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... human suffering , crime , and pollu- tion . If , as has been calculated , one out of every forty in the most temperate portions of New - England , was a confirmed drunkard , Connecticut , allow- ing her to be that portion , had 6,881 ...
... human suffering , crime , and pollu- tion . If , as has been calculated , one out of every forty in the most temperate portions of New - England , was a confirmed drunkard , Connecticut , allow- ing her to be that portion , had 6,881 ...
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... humanity , patriotism , and religion of our citizens . For this purpose your Committee designed to employ a General Agent for the State ; but as they had no funds they have been utterly unable to do it . They received , however ...
... humanity , patriotism , and religion of our citizens . For this purpose your Committee designed to employ a General Agent for the State ; but as they had no funds they have been utterly unable to do it . They received , however ...
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... humanity say to us , Onward . To no time - serving , waiting Much remains to be policy may we give place , no , not for an hour . done , and what we do , needs to be done quickly . Drunkards are fast falling around us into eternity . A ...
... humanity say to us , Onward . To no time - serving , waiting Much remains to be policy may we give place , no , not for an hour . done , and what we do , needs to be done quickly . Drunkards are fast falling around us into eternity . A ...
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... humanity and religion , in every rank , sex , and condition of life to give without delay , his pledge of entire abstinence from an article which in all circumstances of health does him no good -- which is the bane of our country , and ...
... humanity and religion , in every rank , sex , and condition of life to give without delay , his pledge of entire abstinence from an article which in all circumstances of health does him no good -- which is the bane of our country , and ...
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... with suspicion and unbelief upon all that is doing for the amelioration of the condition of the human race . HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY . THE CONNECTICUT TEMPERANCE SOCIETY , Ir would be very surprising if in the following Report...
... with suspicion and unbelief upon all that is doing for the amelioration of the condition of the human race . HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY . THE CONNECTICUT TEMPERANCE SOCIETY , Ir would be very surprising if in the following Report...
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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.