TEMPERANCE.
The Rev, John Hall cf New Turk, WTites; —lf any one desires to know what "intelligent and consistent temperance " means, the reply is : Such a personal attitude towards strong drink, in practice, as is consistent with good morals,, with truth, and with a mr.n's avowed opinions ; and such as is defensible by scripture and reason. It was intended to exclude rant, cant, ignorance, dogmatism, the petty selfishness that trades on temperance reform, and the honest or dishonest blundering which makes the reform a religion. It is not "intelligent and consistent temperance" to impute base motives, to employ abusive language against honest men, even if they are not total abstainers ; to settle nice and still disputed questions in Hebrew, in chemistry, in physiology, in language which tho "great world outside" takes as proof that the speakers are under-educated, to rest a good cause on doubtful when it can be suslaiued on assured ground, or to strike as vehemently and passionately at fellow-laborers on the right and left as at iho common enemy in front.
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1210, 11 September 1874, Page 3
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174TEMPERANCE. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1210, 11 September 1874, Page 3
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