, now cont'orni cheerfully to the 
 *' or;linnvi;'i.'3 of their religion, and not content with the indis- 
 " pensabh-' obligations of an annual discharge of its duties, 
 " have become nT.-nthly, nay vreekly ccmmimicants. l)oin'',-l;ic 
 " discor'l, x\\\y\ me barbarous practice of faction ligliting at our 
 " fail's and mark"fcts hav3 lied the land — woe, wa;;t, hr,n;:(M-, 
 " nal;eil'i('.-s, have vanished before tlie influence vi this re-^ene- 
 " rating l)lessing; I therefore earnestly claim th(3 co-o[)ei-a.tioji 
 " of my clergy in extending the doctrines and practices of teeto* 
 
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 " talism; and I now wish to know fiomyou, Sir," said liis Lord* 
 ship, (turning to the Her. Mr. O'Mara,) "whether such of your 
 " flock as have become tee-totallerci continue faithful to its obser- 
 
 vance: 
 
 Mr. O'Mara replied: — "Numbers of them have taken tho 
 " pledge, my Lord, but I have reason to appreliend tliat some 
 "amongst them have fallen away from the faith, owing in a 
 " great measure, I believe, to tlie circumstances of there being 
 " two public-houses at the chaptdgate. 
 
 Hirf Lordshij) (evidently glowing with virtuous indignation) — 
 "What! public houses at the (diapel gate. Monstrous and 
 "unholy association! Teni])Ies of the evil one at the thres- 
 " hold of the house of i)rayer — within the very fanes of the 
 " sacred edifice consecrated to the majesty of the living God. 
 " It shall not be. While I 'ive there shall be no public-house 
 ** at least within half a mile of a house of worship, and I now 
 " command you to withhold sacraments from persons keeping 
 " these houses. I am determined to suppress this abt)mination; 
 " and I also declare it to constitute a reserved case for any per- 
 "' son to enter tliese houses on Sundays and Iloly-iUiys, within 
 " the houses prohibited by the law of the land, and also by the 
 " law which I myself promulgated throughout the diocese. I 
 " will interdict this c!>apel if I find that persons continue to 
 " frequent these houses, and there will be no mosses celebrated 
 " in it for six months. I also appoint that the transgression of 
 " the total abstinence pledge, by such as have embrticed it, be 
 " considered a reserved case, from which, equally as the forego- 
 " ing, not even my vicars can absolve; and I particularly enjoin 
 " a strict adherence to this regulation iqxm nil my clergy, and 
 " further desire it to be remembered tiiat this ordinance is 
 " L^qually binding on the body of tee-tolidlers throughout this dio- 
 " cese, and applies in like manner to everj' parish where public- 
 " houses may be situated, as they are here. The most signal 
 " benefits have accrued to Irehuul, under the rcg<'neratod influ- 
 " cnce of the blessed system of Temperance. The records of 
 " history furnish no example of any such extraordinaiy refoi-- 
 " mation having taken place in the annals of mankind as this; 
 " and how has it been cfll'cted! Through tlie instrumentality 
 "of t\vo lunuble men, Father Matthew, of Cork, and Father 
 " Foley of Yonghal, and this it is wiiicli stam[)s the Tempe- 
 "ranee refirmafion as truly and essential!}' the woik of tho 
 "■ Most High, tlie operation of God's own right hand — for the 
 " Almighty is often pleased to eifcet the most important I'evolu- 
 " tions through the agency of lunnbh' and holy men." 
 
 If the learned and j)ious prelate of Waterford has Cf^tablishcd, 
 in regard to the members of the. Tenqjeranee Society, wlio for- 
 feit their ])romises, rules stricter tlum those established by our 
 own Bisliops, it is because the evil caused by liquor in Ireland, 
 was })erha})s still greater than in this country, and that the reme- 
 dy must always be in proportion to the evil. Bi :. nevertheless, 
 
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 •we perooivo by this discourse of one of the most illustrious pre- 
 lates of the Church, how much the Temperance Society is res- 
 pected, imd how much it ought to be considered by every mem- 
 ber a puiut of honor, if not of conscience, to observe its rules. 
 
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 leless, 
 
 It was Saturday evening and tho rain was fallhig in torrent?. 
 A feniaV' uf tall ligure Avas sealed in a ])oor hovel, occupying the 
 only ciriir v/liich was k-ft in it. In S[)ite of her extreme ema- 
 ciatio):, unil the marks of sorrow and -wretchedness iin[)rintedby 
 Bufhiring on her cuunt(;nanc(', one could still perceive in her. 
 trace.; of a woman botii amiable and beautii'ul. She was sin^r- 
 ing in a siijiprcssed voice, and in a sweet and [>laiiiti\'e tone, as 
 if t I I ;ilia the sorro^vs of a sick infant, whosi^ [)ii*i'cing screams 
 distracted her; at her side might be seen a little girl, seated on. 
 a stool, whose look, lixed mournfully on her mother, seemed to 
 ask for something. And the poor mother deeply wounded v/ith 
 her owngiief, endeavoured to smih; on her little one. To con- 
 ceal th<i tears which coursed down her cheeks, she said in a low 
 voice, " my darling, he will soon be here, and then, my good lii- 
 '• tie daughter will have something for supper." 
 
 A moment after the door oj)enetlto admit a child, whose manly 
 air and beauty shone out through the tattered hybiliments 
 in which he was attired. '• They would not advance me any- 
 " thing, my dear mamma," said he in a tone of despair. 
 "They say my father does nothing but drink, and that they 
 " incur a risk of not being paid for what they have given alrea- 
 *■ dy." The ])oor child, choked with sobs, could say no more. His 
 imhappy mother is a few moments mute with grief. Presently 
 recovering a little strengtii ; " Then, Edward, what is to be- 
 come of lis?" said she. " To-morrow is Sunday, and we shall 
 be certain to die of hunger, unless you can go once more (she 
 had not got courage to pronounce the word,) to your uncle and 
 ask a ^ew shillings from him. It seems to me Ik* cannot refii.-e 
 you, if you let him know to v.diat a state of frightful destitution 
 we are reduced." 
 
 The child tries in vain to hide the torture which this proposal 
 of his mother causes him. His cheeks so })ale are tinged on a 
 sudden Vv-ith a crimson Hush by the violence of his emotion, and 
 his line eye, so soft, s])arkles with an unaccustomed brilliancy. 
 " Oh motlier," cries he, '• v/hat is it that you ask of me ! Ko, 
 never, never, never — I v/ould rather a thousand times sutler 
 the horrors of starvation. I would rather bei;- — I would rather 
 die — tdi! my mother, I conjure you, do not command me to go 
 tu my uncle's." — And he hid his face in his hands, which were 
 resting on the table. 
 
 A long silence succeeded, which was only broken by the little 
 girl. " iUamma," said she, " you promised to give me sorjie 
 *' supper when Edward should return. I wish you would; I am 
 
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 " SO liunj^ry. Do give me a little piece of bread. ILive I clone 
 "anything to distress you, dear manuna, that you have given 
 " me nothing to oat to day! 1 cannot stand it longer. But 
 " Avhy do you weep ?" The motlun-, pressing fondly her little 
 one to her bosom, couM only answer I'.er by sobs. At that mo- 
 ment Edward raised his head above the table; his features had 
 resumed their natural i>a!eness, and the air of livtlinc: > which 
 lie had exliibited a moment before, had given place lo dejection. 
 lie approaches his mother, throws his arnio around her neck, 
 and embraces her wilii all the passionate ovcrjlovvlngs of an af- 
 fectionate heart. •' IMy dear mother," said he, " pardon 
 *' me, I pray you. I did not know Avhat I vras saying. Oh! I 
 " entreat you, do not kill me with lliose tears wliieh you are 
 " shedding, and which reproach mo with your unlia[)i)ines?, 
 " as if I iuid added to }'our t.'ials by my disobedience, i v»'ill set 
 " out innnediately. At any rate, he cannot treat me worse than 
 '"' he did the other day. Mother! my dear mother! do take a 
 " little courage, I entreat you, and pray fur me while 1 go iu 
 *' search of some food." 
 
 " Edv.-ard," replied his mother, suPfused Avith tenrs, as she 
 pressed him to her bosom, "iny own Edward! gladly would I sa- 
 " crifiec my lil'e to exem!)t you from the least troul'le; you, my 
 " child, who have always been sokind andsubmissive tome; you 
 " Jcnovv it is not for mv ..(^f tliat I ask you to take a step, the 
 «•' very idea of which otcrwhelms me as mncli as it does your- 
 " self. But, (and she pointed to his little sisters,) it is for the 
 " luvo you bear to tlicm that you will oblige me, and make a 
 " disj)lay, again at tins time, of your affection for your poor 
 *' mother." 
 
 In another moment, she was alone, on her knees in prayer, 
 with her chihh'en in her arms^ and bedewing them with her 
 tears. Oh ! how long did the moments seem which intervened, 
 and how insull'erably alow and tedious to that mother, whose 
 heart Avas thus all at once borne down and crnslud by the ac- 
 cumulation of her misfortunes. Often she rose up and ojiened the 
 door to look oul ; ?he could only gaze \acantly upon the darkness 
 of a night v.-hose natural terrors incr"a3ed by the raging of the 
 tempest. She listened eagerly to every sound. At hmgth she 
 reeogni/.ed a step ; it was that of her darling child, lie enters, 
 and, this time at least, is the bearer of some food. But he did 
 not tell his mother witli what disdain he had been repulsed 
 from many a door — what insults he had been forced lo j)ut up 
 Avith everywhere. lie did not tell her how many jdaces he had 
 been informed, that it was not fitting they f-hoidd g-^-e the bread 
 which it had cost them so much trouble to gain, to support a 
 drunkard and his lazy offspring ; he did not tfil her wliat affronts 
 he had to endure for his lov<,' to hei-, and how often lu.- had to 
 throw himself on his knees before those who repulsed him, and 
 conjure them to give him, if it were but a crundj of bread for 
 his mother and famishiiig sisters, But the fatal fever whoso 
 
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 (ievoring firos gave a racliance to liis cheek, ixivl tlie largo drops 
 of sweat which rolled duwn IVom liis Ibreliead, toM that unfor- 
 tunate niotlier, more eloquently than words, all that her child 
 Lad sulh'red t'ur her. IJis strc-ngth is exhausted, and li(3 sink* 
 in a state of insciL-ibillty into her arms. To that mother's lirst 
 cry of distress succeeds a long sileiu.e. Then returning some- 
 what to himself, " Mother." said he, " take my hand and place 
 " it upon your bosom. ^Vliy are you crying ?" he added, al'ter 
 a moment's silence. " Why are you crying, mother ? Is it be- 
 ** cause you have a child to-day on earth and to-morrow he will 
 " be in Heaven ! AV'hy are you crying ? I am going to leave 
 " this world, which is so full of sulfering, and wlu're you have 
 *' had only sorrow a. id anxiety, to exchange it i\)V that bliss- 
 " ful Heaven, , 'S[)ecting which wo have so ol'ten conversed 
 '•' together. 1 have oidy a moment to li\e ; already I perceive 
 " my eyes closing ui)ou the light. Death has already })laced 
 '•' his hand upon me, but I experience only one regret in parting 
 " with life so early; it is that of being separated from you. Ohf 
 " my mother! OhI if I could only take you along with rac I 
 " But I hope it will nut be long before you v»ill Ibllow me." 
 
 The words which ho still made an ellort to pronounce, became 
 unintelligibhj. His head leaned forward- on Uis mother's bosom; 
 then drawing a deep last sigh, his spirit took its flight, and winged 
 its way to Heaven, to enjoy, as he Ixad hoped, the felicities of a 
 better life. And the mother, too, hel[)less, sarik speechless and 
 insensible ui)oii the inanimate corpse of her child. 
 
 Several Lours elapsed, and without knowing it, she still held 
 the body of her son grasped flrndy in her arms. One would 
 have said she was dead, and had taken a linal adieu to the pains 
 and troubles of this life. On a sudden tlie door, pushdl violently, 
 burst open with a noise, and a besotted human being enters 
 staggering. lie gazes stupilied around him as if to ascertain, 
 where he is. At length he recognizes his wife, and rushing 
 towards her, seizes her brutally by the arm and gives it a pull I 
 
 A deep drawn sigh, indicates her return to consciousness. 
 Then as she beholds him, she raises herself -up, and pointing to 
 the dead body of her child, '• Do you see that !" she cries out, 
 " Can you recognize that ? Know you who it is that crushed 
 " that child's existence under an insutlerable weight of pain and 
 " anguish? Know you who gave him, on his first entrance into 
 " the Avorld, an inheritance of poverty, Avi'etchedness and 5>hamej 
 " and good as he was, yet tilled his cup with a gall so bitter that he 
 " withdrew his lips from it and could not endure its bitterness ? 
 " Monater! tell me, do you know Avho it is that has plunged a 
 " dagger in the heart of that tender infant? — His drunken father 
 " did it. It is you that have hollowed out his tomb. It is you 
 " who have taken my child away from me ; you who have rent 
 " the heart of the woman whom you swore to render happy I'* 
 
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 The unhappy father, stiipificd, could not give utterance to a 
 single sentence. Ills drunkenness had completely passed away 
 at the sight of the sad spectacle before him. 
 
 To ap[)ease his remorse, and enable him to forget his sorrow, 
 he flies to the nearest tavern and gets drunk ! ! 
 
 CIIAPTKIl TV. 
 
 4°. NUVIiR TO TAKE INTOXICATING DiaXKS. 
 
 Extent or amount of the sacrifice ichicli one makes in joining the 
 
 Temperance Societij. 
 
 Inasmuch as the three following chapters constitute by far tho 
 most important part of this little treatise, we beseech all thoso 
 ■who feel themselves interested in the holy cause of Temperance 
 to [)erLise them with the mot^t serious attention. 
 
 At the outset, it is absolutely necessary to bear in mind that 
 when we speak of intoxicating drinks, wines, &.C., we would be 
 understood as speaking of such drinks and wines as are manu- 
 factured or generally imported into the country. It is the inha- 
 bitants of this country whom we address, and the discussion 
 therefore has reference to the liquors in use among them. What 
 we are about to say would not have the same relevancy in 
 France, Italy or in the other countries where God has permitted 
 tliG growth of the vine. The reasou will appear ia the course 
 of these chapters. 
 
 This preliminary disposed of, we would make tho circuit of 
 our couutr}, enter its dweliing houses, and c;\sting ourselves at 
 the feet of our fellow-countrym ;n, CDUJure them in the n^me of 
 God and their Country; in tiio name of their religion, ot their 
 families, and of all which they hol<l must dear, to renounce the 
 use of strong drinks, because tlu'v have never done any good in 
 this country, or if they have, if is incapa/jlc of counterbulaneimj 
 the incalculable evils which the// hare caused. 
 
 Yes, after many years reseai-ch and exanunation, we proclaim 
 fearlessly in the face of our Cnuntry: Ardent Spirits have done 
 vs no good. AVe Imve searched ia vain every where, and it has 
 been impossible to discover one solitary family, — one single 
 honest dwelling, where it could be said to us of intoxicating 
 liquors: '< AVe owe to them our prosperity, our peace and hap- 
 " piness." Not a single father of a i'amily has become better 
 by drinking,— not a single mother could be found, whom the 
 use of alcoholic liquors has rendurod more tender, watchful or 
 mure capable of prcperly bringing up a family. Not a. singlo 
 
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 child to whom its parents have said: " Wc owe to the use ho 
 " has made of intoxicating drinks the re:*pect, the docility and 
 " the love which he dit^plays to us." AVe never met with chil- 
 dren who blessed God, because their parents were in the habit 
 of using liquors. And who is the Avoman that possesses joy or 
 happiness only since her husband, or children are making usu 
 of spirituous liquors? — If then, they are banished from among 
 us, as we hope, there will not be tiien one family who avouM 
 have to suffer in what constitutes their true happiness. Let 
 then every father of a family unite hand in hand to abstain 
 from it, and not a single child, net a single wife, will have to 
 comphiin. Let every }oung man renounce courageously the 
 use of liquors and from one end of the country to the other, it 
 will be impossible to Hnd a single father and mother wiio would 
 have to lament over this resolution. This is what needs no 
 proofs, — this is what tytn-y one is as well convinced of as wo. 
 This proves plainly the propcjsition which we desire that every 
 citizen of the land should remember: " T/te lif/nors used in 
 " this countr}i are useless in protnoting the happiness of families.'* 
 But if, still further, Ave were to examine the moral good Avhieh 
 they are fitted to cause among tliose who use them, would tho 
 judgment we should pass In this vicAV of the subject be any 
 more favorable? Wlio is tlie man that liquors have rendered 
 more virtuous and Christian? Where is the Avoman dicy havo 
 made more patientj mild and chaste. Who is the individual 
 that owes to them a victory over his passions? — what good ac- 
 tions could he not have performed, — what good thouglits ho 
 would not have had Avithout them? Who is he that tlay havo 
 caused to walk slraigliter and more assured in the path of salva- 
 tion? Will any one point out to us the person Avho partakes of 
 the sacraments Avith more punctuality and vmwX since he id 
 making use of lif[uors? Do we believe that tiierc are many 
 among us Avhosc drinking habits have caused them to abandoa 
 sin l V/ould it be possible to find one to Avhom tlicy have 
 opened the doors* of Heaven? !No, Ave repeat, xind conse- 
 quently tho ler t evil, we can say in regard to Ihiuor,-. at pre- 
 sent, is ihct tht'y are perfectly useless in pi onioling onr salvation. 
 But one Avill perliaps answer here: " It is the same Avith 
 " inebriating liquors and the bread and nourishment which God 
 " gives us in His bounty. I do not take tliem absolutely for tho 
 " reason that they Avill render me a better father of a family, or 
 " more assiduous in my religious exercises; but I use thein to 
 " preserve my health and repair my strength, and to lighten 
 " my hard and painful 'abors." Arul such is the sad and bane- 
 ful error under Avhich thousands of pi.-rsons are yet laboring. 
 The greatest of all misfortunes, for nations, as Avell as for indivi- 
 duals, is to believe that to be good Avhiei) is had^ and to think 
 right Avhat is wrong. This is the cause of all crimes, and tho 
 source of all the miseries of men. When our gr )at and eternai 
 enemy is desirous to make us evil, he spreads among us a falsgj 
 
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 pi'iiici|)lL'; tries to tlcncivo uiir un(U'l^stalKlill,L,^'<; the intellect 
 ensiuired .soon ^ii.'diices t'le li(>;irt, and erinies, tears and desola- 
 tion follow. So the nuin, eonceivinL? thirk projects, goes out in 
 the deail of ni,i,dit, holding- in his hand a toreh. One n'ould 
 thiid; that his intention hs to liiirlit thrj travllt-r, — prevent him 
 from losing- his >vay amidst the darkness, but not at all: for 
 some time p:iit he has meditated violence a^^ainst his enemy, and 
 seeks the occasion for reventie. He advances, and the ta[)er 
 spreads around him a faint lij^ht; his heart ^^dows with an infer- 
 nal joy, — his eyes sparkle like those of a ti.u'er whieli dart ui)on 
 Jns \ietiiii. lie looks: no [)eison sees him, — no one suspects 
 liim; every thing seems to be buried in the (|uiet and mysterious 
 repose of shnnber. l>ut the alarm is given, — all hasten from 
 every aide. i*>:icii one endeavours to stoj) the ccjnllagration. 
 But in vain, 'i'lie devouring llame S[)reads above the roof iu 
 fury, and a few moments after the I'oofs arc crushed with a 
 great noise. A thick and black smoke ase(Muls, rolling itself 
 towards the clouds, and carries consternation into the hearts of 
 those who seem to be the most sheltered i'rom danger. 
 
 Sucli is, in this valley of tears, the man ^vho grop(\s along in 
 the dark, taking oftentimes, for nfiicnilli/ light, the torch which 
 is lighted only to carry everywhere desolation and ruin. It 
 would rcqiure a pen dij)ped in blood and tears, to dej)ict all the 
 Kiish)rtunes, the secret or pubi'c sins, which have arisen among 
 us from the fatal belief that li(pu)rs were good, and that they 
 were one of those thousand gifts given to man by (iod, in oi-der 
 to sustain him and increase his strength. It is under this false 
 prin(.i[)le that the mother gives some to lier sick infant; that 
 the day laborer has recoui'sc to the inebriating bowd during 
 his toilsome v.'ork, — that the people of this northern country 
 have been led to think, till this moment, that they had nothing 
 better to offer to their friends or their guests, than a glass of 
 liquor. It is because wc believed them f/oud that we used them 
 between our meals and on all occasions. We have no fear of 
 being contradicted by any one in s[)eaking tlius. It.is under shel- 
 ter of this false creed that the Prince of Darkness has led into 
 the abyss of intoxication, Tn^^'/fl^/^ of generous men, who seemed 
 by tln.'lr virtues and knowdedge to be sheltered from this misfor- 
 tune; audit is by that false princi[de, that he has spread shame 
 and misery in the midst of thousands of respectable families, 
 who, without li(piors, would have become happy and prosperous. 
 But as in the comparison Ave had recourse to, an instant ago, 
 one would have arrested the most dreadful and destructive con- 
 flagration, by extinginshing the taper whose gleaming light he 
 had perceived: so it will be ])0ssible to abolish intoxication and 
 the crimes that this destructive and loathsome vice has in its 
 train, only bij destroying the false principle that the liquors are 
 goody in the numerous cases in which we formerly used them. 
 Evil must be taken at its source; the tree must be struck at the 
 root. As long as wc will repeat aad believe that they are good 
 
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 ill all those chniinistanfc?, they will bo sought for iind lovoJ; 
 ior it is in our iiuture to love what is (jnod. 
 
 " ^ly il(;ar sou," lia?- said, till now, the honest au«l Christian 
 father to hischihl, *'iu.ike use of strong drinks with ivoi/f/alion, 
 " and aeeording to yoiu' nci'i/}^' and by his example he taught 
 hiia that he needed some on every oeeasi(»n: bel'ore meals to have 
 ajjpetite; during and after meals to iielp digestion; in tlie morn- 
 ing to have good breath; at night to relieve him iVoni hi.s 
 fatigue; with his friends, to receive them in u worthy mannci'i 
 during the excessive heat of the -wi'ather to refresh himself; 
 (luring tlie cold Avinter .-ea-on to make him warm; in illness, to 
 get hetter ; in health, prevent sickness ; dui-ing laboi-, to bo 
 invigorated; and during the days of rest and festivals, to spend 
 them joyously; alone, f.r an amr ent ; in eomjmny to do 
 like others, ansl rct'pond to the to;; .iiat oiu; pL'opo.-es! 
 
 Is it not then a fact that if, till tliis moment, the father 
 warned his child to drink licjuors viodiraiehj, and aci'imling to 
 his need, he proved to him that this modern; ion consisted in 
 taking some on every occasion, and that this need existed at 
 every moment ? Unfortunately the chihl always ]»;iitl more at- 
 tention to the examples than to the counsels: and the three or 
 four glasses he used every day, which were enough i'ov him in 
 the beginning, a few years later proved insuliieient. I'rom this 
 pretended moderate use, us one perceives, they required only to 
 take one step, — to pass one imi)erce)>tible line moi-e, to plunge 
 into excess. And so. nnder the belief that thev Avcre tem])eiut(3 
 and moderate in the use of strcmg driid^s, they attained in a few 
 years the last degree of drunkenness. 
 
 If then the charitable and zealous Pastor warned tlie young 
 Intemi)erate, that it was time to cease drinking, that he was 
 hastening towards his ruin, he seemed quite astonished, and 
 answered : " I am not a drunkard, there is no danger; I only 
 " take liquors wdien I need them." And if the father, alarmed 
 at the expenses of his house, and at the great quantity of liquors 
 consumed by his children, and by the practices to which they 
 were addicied, ri.'solved to correct them, it Avas always too late : 
 They answered him : " God be thariked, Ave are not drunkards; 
 '•' Ave nuist properly receive our friends ; we are desirous of in- 
 " suiting no one : Ave only take liquors because we need them.'* 
 Did the unfortuiuite wife imjilore her husband Avith tears not to 
 spend so much for liquors : Did she tell him that their children 
 Avere naked ; that it Avas more than time to lay something aside 
 to send them to school ; that the most necessary things Avere 
 Avanting in their dv/elling : she generally received as an answer, 
 words, like these: " I Avork very hard, and I take liquors because 
 " I need them." And Avretched Avould that Avoman be, if alter 
 this she dared complain, for rash swearing, uttered in fury, and 
 oftentimes accompanied with blows, AYOuld have caused her corU" 
 plaints to cease, 
 
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 And tlic nnfitrtiinate fatlior pcreeivod, in a very short iHr.'iod, 
 the Inteiiiperani-e of his chihh-i'U, c'oii.sninin;^ tlic proiicrty )uj 
 liiul iu'(iuirtMl witli so inticli hiboraad witli.such constant anxiety 
 und toil, ile iniploicd (Jod to sliorten his days, in order not to 
 remain a wilnoss of the total ruin and (li,>h(jnor of his family. 
 And when death, too sh)\v at his wish, eanie to put an end to 
 his aiillirin^jis, liis dyini^ words were, to curse, the litpiors which 
 ]iad enil?ltlered his Jasl years, and brouglit him prematurely to 
 the gra\ e, 
 
 And the Minister of Christ, aware of liis uselos efforts to cor- 
 rect drunkards, deplored daily the fatal eifects of licjuors. 
 
 And lh»3 !i(Ili(teil mother, Avho nuniy a tinuj h:ul only tears to 
 oiler her eliildren, who d;'Ui;!nd;'d of her hread, eui'sed the li- 
 (juoi's, Avhioh daily de])rivcd her husband of the proper fruit td' 
 liis exertions and labors. 
 
 Ijut if all these tears, sobs, and cruel despair have been of uo 
 ftvail to rt form drunkards, they will serve to eonlirm a I'act : It 
 is that ardent sj)ii ils have done ua injnry. A}'e, atul what is too 
 much fori;ott<!n, and not oulliclently repeated, is that the evils 
 they have done us, have never been redeemed, and cannot bu 
 red(.'emed by any good. 
 
 "We have been too long und(n' the impression that they "were 
 n gift which God had bestctwed u[>on us in his goodness, as the 
 brt.ad aiul other nourishments, Avhich he allords us; but it is a 
 Bad error, and our cruel and persevering enemy is the only one 
 who has led us to that belief. 
 
 He did towards us, what he did formerly in the terrestrial 
 ])aradis(^, when he deceived our Mother, Eve ; he only repeated 
 liis lirst falsehood : "• Taste of this fruit and thou slialt not die," 
 said ne to the first woman ; " it shall only prove beneficial to 
 *' you ; this fruit does not give death, as }ou were told by God." 
 lie has called w<iter of life (eau-de-vie) a devouring beverage, 
 which ought rather to be named water of fire and of death. Like 
 our first parents, Ave have tasted it, we have converted it into 
 one of our most ordinary beverages; and hence ruin, crimes, and 
 death under the most hideous aspects, have followed our impru- 
 dence, and spi'cad desolation throughout the land. With lips 
 still sullied with those noxious liquors, we have seen the child 
 disown, strike, and murder his father. A man tiirusting a dagger 
 into his friend's bosom ; tlie husband ill-treat the woman whom 
 lie loved and adored a few moments before ; we have oftentimes 
 witnessed a father, under the influence of liquor, forget all senti- 
 ments of natural affection, so much so, as to deprive his children 
 of the last morsel of bread they had, in order to enable himself to 
 slake the devouring thirst he experienced. 
 
 Since we have then imitated our first parents in the baneful 
 error they committed, seeking for their welfare and happiness 
 in a fruit Avhich Avas only fitted to lead them to all kinds of evils, 
 let us, like them, be aware of our error. Let us consider the 
 
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TKM'-KRANCE SOCIEIT. 
 
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 yciO(\ of wliicli intoxiciiting lienors Imvo ilcprivcd us ; to what a 
 lri{;htl'iil iKikcdncss t\u'.y Imvt; rcdiit'ed a, grout in?'.ny of those 
 wlio are addictiMl to thidr use. Wc havo lon^^M'iioii^Ii Cdiividered 
 thcin with cstLH'in and due respect, I could t-vca s:iy, with luvc : 
 W(! have honored them with the first ])hicc in our dwcIling.H : wo 
 looked, at tiieni as the brightest ornament of our tabU's: Wo of- 
 fered them to our friends as a mark of friendship and hospitality. 
 Let us consider this (hiy tiu; right they liave to so much estima- 
 tion, and honor; an<l wo shall not be long in perceiving that 
 they deserx only onr contempt and hatred. 
 
 History presents us with the names of many ])enpl(^ who paid 
 divine homage to wild and stupid animals, and who worshipped 
 and esteemed them as the authors of all good. AVe h.iv(^ ntjarly 
 imitated them in whiit wo might call tlu; extravagant worship 
 we have paid to aleoholie li((Uors. Those noxious (hinks have 
 stood higli in our own estimation and conlidcncc ; and, shutting 
 foolishly our eyes ujjon the dreadful evils they caused us, we did 
 not hesitate to consider them as good and useful in the many 
 circumstances in w'..ich. they injure ns. 
 
 The Indians, as v/e are aware, worship a foul and vcnomouji 
 snake, whose bite causes a cruel a' id sudden death. They even 
 keep him somt.'times among tlumi and honor him wllli a good 
 place in their houses. Such is the ca?c with us in reference to 
 /nebriating drinks. The most malignant snakes have never 
 caused the ruin ci' so man}' victims by tluiir poison among tho 
 Indians. And to this day nothing compared with li<iaor has 
 caused so many lives to be lost. 
 
 And there arc some, however, who have; the bold presumption 
 to assume their defence, crying excess, fanaticism, against those 
 who speak of destroying them ; who are neiirly (jnraged Avhen 
 one speaks of this modern divinity in impolite terms. And 
 when any one endeavours to show the people, the horror he na- 
 turally feels in viewing tho evils they have done us, *' Beware," 
 they say, "of your language, remember that liquors arc God's 
 '* work." 
 
 Yes, wo reply, ardent spirits are tlie doings of God, undoubt- 
 edly, like all creatures, all matter. But if they are His crea- 
 tures, they arc like the fruit of the tree of knowledge, which it was 
 not permitted to taste, although it had come from the hands of 
 God. They are th*? creatm-es of God ; yes, but like tigers and 
 lions, which we ought to fear and shun; like the wolf wliich we 
 must chase far from the flock, and for whose head there has been 
 a reward offered; like the serpent to whom God said : " Thcro 
 " shall exist an eternal enmity between thee and the woman, 
 " between her imsterity Jind thine." They are the creatures of 
 Crod, like arsenic, opium, and all the other poisons which God 
 has given u-^, and which, although good and nseful to man in 
 some rare cases, are nevertheless, to be numbered among things 
 which we ought to remove far from our lips and those of our chil- 
 dren. Ardent spirits are the creatures of God ; yes, but ought 
 
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 not tl»(! iTinurkiil)lo iKMresn (if un Tmliaii CliI'T to iMvinc mor- 
 chiint, as reported by tlui Uev. Father De Smet, Imj rciiiem- 
 beri'd by every ftitber of n rumily, " Of what use is your water 
 ** of lire? it only does injury ; it burns tl»e throat and stoinaeli : 
 " it mal<e-< of niiiu ti wild Waxt, ho. bites, iio seratciie.-*, lie bowls, 
 " without being aware of what he is doiu'^. C'arry this water 
 *' to our enemies : They will commit murder nmonp: tbonis(dves, 
 " and their wives and ehildrtui will inspire us with pity : for »is, 
 ** we are foolish enouj^h without that." Strong liquors are the 
 creatures of (Jod ; a\'e, ccu'tainly, but like the arrow that my 
 enemy has sbarpiMied to pierce my btisoni ; like the bloody knife 
 I bavc withdrawn iVom the heart of nty brother. 'J'his arrow 
 and knife will always be to me an object of horror; I will never 
 use them ; and when I shall lot)k at them, my blood will chill in 
 my veins. They are the creatures of (Joil, like the mountain of 
 Gilboa that David charged witli malediction, beeau.^e it bad 
 dratdc the blood of Saul and ffonathun. '11 icy are the creatures 
 of God, like those perlidions nations wboin God commanded to 
 be destroyed, because they luul led his [jeople to sin. Finally, 
 tliey are the creatures of God, sueh as the eye, the foot, and 
 hand, that Christ desired, nevertludess, to be cut otT, destroyed 
 and burn('(l wlicn they have l)ecn a cause of sin. 
 
 Ah ! If you only knew how loa.tlisome and disgusting are the 
 hands employ(;d in making liijuors, whose defence you take in 
 hand, it woidd seem tluit jou would lu'sitate to call tlicm crea- 
 tures of God. if you had only taken the i)ain3 to examine how 
 ardent f=['itits r.re niii<le in the distillery, you would iVar to 
 commit a blasplieinv in idvin-jf them such a hi'rh orii<:in. On 
 leaving the spectacle you had v»iinessed with your own eyes, if 
 you had the courage to say: '• Tlieso licpio: - are the creatures of 
 " God, you should iiave added : but nituTs infidelity has hor- 
 " ribly perverted them fiom their oi'iglnal design." CJod had 
 given wheat and other giain to man for nourishment; and man, 
 instead of using it for this desirabl end, has jiervcrted God's 
 work, and changed it through tlie distillery into a frightful 
 poison. 
 
 Have 7on ever l)een in those houses, or rather witliin those 
 gates of Hell, vliere man, by a science which tends to tiii>. i)er- 
 (lltion of Ins equals, transforms the most wholesome and nutri- 
 tious grain intt) a devouring li([uid, whieli runs then like a river 
 of lire throuirhout tlie country, and which leaves evervwhere 
 profouiid and mourntVd traces of its passage. As soon as you 
 are under these obscure vaults, you leel as if you were sulfueated 
 by a thi( Iv vai)our. Fi'oni those immense furnaces, whicli re- 
 present tlie fires (;f ITell, a circle of Hame escapes round large 
 boiling vessels, filled with a thick matter, dirty and black : you 
 arc told not to aijiiroach them ; for Avliat is boiling in th;'m is 
 of such a jirodigious strength that the vapour alone whieh es- 
 capes would cause the loss of your eye-sight. It is rum in its 
 first state, unreduced. 
 
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TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. 
 
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 Above your hoail you perceive enormous serpents made, of red 
 copp.'r, in whirli you hear the hurnini^ li(|ui(t wliioh is to fall 
 into suhtcnaiicous reservoirs. The wretched bcin^^s, working 
 in those infcctioiiy dweliinjr, have lost ahiio.st th<! rnarki of hu- 
 man Iraturcs, heiuLf yuHocated hy the damp and burning al- 
 njOHphere they inhuU-. Tiicy h>ok sometimed so exhausted, 
 weak and pale, that one might tiike tliom for speetre3. 
 
 Onec niorc!, if intoxieating hcpiors are Clod'a creatures, tlie 
 God that made them, or rather, wht) in his wrath, permitted that 
 man may know iiow to make them, will not i)revent m from 
 Bhunning them and feeling awe towards them, not on aeeount of 
 tho Creator of all things, but for the evils they have done us. 
 How can wo love them, when we know how they arc mauufae* 
 tured ? 
 
 The following is a receipt for making runj, Avhich has been 
 handed to us by .six respectable perijons, who fur many year* 
 have b(!en employed in a distillery : 
 
 " We certify that we have laboured for many years in a dis- 
 " tillery, for tlu; manufaeturing of rum, and the following is tho 
 " process we adopted in making it. After having boiled tho 
 ** grain we threw in it sonp, bullock's blood, lime, potash, copperas 
 '* and a great (piantit^ of aquafortis. We boiled this dreadful 
 " mixture in immense cauldrons of copper, after which it passed 
 " through enormous copper pi[)es tilled with verdigras. One 
 " day one of the i)ltclu rs tilled with acpaafortis, which we used, 
 " being accidentally broken, it took fire imniediately, and it was 
 " with great dill'iculty that it was extinguished. We distilled 
 " daily eight tuns of that rum which p.issed for good Jamaica, 
 '* and which was distributed and sold thr(»ughout the country. 
 " We are certain that this liquor with all others, as gin and 
 '* whiskey, which are manufactured in the country, according to 
 '* the process, arc destructive to health, and only injurious to 
 " man; such is the reason why we have abandoned them, and 
 " implore our fiillow-countrymen to do the same." 
 
 Such is the liipior we thought so good and so useful, that we 
 used to take it at each opportunity, believing it a precious thing, 
 and ofleriug it to our best friends. Had we not the right to say 
 that the devil alone could make us put confidence in such pre- 
 tended utility. And if in reading the above account there is not 
 vet suilieient to give us an invincible horror of strong drinks, 
 yfsit will place before the eyes of every one something even yet 
 moro convincing. It is the opinion of more than a thousand 
 of the most learned physicians of Ktiglan 1, Scotland and IreJand, 
 respecting ardent spirits. One will perceive by it, that the li- 
 quors imported from England or her Islands into this country, 
 bv the Merchants, urs not better than thoise manufactured in this 
 rrovince. 
 
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 Medical Opinions in regard to tlic nature of ardc^nt spirits, and 
 their effects upon society, respectfully submitted to the conside- 
 ration of the Members of both Houses of rarliament. — By 
 KoDERT Kaye GuEviLLK, iJart., LL.D., F.R.s., Edin., one of 
 the Vice Presidents of the Edinburgh Teiiiperanoe Society. 
 
 By the following Certificate, it will be seen that ardent spirits 
 are ascertained by Medical Science to be, in a strict sense, a poi- 
 sonous ; that the use of them p,s articles of diet, especially among 
 the poorer classes, is the direct cause of an incalculable and ap- 
 palling amount of disease and death ; and l/iat, even in the most 
 moderate quantity, when habitually used, they are injurious to 
 the constitutioii both in body and in mind. 
 
 Testimony of the Medical Practitioneks at Dublin. 
 
 "We the undersigned, hereby declare, that, in our opinion, 
 nothing would tend so much to the improvment of the health of 
 the community as an entire disuse of ardent spirits, which we 
 consider as the most productive cause of the diseases, and con- 
 sequently poverty and wretchedness, of the working classes of 
 ])ublin. 
 
 Signed, Alex. Jackson, 3i.d., State Physician. 
 John Crampton, m.d. 
 R. Carmichael. 
 Fr. L'Estrimge. 
 S. AVilmot, Prof. Surgery. 
 P. Crapton, Surgeon General. 
 R. M. Peile. 
 Thos. Mills. 
 
 J. Cheyne, m.d.. Physician. 
 N. Colles, Prof, of General Surcrerv. 
 Francis Baker, m.d. 
 Tlios. II. Orpen, m.d. 
 S. B. Labatt, m.d. 
 
 John O'Brien, M.i>,, Vice-President R. and Q. Colk 
 John Breen, 
 Thos. Ile'A'sono 
 J. AV. CuPaock. 
 
 Hen. Marsh, m,d., Prof. Med. Prac. Coll. Surg. 
 Eph. IMcDowell, m.d. 
 N. Adams, m.d. 
 John Houston. 
 J. Harvey, m.d. 
 R. L. Nimn. 
 Corn. Daly, m.d. 
 W. Auchinleck. 
 
TEMPEUANCE SOCIETT. 
 
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 Francis White. 
 
 li. McNamara, Prof. M. 
 
 Rob. Bell, M.D. 
 
 JNIaurice CoUis. 
 
 C. E. II. Orpen. 
 
 W. Stokes, M. D. 
 
 J. A. Crawford, m.d. 
 
 AV. W. Canipbeil, m.d. 
 
 AVill. Renny. 
 
 J. Kirby. 
 
 flolin Osborno, m.d. 
 
 W. J. Morr an, m.d. 
 
 R. Collins, -M.D., Master Lying-in IIosp. 
 
 John jNIoUan, m.d. 
 
 G. A. Kennedy, m.d. 
 
 Ivob. Law, M.D. 
 
 Ch. Johnson, :\r.D. 
 
 George Llayden. 
 
 C. G. Madden. 
 
 J. C. Brcnnau. 
 
 TESTraOiNY OF THE MeDICAL MeN AT EDINBURGH. 
 
 We, the undersigned, do hereby declare our conviction, that 
 irdent spirits are not to be regarded as a nourishing article of 
 diet ; that the habitual use of them is a principal cause of disease, 
 )overty and misery in this place, and that the entire disuse of 
 them would powerfully contribute to improve the health and 
 comfort of the community. 
 
 This was signed by 4 professors of the ]\Iedlcal faculty in the 
 University, 11 Members of the Royal College of Physicians, by 
 the President and 27 Fellows of the Royal College cf Surgeons, 
 and by 34 other Medical Practitioners ; 77 in all. 
 
 individual opinions. 
 
 Sir AsTLEf Cooper, Bart.— No person has a greater hosti- 
 lity to dram drinking, than myself, insomuch, that I never suTfer 
 any ardent spirits in iny house, thinking thera evil spirits ; and 
 if the poor could witness the white livers, the dropsies, the 
 shattered nervous systems which I have seen, as the consequen- 
 ces of drinking, they weald be aware that spirits and poison 
 were synonvmous terms. 
 
 WiLiiAM ILuiTY, m.d., Physician to the Prisons of Dublin.— 
 Being tlioroughly convinced, by long and extensive observation 
 amongst the poor and middling classes, that there does not exist 
 a mo"c productive cause of disease, ami consequent poverty and 
 wretchedness, than the habitual use of ardent spirits, I cannot 
 therefore hesitate to recommend the entire disuse of such a poi- 
 son, rather than incur the risks necessarily connected with its 
 most moderate use. 
 
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 RORETIT Christon, M.D., F.R.s.E., Professor of Materia Me- 
 dica, in the University of Edinburgh. — The useful purj)oscs to 
 be served by spirituous liquors are so trifling, contrasted with 
 the immense magnitude and variety of the evils, resulting from 
 their habitual abuse by the working classes of this country, that 
 their entire abandonment, as an article of diet, is earnestly to be 
 desired. According to my exi)erience in the Infirmary of thia 
 City, the effects of the abuse of ardent spirits in impairing 
 health and adding to the general mortality, are much increaRcd 
 in Edinburgh since the late changes in the Excise Laws, and 
 the consequent cheapness uf whiskey. 
 
 Edwakd TuiiNKR, M.D., F.R.s.s , Lond. and Tuh'n. Professor 
 of Chemistry in the London University. — It is my firm convic- 
 tion that ardent spirits are not nourishing articles of diet ; that 
 in this climate they may be entirely disused, except as a medi- 
 cine, with advantage to health and strength, and that their ha- 
 bitual use tends to undermine the constitution, enfeeble the 
 mind, and degrade the character. They are one of the principal 
 causes of disease, poverty and vice. 
 
 The following is the Certificate we extracted sometime ^go 
 from the Temperance Advocate : — 
 
 We, the undersigned are of opinion, 
 
 \. That a very large portion of human misery, including po- 
 verty, disease and crime, is induced by the use of alcoholic or 
 fermented liquors, as beverages. 
 
 2. That the most perfect health is compatible with Total Ab- 
 stinence from all such intoxicating beverages, whether in tha 
 form of ardent spirits, or as wine, beer, ale, porter, cider, &c. 
 
 3. That persons accustomed to such drinks, may, with perfect 
 Bafety, discontinue them entirely, either at once, or gradually, 
 after a short time. 
 
 4. That Total and Universal Abstinence from alcoholic liquors 
 and intoxicating beverages of all sorts, would greatly contribute 
 to the health, the prosperity, the morality, and happiness of the 
 human race. 
 
 Signed by the following number of Medical Gentlemen in tha 
 places stated : 
 
 London, 184 
 
 Dublin, 14 
 
 Edi nb u rgh, 2() 
 
 Glasgow, 46 
 
 Leeds, 53 
 
 Liverpool, 184 
 
 Manchester, 75 
 
 Nottingham, 32 
 
 Sheffi'.dd, 23 
 
 Tolul, 637 
 
Ti:>[rERANCE SOCIETV. 
 
 
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 scs to 
 with 
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 f this 
 
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 And about 400 in provincial towns. It is still in course ot 
 ■oignuture, and will no doubt receive many moi'e, as jMi*. Dunlop 
 says tliis is merely a Report of Progress. 
 
 We are of opinion tiiat such a testimony as the above, can be 
 most intclliji'cntly, and will be most cheerfully acceded to by tlie 
 iMedie;:l Profession in Canada. 
 
 We give below a few of the well known names which are at- 
 tached to the above cert'^icate. 
 
 LONDON. 
 
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 Addison, T\, m.d., Senior Physician, Guy's Hospital. 
 Aniott, Neil, m.d.. Physician to the Queen, and Author 
 
 ments of Physics. 
 Archer, "William, m.r.c.s., Surgeon to Ottoman Embassy. 
 Bright; Iiichard, m.d., f.u.s., Physician to the Queen. 
 Brodie, B. C, Bart., r.ii.s.. Sergeant Surgeon to tlic Queen. 
 
 Surgeon to Prince Albert. 
 Burnett, Sir W., m.d., I'.u.s., Physician General to the Navy, 
 Chambers, W. F., m.d. r.u.s., Physician to the Queen and 
 
 Queen Dowagei. 
 
 Clark, Sir James, Bart., m.d., f.r.s.. Physician in Ordinary to 
 Her ]\I;iiesty and Prince Albert. 
 
 Copland, James, m.d., f.r.s., Author of the Dictionary of Prac- 
 tical Medicine. 
 
 Ferguson, Bobevt, m.d.. Physician Accoucheur to the Queen. 
 
 Forbes, John, m.d , f.r.s., I'hyaician to the Queen's Houseliold, 
 Prince Albert and Duke of Cambridge. 
 
 Guy, W., Augustus, m.d., Cantab. Professorc 
 
 Hue, C, M.D., Senior Pysician to Bartholomew Hospital. 
 
 Judd, \s . H,, F.R.C.S., Surgeon to Prince Albert. 
 
 Key, C. Aston, r.is.c.s., f.r.s.. Surgeon in Ordinary to Prince 
 Albert. 
 
 Latham, P. 1\I., j:.d., Physician to tlic Queen. 
 
 Liddell, J., m.d., Greenwich Hospital. 
 
 McGrigor, Sir James, Bart., m.d., f.r.s., ll.d., Director Gene- 
 ral, Army jMed. De[)artment. 
 
 Paris, J. A., .m.d., f.r.s., Pres. Iloyal College Physicians. 
 
 Prout, W., M.u,, F.R.S., (Bridgev/ater Treatise.) 
 
 lioget, P. M,, M.D., F.R.S., (Bridgewater Treatise.) 
 
 Smith, Andrew, m.d., Deputy Inspector of Army Hospitals. 
 
 EDINBURGH. 
 
 Alison, W. P., M.D., Professor and Physician to the Queen. 
 Combe, Andrew, m.d.. Physician in Ordinary to the (^ueeii. 
 
 After the reading of these documents, how shall we speak of 
 moderation, of Temperance, in the daily use of strong drinks. \\\ 
 what does the virtue of Tem[)eranco consist ? In making a mo- 
 clerate use o'i good things, and abstaining from bad ones. To say 
 that there may be moderation and Temperance, in making use, 
 
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 without an absolute necessity, of a thing which can only do injury, 
 is a contradiction in terms. True it is that we have heard said a 
 thousand times that liquors were good in siuh and such circum- 
 stances. But in this we have been led astray; those who held to 
 us such language, were as ignorant as we once were, concerning 
 them. They were even interested to mislead us, because often- 
 times they were fond of spirits, and were led more by their pas- 
 sion tlian reason. But as we perceive, avc have presented the 
 testimony of more than a thousand di^interested men, who 
 have made a profound study of the nature of strong drinks, arul 
 who have examined the effects, and conscientiously weighed tho 
 good and evil they cause to man, in relation to his health, during 
 the different circumstances of life, and they unanimously declart* 
 that they do no good, but are on tlie contrary always hurtful. 
 
 They say that whatever names are given to them, they are 
 only a destructive poison. And shall we, after that, remain un- 
 decided, in regard to the use we shall make of tliem I 
 
 The Almighty who forbids me to commit suicide, forbids me 
 also to drink the liquors which science and experience pi'ove to 
 be destructive to the life which has been given to me. 
 
 If it were a useless thing to take liquors, I would abstain from 
 them, for the reason that the Sovereign Judge, who will punish 
 me for a useless word, will not punish me less if I perform a use- 
 less action. And would to God that the only evil that can bo 
 said of ardent spirits, is, that they are us(dess to those who use them. 
 But they have caused the total ruin of the best fortunes; degrad- 
 ed below the brute, the most enlightened and benevolent indi- 
 viduals ; carried desolation among the most happy families ; 
 visibly and directly caused the death of thousands of indivi- 
 duals; daily extinguished the religious sentiments of our parents, 
 brethren, friends and children ; changed among us, men often- 
 times the most calculated to become the ornament of society, into 
 furious monsters ; caused many to become widows and orphans; 
 dashed into hell, inumerabie victims ; and taken from the bosom 
 of Christ hundreds and tens of thousands of souls whom ho 
 would have saved at the price of his blood. And moreover 
 with all those dreadful evils, they have never been productive of 
 tlie least good to amj one ! 
 
 Said eJesus Christ : " Every tree, therefore, that yieldeth not 
 good fruit, shall be cut down and cast into the fire ;" Matthew, 
 chap. 3, v. 1 1. Could we not say that liquor is that cursed tree, 
 mentioned by our Saviour, and which ought to be destroyed be- 
 cause it produces no good fruits. Verily, is not liquor like a 
 tree who«e fruits carry destruction and death everywhere? Wo 
 know that the inhabitants of France, and of other countries, who 
 cultivate the vine, have excellent wines: we know that- those 
 wines are good to strengthen man and to nourish him. But it in 
 madness to use the liquor, presented to us in this country under 
 the names of Port Wine, Madeira, Spirits, (eau-de-vie), &c. &c. 
 when the most enlightened men, und the knowledge we our- 
 
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 ■elves pospess, teach us that all those protended wines are often- 
 times a <lur);Terous beverage, which cupidity, aided ^'V chemistry, 
 lias composed, not to give us strength and healtli, but only to 
 llatter our taste, empty our purse, impair our health, and ruin 
 uur souls. 
 
 The Chinese, who are poisoned by thousands, at this moment, 
 with the opium given tliem by Englishmen at the point of tlieir 
 bayonets, could answer to their prudent Emperor, who has for- 
 bidden them the use of it: " The inhabitants of France have good 
 " wine to drink, why siiould we not drink opium." They would 
 be as good logicians as our wine drinkers, who excuse them- 
 selves under the pretext that French wines are good. 
 
 What is it to me, if the Rum-seller lias been pleased to call 
 ■uch liquor Por^ Wine and others Madeira Wine, Spanish Wine 
 or 'J'eneriiF Wine, when by analysing them I perceive, by in- 
 fallible tests, that for the most part they liave only the name and 
 taste of those which they represent, and that they are composed 
 of substances only fitted to injure the organs which God has 
 given to me for the preservation of my life? Ought I not to lis- 
 ten to the voice of religion and reiison which commands me to 
 abstain ? 
 
 Such is now our position, in the most of countries where God 
 has not permitted the vine to grow, tl.' it we can scarcely know 
 good wine, but by their names. Such is at least what has been 
 often told us by Frenchmen, travelling into this Country; such has 
 been the remark made before a large meeting of the most influ- 
 ential men at Quebec by the Right Reverend Bishop of Nancy 
 himself. The testimony of all those persons adds a new weight 
 to the decharations of all those, versed in the science of chemis- 
 try, who unite in saying, with the physicians cited above, and 
 with the learned Sir Astley Cooper, " that spirituous liquors 
 " are notliing else but a destructive poison." 
 
 Doctor Douglass, who is considered, with reason, as one of the 
 most learned and best Physicians and Surgeons of Quebec, has 
 twice declared in that city, in presence of more than two thou- 
 sand citizens, that wines, beer and other liquors used in this 
 country, were not only useless to persons in health, but that 
 even when taken moderately they predisposed to a great many 
 infirmities ; that they rendered incurable, illness which the least 
 care might otherwise have cured ; that they paralized the effect 
 of the most salutary and powerful medicines ; that they were 
 the cause of those sicknesses known under the names of apo- 
 plexy, gouts, palsies, aneurism, diseases of the nerves, &c. &c. 
 
 Not satisfied with enumerating the most respectable names 
 in proof of his assertions, he has adduced proofs that may be 
 called infallible and chemical, that the use of ardent spirits 
 could only produce evil. Twice in Quebec, in presence of a 
 large assembly composed of persons of the highest respectability; 
 and once at Beauport, before the most part of the inhabitants of 
 iliat parish, among whom were many Clergymen of the city and 
 
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 MANUAL OF THE 
 
 rural districts, lie t]('Oonij)()se(I Maileira and Port Wiiio, (jf lln' 
 b<'8t ((uality, and tal)lc beer, showing that the lir.st cuutuiutd 
 one fourth of alcoliol and the lust one eiglilli. 
 
 He then took alcoJiol extracted from strong beer, niid having 
 niix(;d it Avith a Htthi sugar, ether and otlicr iugredii nt^, hi.' 
 made with it excellent I'ort, Madeira, Ciiain[)ague '\\'ine, and 
 then IJrandy and Iluiu of the best quality. IFc closed liis 
 learned and interesting experiments by iniploiiiig his fellow- 
 countrymen iu:\er to nuike use of thoS(3 liquors, Avithout an ab- 
 solute necessity, and to rank them among I'.iosc AJuIent medi- 
 cines which ought to be used only when prescribed by a skilful 
 Physician. 
 
 After su'h pvoo^^:, if we Avere yet to be told : " But if it is a 
 "■' great evil to drink wine, why did Jesu.s Christ make some at 
 '-^ the "Wedding of Gana ?" AVe should answer : " If yuu wcvv 
 " provided v.ith wine as sweet, good and salu*:ary as that Avhicli 
 -' Christ created, wc should not blame yuu i^in' using it. But for 
 -' the reason that tiU'.re is no similarity betvv-eeu the Avine umdc by 
 " God, and those Avhich are sold by your P.Ierchants, Ave conjure 
 •' you never to take it. The iirsfcAvas good fur your liody Avlu(di 
 ■' it Avould have I'urtifu'd ; it was even good lor yom- soid, 
 " Avhich it Avould elevate toAvards God; whilst that which ycui 
 ''' have impairs your health, besots your souls, and stii's up in 
 " you all Avicked i)assions." 
 
 Let no one cite, as an objection, the advice Avhich Paul gives to 
 his disciple, to put (i little ivinc in Ids tcafcr on account of the 
 extreme ircc/kitcss of his conxtitutio7i. This text proves in the 
 iirst place, the contrary of Avhat is desired by those Avho cite it 
 on every occasion, Avitliout fully understanding the sense. It 
 proves tiiat St. Paul and his disciples ordinarily drank not 
 Avine, and that if Ave are desirous of imitating them, avc should 
 totally abstiiin from it for the love of our Saviour. If St. Ti- 
 mothy had been in tlie habit of drinking Avine, Paul Avould not 
 have urged him to do the same. Noaa', it is more than proba- 
 ble that, in all this, the disciple Avas only the imitator of his 
 master. 
 
 " Nevertheless, " you remark, *' it is evident that St. 
 " Paul advises his disciple to take a little Avine." Yes, but 
 read all the text, and you Avill perceive that if he advised him, 
 it is on account of his Aveakness and of his numerous infirm- 
 ities. We plainly perceive that he Avould not have addressed 
 to him such language if he had enjoyed good health. It is evi- 
 dently proved, by tlils text, that the Apostle of Nations would 
 never have conceived the idea of giving you such an advice to 
 drink Aviuc, my good friend, Avhosc rubicund features and 
 plumpness, AVould present such a contrast to the emaciation of 
 Paid's disciple. 
 
 Besides, wc know that the Avine used in Palestine Avas ex- 
 tremely common, that it was even the beverage of the poorest 
 of the country, and that consequently St. Pau), who considered 
 
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 it a glory to live in a state of poverty and by manual labor, did 
 not act inconsistently with a state of poverty, in t^^-ing wino 
 during his sickness, or in advising others to do the si.me. 
 
 The ■\vine Avas the liquor of the poor as well as of the rich. 
 It was not, as in this eouK.ry, a luxury to have some; the rich 
 and the happy were not tiie only ones wiio avaih'd themselves 
 of them, it is then more than doubtful whether St. Paul 
 would have drank Avine, if he had lived in our country, since 
 we are compelled to lavish large sums to obtiiin it from a dis- 
 tance of many thousand miles. Most assuredly St. Paul, who 
 supported miserably his life by his manual labor, as he tells us 
 himself, in building tents, would have been oftentimes deprived 
 of bread, if he had lived in Canada, and made a daily use of good 
 wine. 
 
 But if you had a fortune so ample as to afford you for daily 
 consumption the very best of the wines of Europe, I would not 
 dissuade you from their use by referring to the suiferings which 
 ■urround you; of naked and destitute families, stretched upon 
 beds of suifering, and appealing to you for aid. I would not 
 epeak of all the good which you might project or carry on, and 
 which would require the whole of our resources. Nor would I 
 say any thing. No; for myself I shall be sileut and allow you 
 to hear the solemn voice of St. Jerome. Listen to what that 
 learned and pious Father of the Church wrote from the recessez 
 of the desert: 
 
 " If any would listen to my counsel or give credit to the 
 " results of my experience, what I would offer as my first ad- 
 *• vice, and ask as the most important favor, would be to avoid 
 " the use of wine, as they would a poison. It is the most potent 
 " weapon which the enemy of souls employs against youth. More 
 " hazardous than avarice, it has more inflation than pride, and 
 *' is more seductive than ambition. Of other vices we can 
 " easily divest ourselves, but this is an enemy that is shut up 
 " within us. In wine and youth there is a double focus of sen- 
 " suality. Would you pour oil upon tlame, or introduce fire 
 " into a body already burning? Paul wrote to Timothy; use a 
 *' little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities. 
 
 " You perceive the motives which induced the apostle to per- 
 ** mit drinking wine; it was as a medicine for the complaints of 
 " his stomach and his frequent illness. And for fear that we 
 " should perhaps make a pretext of our ailments, he commands 
 " to take but little. Besides, St. Paul remembered his own de- 
 " claration that ' wine is a source of dissolution ;' and again, 
 " ' It is good not to drink wine.' Noah drank wine and became 
 *' intoxicated. From the excess succeeded the uncovering of 
 *' his person, and thus intemperance produced impurity. Lot, 
 " that friend of God, who was preserved upon the mountain, 
 " and who alone was found righteous among so many thousands, 
 ** even he hecame intoxicated, and committed the most flagitious 
 " action, the most revolting enormity, and although his will 
 
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 *' was not implicated in the crime, the error he committed wa.i 
 " not the less inexcusable. 
 
 " Klijjih was forced to flee from the persecution of Jczabel, 
 " and in his iutiirue s<)n;iht repost^ under a juniper tree; in the 
 " wilderness. An aii;:(d comes to him, awakens him, and says, 
 " ' Arise and cat.' IClijah looks up, and, at his head, sees a 
 " cake bakdd on the coals, and a cruise of water. Is it possible 
 " that God was not able to send him delicious wine? " 
 
 Tiiese are the reflections and this the lanj^nage of on(' of the 
 most learned, as well as the most ludy doctors, with whom the 
 Church has bcu'n honored, concerniiig the use of wine. And 
 we would have been able to cite many other witnesses of anti- 
 quity, both Christian and Pa^an, if the limits which we have 
 prescribed to ours(dves in this little work did not i'cnd(!r it im- 
 possible. Ijut what wonld St. Jerome have said, if like us he 
 had occasion to P})eak of tlui detestable beverages which arc 
 poisoning our nnliappy people under the names of ale, rum, 
 wine, whiskey, &c. ike. How would lie have exclaimed ai^ainst 
 the daily use of even j^ood Avine if like us he had had to speak 
 to men who cannot procure this luxury but at an enormous 
 expense to their own fortunes, and the wcidtli of our impover- 
 ished country, where as yet everything has to be created. 
 
 "With what thunders of eloquence would these oracles of the 
 sanctuary have made themselves heard in their denunciations 
 of drinking, if, as in our nortluirn country, it had been the great 
 scourge of the j^coplc, the first and most formidable enemy of 
 the cross ; and had been placed by the devil as the greatest 
 obstacle to the ditrusion of the bright and bcirign influence of the 
 Gospel, not only among ourselves, but among the benighted, 
 whom we would wish to emancipate from the darkness of 
 idolatry. 
 
 We think that the following letter, received from our wortliy 
 friend, the Coi'oner of Quebec, is calculated still further to prove 
 to us the evil of drinking, and is well fitted to make us renounce 
 it forever. 
 " Kkveuend Sir, 
 
 " I have the honor to reply to your letter of the 5tli of De- 
 cember, 1841. Your first question is couched in the following 
 terms: 
 
 " Of the number of sudden deaths and shocking accid its 
 which come under your notice from year to year, what pro- 
 portion is caused directly or indirectly by the use of ardent 
 spinis ? 
 
 Reply. — " I am sorry to say that with reference to hy far, 
 the greatest part, at least ^ of those who come to an untimely 
 end, by sudden death and accidents, their fate is attributable to 
 the use of ardent spirits. 
 
 " Among the sad events of which I am obliged to take notice, 
 I may be allowed to mention the circumstances which have 
 affected me most. Would to God that the people of Canada, 
 
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 v\li(»m you seek to rcgcnonitc, rai^-Iit rennet seriously on the 
 innnb('rl(;ss (.'vils which they biin-j; on thcmsolves by the use of 
 the pf'niicious bcvcrr.iic which is imported among us. IMay 
 tliey l)'^ banished lor < ver from the country. If every one was 
 a witnc-s as I IkiV(; been of tlie evils v/hicli intoxicalinii' drink 
 cau.-cs this unhappy einintry, you would have but little trouble 
 in inducInLj cvei'y one to renounce it, especially when it Avas 
 considered that, compared with the evils with whicii they ailliet 
 man, they eonicr upon him no real advantage. 
 
 '• '1 iie incidents I am going to relate are those whic^h oeour 
 at tiie uiomcrit to my recollection, and of which 1 have the most 
 authentic {)artieuhu's: but I assure you they are i'ar from being 
 the most atrocious. 
 
 " lo. — Charles , without being wiia might be called a 
 
 drunkiU'il, was rather fond of a glass, at the tim(; of his mai'riage. 
 His trailii of a slower enabled him in tiu^ summer to jrain hiirh 
 wages, HJuI in winter a small business which, lie carru'd on, in 
 his house, brought him in more than it was necessary to expend 
 for his daily wants. lie speedily acquired a couple of very 
 handsome possessions. His v.'ife had already i)resented him 
 with two children, when she perceived him beginning to incur 
 expenses, and neglect his busincfl3 for drink. She endeavoured 
 to remonstrate Avith him, but it v/as too late; her warnings only 
 served to exasperate his temper, to alienate him from his house, 
 and plunge him deeper and deeper into the abyss of drunken- 
 ness. ►Soon the sa\ ings which he had laid up in the year of his 
 good conduct, became dissipated; and his wife for consolation, in 
 her misery, betook herself to drinking also. The state of that 
 unhappy family can bo better imagined than described. 
 
 " The unfortunate man struck, one day, with a sense of his 
 degradaliofi, swallowed a strong draught of intoxicating liquor, 
 even strunrrer than he had been accustomed to. Then he seized 
 a pistol, and presenting the muzzle to his person, discharged the 
 contents into his eide. He fell down insensilde, with a deep 
 wound in his abdomen, and bathed in blood. Ilis condition Avas 
 horrible. The neiglibors ran immediately for the Dcjctor, who 
 lived not far off. 
 
 " In the interval, his consciousness returned. Perceiving 
 the physicia.i he said: '• Good day, Doctor; you are coming of 
 course to cure me, but first we must have a glass together." 
 Making an incredible effort to put his hand into his pocket, he 
 endeavoured to draw out of it half a dollar, that he might, as he 
 said, send for rum. But he had not time to draw his hand from 
 his pocket all covered with l)lood, when he expired ! ! 
 
 " The Doctor, the assistants, and myself who was called a 
 moment after, accustomed though sve were to scenes of horror, 
 iCmained petrified with fright." 
 
 " 2. — Louis , born of one of the best families in the 
 
 country, had received a good educfdion in the College of 
 
 He was noted there for his talents and good qualities. Having 
 
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 been throiisli '>is collegiate cour o, he married a young and 
 amiable yoniig lady, who enjoyed a few years happincHS with 
 him. lie luid acquired the eonfideiiee of his lellow-coiintrymen, 
 and even received an appointment I'rom the Government. He 
 had many i'liends, amon;; whom 1 had the plea.>-ure to be num- 
 bered, liut lu! was Ibnd of ardent spirits, and it wad the caub« 
 of all liis unhappiness. 
 
 " He became eo addicted to this vice after some time, that to 
 satisfy his appetite, he neglected his business. His fortune 
 was soon reduced to nt»thing, and his mind became weak. Feel- 
 ing himself unable to enduie his misfortunes and without the 
 courage t«) abandon drinking, the honible thought, to put an end 
 to his lil'e, ilas'ied through Ids mind, lie goes out without being 
 euspeeted by any one ; he ties a stone to his neck nnd throw* 
 
 himself into the river of , on the side of which 1 ha\ o had the 
 
 pad task of making a post mortem examination ! Such was the 
 lamentabbi end of this unfortunate man, who, without drinking, 
 would have been, by his good qualities, the happiness of his 
 family and the honor of his country. 
 
 '' '6. Noi'l , an excellent workman, had by his industry and 
 
 assiduity in labour, and by the good conduct of his wife, attain- 
 ed a c<jn(litit)n of ease and comfort, and had reached a certa'n 
 age, without taking any kind of liquor. But, '.c length, induced 
 by his friends, he consents to taste some, soon bee(>nK>s fond of 
 it, and dissipates in a few years all he had ga .;d. Having 
 by his faults reduee'd his family to the most frightful des- 
 titution, he attempted twice, to put an end to his life, and 
 twice he Avas saved by his wife. But he soon avails himself of 
 the o})portun;ty of night, takes a rope, and hangs himself at the 
 post of his bed ! And it was in that horrible slate that his 
 wife and children found him on awaking from their skn.iber. 
 
 " 4. Great numbers of sudden deaths are caused by the efFeci 
 of strong stimulants. One would be greatly mistaken, if he be- 
 lieved that it required always a great quantity of liquor to kill 
 a man. A few glasses, drank Avith friends, without being sulfi- 
 cient to intoxicate, have many a time had the etfeet of a pistol 
 ball, in th*; head or in the body, by the sudden and astonishing 
 devastation they have CJiused. I have often been called in such 
 cases. I always returned with my mind fdled with disgust 
 and horror for those devouring liquors, which are unfortunately 
 180 much in use among all classes of society. 
 
 ♦' It is often said ; such a person is dead of apoplexy, he- 
 morrhage, consumption. All those words are oftentimes a veil 
 employed ])y our own ignorance, to conceal the suicide by liquor. 
 If we open the corpses of those persons whom we consider dead 
 of apoplexy, rupture of the blood vessels, consumption, we ge- 
 nerally perceive, without mistaking, that alcohol is the imme- 
 dia'.ti cause of those flital deaths 
 
 " 5. Not long ago, I was called to the country, to visit th« 
 corpse of qu old man, who died suddenly, at the age of 80 years; 
 
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 'li.it hi.iM li'iil, ns T ntn told, inr.<lr. an o>:cc.<'>ivn uho of li(inor> 
 'liiriii;^ liis luntf life, liad nlwjivs l'( It Wfll, and sneered, wiih aj)- 
 |i!i.V'nt iv'ii'.on, ut those who i-ciriird spirifuons licjiinrs n-^ nii- 
 niM-; t>) the conslitiitioii. The J )<)( lor (ip'-ried his hoily before 
 nn- ;niil tin* jury. AVh.it was our a^tonislunent on perceiving 
 that his !iv( r wa.'* not as hir<r(' as my thumb; there was only jv 
 fi'i.^I:tj'id h(!ap of ooa<.Mihi(('d niatlci-; all his t.tlirr oi\2rnns were 
 sfiil i'l a jierfcet state of preservation, and without liquor he 
 womII <loubtle.s3 have lived niauy years lorif^er. 
 
 '■ ♦>. (ieor^re , a wealtliy eoiuitry farmer, was at the head 
 
 of a larGTO faiaily, whieli he mnintained honorably. JUit as he 
 believed, a:; a great number of the inhabitants of thiseountry do, 
 that liquors give strength to man, la; drank ihetn in proportion 
 ti> h:« arduous labors, (iiio day when the weather was very 
 warm,- Ik; took a df)SO stronger than usual ; it was his last ; the 
 aleobf:! readied his head ; eai-.-ii d thf indamation to his brain, 
 i'.ii 1 he died at the very instant, 'i'lie Doctor whom 1 ealled, 
 deelatcid that his death was owing to inil/.nnnalion of the brain, 
 ea'i^ed liy liquor. 
 
 *• 7. 'rh(i fi.llowiu'T fnet, whieh I had the pain to witness, is 
 very iteplor.ible, and proves how careful ))arents ought to be, to 
 euienal even the names of litjuors from their children. Ayoinif; 
 'jirl, bf'louLMnc: to a respectable ianiily, but one in which a L^'eat 
 qnauiity of intoxicatiuir s[)irits were consinned, had contractt'd, 
 s 'cretly, t1ie habit in lu-r infancy. Her })arents, perceiving 1 hi-;, 
 (lid not «;efjm t') cnre mutdi. 'Hiey were even in ho)ies that this 
 ineiiuation would disap[)ear with age. Having arri\('d at the age 
 of 17 or 18 years, tirci of remaining under the })aternal J'oof, 
 and especially imi^atient of her mother's remonstrances, she left- 
 home and came to this chv, into a hoiise of ill-fame. She con- 
 tii'.ued to drink, At ihe (.'iid of two years, I was ealled to visit 
 her hideous c(.)rpse. She had expired in a e<mi])lete. state oi' 
 drunkenness, and fell exhausted by the blows she had received 
 ou the preceding night, \n lighting with three other infamous 
 females. 
 
 8. Augustus 
 
 a vouncT Canadian sailor, and excellent 
 
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 young rnan, came to tow^i, met a few friends, who, in spite of him, 
 brought him to a tap-house. He got intoxicated, and returned 
 in that state to his vessel. He endeavours to dance and gambol 
 before the rest of the crew : he reels and falls into the water 
 and is drowned I He was the only support of an unfortunate 
 mother. 
 
 '' 9. Patrick , pedlar, gets intoxicated in an inn, near a 
 
 river he intended to cross. He embarks in that state ; liaving 
 reached the middle of the current, in a fit of madness, he jumped 
 into the water and was drowmed, before the eyes of the ati'righted 
 rowers. On the next day I called to make a post niortctn ex- 
 amination; I felt fully convinced that liquor is man's most fear- 
 ful enemy, and that every one in society ought to do his utmost 
 to check it at its very root. 
 
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 jiAXLAL or Tfir 
 
 'il, 
 
 *' 10. IVIiiry , !i foimtiy wdinan, of iiiiiMl*! ti^o, un^} 
 
 ihoIIkt of very n-Hix-ctiiljlc ( hildirii, \v;h uiilinp|»ily a<Mict<'(l t'- 
 strong (Irii)ks, Sliu caino to town diiriii;,' tluj Aviritrr, becnnn' 
 intoxicateil, lost her way in ('inlcavoiiririi: to n tin ii Iicnu' in 
 llic ninlif, and wa^ fonnd tVu/cn to dt-atli, on the next day, in tin.- 
 nnddic of a iicld. And liuw many ilcatlis like this Ikuc I ii('t 
 been ohli^i'd to rcgi.-ilcr ! 
 
 *' A f:rcat many persons addicted to ptronjjf drinks dio sud- 
 denly every year. In openin^jj theii' bodies, we perceive that 
 their deaths are owinij: to a want of iK»nrislinu'nt. A [lersctn, n-, 
 we are aware, who makes U:-'o of stroiiL'' diink, hises very soon the 
 feeling of hnnger : i'orgets (hiring his intoxieation, to r(die\ e lii.^ 
 Ijody, whicjj is in ii state of feebleness, and thus the s[)irit leaves 
 its exhausted tenement. Among many lamentable instances o\' 
 this kind the following is one. : 
 
 " 11. Enieha , wife of , v.ns oxIreiTiely addicti^d t.' 
 
 drinking; her hiishand, Avourii'd hy her excesses, shut her up, arid 
 gave her as much luiuor rts she \vou!d liave. For about a fort- 
 night, i>hc drank excessively, when she at last died siuidenly at the 
 end of that [icrlod. 
 
 '• llcr corpse, "which was oi>cncil before nie, presented a horrihl^ 
 ppectaclo inipos.iihie to depict. Her liver, horrihiy swelletl, uas as 
 hard as a stone. Her lungs were in n state of frightful decomposi- 
 tion. The Doctor declared that strong stimulants had been the 
 on'y cause of her death. 
 
 " 12. — I uas called some tiuiC ago to lu)ld an incpiest on the 
 hody of a child, of ahout two years of rg^, uhich died sudilerilv; 
 and tlic Ibllowing is the account given hy li)e witnesses of iliat 
 lamontahlc event. The mother, who was known as being fond of 
 liquors, had gone out without telling where she was going. TIk- 
 hour of uicals came, her luishand seeing that >lic did not return, 
 feeling uneasy, goes out in searcii of her; ho found her at a smal! 
 distance fiom the house, in a comj)lete state of intoxicaiion, lyir g 
 on her u^ha|^py infant whom she hul crushed l)y the we'g'it o) 
 her body. And would to (iod t'lat this wcman was the onlv one, 
 who had caused the death of her ird'ant hy her {)assion lor drink- 
 ing. But slij is not the only one. AV'o to the j)oor children wh. 
 possess mothers aildicted to drinking. The Komans of old pun- 
 ished With death the woman who was too ibnd of liquors. 'i'Af?/ 
 acted wisely, 
 
 " My hooks contain a thousand o'her instances of the hanefu! 
 elTect '^f liquors, but it would require too great a space to insert 
 them here, and, moreover, I should feel end)arrassed in selecting 
 from them. I will content myself with answering simply yoii 
 questions, which you have done me the honor to address mc . 
 Your second question is couched in the following terms: Ho\' 
 many persons are yearly drowned ? IIow many commit suicide ? 
 IIow many perish in other ways as lamentahle ? " Reply: In 
 the course of each year, there are found between thirty and fifty 
 drowned, who are recognized to be sailors, men employed on board 
 
TEMI'liKANCE SOCIETV. 
 
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 •'clioonors, h!fu)|)H, hoiiN and <mi \v!i;ii-v:'.'», ^r, Tlieso are licnorollv 
 yoMu.^iiU'ii who, alkT liavmn 1 ikrii a I'mv jr'assfs, are einlMilJenocI, 
 flely (lar.g^*, and t'X|)()Sc» ilieinselvert to a sliaiuelul death, 'i'he num- 
 ber of ^'uicide^^ varirs (i\nu one, two, to ten per animin. Oa an 
 :'.vertjjrj from f)!) lo 7"i i(H|ue.st.s arc held by the Coroner and jury 
 dininu ordin-iiy years. 
 
 " ^'our ihn'd ([iKslion is : Snco the Teinperanco Society has 
 made fomo progress anioni» Iho people, have siuKlen and violent 
 deaths become rarer ? Heply : 1 ran assure yon that the 
 number of deaths e;iMsitl by apoplexy, ej ilepfy, delirium tremens, 
 vcc. 8tc., indebte I Ibr the mo-^t part to strong (hinks, have been 
 jvnu'h rarer since the institution (»!' the, Tem|)orance Society. The 
 nund)er of incpiosts Ins not diminished (Uirin;; the ope^'r",' of tlic 
 iiaviyition, on acoount of the increase of the marine; but since the 
 ii'iviL'Jitio'i has cK)se(K now (liat there remains only t!ic ("anaiHan 
 {)(,>inilation, who are relbrmed by the; happy inlluence of the Tem- 
 perance Society, the num!,>er of accidental and sudden dcallis lias 
 diminished to a very perceptible and gratifying extent. 
 
 " No one can remain a silent spectator, on beholding the good 
 eflecls produced by the Tempcnuico Society amoiitj; us. Many 
 families in oiu' cities and villnges, which formerly were in a state of 
 j)overty, are jh)W thrisitig and condbrtahle. Large nund)er:4 have 
 enjoyed better health, and have had bett^-r constitutions since they 
 liave joined the Total Abrlinencc Society. A good number of 
 taverns have been shut, on ( easii g to be frecpjentt'd. 
 
 " Your foiu'tli (pieslion is as iollows : If we succeeded in 
 abolishing \\\3 use of strong drinks among our people, do you 
 think tint the nundter of deaths would (limini<!i consitlerably, 
 and that there would be a gient deal of good done ? Reply : 
 V^'s, Sir; I think smdi would bj tb? case, if. as I hope, the use of 
 .•^])irituous licpiorj sh;dl cease, accident.^ and deaths will become as 
 rare as they are now fie(pie!»t. 
 
 *• And the tiood which would result to society in general, as well 
 
 as for every individual, would be incaJculablc. 
 " Believe me, liov. rend Su', 
 
 " Your very !innd)!e servant, 
 
 - \). PANF/r, Coroner 
 
 1* 
 
 We felt an intense satisfaction, >!omc lime pince. in falling in with 
 ox\^^ of those admiral 'o men whose noble eacrifices and whose 
 heroical virtues will never be fiiliy apprecintcd by the world, but 
 whicb will be inagn licently rewarded in Heaven. It is the Rev. 
 Father Durocher, ndssionary, who bad traversed 150 leagues of 
 land. During this journey, his life ba 1 been exposed to many 
 dan2;ers. He bad been oblig^^d, in a frail boat, to pass through 
 rapids; cros:':d many lakes and rivers; rested on tlie naked earth., 
 and ol'ten bad only th<» canopy of heaven for shelter. Covered 
 with sweat, panting with fatigue, eshausted by the intensibly warm 
 weather dm'ing the day, he was, also, oftentimes th.orougldy drencli- 
 5fl bv tlie colli rain, 
 
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 MANUAL OF TlfE 
 
 Bat tlic fatigue he? cxpcrionccil, in ovorcoiuuu^ rocks, nu;UiiUi;iiSj 
 forests and lakes, seemed I'glit to liim ; for, a ore s.s t-n liis Ijreat-t, re- 
 minded Ilia of the labors and siifler'mg^ of Jesii!:; Christ: lie lind fol- 
 lowed the path of the good ShepJurd [\''V\\\g spirilun! i^ood of about 
 five thousand young men, scatteied on the Otiauu Ifiver.^ and ulu/ 
 were oceu])ied siix nionla.s of the year lunii.ei'inif iii the vvoodo.* The 
 Church had sent him to tho.':?e young men, ;iI);)iuIoium1 to themselves, 
 as it were, lost in the niidr^tof tlio^e inim.-hse foict4,>-', to address them 
 words of consolation, and inspire in them stre/!;ilh, peace, tind the 
 love of God. lie tolil us the mort remurkabic ovents uf that mis- 
 sion, and thoii!jh he Lord had ^ho\ver(-'d ilowii his l)le?.-ina- upon 
 hirn even beyond his hopes, ho seemed to be overwhelmed with 
 sorrows ; his trembling voice lold ui- i!i;.t he could not repress liis 
 sighs and sobs; and tears always ready i.> Irinklo do^vn his checks, 
 moistened his eyelids while ho \\as ^j)eaklng '' 1'ho ma/Mitv of 
 '• those young men," said he, vvitli an accent which deeply afi'ccted 
 us, " are courageous, amiable and goi.d, but many of them arc 
 '• addicted to drunkennes.^, and the uso uf ardent spirili-' brings upon 
 '- them all kinds of evils ! This spriiig more llian 80 of tliost^ 
 '■' young men, whom I had seen and so mi.ch loved during my 
 '• mission, have ])erishe-l miserably, either killed by the fall of trees 
 " or drowned in lakes. Now, ainid*; (iu)?e feO unfortunate men I 
 " am assured (and I have it iVoni soiaces unfortunately too mdhcn- 
 '•' tic to admit of a doubt) that, 70 \\ero drui;k when they were 
 " suddenlv seized bv deaih. A;;d ('■s"ular wiincs>es have assured 
 '• us, that a great natid>er, c'uiii'g ihvir intoxication, had uUered 
 '• frightful blasphemies, and e\en called l!ie ilevil to their aid when 
 '• they were summoned \o the ba;- of ilicir Sovereign Judge !" 
 
 But, is the fate of thor-e yi)urig men, a\Iio do not perish in that 
 way, more consoling for their religion, ilieir families and their 
 counti'v/' Ah! what iriorc jsainful spectacle than those hosts of 
 young men who descend yearly i;p in those rafts. On returning 
 from the woods, exllau^ted by a mo"e than ordinary work and 
 cruel privations, what wtmld ihey do in the midst of their families? 
 Do they uoi ljecon;e the scandal and a reproach of a parish I A 
 month has scarcely rolled by, when they Iiave spent in liquors and 
 revels, the money they h;ul g i'.! cii . [ tlu- price of so much pain aiul 
 dangers. And tiiis linnlur liade, which oi;ght to carry riches 
 cvervwlicre onlv serves to eiiiich a il-w, who will leave vcv soon, 
 as we have seen tviany a time, the impure glass of tht irm, to cnjov 
 i/icir i^'oI'J, and who sooner or kifor are suddeidy summoned to 
 eternity, to give an accomit of their enormous wealth, ravi.-hed 
 from those young men, liov/ akatid.oned to misery and wretched- 
 ness. 
 
 Once more wc ask, is it tlieir fanfily, their parish or their coun- 
 
 '' Jlev. I'athor I)iU'CH'!i(.-r, of wimin ii;ir(;c"iila!' nu'iitioii is iiiiulo bv tki' 
 vyiitiT, is one of llio ini.-.sidiuiries lieli)uj;-iaj;- n» tho onUr uf O/ilaf-i iJc Alaru 
 iduiuicuIlc. Tlu'ir niutivu ia can\Iiiti' witii thi'iii a sniuU cross, is to rcuui.il 
 Micm coiistandy duriii;^' tluii- iiiis.>i(iii.iry labi.ii's uf ihc sullcriugs uf Cb •is^ 
 f'y'ii'r for mankind. — Trunslalui's yvlc. 
 
lEMTKUANCE SOCIETY. 
 
 (>o 
 
 try, tliat is bL^ncfitted by so much monoy gained at the rate of those 
 five thousa ml vouiiii; rucii's hard labors in Ibfefc'is i No. Liquor 
 deprives us of all our ^^•^■a!th. 
 
 And this is so true, that nothing is rarer in our country places, 
 than to SCO a man who is able to settle honorably ialifc, after hav- 
 ing gained large sums of money in working for timber merchants. 
 
 After witnessing every day such facts, in the midst of all our 
 ])ari¥hes and cites, it is needful that wo should implore our pastors, 
 iailiers and all those who can exercise their inlliiencc on others to 
 be united in abolishing throughout the Innd the use of strong drinks 
 and inspire horror of them in the young men of Canada ? But 
 once more, iiow could young men make such sacrifice, i( thos(} 
 whom Providence has given them as fathers have not the strengih 
 J.) give them the example '-' 
 
 Tf a wolf passes a place, and carries ofl'one or two sliccp, every 
 oiie is -miuediatey armed, and pursues the ferocious animal ; it 
 IS follov/ed till ccuight ; we feel repose only when it is dead. 
 No one dares cry cut to tli^ hunters : " Beware, stiikc not 
 " that poor animal, it iloes not know what it is doing ; rcmeni- 
 '• ber that it is a civature of Ciod ! " But it is destroyed witliout 
 mei'cy, l)ecause it does us injury and is not fit to do us any good. 
 The death is not even postponed till it has entered into the ghee]>- 
 fo!d ; it is not even permiit.-d to reach the flock, lor the reason 
 that if it kills a few sheep, it leaves many to which it hns 
 done no injury. Such is the way we ought to act and reason in 
 r>'gnrd to stronsr drinks, which have done more injury to men than 
 all the wolves put together. Every on(3 must do his utmost to 
 check their progress. Let us not waio till they have done us 
 injury, for it would then be too late successfully to resist them. 
 
 On beholding the devastation tliey have caused everywhere do 
 not remain a silent spectator, saying: " They have never injured 
 me ; " but rather say : " they mig'.it be of some harm to my child- 
 ren, and that is the reason why I intend to join the Total Absti- 
 nence Society, in company with my children, in order to be all 
 sheliered from danger under its happy infiuence." 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 .'3^. Except as a IMnniciNL. 
 
 Circumstances in wkich we should cspccinlly avoid the use of 
 
 intoxicating liquori>. 
 
 1'erhaps some one may say : "■ We are convinced tiiat inloxica- 
 " tincT drinks have done more harm than good, and that if we were 
 « to abolish their use, there would be very few who would sutler 
 « from the want of them ; but are ttiore not circumstances -n 
 f" which they mav be beneiicial and salutary ! " 
 
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 MANUAL 01^ TiIS 
 
 To this we would reply : The wiitlii^i-; of men rnoFt cv^nvcrsaMt 
 witli the f^ubjcft, the testimoiiy ol' the most ^kil^ul phy.sirinns ol 
 Kd^^'.arul, the I'lilled States iinJ Car-ada, rgicc in as^Cfting thai 
 tliey arc (king.M-oiis and hnrlful to men, iii ahnost all the ciicum- 
 fctances in which they are used. Tb.ey say that even in those 
 rare cases where lliey are zocd, their p'ace can alu^ays be j-iippl eil 
 by somcihiiig b;'tter. They aio very preju(]ici:d when lalcen fast- 
 irg, and thu>^e who make u<c of them betbic breakfast or any olhei 
 ineal arc not U)ng in exju'riencing their pernicious elVects. 
 
 In a kw years, and oilen in a lew monili;>, il\ey completely lo.-e 
 their appetite ; tliey no lorg.M- feel a desire to eat, because the 
 atoniacii, fitteil by (lo I to give notice to the body of its need of 
 noin'ishnicnt, is paralized, scorclicd and burnt up by dririk. Herifc 
 it is that [persons who have contracted t!ie hanci'ul habit of takii^ 
 a morning dram v hen fastin*];; are no iong'r capal)!e of cnjoyinir 
 iL'eir breakfast, but even feel a sort of repu;:riance to the act oi 
 taking lood. It is then that th?y feel t!ie need of i-tiaiulants, and 
 of taking what they call th-ir glass of" biiters/' But the stomach 
 with many persons soon hecomcs habituated to tliis single ^la.-s, 
 
 and demands something more: thonihvy inrre;ise th.e dose ami 
 
 ihiri dose tlius incrca.--ed ends often I y being again insuilicient. 
 
 They must again ai;gineiit the dose unti! at icntuh But we musi 
 
 desist for tlie panposeof asking eveiy sen<il)ie man whether ii is 
 nut !:n-;eendy. ridiculous, we will abr.<.>st say shnmeful, thus to nskc 
 a gla;-:s lo [iroduce an aj^peiilc, the practi( e of -wiiich has never- 
 theless in our (.lays become contnum and iashionable. 
 
 We ot:g!it to consitler die !al)le a baide field, rendei'ed monrri fu! 
 to U.J by a thousand deleats, to which the demon of gaittony has 
 I xposed us. ^Ve should ne\er appiOich the table, but wiili arm-- 
 Li our hands for an encounter with em- most deadlv enemv ; and 
 iierc behold we deliver ourselves wp to liim, so to speak, i-cuiid 
 hanti and foot even belore we are a!ta(d;ed, by exciting, by every 
 means in our {lower, an appetite wh-ch we should much rather 
 t.:ek to moderiite, for the sake of our Ixidies as well as ol'oiu' s.ru's. 
 
 The hour of dining has arrived and the table is laid ; a man ad- 
 
 v;!i-.ct>s to take his scat he is a Christian. He makes o\er lis 
 
 .'.orehend the sign of the cross to make iiini remendjer tliat on the 
 cross ills Saviour had been given the bit'er gall aiid vinciiar !<■ 
 
 drirdv Then a thought '-eizes him lie is restless Would 
 
 v)u know wliv I He is atVnid lie will not eat enouiih. \\>: is 
 r.fia'd of some defect in his appetite And to increase this appe- 
 tite, he swallows a Inirn'"'! liquid, the edect ot which is so well 
 iitted to derange tl;e to-ie ' i" his stomach that he shall no longer be 
 able !o ascerSa.n wlien lie has eaten enough. Here is a piherm- 
 i;;enon which would be mv redible did we not witness it dailv.* 
 
 '^ The pornicidiis > .I'tn f i 
 lUi iuiportaiiL aiid valuabi. 
 
 " I'lu! Driii'uin:.;- U.s:v.;es." \ \viirk which ought to by in the luiuils ol' 
 cviry \\v\\ \\\>]\vr of Uie < ; uiii.'.-- /'ranslatur^s Notf. 
 
 ii'i'i"i' from such custums is forcibly shivvr. lu 
 'lU i':niu the pen of.John i)unh)i», K^rjuirc, on 
 
TICJH'F.PiAN'Cl-: SOCIKTV 
 
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 Ifi silling down to t;d)k', our hoIc anxiety h-hould be, k>t ue 
 -houKl eat too nnicli, ami a fear the ollu'r way is more than puerile ; 
 il is unseemly and di^gl■aeel"^ll. 
 
 We need not t^tiuuilanlrf to exiitc an appetite. We have eiiouiih 
 of the demon within us which cxaggeiatea the gocd (jualities of the 
 viands before utii, and who cries out fiom the commencement of 
 the meal to its teiminaiion, '• Ea', e.it, eai, for you need it." 
 
 B',;t if ardent spiriis arc useless before a meal, much Uion' are 
 they of little service duiinji ih? prt^crress of it. 
 
 According to the testimony of those who are best informed in 
 such matters, the most powerfid dissolvant which we lia\e fur food, 
 is water, and ^vater in the s;atj ol'puritv in which it is ii veri us bv 
 ilie Creator, 
 
 Ardent spirits, so fir f'om promotini^ d'g->iion, as some preteml, 
 arrest it, and those who malce use of them during rr ea's ai'e infi- 
 nitely more liable to ilalulrin e. sickiess at the stcmach, thn.n ihose 
 who (.irink only wtiler. 'j'he rcasi n is evident. .!)o we \\i-li t<» 
 preserve for a lei^g i\ of time Iksh or any oilier substance which is 
 liable to putrefaction ? Is it desircil that it shor.ld become havi't 
 and tough ? 'We wotild A ep it i.i spirt-- and let tliem soa'c it up. 
 In like manner if tlie focd t'dcee. info your ;t( nmch be .-t'jeped in 
 the spirituous liquors whic'i yen c!'i;.k, liir frc/m being more tender 
 and easy of digestion, as yon siipp,o;'e, it necessarily becomes hard- 
 er; and your poor stur.i.K h ha-: to work three times harder, 
 to dig:;st it than a., if you had oiiiy taken water. On the wiu'le, if 
 people would be honest, th'\v would avow that after a meal, imw- 
 over small a quantity of ^piiils is va'C'.], tliey feel them':el\e.> 
 heavy and fatigiied, experience a sensation of fe^eri^hne^-•, rire 
 troubled witii lieadachcs and wmt (M'">ieep: these are a catalogue 
 of ills and inlirmities to w'l'cli he wi!! never be exposi.'d wIm'. re- 
 stricts Icmself at lik< me.ds to tiie usi^ (;f wat r. 
 
 If ardent spirits are only productive of iiijery to junn befoi'e and 
 (luring meals, at least, will some .-ay, they are exceedii'.uly u^elul U) 
 him, when engaged in hard labor ? Not at all : the harder a 
 man works the less has he ne.'d of drinking. The poor day-laborer 
 has quite enougli of toll aiid lanlshij) to fatigue and exliausl him, 
 wnthout drinking in additicn a d'-wnurii g liquor, which is more cal- 
 culated to fatigue and wa.te hi.u than all his ]al>or, by maintainiic 
 his blood in a constant stat..- of fever. 
 
 God has condemned n;a,!r to toil, to sulVerit g and fatigue, and in 
 will endeavour in vain to escape) from this sentence. Do not ima- 
 gine that the use of ardent spirit.? will reiievt^ you from the exliaus- 
 tion or fatigue of labor ; it will o:dy deprive you of feeling, an<l tliu:- 
 expose you to prolong your labor much be\ ornl your streng'h. In 
 taking ardent spirits we readily admit, that, at the moment, you may 
 experience less fatigue than In* who conhnes himself to water; 
 perhap.s at the instant you \Nili continue a labor winch you wvrc 
 on the point of ahantloning ; yes, — but it is at the expense of your 
 health, which ycu undermine, and of your life, which you ahiid-.'e. 
 
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68 
 
 MANUAL OF THE 
 
 Ill: 
 
 Let u^ explain our ideas more clearly: Tho man who perfomis 
 liis vvork witliout the stimulus of alcoholic drinks, performs it like 
 a reasonable being ; he follows the law of nature which is that ol' 
 the Deity ; when wearied he rests ; nor has he the imprudence to 
 
 overtask himself with a burden beyond his strength if it must 
 
 he born>3, he refuses wisely to undertake it . ' >ne, but waits for the 
 assistance of his companions and friend-!. But as soon as a man 
 makes use of alcoholic liquors, he cannot be said to labour like a 
 
 iiuman being but like an irrational animal Give him a glass of 
 
 ppirits and he will tell yon that he has lost almost all pense of ex- 
 haustion ; give him two, and he will fell you that he is almost 
 as stroi'ig and as fresh as before he began. Give him a thin!, 
 and he will begin to laugli and sing under his burden, althougli it is 
 well nigli crushing him ; and if you shoukl add a fourdi he feels 
 himself so strong that he is a match for anything; he cannot carry 
 his own weight, but lie thinks he could carry tiie world if you 
 would help liiai up with it en his back. 
 
 The fact is, '^1 the while, thattlie liquor has not really given huii 
 strength, but that It has bereft hm of his wits in jii'oportion to liie 
 quantity he drnnk. It hnd p-irtially abstracted h's senses at tlu^ 
 first glass, an;l completely deprived him of them at the fourth. 
 
 Tlius you jvi^reeive how he acts, how he strains himself wiiliout 
 reason, and labours imprudently when his head is turned ever so 
 little. But frequently, from the next hiy forward, he is r>)und 
 pi'oslralcd on a bed of sickness, witli a ])lcurisy, the consecjueiic-c 
 of his over-exertion and from which he will not l;e cured hut after 
 months of severe sulTcring. Then he must pay roundly to t!)e 
 Doctor, — lose time when it was most important for hhn in the 
 gaining of his living, — his few snvings are soon dis.-ipated, — a few 
 days more auvl he is reduced to beggary, and must have recourse to 
 
 his neighbors for siq>port And we question much whetht^r the 
 
 tradesman wlio has tlius induced you to drink tlial you might work 
 beyond your strength, and who was the first cause of your distress, 
 will put himself much about to furnish fo(<d or clothing for your 
 unfortunate v/ifc and children, who are languishing in penury around 
 your couch of sorrow. 
 
 Upon this subjet, wc have made inquiries of a hot of respecta- 
 ble workmen in Quebec, and elsewhere, whose unanimous decla- 
 ration is, that when they used ardent spirits, even in a moderate 
 quantity, if th'^y forgot for a moment their fatigue, they speed !y 
 paid dear for the temporary relief, li)r a ii-'vv monrnts after, ihey 
 felt themselves so worn out and exhausted., that to forget their new 
 exhaustion and continue their employment, they had to drink anew 
 of the strongest liquors, almost to the amount of their day's wage<, 
 at the end of which, however, they had never aceomplished so 
 much as they have tlono since diey joined the Tea;perance Society. 
 
 It is so far from being true, that drinking iiie'.vases a man's 
 strength, and tenders him more ca[)able of enduring the fatigue of 
 hard labor, that the owners of the shanties of lal^orers, and all \ho 
 unreal contractors of Quebec and elsewhere, prellv the day's vvork 
 
TE.AirKnANCE SOClIiTl. 
 
 U'J 
 
 l!lce 
 
 >■, I 
 
 of lliose belonging lo a Total Ahrititipncc Society to that of others. 
 Nay, even, there are many who will employ no journeymen, bin 
 those wlio belong to a Temperance Society. 
 
 Tiiis important truth has been proved a thousand times; but 
 by Father Malhnv, it has been demonstrated in a manner as strik- 
 ing as it is n 'vv and ing(Miloii,-; : iSIany respectable persons had 
 said to him, that they considert'd it hard lo advise poor men oftlie 
 working classes, to abstain livim ardent sjiin's autl l)eer, whicl!^ 
 according to them, were so well fitted to sustain tht:'m in tlieir pain- 
 ful labors. Tin venerable Ap-istle of Temperance, wishing to 
 c<')nvince these gentlemen that alcoholic liquors, so far from giving 
 a man strength, rather serve to enfeeble him, hit upon the follow- 
 ing expedient : 
 
 lie gave orders that three boats should l)o constructed perfectly 
 alike, ol' the same dimensions and v^ood, an 1 the same amount ol 
 iro!i \voik, weighl, and degree of swiftness, each of them fliould ac- 
 comodate a dozen rowers. There w-fu'e selected to man them 
 thirty-six of the most able bodied lioatmen, and so far as was pos- 
 sible, of equal str^'nglh. Twenty-four weie chosen by the gentlemen 
 who were of opinion that spirituous liquors have the cpiality ol 
 imparling strcn^ilh, of whom twelve were in the habit ol' using 
 rum, whiskey and othi-r species of ardent spirits, and twelve ol 
 strong beer. They embark, each one on board the boat he prefer^, 
 they are presented with a s^lass of the liquors they love the best, 
 to give them strength, and a rev/;ir 1 is promised them, if they 
 should pass the third boat, which is manned by twelve r^Tembers of 
 the Temperance Sjcidy, who had left olT drinking sinritiious li- 
 quors for several years. Tiiey are showti the space tlu'V have to 
 traverse. It requires not less than an hour of hdjor. Thousands 
 of spectators have come from all directions. The three boats are 
 disposed in order ; they are ecjunlly handsome and swift, the sea 
 is pcrtectly calm I The rowers are at their [)ost, with arms stretched 
 on the oars ; they wait for the signal. Every on-'s heart pantb 
 between fear and hope. At length the s'gnal is given. Tiio three 
 boats advance with an equal velocity. No on.e of them s.n nis to 
 outstrip the others ; but a cry of joy is uttered l-y the drinkers ol 
 spirituous liquors. And, in fact, idl the spectators j^erceived tinit 
 they were a few feet ahead of their adversaries. Those who fol- 
 lowed them were ih • beer drinkers. Father Mathew's disciples 
 are in extreme confusion: the boat maimed L-ythe JMembersof th'.; 
 Temperance Society is the last. F-uh one from the beach ex- 
 cites, by his gestures ami word;^, die coiirnce nf those with whom he 
 sympath ses. The drinker of spiriiuous liipiors triuinph and ex- 
 press llio joy they ft e! i^y ri pealoil shouts which i1k? wind Cuines 
 to their friends, and seems t;) strengthen tiiem. 
 
 The place allotfeil to tliem for the race cour.-e, is nearly pa-sed, 
 and allhouiih it is impossible to distiniruish the bail vessels, and. stlil 
 it is perceived that widnnit bejig at a great distance from tacli 
 other, they are moving at an e([ual pace. The boat which pre- 
 ceded all the others seemed nut to bo the same a:-; at the com.n?nti 
 
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 MANUAL OV TIIK 
 
 meiit. Til*} imiUituil'3 of persons so i-latnorous, [m inManl ago, 
 are now in a j)prfect s lence. Eacli one looks on with nii iinea- 
 Bincss impossible to depict, in the hope that he will perceive ahead 
 of tha others the boat of ihose for wlioni he is iriterei-ted. Eiit 
 their minds do not remain in suspense. Th(^ boat alicadofthe 
 others, seotiis to fly on the waters. Father ]\l;ithevv recc guides 
 very soon, that it is manned, as he liad foreseen, by his dear anil 
 beloved diseip'cs. The beer drinkers were behind them at a cer- 
 tain dislanc:^, and seemed a (jreat deal more exhausted. The 
 drinkers of strong driidv were the last. On de|)aitin;LJ they seemed 
 s'rora'r and more vigorous than the others, but tiny had si'.aicely 
 leaclied the middle of the racing Ijoundari.^s before they lost their 
 tbrai'M- atlvanlag>.\ Tliev seemed to be cxhausteil, so \vt t with 
 thv?ir own per.-piiation, when compared with their comjiierors, 
 tliut cacli one remained convinced that strong drinks, so far from 
 strengih.^tiing nsan, are only fit to exhaust and enfeeble him. 
 
 The late immortal O'Connell is another striking proof that the 
 active and laborious man ought not to attribute his strerigih and 
 energy, to th3 rupiors he drinks, and that there are always some 
 bcnelits arising in rd)staining liom them. 
 
 That glorious defender of his religion and country, felt a \\Wi\ to 
 become a tee-tctaller, and to accomplish that object, he begged of 
 Father Mathew to receive him amoni^ his disciples. 
 
 So nctime after this had taken place, he attended a Temperance 
 IMeetitig, and adilressed his fellow-countrymen, to whom he siiowed 
 with hovr much more facility he could perform his hard labors, 
 since he had taken the pledge. 
 
 The following is an extract of the Speech he delivered upon 
 the oci'asion of his election as Lord Mayor of Dul)lin : 
 
 *' His Lordship f-^lt proud (he said) that the first compliment 
 which he was enabled to pay any body of his fellow-citi/ens, in 
 his olucial capacity, was to a party of Tee-totailers. (Cb.eers.) 
 The glorious spread of Tee-totallisin, did not commence with the 
 rich, or the proud — tliose who congregated round Father j\Lathew, 
 in that glori(.)ns movement, wore not to be found among that class 
 ofsociely; but, on the contrary, his principal adherents and sup- 
 porters were in the humble, lowly virtuous classes of society, who 
 were poor in wtjiid'y matters, but rich in the possession of every 
 moral excellenee. (Hear, and cheers). If he had not been a Tee- 
 totaller himself it was irnpossibl<? he could have got through the 
 (itiantity of work whitdi he had to perform during the last few 
 weeks ; wlien he worked harder than any stone mason, but 
 because he drunk b'.it water, he was more ready for the battle ; he 
 was enabled 5^ sleep less and rise in the morning, refreshed and 
 invigorated for ih; lal)orofthe day. Leibre ho look the pledge he 
 iiesitated for some tune, lest it m'ght not be prudent to di) so, con- 
 sidering that he was then sixty-five years oid ; but, having once re- 
 solved upon doing it, he found from experience that, though at 
 all times temporate, yet lie was a better and a stronger man by 
 becoming a 'j'ee-totallor. (Cheers.) Oh ! what a peop'e, wc^'C 
 
'iEMl'cIJAKCE SOCIi:'i \. 
 
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 those of Ireland, in prescntinjr the srand m.iral spectacle of five 
 uiillions of Tec-total leiv, Vcs, the niothfr^ — the wives — the 
 daiight..M-s — iho >i>ter!3 — ihey wliose cJiniacler wa.s written in c'o- 
 rloiis ci lours for the paj^o of the future hi^tori^n, drawn not l;y hid 
 l)artial tongue, but celebrated and eulogi>ed Ity Lord Morpeth in 
 the Legislative Assend)ly of the latul. Yes, the advocates and 
 patrons of every uioial virtue, were the women of Ii eland. (Cheers) 
 He thaidvcd Heaven, Tee-totallism was placed under their auspices, 
 and if any young man was dispo:?c 1 to a^k any young latly, any [ar- 
 ticular question, (laugiiler) let her fuvt reply be, "Are you a Tee- 
 total'er?" (Cheers and laiigliter). And if he be not, let her look 
 I'or so.nebody else. (Continued hiughier.) And if Ik^ had one ob- 
 ject morii than another in becoming Lord Mayor of J)ul)lin, it was 
 that he might in that capacity extend Tee-totallism. (Cheers.) It 
 was the mo>t salutary plan ever d'^viijeti lor the regi'neration of any 
 nation or any people ; and all the Tee-totallcrs had to do, wa? to 
 feel their own importance ; and for his own part lie would not 
 trust any man on his oath, who would violate hi.s i)ledge." 
 
 Yet, tliis IS not all, new objections, strongfT than the first, arc 
 prescntetl to the Apostles of Temperance. They a;'e told " We 
 '*• admit that you have C(^nvinced us that liquor was of no good use 
 " before and after me;ds, and that they are also useless in \vurking. 
 " la consequence of which, we plc^g' ourselves, never to use them 
 '' on surh occasion--. (H;r re-olution is taken, and nothing shall 
 '• chaege it. BiU, if till this momciil, we have conceded to you, all 
 " you desired, you must also grant us some privileges on our side. 
 '* You cannot deny us a g'a^-^sor tv\o of warm liquor, wlien Iravel- 
 ^■'- ling during the cold winter season, which, as you are aware, Lc- 
 '• numbs an 1 freezes us, if we ilo not take some extraordinary pre- 
 "■ cautions to protect ourselves from it.'' 
 
 Of all the most erroneous prejudices amor^g us, we know of 
 non? more falfd. than U. beli("ve that strong drinks have some effect 
 in protecting ih t] the inlluence of cold. Oh ! how numerous are 
 the people oftlii; country who every winter perish, the sad victims 
 of this prejudice ! 
 
 Intoxicating drinks are not more fitted to warm us during the 
 win'er season, that they are to relVesh us during summer. Our 
 eternal enemy, the devil, is the only one who has impressed on 
 our nnnds such a belief that they are cHicacious during those sea- 
 sons. Provided he give us the taste f t liquors and accustom us 
 to drink them, it is all he w^ants ; he has achieved his purpose. In 
 so doing he excites all our bad passions ; he weakens our will of 
 doing good, diminishes in us tlie exercise of reason and of faiUi, and 
 extinguishes by degrees the res[)ect we owe to ourselves. 
 
 He weakens and breaks very soon the bonds which attach us 
 to every thing we held most dear in the world, — x^nd when by 
 rcpeated acts, which at first appeared to us without danger, he has 
 made us contract the habit o( drinking, he has accomplished his 
 purpose and beholds us with an infernal joy, struggling under the 
 most heavy and shameful bonds, till at last wearied and weakened, 
 
MANUAL OV TIIK 
 
 
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 \vc are pliing.vl itilo llio lowest degiiukition, ami ihon dae^hcd iiil^ 
 lieli. 
 
 There is no ^:cnson diiiitig vnIiIcIi I'Kiuor is more liurtriil than 
 ;a winter, and tlierc is no sea^son, conso(jiicntly, during whicli 
 vou onfrht more to alis^lain. 
 
 What ! liiijiior proi^ct you from coUl ! ! ! But you do not 
 
 rollet't I liquor anil cold ! ! ! Are you not aware that when ihey 
 
 n)ect at your homes, Ihoy always unite to deprive you ol" your lili', 
 oi nt leasit make you lose some of your limbs, which causes you 
 l^aint'ul sulTering^. 
 
 Cold ^vill s' "<'elv ' injurious to a man who drinks only water. 
 For if it attack '^^ ■; hi.s members, it is instantly withstood. 
 
 The man wh'.- ;.:!>- ^^nly water, is possessed of a delicate feel- 
 ing, a sound and ^^ J ce<!" ri, and a powerl'ul will ; his life is i)re- 
 cious to him; he knows ii.-:. v lue, and defends it to the last. 
 
 Tt very rarely hapjiens that those generous men who have taken 
 the pledge, get their fingers, feet and face frozen. 
 
 They struggle and defend themselves vvidi courage and constancy 
 against their teirible foe. They strike him, till he has aljandoned 
 them, walk with great swiftness, and even run to escape his 
 attempts. 
 
 A contrary elTect is pmiluced upon the man who drird\s liquor. 
 even moderately, especially when it is warm, before c::posing liim- 
 self to cold ! 
 
 What w"ould you say of a warrior, wdio previous to startins: for 
 rh'^ batde field would smash his swokI to pieces. 
 
 Such is absolutely the case with the man who drinks jiquo to 
 support better the severity of winter. 
 
 For to be secured from cold we must ])ossess energy, \Aill- 
 ptrensih and attention. These are the indispensable weapons iv 
 resist. Now those arms so necessary, are br.iken and destroyed 
 by ardent spirits, for although they may not deprive man entiiely 
 of his energy, will and strengUi, accordirg to the quantity, more or 
 less, he has drank, they nevertheless diminish them considerably. 
 
 Do you feel a wish to know the good done by liquor, when out 
 lakes it during the cold winter season ? — Listen then to the follow- 
 ing lamentable narrative j it \^ ill tell you more llian all books and 
 discourses: 
 
 " Scarcely two years ago, three Canadians, of the highest res- 
 pectability, had to travel during a winter's night to a neighboring 
 settlement. The bad state of the roads did not permit them to 
 make the trip in a sleigh, they determined to walk J3ut unfor- 
 tunately, like a great many, they believed that liquor would enable 
 them to resist the elTects of cold and fatigue. They accordingly 
 took a bottle with them. — Before setting out on their journey, they, 
 agreeably to custom, drank some ardent spirits. On reaching a 
 certain distance they felt tired, and had immediately recourse to the 
 ordinary remedy: they drank a second draught. It was their 
 
 last On the next morning, travellers passing there perceived 
 
 three corpses, at a certain distance from each other, stretched upori 
 
TKMl'i:nANCK SOCIKTV. 
 
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 '111* i^now ! Two of tlieni were i!cail, tlic third wa? rLViifcllat.vl 
 wiili j^rciil diniciilty/' 
 
 And misloriuiio;-? ol'diiM kind hnppcn yoaily in llii^counlry \\oni 
 tin tinin'j cause the prcleiided niodcM'ato no ot' slroui^' t/tin/ts. 
 
 fn drinkins^ n e,Ia<s ol" litiuor, especially il' it is warm, you imm,'- 
 dintely Inso n heavy heail, and H'el at tlv* iri'^tanl tliiit it has de- 
 prived you (if your enoj^iy, Mrtn^ilh, and e\(.ii yon- senses. \cn 
 sre then, tliat it canni-t ho a remedy ^gaill^t iho attack ol" cuM, 
 wliich demands, above all, energy, streigtli and attention. K.\-poro- 
 a man asleep to cold, and ho will ilio in a lew niinnies. ffthon 
 oia) ol'tlic first and most direct oiVecls ofah olmlic liiinor^ is to in- 
 duce sleepinir, ho who takes it to secure hinl^elf lV;):n cold com- 
 mits a foolish act condemned hy common scn-e. 
 
 Every on ) ii auaiv tliat the energy ar.d slrenL:f!i jrodiicrd hy 
 liquor, last only an Inst.M;!. The violent rgitat'oii wife! Mi* hiooil 
 e\-[)eiiriicos, and whi(di has p,oth:ced more actlv/iv, is .. n\i ' lUl/ 
 loilowed hy a le action, ami weakness ihrorg!i the frTj'-e. 
 
 And that is the votsou uhv in die case of two inn - ^^ cu'ieoso 
 tiiom ol cfjonl str.-'ng;') and Oipially well clutlied) t..,,J.!, q; during 
 the cold winter Hcaso;). if ono of th.^m ilrinks one Oi i\v i^'r-scis ( f 
 strorc drinks on their departure he will ne\er bo ■ ' M'> re.drt \.\\i 
 <'old as well as his companion. The formiM* wiii ,e nl)lo hi'foro 
 llij latter ; \v,!! h.^ compellrd to ^ti p on tlie ur.y at each tavern to 
 warm: an,! cvvw a* n'g'it lie wtW not he !n!i'ns ww h aihanccd in 
 hi.s journey, nor will he hav,"^ as much < nn-gy as liis compatdon. 
 Such is wh.'U daily occurs during winter. 
 
 Besides, the pro(.f ol'all this seems very cler.r ; ii'you take firorg 
 drinks, espeei'.dly whca warm, your hloo.!, a-; w.? remaiked an 
 instant ago, is agitated wii'i nn acti\ity rnd vi(>l ncc which cie rot 
 natural; they dien necessarily ohnu^t. Anl tin re^u!t wi 1 h,3 
 l!iat each of your inend^ers will cxpeiierc-:; a sw( at and u;o;>{u;'e. 
 The water whicli comes out at all the pores of tiie siciri. condng in 
 contact 1:1 ceitain parts with the exterior i-]\\ g' Is cold and chills 
 on you, and it is ilun iliat, widioi.t perceivir.^ it, your tee', homls 
 ar)d face arc frozen inucli soone;* tlian wonkl h-iv? Irci the ras3 
 jf you hal drank on'y water. 
 
 Besides, every 0113 knows that ono of i'le londencie-; of strong 
 siimulants is to henumh, and make insensihie, more or les?, tho^^c 
 who make a dady use of ihem. And it is JMst lor I'fs very reason 
 lliat you ought not to liavo the im[.rudcnco to u-.e tliom when you 
 expose your^elf to cold. lie who drinks water (>n'y, immed ate!y 
 fee!s ifis lody seized witli cold, — he stretches his hand on the at- 
 tr dvod limh, — stands on the watch, — keeps himself movirg, — 
 walks or st(>ns according as he wishes. But the individual who 
 uses strong drinks will n(»t have tliis wisdom, for the nerves, which 
 like fait!-ful servants, had received order from Cod to warn their 
 master \vhen on posed to some exterior accidents, are pandized, 
 burnt hy alcohol, are for the tin-io dead, silent; then il follows thttt 
 feet, hands and face are horribly frozen, which is pcrc':i\ed only 
 when it is too late. 
 
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 Oricntlnics the l)lca^;u^c of dniikinc a li \v [.'lassos; of i!(juoi' Ir.s 
 costlhc loKS of an arm, »tr d'a K '_'". wliu'li liad li> ln' !im|niln1c(l !■;.■ 
 the Doctor, ill oiilor io anvst tlio proifirss oig/ealor evil. AriioiiL' 
 twenty persons who liavc lo>t a nionilMM' hy rold within our know- 
 Ictlgc, seventeen wimc inioxicatoil wIumi it happtMictl. FroMi 
 whence wc conchide that if, as wo ar<' in hojien, every one tal\es 
 the total alistinence )>ledg', we shall see no more loslrg ofariiis Ji> 
 in the ])ast under similar cireiimslances. 
 
 In ])i()of of our nsserlion wc liave fiirnis'icd our-elves wi'd; n 
 good luimhor ol" lads. l]iit we will only cile a few, for li'ar ol" 
 lieing too loi.g. 
 
 1. — jMr. A , No'.ary, was fond ofinehriatiiia; runinrs. Dur- 
 ing one of those cold winter days, as he intended to sol out or. a 
 journey, he drai;k a fe\\" jjla--ses in order to suller le^-s from lln^ 
 intense cold. 15iii afirr he had trawlle 1 to a certain dislanr-e. 
 worn out and liiti^'urd, he stopped on a river he had to cros>. 
 "We were amongst those win- saw liinu fi'c/.vw to death, on tho 
 next day. His head w;is iiaif conceak'd in the ice, whicli the 
 heat of his mouth had nielteil ; his liice which hml ^■unk down had 
 left its impression a^ on a niou!d oi'p'asler. 'i'hc renieuibranco (if 
 it is vet fri'^liifi;!. 
 
 •I. — The crew cf many Vv"'ssc!s are cnmposcd of men wiio have 
 taken the tola! ah^tiiieiice pledge. AVe Iia\e incpiired of many 
 Captains in re^iard to it, and all have lol'.l us lhnt sailors who dranl'i 
 
 no spirits, bore fatij^ne at S',\i, much belter than others, and 
 
 t;ia; 
 
 they were less subject to sickness. 
 
 But the following will confirm tlio veracity of tlie stntemcni : 
 
 A magnific'.nit vi^ssel (the Bellona) was sliipwrccked at abou' 
 tliirty leagues from (^ueljoc in a storm during the autumn of I84'i!. 
 It was duiing the latter end of November ami th<.' cold was intense. 
 To suller li'ss from it, the Captain and scuie o[' the rrew, drank 
 liquor, without however carrying it to exi-ess. The others refu-C'i 
 even to teste of it. The result was that two of the sailors win. 
 had drank, were ab-eady frozen to death beiore the vessel reatiiod 
 the shore. The Captain died a fortnight after, owing to the cold iu^ 
 had been exposed to ; tlie rest of the crew had experienced no 
 injury. 
 
 3. — The f blowing Hict, although it took place some years airo. i^, 
 still, we doubt not, remembered by all the inhabitants on the KKer 
 Chambly : 
 
 Two young men had to travel from St. Johns Lorchester, to Islo 
 aux Noix, during a cold winter day, but unfortunately, the bad 
 state of the ro'nis did not enable them to make use of a sleitrli. 
 They were consecpiently compelled to walk. Before leaving, they 
 were oliered a glass of strong drink, in order to enable them to 
 resist the elVects of cold, — but the youngest of the two had heard it 
 mentioned that nothing enervated so much the legs ofatraveller as 
 liquor, in const^quence of which he dechned die ofler; the other, 
 on the contrary, had \mfortunately great confidence in its pre- 
 tended efiects, and took a glass. They botli of them lost their way, 
 
ii,;:.'KiiA\ci: tiCciriv 
 
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 thr* lii^t roacho.l hid ilcstiiiiitioii williuiit .'uiv ncclilont, whiltit itie 
 
 uifuM", C()iif|iK^i'0(l hy r;!lt!;iu; aiid ^Icop, iMl exliaustcil Ami 
 
 wlion he!') \va:j sent to liini lui was tbiiiul iJcatl. 
 
 riHAPTrji vr. 
 
 (l. I LNOAdK lUIM"IIi:i:, liV WOIll) AND KXAMPLK, To LNDLCi: 
 MV KEI.ATION'6 AM' IKlKNDa Tu .MAIvi: THH SAMK SACUIllCE. 
 
 bfici 
 
 Miniairj) ivhich the J\Ic)nhcrs of Ihc Tenipcrdncc Socn/y iiii/(ir/e 
 to exercise in reference to their friends ami reluiins. 
 
 If tliere is nood of courriiio n\'u\ un rml;^iil (•harlly to cnriMo oiu' lo 
 ^•|l!):nit, (' r a lilbtime, !■) tlio saiTil'u c nf per.^onal ab.stiiiLMicc iVom 
 inloxicaling drinks^ to a'ul our fechlo ItiLMliioii lo iciioiiiu'o tlicm, 
 is a no lo-s bimlins obliu'itioti whicli llio 'rompraiica Soi'iety im- 
 poses on its moinbiMV-^, aii'l an oblijiaM.ui ivciulrlny no less cliarily 
 ;ind coui'aL|;3 to fiilfi!. They will loiiuif * csi)ecially to arm ihem- 
 .'clvcs with a spirit of holy jurlilinK', aii'l to tr.miijlc iiiiJei' toot all 
 worldly cousiderations. ]].it (lillictilty and sell'-denial arc nothiiii.', 
 when tliey arc submitted to, for tin; ^alvatiau of one's countrymen, 
 and tlie glory of God. 
 
 Let not the JMenj!)er;j of tlie Tciripcrineo SvH-iety forgo', that itn 
 existence depends on the y.yA they ^hall put furtli in [)ropagalinji 
 •rid cxtendiiii^ it. 
 
 Af^cordingto the beU returns \\h:ch w.* Iiave bi'cr^ able l() (.,-o- 
 e.iu'c, there are, at tin; {)reseiit rnomenl. in ('anada, more than a 
 hundred thousand pled^^ed Members of tlu; Temperance Society. 
 Now, if each one of tlie-e would crt^a;j;e to irain over, during the 
 jiresent year, only two (.f their relative.; and iVieniJs, within a year 
 th3 Temperance S.)c/uty would number on i!s i(rils three !iundi-ed 
 thousand IMejnbers ; an 1 if these agiiii, animated with a like xeal 
 to the first, would gain iu the course of a year, two others of their 
 friends, before two years, there would niit!)^; consumed among ns u 
 sin«:!e (rop of spirits, except in those rare c;vses wh-^re thev would be 
 really useful, \\\\.n\ uise and skilful persons would advise their use. 
 What an amount of sin would then he su[)pressud! how many fights 
 and blasphemies; how inany licentious word-^, and criminal ac- 
 tions, and desires, u hich di'ink is every day iiruducing ; liovi' n\any 
 tears would be wipe I au-ay ! How many lamilies on tlic broad 
 road tv) ruMi, or ruine! already, would retrieve themselves ! How 
 many broken-he.aitel mothers, who liave ne\er known domestic 
 peace and tranquillitr, would b-less (Jod f jr tlui (dinnge cllected in 
 their dwelling- ; and how many children, de.-tined to becom.e 
 tlio reproacii of society, tlie scourg) of their families, ijie 
 scandal of religion, l)y the wretched education which they were re- 
 ceiving from parents ad licted to the use of liquorsj wotild becuniu 
 ;!t once good c:i!:<.'rs ;-.nd (.'lu'lstians. 
 

 M.VMAI- or TlIK 
 
 Assure of llie p)oJ wlikli \voii!;l re^»^lH, k'tcvciy iloiuIkt ol' \\ic 
 'icn»|KN5inco Soc'it'ty nvisil hiiiisi'ir dl" nil cifcimi.^liwiccH to cluck 
 llie |>rciU)nrmaiu'e oi' llie ^'ood oj'rinioii cut rinii! i!, till now, ot llu? 
 iKjiioi's ill ii-t' juiioii^ lis ; iiiid 1(H him not Id.h? tl.i' ()ccn>ii'n to iri- 
 jToa-iC llie mimb.'r oTtlii* iimicidii? siiliruTS win* plcdg? iIkmiiscIvcs 
 to o|)i)()<c, (luring th'jir lilVtinu', tlio c\il ^|lillt, ortli-iiuk( iuhhs. 
 
 Diit U) ciHiiro .success, th» McmhiTrf of the 'IVMnpiMiuice Socioly 
 i:iu:)t ilo nlltlijy can to make tiiis Society i(>|.c«talik' : and lor lliaf, 
 iIl'v iiniL-t ilo moi\' iliaii fiiow ^(»ll^i'Jty in ilrinlvin;' and cali: p. 'l"!n.'y 
 \\t)iild ccilainly mir,! their end, cxpo.'ic thcm.chcs and the Society 
 to ridicule, ond lo-o lioiie:! jijoplo iVoni ilu'lr nuniher, by i.iva* hliig 
 Tciiipeiance, and lor^eliinj; the oilicrthities \vhi(di are impo^;ed U|)(»n 
 Urf, I)V i\l triun. Thiri was tirj mi.dortiine ot' tlie I'hails(\'s : tlicv 
 cvinood an cxtivm^ ivgulailty i:i the lullilnient of certain vi>ih!e 
 virtuj.-', but rie2iecied th 5 mo-it ahnoluti.' couimrindments oC (!oJ; 
 :iiid tliat iH what induced Jer-u;; Chli^t to call them hypocrites. 
 'I'll.' J\[ei:i!)er:^ of the 'I'eniiiprance Society should not only he (dia- 
 1 acidized l-y this fculilime virtue ol' tempeiance, hut should, uuhv- 
 over, ho modest iii thjir words, sini|)lL' in th'.Mr liahits, chaiilahlo 
 towards their hrelhro », jilous at ( hurcli, zealous in ohservii:g the 
 Lord's day, punclual in taking tiio sacraments, and dili|i>Mit in si- 
 lencing slanderers and swearers. And they shoukl not I'uHill those 
 iluties with ostentation ; no, hut lor their own sahation and the glory 
 oTdod ; having no olher desire than to follow the advice i'.ivei\ in 
 the (lospcl hy our divine Saviour : '• Lei your li^^hl so shine be.'Vii'c 
 '• men that they muy sec your y;ood work's, and glorily your Tather 
 '*' who is in Heaven." (Ahith. chap. 5, v. l.>.) 
 
 And if we |H)sscss any love Ibr the land ol' our birtli, or countiy 
 of our adoplion, ouiiht we not then to ilo our utmost to save it rrem 
 tot;d ruin and dishonor.^ 
 
 For many years pQst, wc have bc^en {illlicliHl in succession ly 
 various scour;^es, — |»laguc, civiluar, fro.-ts, jsn.! the harvest destroyed 
 by insects, throcgliout Canada : Commerce is hindered by poveity 
 and nji.<cry from prospcrin<». \\ ould it not be a criminal abuse (/f 
 tlij gil'is of rro\ii!en( c, addxl to our otb.er inicpfilies, if we were to 
 continue to inc ir tli.^ fooli-h expen-es ue \'.ere add'ctcd to for- 
 :iierlv, and v>!r<. h reduced us to mlserv, ecu ia the davs of nbun- 
 i.ance i 
 
 '• Bui you labor undtr a mistake,'' it is said eficntimcs, to Iho 
 Apostles of 'J'em]H^rance. " Inel-riatitg Fujuor >eems, to your im- 
 '• agination, like certain object.-, (hn'in^- n'ghl, to fearful travellers, 
 '• 'I'hey perceive cvcrvwiierc fr'^htful [ilio-is ; the blood runs cold 
 " in their veins ; they shut their eyes, in order not to witness the hi- 
 " deous spectres running after them ; then tl.ey run out of breath, 
 '• and covered with sweat ; the following d;.y, tliey relate, with 
 •'• trembling, their virions. The credulous wfiiar are amazed and 
 '• asioni-heil ; but wise men know v.hnt to think of these narratives. 
 '• You draw general conclusions from isolated farts. Because a 
 '• mt'i\ has liecn seen dead diunk f^t tlie corr.er of a street, you 
 " tiiinli that every one ^ai^t 1 e a tliuidiaid j r.nd because you 
 
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 '* know i\\\ uiirniltiuafo Ininily, limimlit to n state «)l' tlostltution hy 
 *• the iijiu ol' nnltMil fpir.ls, y(Hi taiitlidly Iti'Iii'vc that the tritii't" 
 *• (Kn>j)li; stn^;;; M- in iiilti.Niciition, arul will ^(jom ho ovorw hrhncd in 
 *' rum." 
 
 Oil ! uonlil lo (!i)'l, that the evils we have fpokon of, in ivgiril 
 to fiti'onif ih'itiks, Nvciv iintiiir. Vt>s, wltli all oin- hearts, wo would 
 U'vi! \\\} la I ihi>|) «tt' h!<»i>,| which Hows in our viins, — in orilcr that 
 lh)so iiiiinheile.'S puhrn; and paitlfular evils, tlie ruin ol' in ii.aey 
 lUmiljcs — tht; di'solaiion anil tears of so inary women, — the d.*- 
 ^'ravlnticn and los^' i f fnyiiads ol' youn;: men, — the damnation ol'ro 
 luary souls, diivi I'y and dady resultirj^ from dnrd;in^', — miijlit he 
 1 'tton.s. 
 
 ]Ia[ ;it this iiMHi III, wi.' ll'v I (Uir-clves unalih? to c niii;it ONaijiie- 
 laiion anil eri'or. rort>» e"inloy all possihie means in iiisesliuitiri;^ 
 '•I iii.'i, was a duly we owed lo o ir cituiitry and to ourselves. Now, 
 to !il ain our aim, noihiig cnuld le u'orc h)yal and ndvautng vmis, 
 llian to write to o,ir t'ellow-meuiljois and cor.ntrym 'ii, cntreatiri^ 
 them to eiilij/hti'n u-< hy tli 'ir advi'-e, to as>i.-l and m:ik>.' known to 
 tjs th.Nr rem. irks u[>oii the d.sonlei's caused hy strontr chinks, in th.r 
 diilbieni IccalirK'.-'. And without any n jird ilir tlij tlamoiirs oi' 
 c;dmuny, or th.' advice ol'tlie I'eari'ul, \vc have liad recoun'C to thnl 
 K).\\) fiment. And w hat were th.^ results? 
 
 •■ V\'(« could ii'tt aii-wer:'' we liavo h.'tii tolil hy a ^real many 
 t'lOMi dilVeieiil localiti s, '* lor if ^ve were to tell you the daily 
 ^ I'o lies, rew'ls, crimes, m'sforliines ol'a 1 kinds, enL:;endercd by li- 
 '' (juor amony oar pi^t^Je, it would appear too much, as if wc were 
 *• writing a lihel ; so we h.ivo eniered on a deteriiiiMalioa to he silent 
 '" in relation to tlio^e thin|2;s, and wo aiivise you to do tin? same.*' 
 
 So no other T Ilow-memhcrs and laymen (»rthe h s'le.-t resp;'o'a- 
 hility, have depicted to us wiili a trembling hand, facts which 
 would he sullicieiit to make lis ^hed tt\u's ofb'ooil, imploiing us 
 (although th.'y were pultlic in th.ir localities) not to mention them in 
 the Temperance Mami d, in oriier not to hurt the I'celirg^ of sia;li 
 and such a parish, or of such and such a family. 
 
 What comdusion can \ve l)e permitted to draw from lliopo 
 ct)mmmii< itions, which have been sent us, from many loealilies, 
 if not that 1 has injured t!ie people of this cop.ntry,- more than we 
 were led at first to believe? 
 
 '* 'I'hu mer. Hants of my parish," has written a veiierable [)rie>t, 
 '■ have sold eighty th;)u and ilollars worth of ardent spirits durin;]; the 
 space of twenty years, an 1 durin[f that })erivid \^■e have been uiiable 
 to sustain two res]iectal)!e scdiools ! " 
 
 AV'e receive I a letter I'roiu a country merchant, iVom v. Irch we 
 e\tru't th3 following lines : " I'or the space of filu^cn years past, 
 I have sold, per annum, between eight and ten tuns of ardent 
 spirits ; and, l)esides mysell', there are six others, v\ho have -old as 
 much. A great many traders have become wealthy, in this parish 
 while the most part of our farmers are reduced to a state of misery." 
 
 '" I would have a great deal to tell yini," we have been to'd in a 
 letter from a respectable merchant, " if I were to djpitt to vou th3 
 
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 evils wliich \'A\Hov Ir.is lioiie to my ]^ai•i^•Il. Siiiilic ii tu ^uy inii!. 
 diiririL' the ^pui'c of tuenly yeaij^, I havo heoii selileJ here, there 
 htis'C been not le&s than t-ixty of the ^M■ahhie;■t fanners wlio ha\<: 
 been t)bligeJ to kcH a!l ihjy ])osser>.-«ed ; N.hu.o chihjren have be- 
 come, for the most part, .-tiolHii? beggars, r.iu! who would still be 
 ihe owners of their property, il' there ha J leer, no li(juors in us'. 
 here.-' 
 
 A lady has address-ed us a letter, from which we extract the fol- 
 lowing : " You feel a desire to know,*^ said sli ■>, " the evils caused 
 by inloxicating liquors : you are ;iC(|uaihted with my hislory. Oh ! 
 Sir, if I recall to your mind those iiieiJents, it is lo induce you to 
 continue vour noble cH'orts in checking the destroying fiend. PeopK' 
 are not yet fully aware of tiie c\il which il doe.s everv dav. (-. 
 leqiiires to have been the wile of a husband addicted to this bane- 
 :iil vice to know what are its evils. 1 was young, rich and happy, 
 at my lather's home, when my liusband si;licileJ my hand. Hi:: 
 wealth amoimted to abo\!i two thousand pounds, and 1 gave iiim 
 nine hundred on the day ol'our wedilinc. .As you are aware, i^'ir, 
 i am now reduced to a wi etched state; I, many a time, seek 
 relief iVom odiers, aiuieat tlie bread of charity ! iiy liusbantl has 
 ..pent nil, in di'inking with his iViends during t;;e space of twenty 
 years \ve have lived together. And n.y md'orturiate childrrn ha\c 
 not boon educated, 'ihe two eldei.t ^el out for the United Slates, 
 .:i;d cijht years liave alreadv rolled Iv wiilu'Ul my hearir'i ot 
 ihem. Jjelieve m(!, Sir, in a life hke mine, there are niore sutler- 
 ir.gs and tears to be shed tiian is ytt ( rcdible. If I were the only 
 line ! But I am }>ersonaIly ac(ji,ain c\l v/ila many others wh;- 
 :,re in the same circumstances as mys?if. ?lav God bless vou.. 
 .u\d grant you the means of succeeiim;' in ycvn- holy and genei'ou>.- 
 iles'jin. ]\'y litile children are dailv iHaviiiL'' to Clod for vou ! '' 
 
 We think it jn-oper to gi\e iiere a iow verses extracted fiom the 
 Canadian Temperance JMinstrel. being the lanienlations of tl.e 
 !'n:nkard's Child. 
 
 THE DRUNKARD^S CUHLD. 
 
 ()h! my cluthes an- all r;ifTc:;(.Hk p.t;,] liifto'M, and torr 
 
 1 waiultT about ijuiie uufruntliu— iculun; 
 
 Ihi my sliol lor less Iicad tilt' bit ;,!; ".viiitrr uindi. bldw, 
 
 And my puor nuked tVot are i.;0!iiiui!;\l in the snu\v '. 
 
 Nu bright blazing iivv, \\\\h it.s cL.mtbi'ts, I sot, 
 
 SunnuiHloil V. iih faces ail .-hJninj_>- witli j^^loo! 
 
 Ahl no: iho cold slroot, iii.w u<.-.".t'r;od urd wild, 
 
 Is iho only Ikuuo kit fur ibo poor L'riaikard's Child' 
 
 .My niotlior; she died in tho woikhouse luird by, 
 Aiid I, lior jtoor urpha-i, rccoivod hor last sigh; 
 I or her heart, il was broken with anpnish and pain. 
 .And 1 weep, for 1 never >iiall se.^ her aj^aiu! 
 My fallier spent all tliat lie earn'd at the inn, 
 And drink cut him off in the midst of his sin; 
 His last words were curses — his death-bed was wild, 
 Ldil friends of humauity, pity his child I 
 
1 sec- liapj'v c'hilJrou all .--Miiliiii;- ami gny, 
 
 And I si^ii, I'ur 1 once was ua liujU'V as'^il;c\ ! 
 
 'I'liuir li,i;lit, merry hui;;hic'r, iklls .sii.i uii nniie i-nv, 
 
 h\iv alil they all .nIiuu nu; wliuiio'cr I draw near! 
 
 The >_mi!t'S leave their t'aecs— they treat me uilh hcuru, 
 
 And it makes mo regret that I e\ei' was horn; 
 
 No -.oiee oi" eoi.upa.ssiv>n, bu sootliini^' and nald, 
 
 ll'er cheti'b the lone heart ui' the pour J}runkard".s ChlLl ! 
 
 i)lil sLill muNl 1 wander this wild ^Aorld. aloms 
 Unteil and iin.-hci;ev'(i, dlso^vl^d and iiukncwn! 
 '.MonLi'^t. ;lio millions of earth not a Trie nd ean 1 ehiim 
 To wipe oil" my t'.i'.rs. or to e.ill me by naun I 
 On my eold i^i d of str;;w 1 will lie ili.wn and uii', 
 And my jjrisi.ii-l'ii rd .-.ad .shall a>eend iij) on hiyh : 
 Wiierc Je.siis, widi ueeints ot" morey ,so miidj 
 .Shall euhiiort, iur i:\ei' the ['oor lJrL;ni;.a'd"s C'liddl 
 
 It I:- laiixwsihle to ci.? ;,!!, wo lep^^nt ; it v.\)u\d icqiiiru vuluiia^ 
 tu reltite the !^lle(.lllitlg td' tears, tiinl itiin of faiuilie-^, tati.-ed Lv 
 li(|\ii,'i'>: : and ho\v ninth it |).:ir;;lys'.'s woiihy netioiis, and rauscV 
 fi'iim' lo !"j ceiiiiinitlod liirutigi'otit Canachi, in l!ie -.•hoii spuue ol i, 
 year l 
 
 Ni. wcv.;; has elapsed, lud uo have tioticotl i;: the pnhlic ;,. \v> 
 lajjof.s .s(M:ie de|»l(Ta!)h' fhchs of this na'tae ; and we are awaie i i 
 the means eniployed i,y lVie!!;ls and la.rnilies to conreal i.hem. a- 
 much as hes ill their power, il;at they may cscajic puhlicilv. A 
 few day:< ago, in ^^\\n<Si\f^ id La Revue Canadu/inf., v.e ivad liu-j 
 foilouing iianative : 
 
 " An iiidividnal knovvii ];y th.o n.niac of Edward O'Nfil ha,- 
 niurdui'ed his wilb and live (d* ids (diildren, ttft-r w l);ch h;' ^hoi 
 hiin.self d-.-ad on the heulies oriiis victims. A rirl o.'■^i^•tee!i w :r: 
 ol age, was t!ic only one \\ ho e,-ca[ied tiiis huiTi.^v ..,;.'-,.., .•, 
 T!i;s tnan was addicloJ to r;trL'i!g drinks, and uhen he was :,., i a'a 
 to coniinit liis last c rime, he v/aj liriallv nnd.r the iniUi. ?( 'i.' 
 alcohol." 
 
 A lew days afier, tl;e saire journal reported the lam.Mtaijit 
 and tragical end of another druiikard, who died 'r^udden'v ;.t. ■„;. 
 lan. 
 
 "We are far from knowin,"- a!l tiu; evils which have keen t!:.'ii<.! Ly 
 ri(]i!or during the spare o!' ^i.^c niontlis. ^'e\-ertheless, die niaukrr 
 of facts recorded in that hh.(.!t piaiod. v^hi^h have keen cemmiin, ■ 
 cated to iishy citizens of the high.'>t respectaljility, is Irulv !i''i;(i;hd, 
 and the most of v\iii'.di afo acconipiiiiitHl generally with th" moi-t 
 deplorable cii'ciimstances. We rather feel embarrassed in ■o.ei-.i;i:;/ 
 them, Init we take them at lainlom : 
 
 *• li'thei'e is a Crod for drunkaivls,'- was remarked to us reioi,t- 
 ly, '• must be very terrible. Two u[ our most distiriuiii^lKMi 
 farmers have tried ttie (righti\il e.Nperiment. Butii oi' them were 
 returning ffom the city so miicdi imder the inlluence of li(jii(ir that 
 they were nnable to drive their horses. Having reached a pare 
 where the road passes near t'ae ri\er, their vehick^s capsiz-ed and. 
 our two iififortunate farmers were preeipilaied into the \\:Av\- and 
 drowned.'-' 
 
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 .AiANL'AL OK 'I UK 
 
 '■ Francis ncconijirinic'l l>y liis \\ ife, liaJ gone to j'.'iy v< 
 
 \ isit to a relative at a iicij^jihoriii^' parish ; altor which they IkAIs 
 resumed tlieir >cats in the carriage to .etta'ti lionie, as tirunk as they 
 could he, 'i'.'ie roads were in an awful ,^lalc : a heavy rain whiih 
 had ia.'^ted lor three ilays, havl (U)vei'ed ihern with water and umd. 
 The carriage wa;^ drawn \\ith g cat speed by a liery hor^c, \\hiidi 
 the jiouerless haiul of his rntirter could not cc^ritrol. 
 
 " If at this late lunn' of night, you iiud ptissed tlirouuh tht 
 
 village of , you would have i^eon a lamp who^■c I'lint |:leaui 
 
 liiihted a h;)use in wlii< h happiness and peace have never dvxelleJ. 
 A lew chiklren, in diPferent corners, b-ighed, and iiiteiTipled the 
 'lead silence (■( night only to i.ttcr these mournful words: '• My 
 '• (io,! I how i)aiii!id it i> to think that our |iarenls a:e i!ow on the 
 " road at this ilark hour of the niiiht. How many various aci i- 
 " dents may hajipen to tlicni ! " Thei;' souls Avere cruslhni i;y r; 
 fi'iiihtf'.il preseniiment. Ai, length, the clock struck the liour ol 
 i:'.i(!.'nj.hi ! And the noise of a vehicle was iuimediately lieard,-- 
 
 it slcp[ied at the (!;>or it (ontain^ed ui scats. The ihiLhtri 
 
 ]»ercei\ed llieir failier idone, covered witli mud, stretched at the 
 
 l)ott(»m of his cart " "\\ here is our un»ther?" iiujuirtd tliey 
 
 altogether; '" Paj)a, where is our mother ? " And the \- retched 
 man, witli dinicully lilting up his h.'ad, nnule heavy by 1 rpior, seemed 
 to recover from a t'l'j.un — -'■• How then ! we arc already arrixed I 
 
 " Your mnih r '? Y(;ur mother? Ali ! the de\il must ha\e 
 
 " taken her, 1 b:.'l!eve, for she was wdh me when we left VnA 
 
 '• the roads are awful ! And after idl the had •.!,>: til; a gn\i! ilvi'.l- 
 " more liquor tlian I did." 
 
 " These w^ords had tlie ell'ect of a tliunder ho't on those unh'Fti.- 
 natc I hlldren. T\\j two eldest took a lantt^rn and r:\x-,'iy they ran 
 in search of their mother. Ai a ^ho:•t distance they perceived 
 something in the middle of the road rereml'lmg a heap of mud. It 
 was a female who.-e body seemed to have I een rruhhed by a car- 
 riage ; for her he;ul was entiiely plung-d ; ud conre.-ded in tlie 
 mud. Life had abandonei! her. It was their rm ihrr ! ! " 
 
 We had just given lonmumicaticm of tii3 lady's letter cited 
 above, to the Rev. Fnther , who was on bis return froru mis- 
 sionary labors : '• AVhat this laJy has written to you," said he, 
 '• is but too true. Intoxicating urinks ti>rnieiit the soul and il^arl 
 (f more won)cn than we arc aware of. An ! xve can foini n,/ 
 just idea of a woman's s\iiVerings, especially if she is the mother of a 
 lamily, when ^be has a drunkard busband. 1 met cue, in the last 
 parisli wdiere 1 delivered a sermon, wlK)se history, woie it writ- 
 ten, would draw tears. As I wis dep;iilit-g, one of those uri'- 
 fortunate women came to me, and told me thing>^ which miiihl 
 have appeared incredible, if her bodv had t]ot presented mai'ks of 
 violence, wdi'ch were still bhxuly. Her bu>band, unwilling to at- 
 tend to the exercises of a retreat, bad spent that lime in drinking, 
 as ifbis intentions were to despise (Jod's warnicjr-'. During his 
 intoxication, in a moment of madness, he seizes lis wife, tore her 
 haifj struck her in the face, and dreadlully bit her arms in various 
 
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 H'-ac'ri. The g'onns, loai's nn.l s.>l)s of this iiiilnppy rre.iiiiie. her 
 l)niis;^(i faco, am] anris torn ami Idoo.lv, paiiiod me the inure a.s I 
 \vas avv;.:i\; iliat all this \v;ts the wo.k of a Chii.-tiiMi ami ol' her own 
 hu.- : ;,. ; ; — [\i .[ ih.-' chiiJi'ea ha I \vi1ii'>s.a\l I'lat seeiie of abi)iiii- 
 tiition ami horror. Never will 1 i'):g >t that scene. I kii-w ah-cady 
 ihat aiibut spirits vvei'e t'le [rrL'at.'M^l i)!;iuiies ol' tirj coniitrv, hut I 
 remained convinced of t!ie fact iii'Te than ever. 
 
 But wli » couid rjlale th ^ di>lres-:j salleriiiL^s a, id lani ?:italioiis of 
 
 the wife and. ehiidivn of F . a w .'althy Canadian fjiMier of 
 
 , Avho was drunk ^^hen ti: y took liini froai ttu'! Hleiuh, to 
 
 wiiness hiin a moment after dyliiLi: like a reprohat*. lie liad be.'n 
 absent for several days jiast, antl ^'.nil was th3 anNiety of his fa- 
 mily, for no ()M(» l.tif'w wl.ithn- h ■ had n-inc. Each one made 
 painful conjectures on his i) '!ia',f ; h • had h.MMi so maiiy times pick- 
 ed up stretched alonu: tlK:- ihtrhes! And diirin;^ this very winter he 
 wou'd have been iVo/eii to death, if ri'ovideiiee Imd noi permitltui 
 his neighbour, one evening, to pes throu:^h aii unfreipientvHl route. 
 lie picked him mp, lyiiiL% towards dusli, in the nruKlle of the load, 
 during the very cold weaih.>r. Hut this time, he had left home, witli- 
 out mentioning whither he was going, and had ^one to the City, in 
 the company of another drunkard. 
 
 Although they were in possession of a laii^e suai of money, wif.ch 
 t!ie\' were either deori'.ed of bv lo-s or thei't, thjv Avero comne'ieil, 
 after several days, to return home, havinn; noi th-e means of ren.r.in- 
 ing any lontror. IJesid.'s, as one ca.-iiy siij)po;-i^s, ihey were ex- 
 hauste I. Ihc-rc yet remained to them cnouL'^'i money to enjoy 
 another ilrimken feast, afttn- which they lefi tow m, greatly intoxi- 
 cated. The wretched F , \". ii > h id (h'aniv- more than liis 
 
 companion, could hardly s-tand upon his leg-, and lay stretched 
 along the \-ehirle. I'lie roads were drea'll'ully had, Tlie vain 
 which hid fallen the jireceding day, fo!'o\vetl ijy ;i;i excessive? cold, 
 had rendered them extremely rough. Tl;e hor.-e, \',hi(di was na- 
 turally fiery, and wlii' h lud not worked, ihuing a l"'\v days, wor- 
 rie.l by t!ic j il'.s ol' th.'; vehitie, hets off at fuil gallop, an, I in the 
 twinkling of ati eye reaches his master's home. 
 
 The sun had sei, the misty s!ia low of evening gathered i.isl, ;.nd 
 the unlortunaie Wv),in:! had abaiidened the hope of seeing ht.r hu;- 
 liand tiiat night. Aithoiigh -die had never experienred a hap'py 
 div, dm ins the eiiriitemi vear> whiidi had rol'ed hv sime the had 
 been ma.rrit'ii ton drunkai I, uH her .-oiil was in that moment hkm'C 
 gloomy than usutd. 
 
 The tears vvhiih slie us lal'y she 1 lit 1 cea-^e 
 experienced an imm nise weight oi h'T hea,1. 
 were more l' ieve 1 than iiruai, an 1 \i-\d spent the day in a mourn- 
 ful sil(3nce. Th,' sorrows oi' their broken-hearteLl mother; her 
 everlasting sighs ; the di.-oiiler of the house, which iio one had 
 the energy to put in ivs pr>j)er stile of ( 'eanliii''ss, the infamous 
 con.luci of their fadier, more e-pecially for a year, his absence, 
 which became m ue ami ri )re fie(jueni, all con-pi'/ed to render 
 !h?ir exist(?iicc tires^'in^ and insupporiable. The eldest one, would 
 
 to (hnv, an 1 she 
 The chlhlren 
 
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 .MANUAL or THE 
 
 have long since ahaiidoncd iiis native lam!, for anotlier, if hi-^ lieaii 
 liaii not glowed willi filial love Ibr a inuther, who^^e sorro\'.o he 
 shaipil, and cften alleviated. 
 
 The vehicle at, length reached liie door, ami each goe.i out. 
 They lake their father iii their aims and carry liin.i into the house, 
 
 Chris iiti \\-()man ! c>vcr vour;:elf wiili iiiourning. Good and 
 .sensiiive licart : you have at lastattaineil ihe highe>t j)itch of fuller- 
 ing ! Whit you lejired ^o much has occurred ! The dreadliil 
 clias^iricnient whiidi you beheld sur;[)em!eil over the head of your 
 husband, and against which you warned him so much, with words 
 of love, has had it?; courMj ! lie has died a drunkard ! And you^ 
 unfoitunale children ! make the air rcjfound with your groans and 
 huneulation:-. A sharpened sword has pierced your iiearts, vau] 
 it will never be drawn out. A painful and desolating thought will 
 ])oison the remainder of your days. You will repeat daily : M// 
 Jul her died a drunkard 1 
 
 Neighliour.-', and you especially who have been liie accomplices 
 of the (Irunkard, behold him iii his last nioment.s. His face i.-s 
 rovere.l with blood, his head is l)rui^■ed, as if it had been strucls: for 
 several times by a luunmer. ]]y the unce.ising jeiking motio/ -.^ of 
 his head, it had been dec'ply wounded ! The blood having sprung 
 into the brain.i by the incessant joliin;;Tof the vehicle, has killed the 
 drunkanl ! 
 
 (i<)d lias always disdaineil drunkards. lie has at f*'' time.-.- 
 pimi.dieil tliem sn-erely. But lie has never stiuck them in ;<.' Um'- 
 li'jL' a niannei' as in ihese last davs. 
 
 In tin? mon;!' f>f >yove!'nber las', an Irishman n;.v.ed Eui':!er:, 
 had led his horse in a stable '.it La Pointe Levi. He vi^ited and 
 teazed him. as usual : but the anit,!;,; '.'.ivw hinisclfon his m.ifctcr, 
 knocked him d)wn, and with Ids '"ir.^-!;,:; endeavoured by kneel- 
 ing on his sl'uuacli to crush hi';i ii(»wn. The hopele^-s drunkard 
 cries out, struggles, aiul does all he can to extricate himself. \li,i 
 m vain, the furious animal seizes him with his teeth, thrusts hiui 
 between his leg-;, and trnnip/iCs u]>on him. At last, hflp is given. 
 Am' ii was with great dilHculty, that he ct)uld be extricated from 
 du^ teetii of his dreadful adve sary. He coiilil hardly be n^cog- 
 n;/ '■!. His liu-e \'.as drt\a ll'ully bruised. His entire insdy was 
 coverel wiili wouiid-. ]]oth of liis arms were broken and la>ce 
 ratCvl l.'v the teeth of liie animal ; so much so, that o le had inmie 
 diately to be amputated. But remedy was useles;«, U.r it was 
 'jlcI's iL'sirc to set anotlu-r exani|)le belbrc tlie eyes ol' drunkards, 
 iiangrene was engendered in his w'oun.ls, anil after a few driy.-j 
 f d ,"• most cruel sulK'iing, the drunkard was simimoned to the bar 
 >f th., (.)m' '.p.otunt Jui'ge I 
 
 ! :o'..'e young men were driidcing in a public house of INlontrerd, 
 holding impious and iireligious language. '* liCt us ihink lu liii: 
 ^:nK'>n:'.tj Cod,''' said one ef them, n-ii.g at the same time ti,- 
 ■' "a' ' but he had liardly drank the contents of his glas-s, when !!>. 
 -1 pM..ishment from Cod, he fell d^nd at the Icet elMii.s coinpanio'"- 
 Ciu't^cd ii'/uor ! 
 
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T E?; Pi:uA \( ; i: soci et v, 
 
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 Oil tlic 2(St]i of October lasl, a w.unnn nancd Pniilino St. (ivr- 
 HKiin was |>lckc(l iq), di'imk aiul coinpleiely naked, in oikm)!' liii> 
 strcots (>r Alontrea!. She was traii:-;poricu to l!ie Imspita!, anJ did 
 a low hours aitor. 
 
 On the {o!lowln;;j day another ono \vas lonnd also In ariollur 
 siroet. '^hc was bent to tho hospital, w'lcre s!ic died in frisihtriil 
 
 agnnv. 
 
 A painftd incident occurred in our parish, we were told, about 
 the iranic linie, by a curale ol" one ofthe rnrul pari^:'aes ( f Monireal. 
 " A wretched crcat'are for a bingtime addicted to the use of'-tronu 
 beverage, d:^inandeJ hrpior of her hiishand, who rchi-ed her. Nursl- 
 ing into a |")assion she said : • Vou rul'iise to (;omp!y v\ ith v.w d "nnKui, 
 ' but T will soon find money ii) gel soni.>.' And awav she went to- 
 wanb; th'^ hard; of the nvi^r, to get in a fi-hpond, a lew lis'ic-; 
 which had been tak-n. She. wi lied to sf-ll di.nti, so as to enable 
 liiM- to !)uy aident ^^\v \.i, jjut on coming io the. river >!ie fell 
 into t!ic ^vater and wa.^ (h'ownsd ! 
 
 On Easter day, Lewis .after having spent tlu^ liolv 
 
 Frithy and Salunlay ai the taverns, returned Iionie early in the 
 morning. His unleii^py \',ile, who during his a.hsence had been 
 contionally sheddinL' tear*, wiihovit tidc^ng any nouri-^hrnent ot 
 rest. had. at last, u-eanc^d hy laligne, suidvdown on a cd.aii-. Sud- 
 denly tiii^ door resounds wiih Iieavy kiio> k-^, ticconipanieil l>y ra^h 
 '-vrearing. Slie recogni/ed, with trembling, the voice of her hes- 
 band. She ran an 1 oj)eiied the door. \t the loot of die stairs 
 
 > see 
 
 perceiver. a man lymg tlown de;»rived oi \\\< sen-;es. 
 
 Kg 
 
 luisbanil 
 
 ^ v.-as ner 
 lie had deitaited this life on a sudden, like a drLud^iu'd. 
 
 On All Saints day, this year, early in the mornintr, a Canatli;in 
 A-onian called Ann La!)adie, was picked up in a h.ack yard i.A' 
 -IMontrea'. uliero ?d;e had soniiht refuge under the inuitecce of a!- 
 colio;. and died diir'ii'i the nighf. 
 
 On the r.ext day, near die market of the city, anoth female 
 was so intoxicr.led ihM ^iie could h:u\lly walk, Slie ■ u'gered at 
 eveiy stej). Among the crowd tint gazed at her, -ume were 
 laughing, whilst others lelt shame, comjKisvion and si vv.^.w for the 
 wretched creature. At last she sunk down on tlii. [)aveiner'.t. 
 They ran to as,>isi her ! but she had. breathed her la'. 
 
 A few days afterwards, another woman m Zvloni :_^al was found 
 dead in a stable. It appears ihat she had been previous!} intox- 
 icated. 
 
 Cursed liquors, which disgrace woman, and destroy her life ! 
 
 In the cohunns of the Quebec Uerean, of October 29th, we pe- 
 rused : " On Monday last, the Coroner held an inquest on the body 
 of a person named AicCJloiy : He had "neen a few m'/vites before 
 picked up drunk on the market [lince. He was removLvi to the fust 
 poliee station nouse, where he died suddenly !" 
 
 We had just landed at ■-, when We fell in with a friend, 
 
 i)Ut he seemed buried in deep thought. 
 
 What ails you I have you ha^l some misfortunes I 
 
84 
 
 MAM'AL OF THE 
 
 Ye.^j ii very d.^ploraljle event look place Lut nn itistont ngo. Do 
 
 you rcniem!)or Mr. , whom yon iir.(loiiIj!c(l!y knew nt 
 
 C0II020 ? Well iln^n, li'j hns jiir-t been (li'Ovvneil ; lie was under 
 the iiiP.uence ofaleolinl ! liis broilii'r, who T hclievi^ lins Lceri your 
 pupi'. Ins not been through a belter e;ireer. After having fre- 
 (juentel taverns (luiing the .-paec oi' twelve year-', he was pii ked 
 iij->, a tew nionlJH ^go, in ihe s-lreels of liytown, and sent (o the 
 Hospital, where ho died the next day, u> he had lived. Those 
 unfortunatj pcn'sonswho have ndir'riled a lar'jo iVrluiie, and who 
 have rer^pectable relation--, have been reduced to the laj-t t.xlieniily 
 by iritoxicating litpiors. I'o you see tho-e t-plerdid 1 11 Idir.gs ? 
 'i'hey were not the only possessions wii'eh lleir fatiu r iiad gained 
 by tlie sweat of his br(.w. ^Vell then; they have !o-t (hem in the 
 ppace (>f a tew years, by their indu'iK^nee iii r-lrorg drinks. True 
 it is, that they eoiitraeted that banel'ul halit, under the perr.ieious 
 example of their motiicr ! 
 
 " What antrelic features, what a lovely infant,'' r'aid ue, as we 
 passed our liand over ihe auburn tresses rf a child of a!)r,ut fi\e 
 years ofase, or rather a little ang-el we met, siliir';;; alone or> the 
 door steps of a houie, near Vihieh wo were passirg 1 How must 
 its load mother dole upon it ! What delight mu-1 .-he cxperiente 
 in clasping it a thousaml tin;esin the c'ay to her bosom.* 
 
 '• Ah ! S'.r," replied the i\[o.-t IJev. Grand Vicar Cook, who did 
 u:, thj hon.n- to accompany us, '• its m. iber, unlbrlunatc and es- 
 " timable wouian i She was withdrawn in a liogical manner 
 " from the caresses of this dear infant. In: teed if [;res>irfi this 
 " little angel to her heait, ^hc is now only the [)rey ot" vyorms and 
 " pu'refaciion, for she is lately decid ! Thi^ child svps jickri! up 
 " in the street, and is supnoiied by the fdiarity < f the woithy it an 
 '"'■ whom we met. 
 
 '• The following is biiefly the history of its parents' unlirppy 
 ••' end : Its father, who was poor, but an hene^t man, if ever diere 
 '^ was one, had a drurdcard \\ r his r eighbor. In endeavouring to 
 '•' ret-tra'n him, from the viuluice of whit h he was guiby in his in- 
 '•' ebriation^ he had been scverly bitten. The wound was an en- 
 " venomed one, and in spite of tb.e skill of the doctor, he died after 
 '• a week of awful sufering. His ycurg wife, po«-?essfd of one 
 ^' of those sensitive and lo\'i!g tcm.pers uh'cli the least shock 
 " overwhelms, was not able to sur\ive her husbaml. SliJ p ned 
 '•' in sorrow and dejecticm and died a few days after.'' 
 
 \Ve now regarded this litt'e orphan with a new interest. His 
 auburn ha^r fell in riiglets on Ids hiiouUk^rs ; but we perceived that 
 it was not his mother's lian.ds that had curled ihrm. One would 
 hav8 said, that sad care had a'ready b'anched Ins fine forehead. 
 Alas! his sweet mother was not there to overwhelm him with a 
 thousand kisses of llie purest and "uost holy love, ne^t to thai of the 
 Dedy. His full eye, with an undefinabL expression (if sweetness 
 
 * Tho above narrativo, tlnillint;- with int(-rost, took place in the boauti- 
 fi 1 town of Three-Rivers — Transluiors Xote. 
 
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 and melancholy, fixed on iis an iiKi'iiiine look, as if he would 
 have said : " I am a poor helpless orphan ; my mamma, n»y sweet 
 " and good manimn, has deserted m*\ and I (h>n't know why. I'hoy 
 '■■' tell me she is death If you see her, tell her to come back. Say 
 *' to her, that I still love licr. The l;i<t time I :iaw her she was 
 '' lying on some boards ; but how paK^ and j^^ooiny ^he looked! 
 ** I called to her, but she did not answer me. I v^•anled to caress 
 " her, but she would not smile upon me ; she did not reach out 
 " her hands to me, as she used to do. VViiy Joes she not come 
 '• back, to let me sleep iij)on her bosom 1 I don't find her now 
 " to smile upon me when [ wok \ ind hutr ine to her, I am aban- 
 *^ doned I JNIy papa has leit me also !!'' 
 
 " Poor sweet orphan ! S: 1 vicli'ii o[' Tnlemperanee. IMay 
 " Goil protect you!" we mnlh^rxl, ns we IcO him : om- heart, was 
 bitf with grief, and our rnouih gnve uti.MTU'ce to expressions of de- 
 nunciation against strong drinks, wliicli make n.an a homicide, and 
 is dady con.-igriing detenceless iuKim-y 'o abandonment in the 
 streets. And we then inwnrilh addirsscd ilie Deitv. 
 
 " Lord God, thou who hnsi promised to h^ar the prayer of those 
 '• who call upon thee, gro.nt to u"? in thv grace, that we may see 
 '^ the reign of Intemperanre over'hrown, fur it is an awful evil, se- 
 ^' parating the husband from ihc witr^ nni des^itning him : debas- 
 '' ing man to tlie level of the brulc ; ii iusivliously plunges a dagger 
 " in the heart of the young \v;fo ; tnres t!ie mother from the em- 
 " braces of her chihh'cn ; totur-'s ln'r soul v.ith a thousand pangs, 
 '■ and renders that bitter to Iit, which God liad made sweet, her 
 *' husband, her family, anJ. life. Grant, Lim-iI, tliat the infant 
 " may no longer be h-ft unprotected and doomed to inheritance 
 '' and opprobrium, by the d -stru-'tUe evil \vhi( h hiiriies his sinful 
 '• parents to an untimely grave, and permit, O God, ihat those 
 '■' among us who profess thy nair.e may be imbued with a salu- 
 '' tary horror of intemperap.ee, tint th'y may count it accursed, 
 " and lend their aid in suppressiiifr it." 
 
 Generous Christians, who for tiie l(jve of Clnist, and of your 
 brethren, have censed using strong drinks, bear in mind that you 
 have two dangenms enemies to '^'counter, in your worthy (iflorts, 
 in inducing others to t;iko the totnt abstinence pledge. The one 
 class will attack you immediately, and wl! tell you frankly that 
 tliey love the r liberty, their pleasure, and esjtecially fupior; that 
 consequently they are tuliy decidod never to adhere to your call- 
 ings ; t!)ose are not the dnugerous ones, tl)r they are at least honest 
 and frank. The second rlass is a great deal the worst; and they 
 are the persons whom you ought e>pecially to fear, but before 
 whom you ought n<ner to draw liack. Th'^'y are numerous ; 
 a great many among them have even inscribed their names, 
 on the rolls of the T'MTipcrance Society, or at all events are 
 aware of the necessity th.ere is I'or the(n to join it, on account of 
 their position, or of certain circumstances of which they are not 
 masters; these are t!ip Judaks of the Society. They begin gene- 
 rally by giving you th-^ir applatiee. They tell you that they ad- 
 
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 mire your zeal antl success ; but Jo not conceive, how anient spi- 
 rits arc so apt to injure. '• Ijuwnre, they con'.inuully repeat to yoii 
 " for with all those cxa^gerMtions, you are doin;^ more liarm thai' 
 " good, to the Temperance Society. *' 
 
 But then, to prove that there is notliine; fictitious in liie evils, 
 you attiihuto to distilled licpidrs, have recourse to the best argu- 
 ment : cite facts, — numerous and recent fncts, and facts which 
 have taken place before them, and even in tjieir own families- 
 Seeing their suhtilties uninaskeil, they bhut theu* cars with horror 
 lest they should be convinced. 
 
 " Would it not be better,'' they say, " to bury all those trif}t<i v 
 f ^rgctfulness : what rii;ht have you to publish fiu-ts which coui 
 nromise us, indispose and disaffocl |)eople towards eac h other." 
 
 Do not allowyourselve-. to he imposed npor\ by all those clarrocr- 
 To inspire every one with tha horror of licpiors, cite all ihe facts 
 wliich have come to your knowledge. Provided they hav? br- 
 come a matter o^ noioriciy in a lociiliily, they belong to the p'.:b ic 
 Conceal the proper names, as much as possil;h>; hut t/ic puUit 
 event is your property : Proviilei:ce lias fiiatle it known to yo'- it 
 order to inspire you, as well as otliers, v>'ith a disgust andliurror Kn 
 strong (hirdi^s. 
 
 Nothing is more fatal than that pysteni of secrecy, which, umU-i 
 the mantle cd" charity, himlers truili IVoiri beirij: known, wliilst ! _; 
 giving it publicity it might be sufficifnit to stny the plague. 
 
 Oh! If the people of this northern country kneu' tlienuniln-i- 
 lesi9 evils which liquors have; ca\isod among ibe;n : if correct ca! 
 culations, made in each locality, v>?ci'e to show them how mud 
 money ': s been wasted, and tears shed, by means of strong (h•i^K^ 
 if like us, -hey perceived the hideous scourge wliich disfigures liieu- 
 and tarnishes the brightness of their best virines before God ; if 
 they perceived the canker which <^^naws their vitals; they vrou'd 
 he seized with awe, and would employ, vvidi energy, all the mtar.r- 
 afTorJetl tliem hy Providence, lor removing the evil before it !"• 
 comes incurable. 
 
 We act like those men, who, perceiving a fn-e in the mid^t oi';i 
 city, would prevent the alarm iVom being given. We beliolii tin- 
 evil increasing, and not satisfied by our own silence, we desuc ti^ 
 impose it upon others. Ts not su(di s'lenco a crime ? 
 
 The fortress is as if it were surrounded ; the enemy is at Un- 
 gates, lie iornris, and increases his ranks — prepares new batteries ; 
 the breach is already open, and "^hall wo remain without yivint' 
 the alarm, and c;dl every one to batde ! ! 
 
 The following is an extrnct of ;i Inlor dated November 23d, an*; 
 addressed to us by one oftli" mo^t distinguislied and best inform,eil 
 Physicians of Quebec . "Von coi.ld tot conceive the progress. 
 *' that drutdcenness has made ihroujrhout t!ie comiuunity. Then- 
 *' is one of the most deplorable re-action. It lias not been siL^na- 
 " lized by no one, although, ail are aware of, and niHlcted by it," 
 
 " Last Sunday, two luifortunate individuals were again the vic- 
 " tims of Intemperance. One of them died in a tavern. His 
 
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 "' dt'alii was so siidilen llinl lie !i:is luH^n deprivcil both of tlic hel[, 
 
 • ol' iiieiliciiio find reliirioii. 'I'lio imIum' was picked up \n ihcsiieot 
 
 • atiil cariied to a !);dver-liou.'C, whrie ho cwpiivd a iiiomciit after, 
 "from a coivbral (uiii|fOHii()M, caut^cd by iricbriatiiig diinks. A 
 '* third dniidxarJ fell yestenlaj* into a well and \\as chowiicd. 
 
 • Those lliroc urdortunate jicraons, having dii'd in a stale of intox- 
 '■ icatioa, were biu'ii'il in a corner oftlie ihurch yard. I am pro- 
 " fjiuully {grieved in witnessing the ilaily and increasing diirorders 
 " wliich the iisi3 of strong stininlanis is causing among the people 
 
 ' both of the city an.! country." 
 
 If we couhl only make known t!i3 half of the money expended 
 l)y the people of all classes and ranks in the city of (iiiii)ee and 
 iyi' t\\c fdubouiy St. llich, and picture the nuniberlivss evils which 
 have been rained theii', by tlie use of strong dritiks, we should 
 ^jcarcely be believeil ; the ))icture we sshould be forced to draw, 
 would bo absolutely frightful, l^ul our t.-us and sobs wouhl 
 have arrested us, i\>v v.e love the people of (iucboc and St. lioch, 
 with all the strength of an intense atlection. But is it only thai 
 unrorliuiate people, already so ol'ten and so stranj;ely visited hv the 
 hand of God, which confuiues to outrage Ilim by p'uriging itself 
 more than ever iti \\i^ vice of Intemperance ! No! the now mc- 
 iropolis of Canada ; the great, rich and beautiful city of jMonlreai, 
 rivaU its eider sister, and will soon surpass lu-r by its brutal or- 
 gies, by the groveIIin:;an J dis^^ustinj!; drunkenness of a portion of its 
 inhabitants. 
 
 Let us listen to tlie solemn and patriotic vvjuMilng of one of it;-; 
 nrst I\i igistrates, the Honorable .hidge iMondelet, in a Charge We- 
 livered before the Grand Jury at the last Term, in which we g'.iall 
 be informed of what is goidg on at this inonieiit in IMontrcal. 
 
 '• Wlien we consider that Educatit.n and Temjierance are makifiii 
 Kuch ])rogresS; that there are few uninij)resscd with a Ju'm be.'iol" in 
 'die ultimate triumph of one aniJ the other cau-e, we need not des- 
 ])air of a diorough change in th.^ condition of our socictv. J5ut, 
 ^enUemon, the sooner this is i.chieved, liie better ; for should apathy 
 be found wiiere energy and activity an; I'etpiired, we shall i!(>l 
 iiurely tarry in our courses, but inevitaljly retr( grade. It, there- 
 foi'e, becomes the bounden, the imiMM'otive duty, ol' every member 
 of the community, to aid in accomp/li:>liMig a reform which is loudly 
 called for. 'i"he crying abuse v.hich we allude to, is tliat sjirintiing 
 from the innumerable ])laces of resort in tiiis city, wdiere people are 
 ;dlo\ved to indulge in their propensities for the use of spiriltioui 
 liquors. The number of taverns, and especially of that sort v.liich 
 hardly admits of a correct description, is very lar<:e ; and I'le evil 
 •esulting from their existence, is incalcu'able ! To those dens of 
 iininoridity. of revelrv, aiid debauchery, are to be traced the mid- 
 night disturbances, the allrnys, tlie tumults aiul frightful sronc--, 
 vvhich, for some time past, have been the theme of public niiim.a'l- 
 \crsion, of scandal, and a source of {\ecp allliction. It is in I'togo 
 '<nv and disorderly h.xises, that are daily expended the Iruits of 
 ii'd labour, the earriin<'s destined for, and Mecessrry to a viriurih; 
 
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 and industrious w ilo and nioiiior, and to lielploss cliildren. TJuvr 
 all H'oling, all slianio ^o^^ake mm— lie heconies lost to sell'-resjuM't, 
 he ends by beinp lini-deiifd tn ilio mislurtnties of others, in proiun- 
 tion as he is deaf to his on\ n inlorcsl, 
 
 " That crime and disordi r arc en the increase, no one can d()id)t ; 
 that sui'li a deplurahlc state of soeiely slioiiiil be made known, in 
 order that a prompt, ju ilnous and energetic remedy may be ap- 
 plied to the evil, every \ve:l-\visl»er of his country's good, every 
 honest and fore-seeing individual in tliis cominuruiy will, at once, 
 fee! and acknowleiUu': teniperimee has .'fained ground, but, practi- 
 cally speaking, it lius y»'t niuch to achieve. There is, however, no 
 cau-^c for gloomy apprelunrioiis, if that cause continues to he ably 
 advecr.teJ, as it has, ot late, been. The press has not in vain, 
 called forili its powers; iis inlhience has been felt, through the 
 medium of education, vNithout which temperance can never be 
 perfoct'y ellicient. Such has been the moral course, attended wiilj 
 a partial ellect. But, Gentlemen, what of all that, if instead of 
 being aided, assisted, and countenanced, the worthy advocates, the 
 sposdes of Temperance and Education, aie to be opj^osed by igno- 
 rance, by wilful evil-doers, in a word, by means of physical and 
 brutal force ? IL>\\ can v.e expect virtue, sobriety, industry, and 
 peace to prevail, it temptations are held out to the people to induce 
 them to set on llH.t, and patronize houses of the worst kind, where 
 all moral sen-se is lost! Upon those who are instrumental in such 
 nefarious doings, lests the responsibility, to those who have the en- 
 ergy to call upon tiie conuuunity to awake to the impending danger, 
 would attach a greater res|)onsibility, were they to remain silent. 
 To you. Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, the proper organ, the rc- 
 ])rcscntativcs of the District, to you, may we, not in vain, appeal 
 for a diligent ini|niry into this most important subject. Many of 
 you have been called away from distant [)arts of the country ; tlio 
 inlluence, the baneful inllucnce of the evil which has become so 
 great iii this city, may not be immediately felt in the localities 
 where it is your good fortune to live ; but, iiiipressed, as, no doubt, 
 you are, with a Christian and ])hilanthropic belief, that we are all 
 bound to do good to our tellow-men, whatever their colour, origin, 
 or creed may be, you will surely step Ibiward like men, and speak 
 out in such a way, that you may not be misunderstood. Besides, 
 shobld immorality continue to increase in the city, sooner or later, 
 its destructive clVocts will extend lar and farther every day, until 
 the land becomes overspread widi vice and desolation. 
 
 The means we have briefly adverted to, are not the only ones 
 which might be used to better our social condition. 
 
 "What a prospect luri.ur two great cities of Montreal and Quebec. 
 
 In iiie cities, then, as well as in the heart of our peacelul, moral 
 districts, drutdvenne^s is making fearful ravages. Every where 
 theie are public facts, and every where disasters of all kinds to tell 
 us that drink is one of the greatest plagues of the country, and ihat 
 it will soon become its mortal and incurable plague, ii^, as is so sea- 
 sonably and eloquently expressed by the Honorable Judge Monde- 
 
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 ItM, ilic A|)o,:\L's ul" 'i'eii.pi'iimoo mo iioi a.cKil luul Misiaiiicil Ly 
 tho ex:imj)L* ul" tlirir rcll(-\s-mcii. 
 
 *• i'oii djsiri.' lo kiitns' ilio I>uJ (.•i/HM> oi i.iloxit'iilinu; ilnnks t. u 
 ' lli.Mouiiiiy In jiu'.il,"' s.iiil \\\c .Mi.,1 JitnJ. (IiMiiil Aicar, 
 n a loUcr. '• Tli 'y ;iri> evory wi.cro |M'»diii'Uve «'!' ov.l. au.l 
 
 • iij wli^'iv of i. »>kI. I];r I s'i;ill iiKMiiioii a (•irciiiii-iiiiuH' \v!.,lIi 
 
 • seem.s bi'ifJi^Iu a'joiit l»y I'lovidjiw/e, tu ('j)jii the < yosul' liie uwst 
 ' blimltollij evil.-:! wliiciiai'otiii.; i"uo3iH|iitMiijei>l'liit(.'iiipcraiice. I'lid 
 
 • |)riiicij)L*S) of iea-tufi!iMU li ul l'.' -n iih-. Km! mI, ;is nou iwc awa.'-j, 
 
 • >M ill • p:iri.-:li ul' , but a,i!i -lai: i ili," L'lV'atoc juui oftat' iiihal.i- 
 
 ' tants iK'Oiljcl !iiVat!y ti> cmiLi'.u'.' its r>;iliitai'v rnU'-, th.-y tioaijil 
 
 • ill'.' iiiattji" wi'.li il;.<r>';j; ir.l, a.ul '•wnt.iiuoJ lo dniilc, as was Moif 
 
 • cu>t-)iii. 'i h 'v iic_il ,il suiii^,' OAaiii|'iL', ami (loil liul not sparu 
 ' :Ii'-'ni; '' " • " . n.i,' >..;v\'ro a;.il I.t ili'j. Ii i~ o.ily a ('•/, il.ivs 
 ' .liiioO J I'juiiiio.l i!.'u;ik U) hi.s iioii.,', a,.i]. inii'.'i'uin.itr!v. a 
 
 • was n )L t.ie fii'st liiii.* iu iia.! .-o r ■tuiii 'J. II -i v-'a'c hul c.l- 
 
 • Jl'CSieil \ui\\ .-.O.illJ IVpi' (a(.-|U"S, lat d '.'.asi l.nl •'.;! >.'J--|'. f'kiU^ Ili*)- 
 
 • iiiuijl. lie r.p.ii-il v.) Ljr ..% iiiu;!!, f. y liy iiii|t)jcatu>:)s aiid 
 
 • hluVV>. So UKK !l ^'i, ;h il t:. ' po.il' \>ii.j,,i|| , ,. ; .1 do t.O I'lT.lT 
 
 • than look to li.'.' ua'm >jil';y. and ';i>'i.i';o iu'i'.hII' !">r CDiicoalau'M 
 
 • to a coi'nji- oi" liio slab j. l\iC nii; i' ua- cold, fir th i tuitli -/.aei 
 St. 11 covorcd with .-^uow, a;id iho n.-idi woid \\;.,> bl'.'Ui. 2 viu- 
 
 • Icntlv. Sitir>v.'.il 'il .'.dh liJ,' s.ji^> aiid b.itajd in toar<, 'dii- i!..;'^> 
 
 • Uuial.} wo.u'L'a iiiii-l Iiiv\' .'.il ilio ,. ai's sci'v lo :■; uliich >.,ij 
 
 p.issi-'d tdu- aaio, g liii cai i .', .\ h'.i !i were bjt' t i.> !, m- 
 
 .:ia 
 
 • lidv ov. 11 li.isba;id. .\l lo.iL'a, think. i.^ ili it I:,.';' crwoi aid ni-.ci- 
 
 • k's.s persocuior ua\:A bo a.rl I'p, an.! that .-lij iii":'dl i\'tu:. ,«> • Vj 
 ' hoasc witiuut a i'.'c.ii.tl'hl; ■ ol ui-ii'Jit.ii'n!, siio leaves du' si.:.dj. 
 ' Bat, just Jlj.iVvi !, what a .-poitaclo ! jdaiiiL'.-:' NWio i.-rfUi. '^ .'.jui 
 
 • overy op 'idiiii in tlie i>uddi, :.. 
 
 " In a a.oaioat llie iioii;li:jors aio .i;niiiiij iV la ad ;-idv?;: ;.> cx- 
 ' tinj:aidi die lli'c. 
 
 11 it wa.st'iu !a:j. Td^'v wjio duav o;i!v lu 
 )e w.lneiLL's cl' tiio voi^'iMiioc '(/a; ii (d;)l ^No^L•i^ a-.-onst 
 
 ic ..iiul, 
 
 'the liiic.iipei'at.\ \\di.jn tiie doo;- was (Miisijn.o I, 1 
 
 ' vvlticli was bliyvViiij^ I'ai'iou^.y, i'lhiiod into tiio b )use and iacirased 
 ' l;i3 conll.!g:atioii. T!ic Hune.-; aii.l .<uinko, l:i 11 diivt.-:i in Uiiler- 
 ' ent diioolioas, periuittcd r.uai lime u> iin;e a ^)L!at ol' tii' bod.y ol" 
 t!i3 Ji'Uakai'd. He was e.\t.'iidjd oa die h.'ip- id 'nirninu tr.als, 
 ■ and seemed to ::;^vini in a sja ol li.e. (hi.' v\(»n il n^vc .-n.d'liat 
 • tUe llaaiJs, carling round t!ie,r viciini, 1. . i.^ ii< :i wcio, a i)i.a<u;c 
 ' in wrap, ling li.in m his windirg ^lieot. 
 
 •' The lollowiiig moi'ning, \shen a.l v\a» extii i^ni^hjd. ih.'.j .vas 
 ' on'y lo be tuund sonu blacicened and eaiciaiai iio.c^." 
 
 T'avcller, wdien you s^bull pa-s tinoiigh \\\e \id;;^e i T , not 
 
 lar iVo.n t'aj |/hice where the ('>.h\ oi \ong<^ance niikjs h:s :o;ode, 
 look lo your let't, and voli will see die blaekene.i lemain.i cl' the 
 house of lliJ drunkard.. An^^, il" H i-^ niglit, p.aa.-e ; n^uke die sign 
 
 of Chrisrs crots upon your ibrehead. and li^teii ; at iiiti you 
 
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 and llic cailli, fjinlcinir under your Icet, will seem ready to heave 
 asunder. 
 
 And that your lilood tn:>y not freeze in its courpe, by the near 
 proximity ot* terror nnd death, make nuain on your forehead the 
 sign of the cross of Christ. Listen — ; and a plaintive voice will ho 
 fieard issuing from the bowels of the earth, — and that voice will 
 •■ay, " Cursed dvinki you have caused all my misfortunes — cursed 
 drirdc! you l:ave matle me an undutifiil son, on unkind fadier, a 
 faitlilc«s husb.irid, a bad citi/cn, an unp''ofilable Christian — cursed 
 drink! you have spread mourning, desolatinn and reproach over my 
 .vife, my children. You have undone me! Mny that fatal cup 
 he ever c\irsed on earth, as it is in Hell, wh'ch plunged me, in ihc 
 midst of my drunkenness, at the feet of my terrible and Sovcrcien 
 Judjie 
 
 IV 
 
 Traveller, if the inournfulness of these words makes your knees 
 to tremble, your teeth to chatter in spile of you, and a cold sweat 
 to trickle down from your f>reh'^ad, desceMdirii^ ti) the very irround 
 you are tieadinij on ; thirds of the angel whom God has g.ven you 
 as the compiriion oC your pilgrimage. He has I'Oth the authority 
 iiui the abilitv to defend vou. Arm yourself for the third time 
 with the sncred and nll-powertnl sign of the cross, for you have 
 3till a. great lesson to receive. Listen. — It is not only one voice 
 which you are goinc to hear, but your spirit v\ ii! be nlTrightevl with 
 tiie confused din of a thousand voices. You will hear Iiowlings, 
 and ^ometbinii which seems like a terrihc Cv)ncoii of bla- j)hemies 
 ami maledictions 
 
 " Forever (nirsed be the drink which jms made us undutiful sons, 
 unkifid fadiers. liiilhless husbands, l^ad citizens, r.nprofital.Je Chris- 
 tians. Ciu'sed in Heaven and earth, as it is in Hell, be the drink 
 dial has uiidon.? us !"" 
 
 Succeediiig this there y»'ill be an p.wfid sl'cn-'e. 
 
 Traveller, retire promptly from this place of terror; for the nn^cl 
 of the wrath of God has pas.-ed over it wit'i his fiery swoii!, to 
 strike down tlie drunkard and m-dvc him disappear from the earth. 
 And, on whichever siile you turn, evciy where lepeat what you 
 have just heard : 
 
 " Cursed be the drink which converts man into an undutil'ul sftr., 
 an unkind father, a faithless husband, a b,jd ci'izen,nn univ.olitable 
 Chriftliaj;. Cursed be the drink in Heaven and on earth, r;^ it is in 
 the depths of Hell !" 
 
 Canadians of all degrees and origin, rich citizens of the tiv.vns, 
 and you who are the peaceable inhabitants of the rural parishes, 
 we coiijure you to be warned by the abyss w Inch yawns bet'ore you ! 
 
 You laugh, you sing, you celebrate expen -ive weildings : Lifjuors 
 of all kinds inundate yoin* tab'es ; Europe hardly furnishes dresses 
 sulficiently cosily or fashions sulTiciendy elegant for your wives and 
 daughters ! iiiit, do you not perceive how that the horizon l.'efore 
 you is covered with sond)re chnids, which are the sad but too rertain 
 harbingers of the storms which a near future is | rjparingfor you ! 
 
r K Ml' K R AN'C n SOC I ET V. 
 
 Jl 
 
 Your joy, your Incomprohr nslblc security, is a source of tcciis t<> 
 those who love you. Aii'l, to depict to you ou i haihiess, Ave f-houhl 
 nceil to use the '.vonls ol'liio^Proj)hols, l)o\vai!iiig|iho ruin ami (les(^- 
 lation of a faithless pco|i!o. Do you not bce written, every where, 
 in letters of Hre, the foarful ]\lene, Thekcl, Pharsin? 
 
 It is nil nwnhrrcd: ijon are ion' :j;/ie(l (nul found icanfing. 
 
 Tt was an invisible liand which irriceil these f(lrrni^!al)le^■cntcnces 
 on the walls of the palace n[' l)eWKi/,;;;ir ni Irs last feast. Aral for 
 you will he invisilile and unknown, t!ie h-uid that writes in char;4C- 
 ters ol fire, ujvm your towns find couiury jilaccs, Mene, T(kil. 
 Pkdvsin. 1 li'tve vjciq/ied, J fviv vuvibci'cd your ini']vHi(S,yonr 
 follies, i/oiir prilr, yi/ar dninkcnntss. As a piinislunent yonr 
 iroo.ls are to he tak-ui from voii and t.) ivass into the hands ol 
 stj"ai!c.-'r:- 1 
 
 Yes, ii is wi'di a hemt filled wiili inexpressihlo sorrow that wc 
 annoiuico to yon, th.at l^i^fore many years, if there is not a j)romj)'. 
 and ui!ivcr::al change elTcclcd amoi <^ you, you will l)e chased from 
 your dwel.iiigs, and your descendants will remain only as servants 
 and slaves. Tlie p-ood.s which you emi)loy in oilendrng, will sooner 
 ur later, he lak mi oil" from you as a puni>l!ment. 
 
 People of Canadial ih.e time for fooli-h rcjoicinEjs, for useless c.s- 
 ]^ens.?, I'oi' costly v/eddings and ruinous foMi\il;es. ibr luxury nnd 
 •Irinkin^ has passed away, or yon are luidone. The hour of toil, 
 of industry, of rclijious and strict economy, of union and concord, 
 of penitence and a sincere return to (nnl, has sounded, Take can' 
 that you do not misunderstand what I'rovideiu'c is requiririL^ of 
 you at this important junctiire. 
 
 Alren ly is the axe ui)'iftp(l wlsirh is to fill up>on j'oiu' Kends. 
 Already has commenced the A\ork of yoia' amiihilation. Tho 
 most t'.oble and ancient of your families, t!ie n;o^t wea!ihy and. in- 
 lUiential are every day rapidly disappearing'. Count up how many 
 iilur5trious names among you are \\-holly extinct within the sin^rt 
 si)nce of tl'.e last ihirtv venrs ! 
 
 What Ins becoiuc of your ancient Sc'giietir- ? How many are 
 llici'c nmons; them whom the whip < f tiio creditor has already 
 chased, o'- will soon chase ijrneminious'y fro!u ih.eir manors, ;:nd 
 whose children wdl l-'e compelled to hide their shame in a tbreiizri 
 Innd? 
 
 Forth? gnitificntion o{ your vanity ami sen--uality, for the pay- 
 ment of your beautiful cloths and t^iiks. r^ye. nnd tor their li(juors, 
 do you not bring daily to the merchnrits a jmrt of the iidicritance 
 v.hich was left to you by your fathers, and which you were com- 
 manded to preserve and increase for the beni^fit o{ your children ? 
 
 Do you not see in the cities, and unfortunately already in some 
 o{ our most l)eautii\il country places, those immense distilleries 
 set up ? What is tint thick, black smoke which escapes from them, 
 and darkens every thing, even tlic rays of the sun ? 
 
 That smoke, which rises up to Heaven, cries for vcnt'eanco 
 against vou. 
 
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 MANUAL or Tilt: 
 
 ill 
 
 Tlial binokc ! * ' ' Ills your Mihstaiico; il is your clnl- 
 drcri's broail ; il is tlu iiiheiiuiiici-' ol yoiii' I'aili.'r.^. 
 
 Yes, your l)lood, l!ic sweat of your hKJW, your wrallli, your rcli- 
 if'toii, all Will 1)0 ^\^■allo\vcd uj) ami lo.-t ai t!iu counter ol* the nici- 
 cliant, tlic di^tille^y, aiul ilie lavcni. 
 
 Ami ilo not say, like some seiiscloss |.eivons, we (eel li;i[)py in 
 having these distilleries, lor lliey pureluue our jjraiii and incieusi' 
 its value. 
 
 If you purchased neither beer, nor whiskey, you pi|;ht indeed 
 have some profit in getting a ViMy hi^h price at the ilistillery. But 
 that supposition is iiiipo.-s.-iMe : lor a:; :^<()n as you will have, f.s \\e 
 hoj)e you \MiI, the wisiloui to tinnk (<;ily tlie wa'er so pure imd 
 so g )od, which God in his uumcv oilers you e\'ery where, the .J:s- 
 tilleries would he ruined ai:d l;;'.l. And the tlay a|'.pointcd i^r 
 their fall will he for you, f )r your fauil'y, aiul lor your parish, a 
 day of joy. It would ilun he jM-uved to you that it is not the dis- 
 tillery which su|)ijurts you, IjuI rather you \\\\o MipjiUit it, a!:d 
 eru'ieh it hy yoiu' lnteaij:erance. 
 
 It wouKl ho better, for yo>ir own interest, if your grains were 
 buiiit on the liehl, insieael of heiiiy, consun:ed in the dis.illery. In 
 the first case, at least, you would bo exempt from tlic trouble of 
 hariostinjf it. 
 
 " You say that if there were lio distilleries, your grain would be 
 sold at a much lo\\er rate f 
 
 Would it not be better to receive only two i)en(.e for a inensure 
 of grain which would be employod to g.iod i;se, tlum two shlilin<:s 
 which would be used to purcha-(M)eer ami oth>r rKpiors as noxiou.-^r 
 
 '• A time will como, when EducaUon and Temperance will heal 
 the scourges of society \\ ith more elliciency tlian it could ever be 
 done by our trd)unals and piisons. It was the Honorable Judge 
 iMonJelel who uticrcd those words so full ol" hope, in the time to 
 come, at the Court uf C^ua.ter Sessions in tlic mouth of October, 
 ISii. 
 
 Those words have undoubttnlly found a noble and powerful 
 oeho in all hearts imbued widi Christianity. Those beautiful days 
 are recalled and wished for by the whole community. But when 
 Will they return 1 those happy days when Education (wc mean, 
 with the llonble. Judge Mondeiet, religious education,) and Tem- 
 perance, will unite hand in hand and institute every wheie their 
 peaceful reign? Those ha])py days will never ivturn as long as 
 we will leave the people in the belief that the distilleries are their 
 friends ; and that the be:«t use of their crops is to carry tlieiii to 
 their vaults or to their con'agious granaries, so that they may nl 
 and become changed into a deluge of fire. 
 
 We conjure our fedow'-citizens, and particularly those of them 
 to whom God, in calling them to direct the press, seems to have 
 given commission, to eniighten and im[)rove the people, to use the 
 knowledge and the irresistible power they have on the public mind, 
 to paralyze and sloj) the erection oC those g'gamic distiikries, the 
 multiplicity of wiiich should grieve the eye of the patriot as much 
 as that of the moralist. 
 
TF.MPKRANCE SOCIIiTV. 
 
 93 
 
 i;e 
 
 Lot us tell the truth, ami nil the truth, to our people. Let us 
 j«how them that if ihcy wi;-h to draw clown tlio blf:>ir<incs of 
 Heaven on their fields, it is not hy luiving their grain changed into 
 poison, in the distillery, that they will succeed. Let usshowthcin 
 t'lai though, for the moment, they may appear to have increased 
 their income, helbre many years they will he grieviously convinced 
 of their error: for, as t!\e distillers miiltl|)ly, the use of li(iuors will 
 increase ; a thousjuid new snares will he pot in the way of the 
 youth ; a thousand new tr;ips will he so well laid for thorn e\'ery 
 where, which, sooner or later, will bring ruin on their persons and 
 fortunes. 
 
 Let us repeat to the people every day, if neces:?nry, this first 
 principle of political economy, which is never to do any thing, 
 though it may for the time appear advantageous, which tends to 
 encourage vice ami immorality. It would he mut h better to raise 
 wheat, than any of thosi- grains which distillers use. And, in any 
 case wliere the ground can produce none but the latter, it would be 
 better fur the country in general, if they were made use of to futten 
 meat cattle for ex[)ortation, than to exchange them for liiinors. Lot 
 us show them that the system of free-trade o|>ens an unlailing mar- 
 ket for their wheat. And that even though they should sell it at 
 a low price, they have nothing to fear; for a man can never sulfer 
 while his granaries are I'ull of wheat, if he slacks his thirst with 
 the pure water of the fountain, if he can moderate his desires, and 
 think himself and his family as respectably dressed with the ileece 
 of his own sheep, as with the cloth of Europe, which, though fine, 
 is expensive. 
 
 It is a well known fact, that nothing so soon brings ruin on a 
 parish as the setting up of a distillery in it. The more it prospers, 
 the more the parish will sink into povert\\ This is too clear to 
 require proof. 
 
 The distillery ! It is the forge where the chains are prepared to 
 bind your hands and feet lo force you the more easily from your 
 homes. 
 
 The distillerv ! It is the citadel from whence the devil hurls, 
 without ceasing, his fiery darts, to consume your houses and fields, 
 and to reduce them lo ashet-. 
 
 The distillery ! ah ! it is like a cloud of fire, which passing over 
 your heads, and falling In a ruin of fire, as it did formerly in Sodom, 
 will cover the land with rifmand tears. 
 
 The cholera, which swept away the tenth of you, and the fly 
 which devoured your harvest these past years, have not done half 
 as much harm as the distilleries will, if you have the misfortune to 
 accustom yourselves and your children, to use the poison they pre- 
 pare, no matter under what name. 
 
 VVe read in a IMontreal French newspaper, of the 14th Decem- 
 ber, a long congratulatory article on the prosperity of distilleries. 
 It was there saiil : " Four million gallons of whiskey have been 
 " distilled in the city of Montreal in 18i6. It atHrms that one of 
 " these establishments, alone, does not consume less than 1800 
 " bushels of grain every day." 
 
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 Truly it is incroilihle, that such a fart shouhl bo a matter of ic- 
 jou'iiii:, and s^hoiild be arinuuiULni to onu'rf Ibllow-inen, as an oven: 
 ulliapin* omen. 
 
 What ! you admit that no mnnufacluio is cncoiingocl in Canada 
 that a pin or a button cannot be nianutactured here, but that t!ie 
 cloth for our coats, and oven the straw bonnets for the women, 
 inu^t be imported from England. 
 
 Only one bi'anch of iiuhustr) roneives an incredible cncouragj- 
 ment, and its immiMliaie result is to cause torrents of tears tt> How, 
 and to carry ruin, desolation, opprobrium ami death into the hearts 
 i)f thousancls of lamilies ! and, sU-anjir- it is, that vou feel al)!e l<- 
 coniriatulate your it'Ilow countrymen on it I 
 
 In a country which has been smitten, s?troke after stroke, by all 
 the scourges, j>estilence, civil \var, famine and such conllagi'ations 
 as have struck the whole world with awe, do you know what 
 causes the heart of some men to rrlow with joy ! Hear the great 
 news : Montreal has furnifihcd the couninj^ this ycai\ with foui 
 millions c^nlluns uf whiskey ! ! ! 
 
 Poor children, who, by tliou-ands are in want of bread, clothes 
 and fuel, because your parents are diuid^ards; oh! console your- 
 selves. — Your parents will never he in want of whiskey : INIontreal 
 does not distil less than ten thousand nine hundred and four fiallons 
 every day. 
 
 Unfortunate women ! the number of whom is daily and rajiidly 
 increasing, who have to endure the brutalities of a drunken hus- 
 band; wipe away your tears. Four millions gallons of whiskey 
 Jiavc been distilled in the ^"^•ity of jMontreal alone; and it is hoped, 
 seeing the progress of civilisation and llie march of intellect, that 
 this quantity will be douljled next year ! 
 
 Fathers and mothers of families, wliosc children, by hundreds 
 and thousands go daily to the tavern anil to the house of refresh- 
 ment, to forget the sentiments of probity and religion which they had 
 imbibed at the paternal fire-side ! — Console yourselves, and hope 
 all things from the future ; the distilleries are in the most j)rosperous 
 state. To assist you in bringing back into the paths of honor and 
 virtue, your numerous families, they distil for you at each hour of 
 the day and night not less than four hundred and fifty-four gallons 
 of whiskey, of the best (piality, at a lo.v price. 
 
 Canadians of ail denominations ! open your iiearts to feelings of 
 the most holy joy. The country is out of danger. Our dear Ca- 
 nada will soon be ranked among the greatOot, strongest ana most 
 intelligent nations. A futurity of unbounded jirosperity is openinti 
 before you; and if you have any doubts on the subject, come into 
 the distilleries and see the prodigious quantity of w hiskey they issue 
 every day, and which carry every where ])eace, happiness and 
 plenty ! I ! 
 
 With all due respect to the intention of the estimable writer, 
 with whom we contend, we must say, that too much has been said 
 of the amount of money which the distilleries circulate among tlio 
 public, and the jirice given I'or grain, while not a word is said c^^ 
 the enormous sums taken from the people, yearly. 
 
TLMi'nn.vNCi: soctk r » . 
 
 u:i 
 
 To hear our modern economists sponk, ono would think timt 
 Messrs. tlio distillers, attpr havin;^ paid a good price Ibr tlio grain, 
 f^ivo their beer and whiskey i^ratis. 
 
 Have tlieso lour millions gallons of uliiskey, disiillrd Inst year, 
 in i\rontrcnl, boon exported ? No, (\\il!i the exception of 3,07 -^ 
 2allons sent to Knghuul, within the last two years,) nil lias I'een 
 drank, and consequently [)aid Tor, by our poor and nnha spy peo- 
 ple. 
 
 Tlio tralTic with the distillery is, in every respect, niinous to the 
 people ; and to be convinced ol'this, wo need but look at the fol- 
 lowinti table, which is only the history of thc^ trntle, carried on 
 between the people and tlhi distillery, in fiLnnvs. 
 
 Dr. 
 
 January Ist, 184G. 
 
 TUB DI3TILLE1!\ TO TIIi: C.VX.VDIAX I'C'il.n. 
 
 iTor r>K,r1oy, Ityo and Oats, received, 
 
 I)r 
 
 Deceinler ."iith, ISIG. 
 Tirn CAXAriiAy vnori.i: t>) -rni: distii-lkuv. 
 
 Imh- l"Ium, Whiskey, I'utjr, Sec, <lelivt;rc(l 
 
 r»alanco against the pcojtir. 
 
 1,000,001; 
 
 J.(K)0.((()(' 
 
 1,0(1(1,00(1 
 
 Oh ! May God give to our feeble v^oicc the uscl'iil slronfitli and 
 auilun'l^.y, to enable us to n;alve the trutli j)enetrate ever}' where, 
 and we would say to our fellow countrymen : Guard n!:ain;;t tin- 
 distilleries, and those who extol their imaginary benefit'^. 
 
 The high price they give for your grain, is an illusion, and not a 
 real advantage: for if a million of dollars have been put into your 
 hanils, as the price of your grain, in the autumn of ISlf), means 
 have been found in the course of the year, not otdy to w^V'' vnu 
 bring back that sum to the distillery, but you have been iniluccd to 
 double it; and for a million of dollars that they appeared to give 
 you, they have taken two ;viiHions from you. 
 
 But the price for all grain would be considerably reduced if there 
 were no distilleries ! And what of that ! Instead of selling their 
 grain for a million of dollars to distillers, the people would only ::et 
 five hundred thousand from other traders. It is true ; but we ask, 
 would not five hundred thousand dollars, employed to sustain then 
 institutions, — to pay for the sustaining of their schools, — to improve 
 agriculture — to cultivate the now barren land, and settle their chil- 
 dren in life, be of more benefitto the people than two millions spent 
 in purchasing whiskey and beer, and in enriching Messrs. the 
 distillers ! 
 
 O! that the only evil done to the people by distilleries, were to 
 deprive them of the bread they had gained by tho sweat of theii 
 
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 brow, nntl hrinjr ruin iipdn tlicm — making tlicm believe tliat they 
 cnricli thcin ! 13iit to the poverty anil profoimil vvrett lieihiess to 
 which they linve (hiily richiced n fiicat ninny, may be also adileil 
 crimes of all kin(l>, desolation and dei'ih. A tew lines above the 
 article we ([noted, we penisi,'d another in the same journal. 
 
 " Tnc^sday morning, 2-nd, it was recorded, a woman from 
 " St. Elizabeth street, was found dead in her bed. The pre- 
 " ceiling night she had gone to bed under the inllucncc of slrong 
 <' drinks!'^ 
 
 " The third December, a man was found dead in a field, on n 
 " very cold day, in a complett; state of md\ednes?. lie had been 
 ** long belorc, aildicted to the baneful habit of dritdiing. It appears 
 " thill his mind being injured by licpior, he had stripped himself of 
 ** his clothes, and was fro/en to death." 
 
 Ami while wo were writing the foregoing lines, not far from our 
 dwelling house, a Scotchman was picked up, weltering in his 
 own blood. Delirious with licpior, he had committed suiciile. 
 
 Fellow Counlrymen and Christians! tuch are the benefits arising 
 from distilleries ; with the poisons they give you, they enfeeble 
 your intellect, demoralize, and h'ad you to tiie grave, and for that 
 you give them annually two millions of dollars ! 
 
 As we were crossing one day in the Longueuil ferry-boat, on our 
 way to IVIontrial, we noticed three richly loaded carriages, one 
 of which belong 'd to an Iiishman of the Townships, who told U'j* 
 that he had em'grateil to Cana la only four years before, informing 
 us, at the same time, that before leaving his dear Ireland, he hud 
 taken the total abstinenee pie 'g.^, like t!\e re>t of his fellow country- 
 men. The two other carriajfos, which called ouraiten ion, belongt\l 
 to two Canadians. 
 
 On returning in the afternoon, to the country, we lelt a little 
 surprised in falling in w.th the three same indiviuuals, we had 
 noticed on that morning. But how sorry wc felt on perceiving 
 that, one only amongst them had made a good use of his tinie and 
 money ! It was the worthy Irishman. He was perfectly to!x?r, 
 and looked with an eyo of complacency at the dilterent things he 
 had bought for the support of his family. 
 
 They consisted of meal, leather, and school books. His (ace 
 expanded with the most lively joy ; he seemed to think of the ten- 
 der embraces of liis wife, at his return home ; of the sweet 
 caresses of his darling little chililren, who would not fail, on per- 
 ceiving him at a distance, to run towards him and rejoice at his 
 happy arrival. One would have said that his heart returned thanks 
 to the Almighty, which the angels seemed to carry to Heaven. 
 And the two Canadians ! We say it with sorrow and regret, each 
 one of them had a barrel of ardent spirits in his carriage ! We 
 beheld one of them in a state of stupidity an 1 complete intoxica- 
 tion, stretched near his barrel, and he was the laughing stock of all 
 the numerous passengers who were oin board the vessel. He ut- 
 tered constantly silly things and blasphemies. The other, although 
 not so much under the ellect of stimulants, was, however, in a de- 
 plorable state. 
 
 \ 
 
TKMl'KRANC IC SOCICT V. 
 
 'Ji 
 
 Ami lost pomo of our rondcr-s slioiiM )»(' indinod to trcnt tlieir 
 hrctluvii of Fiviicli oiiu'iti w itli contrmpt, wf shall sni))(»'ri to this 
 KnL'lisli edition of " Tlio Toin|)nanci' Maiuial," iho roll<)w;n|» sta- 
 tistics, wliicli \ve ouc to iht.' politeness ol' Mr. Wilv, (.'liief of tlie 
 Police of Montreal, to wliicli \v(^ Ih-l' leave to add a lew rellections. 
 
 In caslinu a ghmre ovcv tlii.- iViLditrul pictnie. evrry \i(nv\ citi/en 
 will have to hliish at llic disoi'deily li:djits(irhisrellou'-eoiintrynien. 
 And instead, then, of accusing each other, every moral man of 
 Canada, he his origin or religions creed what it mav, if he have 
 the principles of a man and of a (christian, must assist his fellow- 
 men in the overthrow of the common eiuMuy. 
 
 Native CorxTRiics of olTendors for the months o\' July and De- 
 
 cemhcr, I'^Ui : 
 
 hai! 
 
 Months. 
 
 Irish. 
 
 F. Cuiuul'ns.' En-lish. 
 
 Si'' itch, Anicricans. 
 
 1 
 I 
 
 July, 
 
 s • ', 
 
 Fls. 
 4.") 
 
 •k; 
 
 MU 
 1C.4 
 
 1-' ; 
 
 Mis. 
 25 
 
 Fls. 
 
 8 
 
 ( 
 1 
 
 Mis. 
 25 
 
 1 
 Fls. 
 
 5 
 2 
 
 MLs. 
 
 Fl.. 
 
 December, . 
 
 ! 
 
 Total 
 
 254 
 
 .^:) 1 57 
 
 15 
 
 44 
 
 : ! 
 
 I'ulHllutiull. 
 
 Irish. 
 
 F.CaiUKri-.s. 
 
 EiiLjlish. 
 
 Sfi.tcli. 
 
 1 
 
 Aiiierieans. 
 
 Total, 
 
 0.")!).') 
 
 IDOU 
 
 .•Uf.l 
 
 2:i-' 
 
 1 
 
 roi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 We bless God with all our lienrts, for the wonderful chang'j 
 that Temperance has \vrouLdii within a few years, especially 
 amongst Irishmen. Nevertheless, the above picture is a painful 
 proof of the pernicious etVccts of intoxicating liquors amonir them. 
 Does it not make the heart shudder to have to record, that in the 
 short space of two months 31") persons of Irish oriiiin, 91 of whom 
 are females, have been (.Irasued to the jail of this city, for crimes 
 committed in a state of inebriety. \Vc recently perused a work 
 from the pen of the Rev. James Bermingham, bearing the title of 
 " A Memoir of the Very Reverend Theobald Mathew." This 
 work has received the full approbation of the most i-espectable citi- 
 zens of Ireland. In the preface, we fmd the following lines: — 
 
 *' In truth, not only were our countrymen remarkable for the 
 intemperate use of intoxicating liquors, but Intemperance had al- 
 ready entered into and formed a part of the national character. 
 An Irishman and a drunkard had become synonimous term. 
 Whenever he was to be introduced in character, either on the 
 theatre or the pages of the novelist, he should be represented habited 
 in rags, bleeding at the nose, and wavin<^ a shillelah. Whiskey was 
 everywhere regarded as our idol ; our friends were ashamed 
 
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 WAKIAL OF THE 
 
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 of us ; our enemies snoerod nl »is; and a rit'(|iionl, if not a PtrictK, 
 just ari;nnKMit sot up auainsl our rlaiins for lilierly, ^vns, lliat u 
 people >o enslaved to a liase and dt'niorali/ini; lial)it, could not )<» 
 entrusttMl \\\\h eivil ritrhts and privdegfs. 
 
 " Kveiy day the evil was incrt'risinir, and with it our weakness 
 and dishonor. Still the Irish had rcdt^Moiii^ virtues: thi,'y wore 
 brave, generous, liospitable ; ihcy had (*ther virtues, too, for whieli 
 they sull'-red." 
 
 Sons of Erin ! If ue have exiilhitcd belbre you tlio forrowful 
 picture ol' your loriner dcirnidatlcti, it is not l)ecause we feel a 
 pleasure in hunihliiic you by allinhng to your past error^i, N(t. 
 Our sincere and only desire is to (diet>r you in the course which 
 you have proved to the worUl you are <leleriuined to follow, in ordei 
 to obliterate tiie dark days of your irhtory. (lod is cur ^vitnes^H 
 that we love and admire Irishmen. And who can read of your 
 martyrdom, your lidelity to the I'aith of your forel'athers, without 
 experiencing towards you feelings of admiration and love. 
 
 If in the present state of things you arc imable to find shelter 
 in your own country; if you liave exchan^jcd the green meadows 
 i^f Ireland for the frozen rcfflon of Canada ; if you have bid a last 
 farewell 1o the friends of your infancy, abandoniiif^ an allectionato 
 mother, a father, -whoso only supp<irter you were m his old age, 
 U) lead the life of an exile in the vast plains of America, is it not, 
 we ask you, o!i account of your faitliful attachment to your religion, 
 which ytiu |irofer to all the joys and contents of this world? How 
 many times have I been struclc with admiration in viewing one of 
 those nol)lc sons of St. Patrick? The rags that covered Ifis body 
 seemed to me niore precious and beautiful than all the gold and 
 money of this world. I thouglit I beheld one of those ancient sol- 
 'liers of Christ who returned in trium]di from the Koman arena. 
 He had been severely wouniled bv wild animals; thev had torn 
 in pieces liis vestments, but a ])owerful hand had, on a sudden, 
 appeased their fury. Their natural ferocity liad disappeared. The 
 ferocious lion, the unconquerable tiger, had lain down as peacea- 
 ble ns lambs at the feet of the n.artyr, and licked his wouniL, 
 
 Generous Irishman ! liow many times have I bowed with respect 
 at the deep scars that three centuiies of martyrdom liave impressed 
 upon your forehead. But, then, why did my soul become possessed 
 with gloomy thoughts? It is because from many tribunals, police 
 station houses, and from many taverns, a voice is heard against 
 you. Yes, and it gave me to understand that thousands of Irish- 
 men are no more worthy of bearing that name. They had be- 
 come tiie degenerate children of a nation of heroes ; tlie love of liquor 
 had obliterated the laurels Avon in a holy war. The evil spirit of 
 drunkenness, after having deprived them of the glory acquired by 
 their unconquerable faith, had dragged them into the most infamoub 
 places, had ranked them with men destitute of principles of honor 
 and religion, which had, at last, made them the ridicule of all sensi- 
 ble people. 
 
i'K.MJMUJANCi: 80CIKI \. 
 
 -Ji) 
 
 Men ot lrt'lat»il ! wc cntrt'.ii von, in tlic tinmo ofihc Inrul of your 
 uuih ; of ymir nnccf'tors, rclijr'on, mid all lli:il is tk'ai- to voii, put 
 •m end U) tli()s(? pernicious liahits. ('caso to L'riove tlioso who love 
 you. Ceaso to t.n'atirv th(»HO who liespiso yon on ncconnt ot' your 
 past (lo^ratlntiori ; and to that ond roci'ivo all ofyou, withj;rutitudc, 
 (he L'race which tln^ (»od ol' Mercy (»|V,>rs to vou throni!;h tho means 
 ol'th ; Very R'v. 'J'. Malhrw. Kiu'o!! yourselves under the peace- 
 I'ul standard orTemperanci?, and respert the tol;d ahstineiico pledire 
 you leivo taken at the liands ol" His worthy aposile. Tovich an*! 
 handle no more tlie imjiure glass oC ihe tavern. Take a last faix^- 
 woll to those houses ofdchauchery, where rum-!sel!ers. I'lr the saki- 
 of a lew jjcnce, will lead you a^t|•;ly iVi-m the true putli v[' \lrtue. 
 Let us no more see in future, as formerly, t!ie name of afi 
 Irishman appended lo the sign-post of an inu: may such sigti-post 
 di'fiolo iienceforih the infamy ol'the houses, if it signifies rum-seller ; 
 Awd if an Irishman heeomu llu' temoier of iiis hretluvn, in olleriri'' 
 them liijuor, shun liiiu as a i)ersi)iial encMiiy, as a venomous t^nalie. 
 Rear always in mind, wherever Providetwe mny direct your steps, 
 die memorable words of the Rev. ^L-. IJi^rmini^ham, whleli I have 
 ilreaily ci^ed to you: " Providence," says he, " wris [)loased to 
 '* resr ird tlH'ir suilerings ; to look (Unvn with pity on their faults, 
 "and complacency on their virtuio. A mii^hly clnn^) has come 
 ••' over the Iruid ; the night of Ireland's degradation is pnsl ; the 
 " foul vapoins are scattered wliicli obscured our best pros[)ects ; 
 " I'riglit, and peaceful, an*! happy days, are opening u[)on us." 
 
 Anil you, "Worthy sons of Albion! whose glory it is, to belonfjf 
 to one of the most pov/er^'ed and enli!;ht(.'ned nations of th,.' v/urld, 
 behold the fearful dcgratlation wrought by the sin of Intein[)e- 
 i'tince, in the souls of a largi'. number of your felluw-countrymen. 
 Seventy-two in the space of two months, bL-in^i;; at tho rate of 
 iiKtre tluiri four luuidred unnually amon^'st you, men and women, 
 lower themselves below tht; h.'vel of the brute. Do you hear'.' 
 Four hundred Knglishmen are annually, in Montreal, ileehireil 
 unworthy to live with men sharini^ trne principles of honoi-, and 
 to inhale the pure air of liberty. Liquor, (for to liquor only 
 can be attributed the most of their Impiisounients.) liAs deiirived 
 them of the most ""enerous sentiments :vhioh ehristianitv liad 
 hinght them. 
 
 "We are then to beheve Entrlish writers who tell us that En__;- 
 hmd, this no.'le and i)owerfid Queen of the seas, nourishes in 
 her own land six hundred thou-;and drunkards. Six: hundre«l 
 thou.-and Knglishmen are annually reduced to the last state of 
 degradation. And we are told that among such an overwhelm- 
 ing number, not less than sixty thousand die as they have lived! 
 Jiist Heaven ! What lives ! '"What deaths ! ITow many tears, 
 ind whtit mourning, li([tior has canse(l ia England as well as in 
 Canada ! Numerous are the unfortunate ehihlren and women 
 who, ther'3 as v/ell as here, mutter a curse against that baneful 
 '^end. 
 
lOO 
 
 MANUAL OF THE 
 
 Knji^lisliniC'ii I yc who liave ailc.ptcd ('.ui;ulii for your homo, wc 
 bcHoccli you, arm yourselves with all iIk! .stron^th nnd pnwor 
 that your national honor and ri'liirions l"t'(lin;;s may ;xivo yon, to 
 help your brithrcn *>\' l'"riiu'li ori;^'in tohanish from this country 
 thn c'dMinion enemy, '• Intemperance." Ixemeinher that such an 
 ohjcct can be aciiicvc<l only by adopting the rules of tho Total 
 Abbtinencc As.->ociation. 
 
 •■TllOl'GII r.lMTANNIA Kl-LES TIIK SMA," * 
 'I'lieii^li Mritiuiiiia rules tlie •^cn, 
 
 'riliHli;li lirf smii all' <'illlr(l tliu fri'O, 
 TJiuiisiiinls live ill shivery, 
 
 Ami Weill" II ilraiikiinl's chain. 
 
 Soljfi' (liiiihers, tMnk nwliile, 
 Cease yiiur jmiutl, sell' ri'^lilemis <inilr, 
 Vuur ranks prmluce the (h-uiikarirsi pile; 
 Then never tusto iigaiii. 
 
 Sons of woo! ell jtiu wo call, 
 Frienilless, hopeless vicliiiis, uU, 
 blavos to (lissi|iati(iirs thrall, 
 Your lii)ert y regain. 
 
 Uy tho ninst endearinp: ties, 
 Jly your iuini'-li<(l t'liildren's cries, 
 By yeiir v\i\es' heart -roiKlint^ ^'gh^, 
 Wo ehur^o you to uhstaiii, 
 
 Pasli the poisDiied eiiji aside ! 
 Niiw, to y\'j;\\ (iiir pled!;e deeide, 
 In Alinij;Itty streii<;;(li oontide. 
 And never taste aj^ain. 
 
 May the following narrative of an event which took place in 
 an English I'lunily, iiipjiiro you with horror for strong di'ink : 
 
 '* I was at tliat time discharging my pastoral duties at ; 
 
 I had been paying a vi.sit to a sick jierson, Avhen, on returnirig, J 
 found, sitting on the duor steps of my house, a young girl of 
 about 15 or 16 years ui' age. -Vlthough familiar, by the duties 
 attached to my ministry, with human misery and poverty, I 
 was struck by her mehincholy and pallid features. Tho gar- 
 ments which she wore, were a forcible evidence of her wretched- 
 ness. Tears were seen trickling down her pallid cheeks. This 
 young person's amiableiiess, accent and language, gave me to 
 believe that she must have experienced better days. She ad- 
 vanced with timidity towards me, holding in her hands an object 
 enveloped in a very clean cloth. " Iteverend Sir," said she, in 
 a trembling voice, '•' my mother sends you her best compliments, 
 "' atid ^vould be desirous to know if you could purchase this 
 '' eneravinii." 
 
 * Tho above bcautitully written verses, are extracted from the Tempt 
 rancG Minstrel. — Tka>s: noii:. 
 
lK.Ml'EiiA.>ci. SOCIKIV. 
 
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 in 
 
 V 
 
 •• My <^*nA miss," 1 nplicil, " lliis picture i.s truly IxMuiiiil, 
 " ami I would I'cul most Impity, it' 1 odiiM buy if. lii. !«ur- 
 ■ rouinjfd us I iitii Ity -t* many \um\\ it i.-< imitusxiMt; l\>v me :>• 
 •• irivc ti .siii<j,lc t'artliiu;;- l".»r .-ut-li and nUjcct. 'I'lio [il''!»suru I 
 " u'DiiKl tbid ill |>iifilia>iii;^ it, would hn too tloaily paid tor, ( u 
 •' tliinkiiig that it would ho so mu<-li taken from tlio [ujur, wliu 
 ' iia\c' t*o mui'Ii to sull'i' duiiiiL; this cold sca-oii ot' tlio year .it 
 •• was ill tliti winlm" ol' ISUS). Althou^Mi I have not tin- iio'iur 
 •• (U' kn.twinj,' yuur mullic-r, give iici* my Ixjit than ki and i\'3- 
 ■' !.rc;is." 
 
 liUt I had hardly pronoinicid tho>i; words, wlu-n a piercin;.' 
 •ly was iiL'ai'd, whii'h made my Idood run cold in mv M'iii!!. 
 
 " Oh I disar man. ma, what will become ot' you 1"' It wa-i all 
 -lie cotdd say. Ilcr voice hccame ttppresscd Ijy her weeping. 
 •*vhi; had sank down on a bench, hci* t'acc bein;;' concealed lo- 
 I ween her hands, whii-h -he overllowed by liei' tears. 
 
 I t'elt jioiiH'thin^ painful within me, and which it wouhl be ii;i- 
 [lossibhi to dt-p'ici. I lui-esaw tliat (1' I wouhl reveal to me, oU'i 
 ot' those profound evils concealed from the eyes of the woil !, 
 bat whose sihl ten an I unex[)eetcd np[iearanrrs w hic!i -o •';'t-.'!i 
 break.-; the I'rie.sts' hetirts, who oftentimes arc; tli(M»nly witneSiCS 
 wf such suireriiii^s. And I was praviuu" inwardlv iu older tka: 
 tliv' L rd mi.L^ht .u'ive me tlu; oil anil b.ilm [ n..'(idrd. 
 
 I look tlu; jiicturc, rciin tirv. not l.a\iu;_' sooner purcjiased 
 it, and which I wa.s now ready to j^ay for, Avitli its weiyht ')( 
 '_m1i!. Oil looking at it, I [lerusedoii the back, written in c.i[ii;ul 
 
 h.'ttcrs, the name of ^\ illiaui 
 
 , K-(iuin.', Seigneur vt' 
 
 Tiie unfortun:'.te girl :?tanding belbre nr*, and who^e m ther 
 was undoubtedly dying at thi't mc)meiit ot'cidd and huuger, w.ii 
 
 aci'ordingly the daughter of William , ni' English origini 
 
 'i\:\\ years previous, I had nceivd ho.si»itality at her farl.' I's 
 house. He was al that tiuie the rich ]tro[U'ietor of a valuable 
 .Seignt)ry; his father had, besides, left liim lU'tcr his deatii, ['■r..\v 
 thuuiand pounds in specie; but he was a frantic inebriate, uud 
 in the space of eighteen years, he had s[)ent and drank wiili his 
 friends a> he possessed. 
 
 Since this occurred, we are told, that this amiable young lady 
 has retired, with her untbrtuuate t'annly, into a corner of tli'; City 
 
 oi , where tliLur past pros[)erity is unknown, and wli.re 
 
 "he has more than once washed the lloor of her neighbours, to 
 sustain her poor mother. 
 
 Wc will now in conclusion address a few words to the nati.is 
 of Scotland who have emigrated to Canada. We earnc-tly tlc- 
 <\rc them to cast a glance over the picture above mcnti -n'; 1. 
 Tliey will perceive, tliat in the short s[)ace of two months, tl!';y- 
 one of their country peoi)le, composed of both men and women, 
 have been thrown into the Montreal jail; and for the most part 
 being brought there for crimes committed in a state of driinkjn 
 ness. 
 
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102 
 
 MANUAL OF THE 
 
 Vc?, Scotch people, whom History represents as so great oi3 
 the battle-fickl, and whose history hp.s been ilhistrated by num- 
 berless acts of the purest heroism, they also beliolJ their laurels 
 lost by drinking. They arc then, as much, if not more, gan- 
 ^^rencd by drunkenness, as other people, and they have their 
 interest too much at heart not to help us in putting the common 
 CJiemy to flight. 
 
 The following memorandum, for which we are indebted to 
 the politeness of Mr. Jessopp, from the Custom House of Quebec, 
 is well calculated, as avc arc led to believe, to make known to 
 us the necessity there might be for a speedy and noble reform. 
 
 MiorORANDCM of strong drinks imported into Montreal and 
 Quebec, and the quantity manufactured in Canada, durinj^ 
 the years 1839, 1840, 1841. 
 
 Custom House Office, 
 Quebec, Octuljor 21, 1841. 
 
 Jjiguetl, II. JESSOrP, 
 
 Collector. 
 
 These statistics are an evidence of the considerable and very con- 
 soling diminution in the consumption of ardent spirits in this 
 country, during the years 1810 and 1841. This happy result 
 was ascribed to tlie etftrts made every where to institute at that 
 period Temperance Societies. But, unfortunately, since 1843 
 the following statistics, on the authenticity of which we can 
 rely, show a frightful and speedy augmentation in the importa- 
 tion, as well as in the distillation, of ardent spirits. 
 
 Statistics of strong drinks imported and distilled in Canada. 
 
 imported — Gallons.. 
 Distilled in Canada. 
 
 In 1843. 
 
 401,128 
 
 800,000 
 
 In 1844. 
 
 867,893 
 1,500,0U0 
 
 In 1845. 
 
 588,893 
 2,500,000 
 
 Total. 
 
 l,o58,4'J.} 
 4,800,000 
 
 We see that six millions six hundred and tifty-eight thousand 
 four hundred and ninety-three gallons of spirituous liquors are 
 consumed in Canada in the short space of throe years ! 
 
 On the supposition that each gallon of those spirituous liquors 
 is valued at the rate of a dollar, (and it is certain that it is worth 
 more) it amounts to the sum of six millions six hundred and 
 
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TEiiriaiANCE SOCIKTY. 
 
 103 
 
 fifty-eiglit thousand four hunclrcJ and ninety-three dollars spent 
 by the people of this Country in the .si>aco of three years for 
 that sole object. Consequently during the space of twenty years, 
 it has reaciied the amount of twenty millions of dollars spent in 
 Canada for liquor ! I ! 
 
 Twenty millions dollars spent to attain an cbjcct which has 
 not contributed to the happiness of a sinirle fan illy — which has 
 not ins[)ired one individual with a irood thought, — an action ho- 
 norable to its author, — useful to the country — glorious to God I 
 Witliout mentioning tlie bla^[)hemies, discords, disorders of all 
 kinds, theft and murders, of which li([uor has been the boueful 
 source among us for twenty years, are not the heavy expenses 
 incurred in order to avail ourselves of the pleasure of liquor, a 
 frightful crime of which our unfortunate Country is guilty ? If 
 there are crimes for nations as well as Ibr individuals, most as- 
 suredly this must be one. If that sum had been thrcjwn into 
 the sea we would certainly have committed a gross fault ; but is 
 not our crime a great deal worse for having employed such a pro- 
 digious quantity of money to obtain a thing which has made us 
 connnit numberless crimes, without produeing one single virtue; 
 which has caused the eternal ruin of myriads of unl>)rtunate 
 people, without having ever Cvmtribated to the salvation ol' one, 
 which has reduced to extreriie ndsery thousands of families ; 
 and which has sliortened the life of a host of individuals, without 
 having superadded a day to the existence of a ^i'.gle person I 
 
 Our princi['al citizens would deserve to be curbed by God and 
 man, if they were unanimously to deprive, every twenty years, 
 their jhildren of twenty nnllions of dol!;us, r.r.d cast it to the 
 bottom of the sea ? Would not such an aetiLii l)e ;is crimihal 
 as it would be extravagant ! And are we less guilty, less sense- 
 less, we whofor tventy years have taken from the hands of our 
 childre'ii that lai ;.'.'' sum, not to tiirow it to the bottom of the sea, 
 where it would h;;\e injured no one, but to purchase that which 
 destroys all the shining ([ualities of man. 
 
 What good should we have not done, if we had only kn(jwn 
 how to economize such a sum. I'ov many young men would 
 have been able to settle in life : Forests yet in their natural and 
 savage states, would have been transformed in twenty years into 
 fertile field.-, and covered with harvests, with twenty millions of 
 dollars ! How many pieces of haul, inhabited till now by bears 
 and wolves, would be covered by growing families, who would be 
 the support, the strength of the Countiy — the honor and hope 
 of religion ! 
 
 P]dueation is still neglected in many localities. "When one 
 tells the people to send their chihlren to school, he receives for 
 an answer : " AVe cannot atford it."' True it is, for wdien a poor 
 people has spent twenty millions of dollars to pay runvsellers, 
 they certainly cannot atford the means to sustain schools. But 
 can such a state of things subsist long ? Can we in honor and 
 conscience squander away to get a useless thing, often hurtful, 
 
104 
 
 .MANUAL OF TllL 
 
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 always dangerous, the wealth which God has given us in Iiis 
 mercy. 
 
 Are we not like the prodigal cliild, -who after having foolishly 
 spent the wealth which had been given hitn by tiie best of lathers, 
 t'uund himself reduced to extreme wretchedness and ended by 
 seeking after the nourishment of the vilest animals. The people 
 of this country have nearly reached that degree of misery. After 
 having foolishly spent twenty millions of ilollars, they have been 
 reduceii, in ditleicnt places, to such a degn c ( f [joverty that in 
 order to sustain themselves, tluiy have iuul recourse to the oats 
 given formerly to the animals. It is a fact that cannot be denied, 
 and in regard to which it is impossible not to see the visible pun- 
 ishment of God. l»ut he chastises us only to make us follow a 
 better path ; and that is the reason why Divine rrovidence otfers, 
 ns tlirough the means of the Temi)erance Society, prompt and 
 infallible means to put an end to the evils ^vhieh liquors have 
 (lone us. 
 
 A fev/ easy calculations will help us to understand the ;ul- 
 vantages that would inevitably arise in the country, in regard 
 only to an economical point of view, by the institution of the 
 Temperance Society. Let us supi)Ose that the hundred tli(ju- 
 sand members of tliis Society Avere in the habit of spending 
 daily, a copper for rum, befo^-e they would join that re- 
 generating Society, they would then spend yeaidy, the sum df 
 three hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred and eighty 
 dollars, which they s[)Ui'e at this moment I If the Temperance 
 Society were to be considered only in t!ic economical point of 
 view, -would it not be sulficient for every true C'hristian who 
 entertains friendly feelings towards his native or adopted cuun- 
 trv, to become a zealous member of tluit Society ? 
 
 It is often asked, in a saUrical way, if it is a great crime to 
 take a glass of liquor from time to time, or in tlie company of 
 friends. To this we reply : there is, in the first place, the sin 
 of drinking for sensual indulgence, which is committed nearly 
 always, or at least, more or less, by the tippler, knowing that 
 intoxicating li([Uors are not fit to [i-eserve his health, nor to 
 sustain his body, and who drinks them only because he likes 
 them ; the second sin connnitted, which is found, if not always 
 at least very often, in the use (even in the moderate use) of 
 strong di'ink, is the useless expense. For instance, a man who 
 could drink every day only three coppers worth of liquor 
 (which would not be quite two glasses) would certainly not be 
 guilty of the sin of drunkenness, such a little quantity being 
 unable to intoxicate him. Nevertheless he would spend 
 every year nine dollars and sevenpence half-penny for that 
 Lquor. Now, we do not fear to s ly, that such an expense is 
 excessive and criminal, among the most of our farmers, for rea- 
 sons that we shall explain hereafter. Thus a man might not sin 
 seriously in the first point of view, thtt is, for excess of drinking, 
 but still woukl be guilty in another view for drinking his two 
 
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TEMrERANCE SOCIETY. 
 
 lOo 
 
 <;r three glasses a clr:y. It would not be so, if God had allowed 
 every one to do whatever he pleased with his wealth; but such 
 is not the case ; and, on the great accountiniir day, we shall have 
 to give an account of a copper badly en) )loyed, us well as a 
 useless word. 
 
 Tiie majority of our country farmers are in debt ; they are, 
 or at least consider thcuisolvcs to be, incapable of sending their 
 children to school ; they cannot encourage a multitude of good 
 actions, which would be wrouglit every day with some help ; 
 they cannot afford the means to settle their children in life, or 
 if they do, it is only after having given a part of their patrimony 
 to rum-sellers. "We are not exaggerating in saying that each of 
 the farmers and English settlers of this coinUry (we only allude 
 to the most sober) has annually spent between lifteen and twenty 
 dollars for liquor, Avliich would amount to the sum of three hun- 
 dred and sixty dollars taken from eaeli one's pnrse in twenty 
 years ; that is to say, more than would bo requisite for a young 
 man wlio is the least industrious to begin for himself. The re- 
 sult is, that in twenty years fifty thousand at least of our youth, 
 belonging to different ranks, have been unable to have an es- 
 tablishment in life, and remained in misery, because their pa- 
 rents have spent their patrimony at the tavern! And if to that, 
 one adds the other expenses caused by liquor, such a- visits, 
 useless journeys, time lost, sickness, repasts, festivals, isic. 8cc. 
 
 Nothing is more certain than that the use of strong drink will 
 stand liigh in the scale of iniquities of many fathers of families, 
 even of those who have never been intoxicated. 
 
 There are two parishes where Temperance Societies of the 
 second order have been instituted, and we were informed by 
 their pastors that there were scarcely any drunkards among tlieir 
 parishioners ; that is to say, that they observed what our far- 
 mers call the partial Temperance (petite Temperance), which 
 is, indeed, easy enough lO observe. Now, in one of those 
 parishes Avhich hardly numbers 1,000 communicants, there 
 were consumed in 1843, 840 gallons of rum, at 2s. Gd. per gal- 
 lon ; 988 gallons of whiskey, at 2s. 7d.; and GO gallons of 
 brandy at 7s. 6d., by whicli we perceive that those farmers, who 
 styled and believed themsclv(!S temperat?, consumed 1,888 gal- 
 lons of ardent spirits, and that they were obliged to give more 
 than a thou&.aid dollars to pay for that quantity, during a year 
 in which a part of the grain wa.i frozen, and another part re- 
 mained under the siiow, without mentioning tlie failure of the 
 potatoe crop, caused by untimely frosts. Tlie very same year 
 the same parish could hardly sustain two schools. * 
 
 * Since that has taken place, it is with plrasnrc that we have to rceonl 
 that one of thi'su tw(j parishes has mursluilk'd itself iiii(U^r tlio hunners of 
 the Tomporanco Society. Ami in ordei- to strentithen the haulable resolu- 
 tions of their oo-parishioners, the most inlluential nieivluints have taken 
 Li solemn and public oath to abandon the tralhc of intoxicating drinks. A 
 nondorful chaiiji;e has already been tlie resnlt of this movt ment. School- 
 liouses have been built : sixty-six pounds have been collected for the pro- 
 nn-iation of the faith, and they are now laying the foundtilions of a beauti- 
 uil L'hurcli. 
 
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 MANUx\.L OF THE 
 
 The other parish numbers ahoiit eighteen hundred coiniiiiuil' 
 cants ; nearly all its inhabitants belong to the partial Tonipe- 
 rancc Society, and we regret to say that they have ^pcnt cl;j;litcen 
 hundred and ninety dollars for strong drinks during the year 
 1843. 
 
 The respectable merchants to whom we feel indebted lor 
 those details, and who have had themselves sold those lifUK^rs, 
 grieve to perceive the want of wisdom of their co-parishuners. 
 to give so much money in the midst of public misery, to ^et a 
 thing so perfectly useless, and even fruitful in evils of all kinds. 
 
 Those two parishes together (they arc separated only by a 
 short distance) have, consequently, spent in one year, the enor- 
 mous sum of two thousand eight hundred dollars for ardent 
 spirits, so that if they had continued to cling to their Tempe- 
 rance Society of pretended moderation, they would have spent, 
 in twenty years, the enormous sum of fifty-seven thousand six 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 "These calculations are well fitted to teach us that if tlic 
 Tempc^rance Society of the second order is not fitted, " as 
 remarked the Very Rev. Pastor of Quebec, at a public meeting, 
 " to reform public morals, and make drunkenness disa^jpear^ 
 neither is it proper to check another crime, perhaps not less 
 dreadful, we mean the bad use of the wealth which we inherit 
 from God." For who would dare say that each of our parishes 
 has the right to spend, for a dangerous and useless thing, in all 
 respects, (in the most part of the circumstances in which they 
 are uscl,) the enormous sums cited above? Nov', we can s:\y 
 that nearly all the parishes and townships of this Province, 
 with the exception of those where the Total Abstinence Society 
 is generally instituted, are incurring as much, and more, ex- 
 penses for lif|uor, than those cited already. After that, shall 
 we be charivod with being extravagant and fallacious in our 
 principles, if we maintain that the heads of families, who ex- 
 pend such sums of money, have not the right to do so ; that 
 they rob their children in a cruel and senseless manner, whose 
 estate they diminish and ruin, and to whom they will leave only 
 examples of a foolish prodigality, of which they will have to 
 render a severe account to God ? 
 
 Shall we be blamed for telling to our fellow-countrymen that 
 God has given them property for a noble use ? That religion 
 and reason unite to warn us that it is time to cease those 
 foolish expenses ? Shall we be coivi^enmed for imploring our 
 fellow-countrymen to employ the littl' left them by Providence 
 to educate their children — to prin'ide for the comfort of their 
 tamilies — to provide the poor Avith nourishment and clothes — to 
 sustain their institutions, and finally, to make use of what they 
 have for the welfare of their country, and the ulorv of God ? 
 
 For the love of his country, let, then, every member of the 
 Temperance Society show himself zealous and courageous to 
 destroy around him and banisli from the parish to whieh ho 
 
TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. 
 
 107 
 
 oeloniTs, all kinds of strong drinks, and to accomplish tliat ob- 
 ject, let him induce every sensible and generous man of his dis- 
 trict to enroll himself under the peaceful banner of the Tempe- 
 rance Society, to whom a small sacrifice will not cost nmch, 
 when he is called to chase from the land one of the greatest 
 curses which Heaven, in its anger, has permitte<l to visit us. 
 
 Yes, by considering things in their true point of view, and 
 weighing tliem as they ought to be, we can say that one of the 
 greatest curses with which God in his just wrath has visited 
 us, has been to allow the introduction among us of the use of 
 strong stimulants. 
 
 Enter into the prison, and put questions to the numerous 
 vietinis it contains ; most of them will tell you that the first 
 step towards the abyss into which they have fallen was taken 
 by the use of strong drinks. 
 
 jNIo^^t of the robbers will tell you that liquor alone is the 
 cause of the thefts they have committed, and that without the 
 boldness which liquor gives, they would have been incapable of 
 committing the crimes of which they are guilty. Penetrate 
 into those dark and damp prisons, and if you encounter a monster 
 who has imlu'ued his hands in the blood of his father, and who, 
 in a few days, will expiate his crime by an ignominous death, 
 isk him how he could have taken upon himself to commit such 
 i wilful nnu'der, and he will answer you, that it would never 
 have happened to him, if he had not been addicted to drinking; 
 that it was under the hellish iniluence of strong drinks lie be- 
 ■•anie a murderer. Every one remembers the gloomy history of 
 those two young men, wdio, not long since, met after a long ab- 
 sence. They had been companions in childhood. They had 
 travelled each on his way, and liad not seen each other for many 
 years ; great then were their joy in meeting. They cordially 
 shook hands. But they v/ere at the door of a tavern : they 
 outer to drink liquors, and celebrate in a worthy manner the 
 festival ; each one shows his politeness, and receives the like 
 from his friend ; the joy increases, the glasses are speedily 
 emptied, and they were soon both intoxicated. Their conver- 
 sation enlivens, a dispute arises between them, during which 
 they get angry, and insult each other without mercy ; the more 
 drunk of the two falls down, the other one strikes liim with his 
 foot on the side of the head, and kills him. 
 
 Shocking tragedy! Another of those dreadful occurrences, at 
 the very mention of which the blood runs cold, arisii^g from the 
 use of intoxicating liquors, has taken place lately. The unfor- 
 tunate victim to the fury of a man, mad with drink, was a wo- 
 man, named Jane Boland. It appears that she was confined on 
 the previous Tuesday of a dead child ; and a witness swore that 
 she confessed that her husband, when in a state of intoxication, 
 on Sunday, came into the room, where she was lying, and struck 
 her with a stick several times across the body. The Coroner's 
 Jury returned the following verdict : " Death produced by blows 
 inllicted by her husband, while in a state of intoxication." 
 
108 
 
 IIANUAL OF THE 
 
 Mr. James McLaren, guardian of the Prison at Quebec, pre- 
 sented us in 1840, witli statistics oi' persons imprisoned during 
 the first nine montlis of that year. Of 1400 imprisonments, 
 more than 1140 had been caused by liquor. The latter part 
 of that gentleman's letter Avas expressed in these remarkable 
 words : " If the Temperance Society was instituted tiiroughout 
 Canada, we should hardly need the use of jails." 
 
 If one is desirous to have an idea of the numberless evils done 
 to Bociet}'' by liquor, he may glance at the two following statis- 
 tics of imprisonments which took place at INIontrcal in 1845 and 
 1846, in wliich those caused by liquor have been made authen- 
 tic : — 
 
 Months. 
 
 Number of 
 Imprisonments. 
 
 (.'auseil by 
 Intemperance. 
 
 UnknoAVTi. 
 
 1 845. — January 
 
 356 
 264 
 273 
 347 
 345 
 550 
 600 
 482 
 451 
 496 
 417 
 369 
 
 158 
 123 
 LS3 
 203 
 400 
 352 
 371 
 226 
 305 
 314 
 271 
 205 
 
 198 
 
 February 
 
 141 
 
 March 
 
 190 
 
 April 
 
 144 
 
 May 
 
 145 
 
 June 
 
 198 
 
 July 
 
 229 
 
 August 
 
 156 
 
 September 
 
 October 
 
 146 
 182 
 
 November 
 
 iJecember 
 
 14G 
 191 
 
 Total 
 
 5,277 
 
 1 3,311 
 
 2,076 
 
 
 
 Arrests made by the Police of the City o!" ]\roHtreal, from the 1st January 
 to the 30th of November, 1846, arisuig from drunkenness. 
 
 : 
 
 
 Picked up drunk in 
 the streets. 
 
 Scandalizing and dis- 
 turbing the peace, in 
 lh(;ir intoxication. 
 
 
 Months. 
 
 
 c 
 
 o 
 
 a 
 
 c 
 
 c 
 o 
 
 u 
 
 • r-t 
 
 o 
 
 
 • 
 
 c 
 o 
 
 i 
 
 
 Toial 
 
 1846. — January 
 
 February 
 
 March 
 
 April 
 
 81 
 75 
 79 
 105 
 128 
 162 
 118 
 137 
 127 
 146 
 114 
 
 38 
 35 
 35 
 32 
 25 
 22 
 22 
 23 
 26 
 20 
 27 
 
 4 
 
 • ■ • 
 
 • • • 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 2 
 2 
 3 
 
 50 
 49 
 64 
 67 
 75 
 85 
 86 
 80 
 95 
 69 
 62 
 
 18 
 11 
 16 
 15 
 16 
 10 
 11 
 12 
 10 
 12 
 15 
 
 1 
 
 • • • 
 
 • • 
 
 1 
 i 
 
 197 
 175 
 204 
 219 
 
 May 
 
 246 
 
 June 
 
 280 
 
 July 
 
 238 
 
 " J 
 
 August 
 
 September... 
 
 October 
 
 IS'ovember... 
 
 265 
 260 
 250 
 218 
 
 Total 
 
 1273 
 
 315 
 
 13 
 
 792 
 
 146 
 
 3 
 
 2542 
 
 
 
 Montreal, Deo. 22, 1846. 
 
 J. WILY, 
 Chief Police Officer. 
 
iKMi'iiirANci: !s<»( iKTr. 
 
 109 
 
 Irninorality iiici-ertscs in ;v rrij^'litl'iil mnniier, in proportion 
 not only to lh(; increase of the po|»ul;itlon, hut also to the au<;- 
 nientiition of tho use of licpiors. 
 
 "We liiivo extracted tlie foHovvinjj; fact from a IMctlical Journal 
 publiahcil in Montreal, and edited by A. llall, Esq., ]\[ I)., and 
 U. L. McDonell, Esq., M. D., No. 2, Vol. II, whicJi aiforda us a 
 new and painful truth. 
 
 Population of the District of Montreal in l.S.*U,....277,r>37 
 
 1844 370,3412 
 
 «( 
 
 {< 
 
 CI 
 
 197 
 175 
 204 
 219 
 246 
 280 
 238 
 265 
 260 
 250 
 218 
 
 Indictments 
 
 In 
 
 1827 
 
 137 
 
 In 
 
 183U 
 
 121 
 
 In 
 1831 
 
 179 
 
 In 
 
 1832 
 
 183 
 
 In 
 
 1833 
 
 379 
 
 " In" 
 
 1S3'J 
 
 419 
 
 ' i",n 
 
 1840 
 
 
 
 ti<j7 
 
 In 
 
 1841 
 
 In 
 1842 
 
 34 •; 
 
 In 
 
 1H4.; 
 
 243 
 
 
 
 The first five years of this j)icturo presents a total of 1090 
 persons against whom the GrandJury found bills of indictnuiit, 
 and the last five, 2,1.'>1. The result of these resean-hes ; roves, 
 then, that while the population at that period has increased in 
 the proportion of 33 per cent, the public crimes have increased 
 in the dreadful proportion of JOO per cent. And no one doubts 
 that this jncomparable and rapid dcinorali/ution is owing to the 
 use of strong drinks. 
 
 But tho following contains things more painful than all that 
 has been ^ aid heretofore. 
 
 What divine or faithful Christian, of whatever rank, could 
 read the following lines, without giving vent to bitter sorrows, 
 without his soul being filled, not «mly with the most profound 
 disgust, but also with horror and implacable hatred again.st 
 strong drinks ! Oh! what is then the strange power of those 
 liq'jors, since they seem to defy him, even in his muet merciful 
 
 goottuess 
 
 The following is an extract of a letter from the Rev. Mr. 
 IJolduc, a yodng and courageous missionary at Colombia, ad- 
 dressed to one of his friends : 
 
 " I apprehend a most deplorable future, so that on hearing 
 
 " last Sunday, Rev. , give a sermon, on that subject, I 
 
 '* felt discouraged and formed the plan of returning to Canada, 
 " in a few years, if things did not take another aspect, in oi'dcr 
 " not to witness the evils which will befall our colony. You 
 " will inquire of me, I presume, my motives for suddenly aban- 
 " donitig the cheering hope I had conceived. Hear it in one 
 '* word: Li([uor ! yes, this poisonous bevei-age, which is manu- 
 " facturcd here, will create more evils than the devil ever cre- 
 " atedj since there were white men in this country, and this in 
 " less than two years. Our warnings and tlueatenings of the 
 " wrath of Heaven are useless, 
 
 " The disorder increases rapidly. Aged travellers, who 
 *' from their infancy, have been addicted to hquor, and who have 
 " been deprived of it for many years, are now so fond of it, that 
 
no 
 
 :.iAM Ai. 01 nil': 
 
 m 
 
 *' ;i ^frt'iit iiuiiiy unionist tlicin, I dare say, AvoiikUcll llicir wivi'.s 
 '* :iii<l cliildrcii to '^v\ :i irlass ol' Ii(|iii)i-." 
 
 If all (if IIS oii^rlit to (litf'st li(|iiors in j)roj)Oif<on to the evil 
 they luive (hnu; us, what limits >hall I put to our liatrcid ai^aiiist 
 them ? Oil Ijeholdlui; the jiublic and privato cahunities, and 
 (•rimes of all kinds which they have eiigenderod wher(3V(!r they 
 have heen used, to what should! not be urged, if not to thoughts 
 ot (Complete annihilation and destruction of these spirituous 
 li(]uors I Had they jiroduced some poud to our C(uintry, it 
 Avould still be. necessary to destroy them, on account of the im- 
 mense dispro[)ortion which is found between the evil and ^jjood 
 they produc(!. l»ut besiih's tlu; numberless evils they cujjjendei-, 
 th(-y arc entiivly fruitless oi' good. It is consefjuently total 
 abstinence, such as j)reaehed by Futher Matthew, that we nuist 
 ;idv(}cute, antl teach by word iind exami>le. The most zealous 
 advocates of moderate drinking cannot refrain from saying, thai 
 a man wdio avoids drinking spirituous li(piors runs no risk ol" 
 being ensnared by them, wdiilst tlu^y arc forced to admit that 
 whoever tastes them can love them, and plainly runs the risk of 
 becoming a drunkard. Now, according to the Avarning of the 
 Holy S|)irit : JIc that loneth danger shall perish in it. JOcel. 
 chap. Ill, V. 27. If I sec ten persons, who drink nioderatelv, 
 of those inebriating drinlcs, I can say, without committing ex- 
 aggeration, that many amongst them being fond of danger shall 
 perish. 
 
 It is impossibh.' at thi ■; moment to advocate other principles 
 than tola! abstinence. I'^ather Matthew, in a letter we had the 
 honor to receive from him, has stigmatized forever the Societies 
 of the second order, saying that, " I have never administcired 
 " the moderation pledge, and T abhor it as leading to Intempe- 
 
 " ranee." 
 
 Since the publication of the first edition of tbe INIanual, most 
 of our contemporaries who advocate the Temperance cause, 
 witli the most enlightened friends of that work, have fully re- 
 cognized that trutli. What do we fear in abstaining totally 
 from strong drinks, and in solieitln<x others to abandon them for 
 the love of Christ! Let no one say: "The sacrifice de- 
 manded is too great and painful. The people are not called 
 upon to practise the most heroical virtue ; this Total Abstinence 
 from strong drink, like contincncy, can only be proposed to a 
 small number." There is most assuredly no analogy between 
 advocating Total Abstinence, from a poisonous beverage, and 
 the preaching of perfect chastity. He Avho Avonld endeavour to 
 bring every one to the practice of this heroical virtue, would be 
 a senseless person ; and if he had sulficient i)Ower as an orator 
 to lead every person into that path, it Avould be prudent to put 
 an end to his doings. He would try to subject every one to 
 a law% which God desires only to be followed by a small number. 
 
 "It Avould cause calamities and frightful crimes to spread over 
 the land. What a special grace does not a person recjuire to 
 
TJ.MPKUANi r. St»( IKTK 
 
 Jll 
 
 l»o porf^'ctly clin.^lc ! in onirr tliat tins vlrfnc, which niisRS 
 mail to an ((jiniljty A\ilh tlio aii'jri'l, niiy he jiractispd in \\< 
 [MM-fection, it rccinircs :i conliniial iuir:i('h> IVoni the Ahnicrhty. 
 The. frail heart ct" man, whc.-n .snrronmhd by all the scdiu^tions 
 of tluMvorld, would soon lose its hri.ihtnc.S!!, if deprived (jf the 
 constant help of God." 
 
 But, doe.s it rcqnire, av(« ask, an r-xtnionlinary and |)rivilrn-(.(l 
 p:raee, for a man l(j ahstaln, all his iifi linic, froindrinkino- ardent 
 spirits ? Avhieli do him no L;;ood, and winch sooner or Inter may 
 oau.se desolati(m and ruin to sju-inir up in his familc >«'o, a 
 gi)od Cln-istian only rccjuircs an ordinaiy grace, ami {.» U-.w m 
 mind Cla'i.<t'.s sulfcriu'.f.s v.dien ijall and vinc^'ai' wrvr </]\('t\ liim 
 to drink. 
 
 Thv..'c is, we repeat, no analojiy between preaehiuL^ chastitv 
 to the people, or some other evangelical virtue, and inviting 
 them to abstain from those nefarious diinks wlueh are sent them 
 by the eolored men of America, or distilled in Canada. Such 
 is the reason why Father JMatthew, on calling upon his fellow- 
 countrymen and brethren to abstain from intoxicatlu" drinks, 
 which proved to be injurious to them, was listened to with re- 
 spect. If, like some heretics of old, he had considered conjugal 
 chastity a crime, and I'oi'bidden matrimony, the Catholic Chundi 
 would have anathematized him. Hut he a'!\ocated no such silly 
 princii)les. lie has [)lanle(l a ti-ee A\hich (Jod has blessi-d : Six 
 millions of men have tasted its fruits, and have found them de- 
 licious; entire people have .sheltered themselves under that tree, 
 whose roots cover tli(>. tarth. but wlu)se head is in Heaven ; 
 they have found there, refreshment, peace, liappiness, and the 
 life which they before needed. 
 
 In working for the love of our brethren and children — for 
 the love of our conntiy — for the love of our Saviour, we work 
 for a holy and noble cause. The AhiUghty will help ns. 
 Ardent spirits have great and [)owerful adversaries. We be- 
 hoUl everywhere genei'ous men doing tlieir utmost to destroy 
 tlie detestable fi(Mid. i^ct us lislen, and we Avill Iienr A'(»iccs 
 in Heaven, on earth, and in he!!, accusing and <'ui'.-ing tJH'm, 
 and calling upon ns to destroy them. Tliey are cursed by 
 myriads of reprobates, A\h(jm they ha\e dashed into the eter- 
 nal abyss : th(;y are cursed hy thoii-ands of women, whom they 
 Lave cost a life of tears and sorrows : they ai'e cursed by a host 
 of children, wdiom they have deprived oi the wealth of their 
 ancestors and reduced to extreme nnsery. 
 
 And if Jesus Christ has cm'sed the sterile fig tree b(^cans(! it 
 produced no fruit, ought not he to detest and curse liquor, wliich 
 lias wrested from him thousands of souls wdiom he had saved 
 at the price of his blood. 
 
 For i\^, prostrated at the feet of every ministcj' of Christ, of 
 whom we are the most umvortliy — at the i'eet of every father 
 of a family — of each Christian of this country, although hum- 
 ble may be the social position assigned them by Pj'ovidence. we 
 
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 MANUAL OK THE 
 
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 i ii 
 
 implore thorn to wnpfc war ngainst tlint terrible enemy of our 
 souls and bodies. Let us not speak among us of moderation in 
 the use of those detestable and iiiebriatinj? drinks ; let us en- 
 tertain our people, friends and brethren, with the langun{ii;e of 
 truth ; hi us trll them frankly, (hat those liquors are not a 
 bcvcrajri" given to mail by (}(»d lur his conunon use, but that 
 they lire a destructive [joison, and an inveiiticm of an original 
 cupidity, wliich has been favoured by our sensual api)etites. 
 And if an objector remaiks, *' If licpiors are so injurious, how 
 is it that snch a great mniiber who have iiiiide use of them have 
 lived longer than the eoiiimou run of life!'" let us answir him, 
 "The lire spreading, in a forest, destroys, burnsand ransacks every 
 thing. Nevertheless there are always a few trees remaining 
 which esenpe its fury, either on account of the natural firmness 
 of the bark Avhich covers them, or of other circumstances. 
 AVhiist the earth groans under the fall of the pine and cedar 
 trees, which have braved for a long time the tempest and thun- 
 der, and which fall eonsumcd by the flame, the oak and ma[)le 
 trees have only lost a few branches and leaves, perhaps." Such 
 is the ease with men attacked by the conilagration of ardent 
 spirits, which are in use among us ; they abridge thi; life of 
 thousands of unfortunates, but some one, whose ])hysical fi>rco 
 and constitution are stronger, resists a longer period; but, sooner 
 or later, fall, under its baneful influence. How otherwise shouM 
 we apply the word modoation in tlic daily use of a tiling which 
 is declared to be by the most learned men, at all times, hurt- 
 ful and useless? According to our opinion, the least use 
 of them is bad, and the great use a crime oftentimes long con- 
 tinued and frightful. 
 
 Our misfortune now is, having adopted for our watchword 
 "Moderation," whilst it should have been " Annihilation!" 
 
 " If thy right eye," says Jesus Christ, "cause thee to offend, 
 " pluck it out, and cast it from thee ; and if thy right hand 
 "cause thee to ott'end, cut it off, and cast it from theo." 
 
 He tloes not say, use them nmderately. No ; but it is de- 
 sirous that we should cut off that eye, hand, and foot. Now, 
 those words are not addressed to any particular individual only, 
 but to the whole community at large. AVe perceive, then, that 
 it is not only the individual who should totally abstain from the 
 things which lead him to sin, but it is the duty of the entire 
 Society to destroy whatever is an object of sin, and draws 
 thereby upon us the chastisement of Heaven. 
 
 If we dare not walk in the same path with the Temperance 
 Apostle of Ireland ; if we have not the courage to take the 
 total abstinence pledge ; if we content ourselves only with what 
 is called the moderate use of liquor, what will be the n^sult ? 
 The prodigious efforts most assuredly which are made to destroy 
 drunkenness, will be crowned with some success; but the source 
 of the evil will remain, the evil tree will lose some of its 
 braiK^hes, but will soon grow up, covering the land once more 
 with misery and wretchedness. 
 
 I 
 
TKMrCRANCIi SOCIKXT. 
 
 li:{ 
 
 Tlio pretended modcrntc use of thoso drinks, whicli is only 
 &i\ apprentieeihip in drunkenness, will etiusc u terrible re-nction, 
 whieh nothing will bo able to resist. It will be like the npnrk, 
 whieh has been neglected after the conflagration, and which re- 
 kindles u more dreadful one. 
 
 It will be like the torrent, which, although f^topped for some 
 time in its course, overflows the banks and drags every thing 
 along in its devastating waves. The following memorable, 
 words of the highly influential Pastor of Quebec, the Very Hev. 
 Mr. Jlaillargeon, atldressed to his parishioners, are replete with 
 noble feelings, and evince a heart glowing with charity towards 
 his brethren : " Beloved brethren," said th(» Uev. rientleman 
 one day, in addressing his congregation, "I am so impressed 
 ** with sentiments of awe on behohling the dreadful evils that 
 " ardent spirits are causing among you, and in the midst of 
 " thousands of families ; I am so fully convinced that they are 
 *• useless to every one ; that if to banish them iVom society, I 
 *' were asked by the Almighty the sacrifice of v\\y life, 1 would 
 " submit to it with joy." Those sublime words ought to re- 
 main impressed in the heart of each member of the 'J'emperance 
 Society. 
 
 They teach us better than all discourses with what zeal we 
 ought to discountenance the use of strong drinks, and with what 
 unshaken fidelity we ought to respect the pledge we have taken, 
 to abstain^ for the love of our bref/tren, our coutitrT/, and our 
 God. 
 
 PINTS. 
 
Tj^NREGISTEREI) according to the Act of the Provincial Lcgisla- 
 -^ ture, in the year of Our Lord one thousand oiglit hundred and 
 forty-seven, by the Rev. C. Chimuly, at the Registrar'!! Office of the 
 Province of Canada. 
 
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