J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (circa 1900)

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234 NEW TEMPEEANCE SET. The Illustrated History of Ttvo Lives, one subjected to the influence of the drinking customs of the time, and another guarded from those customs by total abstinence from alchoholic drinks, 1 Parents, in moderate circumstances, surrounded by the comforts of life, giving their child a liking for stimulants by offering it sips of wine at dessert 2 The ehild grown older, sees his father smoking and is treated to a glass of^ wine 3 The youth at school has a box sent from home containing bottles of wine, cake, &c., the liking for it increases with his growth 4 The parents of the youth reap as they have sown, they are here close on midnight awaiting with tears the return of their gay son 5 The wedding of our hero: wine of course 6 The party becomes uproarious, and the ladies retire 7 The wife is neglected, as were the parents, and sits watching for the return of her husband, but still takes wine 8 The husband brought home drunk at midnight by his so-called friends 9 The husband loses character and posi- tion, and the wi‘e and children are obliged to move to dismal lodgings, which contrast with the comforts they have been used to 10 As ihe result of indulgence and early training the husband becomes a confirmed drunkard, the wife dies from ill usage, here the wretched man lies dying, leaving his children to their hard fate U A home scene, in which drink is not introduced at dessert, but the child gets only a natural liking for nature’s delicacies >9 As the youth grows up, his intellect being clear at school, he gains the prize, and is here receiving it 18 Kepresents the youth returning home at early hours to spend his evening with brothers and sisters in elevating pursuits 14 Here the temperate youth is seen in his own house with wife and family 15 Brought up to simple pleasures, here is the temperate man and his belongings out for a pic-nic, drawing water from the spring fc Here the aged parents are bestowing fheir blessing on their grandchildren THE TABEENACLE IN THE WILDEENESS. 1 General View of the Tabernacle and the outer Court 2 Pillars of the outer (’onrt, the Boards of the Tabernacle, and view of the Tabernacle without its covering 3 The Altar of Burnt Offering in the Tabernacle Court 4 The Brazen Laver 5 The Priests and the High Priest 6 The Tabernacle, the Holy Place, inte- rior view 7 The Tabernacle, the Holy of Holies 8 The Sin Offering 9 The Poor Man’s Sin Offering 10 The National Sin Offering 11 The Scape Goat 12 Plan of the Temple Temperance Pictures. 1 Highwayman demanding “your money or your life ” 2 Publican at bar selling drink, taking both money and life 3 The Upas Tree of Drink, by Mr. 6. Peake, with some of its roots laid bare 4 The Town Pump—see Lantern Readings 6 Eve at it again—shewing how the ladies support the drinking customs 6 A Thing that Smokes and Drinks, or a man that thinks and acts 7 The Drunkard’s Cloak, of the Common- wealth time, but adapted to the cha- racters of the day, humourously put 8 Strike at the real cause, Doctor,— breaking the decanter 9 The chap that has shut up many a good establishment—a whisky bottle put- ting up the shutters 10 Sample of the work done inside—a drunken man outside a Gin Shop The Heart and its Inmates. 1 The natural heart possessed by evil pas- sions, indicated by wild and unclean beasts 2 The false professor 3 The evil passions free and unrestrained 4 The result—remorse, despair, suicide, and perdition B The eye opened by light from above 6 Salvation realized 7 Taking up the cross 8 The armour The author recommends this set to be divided into Two Lectures, and to make <he pictorial matter enough, separate pic- tures of the Tiger, the Mole, the Sow, the Snail, the Peacock, the Serpent, with two Sets of Texts setting forth the depravity of the heart, may be had