The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

H'l~at is to be Dove?
position which they occupied at the outset. This country,
though territorially small, has enormous advantages in
entering upon this world-round competition; it has population, capital, skill, mineral wealth, and a vast industrial
plant; but it has also some striking drawbacks, first
among which is the injury, loss, degradation, and emasculation produced yearly by the drinking system-one
of whose chief cornerstones is the licensed traffic in
strong drink.
CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION, which is but another name
for the advancement of mankind in all that is good and
wise and great, is profoundly concerned in the right
settlement of this question. The results of the drinking
system in one place are a fair example of the results in
every other place. As in all lands water, light, and air
are the conditions and vehicles of life, so wherever intoxicating liquors are circulated, they carry on their
work of temptation, and ruin, and death. The drinkingshop, licensed or unlicensed, is a common snare and a
common curse, nor has the wit of the wisest devised a
scheme for making it otherwise. The influences favoring
a higher style of civilization are broad, deep, and powerful, and they are affecting the condition of the whole
earth, from "Britain to Japan," from Norfolk Island to
Nova Zembla; but the "Drink Demon," as the late Mr.
Davenport Hill has graphically said, "starts up everywhere," to confront and often to confound the reformer.
What is to be done? The Christian evangelist and missionary meet with the same fiery obstruction. What is to
be done? This adversary is not passive, waiting to be
attacked; he is active, subtle, insidious, and unceasingly
attacking every scheme of improvement and plan of
reformation. WREAT IS TO BE DONE? How long will the
friends of civilization and Christianity decline the challenge thus extended, and seek to parley with this treacher ous and insatiable foe? The evil done by it yearly,
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