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

AppeCndices.
ence of a numerous foe, the circumstances were exceedingly peculiar, and the issue of the experiment was so
little satisfactory that the order was not renewed. General Sir FV. F. Wz'iaiizs, the hero of Kars, said, in a letter
to the "Sons of Temperance," Nova Scotia: "I am indebted to a gracious Providence for preservation in very
unhealthy climates; but I am satisfied that a resolution
early formed, and steadily persevered in, never to take
spirituous liquors, has been a means of my escaping diseases by which multitudes have fallen around me. Had
not the Turkish army of Kars been literally' a cold-water
army,' I am persuaded they would never have performed
the achievements which crowned them with glory." During the Crimean WVar the advantages of total abstinence
were very conspicuous when practised. Colonel Dacres,
who was in charge of the English artillery (now General
Sir Richard Dacres), in writing from the camp, Jan. I7,
x855, said: " Since I have become a teetotaler I have gone
through great fatigues in hot climates. I have crossed
the Atlantic, come here, been exposed to disease and somie
discomfort (not much from my rank and situation), and I
have never been sick or had even a short attack of diarrhoea. I ascribe this to water; but mind, I am a temperate
eater also; never eat animal food more than once a day;
no lunch but a piece of biscuit; am a very early man.
Now, all these things combined enable me to do as much
hard work at fifty-five as many men ten or fifteen years
younger. What I began with, as an example, I now continue, as I consider I am much better without wine, beer,
etc., both in a religious and worldly point of view; and I
shall continue as I am, please God, to my life's end."
General Lewis Cass, of the United States, said: " The more
active portion of my life was passed in a country on the very
verge of civilization, and much of it beyond, and I have
had my full share of exposures, exertions, privations, in
peace and in war. I have had, too, my full share of health.
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