The taste, a temperance tale [with other tales in prose and verse] by the author of 'The father's message'.

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Side 130 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life...
Side 1 - Active, and strong, and feelingly alive To each fine impulse ? a discerning sense Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust From things deform'd, or disarranged, or gross In species'! This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture can bestow; But God alone when first his active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul He, mighty parent!
Side 34 - Demosthenes the great orator of Greece, said that " to drink well is a property meet for a sponge, but not for a man." Seneca, a grand Roman philosopher, taught that to suppose " it possible for a man to take much wine and retain a right frame of mind is as bad as to argue that he may take...
Side 81 - Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there will I be in their midst.

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