The Temperance Cyclop Dia

Excerpt from The Temperance Manual I. Ever since man turned away from God as a source of enjoyment, and from his service as a means of obtaining it, he his been prone to seek it in some improper bodily or mental gratification. Of all those gratifications to which he has resorted for this purpose, few, if any, have been more destructive to him than that which results from the use as a beverage, of intoxicating liquor. Though it affords a momentary gratification, at the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. It tends to form an artificial, unnecessary, and dangerous appetite, and thus to lead to drunkenness and ruin. That ingredient in fermented and distilled liquors which is the cause of intoxication, is not the product of creation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.