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

4pApe;idices.
maid to conscience." Among the most distinguished
theologians and ornaments of the modern pulpit, there
have been numerous adherents to the temperance movement in England and America.
Among the modern British statesmen, Pzc/hard Cobden
holds a high and noble place. For many years he was entirely or almost a total abstainer, and the sum of his testimony may be expressed in his own words: "Every
day's experience tends more and more to confirm me in
my opinion that the temperance cause lies at the foundation of all social and political reform." Earl Russell said
in Exeter Hall (I844): "This is no party, no sectarian
question; and I am convinced that there is no cause
more likely to elevate the people in every respect, whether as regards religious or political opinions, or as regards
literary and moral culture, than this great question of
temperance. It is the common and universal cause of all
morality and of all religion." /ohn Howard, the apostle
of philanthropy, was a systematic abstainer, and attributed to this habit his remarkable immunity for many years
from the diseases to which his prison labors exposed him.
The venerable Thomas Clarkson said: "Total abstinence
has been found to be an auxiliary to the promotion of
Christianity and to the conversion of sinners." The late
:ose4h _5ooAh Gurney, _osefSl Slzzrge, R?ev. yohn Clay, and
Mr. Recorder Hill, and many of the most earnest of the
social reformers of the present time, are zealous advocates of the temperance movement.
Charles XII., of Sweden, used no intoxicating drinks;
and the same was true of the defender of Gibraltar, General ELlzot, afterwards Lord Heathfield.
It is recorded of the Emperor zVafoleon (Family Library,
vol. ii. p. 246): "The labor he underwent at this period,
when he was consolidating the administration throughout
France, excited the astonishment of all who had access to
his privacy. He exhausted the energies of secretary after
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