Let us hope, therefore, that with the increasing respect shown to the principles and practice of Temperance in those ranks of society into which they have been found the most difficult to penetrate, there will be increased energy and zeal among the earliest friends of this great cause, to promote the success of their holy mission, by renewed efforts to extend its benefits to all ranks and classes, and through all nations to the uttermost ends of the earth.

If one of the greatest sources of human happiness is the being employed in doing good, and advancing the welfare of our fellow-creatures, it is impossible to imagine a mode by which so much good could be done by so small an expenditure of either time or money, as by the wide diffusion of the important truths herein recorded and since there is no part of Christendom in which there are not to be found many victims suffering from the use and abuse of intoxicating drinks-no community in which crime, disease, and poverty are not clearly traceable to this cause there must be everywhere a field for introducing the reformation which is within the power of every individual to promote. And as our blessed Saviour illustrated the great duty of loving our neighbours as ourselves, by narrating the history of the Good Samaritan, who, when he found a stranger that had fallen among thieves, and was lying wounded and bleeding by the way, took him on his own horse, conveyed him to an inn, and left money for his recovery and support till he was enabled to resume

his labour;-so we may hope that the readers to whom these pages are addressed, may, without much search, discover many such unhappy victims of Intemperance in their own town or neighbourhood, as much objects of compassion as the wounded traveller described; and who, like him, having fallen among thieves, have been first deprived of their reason by intoxicating drinks, and then stripped and robbed, and left exhausted and helpless by the way. Regarding, therefore, the conduct of the Good Samaritan as being recorded for our instruction, we say to each individual, male or female, high or low, who may have reached thus far in their examination of the subject, in the language of the Saviour, "Go thou and do likewise," and great shall be thy reward.

NOTE.

THE following Documents have been published at previous periods, and on different occasions, but as they will in all probability be new to the greater number of those for whose perusal this little Volume is specially designed, it has been thought well to include them within its limits: more especially as the subjects are therein presented under varied points of view. It is hoped thus to increase the chances of their carrying conviction to different classes of individuals; it being a well-known law of our nature, that one description of facts and arguments weighs most with some minds, and another description with others; and as it is our earnest desire to embrace all classes as far as practicable, the greater the variety of aspects under which the subject can be presented, the more successfully will that object be likely to be attained.

Some discrepancies will appear in the paging of the Sheets, from changes in the arrangement of the matter after the Work had been first sent to the press: but the reading will be consecutive and continuous as the Sheets are now placed.