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"He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle ever afterwards; "

I believe it is a play on word Spirit. Drunkenness was a concern at the time, and some Christians were in favor of abstinence from alcohol-- they drank no alcohol. "Spirits" can mean both something like a ghost or hard alcohol like whiskey or rum.

The spirits did not visit him anymore, so in a tongue in cheek fashion he could be said to be abstaining from them.

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