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17 If you would get rid of your money without knowing how, be a drunkard ; and it will vanish insensibly.

If you would have no other resouree when past labour but a workhouse, be a drunkard ; and you will be uuable to provide any.

If you are determined to expel all domestic harmony from your house, be a drunkard ; and discord, with all her train, will soon enter.

If you would be always under strong suspicion, be a drunkard ; for, little as you think it, all agree that those who steal from themselves and families will rob others.

If you would be reduced to the necessity of shunning your creditors, be a drunkard ; and you will soon have reason to prefer the bye paths to the publie streets.

If you like the amusements of a court of conscience, be a drunkard ; and you may be often gratified.

If you would be a dead weight to the community, and "cumber the ground," be a drunkard ; for that will render you houseless, helpless, burdensome, and expensive.

If yon would be a nuisance, be a drunkard ; for the reproach of a drunkard is like that of a dunghill.

If you would be odious to your family and friends, be a drunkard ; and you will soon be more than disagreeable.

If you would be a pest to society, be a drunkard ; and you will be avoided as infeetious.

If you dread reformation of your faults, be a drunkard ; and yon will be impervious to all admonition.

If you would smash windows, break the peace, get your bones broken, tumble under earts and horses, and be locked up in watch houses, be a drunkard ; and it will be strange if you do not succeed.

Finally, if yon are determined to be utterly destroyed in estate, body, and soul, be a drunkard ; and you will soon know that it is impossible to adopt a more effectual means to accomplish your-END.

Drunkenness expels reason-drowns the memory-defaees beauty-diminishes strength-inflames the blood-causes internal, external, and incurable wounds-is a witch to the senses, a devil to the soul, a thief to the purse—the beggar's companion, a wife's wo, and children's sorrow — makes a strong man weak, and a wise man a fool. He is worse than a heast, and is a self-murderer, who drinks to others' good health, and robs himself of his own.