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are like the Irish girl, who was advised not to 

 marry a drunkard. She replied: 'I will; I am 

 used to it; it will seem more like home.' 



"AVe have during ten years delivered more than 

 two thousand sermons and lectures, adapted to 

 show the pernicious effects of the poison on the 

 bodies and souls of men. AVe have published a 

 number of small books and thirty tracts on the 

 subject. These tracts have never been modified 

 or mollified by any committee ; hence they are not 

 perfect ; they retain all the original depravity 

 they had at the hands of their authors ; I mean the 

 respectable board of gentlemen we have named 

 who constitute the officers of this society." 



Thus all along the years, this unwearied reform- 

 er preached and prayed and wrote tracts and small 

 books which he sowed broadcast. But in the great 

 Boston fire a sore calamity befell him in the de- 

 struction of all his plates. I remember seeing a 

 letter he wrote on this occasion, in which he 

 speaks of himself as lying flat on his back, yet 

 looking up into the sky. And with a heavenly 

 inspired courage he instantly went to work and 

 had the plates re-cast. 



That he was never unwise in his methods, he 

 was the last man to claim. Fighting single-handed 

 as he did against a public idol enthroned in the 

 highest places, it would have been a miracle had 

 he escaped criticism. But with the most imper- 



