CONTRASTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1770, 18 February 1888, Page 2

CONTRASTS.

The Rev Marshall Randlea' m a Speech rcoeutly delivered at Manchester gave an admirable* epitome of the modern argu* iubd > t)t total anatlbenoe, and at the same tme irtw a'i tffe tlve contract between ».ae p sltion t*k<m op f rty or fifty year* go and mat of tu-d>»y The old and nwic argument was tha ib'igation on every Onristiau to abstain •• for the take of o there." Brink was genet'&My regarded as '•» good crea u-e of Goi," bat ltd uff-iots tfer<j so ruinous that i( was held 0 irutiana bhoal l *bata n for ix tuple's ske Chi. atvum nt, Mr Handle* said, w*« B-iaad a* c er— ibe prinoipte of it wu found id St P*u.'« deo <*r«*tioi : •« Where* .ore, i< ui^ft n*ke ray nrorl.ei" to offend, I I «i.l eat uu fl an wti Its th« w. rid atanduth, 1 <BY I uuko ivy noh<r to ff nn." There h^id oeau a g-H#t »iv»uoe iv the ••' pyilo* i.rgy. of tde qaaouciu " F »m<irly it wai Held to be a ris <tobd an ahaiain »r All :nat h^d be«» 0< ng -d. j aoiuu | .o Irvei* tig«t>oa bad t/uuj h»t aloi/'iil nraa 1 uei her food uor tudi," and its reoim* mmiUtl a «o a r«yer«*ge b*d therefore Science uo* phced algjhot amongst other poisons at a medicine, and evon there ica rbpui«ii.-n «a« diminishing day by day last, al of prono >ting longa* my, the asau ai»oe companies' statistic! showed laount at»oly ih*c atoahol thor> tened life, and rot*l libuiaeaod prolonged it The r» ci ft ice lower for VocalaOßtainarj, aid this •bo*ad the estimate of tne praouoi formed by abratrd man of baai(»«88, wbi'seoi j ot was fr>mtke money, filiuo^i ho v my ».»a now ou tha-alde of to'til ab»ttQ«ji od, a* proved by tae un»s--naiUbiß »'.aMatlo» <>f ->ho lata WillUin Bt»yl s The £13J UOO 000 expended aireo y aud indu.ouy oa drink. Impose l.n d m.het than uxriohjd the country ; w Bie«, expHudud on ordinary i*.um<tl luauatridß, it iruaM soon find full w> k for bli Turatag to the legislative aspeo of the temperanoe qaaatlou, Mr Ka.idlesrrfered to the atxle cry, 'You oaunot m<»ku me a sober by 4.0t ofParlia* mtit " de panted out tmt thingh that nvgfu be to eume ex cut true, yet by Aot ot Parliament wo cnuld prevent mm from aeti. ni drauk* W erever prohibUlnn ot tbo irnffl] had been o^med <-at ( the aobaeiy aud the geuetai proa.erity "of tae p* p«» h«d oee/i • n >>m .Q.)y locreiead I . out ua.e i«r Maji>iy'B : Jjig4s msai* fued o<i thu qii^s iO.i * great advadC6. T.iry were pr*o ia*liy unani nous m attrloq tug ihd i ult of the crime of the country to dnuk. Mr Raniles a>id xhvao o >n»ideranouß led to t*o irresistible o luouai' na — tbe moral argument, and also tne physical argument, pointed to total abstiueuoe as » OarittUn duty. The Bib;e, pbystolugioil soienoe, political eo.momy, the deliverances of the jad^ea oonoerLing me relation of dnnic and otim •, ail ootnWned to prove the prmoiplea u» iut*l abstluence aouud aud trae. la theie days a Chris tan mau is "cooped up" o lotal absiinenoe, he has leei exoase than ever for stoppin« short of it, and he pus turn o f a m .derate drinker la logically much more v ffi nit to defend than it was twtjot.y-tive ye«ri aince. la oonotu^ion, Mr Raudeß ur^ed the need for renewed ene gy aud vigor, for the cvi» wrought w«a faarful, and ihe adversary wai strong ; the time f <r a halting, hesitating polioy bad gone. We on jht as a Ohueon to " pu«h od tb« oattle, ' to press the growing d<-nuuu that Luo&l Op tun be gran ed and iffectivel? sppitud, and to eiekto bring to I aspaedy ena t > he shameless driok-traffia with n.ire ro « (L-url oUaeca.)