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Title: The temperance tales : twenty-one thrilling stories : founded on fact
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Sargent, Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius), 1786-1867
Subjects: Temperance
Publisher: Boston : N. Broughton Jr.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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sand prosperous gales ; anticipating the speedy completion of theirschemes of pleasure or of profit, — some calculating, with unerringcertainty, upon the fortunate consummation of their commercialprojects, — others elate with the delightful assurance of ere longeraijracing their friends, their parents, their wives, their husbands.How solemn, how awful the contrast! The angel of death waseven then the companion of thtir melancholy way, ready, at theappointed moment, to whisper in their ears, — There is no work,nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thougoest. Let us, then, be wise, while we may profit by our wisdom.We are all upon the voyage of life, and shall, ere long, enter uponthe broad waters of eternity. — Let each one gird on the only life-preserver, which can sustain him in every trial, — the whole armorof righteousness upon the right hand and upon the left, remember-ing that HE WHO TRUSTS IN JeSUS IS SAFE EVEN AMID THE P&RILM€»* THS gEA !
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AS A MEDICINE. Nothin», »hcrl of its entii-e annihilation, can be more acceptable to the enemiet of the ten)peraBe#reform, than the inconsistencies of its friends. The opponents of this righteoua enterprise axeforever on the alert, to detect the sli-hte.st deviation, on the part of its advocates, in any particular,however insi^ificanl it may be. The rum-dealer, who carries his espionage to the very cellars ofthe friends oflemperance, should he there discover a solitary bottle of light French wine, conclude*its proprietor to be a hypocritical partaker of the means of drunkenness, as surely as the over-tealous rinuoso infers a mastodon from every grinder that he finds. We object not to a good word, in behalf ol temperance, from the wine-drinker himself; though itunquestionably acquires additional influence, when uttered by a cold-water man. No apparentinconsistency has been more frequently trumpeted abroad, by the enemies, and occasionally by thefriends of temperance, than the conduct

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