Bioletti Pamphlet Collection on Temperance, Volume 61830 |
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... effects of this flood of intoxicating liquor , drank in the State , your Committee can present no adequate report . Just reports may be made of dollars and cents , but not of human suffering , crime , and pollu- tion . If , as has been ...
... effects of this flood of intoxicating liquor , drank in the State , your Committee can present no adequate report . Just reports may be made of dollars and cents , but not of human suffering , crime , and pollu- tion . If , as has been ...
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... effect . The general results of these efforts have been such as call for the most lively gratitude to Almighty God , who has remembered us in mer- cy . Your Committee , in answer to a request for information , issued in a Temperance ...
... effect . The general results of these efforts have been such as call for the most lively gratitude to Almighty God , who has remembered us in mer- cy . Your Committee , in answer to a request for information , issued in a Temperance ...
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... effect , public opinion has , to a considerable extent , accom- plished . This most pernicious practice , a prime cause of drunkenness in the land , is extensively abolished . And many merchants , who felt themselves compelled to it ...
... effect , public opinion has , to a considerable extent , accom- plished . This most pernicious practice , a prime cause of drunkenness in the land , is extensively abolished . And many merchants , who felt themselves compelled to it ...
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... effect on the mind , ) and that business conducted in this country , on the strict principle of abstinence , will , with common industry and ap- * Judge Daggett . + Mr. James Brewster . plication , and the blessing of Providence , ever ...
... effect on the mind , ) and that business conducted in this country , on the strict principle of abstinence , will , with common industry and ap- * Judge Daggett . + Mr. James Brewster . plication , and the blessing of Providence , ever ...
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... effects in lessening angry strife , litigation and crime are in ma- by cases distinctly visible . A member of the bar states , that in a section of the State where the Temperance reformation first commenced , be has not known a case of ...
... effects in lessening angry strife , litigation and crime are in ma- by cases distinctly visible . A member of the bar states , that in a section of the State where the Temperance reformation first commenced , be has not known a case of ...
Common terms and phrases
abstinence alcohol American Temperance Society ANNUAL REPORT appetite ardent spirits auxiliaries beverage blessed Christian churches cider citizens Congregational Church Connecticut Temperance Union County crime distilleries Doct dram dram-seller dram-shop drunkards drunkenness duty East Hartford efforts evil Executive Committee fact families females friends of temperance grog-shops Hartford Hartford County Haven high license hope hundred Increase influence intemperance interest intoxicating drinks intoxicating liquors JOHN COTTON SMITH labor Litchfield County males MARTHA WASHINGTON meetings ment moral nation officers opinion organized pastors paupers perance persons pledge poison present President principle prohibition public houses religion Resolved retailers ruin Sabbath saloons Secretary sell shops soul strong drink taverns temperance cause temperance organizations Temperance reformation Temperance Society temperance store thing tion total abstinence town traffic Treasurer vice vote Windham County wine Yale College young youth
Popular passages
Page 15 - If an ox gore a man or a woman that they die, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten ; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it
Page 15 - be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shall thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not; when shall I awake ? I will seek it yet again.
Page 16 - He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. Arise. O Lord ; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God ? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. IN the
Page 15 - color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women ; and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Yea, thou shah be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Page 11 - Avoid it; pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away." " Now," said John, " you see my orders forbid me going •with you. They are God's orders, and by his help I don't mean to break them.
Page 16 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, But that scaffold sways the future, And, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God, within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own.
Page 16 - an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil. Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. Woo to him that
Page 22 - Truths of all others the most awful and interesting are too often considered as so true that th'ey lose the power of truth, and lie bedridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
Page 10 - Look not thon upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a
Page 15 - 21. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.