No. 10. About 50 years old. Has lived in town but a couple of years. Was very intemperate when he came here, and poor. Has a good family. His removal into this Temperance atmosphere was most happy for him; for he had not been here long, before he joined the Temperance Society. He has continued ever since his connection with the Society to be a sober and respectable man. He has recently manifested a hope in Christ.

No. 11. An old man. Had been intemperate for many years. Very poor. Connected himself with the church, two or three years since; and has been sober from that time. Demagogues have made him believe, that the Temperance reformation is but a scheme to abridge men of their political rights, and therefore, (though possibly a lingering and secretly indulged love of rum has something to do with it,) he cannot join the Temperance Society.

No. 12. A colored man, about 30 years of age, with a family. Was a very great drunkard, and very poor. For the last three or four years, he has wholly abstained from ardent spirit. About a year since he drank freely of cider on a festival occasion, and probably became somewhat intoxicated. He then resolved, that he would never again taste of any intoxicating liquor whatever. He is a lovely Christian of remarkable tenderness of conscience, and of course belongs to the Temperance Society.

No. 13. An old person. Intemperate for many years. Has been sober for the last two or three years. Now a member of the church, and probably would be of the Temperance Society, if a certain near relative would be, on whom No. 13 is dependent.

No. 14. About 30 years of age, with a family. Had been intemperate for several years; and, therefore, could not preserve his earnings. Some three years ago, he joined the Temperance Society, and has ever since lived up to its requirements. He is now an industrious and respectable man. Much of the time during his abstinence from ardent spirit, he has been religiously minded.

No. 15. About 40 years of age, with a family. Was a miserable sot, and very poor. For the last three or four years, he has abstained from ardent spirit, and has, during that time, been a consistent and beloved member of the church of Christ. I scarcely need add, that such a member of the church is also a member of the Temperance Society.

No. 16. About 60 years of age. Had been for twenty or thirty years one of the greatest drunkards in town. Was very poor, and a brute in his family when drunk. Has trained up several sons to drunkenness. Nearly a year ago he joined the Temperance Society, and has remained sober ever since, one occasion perhaps excepted. I fear he drinks cider, and if he does he will probably soon relapse into drunkenness.

No. 17. About 50 years of age, with a large and intelligent family. Had been intemperate for many years and became very poor. Three or four years ago he joined the church and the Temperance Society, and has ever since been a sober man and a decided Christian.

No. 18. Was a great drunkard, and was very poor. Joined the Temperance Society a year or two since. Had a long drunken frolic last winter. I know little about him.

No. 19. Was a great drunkard. Now a member of the Temperance Society, and a respectable professor of religion. Has as much fear of cider and strong beer, as of rum.

No. 20. About 60 years of age, with a family, and poor. I believe he has not used ardent spirit for months. Was formerly intemperate. I know but little of him.

No. 21. About 50 years of age, with a large family. Had been intemperate long enough to waste the considerable property he had accumulated in the early part of his life. Last winter he bound himself in writing to abstain from ardent spirit. The person who wrote the instrument, begged him very long and earnestly to suffer the prohibition to extend to cider also. But the unhappy man could not consent to it. He laughed at the charge of danger in a drink of cider. It turned out, as the writer feared. He made cider his substitute for ardent spirit; and he now drinks ardent spirit perhaps as freely as ever. Many a heart bleeds for his meek and pious wife.

No. 22. About 60 years of age, with a large family. Had long been very drunken and very poor. About two years since he relinquished the use of ardent spirit. He was persuaded to attend the election last fall, and some demagogues, to control his vote, got him to drink. One of his respectable children told me that his father had not drank any ardent spirit before for a year. Had the poor father been a member of the Temperance Society, the tempting glass and the importunities of the designing might not have overcome him. I hope he does not use ardent spirit now.

No. 23. Seventy years of age, with a family. Had long been a very great drunkard. Now abstains from ardent spirit. But it is said drinks to intoxication of cider, which a professor of religion is ignorant or unprincipled enough to sell him. Has not joined the Temperance Society. One of his neighbors, who has great influence over him, talks much of church and state.

No. 24. Lives a little out of the territory, to which I have confined my examinations. Was a great drunkard-but has been, for some time, a consistent member of the Temperance Society..

No. 25. Lives near No. 24. Was quite intemperate. Has recently joined the Temperance Society, and appears very well.

No. 26. Was a drunkard, until the last three or four years. From that time, until his death, nearly a year ago, was a sober man and interesting Christian. He was about 60 years old, at his death. The cry that is often raised to justify our neglect of the drunkard, and to discourage our efforts for his recovery is, that the reformed drunkard will go back. That cry is signally rebuked and falsified in the case of No. 26; for instead of going back, he has gone to Heaven.

No. 27. About 45 years of age, with a family. Was very poor and drunken. I am informed, that he has abstained entirely from ardent spirit, for the last seven or eight months, and is pious.

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No. 28. About forty years of age, with a family. Was very poor and drunkFor the last two years, has been a respectable and faithful member of the Temperance Society. Is now so afraid of ardent spirit, that some months ago, when in great bodily pain, he refused camphor, because it was dissolved

in it.

No. 29. About 40 years old, with a family and poor. Had been intemperate for years. Has recently promised to abstain from all intoxicating liquors, and I hope soon to see him in the Temperance Society.

No. 30. Upwards of 30 years of age, with a family, and was poor. Had been intemperate for several years: but, for the last year or two, he has been a zealous and faithful member of the Temperance Society. He is now a sober, pious, industrious and money-making man.

No. 31. About 60 years of age. Had long been intemperate and poor. Lives at a distance from this place. Visited his friends here last winter, and got caught in the Temperance trap. Returned home a sober man, and, to the great joy of his numerous and very worthy family, has remained so ever since. It is said, that his old drinking companions tried very hard to get him back into the rum ranks. He is industrious in proselyting his drunken neighbors to Temperance. Of course he belongs to the Temperance Society.

No. 32. About 40 years of age. This is a very remarkable instance. He lives a number of miles from this place, but is to remove to this neighborhood in two or three weeks. Seven or eight months since, he came to me, late in the evening, for the single purpose, as he avowed, of subscribing his name to the Temperance Pledge. He was very drunk. I sought hard to put him off. But he would subscribe the pledge. He seemed to feel that this, and nothing short of this, would save him. Rather to rid myself of his importunity, than in the hope of benefitting him, I wrote the pledge for him to sign. He took the pen, fell upon his knees, and signed it; and immediately after offered an audible prayer of ten minute's length. Strange to say, he has never tasted spirituous liquor since. He is now very industrious, and very ambitious to be a man of respectability and property. His remaining affection for his amiable and pious wife seemed to be his strongest motive for signing the pledge and entering upon the redemption of his character. Let the unhappy wife of the drunkard so demean herself towards her wretched partner, as to keep alive his love of her. In some

heaven-favored moment, that love may impel him to successful efforts to escape from his bondage.

No. 33. About forty years of age. Had long been a drunkard. His family frequently needed the comforts of life. Nearly a year ago, he resolved on total abstinence from ardent spirit, and has been a sober industrious man, ever since. He has not yet joined the Temperance Society, but probably will soon join it. I believe he wishes to make a thorough trial of his constancy to his new principles, before he joins the Society. In this, he is in a common error. He needs, and so does every drunkard, who is striving to reform himself, the help of a connection with the Temperance Society to keep him from falling.

No. 34. About 55 years of age, with a family. Had been intemperate for many years. About four years ago he joined the Temperance Society, and has been a perfectly sober man ever since. Never, however, until the last winter, did he resolve to give up cider. It was much feared by some of his friends, that his use of cider would bring him back to rum.

No. 35. About 30 years of age. Well educated. Was a very great drunkard, and was very poor. Two or three years ago he joined the church, and ever since he has been a sober, pious and useful man. He removed into a neighboring town soon after he made a profession of religion.

No. 36. Very drunken and poor. Has recently joined the Temperance Society. Does well thus far. But I cannot yet form an opinion how he will hold out.

No. 37. Similar to No. 36 in all respects.

No. 38. Upwards of 50 years of age: had long been a drunkard: became pious two or three years since, and joined the church. Last winter some of his rum drinking neighbors got him to drink, until he was intoxicated. When he became sober, he was very penitent, and hastened to join the Temperance Society. Previously, he felt too strong to need the help of a connexion with it. I can now confidently say of him, that he is a sober man and a Christian.

This list would be far longer than it now is, should I add to it the names of all those persons, within the same territory, who, but for the Temperance reformation, would, in all probability, have become drunkards, ere this time. Numbers of my most respectable neighbors had already drunk ardent spirit so long as to contract a decided appetite for it.

The most important fact established by the foregoing narrative is the connection between the Temperance Reformation and the work of the Holy Spirit. Or, I might venture the remark, that innumerable instances in our country, similar to some in this narrative, establish the fact, that the Temperance Reformation is itself the work of the Holy Spirit. Well has the Reformation been called the John Baptist of the Gospel. For, in thousands of instances, it has prepared the way for the Saviour to take possession of the sinner's heart. Such conversions to God, as are recorded in this narrative, whilst they illustrate His forbearance, greatly encourage the individual, who enters into the work of reforming the drunkard, with the hope, that he may be instrumental in saving a soul from death," as well as drying up the fullest and bitterest fountains of temporal misery.

Were there space for it in this communication, I might advert to several other facts established by the foregoing narrative; and especially to the one, that the drinking of ardent spirit induces poverty. But I pass from this to say something about our process for reforming the drunkard.

Benevolence is the soul of this process, as it is emphatically of the whole Temperance enterprise: and if any are laboring to promote that enterprise from motives at all inferior to the love of their fellow men, they are at best but feeble helpers of our noble cause. Those of my neighbors, who have undertaken. in reliance on God, the work of reforming drunkards, do not feel and act towards these wretched beings, as they once did. They have learnt highly prized lessons on this subject in the great school of Temperance Reform. Formerly, they despised the drunkard. Now they pity him. Now they feel, that no class of men are entitled to draw so largely on their compassion, as drunkards are; and especially do they feel this, when they consider how much they have themselves done to make drunkards. For who of us can in truth say, that he has done nothing towards continuing that rum-drinking custom in our country,

whence have come all our drunkards? Formerly, they repulsed the drunkard from their doors; neglected his sufferings; and wherever they met him, manifested their contempt and abhorrence of him. Now, they are kind to him; furnish him with employment: are tender of his feelings, and attentive to his wants. The drunkard's self-despair arises, in a great measure, from the conviction, that he is an outcast from the public respect and sympathy. Of this we have been aware in our efforts to reform him; and we have sought to show him, that, as to ourselves at least, this conviction shall henceforth be groundless. We have taken great pains to persuade him that we are his friends, and that every improvement in his habits, however slight, would proportionably and promptly elevate him in our esteem. We have also cheerfully consented to practise every self-denial, by which we could gain his confidence: for in no way can you so surely win men's hearts to you, as by submitting to obvious selfdenial, for their sake. It was not because of his self-denial, but it was notwithstanding this endearing virtue, that the great Pattern of self-denial was crucified. Whilst inculcating the doctrine, that the drunkard, to be thoroughly reformed, must relinquish wine, cider, and malt liquors, as well as ardent spirit, we have seen and submitted to the necessity of giving up these drinks ourselves. The drunkard is affected by this self-denial for his sake; and he straightway opens his heart to those who practise it. But should we, whilst insisting on his disuse of these drinks, indulge in them ourselves, he would despise our inconsistency and selfishness: and we should only make the matter worse, by attempting to justify ourselves in saying to him: "these drinks are safe for us who are sober; but you, who have lost your self-control, are not to be trusted with them." Much as the drunkard's self-respect is impaired, he cannot brook a distinction so offensive as this.

The self-denial, that prompted the god-like Howard to visit and explore the vilest and most repulsive scenes on earth, "to take the guage and dimensions of human misery," in its most loathsome and aggravated forms, must actuate him, who would befriend and save the drunkard. His regard for the drunkard's welfare must be stronger than his disgust towards his loathsome vice; and he must toil for his rescue unweariedly. Even as the man of God fixes his weeping eyes on an impenitent neighbor, and resolves in the holy benevolence of his heart, that he will devote himself to the salvation of that neighbor; so must the friend of Temperance single out the drunkard; employ upon his recovery the fruitful ingenuity, that a good man ever has in a good cause; visit him frequently; exhort him in season and out of season;" wrestle with God for him; entreat others to be kind to him, as well in their example, as in their words; and he must finally resolve never to give over the labor, whilst his unhappy fellow being remains the slave of the bowl.

I recollect having said to you, a couple of years since, that the Temperance Reformation was worth all it had cost, if it were only for its having developed and exercised, in composition and public speaking, so much of the talent of the young men in humble life in this country. I would now add, that the Reformation is worth all it cost, had it accomplished no other good than that of teaching thousands of professors of religion, that they have little self-denial, and of course little of Christ in them. The Temperance Reformation has shown, that many a professor of this self-denying religion, would rather cling o his glass, than throw it away to save a soul.

D. (P. 64.)

Extracts from the Report of S. CHIPMAN, ESQ., who visited all the Almshouses, and Jails, in the State of New York.

To ARISTARCUS CHAMPION, Esq.-Dear sir: I am now prepared to make an exhibit of the result of an examination, which your liberality, with the blessing of God, has enabled me to undertake and accomplish, to which I have devoted nine month's time, and in which I have travelled more than four thousand five hundred miles.

Notwithstanding I have shown beyond the power of contradiction that more than three-fourths of the ordinary tax is absorbed by the support of the poor, and the administration of criminal justice-that more than three-fourths of the pauperism is occasioned by intemperance, and more than five-sixths of those committed on criminal charges are intemperate, yet the greatest obstacle in our way is the pecuniary interest of a few individuals-that of manufacturers, and venders. If the tax-payers will submit to this, we might, looking upon it as a mere matter of pecuniary profit or loss, stand by and laugh at their folly: but when we reflect that the business of the manufacturer and vender involves the temporal happiness of thousands, as well as their eternal interests, this subject assumes an infinitely more serious aspect. In no poor-house that I have visited have I failed of finding the wife or the widow, and the children of the drunkard. In one poorhouse, as my certificate will show, of one hundred and ninety persons relieved there the past year, were NINETEEN wives of drunken husbands, and SEVENTYONE children of drunken fathers. In almost every jail were husbands confined for whipping their wives, or for otherwise abusing their families. In one nine. in another fourteen, in another sixteen, had been in prison for this offence the last year in another three out of the four who were then in prison were confined for whipping their wives. But when we reflect that but a very small proportion of these brutes in human shape are thus punished, the amount of misery and domestic suffering, arising from this source, exceeds the powers of the human mind to compute; and yet the sale of that which causes all this is not only tolerated but is AUTHORISED by LAW.

You, sir, with every friend of his country, and especially, every friend to the religion of our Saviour, cannot but be pained at the bare recital of these facts, yet you, and all that are engaged in the temperance reformation, may have the pleasing reflection that you are laboring to eradicate these evils, and that a your labors and sacrifices in this cause have thus far been crowned with a measure of success so far beyond your most sanguine anticipations, as to demonstrate that the cause of Temperance is under the special protection of Him, who can, and will cause it ultimately to gain a complete and glorious triumph. The following will show the present condition of Temperance operations through

out that Stute.

The Executive Committee of the New York State Temperance Society respectfully submit to the Parent Institution the following summary of results, by the blessing of Providence consequent upon the efforts of the Society in that state, during the sixth year of its operations.

693 Towns and Cities have reported 1652 organized societies. 111 towns have not sent in their reports, all of which have one or more societies; but the committee estimate them each to contain one organization, which added, makes the town and city associations amount to 1763. The organization of the 10,000 school districts in the state is rapidly progressing: from the tenor of the reports, the committee calculate that at least 1000 of these minute associations are already formed. So that the committee feel safe in calculating 2500 as the number of associations, large and small, in the state of New York, for the promotion of temperance. The actual number of pledged members in the 659 towns reported, amounts to 320,427-averaging about 460 to each. Estimating the towns that have failed to report, at only one-half of those that have, would give the present Temperance strength, in pledged members, 340,107.

The actual increase during the past year, in the towns reported, amounts to 91,642 add the increase in towns not reported, and the cominittee estimate the whole increase of members for the past year, to be at least 100,000.

Fourteen hundred and seventy-two persons have been reported as having abandoned the sale of ardent spirits during the year, in their taverns or stores many towns, in their reports, state that ALL have abandoned the traffic; and numbers not being given, they cannot be estimated. In the towns reported, 2874 persons still continue to bring on their neighborhood taxes, beggary and death, by dealing out ardent spirit for gain.

The subscription to the Temperance Recorder in the various counties in the state, amounts to 97,924-in the whole Union, over 200,000.

In view of the foregoing results, the committee thank God, and take courage.