ding love of truth, that can swallow up all petty jealousies,
envies, discords, and dissensions, and make us truly magnanimous
and self-sacrificing. We have every reason to think, from reports
we hear on all sides, that our Society has given this cause a new
impulse, and if the condition of our treasury is a test, we have
abundant reason to believe that in the hearts of the people we
are approved, and that by their purses we shall be sustained.

It has been objected to our Society that we do not confine
ourselves to the subject of temperance, but talk too much about
woman's rights, divorce, and the Church. It could be easily shown
how the consideration of this great question carries us
legitimately into the discussion of these various subjects. One
class of minds would deal with effects alone; another would
inquire into causes; the work of the former is easily perceived
and quickly done; that of the latter requires deep thought, great
patience, much time, and a wise self-denial. Our physicians of
the present day are a good type of the mass of our reformers.
They take out cancers, cut off tonsils, drive the poison which
nature has wisely thrown to the surface, back again, quiet
unsteady nerves with valerian, and by means of ether infuse an
artificial courage into a patient that he may bravely endure some
painful operation. It requires but little thought to feel that
the wise physician who shall trace out the true causes of
suffering; who shall teach us the great, immutable laws of life
and health; who shall show us how and where in our every-day
life, we are violating these laws, and the true point to begin
the reform, is doing a much higher, broader, and deeper work than
he who shall bend all his energies to the temporary relief of
suffering. Those temperance men or women whose whole work
consists in denouncing rum-sellers, appealing to legislatures,
eulogizing Neal Dow, and shouting Maine Law, are superficial
reformers, mere surface-workers. True, this outside work is well,
and must be done; let those who see no other do this, but let
them lay no hindrances in the way of that class of mind, who,
seeing in our present false social relations the causes of the
moral deformities of the race, would fain declare the immutable
laws that govern mind