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 titious excellencies attached to it, and supporting by their example and influence an endless train of tempting ceremonies, customs, and practices, have constituted themselves head-masters in the school of drunkenness, and he threw the shield of his protection over all parents, who, by associating the use of distilled spirits with hospitality and kindness, and love, and manhood, and a thousand fascinations, train, for coming generations, degraded pestilential drunkards.

Till the truth of the following proposition's has been established I must contend as heretofore (I trust in the spirit of love) that--

1st. Were distilled spirits only wine in a higher degree of strength, their use in present circumstances would be wholly inexpedient.

2nd. Distilled spirits are a different substance from wine, and the use of the latter furnishes no warrant for that of the former. Distilled spirits are wholly disqualified from being used as a substitute for wine.

3rd. Moderate spirit-drinkers are the chief agents in promoting and perpetuating drunkenness.

4th. Every man for his own sake, as well as for that of his neighbours, should, while in health, let ardent spirits alone.

5th. In the abstinence of the temperate from distilled spirits there is a safe and efficacious preventative of all the drunkenness and nameless ills to which distilled spirits give birth.

6th. The union of the temperate for giving