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 There may be excess, where there is no discovery of it; it is well for those who abhor the former as much as they would dread the latter. To them conscience is a better guide than a thousand rules. Every one knows when he has quenched his thirst, diluted his food, refreshed his spirits; what does a man want more? "He claims a cheerful glass in addition." We are jealous of that cheerful glass; we fear it will prove one too many; and such assuredly it is, when it becomes questionable to a man's own mind, whether he is intoxicated or still sober.

Let him that would guard against all approaches of this habit, consider the evils which attend it.

Excessive Drinking is imprudent. It brings dimness and decay over the faculties of the soul; it has made the rich poor, and the condition of the poor intolerable; it robs a man of his real friends, and gathers round him designing knaves, and empty fools; it destroys the taste for innocent and solid pleasure; it arms reflection with a sting; it sows the seed of innumerable disorders; it has brought millions to a premature grave.

Excessive Drinking is sinful. Usually it suspends the exercise of sound reason, and