This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. INTEMPERANCE BLASTING THE NATIONAL RESOURCES THE WASTE OF GRAIN, SOIL, MONEY, MEN, COMMERCE, MISSIONS. When the Lord of the universe came to our world, and became incarnate, to supply, in an emergency of distress, the hungry thousands who thronged his ministry and followed him to the other ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. INTEMPERANCE BLASTING THE NATIONAL RESOURCES THE WASTE OF GRAIN, SOIL, MONEY, MEN, COMMERCE, MISSIONS. When the Lord of the universe came to our world, and became incarnate, to supply, in an emergency of distress, the hungry thousands who thronged his ministry and followed him to the other side of the lake, amid the solitudes of the desert, where he taught them; hungry and faint, they were about to retire, with no food within their reach. He commanded them to sit down on the grass, while 1: i stood before them with uplifted hands, blessing the five loaves and creating food for the thousands until they wre all filled and satisfied. Then he commanded them to gather up the fragments that nothing be lost, thus teaching the necessity of economy, and that nothing should be toasted of the valuable fruits of the earth which God bestowed upon them. How different the mission of the demon of intemperance, in not only destroying the bodies and the souls of men, but in laying waste millions of acres of soil, and millions of bushels of grain, blighting the fields and crops, and wasting the food of millions who at present are dying of starvation. The advocates of intemperance themselves, and the manufacturers and vendors of intoxicating drinks, afford us the figures on which to base our calculations. They do it without shame or remorse, as a matter of business with them and their customers. Indeed, they have vaunted these figures and facts, to show the magnitude of their business and the importance to the nation of their trade in intoxicating beverages. From the Cincinnati Gazette, of March 16,1874, we take the following statistics of the liquor business in the United States, as furnished by the liquor manufacturers of Cincinnati, for the...
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