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Our thirst for drink; its cause and cure, a poem by J.K.C.
Our thirst for drink its cause and cure a poem by JKC Author:James Casey Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: over two years ago, his Ethical Poem on Intemperance, he never intended to publish another long poem on the same subject. As the old proverb has it, one thing le... more »ads to another, and so it has happened in his case. Having given, for the past two years, more attention to the Temperance Question, and having read more upon it than he had previously done, and feeling more strongly than ever the pressing need of temperance reform, he has written the following Poem as the complement and completion of his shorter didactic Poem on the subject of Drink. It may not be out of place here to mention how he came to publish his first Poem on the drink question. The Author will no longer conceal the fact—which some of his Reviewers, and notably one in America, have made public—namely, that he is a Roman Catholic Clergyman, and he will now add, having charge of a small flock among the ancient tribes of Hy-Many, in the Province of Connaught. While on the mission in one of the large towns of his native diocese, and while spiritual guardian of a Catholic Young Men's Society, he delivered, some fourteen years ago, a lecture on the "Physical and Social Evils of Intemperance." That lecture, which has never been published, suggested to him, after his removal to a retired and less laborious mission, the Ethical Poem chapter{Section 4on Intemperance, and furnished him with much of the materials. He resolved to turn those materials to account, and to give what help he could to the temperance cause, to which every patriot who loves his country, and every Christian who loves his kind, should lend a helping hand. When it is borne in mind that he had been thirty-six years a disciple of Father Mathew, to whose feet he had been brought when very young, and over nineteen years a priest ere he published a line on ...« less