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deal frankly on an occasion like the present. I am a stranger, seeking not yours, but you. Why have you tolerated such nuisances as grog-shops in your community? You would hunt down the wolf which destroys your fold immediately; you would band against the robber who was prowling around your dwelling; you would unite against the man who should murder in cool blood an inoffensive citizen; but you have allowed this work of death to roll on unshackled, and the fountains of it to belch forth its waters of desolation unstayed. You are shocked at the mention of the word murder, but I ask if the fraternity of rum-sellers had never furnished this man with intoxicating drinks, but had waited until the day he died, and then by steel had taken his life, would not this have been preferable both for himself and family, and also the community? Yet, had you sat quietly by and seen them bent upon their murderous work, and had not interfered, would you excuse yourself from guilt? and are you now innocent?

I am told that a very short time since, this man struggled for redemption. Why did he not escape? One word answers this question: he found a grog-shop, and it was a temptation too powerful to resist. Had it not been for this, he to-day might have been in our midst. Who planted that tree of death? who countenanced it? who has tolerated it? Of such, God asks, Where is thy brother? Be assured this is a fearful question; it must be met.

You doubtless have felt that something ought to be done, but have you set your face irrespective of friend or foe, to shut down this gate of death? Weigh well the relation you sustain to this event, and close not your eyes or your

hearts to the fact, that the very condition of society implies that we are each under obligation to do all we can for the the other's welfare; and that we are not doing our duty, while we silently allow our brother to suffer wrong, while we permit his life, his happiness, his good, to be wrested from him, or destroyed by those who have no respect for God's laws or man's sufferings, if they stand in competition with their unhallowed, sordid love of gain.

This occurrence will long be remembered by the inhabitants of this community, and it is to be hoped it will be overruled for your general good, I have endeavored, at the earnest solicitation of these friends, to place before you the guilt of this transaction, and if I have in any degree been successful, may it be sanctioned by the ever blessed Spirit! You have for a long time been sowing the seed; you are now beginning to reap the harvest, and what a harvest! Friends, you must stay this tide, or be overwhelmed; you must dry up those streams, or be washed away. It is too destructive to be tolerated; it is too reproachful to be endured.

To the citizens generally:

Say to this wave of woe, here shalt thou be stayed. Rise up in the might of men who are interested in the welfare

of humanity, and put a stop to this work of death. It has been endured too long. The shades of the departed urge you to this enterprise. The tears of the widow and orphan plead for you to engage in this work. The angel of mercy, in tears, is beseeching you to be true to the cause of purity, and every hour you delay is adding to the calamities you already suffer.

A SOLEMN CHARGE TO RUM-SELLERS.

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Take care of your brother, of your sister, of ycur children, of yourself. Destroy that serpent that biteth without enchantment, and stingeth like an adder. Seek not to eircumscribe it; aim at its annihilation. Be. hopeful, and trust in God. Victory, under united and persevering effort, is certain, for the cause is in harmony with the attributes of Jehovah; the interests of humanity. Faint not, falter not, until this abomination, that maketh desolate, shall have come to an end; and the pure emblem of life shall be cherished as among the best of Heaven's blessings to an apostate race.

To the fraternity of rum-sellers:

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You stand charged by this community with being guilty of this man's death. An impartial examination confirms that charge. You furnished him the instrument when you saw him using it to his ruin, and his blood cries to God against you. You looked in upon his peaceful Eden of domestic bliss, and sighed to scatter desolation, and have succeeded. Could you plead, in extenuation of your guilt, that your victim had injured you, or that in the heat of excited passion you dealt the blow, it might be some extenuation, but you deliberately laid your snare, and for a long series of years have unrelentingly pursued your purpose, until you have accomplished your work. Wretched men! Think on the sufferings you have caused, and remember, as you have measured unto others, it shall be

meted unto you again. Though justice may be tardy, she is certain in her rewards. You thought only of gold, and being greedy of gain, have troubled your own house. There are canker spots upon your souls, which will become

corroding ulcers, unless removed. The time allotted you on earth is short, and let me earnestly beseech you to improve the remaining hours in preparation for the fate which awaits you. You can not atone for the past, or undo what you have acted. Your only hope is in the mercy of that Divine Redeemer, who died to save the chief of sinners. Bring forth fruits meet for repentance. Abandon that accursed traffic, or it will destroy you. In the solitude of your reflections, think of your victims; think of the woes you have created, of the widowed ones, and helpless, homeless orphans you have made, and relent. Earnestly seek for pardon at a throne of grace, AND MAY CHRIST HAVE

MERCY ON YOUR SOULS.

CHAPTER XI.

LA SERMON, written by the author, A. D. 1845, in the 70th year of his age, and delivered before a temperance society in Stillwater, Saratoga County, N. Y., and was subsequently published by request.]

THE TEMPERANCE REFORMATION OF THIS NINETEENTH CENTURY, A FULFILLMENT OF DIVINE PROPHECY.

When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.-Isaiah lix. 19.

And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman; and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.-Revelation, xii. 15, 16.

THERE appears to be a striking coincidence between the aforesaid predictions. Although the prophets lived at different periods, more than 700 years from each other, yet, by the same spirit of inspiration, they both had the eyes of their mind directed to one and the same far distant period of future time, when a most subtle stratagem of the adversary for the destruction of mankind, would providentially be defeated.

From the above portions of Scripture in connection, it is proposed to illustrate and prove, that Satan's device to destroy the church of God by intoxicating liquors, and the providential Temperance Reformation, which is now blessing the world with sobriety, were subjects of divine prediction by the ancient prophets of God, who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.