TEMPERANCE ORATORY.
The following forwarded to uaiwithsii we should publish strong intends to offer a sniall prize to the scholar at any district school who is able, at the annual examination, to recite the theme best:— THE EFFECTS OP KRUKKEimESS'.
Drunkenness is the curse of the world, and •,the fruitful sqarce of most of _tbeiaV:td:Whi'ch? flesh is heir. It expels reason, diminishes strength, defaces beauty, corrupts the blood, inflames the liver, fills the hospitals, lunatic asylums, poorhouses "and gaols, debases mankind below therleyel of the brute, causes internal diseases, . external and - incurable.Wounds,.softens the brain, weakens the eye-, sight, destroys the appetite,., debilitates the 'entire system, and brings on. premature and decrepit old age, introduces poverty, where abundance, should prevail, and: and contention where.ldve ahd'happihess should reigns-is, in .fact, the grim skeleton which: stalks frequentlyinhobJervecT hi many homesi. which wouid otherwise be abodes of comfort and content.
, Drunkenness is a.thief tg the pocket, sL deSer"of the sane, a beggar's: companion, : a wife's woe, and children's and he' who drinks good - healthto; otherV; robs himof his own. Seripturejhosti emphatically declares .that .no drurtkard shall have-any inheritanice'm the kingdom pi en.. ■.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 321, 23 April 1875, Page 2
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188TEMPERANCE ORATORY. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 321, 23 April 1875, Page 2
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