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Excerpt from Arguments for Temperance: A Sermon Addressed to the Students of the University of North Carolina, March 13th, 1831, and Published by Their Request
The poor wretch himself feels at length the access those diseases of which he has been so long sowing tl seeds. The poison he has been for yea1s taking into h system ope1ates decisitely. He sinks beneath a comp cated load (of diso1ders and infi1n1ities - sl1all I say into late or an early giave? An ea1ly grave, inasmuch as has but just reached the age when the sobe1 and temperz palt of mankind aw in thei1 p1in1e - a late one also, tor has long since ceased to be useful ln the world, and ceas thelefore to execute the office foi which God c1oated him, a for which his life was prolonged from day to day-aud agali say, an early grave; f01 has nethe died too soon who has23 dig as there is but too much reason to fear, with his sins unrep'ent of, and therefme 1'1nfo1given; who was unable to endu1et sci'utiny which mankind are accustomed to institute, a 'by which they try each others characters; abide the inquisition of that Holy God m w heavens themselves are impure.
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