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 United States, describing in the strongest terms the reformation which Temperance Societies have produced. I have before me also reports of the American Sunday School Union, Home Mission Society, Seaman’s Friend Society, with the minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and a number of sermons and other publications ; and in every one of these Temperance Societies are spoken of as deservedly ranking among the best blessings which a kind providence ever conferred upon the new world. Though little inclined to place implicit confidence in any man or body of men, I should find it hard to believe that the General Assembly of the United States, consisting of 1,600 ministers, were blinded by Anti-christian delusion, when at their meetings in two successive years they recommended to all the people under their charge entire abstinence from distilled spirits and pledged themselves to set the example ; and I should find it still harder to believe that God would so bless a work of the devil, as to make Temperance Societies for three years productive of a reformation which in many respects stands unparalleled in the history of the world. The abolition of the slave-trade is deservedly considered the glory of modern times; yet neither in the evils to be removed, in the opposition and difficulties to be encountered, nor in the amount of good done, is the abolition of the slave trade to be once named in comparison with the temperance reformation. I ask, then, in