THE BRAMBLE. TO WHICH IS ADDED A LETTER TO REV. THOMAS WHITTEMORE, An Answer To A SERMON ON TEMPERANCE IN ALL THINGS, AT WOBURN, STONEHAM, AND NEW ROWLEY, AND A REPLY To certain Editors who noticed the Bramble. BY JOHN GREGORY---Woburn, Mass. PUBLISHED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF GENTLEMEN IN METHUEN: S. J. VARNEY....PRINTER. 1837. Entered, according to the act of Congress, in the year 1837, BY JOHN GREGORY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. 1513 156 HV 5182 .683 cop. 2 NOTE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE BRAMBLE. By the solicitation of my friends in this town, I have been induced to write what I consider an Expose of Abstinence Societies. By which I mean all such societies as are founded upon the principle of the entire abolition of all intoxicating liquors, not excepting Wine. This being a free country, and every man having the privilege of expressing his opinion on important subjects, Ihave deemed it my duty to write for the benefit of all concerned in this little tract. From the abstinence man I expect no favor, I only ask him to Do unto others,' &c. The intemperate drinker will not find a word of encouragement (in his vicious course) in what I have written, but should it be the means of reforming him, I shall think my labor not in vain. Between the two extremes, abstinence and intemperance, I have found the angel Temperance; as pure as ice, as chaste as snow. She has many followers-and from them I expect to find support. If it is unpopular in the course I have taken, it was equally so with Col. R. M. Johnson, of Sunday mail memory! October 10, 1836. J. GREGORY. |