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Show IMPURITY WORSE THAN DRINKING I Portland. Me, Mav IS. Impurity, r.nd not drunkenness, should be re- garded as he chief object of church at- 1 tacks, according to Bishop llobert ; Codman of the Kpiscopal diocese of Maine. In a report on d!ocesan work, Bishop Codman says that since he came to Maine he has often been in-1 vlted to speak on the temperance question, hut his answer wns that, I dreadful as drunkenness was, there was a far more Important fight to be I made In the state of Maine and that was the fight aguinst Impurity. I "Tho Anglo-Saxons have always I been addicted to drink more or less," he continued, "but drink has not kill-eel kill-eel the Anglo-Saxon race. Impurity, ' however, will destroy the nation." j |