The temperance tales : twenty-one thrilling stories : founded on fact . of total abstinence in breaking that fatal spell, which canbend down the master-spirits of the age in the very dust of the graduated process, nothing but total abandonment could haiewrought this signal reformation. No more forcible evidence can be supplied of the confidence,reposed in Mr. Burley, by the friends of temperance, than the fact,that two years ago he was requested to deliver an address, before thetemperance society, in the town in which he resides. He acceptedthe invitation ; and few, who listened to hi
The temperance tales : twenty-one thrilling stories : founded on fact . of total abstinence in breaking that fatal spell, which canbend down the master-spirits of the age in the very dust of the graduated process, nothing but total abandonment could haiewrought this signal reformation. No more forcible evidence can be supplied of the confidence,reposed in Mr. Burley, by the friends of temperance, than the fact,that two years ago he was requested to deliver an address, before thetemperance society, in the town in which he resides. He acceptedthe invitation ; and few, who listened to his remarks, will ever forg«tthem. He said, that he was entirely willing to make a sacrifice ofhis own feelings, for the sake of his fellow-man. He proceeded,though he was frequently interrupted by his own emotion, to givethe history of his own fall and restoration. There was not a dryeye in the assembly. Mr. Burley is still living, a consistent cold-water man. He haalived down an evil name ; and however unworthy and degraded htmay have been, he is now right FRITZ HAZELL. FHITZ HAZELL. H«w can it lie possikle, »ay some of our worthy friends, who have not thoroughly studied that n•ilKoly chapter, in the volume of human misery, which treats of drunkenness in all lU shape* ibcw cat il te possible, thai so many tales can be written upon a topic, which has, long since, tfkthe nap if novelty, ami become as threadbare as a castaway garment? The means of drunkennes*,which have been desiderata, in every age and nation of the earth, are infinite ; the moditicationt Mdrunkenness are infinite ; and the eflects of drunkenness are infinite. Nothing is required, but tiladditional turn of the great moral kaleidoscope, the tithe of a hair, and we have a new configuraticnof sin and misery. To-day, drunkenness, produced by rum, prostrates some wretcled outcast, in «gutter; to-morrow, drunkenness on cosily wine, or, in more fashionable parlance, »a little indul-gence, gives ru u
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