"  Woe  to  him  that  giveth  his  neighbor  drink!  '*  If  this  curse  was  pro-
claimed about  the  comparatively  harmless  drinks  of  olden  timee^  what
condemnation  must  rest  upon  those  who  tempt  their  neighbors  when
intoxicating  liquor  means  copperas,  nux  vomica,  logwood,  opium,
sulphuric  acid,  vitriol,  turpentine  and  strychnine!  ''Pure  liquors;*'
pure  destruction!  Nearly  all  the  genuine  champagne  made  is  taker  ^  y
the  courts  of  Europe.    What  we  get  is  horrible  swill  1

Women!  we  call  upon  you  to  help  us!

I  call  upon  woman  for  her  influence  in  the  matter.  Many  a  man
who  had  reformed  and  resolved  on  a  life  of  sobriety,  has  been  pitched
off  into  old  habits  by  the  delicate  hand  of  her  whom  he  was  anxious  U
please.
Bishop  Potter  says  that  a  young  man,  who  had  been  reformed,  sat  at
a  table,  and  when  the  wine  was  passed  to  him  refused  to  take  it.  A
lady  sitting  at  his  side  said,  **  Certainly  you  will  not  refuse  to  take  a
glass  with  me?*'  Again  he  refused.  But  when  she  had  derided  him
for  lack  of  manliness  he  took  the  glass  and  drank  it.  He  took  another
and  another;  and  putting  his  fist  hard  down  on  the  table,  said,  ''Now  I
drink  until  I  die.'*    In  a  few  months  his  ruin  was  consummated.
