... You Cannot Make A Man Clean

Look Well To The Fire Of Your Souls, For The Tendency Of Fire Is To Go Out.

Put Your Ear Down To The Bible, And Hear Him Bid You Go And Pull Sinners Out Of The Fire Of Sin. Put Your Ear Down To The Burdened, Agonized Heart Of Humanity, And Listen To Its Pitiful Wail For Help.

There Are Men So Incorrigibly Lazy That No Inducement That You Can Offer Will Tempt Them To Work; So Eaten Up By Vice That Virtue Is Abhorrent To Them, And So Inveterably Dishonest That Theft Is To Them A Master Passion.

We Have To Recognise, That The Gin-palace, Like Many Other Evils, Although As Poisonous, Is Still A Natural Outgrowth Of Our Social Conditions. The Tap-room In Many Cases Is The Poor Man's Only Parlour. Many A Man Takes To Beer, Not From The Love Of Beer, But From A Natural Craving For The Light, Warmth, Company, And Comfort Which Is Thrown In Along With The Beer, And Which He Cannot Get Excepting By Buying Beer. Reformers Will Never Get Rid Of The Drink Shop Until They Can Outbid It In The Subsidiary Attractions Which It Offers To Its Customers.

Look! Don't Be Deceived By Appearances - Men And Things Are Not What They Seem. All Who Are Not On The Rock Are In The Sea!