WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Reader, what are you doing to stay the tide of intemperance that is sweeping over our land, and wrecking in its onward rushing course the fondest hopes of many a heart, burying beneath its relentless waves the poor und the rich, the ignorant and the learned, men of genius and of influence, and leaving its wake strewn with degradation and misery, heartbroken widows and wailing orphans 1 Are you sitting with folded hands looking idly on, and in effect saying, What is that to me? Ah, it is much to you. Jt may seem as nothing to day, but on the morrow that tide, rising higher and higher, may cross the threshold of your home, and the dearest idol of your heart, swept beyond your controlling influence, be wrecked body and soul. Why then sit ye there idle ? Up and bo doing. There is a great work to do. Will you not commence at onco 1 Oh, that some voice coming from a voice warmed and filled with true charity, with pity for the tempted aud fallen, could waken you from this lethargy, could rouse you to a true sense of your responsibility, and make you realise that an all-wise Judge will call you to account, and ask what you did to save your tempted, fallen fellow-beings from the terrible curse of Intpmperance.
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Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)
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