Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

Date:
[1874?]
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Credit: Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 DOCTORS AND BRANDY. (To the Editor of the Hampshire Advertiser.) Sib,—My attention has Deen called to a letter in your issue oi the 20th, from my respected friend, Dr. Maclean, of Netley, under the above title, which demands a reply from me. So far as I recollect the words spoken by me in Exeter Hall (which, far from forming the leading idea of my speech, occurred only parenthetically, and in explanation of a remark from a previous speaker) were as follows :—“ I believe men sometimes die, because doctors give them brandy.” Now, we, the clergy are not immediately concerned in fighting this drink question upon physiological grounds—far from it. Our platform is another and a higher one ; as ministers of the Church of Christ we cannot see, unmoved, 60,000 drunkards die annually, with the sure testimony oi the Word of God that a drunkard cannot inherit the kingdom of Heaven. We do not hold up total absti- nence as a ‘ ‘ suvimum bonum,” but as a remedy for a