Can You Tell What It Costs?
At a temperance meeting, held lately, in London, it was stated, on good authority, that the consumption of intoxicating liquors in England, costs $400,000 annually. What an immense sum of money! and all worse than wasted. In eight years this sum would pay the debt of the United States. But it is of little moment in comparison with the actual cost. Who can compute the loss in health, morals, hopes—yes, and the loss in souls, for it is written—“No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God.” Remember, too, that every soul thus lost, is of more value than the entire world, and say can you tell what it costs? A New Place of Future Punishment.—
The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily News, alluding to the death of Mouravieff, informs us that “thousands of sorrowing mothers, sisters, and wives now pray the Almighty to inflict that just retribution in heaven which he escaped on earth”