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

Appcals to Various Classes.
method of blazoning abroad their own unfaithfulness to
the obligations they confess. What is practicable to each
one and practicable at once is to withdraw all his exam~ile
and infuience from the drinking system, and lo transfer it to
the side of total abstinence; and, by doing this, he will both
discharge his personal responsibility and render similar
conduct more easy (and, therefore, more circumstantially
practicable) to some others.
Parents, will you not take this step for your own benefit, and to enable you to train up your children more
wisely in the way in which they should go, when they
quit your roof to breast the storms and grapple with the
trials of life?
Ministers of religion, to you many look up-and not
least the young-for an exemplary guidance and prudent
counsel; can you with a pure conscience recommend by
your example the use of strong drink in preference to the
total abstinence principle?
Teachers of youth, whether in the Sunday-school or
day-school, will you not unite "wholesome doctrine" and
the influence of a consistent practice in a course which
must affect your youthful charge for good or evil, as long
as their life shall last?
Medical practitioners, increase the honors of a noble
profession by throwing your great social and scientific
weight into the regimen which extends human life, and
helps it to attain more fully its greatest ends.
Journalists and men of letters, myriads regard your
words as oracles; is it too much to ask that you should
employ your commanding influence not to stereotype old
errors and bad habits, but to stimulate enquiry, circulate
truth, and emancipate your country from the thraldroni
in which the drinking system holds her?
Philanthropists, add to your other works of benevo lence this one, by which the value of the rest will be
heightened and their permanence secured.
18I