AN ADDRESS ON TEMPERANCE, BY Exlery Delivered by request of the Council of the Massachusetts Temperance Society, WEEKS, JORDAN & COMPANY, Published by the Council of the Massachusetts Temperance Society, the avails to be devoted to the circulation of temperance publications. CASSADY AND MARCH, PRINTERS. [Third Edition.] The author was obliged to omit several passages in delivering the following address. In some of these, perhaps, opinions may be found in which all the friends of temperance do not concur. The Society at whose request the address is published, is, of course, not responsible for what it did not hear. The author wishes to be understood as speaking in his own name alone. ADDRESS. I SEE before me the representatives of various societies for the promotion of temperance. It is a good and great cause, and 1 shall be grateful to God, if, by the service now allotted me, I can in any degree encourage them in their work, or throw new light on their path. The present occasion may well animate a Christian minister. What a noble testimony does this meeting bear to the spirit and influences of the Christian faith. Why is this multitude brought together? Not for selfish gratification, not for any worldly end, but for the purpose of arresting a great moral and social evil, of promoting the virtue, dignity, well being of men. And whence comes this sympathy with the fallen, the |