text:  Need we wonder then if religion which prescribes an _abstinence_ from the pleasures of sin which enjoins continence to the sensual sobriety to the drunkard reflection to the unheeding gentleness to the irascible restraint to the voluptuous probity to the avaricious punishment to the profligate meets in such an age with very few votaries? Some doubtless will always be found who disgusted with the profligacy with which they are surrounded are led only the more rapidly to a life of rectitude and duty by such vice; but how many are they amidst the crowd of sensual and unreflecting? Perhaps one in twenty