Drunkenness, The Enemy of Britain, Arrested by the Hand of God...
a Sermon Preached at a Teetotal Festival, near Liskeard...
on June 9 1840 by Benjamin Carvosso, Wesleyan Minister

Her chief failing

British Methodism and the Poor
Methodist Archives and Research Centre
John Rylands University Library, Manchester



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"I was born on the 31st of March, 1860, in a gipsy tent, the son of gipsies, Cornelius Smith and his wife Mary Welch. The place was the parish of Wanstead, near Epping Forest, a mile and a half from the Green Man, Leytonstone..."

Gypsy Smith (1860-1947)
His Life and Work
By Himself
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...for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts
Were always downward bent, admiring more
The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold,
Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed
In vision beatific....Let none admire
That riches grow in Hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
-Milton

Ours is the era of commerce, as its propagandists never weary of telling us. Business is the basis of our material lives, and consequently of our culture. Business men control our politics and dictate our laws; business men own our newspapers and direct their policy; business men sit on our school boards, and endow and manage our universities.

Book 5: The Church of the Merchants
The Profits of Religion
Upton Sinclair
English Online Resources
electronic text center
Univ. Virginia Library