Author: Theobald Mathew

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781230176666

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ...great moral revolution, that so few have violated their promises in this regard. They have been wonderfully sustained in keeping inviolate the Pledge, notwithstanding the power of their own appetites, and the temptations which surrounded them. In this the most skeptical, if they will not willfully shut their eyes, cannot help seeing nnd acknowledging divine interposition. Among the many millions of erring mortals who have signed this second Declaration of Independence in the civilized world, but few comparatively have gone back, like the dog to his vomit, or like the sow to her wallowing in the mire They have thus far stood firm and unmoved amidst the temptations which have assailed them from within and from without. And we feel warranted in assuring the rum-sellers that their hope of a reaction in this glorious revolution is as the spider's web, weak and easily torn in pieces. The cause has taken too deep a hold on the hearts of the people for such a revolution to go backwards. It is the mysterious work of Heaven, and must finallv prevail over all opposition. Tiie tide of Inlemperance will not be suffered to turn back, and again sweep over the world, destroying in its course every thing beautiful and valuable in it. This is our fond hpe, and this our firm belief. There is one peculiarity in Father Mathew's reading the pledge to the assembled thousands which throng round Teetotal Society is not a sectarian or political society. It has nothing whatever to do with such matters; it embraces members of every creed, and of every shade of politics. Teetotallers should not have any politics, whether lawful or unlawful, connected with them. Those who wish to mingle themselves in the discussion of politics should go somewhere else to do so....