Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

Date:
[1874?]
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Credit: Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    <3 DOCTORS AND BRANDY. terrible disease which is sapping the vitals of the nation’s power, and sending hundreds from the great working classes, the flower of England’s strength, annually into drunkards’ graves. We, the clergy of St. Mary’s, have become tee- totalers, not as for a moment abandoning the conviction that moderation in all things is the highest line in every community of Christians, but as adapting our- selves to circumstances which are wholly exceptional, and which, therefore, call for exceptional remedies. There are hundreds whose only chance of rescue from this soul-and-body-destroying vice lies in total absti- nence, and it is in order to shield, aid, aud encourage these weaker ones, if by any means we may save some, that we have become total abstainers, and God has hitherto abundantly blessed our effort. But it is, at the same time, well that we should also possess some physiological knowledge upon the subject in order to be able to combat the fallacy that the use of alcoholic beverages, however pleasant they may be to all, and morally harmless to many, are conducive to health and strength—whereas it is a fact, supported by the testimony of scores of medical men, that alcoholic drinks no more sustain flagging strength than the whip sustains the weary horse; and as the excellent doctor has seen fit to perform a post mortem upon my defunct speech at Exeter Hall, and has triumphantly elicited the offending sentence, “ Men die because doctors give them brandy,” I am prepared to stand by the words, though, separated from the context, they hardly repre- sent accurately either what I said or intended to convey.
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