If this plan could be carried into effectual execution, it would, it is true, be a perfect remedy for every degree of intemperance. But while men will drink the cursed draught, persons will always be found, whose conscience is so seared with the love of gain, who have so little regard for the public good, and who are so totally destitute of philanthropy, that they, for the sake of money, will make and sell spirituous liquors.From this quarter therefore we have no hope of making a successful attack upon the common foe, intemperance. Men who, like the distillers and venders of ardent spirits, are so in love with money, that to obtain it, they will flood the earth with a sea of pestilential fire, will never wholly cease their nefarious operations, while mortals, in the madness of their folly, will drink. If the monster intemperance were to live till it were slain by such persons, it would live till "time shall be no more," and we might die in hopeless despair.

"The strong arm of the law must strike the monster dead," is the declaration of another.While public opinion favors the use of ardent spirits, the law cannot arrest, or even retard the progress of intemperance. A law that is not enforced, is useless or worse than useless. To render any law effectual in this country, the people must enforce it. When they, as a body,

are opposed to any law or even feel indifferent as to its execution, men can easily discover a thousand ways of evading its penalty. If the people say, that to drink a little is justifiable, our legislators may lay a tax of one thousand or ten thousand dollars on each distillery in our land, and the distiller will evade the penalty of the law. That no moderate drinker or drunkard will enter a complaint against him for violating the law is certain; and if a complaint be entered, no jury of tipplers will condemn him for doing what they suppose to be morally right.They would execrate the law. They would justify its transgressor. The price of a license to sell ardent spirits, may be so great that no one can make their legal sale profitable; but then men will sell without a license. The evil would not thus be diminished. It might be increased. If then the fatal progress of intempe. rance is ever completely arrested, it must be done by the influence of the people, that power which gives efficacy to the law. The public mind must be enlightened on this subject. Men must see and feel that to use ardent spirits as a drink, is an evil. They must learn that to make or vend or drink this cup of death, is a crime, and as such deserves to be frowned upon, execrated and punished. To cause such a purified moral sentiment to pervade society, something more discriminating,

more enlightening, more powerful than laws, must throw its cheering influence over the community. To accomplish this, an effectual remedy for intemperance must be discovered, and used by the public.

III. The Effectual Cure for Intemperance.

Intemperance is scattering its desolating evils all around us. What shall we do? Is there no cure for this pestilence? Must this moral contagion continue to exist? Must it continue to increase, till the whole world shall become a dramshop, all the men and women beastly sots, and every youth and child a moderate drinker?— We look on. We see the evil of using ardent spirits. We deplore the evil. We feel the evil. Shall we still look on and suffer the evil to progress with incalculable rapidity? Forbid it mercy's angel! There is a remedy, an effectual remedy for intemperance; one too that always cures. It is entire abstinence from the ordinary use of all intoxicating drinks. The monster intemperance can be slain by the single blow of entire abstinence. By the same simple means, the whole sea of liquid fire, that has so long desolated the world, can be swept, at once, out of existence. By this, that which has more than widowed the mother, more than orphaned the child, can all be annihilated. In short, entire absti

nence will effectually, wholly and forever, terminate all the evils with which the use of ardent spirits has ever cursed the world. It will dry up this fountain of misery. It will place upon it the seal of eternal forgetfulness. From it, distress shall never again be allowed to issue, when all have become, in truth, cold-water-men. That entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks, is a perfect and practicable cure for intemperance in its every degree, is an identical proposition, a self evident truth. Who does not know that the entire abstinence man cannot get drunk? Who does not know that any man can, if he chooses, cease to drink? Here then is a cure for that tremendous scourge of Satan, intemperance. It is simple, safe, cheap; cheap as the crystal stream from the never failing fountain. It is a perfectly effectual remedy; it always cures. The case may be recent or chronic, it may be less or more obstinate; but it must yield, however stubborn, to this remedy. Tippler, use this remedy but for one month, and if during that month of entire abstinence from all alcoholic liquors, whether distilled or fermented, you get drunk, then say that entire abstinence is not an effectual cure for intemperance. Shall we all adopt this infallible remedy for intemperance, this effectual preventative of drunkenness ? Shall we? Certainly. Who can refuse?

IV. The duty of Entire Abstinence.

To abstain entirely from the ordinary use of ardent spirits, is a moral duty binding on all men in every age and in every country. For a person to injure himself or others in any degree, never can be morally right. We are all, then, bound in duty to refuse to do so. Those who use the least quantity of distilled liquor as a drink, injure themselves and others. Is it not a moral evil voluntarily to do this? And is it not a moral duty to avoid a moral evil?

Intemperance is confessedly a moral evil of the first magnitude. God positively condemns it in his word. Entire abstinence effectually prevents it. Are we not all morally bound to do all we can to prevent what God condemns? By abstaining entirely we put an extinguisher on intemperance. Since to drink ardent spirits while in health, is injurious, its ordinary use never was, is not now, and never can be justifiable. To refuse to use it thus, therefore, always was, is now, and always will be a duty binding on every rational accountable creature on earth. It never can be right for persons to injure themselves by drinking ardent spirits. When, more than a hundred years ago, this article began to be used in this country as a beverage, was it right? Was it not then, as now, a moral evil to do wrong, or