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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TEMPERANCE IN RELATION TO THE YOUNG. HEEE was an amiable individual, of whom we' have all read, who was wont to spend many of his days in wild encounters with imaginary rriants, who were the creatures of his brain, and who most frequently turned out to be harmless and stationary windmills or other equally inoffensive objects. Temperance workers have often been pelted with the epithet “ Quixotic,” and have been accused of idly beating the air, imagining evils that never existed, and tabulating statistics as fantastic as the chimeras of the old knight’s fancy. At last the tables are turned, and the nation is awake to the deadly evil in her midst, which she has been sleepily nursing and drowsily encouraging, and now, from the seats of learning, the abbeys and cathedrals, the judge’s bench and the phy- sician’s chair, echo and re-echo the temperance truths that have been struggling onward more than half a century with the pertinacity of truth and the dauntless courage of conviction in face of reviling and persecution, of misunderstanding and coldness.