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

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Holland Estate, the property of Mr. Gladstone (the pre-
sent Premier). Thle Staimzfor(Iferciztry, of I853, contained
the f)llowing notice: " There is now living a fine old man,
9g years old, who worked for many years as a journeyman
fellmonger at Horncastle; he can carry twenty stone
weight at the present time, can walk four miles in an hour,
and he has drunk nothing stronger than water for the last
forty years." O~r. A. yohzson, of Howden, died August
I2, I852, in his ninetieth year. He joined the Temperance
Society December I5, I84o, and, up to the period of a fall
some time before his death, enjoyed perfect health. The
Liverpool newspapers, in I859, contained a notice of a
vwomain, by name E/z'abet/ ~oberIs, who stated that she was
born in Northop, Flintshire, in June, I749. She could (in
I859) walk three miles an hour, and ascribed her extended
life to her simple natural habits, including entire abstinence from intoxicating drinks. In the same year, the
wife of a captain in the navy recorded the fact that her
grandmother married at fifteen, had fifteen children, and
lived to her ninetieth year, without once tasting wine,
spirits, or malt liquors. So, truly has Shakespeare put
into the mouth of Old Adam, in "As You Like It":
"Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty,
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood:
Nor did not, with unbashful forehead, woo
The means of weakness and debilitv.
Therefore my age is, as lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly."
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TESTIMONIES OF PHILOSOPHERS, POETS, DIVINES, PHI LANTIHROPISTS, GENERALS, TRAVELLERS, ETC.
Solomizon.-" Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging;
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise...
Look not upon the wine whlen it is red, when it giveth
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