Edinburgh Series of Temperance TractsW. F. Cuthbertson, 1854 |
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ABSTINENCE SOCIETY alcohol become better Bible blessing bothies boys brother cause child cholera Christ Christian church classes comfort danger death degradation disease dramshop drinkers drinking customs drunk drunkard drunken duties dwellings earnings Edinburgh effects employers evil father feel folly Gamekeeper gaol grace habits hand happy Headingham heart holy hope husband indulgence inebriate influence Inmate intemperance intoxicating drinks intoxicating liquors John Anderson labour land Land of Goshen Launceston live Manchester Marian means ment Metropolitan Buildings millions misery moderate moral reform mother Mount Pleasant ness never night parents poor principles prison public-house Richard Richard Clark ruin Sabbath shilling sober social soon soul spend spirit stomach streets strong drink surely teetotal teetotaler tell temperance Temperance Movement thing thousands tion total abstinence victims wages weekly whisky wife wine wives words working-man young
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Page 1 - Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Page 2 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 4 - And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
Page 6 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Page 8 - And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To...
Page 13 - At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping infant prattling on his knee, Does a' his weary carking cares beguile, An' makes him quite forget his labour an
Page 12 - Oh, but for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!
Page 9 - Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Page 6 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to I.
Page 4 - Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you ; that ye may be sons of your Father which is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to rise on the. evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.