An address delivered before the Washington City Temperance Society, November 15, 1830 / by Thomas Sewall.

  • Thomas Sewall
Date:
1830
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Credit: An address delivered before the Washington City Temperance Society, November 15, 1830 / by Thomas Sewall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    of oui own continent. la short, the struggled all Christendom to cn- iighten the ignorant, reclaim the vicious, civilize the heathen, and evangelize those who know not the way of salvation. These are the circumstances which will he drawn from the re- cords of our time ; and while they will stand out in hold relief among those events, upon the page of future history, they will descend with in- creasing lustre in all future time. The origin too of these enterprizes, which shall have led to such mighty consequences, will be sought for, and the names of those who led the way will be embalmed and eulogized, while the memory of the tyrant, the warrior, and the politician will be forgotten. These reflections have been suggested by the occasion which has cal- led us together this evening; for by whatever name this society is recog- nized, and whatever part it may take in the great enterprize of amelior- ating the condition of man, whether it be classed with the Bible and Missionary establishments, the education and tract associations, the in- stitution of Infant and Sunday schools, or the colonization and temper- ance cause, the ultimate end is one and the same. They are all so many .streams issuing from the same fountain ; and while they traverse and fer- tilize different regions, they pour their contents into the same ocean, an ocean whose waters are accumulating, whose boundaries are enlarging, and whose waves are rolling onward and onward, beating down the bar- riers which now narrow its limits. It is with such views as these that we are enabled to come together on the present occasion, and to unite one with another, that every good member of society, every philanthropic individual, of whatever religious sect or profession, is enabled to come, and in despite of party zeal or sectarian bigotry, give his hand and his heart to the cause, the noble cause, in which we are engaged. We are convened, my fellow citizens, to attend the first anniversary of a Society for the promotion of Temperance ; an institution, which in ac- cordance with the spirit of the times, has been established through our land by the almost united voice of the nation, and this for the suppression of one of the most alarming evils that ever infested human society; a vice too, so odious in its nature, so injurious in its consequences, and attended with so many circumstances of suffering, mortification and disgrace, that it seems difficult to understand how it should ever have become a prevalent ovil among mankind ; and more especially, how it should have come down
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