Beware

The Rev. W. H. H. Murray, in a sermon in Faneuil Hall, Boston, dealt with the subject of temperance thus: "You are talking like silly idiots when you say there is no danger in the cup. I know, from the blood of five generations of cider-drinking ancestors in my veins, the danger there is in this thing. There is not a scent of liquor that is not pleasant to me, that would not be a precious drop to my tongue. Look at me. Do I look like a man easy to be overcome by temptation? Do you know my life? Go back and learn it, and see what I have suffered; and yet I say to you, with this background of evidence, I declare to you, as I value manhood, and my standing, and my soul, I would not dare to drink for three weeks a glass of liquor a day. The chasm yawns at your feet and at my feet. Those who say there is no danger in that first glass of liquor do not recognize the peril of hereditary weakness."