CARDINAL MANNING ON DRUNKENNESS.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 97, 20 November 1878, Page 3

CARDINAL MANNING ON DRUNKENNESS.

Speaking at Middlesbnrough Cardinal Manning said :—Drunkenness Avas not

tone sin alone. So lone; as a man’s brain '-y>as clear his conscience was watchful, and his will was strong, and moreover Ins passions were kept under. The tempter knew well enough that to put a t -mutation of some great crime before a sober man would be to scare him just as an unskilful fowler frightened the birds whHi lie would take, losing his prey by bis waif of skill; so the tempter, who was always on the watch, would not tempt a sober man until he could make his brain reel, his conscience grow dull, and In's will turn weak, and set his passions on fire, and then there was not one of God’s commandments that that man might not Iretijf, an I no sin that a man could com-

mit of which lint man might not be guiity. Therefore, when he said drunkenness was not one >1 :i only, lie meant that a drunken man was capable of committing aU sins ; and he would go further. Drunkenness did not destroy one soul alone, hut it spread havoc on every side 'ike wildfire. A drunken father would wre k a whole household ; a drunken mother, if possible, was still worse, and a drunken family in. a neighborhood would make their neighbors drunken, or at least tempt them to do the same. They knew that a little leaven leavened the wh'd • lump, and that when evil once began it spread like a circle in the water, so°that he might say with truth that one drunken man or woman was the beginning of the wreck and the ruin of he knew not how many sou s besides.