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Show WHY XOT KEEP UP TILE PRACTICE I It is a fact that the forty days' disuse of intoxicants intoxi-cants finds the abstainer no worse off in the end, . physically or otherwise, for that voluntary act of mortification. On the contrary, the common belief is that he is emphatically very much better off in .every respect. That being so, there is the best of reasons several o-f them in truth why the practice prac-tice should be indefinitely prolonged. Tlfe Lenten abstainer conclusively proves that he can eschew strong drink without detriment to his health, for a given period, and with a corrsponding benefit to both his spiritual nature and his pocketbok. The practice for a number of weeks of such restraint facilitates the cultivation of the same as a con-finned con-finned habit.- Therefore it demands go great exertion exer-tion of will power to develop the Lenten custom into a life custom, if one so elect, especially since the effort involves a substantial material gain without the slightest sacrifice of anything essential to the rare pleasure of existence Monitor. |