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

Thze Objection from "' Regiilation."
because, in the first place, the things compared are intrinsically different: because, in the second place, society has
agreed to treat them differently, as belonging to different
spheres; because, in the third place, worship does not
depend upon somrething else which society has a right to
forbid (as the purchase does upon the sale); and because,
in the fourth place, where even worship becomes so connected with secular affairs as to bring it within secular
authority, any injury offered to social law subjects it to
social interference and suppression. If, for example,
under the pretence of worship, or as a part of so-called
worship, conduct was pursued (say seditious plotting or
immoral practices), society would have, and would use,
the right of putting an end to such "worship," precisely
as it has the right, and ought to use it, of interdicting
the commnon sale of intoxicating liquors. Let even
belief take the overt form of polygamy, as among the
Mormons, or as suttee among the Hindoos, and the law
brushes aside the claim to liberty of action, and interposes its stern denial. The religionist is not allowed to
make his conscience the justification of a social evil, and
neither can the drinker of intoxicating liquor be allowed
to make his convenience a reason for the continuance
of a traffic which is a curse to the body-politic. If he will
use his wine or strong drink of any kind, the least that
he can do is to obtain it in some way that does not cause
ill to his neighbor and to the society of which he is a
part.
3. The objection that "the frzinczle of regulaton can
be afilz'ed lo the liguor traffic, so as to bring zrMtl it, substanztially, all the good results of sufiSression, wzithout any of ils
verations to those who drink," is an objection the force
of which will be apparent when any instance of the
success of regulation has been produced. Up to this
time, and in the United Kingdom, nothing approaching
to such an event has been witnessed. The experiment at
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