points for your consideration that have suggested themselves to
my mind.

1. Let no woman remain in the relation of wife with the confirmed
drunkard. Let no drunkard be the father of her children. Let no
woman form an alliance with any man who has been suspected even
of the vice of intemperance; for the taste once acquired can
never, never be eradicated. Be not misled by any pledges,
resolves, promises, prayers, or tears. You can not rely on the
word of a man who is, or has been, the victim of such an
overpowering appetite.

2. Let us petition our State governments so to modify the laws
affecting marriage, and the custody of children, that the
drunkard shall have no claims on either wife or child.

3. Let us touch not, taste not, handle not, the unclean thing in
any combination. Let us eschew it in all culinary purposes, and
refuse it in all its most tempting and refined forms.

4. With an efficient organization, lectures, tracts, newspapers,
and discussion, we shall accomplish much. I would give more for
the agitation of any question on sound principles, thus
enlightening and convincing the public mind, than for all the
laws that could be written or passed in a century. By the
foolishness of preaching, must all moral revolutions be achieved;
but remember the truth, the whole truth must be faithfully
preached.

5. We must raise the standard of temperance in all things. The
man who over-eats takes a little wine to aid digestion, and he
who exhausts himself by licentious indulgence takes a little as a
stimulus; thus one vice induces another, and all go hand in hand
together.

6. Let us endeavor to make labor honorable in all. Work is
worship, says Emerson. Let us honor the hard hand and sun-burnt
brow. Remember idleness is the parent of vice; and there is no
surer way to banish vice from our land, than to see that the
young just coming on the stage of life are wisely and fully
employed.

And lastly, inasmuch as charity begins at home, let us withdraw
our mite from all associations for sending the Gospel to the
heathen across the ocean, for the education of young men for the
ministry, for the building up of a theological aristocracy and
gorgeous temples, to the unknown God, and devote ourselves to the
poor and su