a distant glance, it is another thing to know by the pangs of a
broken heart and of a wrecked life. For those who are not thus
caught in its meshes to realize its horrors so as to seek its destruction
but one course is possible; namely, To study the evil. Let the
teacher tell of its ravages; let the minister proclaim its curses; let
the poet sing it; the painter paint it; the editor report it; the novelist
portray it; the scientist describe it; the philosopher decry it; the
sisters and wives and mothers denounce it--until all shall unite in
smiting it to its death!

We should study the drink evil in its relation to disease. That strong
drink tends to produce disease is no longer questioned. "During the
cholera in New York City in 1832, of two hundred and four cases
in the Park Hospital only six were temperate, and all of these
recovered; while one hundred and twenty-two of the others died.
In Great Britain in the same year five-sixths of all who perished
were intemperate. In one or two villages every drunkard died, while
not a single member of a temperance society lost his life." "In Paisley,
England, in 1848, there were three hundred and thirty-seven cases of
cholera, and every case except one was a dram-drinker. The cases
of cholera were one for every one hundred and eighty-one inhabitants;
but among the temperate portion there was only one case to each two
thousand." "Of three hundred and eighty-six persons connected with
the total abstinence societies only one died, and he was a reformed
drunkard" of three months' standing. "In New Orleans during the last
epidemic the order of the Sons of Temperance appointed a committee
to ascertain the number of deaths from cholera among their members.
It was found that there were twelve hundred and forty-three members
in the city and suburbs, and among these only three deaths had
occurred, being only one-sixth the average death-rate." "In New York,