THE FOUNTAIN: A TEMPERANCE GIFT. EDITED BY Joan Green ext J. G. ADAMS AND E. H. CHAPIN. کے "I hold myself a grand reformer of the age. From such mouths as The Town Pump- Hawthorne. BOSTON: GEORGE W. BRIGGS, 403 Washington Street. 1847. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by GEO. W. BRIGGS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Stereotyped by NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDERY. HV 5295 A3 PREFACE. THE compilers of this little work have no apology to offer for its appearance now. They have reasons for believing that it will be hailed and welcomed by many. They intend it as a kind of pocket manual, a home friend, or travelling companion to the lover of Temperance-a ready oracle of truth when he would consult it for information, instruction, or duty. Here are to be heard some of the surest and strongest utterances of Temperance from its advocates of different professions, sects, stations, and experiences of life; all speaking in the same spirit "of truth and soberness." We pray that these words may be heeded, and that their repetition here will bring them to many minds not hitherto effectually reached by the righteous claims of that great practical duty of every one,- TOTAL ABSTINENCE FROM ALL THAT CAN INTOXICATE. We send out this little book, as we believe, in answer to one of the many demands of the friends of sobriety in the day in which we live. We have deep interest in the strife of Temperance now going on against its common adversaries. Any word or effort we can justly give for the right, shall not be withheld. This is a word, an effort of sincerity and love. We would here take occasion to say, that after a large part of this work had gone to press, the compilers were informed that an Annual, bearing the same name, was about to be issued at Philadelphia. But as our title had long been chosen by one of the compilers, and as the greater price of the Annual would necessarily restrict its circulation, it was not deemed best to change the name of our book. And so we invoke Heaven's blessings on our FOUNTAIN. May its living waters gush out and flow forth in gladness to many a soul. May its jets, and sprays, and droppings, as they sparkle in the bright sun of truth, give assurance to many longing eyes of a better time now near us, when the waters of inebriation and death shall cease to flow, and the healing streams of righteousness spring forth before all the nations. J. G. A. Boston, December 1, 1846. E. H. C. |