Drinking amongst women / By Miss Agnes E. Slack (General Hon. Secretary World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union ; Hon. Secretary N.B.W.T.A.).

  • Agnes Elizabeth Slack
Date:
[between 1876 and 1896?]
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Credit: Drinking amongst women / By Miss Agnes E. Slack (General Hon. Secretary World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union ; Hon. Secretary N.B.W.T.A.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deadly poison instead of a healing medicine, the child will be saved no physical pang—no danger to health or life, because of the excel- lence of the mother’s intentions, ‘“ Whatsoever a man soweth, ¢hat shall he also reap.” What- soever a nation or society soweth that also shall it reap. The whole of that tremendous mass of sin and folly and misery which our drinking customs have brought upon us is the product of false teaching, erroneous beliefs, weak self-indulgence. And our experience of the effects of the general use of alcohol is identical with the experience of the race. In all parts of the world—throughout all ages known to history—the habitual beverage-use of alcoholic liquors has been accompanied by just such miseries as those from which we suffer to-day. But our fathers erred in this matter mainly through ignorance. We have no such excuse. And if we continue in the same dangerous path, we shall do so in spite of knowledge. We now know that there is no need for the maintenance of our drinking cus- toms. This our fathers and grandfathers did not know. They believed that the use of alcohol was essential to health. We know that
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