Word: perilous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were they total abstainers: Strong drinks are in themselves hurtful, and lead to other associaions, the most important of which is gambling. Also they are apt to be mixed with poisonous adulterations which graduall ruin the system. In conclusion Dr. Peabody said: You are all in the way of peril and temptation. Do your utmost to shun it and make it your life purpose in all things to choose the better course that you may be fully prepared for service when you go to a higher home...
GLOBE THEATRE.- Mrs. Langtry in "A Wife's Peril...
GLOBE THEATRE.- Mrs. Langtry in "A Wife's Peril...
...increase of divorce, the consequent alarm of the people, and the rise and spread of agitation on the subject, it has become a live and serious question. In the December number of the Andover Review, Rev. A. P. Peabody says: "Christian civilization at the present time is encountering no peril of so dire portent as the loosening of the mystical bond, with the inevitably consequent profligacy of every name and type...
...that the cause had made great gains in two directions, first in an increase of rational methods. Formerly the cause of temperance was in the hands of unreasonable and irrational men, who by their immoderate methods, turned away observing men. They taught that without total abstinence was the greatest peril but if we approach the subject more carefully we shall see that a man may take a glass of liquor without absolute ruin; but, on the other hand, we shall see that there is a growing consensus of opinion pointing to absolute temperance, and that to succeed in life...