The temperance movement and its workers Volume 1 ; A record of social, moral, religious, and political progress

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. 1892 Excerpt: ...This novel circumstance excited immense interest, and the signal and even ludicrous discomfiture of this champion of the traffic in intoxicating drink proved to be an eveut of incalculable importance to the cause of abstinence. This discomfiture is to be ascribed to the ability and zeal of Dr. Grindrod, whose able and annihilating reply to Mr. Youil will long be remembered in Manchester." Dr. Grindrod's answer to Mr. Youil occupied three evenings, in three successive lectures, given in the Tabernacle, Stevenson Square. At the conclusion of the third lecture a unanimous vote was passed in favour of teetotalism. Speaking of the principles advocated at this period, in the course of his lecture Mr. Youil says: "The advocates of this system, in their teaching and practices, profess to abstain entirely from the use of not only distilled spirits, but from all fermented liquors, such as ale, porter, cider, and even wine itself, considering that as these articles contain a portion of spirit or alcohol they are all pernicious to the human constitution, and only fit to be regarded by every individual as the most deadly poison." He proceeds: "In calling the attention of the public to the examination of this subject, and to show how far such a system is consonant with reason, providence, and Scripture, it will be necessary to refer to what is called 'a course of lectures' delivered by Dr. Grindrod at the Tabernacle on this subject. In those lectures, after making some general observations on the utility of the novel system he has embraced, and attempting to prove, by relating a variety of anecdotes, that water is the only beverage conducive to health--in wholesale terms he reprobated the use of all exhilarating liquors, however moderately they might ...