This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...--Kicking the Rumseller into the Pacific.--At Easton.--Always In a Hurry.--Crossploughs Fine Paths.--A Gill of Rum and Molasses changes Men to Murderers.--Over Whitefleld's Bones.--The Drunkard the Worst Man on Earth except.--The Drunkard-Maker adding to the Punishment of Satan if sent to Hell.--" Might as well copy ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...--Kicking the Rumseller into the Pacific.--At Easton.--Always In a Hurry.--Crossploughs Fine Paths.--A Gill of Rum and Molasses changes Men to Murderers.--Over Whitefleld's Bones.--The Drunkard the Worst Man on Earth except.--The Drunkard-Maker adding to the Punishment of Satan if sent to Hell.--" Might as well copy Chain-Lightning as report One of my Speeches."--The Grave of Intemperance, and its Gravestone as big as Jupiter.--Angels hurling the Golden Pavements on the Heads of Rumsellers.--How the Dutchman got in his Grass.--Dislike of '-Raisin-Water "as a Substitute for Sacramental Wine, or Dye-Stuff and Glue-Pot.--His Testimony before the Legislative Committee of 1867.--His Dying Hate of the Rumseller. THE peculiarities of Father Taylor were strikingly revealed when brought into relation to reforms. His moral sense, quick as the light, saw the iniquity in all its huge and horrid proportions. No anathemas were too severe for his lips. He did well, he thoroughly believed, to be angry. But as the social, ecclesiastical, and other relations of the embedded evil rose before him, and he heard the inconsiderate assaults of the axeman, not only on the tree of Upas, but also on the tree of Life, he felt for the truth. He feared that the uprooting of the tares would pull up the wheat also. He was alarmed for the State, the Church, and society. He waxed wroth against the very pruners and purgers of the vine, lest they should cut it up, root and branch. There was some reason for this dread; for, in some of these movements, the stronger passion of the writer and speaker seemed directed against the truth itself more than against the error which had taken shelter under its roof. He could justly let loose his winds at such reformers, who would cast both ...
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