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336 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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husband ' s parish , St . Alkmond _' s _, Shrewsbury . Deeply impressed with , the evils consequent on the abuse but of intoxicating 1 to his li home quors— to -evils his
not confined to the individual _, reaching , childrenand to his children ' s children ; for , alas ! the fearful consequences , of drink are felt by succeeding generations—she to resolutel combat y
determined to bring whatever influence she possessed the this immediate crying sin . incentive The death to of exertion a parishioner and she in commenced a drunken frolic her work was
at the beginning of 1858 . The narrative , is conveyed in a series of letters addressed to the writer's sisterwhich may be an excuse
for their somewhat careless composition , ; at the same time , they furnish a truthful account of the weekly progress of the enterprise . The descriof
She commenced , her crusade in Butcher ' s Row . ption the locality is depressing enough : —
" In ancient timeswhen St . Alkmond ' s was a collegiate church , the Abbot used venues to told being reside it diverted in Butcher the , residence , the ' s Row church . of In some ceased the rei of to gn our be of county c Step olleg iate families , . the In monastic ; later now times onl re y - ,
I am le was reside there . There are several inhabited passages , , with three p slaug and oor a hter families peop beer -houses -house reside at stand ! the What in end this wonder of street them , that and ; and the worse s , peop remember le still in , three this , where pl public ace onl are y -houses forty noted - and !
for quarrelling , fighting , drinking " Hearts Mrs . and Wightman lish first Hands asked " and the advic she strong e of the ly advised author of the " Eng signing lish
of a total abstinence Eng pledge for , six months , —not that total abstinence is drink a necessity cannot be , but content because with it a is small found quantity that men . As at Dr all . g Johnson iven to restrainthe first
said of _himself"I can refrain , but cannot , " so act glass of is entering but a , a prelude public them - down house to oft- seems repeated to and act draug deeper upon hts till them ; while they as are the the spell very as it
were of Circe transforme , drawing d into the brute deeper , yet conscious of , their degradation , , thoug adulterated , h without —there the power is such of a restoration thing as . a Besides plant , called all liquors paradise are ,
whichif thrown , into a river , will so stupify the fish that they Wi float ghtman up , on the relates water a - most found This amusing that is often the anecdote put into of the of barrel how beer ; once had and , been Mrs to a .
le thrown publican aping into over ' s horror the palings troug , he , and h , and emp that loying discomfitur his rinsings all pigs hands were to at a in catch this tipsy them ecstacies , who of ,
his not mal ' a l exertions ittle practices enjoyed . than We their by cannot inserting owner show ' s the bett speech er the made e effect on of the Mrs exp . occasion o Wi sure
ghtmans To of presenting Abstinence a testimonial Society , the n n umber on i behalf ng five hun of the dred St memb . Alkmond ers : — ' s
gratitude " Madam which , —It we lias feel devolved we justl on y owe me to to present you . Althoug a small h token it has of fallen respect on and one
336 Notices Of Books.
336 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/48/
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