Lectures on Biblical Temperance

DR. NOTT'S TEN
TEN LECTURES

BIBLE TEMPERANCE.

Originally delivered at Schenectady, New York,
during the Winter of 1838-9.

A NEW EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED:

WITH NOTES AND APPENDICES, HISTORICAL

AND EXPLANATORY.

Mottoes.

"Bias, by importing its own foregone conclusions into the Word of Scripture, and by refusing to see, or to acknowledge, what makes against its own prejudices, has proved the greatest known hindrance to all fair interpretation, and has tended, more than anything else in the world, to check the free course of Divine truth."

BISHOP ELLICOTT.

Why refuse homage to just that part of the Divine wisdom to which our own depravity cares not to consent?"

DR. STEUDEL.

"Even now, after eighteen centuries of Christianity, we may be involved in some tremendous error, of which the Christianity of the future will make us ashamed."

VINET.

"Each age of the Church has, as it were, turned over a new leaf in the Bible, and found a response to its own wants. We have a leaf still to turn- -a leaf not the less new because it is so simple." A. P. STANLEY, D.D.

"History leaves no doubt, that amongst the great moral and social influences that preceded the Advent of Christ, a temperance sentiment and reformation must be numbered. It is now as of old. The Church can conquer vice by becoming a city set on a Hill'-lifted up visibly to a living moral elevation, which shall stand out in unmistakable contrast to the worldly, sensual conduct of existing profession,-and in no other way. An abiding sense of religious duty is only possible under the reign of true temperance; since the spirit of wine is essentially incompatible with the influence of the Divine Spirit. Until the Church learns this truth, its history will be one of alternate conquest and collapse-of spasmodic success instead of continuous advance."

DR. F. R. LEES.

LECTURES

BIBLICAL TEMPERANCE.

BY ELIPHALET NOTT, D.D.,

PRESIDENT OF UNION COLLEGE, SCHENECTADY.