The Temperance Manual of the American Temperance Society; For the Young Men of the United States (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 Excerpt: ...opened a correspondence with the British and Foreign Temperance Society, for the purpose of promoting Temperance among seamen, and with the British and Foreign Seamens' Society, with a view to direct the attention of that Society, especially to the moral improvement of seamen visiting the Pacific. They further purpose writing to the chiefs of the Islands, to bring the subject in a suitable manner under their consideration. We are encouraged, by the conviction that as the evils of the use of ardent spirits are more fully manifested, good men of everj country will unite in promoting their exclusion from all civilized and Christian Society, and individuals, who from motives of sordid interest shall persevere in cherishing and promoting among partially enlightened and civilized tribes, a habit so destructive of whatever is commendable, so detrimental to all intellectual and socia limprovement, so prolific of crime, --and, excepting in cases of extraordinary prevention, so inevitably ruinous, shall be found only among the most debased and worthless portions of society. We feel persuaded you will cordially sympathize in our feelings of deep distress on account of the evils that prevail in our missionary stations, and cheerfully aid us by every means in your power in effecting their diminution and removal. And as our brethren inform us that a large proportion of the spirits used at Tahiti, &c. is conveyed in American ships, some from Boston; that it is chiefly what is termed New England rum, that is imported to the islands, and that in some vessels it comprises a considerable part of the cargo taken for barter with the people, I am instructed by the Directors of the London Missionary Society to request, which I do with the most entire confidence, that you will ...