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SHOT AND SHELL

FOR

TIE TEMPEIUNCE CONELICT.

REV. D. EOGEES

(OK THE LONDON CONKEKENCE) ;

WITH AN

» INTRODUCTION BY REV. E. H. DEWART. D.I,.,

TORONTO.

) ' **ALIPAX : S. F. HUESTIS.

I 1884.

/^0SBP5 D

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ENTEKKD, accordliiK to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-four, by David Rooebs. In the Oftlce of the Minister of Agriculture.

/^/?c^rA5

PREFACE.

It is related of an individual who attempted to read
through a book on :\Ioral Science that he wrote the following
verse on the flyleaf : —

If there should be another flood,

For refuge hither fly ;
Though all the world should be submerged,

This book would still be dry.

It is the humble hope of the author of this volume that
none will find it - dry:' It treats a live, throbbing question.
The ndmes attached to the "contributed" articles are a
sufllcient guarantee that they are worthy of perusal.

My object throughout has been to interest and profit both
old and young, and incite to a more earnest and continued
eflfort to aid in removing the greatest evil that can afflict
any people.

If it succeeds in this, the highest ambition of the writer
will be realized.

D. R.

KiNTORE, December 20th, 188S.

J I

INDEX.

Advice, Good 181

A Glance at the Situation Rev. J. J. Ricf 115

An Appeal to Voters A. R. Carman, B.A. 154

Blighted Hopes ; or, the Widow's Son, Rev. W.Galhraith^LL.B. 1 18

Boys Wanted 178

Britons never shall be Slaves Rev. E. A. Stafford, A.B. 112

Canada Temperance Act of 1878 73

Children, Take care of the Rev. Charlex Oarrett 1 72

Church and Temperance Rev. E. H. Dcwart, D. D. 50

Close the Saloons Rev. W. K. Boyle 124

Conflicting Corners Jacob Spence 160

Decanter, A Shot at the T. L. Cnyler, D.D. 82

Drink, Strong — (1) Cause of Wretchedness Dr. QiUhrie 14

(2) An Enemy of the Gospel .... Biahop Fohh 15

Enemy, An, at Work 9

False Lights Dr. T. L. Cuyler 32

Hold the Fort W. H. T. 92

License or Prohibition Rev. D. L. Brethour 57

Liquor Bills in the United States 30

Liquor Traffic, The 16

•• Dealing with it . . ..Rev. W. A. McKay, B.A. 56

Described J. B. Oougk 23

How Can We Tolerate It? T.D.Talmage,D.D. 21

How to Deal with it ..Rev. E. H. Dewart, D. D. 25

Its Ruinous Work. .ifsv. E. H. Dewart, D.D. 20

Its Wickedness Rev. J. G. Seymour 23

War against the Dr. Talmage 27

" ' Won't Let us Alone Rev. F. P. Thwing 21

Man-eating Tree of Canada, The Rev. J. A. McGlung 127

<«

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INDKX.

Methodiviu aud Temper»uu« Rtv. M. L, Ptar$on

Moderation, Danger uf

National Liquor Bills in the United States

Only Now and Then

Organized Efforts Reo. John /fall, D. D.

Our War-cry

Pipe, SamMiy Hicks and his Rev. T. E. Thornby

Pledge, The Girl's and Boy's . .

Pledge, Take the

Poison : A Recitation

Prayer, A Rev. J. B, Williams

Prohibition

Prohibition, Benefits of

Remuneration to Liquor Dealers Rev. K. Creiqhton

Smoke, Do not

Smoking, Juvenile Rev. E. H. Dewart, D.D.

Song, A. Temperance Rev. Dr. Hatfield

Speech, Woodie's Temperance

Teetotal Waggon

Temperance Cause, A Bed-rock for the Dr. Cuyler

•• '* What it has Done Rev. Newman Hall

" " Progress of the

Gospel of Dr. Talmage

Man, A Plucky

" Thoughts at Random Strung

The Question of the Times Rev. Wm. McDonagh

Tobacco as a Medicine

Total Abstinence, Safety of

" " Benefits of

" " vs. Moderation Rev. J. G. ArUliff, B.D.

" " Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D.

What We Need

Which Jug

Young Men, An Address to

Young, A Few Words to the

.R. T. Booth

176

180

181

166

177

179

182

102

171

184

104

143

179

132

141

178

163

Introduction.

LL who have carefully studied the si^nH of the time», in regard
to temperance work and social reform, must be convinced
that the difTu^ion of sound arguments and correct information, in
relation to the litiuor traffic, the drinking usages of society, and
the physical and moral eff'ects of alcohol, is an essential condition
of success. A Irrge majority of the people never make these
subjects a special study, and have very imperfect ideas of the evil
and danger which result from this cause. It is specially im-
portant that our young people be early instructed on these points,
so that thev may have correct \.t -s legarding the basis of right
conduct. Those who are well inlormed respecting the grounds
of duty, and the facts and lyumrnts by ' hich total abntinence
and reformatory work are VAndicated. T.e less likely to be turned
aside from the right vay by plait ible sophistries, or eaonaring
temptations. vVe want a gentmlJon trained in sound principles
and right habits ; and we will nevpr win a complete victory over
the combined forces of selfish interest and evil habits, till we gain
this vantage ground, from which to carry on our warfiire against
intemperance and the evils which follow in its train.

In this little volume, Mr. Rogers presents a valuable contribu-
tion towards educating the public mind on thi» great practical
question. Here will be found a good collection of stirring and
instructive articles, on the different phases of the temperance
theme. The importance of abstinence, the evils of the traffic, and
the necessity for earnest action are forcibly presented. Neither
old nor young can carefully read this book without profit. It is
indeed "Shot and Shell" — something that, while it inspires
those who read it to greater zeal in reformatory work, will, at
the same time, furnish facts and arguments, which they may
effectually use in the battle against this terrible evil. I hope it
will have a wide circulation, and rouse to action many who are
now indolent or indifferent.

VIU

INTRODUCTION.

I would urge all readers of these pages, first of all to give the
full influence of their example on the right side. Let no false
i 'sas of fashion or gentility induce you to deem the v.ine-cup a
harmless thing. In the next place, use every means in your
power, social, moral, and legal, to lessen or destroy the evils of
tippling and intemperance.

The motives that prompt to vigorous and united action have
not been weakened by the lapse of time. The baneful results of
a legalized liquor traffic are still unspeakably deplorable. What-
ever temporary inaction may characterize our temperance agencies
in their work, there is no cessation of the poverty, crime, and
ruin produced by intoxicating liquors. Personal Christian efi'ort,
to reform the fallen and shield the young, should go hand in
hand with earnest and united endeavours to enforce the law
against the traffic. Unless we are content to stand idly watching
the progress of intemperance, and thus becoming in some degree
responsible for the terrible consequences, we must vigorously use
the legal means which the Parliament of our country has
furnished for preventing the evils of the liquor traffic. After we
have succeeded in securing what we believe to be a greatly
improved local option law, it would be unwise, unpatriotic, and
recreant to duty, to neglect to take the necessary steps to bring
this law into force, merely because selfish and interested parties
are anxious to disparage and misrepresent it. Every available
agency by which the work may be forwarded should be vigorously
brought into play. Among the most effective of these are the
diffusion of sound literature, and the training of the young in
our Sunday-schools and homes in right principles and habits, so
that they may be a numerous, valiant, and intelligent army, to
battle for the destruction of this great enemy to the progress and
happiness of our country.

E. HARTLEY DEWART.

"Christian GaARDiAN" Offiob,
Toronto, December, 1883.

SHOT AND SHELL.

"AN ENEMY HATH DONE THIS."

HE parable from which the heading of this
paper is selected, is founded on something
we can all understand. In olden time when a
man wanted to injure his neighbor, he would
cross his field, after it had been sown in
wheat, with a sack full of tiEires, and scatter
it all over the field. Of course it would soon sprout
up and greatly injure, if not spoil the crop. Our
version calls this mischievous seed " tares," but some
travellers who have encountered the same plant de-
scribe it as the " darnel " — a seed which in its early-
growth is somewhat like the wheat, but when the ear
is formed the difierence is clearly seen.

The mischief was done " while men slept." It may
not have been at night, however, as in the East they
usually took a short sleep after the mid-day meal, and
the darnel may have been sown then. And sometimes
we are asleep and waken not until the vicious seeds
have taken root and sprouted — indeed, in some
instances, have brought forth a frightful harvest.
2

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Whether it was by night or by day, one thing is
certain, our unwatchfulness is Satan's opportunity.

This practice of darnel sowing is still practiced in
these times in many ways.

1. The " enemy " makes use of the printing press to
scatter his seeds. At no period were there ever so
many good books and papers in circulation as at
present. But we regret that much of the literature
of to-day is charged with insidious infidelity — and
that which sneers at religion and caricatures its pro-
fessors. The land is full of light, vicious publications.
Every railroad train has its agents, and men and
women who love money write and push these produc-
tions, irrespective of their moral character or religious
tone. I could name some such books and papers, but
my practice is usually to let Satan do his own adver-
tising. It is enough to say that as a Church, and as
parents we must not sleep, but put in motion counter-
acting influences that will neutralize and destroy the
bad influence of these immoral and skeptical issues
from a corrupt press. Talk not of religious publica-
tions being too dear : no religious book or paper can
be too expensive, if by its introduction into the home
the destroying influences of a skeptical and licentious
press are averted.

A preacher recently was urging one of his members
to subscribe for a religious paper. He declined on
the ground that he could not take any more papers,
and that he had taken religious papers and his children
would not read them. The preacher suggested if he

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were able to take secular papers he certainly was able
to take religious ones, and reasoned that the moral
and reliiiious instruction of his children was of more
importance than any other interest. As to the second
reason, " that his children would not read them," the
minister was at a loss to reply. A short time after-
ward he visited that family, and the reason why a
religious paper was unread was apparent. On the
table was the secular paper of the day, with its columns
filled with open and insidious assaults on Christianity
— a sensational weekly ; and open on the table, with
its vicious pictures exposed to the gaze of son and
daughter, was a copy of the Police Gazette. No wonder
a religious paper was an unwelcome visitor in that
home. "An enemy" had been there, and the " tares " of
an immoral taste had been sown. There is a very inti-
mate connection between this kind of reading and the
commission of crime. A few months ago only, a
twelve-year-old boy in Alabama, who was a constant
reader of the Police Gazette and other such trash, took
his revenge upon a negro for a trifling injury by split-
ting his head open with an axe. In the boy's pocket
was found a copy of a paper containing a thrilling
illustration of the Franklin County tragedy of ten
years ago, when a man killed '^ne Rackard with an
axe. The deed of the youngst. is directly traceable
to the reading of those books which give false views of
life and make it noble and heroic to do such deeds.
Both of the above may be extreme cases, yet I fear there
are thousands who are permitting the good impressions

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made on the minds of their children by the preaching
of the Gospel and Sabbath-school instruction to be
supplanted by the sensational and positively infidel
literature of the day. The fathers and mothers who
are asleep, and allow this " darnel" to be sown in their
home, and fail to provide the antidote in the form of
sound moral and religious reading, are committing a
fearful blunder, aye, more — a sin which will make
their hearts ache some day, when its fruit shall be
gathered from the lives of unbelieving and irreligious
sons and daughters. One of the objects we have in
sending out this little volume is, that it may do its
part in counteracting the evil influences of such books
and papers as are referred to in this paragraph.

2. " An enemy hath done this " finds an illustration
also in the drinking customs of the present time. A
father and mother may be scattering good seed in the
form of advice, prayers, and entreaties, while the
enemy scatters amid it all the wretched " darnel seed "
of enticing him to drink that which yields a fearful
crop of sn.d consequences. He who thus entices an-
other is, without doubt, doing the devil's work, and
while a terrible responsibility rests upon associates
who trap and ensnare each other with drink, we go
farther back and say, a great responsibility rests upon
the liquor dealer against whom is pronounced the
" woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink," — and
farther back still, the responsibility rests upon you and
I, as voters, electors, and public teachers, if we fail in
our duty, for every one who will vote for men who

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encourage this system of darnel-sowing, this traffic in
drink, is responsible, so far as his influence goes, for
the whole results that follow. Let every one enter
into a crusade against this " great red dragon of In-
temperance, with its ten horns hooking and lacerating
society."

We are gratified because of the great change in
public opinion within the last ten years, in relation to
this form of "darnel sowing." Without doubt this
change has been wrought mainly through the inde-
fatigable labors of the temperance people, and we
intend, God helping us, to work on and pray on until
we secure the desired end — Prohibition. At a critical
juncture in the American war of 1864, the Cabinet
were in session at the " White House," anxiously wait-
ing for tidings from the sanguinary conflict then
waging in Virginia. A despatch at length arrived
stating that the Union forces were driven back and
badly demoralized. After a brief silence, in which
the members of the Cabinet looked at each other,
one of them said, " Well, Mr. President, what next ? "
Mr. Lincoln calmly replied, " There is only one thing
for us to do, and that is to keep pegging away." This
homely yet significant utterance of Abraham Lincoln
is especially applicable to us in our work. It was
constant and unrelenting efforts that closed the saloons
in Jessemine County in Kentucky. There is not a
licensed whiskey shop there, and in Tennesee rigorous
laws have just been enacted which are working untold
good among all classes. " Drunkards cease to stagger

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through the streets, drunkards' wives wipe the tears
from their faces and take fresh heart, young men
cease hanging around the saloons taking their first
lessons in drinking, taxation is lightened, and industry
increased." These results are a happy surprise to all
except a small class who may feel aggrieved that they
are no longer allowed to prey upon society, and scatter
seeds which overrun the whole nature with useless
and sinful habits.

Let us seek by every legitimate means — the scatter-
ing of good literature, the power of good example —
to neutralize and destroy the work done by those who
are scattering the devil's " darnel." Let good men
and women go on in the work of spreading light,
scattering good seed, and helping the good cause by
the use of facts, argument, and persuasion.

STRONG DRINK.

I. The Cause op Wretchedness.

-tW HAVE heard the sad wail of children for bread,
and their mother had none to give them. I
have seen the babe pulling at breasts as dry as if
the starved mother was dead. I have known a father
to turn a stepdaughter into the streets at night, bid-
ding the sobbing girl, who bloomed into womanhood,
earn her bread there as others were doing. I have
bent over the foul pallet of a dying lad, to hear him

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the tears
mg men
heir first
industry
rise to all
that they
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a father
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manhood,
I have

lear him

whisper that his father and mother, who were sitting
half drunk by the fireside, had pulled the blanket off
his body to sell for drink. I have seen the children
blanched like plants growing in a cellar — for weeks
they never breathed a mouthful of fresh air, for want
of rags to cover their nakedness ; and they lived in
continual terror of a drunken father or mother com-
ing home to beat them. I do not recollect ever seeing
a mother in these wretched dwellings dandling her
infant, or of hearing the little creature crow or laugh.
These are some of drink's doings, but nobody can
know the misery I suffered amid those scenes of
wretchedness, woe, want, and sin." — Dr. Outhrie.

II. An Exemy of thb Gospel.

" As a Christian minister I oppose drink, because it
opposes me. The work I try to do it undoes. My
charge against it at this point is single and simple. It
is an obstacle which assails the gospel, and whose com-
plete success would drive the gospel from the earth.
The chains it forges are the strongest and most gal-
ling ever fastened to the human body of the human
soul. There is not a sinner on the face of the earth so
unlikely to be savingly affected by the influence of
the sfospel as the habitual drunkard. He may be a
man of delicate sensibility, of lofty purpose, and of
towering intellect ; he may have qualities which, un-
tainted with alcohol, would adorn his character ; but if
he is addicted to his cup his destination is almost in-
evitabl3^ to the bottomless pit. The salvation of a

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thorough drunkard is one of the mightiest miracles of
Almighty grace. I know men who are frequently
convicted of their need of experimental religion, but
who are held back from a single step toward it by
the charms of rum. All other fetters would be as
gossamer in the way of their urgent longings : this
holds them. Many a poor, heart-broken wretch has
staggered up to the alter for prayer, and cried earn-
estly for mercy, and reeled away again to drown his
sorrows in the bowl which caused them, and which
will aggravate them until they culminate amid un-
quenchable flames." — Bishop Foss.

THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

N some villages and rural districts there may be a
few who know or see comparatively little of the
widespread and tremendous evils resulting from the
traffic in strong drink, but the great majority have
such abundant evidence that there is no possibility of
their remaining in ignorance respecting them. Others
see, but are almost indifferent, and may not be aroused
until the " rum fiend " enters their home and blasts the
character and life of some member of their own family.
We propose to give the testimonies of great men who
have been awakened to the fact that there is nothing
so destructive to the happiness and morals of the
people as is this body and soul destroying traffic.

The Bishop of Manchester, England — "Beer and
wine shops with vaults are gateways to hell."

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SHOT AND SHELL

John Wesley — " They murder by the wholesale,
neither doth their eye pity or spare, and the inheritance
of blood is theirs."

Dr. Willard Parker, of New York—" The alcohol is
the one evil genius whether in wine, or ale, or whiskey,
and is killing the race of man."

John Williams, the martyr Missionary of the Pacific
Islands — '* I dread the arrival of an American ship, for
though she may have more missionaries in her cabin,
she brings in her hold the death water of damnation."

Robert Hall, a very sober and eloquent orator,
following in Shakespeare's line, said — "It is a liquid
and distilled damnation;" and in our own day an
eminent scientific authority has said, " It is the devil
in solution."

The late General Dix, Governor of New York — " I
am very glad you have allowed the Woodland House
to remain vacant instead of renting it for the sale of
liquors. I would rather let it remain vacant until the
end of time than to have it rent for such a purpose. I
consider rum the cause of nine -tenths of all the mur-
ders, poverty, and crimes in the country, and no
earthly consideration would induce me in the remotest
manner to contribute to its sale."

Why does not the trafiic come out and tell us some
of its virtues ? There are many and serious charges
against it : is it guilty or not guilty ? It certainly
accomplishes wonderful and sad transformations in
society. Who has not seen it as it takes a boy of
beauty and promise, teaches him to carouse with gay

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associates, and makes him a bloated, loathsome, worth-
less man ? Who has not seen it as it takes a young
gill, loved and lovable, and converts her into a
miserable, haggish woman, at whom passers-by point
with fingers of scorn ? It breaks hearts, blasts char-
acter, destroys the happiness of homes, murders
citizens, and laughs at all efforts to check it in its
deadly tread.

Though these are but a few of its ravages, yet to say
that it accomplishes these is a serious charge. If the
charges are not true, let the traffic refute them.

" Thousands are yet distilling
The poison of our race,
And graves and prisons filling
With death and diia disgrace."

These facts are sufficient to convince the incredulous
and inform the unknowing. But I think it safe to
assume that every one knows something of the evils
connected with this traffic of poison and death. With
every patriot and Christian the practical question is,
"Are we to sit by and tamely submit to it year by
year ? "

As citizens of a Christian country we must bo made
to feel this truth, that so far as our influence and vote are
concerned, we are responsible for the continuance of it.

" In the providence of God the people of this country
are the rulers ; their votes control the law-makers and
those who execute the laws ; hence they are particeps
criminus in all the mischief which this traffic is doing
in this land.

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" Before the bar of public opinion, and before the
Judge of all the earth, we charge that the freemen of
this country are responsible for all this waste and ter-
rible tide of woe. They have the power to throttle
this great ' blood-gorged dragon' and destroy him. If
they fail to do so, they must stand charged with being
partakers in this dark and terrible criminality ; and if
the court of public opinion fails to abate the evil,
the guilty must face the charge in the light of the
Judgment-fires."

1. Its Ruinous Work,

" The liquor traffic is spreading irreligion, idleness,
poverty, and crime among the people. Shall we sit
tamely by and allow this work of demoralization to
proceed unchecked ? Are the financial interests of
the liquor sellers, who fatten on the ruin of others, to
outweigh the interests of the people ? The principle
of prohibition is already recognized, in the various
restrictions imposed upon the traffic. It is simply a
question of extending the operation of this principle.
If the use of intoxicating liquors, promoted by a
legalized traffic, destroys a great quantity of food
annually, withdraws a large proportion of industry
and talent from spheres of usefulness, and promotes
poverty, vice, and misery among the people, in the
name of common sense, how can it be injurious to the
country to arrest this waste of food and waste of
talent, or to adopt measures that will prevent the
formation of those habits of intemperance that have

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prematurely blighted so many lives ? Men of Canada,
on! War a good warfare against this demoralizing
business. Be not laggards in this moral strife. Let
the people, inspired by a true Christian patrotism,
rise in their invincible strength and wipe out for ever
this blot upon the fair fame of our beloved country."
~E. H. Deivart, D.D.

TI. How CAN WE Tolerate It.

" How a Christian people professing the doctrines of
Christ, professing to be measurably imitators of His
life and example, how such a people can wink and
blink at the liquor traffic passes comprehension. The
thief of a few pennies is sent to jail, and deservedly.
A man who strikes another is punished by the strong
arm of the law. And yet a Christian people allows
its citizens to deal out that which reduces thousands to
beggary, which steals the brains, which nurtures and
fosters crime, which demoralizes society and ruins
souls. Liquor to the right of us, liquor to the left of
us, liquor in front of us, drunk at the corner grocery,
drunk at the public bar, drunk in the railway trains.
And we are a Christian people, and this is the nine-
teenth century. It is a long jump to heaven from the
top of a whiskey barrel." — T. D. Talmage, D.D.

III. It Won't Let Us Alone.

" It is sometimes .said, 'Rum never hurts those who
let it alone.' Go stand to-night beneath this waning
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and you will see a little new-made grave. Over it
bends the branches of a walnut-tree, through which
the struggling moonbearas reveal the resting-place of
our latest born and earliest taken. It is sweet with
flowers and tears, and consecrated by prayer and
psalm. Autumn showers have steeped the sod, yet by
the cuttings of the spade the stranger sees it is the
grave of a child. When I go to the little grave I can-
not help feeling a new consecration to the noble
reform. Do you ask why ? Startle not when I speak
out of my heart. Rum helped to dig my hoy's grave.
Indirectly, perhaps, but really. Yes ! intoxicating
drink stole away the senses of one who was in charge
of these two little brothers while their parents were
absent at the death-bed of a mother. Deserting her
charge, she wandered about, incoherently talking of
unfulfilled duties, and left them without food or drink,
companionship or care. Half -starved and chilled, the
little convalescent soon relapsed, and passed away ere
long to the safer custody of Christ above. I have no
curses to pour on any human being, however deeply
he may have sinned ; but on the traffic which can not
only stultify man but besot woman — which puts pro-
perty in peril, and renders life insecure — upon that I
heap my hottest hate ! By all the love I bore to that
child, by all I bore to others just as precious, that is
high and holy, I vow against this trade eternal war. —
Rev, F. P. Thwing.

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IV. Traffic Described.

" I will tell you my idea of the liquor traffic very
briefly. God for<^ive me, I do not speak of it boast-
ingly, for my sins are ever before me ; seven years of
my life was a dark blank. I know what the burning
appetite for stimulant is ; I know all about it, and I
have sat by the dying bedside of drunkards ; I have
held their hand in mine ; I have tried to lead them at
the last gasp to the Saviour who never turned any
away that came to Him : and yet, in the light of my
own experience and the experience of others that I
have received through my observation, I could say,
Father in Heaven, if it be Thy will that man shall
suffer, whatever seemed good in Thy sight of temporal
evil, impose it on me ; let the bread of affliction be
given to me to eat; take from me the friends of old age;
let the hut of poverty be my dwelling-place ; let the
wasting hand of disease be laid upon me; let me walk in
the whirlwind, live in the storm; let the passing away
of my welfare be like the flowing of a stream, and the
shouts of my enemies like rain on the waters ; when I
speak good, let evil come on me — do all this, but save
me, merciful God, save me from the bed of a drunkard !
And yet, as I shall anwer to Thee in the day of judg-
ment, I had rather be the veriest sot that reeled
through your streets, than I would be the man who
sold him his liquor for a month." — J. B. Gough.

V. Its Wickedness.

"The liquor traffic exists still in our midst. It
wields a gigantic power; it is enormously rich in

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capital ; it has any amount of desperate pluck ; those
interested in maintaining it are legion; the sacred
sanction of law still shelters it, and it goes on hourly
doing its deadly work all over our land. While this
state of things lasts we need not boast much. The
truth is we are, after all, only begining to see a little
into the infinite wickedness and peril to society of this
whole business. The proof of this statement is in the
simple fact that we can tolerate such a thing amongst
us with so much patience and placidity, while we
pretend to be a civilized, intelligent, virtuous, and
Christian people. There is enough villany in connec-
tion with the liquor trade, in any one day, to awaken
such a storm of virtuous indignation from one end of
the country to the other, as would never calm down
until the whole traflfic were throctled to death. But
days, weeks, months, and years of its most infernal
iniquities pass before our eyes, and no such storms of
righteous wrath awaken, except in the breasts of indi-
viduals here and there. We are not as intelligent, as
civilized, as conscientious, as we think. It is neither
civilization nor Christianity to legalize such a trade as
this at all. It is a monstrous perversion of justice to
stretch out the mighty arm of the law to defend men
in pursuing such a trade as this liquor traffic. What
are those great distillers? They are murderers by
wholesale of Her Majesty's subjects. That was John
Wesley's opinion, and he never said a truer thing.
What are these liquor saloons and grog-shops ? Their
true classification is houses of ill-fame. Whether it be

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the liquor-bars of the palatial city hotel, or the rough
country tavern, they are one and all infamous dens,
that ought to be raided by the police and broken up
as a nuisance of the very worst sort. And w^hat are
those millions of revenue we so willingly take as a
bribe to permit this horrible thing to live? It is
accursed blood money, every dollar of it." — Rev. J. C.
Seymour.

VI. How TO Deal with it.

"The liquor traffic can never be satisfactorily regu-
lated — it must be suppressed. No matter what the
law may be, or how it may be enforced, anything
short of entire prohibition will not satisfy the temper-
ance community. Christian men everywhere are be-
ginning to see more clearly the sin of making legal
that which God has stamped with his own word of
condemnation ; and even men of the world are being
led to question seriously the wisdom of licensing the
cause of crime and punishing the effect. So terrible a
curse as intemperance should be exterminated — not
tolerated. The liquor traffic should be made illegal,
and then the war against it could be more consistently
and zealously carried on. There is an absurd as well
as a serious aspect to our present law on this matter.
We make the traffic lawful and respectable by licens-
ing it, and then cry out about its iniquity and vile-
ness; we give a saloon-keeper authority to make a
man drunk, and then, in the police court the next
morning, fine the poor fellow for getting drunk ! The
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sooner we, as a community, adopt a more reasonable
and common sense method of dealing with this great
question, the better for our country. If the liquor
traffic is right, let us place no restrictions upon it ; if
it is wrong, the whole system should be put under the
ban of the law." — Christian Guardian.

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A PRAYER.

_0D of eternal love.

Throned in the world above,
Regard our prayer.
Behold with pitying eye,
The multitudes who lie,
Fall'n to the ground to die.
In deep despair.

Intemperance, like a wave,
£ears hundreds to the grave,

As moments fly.
In this auspicious hour.
Display Thy mighty power,
Send blessings like a shower,

Down from on high.

In this our native laud,
The sons of freedom stand,

And wait to see
Their country free from thrall.
King alcohol's downfall.
And temperance over all,

Reigning supreme.

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asonable
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on it; if
inder the

Then shall our country rise,
The fairest 'neath the skies,

A joy to see.
Bright as the morning star,
Sending her light afar,
Her golden gate ajar,

Land of the free.

— Bev. J. B. Williama.

WAR AGAINST THE TRAFFIC.
Who will Help us in this Work?

HAVE to tell you the women will be on our side.
" Oh," says some one, " that makes no diflference;
they can't vote." They can and they do. Are you not
willing to acknowledge that the wives and mothers of
America are the mightiest power extant ? The women
carried Iowa and Kansas for State Prohibition, and
the women will carry the United States for National
Prohibition. Every man with a wife who is not a fool
is affected by her moral sentiment. If a business man
wants business advice he goes to a business man, but
if he wants moral advice he asks his wife, unless he is
resolved on immorality, and then he asks no one.
Woman understands the ravages of this dragon. She
has seen one of its feet in the nursery, and another in
in the wardrobe, and another foot in the empty bread
tray, and the other foot saturated with the tears and
blood of a desolate home. Woman knows what rum
does by its fiery wake. Charles Dickens laughs at the

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punch bowl, and poets garland the wine cup, and
many an impersonator has made audiences roar with
mirth at the step of the drunkard, but women sees but
little fun in that dramatization. She looks beyond
the foot lights of the comedian until she sees the
blue, cold, shoeless feet of little children, and the
daughter by destitution turned into a life of infamy,
and the gash across the wife's temples from the edges
of a decanter, and a wild, disheveled man standing
midfloor, uttering a halloo that makes the children
shriek and the wife drop on her knees looking to-
wards a God who for ten years has not seemed to care
anything for her — that maniac with one fist dashing
to pieces the mirror at which his bride once arranged
her tresses, while with the other he throws the family
bible with the marriage record into the flames, and
with cracked lips curses the God who will yet avenge
the cause of his children, though his judgments tarry
long. There is not much fun in all that for women.
Oh, we shall have in this country a million Deborahs
ready to help the Baracs in this conflict, and who will
go forth and demand of the United States Govern-
ment national prohibition.

II.

Churches of God will come in solidly on the subject.
The world may scofi" at Christian people as insignifi-
cant, but banded together for any great moral move-
ment, they can carry anything at the ballot-box and in
Congressional assembly. The trouble is they have

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never yet massed their forces. The rum-drinking pro-
fessors of religion will get out of her and go clear over
to the devil who owns them now from hat to heel, and
the Methodist Church, and the Baptist Church, and
the Congregational Church, and the Episcopalian
Church, and the Presbyterian Church led on by some
Dr. Guthrie, and the Catholic Church led on by some
Father Mathew, will come in on this cause, and then
the question will be so thoroughly settled, and the
work will be so thoroughly done, that after you and I
are dead and gone, and far on in the future, in a mu-
seum in this country, there will be standing on the
same shelf the lachrymatory of an ancient tomb, and
the demijohn of a modern wine cellar, both alike
curiosities; and the antiquarian in his lecture will ex-
plain to his students how one of them was a receptacle
of tears for the dead, and the other was the fountain
of tears for the living. For the Church of God, for all
patriots, for all good women as well as good men, let
the battle-cry for the next twenty-five years be,
" Down with the rum traffic ! National prohibition !
No quarter for the license system ! Eternal smash for
the wine bottles ! Death to the red dragon ! " I take
the sword of the Lord and of Gideon, and I thrust the
old grizzly monster through, and through, and through,
and stamp orv the execrable carcase, and cry with the
angel that St. John saw standing in the sun at the
time the beast was slain, saying to all the fowls that
fly in the midst of heaven, " Come and gather your-
selves together to the supper of the great God!" —
T. D. Talmage.

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TEETOTAL WAGGON.

' HIS good Teetotal Waggon was running rather slow,
Until the ladies lent a hand, and then it had to go ;
For, when they fight for God and Right, it isn't worth denying
They'll have their way and win the day, or else they'll die
a-trying.

The Opposition waggon is freighted down with woes.

Its track is strewn with blood and tears as through the world

it goes.
It runs upon a downward grade ; Perdition is its level ;
Its passengers are drunkards, and its driver is the d — ramseller.

And now, good friends, before we start, we've this good word

to say :
Let tipplers quit that Whisky Cart and go the other ^^'!iJ ;
While temperance men and women too, and boys and girls

beside.
We'll stay on board the journey through, and all take a ride.

Sel.

NATIONAL LIQUOR BILLS IN UNITED STATES.

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STIMATES are made from time to time, based on
returns from the Internal Revenue office, Police
and other places, Hospitals, Insane Asylums, Poor-
houses and charitable institutions, from which it is
calculated with reasonable certainty that the liquor
bills in this country amount yearly to not less than

1. Direct expenses, $600,000,000.

2. Indirect expenses, an equal amount.

3. Intemperance bums and destroys property,
amounting to $10,000,000.

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4. It destroys 70,000 lives.

5. It makes 30,000 widows, and 100,000 orphans.

6. It makes 500 maniacs.

7. It instigates 250 murders, and causes 500 suicides.

8. It consigns to jail 500,000 criminals.

9. And greater than all this, it endangers the inherit-
ance of liberty left us by our fathers, by debauching
the voters and making instruments for upholding cor-
ruption by means of the ballot-box.

The above statements, with a degree of correct-
ness are applicable to our otherwise fair Dominion.
" These are the days of boasted patriotism, but how
can we be patriots if, by word or deed, our example
encourages the drinking customs of the day ? A tre-
mendous outcry was raised in our fatherland about
tithes, and they did not amount to one million a year;
but when are the patriots to condemn the appropria-
tion of $20,000,000 a year to the purposes of vice and
poverty, sickness and crime in the coi?sumption of
ardent spirits, liquid death, which has dooded our
country, and notwithstanding all the vigorous efforts
put forth, the flood of misery rolls on. ! Son of
God, stretch forth Thine arm omnipotent, and sweep
the earth, redeemed by Thy blood from this soul-
destroying abomination, that the beauties of holiness
may clothe every region and the songs of heaven float
on every breeze."

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THREE FALSE LIGHTS.

^HE first one is that God's Word approves and
'^ sanctions the use of alcoholic beverages! For
one hundred years American slavery was buttressed
by the same plea, that the Bible sanctioned it. But
since the battle of Appomatox the sharpest eye never
discovered such a passage. The teachings of Scripture
may be summed up in four heads :

1. The Bible in various passages point out the evils
and the perils of intoxicating drinks. It never pro-
nounces a blessing on an intoxicant, and often warns
men against its use ; several passages forbid such use.

2. The Bible in several passages approves and com-
mends abstinence from intoxicating beverages. There
is nob a single verse in this Book which condemns total
abstinence.

3. The whole spirit of the Word of God teaches self-
control and self-denial, both for our own sakes and for
the good of our fellow-men. The only passage in
which the word " moderation " occurs, has no reference
whatever to moderate drinking. It has not the
faintest reference to the use of beverages. The word
itself translated signifies constancy, calmness and
quietness.

4. Every passage in the Bible is to be studied in the
light of the whole Book. The whole Book teaches the
same truths which God has written upon our bodily
constitution. If alcohol poisons the body, disorders
the brain corrupts the character, damns the manhood

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and destroys the soul, it is forbidden by the whole
volume of the revealed Word.

The second false light is that wine and ale and
other alcoholic beverages are creatures of God, to be
not refused, but used in " moderation and with thanks-
giving." I have heard that quoted since I was a child.
As to alcoholic beverages being good creatures of God
and to be used with thanksgiving, I deny as an
absurdity. Alcohol is not a "good creature" of the
God of love, for it is nowhere to be found in the whole
domain of nature. While the Almighty has created
innumerable fountains of sparkling water, he never
created a gill of alcohol ! It is the simple product of
the fermenting vat and distillery. It is born of vege-
table decay. God made the golden corn to nourish
and sustain his mighty family ; but distillation throws
the golden grain into a vat of rottenness, and presses
out of the rotting mass the fiery juice of alcohol. God
hung the purple clusters on the vine to gladden the
human eye and palate, but fermentation turns the
pure blood of the grape into the maddening intoxi-
cant. God created poppies; but he never created
opium. If he did create it, are there not poisons
known in nature that may be sometimes sparingly
used as a medicine, but common sense forbids them
as a beverage. The Song of the Corn conveys its
meaning :

" I was made to be eaten,
And not to be drank ;
To be thrashed in a barn,
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III! Ill

I come as a blessing

When put in the mill,
Ab a blight and a curse

When run through a stilL

Make me up into loaves,

And your children are fed ;
But if into a drink,

I will starve them instead.

In bread I'm a servant,

The eater shall rule ;
In drink I'm a master.

The drinker a fool.

Then remember the warning —

*My strength I'll employ :
If eaten, to strengthen !

If dmnk, to destroy ! ' "

The last false light is that moderate drinking does
not lead to drunkenness. I do not say that every one
who goes down Fulton-street enters the gate at the
ferry, but I do say that those who are in the ferry-
house must have gone through that street. If it is
said that a very moderate drinker is not an enslaved
drunkard and may never become one, we grant it.
We grant that Niagara rapids are not Niagara
cataract. We grant, too, that some men who have
launched their ioats far up toward the head of the
rapids have pviied out of the stream and have reached
the shore. But this we declare, that just so long as
Niagara rapids tend toward the cataract and draw
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cataract, so long by the immiv table laws of God will
every use of alcoholic stimulant tend to drunkenness
and draw to destruction. That some have resisted it,
and have not been drawn over, does not alter the
character of the tendency. There is not a moderate
drinker in this house who is not constantly resisting
the tendency while he remains a moderate drinker. I
set before you all the clear straight channel of total
abstinence. It is a safe channel, strewn with no
wrecks of health, and wrecks of home, or wrecks of
hearts or eternal hopes. It has guided millions to
competence and comfort and cleanliness of life. It
has borne thousands to the cross of Christ. God has
blessed the honest efforts of pulpit and platform and
press to guide men and women into this safe channel,
and, as long as this pulpit stands, the true light shall
shine on the safe channel, and no wife or mother, or
daughter or sister shall ever call me to account and
charge upon my example, or the utterances from this
pulpit, the wreck of a son, or a brother, or a husband,
for time or for eternity. All I ask is to be on the
safe side, on God's side, for this world and the life
everlasting. — Rev. T. L. Cuyler.

DANGER OF MODERATION.

'HE "Morning" tells this instructive story of a
^^ moderate drinker. "A so-called moderate drinker
was once very angry with a friend who claimed that
safety is alone in abstaining from the use of ardent

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spirits, and who allowed his fanatical notions to in-
sinuate that the moderate drinker himself might then
be beyond self-control." " To make plain the question
who is in the wrong," said the temperance man, "will
you just quit one month, not to touch a drop during
that time ? " Said the other, " To satisfy your mind,
sir, I will, with pleasure, though I know myself; I
will do as you ask, to cure your overwrought ideas."
He kept the promise, but at the end of the month he
came to his friend with tears in his eyes and thanked
him for saving him from a drunkard's grave. Said he,
" I never knew before that I was in any sense a slave
to drink, but the last month has been the fiercest
battle of my life. I see now I was almost beyond
hope, and, had the test come many months later, it
would have been too late for me. But I have kept
the pledge, and, by God's help, I will keep it for life."

This incident illustrates the truth that "strong drink
is a deceiver," and that many know not the danger
until too late. A boy who once went with his father
on a voyage to South America was anxious to see the
equatorial line, and said to an old sailor : " Jack, will
you show me the line when we cross it ?"

" yes, my boy."

After a few days the boy asked whether they had
crossed the line. The old tar said, " Yes, my lad."

" Why didn't you tell me and show it to me ?"

The sailor replied, " O my lad, we always cross the
line in the dark."

So the moderate drinker always crosses the line

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between the moderate and immoderate in the dark.
Mental and moral night settles down on him as he
crosses the line between moderate drinking and in-
ebriety, blinding him to the awful facts >i ruin and
death only a little way on the road he is travelling.

The following lines from Longfellow contain prac-
tical advice : —

" Touch the goblet no more !
It will make thy heart sore
To its very core !
Its perfume is the breath
Of the angel of death,
And the hght that within it lies
Is the flash of his evil eyes.
Beware, oh I beware,
For sickness, sorrow, and care
All are there."

SAFETY OF TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

'E hold that total abstinence is positively a safe
principle — we feel we are on solid ground. A
moderate drinker may become a drunkard, a total ab-
stainer never can. That is simple, common sense logic.
I think it better, as temperance workers, to rest our
arguments on this principle rather than on the danger
of moderate d ..^k^ng. Some can give instances of
individuals who drank moderately for many years
and never bocame drunkards, and in doing so they
imagine t] e} have established the ,':■ '^ion that mod-
eration is safe. These comparatively few instances

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are nothing compared to the thousands who began on
that plan and yet filled drunkards' graves at last. A
writer has illustrated it thus : — " A few years ago a
vast crowd of persons were assembled on both banks
of the Niagara river a short distance below the falls ;
probably not less than 20,000 were present on the
ground. What was the attraction ? Why, a man had
advertised that he would walk across the gorge of the
Niagara on a single rope. And he did cross qJckly
and safely. But how many pernors in that vast con-
course could have done the .same tbing? Probably
not one. So we meet here and there a man who has
passed through life on the single rope of moderation
with apparent safety ; but for every such case there
are tens of thousands who, in trying to im^..Lo their
example, have perished miserably." Tho true li. le of
argument is the superior safety of abstinence. A
rotten bridge nvay bear you safely over the stream,
but so long as there is a sound crossing, why use the
perilous one ? A man who lately paid the penalty of
death for his crime, at Springfield, Ohio, before his
execution made a confession in which occur these
remarkable words : "Rum lies at the foundation of all
my sorrows. It found me a motherless boy with no
one to influence me to discard its use. I followed on,
and before I was aware of it it held me a slave ; I
could not maintain a moderate use of it. The more I
used the tighter the chains riveted about me, until
now I find myself about to be hanged on account of
what it has done for me. I hereby warn everybody.

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boih those who sell it, or in anywise uphold its use.
Let my fate be a warning to both young and old, that
the safest way is to touch not, nor taste the cup that
has robbed me of home, friends, liberty and Life." Let
the motto be " Total abstinence for the individual,
prohibition for the State." It is all in these four
lines,

" Mental suasion for the thinker,
Moral suasion for the drinker,
Legal suasion for the law breaker,
Prison suasion for the drunkard maker."

BENEFITS OF TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

©OME time ago the Convocation of the province of
^^ Canterbury, England, called for evidence — from
clergy, recorders, governors and chaplains of prisons,
of lunatic asylums, governors of workhouses and super-
intendents of police — as to the results of the use of
liquor. The evidence returned is of one complexion.
" I can trace," said one clergyman, " nearly every case
of family destitution to intemperance." Another says,
" There would be no real poverty here, except from
some illness, if there was no drunkenness." The
governors of workhouses replied as follows, following
ihxi exact order in which they are printed : " Twelve
;^'ears' experience shows that two-thirds of the inmates
of this house are victims of intemperance." " Eighty
per cent, may be given as the proportion of paupers
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that three-fourths of the inmates of this house have
been victims of intemperance." " Without hesitation,
I should say that seventy or eighty per cent, of the
paupers come to that state through drink." And so it
goes on, " eighty per cent.," " eighty out of one hun-
dred," "three-fourths," "eighty per cent.," in terms
that very soon range themselves into a grim tautology.
One master of a workhouse says, " I have been re-
lieving officer eleven years, and during that time /
never knew a teetotaler applying for parish relief.'*

The famous athelete, Tom Sayers, was once asked
by a gentleman, " Well, Tom, I suppose when you are
tra* ing, you use plenty of beefsteaks, and London
pori -'d pale ale." The boxer replied, " In my
time I l.i'^e drunk more than was good for me; but
when I have business to do, there's nothing like water
and the dumb-bells." After retiring from " business,''
he took to drink and died a sot. Cold water made
him a Samson, alcohol laid him in his grave. As a
motto of personal health and long life, "It is good not
to drink wine."

Dr. Reynolds, the great temperance advocate, says
that six hundred of the ablest physicians of the land
testify that since they have ceased to give alcohol as
a medicine they have had much better success with
the patients than before.

Phillip Phillips, the great sacred song singer, said
in one of his entertainments in Montreal that he had
travelled over the world, and though fellow-com-
panions drank wine, and beer and brandy for health,

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and yet fell by the way for physical care, he drank
only water (God's beverage), and had never in all his
travels missed an engagement or employed a physician.

Dr. David Livingstone's testimony amid one of his
terrible experiences of hardship in the interior of
Africa, as recorded in his journal, is as follows : — " My
opinion is, that the most severe labours and privations
may be undergone without alcoholic stimulants,
because those who have endured the most had nothing
else but water."

A gentleman who is a chief in Shoshong, South
Africa, sent a letter to the Scottish Temperance
League, Glasgow, bearing date of November 24th,
1880, in which he states that since his efforts to stop
the use of liquor there, his people are much better for
it, and that his duties as chief have been greatly
lightened, — for he adds — " Drink is death ; it is that
and nothing else." This testimony reminds us of a
remark made by a temperance lecturer not long since.
He said, "I know a victim to liquor who hasn't
tasted food for over thirty years." A hearer said,
" How do you know he hasn't ? " The reply was,
" Because whisky killed him in 1853."

These statements go to upset the theory that liquor
is necessary to sustain under great physical or mental
strain. We believe it is resorted to,iin most instances,
because it is liked. A noted actor in a London coffee
house of the old variety, heard one man say, "Waiter,
a glass of brandy, I'm hot." In a few minutes another
customer cried out, " Waiter, a glass of brandy,
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I'm cold." The actor was exasperated by the general
dishonesty and halloed, " Waiter, a glass of brandy,
/ like itr

A good story is told in which a Quaker seems to
have discerned the true situation. An elderly gentle-
man accustomed to indulge freely in strong drink,
entered the travellers' room of a tavern where sat a
grave Quaker by the fire. Lifting a pair of green
spectacles upon his forehead, rubbing his inflamed
eyes and calling for brandy and water, he complained
to the Quaker " that his eyes were getting weaker,
and that even spectacles did not seem to do them any
good." " I'll tell thee, friend," replied the Quaker,
" what I think ; if thou wouldst wear thy spectacles
ovr/: . tiy mouth for a few months thine eyes would get
well again."

'' Away, all drink that man distils,
So fraught with sin and sadness ;

We'll drain the cup that brings no ill,
The draught of health and gladness."

A moderate drinker once took up a temperance
tract and sat down in his family to peruse it. After
reading it once the man said, " The author of this is a
fool or I am." He read it again and said the second
time, " This man is a fool or I am." But after read-
ing it again the third time he finished it by saying,
" I was the fool," and never tasted a drop of ardent
spirits afterward. If the reader of this paper be a
moderate drinker I would say, "Go thou and do
likewise."

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As to the profitableness of total abstinence Dr.
Franklin said, " It puts wood on the fire, meal in the
barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in
the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the
back and vigor in the body."

PROGRESS OF THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

OT more than seventy-five years ago the first
regularly organized temperance society v/as
formed in the United States. We are informed that
one of its regulations was as follows : — "Any member
found drunk will be fined twenty -five cents, unless
said intoxication takes place on the 4th of July or
some other regular day of military muster." We
laugh at that now, but it was then in advance of any-
thing we had, and those who advocated the cause
suffered for it. But from that and similar organiza-
tions there has arisen a band of temperance workers who
have made their influence felt in this country for good.
Our total abstinence pledge now has no exemptions for
the 24th of May or the 1st of July. It is an under-
stood thing that if a man is a temperance man he is to
be one all the time — abroad as well as at home, that he
will work by precept and example for the furtherance
of the cause, and thus imitate the worthy example of
an Irishman who had taken the pledge at home but
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to take " a glass " he refused on the ground that he
belonged to a temperance society, and had signed the
pledge in the old land. The individual said, " O, but
that was in Ireland. You might drink here and no
person would know it." "Do you think," said he,
" that I brought my body to this country and left my
soul in Ireland ?" The traffic in liquor is now guarded
by many restrictions which have been secured by
agitation, though those restrictions do not by any
means fully satisfy those who are working for the
overthrow of King Alcohol. We are satisfied with
them so far as they go, because we believe they are
steps in the right direction; but we do not believe
that the liquor traffic can ever be satisfactorily regu-
lated — it must be suppressed. Nothing short of that
will satisfy us. We have been forced to take a lesson
in tactics from Bismarck in relation to the advance-
ment of our cause. Said he, " In politics I act as I do
out snipe shooting. I put my foot on one stone and
do not take it off till I see my way to another. When
I have found that, I step firmly on to the new stone
and leave the old one behind, and so on till I am out
of the marsh." So we have taken step after step, and
we trust we will soon be out of the bog. These re-
strictions, as means of doing away with the traffic,
remind us of two boys who had a rabbit, and by acci-
dent it got its leg broken, which necessitated its being
killed to prevent suffeilng. Tommy, who was a ten-
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kill the rabbit." After a time Tommy went around to
see how he succeeded, and found his brother lightly
tapping the rabbit on the head with a small stone.
" Why don't you strike it hard at once ?" said he, " and
kill it." "Oh," said Johnny, "I want to kill it without
hurting it." The application is easy. We shall never
abolish the traffic unless we strike heavy blows. It
is not a case in which a kid glove style of warfare will
be of any avail. It is surely because we have become
accustomed to the traffic that so many tamely submit
to it. Let us suppose there are 100,000 hotels, or
" toll-gates to hell " in the Dominion, occupying the
time of 150,000 men. Suppose the same number of
men would come over from the United States and do
one-hundredth part of the damage to our people, the
cry would be raised all over the land, *• To arms ! to
arms!" and hurl the destructive foe from our land;
but because the liquor traffic is licensed by law our
people seem willing to submit to the greatest evil that
ever has afflicted any people. At different times long
petitions have been sent to the Government asking
for prohibition ; but large bodies move slowly, and it
seems that legislative assemblies are not an exception.
But we will petition again and again, if need be, and
make our efforts tell upon the Government of this
country. We must not merely pass resolutions de-
nouncing the traffic, but we must use our franchise in
sending to Parliament only such men as are favour-
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" We boast of education,

Of laws to punish ill,
Yet license desolation —

Yes ! license men to kilL
We called for legislation ;

How foolish were our calls ! —
While drinkers held high station

In legislative halls."

Let us, as temperance workers, rejoice because of
what we have thus far secured, and labour in confi-
dent expectation of receiving better and more efficient
measures. We endorse the following from one of our
leading Canadian journals: — "No cause has within
the last five or six years made such progress as this of
temperance has done, and nothing is more evident
than that within the next decade it is destined to
exercise a most potent influencie on the course of
political action and legislation on all the most civil-
ized countries in .the world. It has fairly got out of
the slough of contempt ; and even those who have no
sympathy with its objects and operations cannot help
watching its movements with interest, sometimes
possibly even with alarm, while politicians are fain to
trim their sails to the rising breeze, and are beginning
to speak respectfully of what they had hitherto ridi-
culed, and to endorse what they had till lately both
bitterly opposed and imsparingly condemned. The
situation is hopeful, and the prospects encouraging.
Let all help according to their light, and the result
will cast into the shade all that has hitherto been
accomplished."

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WHAT THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE HAS DONE.

.c^T is an enterprise that has fed the hungry, clothed
the naked, healed the sick, taught the ignorant,
elevated the degraded, gladdened the sorrowful, and
led to the Cross multitudes that had wandered far
away ; an enterprise that has gathered again the for-
tune that had been scattered, and built again the home
that had been ruined, and raised again the character
that had been blasted, and bound up again the heart
that had been broken; an enterprise that had given
peace where there was discord, and gladness where
there had been woe; has prevented many a suicide,
and robbed the gallows of many a victim that would
otherwise have been there; an enterprise that has
thinned the workhouse, hospital and jail, but has
helped to fill the school, the lecture room and the
industrial exhibition; an enterprise that has turned
into useful citizens those that were the pests of society ;
one of the best educators of the masses ; one of the
very chief pioneers of the Gospel. Like some fair
spirit from another world, our great enterprise has
trodden the wilderness, and flowers of beauty have
sprung up upon her track. She has looked around,
gladdening all on whom her smiles have fallen; she
has touched the captive, and his fetters have fallen
off; she has spoken, and the countenance of despair
has been lighted up with hope; wave a rier magic
wand, and the wilderness has rejoiced and blossomed
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bled her song of mercy, and wild beasts, losing their
ferocity, have followed gladly and gratefully in her
train. She has raised up those that have been worse
than dead — sepulchred in sin ; and she has led multi-
tudes to the living waters of salvation. — Rev. Neivman
Hall.

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ORGANIZED EFFORTS.

.«WT is admitted that when a vice has become preva-
lent and powerful, it is allowable to make organ-
ized resistance against it. This has been done in the
case of obscene literature, and an almost complete stop
has been put to its publication. It has been done in
the organization of resistance against cruelty to the
lower animals, and also against cruelty to chi'^ren.
There can be no question, then, of the wisdc nd
propriety of organizing in like manner for the preven-
tion of the vice of intemperance. It is obvious, in
fact, that such organization becomes necessary in self-
defence, if for no other reason. There is no need to
expatiate upon the evils of intemperance. It is the
foe of industry, and the promoter of idleness and
viciousness. It is the foe of human health. In every
hospital in the land there lie bodily wrecks which
have been made such by drunkenness. It is the foe
of intellectual progress. There is not one of you who
cannot point to men, bright, genial, witty, who have
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which men may be habitually guilty, and yet retain
their faculties ; but when a man becomes the slave of
this sin the very channels through which his reason
might be appealed to are closed up. As I said before,
the evils of intemperance are so obvious that they
need not be mentioned. Christians rest their argu-
ments against intemperance on the Scriptures, and
there I think they have found a solid argument.
There is no sort of doubt that in the Scriptures we
are warned against it as a snare and temptation. Now,
can there be any doubt that we can subsist without
intoxicating liquors ? To say that they are necessary
is childish. If my use of intoxicating liquors will
commend them by my influence and example to others
to whom they may be harmful, it is my duty as a
Christian to avoid them.

You can easily imagine the case of a man who is
hospitably invited by his hostess to take wine^ In
his early manhood he has yielded to excessive drink-
ing. He has put the temptation away from him, but
now, when it is again presented to him, he is sur-
rounded by men who know of his youthful weakness.
He wishes to say "No," but he fears to do so. He
knows that they will think, "Ah ! poor fellow, he
knows his own weakness ; he does not dare accept the
proffered drink ! " He is tempted to prove to them
that he, as well as they, can drink a glass of wine
without fear of permitting it to lead to drunkenness.
But let the men who surround him: ministers, law-
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been a suspicion of weakness — let them say no, and
they place before him the shield of their strength,
they render his refusal easy. In conclusion I would
say, don't press liquors upon others, don't give the
weight of your personal character to the habit of
drinking. If it gives you pain to forego your habit of
taking liquors, then I say to you that you have reached
a point where it is time, for your own sake, to abstain
from them. — John Hall. D.D.

THE CHURCH AND TEMPERANCE.

.c^T is only about fifty years since the first active
and united efforts commenced in the interests of
the cause of temperance in this country. The work
that has been done in this half -century is certainly
most encouraging, and although the enemy has not
been completely destroyed, yet the results of the
aggressive efforts that have been made are enough to
warrant us in carrying on the good cause with still
greater zeal. Fifty years ago the use of intoxicating
liquor, by farmers in gathering their crops, and by
mechanics in their shops and homes, was almost a uni-
versal habit. Fifty years ago there were very few
temperance societies, and the pulpit was almost silent
concerning this giant evil. Now the position is
entirely different. Temperance Associations have been
formed; men of ability and influence have spoken
and written on the subject until public sentiment has
almost entirely changed. It is no longer considered

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a respectable thiug for a man to habitually indulge in
intoxicating drinks ; and in all positions of trust total
abstinence men are invariably given the preference.
The Church now takes a very different stand on the
temperance question. Instead of refraining to refer
to the matter at all, the evil of intemperance is being
attacked on all sides by ministers of the Gospel of
various denominations. The press, religious and
secular, is giving more and more attention to the
subject, and never was there so much good temperance
literature being circulated as to-day.

In looking at the progress that has been made
during the past few years, and considering the pros-
pect for the next decade, nothing is more cheering
than the advanced position now taken by the Churches,
and, we may say, especially by the Methodist Church.
The temperance question was regarded very differently
by the Church than it is to-day, even within the
memory of many of our readers. It is said that a
Church in the eastern part of Canada, some years ago,
actually rented its basement as a wine and beer store-
house, while the upper part still continued to be used
for the preaching of the Gospel. The trustees became
somewhat ashamed of the use to which they had
allowed their building to be put when a wag placed a
placard over the front door, on a Sunday morning,
bearing the inscription, —

" A spirit above, and a spirit below,
A Spirit of love and a spirit of woe :
The Spirit above is the Spirit divine,
The spirit below is the spirit of wine."

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Such a thing as a Church employed, even indirectly,
in the liquor business, seems to us now scarcely
possible, which simply shows that a wonderful change
has taken place in public sentiment, and more espe-
cially among Christian people. The Church should
not, however, rest satisfied with what has been done.
The temperance question is the great living question
of the day, and must be dealt with. The Church is
an institution which aims at overthrowing evil, and
cultivating and encouraging the purest morality. It
has the true remedy for vice — the Go el of Christ —
and ought, therefore, by example and action, seek to so
influence public opinion that this traffic in strong
drink shall be declared illegal. Much has been done,
there is still room for improvement. There are still
many members and adherents in all our Churches who,
if not direct patrons of the liquor trade, are at least
indiflerent and careless in opposing it. In a pamphlet
by the late Hon. Wm. E. Dodge, published a year or
two ago, the author makes the following astounding
statement. He says: "I have no doubt that the
money expended by the Presbyterian Church in the
United States for intoxicating drinks amounts every
year to more than all the receipts of our Home and
Foreign Missionary Societies ; and the total amount
expended for drinks in the United States, if devoted to
the national debt, would pay it in four years." If this
statement be true, there is yet much to be done in the
Church itself before we may expect it to enter very
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traffic. In the agitations now going on in different
countries, and in the great conflicts for prohibition,
the Church ought to lead. The cause of temperance
reform is certainly a legitimate field for Christian
activity. Let all ministers of the Gospel, all members
of Christian Churches, be pledged to total abstinence,
and moreover pledged to work for the complete over-
throw of intemperance, and we believe the good cause
would soon triumph. — K H. Dewart, D.D.

THE GOSPEL OF TEMPERANCE.

'HE Bible declares that " Drunkards shall not in-
herit the kingdom of heaven." What it says it
means, all " explanation" to the contrary. And with
such a declaration how plain is it that temperance
work is essentially a Gospel work. And it is doubly
so. First, the Bible enjoins it ; and what the Bible
enjoins the preacher of the Gospel should advocate.
Secondly, it is emphatically " good news" which turns
the intemperate man away from his bottle and keeps
him to his Bible. What man enslaved by appetite can
break his own chain ? Man s will can indeed do
much, but there must first come the inclination. And
there is where the root of the trouble is. " Let me
sleep," says the sluggard ; " Let me swear," says the
swearer ; " Let me lie," says the liar ; " Let me drink,"
says the drunkard. " They will not come to the
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to-day as when uttered by Divine lips on the shore of
Galilee. Can a leopard change his spots? Can a
sinner remove desire for sin ? Neither can a drunkard
while living in the depth of his iniquity desire to
leave his drink. The devil is always by, and gives
him both entertaining company and counsel. " Drink
on," he says. And he drinks deep ; he drinks early
and late, and then — dies of thirst. And where does
he go ? Does heaven claim him ? Is his thick voice
wanted to swell the anthems of the angelic choir ?
May the Church of Christ arise in its might and
preach the Gospel of Temperance, and arouse men and
women to their duty ! Then intemperance will not
claim its sixty thousand American victims every year.
Hell will lose, but heaven shall be the gainer. — Dr.
Talmage.

WHAT WE NEED.

^E are in favor of a temperance revival, or some-
'^^ thing of that sort, to stir the people up. We
want something that will keep the people studying
over the temperance question, that will set them to
thinking, and w« believe nothing would do this better
than a temperance revival.

We have a temperance lecture once in a while ; but
we want several of them at times. We want to keep
the minds of the people stirred up so strongly that
they will begin seriously to study this great question.
We have considerable faith in the temperance party.

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but

and in its ultimate success ; but we believe we must
first stir the people up to a sense of their danger, show
them both sides of the question, and let them under-
stand that they must decide between the two. Con-
vince them that the temperance party are in earnest,
and that we mean to make the temperance question a
political one. Show them that we, as a party, are in
earnest. Ask them for their votes, and do your best
to get them. One of our greatest troubles is we have
too many resolutions and too few votes.

We have been treating the temperance question too
much like men of the present day treat what they
call extravagance and folly of women, who denounce
it all the time, yet keep telling their wives and
daughters how prettily Miss W. looked in her silks
and diamonds, and still praising their beauty when
dressed in the height of fashion, and scolding them
for not being dressed as much as one of their neigh-
bors. Just so with temperance men — they meet, they
talk about the evils of intemperance, pass resolutions
denouncing the traffic, and then go to the polls and
vote for men whom they know to be opposed to any-
thing that sounds like prohibition.

Thus we have kept them up until they boast that
they do not care for our resolutions, they are sure of
our votes, and that is what they care most for.

What we want is to show them that the temperance
men of the country can make resolutions and then
stand by them. That if we say we will not vote for
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to the last ; when we do this, then we can make our
power felt. To be able to do this we must stir the
people up, and keep them so until they give us their
votes and their influence. Whenever we get their
votes we are sure of victory, and can only gain them
by hard, earnest, and faithful work. If holding a
temperance meeting every night for a week is not
sufficient, keep them going the others. Keep them up
until you have stirred the masses up to vote a straight
temperance ticket, irrespective of either party. — Sel.

THREE WAYS OF DEALING WITH THE LIQUOR

TRAFFIC.

'HERE are three ways proposed of dealing with
the liquor traffic. One is to throw no restrictions
whatever around it, making it free, and putting it on
the same basis as any legitimate or respectable busi-
ness. Another is the license system ; in other words,
saying, "It matters not how much destruction you
send broadcast, if you will only pay us for it." This
system is wrong in principle and inefficient in appli-
cation. It is wrong in principle, for, as Lord Chester-
field said more than 100 years ago, " Vice is not to be
taxed, but to be suppressed." License clothes the
traffic with legal respectability and gives it the pro-
tection of the State. It is inefficient, for wherever
tried it has confessedly failed to accomplish the end
sought. There is not a species of crime known to the
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We have probably to-day, in Ontario, the best license
system we ever had ; but that does not alter the fact
that any license system that can possibly be devised
must, from the nature of the case, be utterly inefficient.
So long as we have legalized drink-sealing we shall
have drinking ; and so long as we have drinking we
shall have drunkenness and all its terrible consequences.
That Prohibition is the right method of dealing
with the traffic is evident, for the State exists to
prohibit evil and foster the good.

We live not in a savage but in a civilized community,
and in such a state every man's liberty is limited by
the good of society. The whiskey seller has no right
to interfere with the rights of others. Wives have
rights ; children have rights ; quiet, peaceable mem-
bers of society, who wish to live in security of life and
property, have rights ; and these rights must be pre-
served even at the expense of denying to some others
the right to sell whiskey and get drunk. — Bev. W. A-
McKay, B.A.

LICENSE OR PROHIBITION— WHICH?

WHAT A VOTE MAY DO.

^ AVE you a vote ? If so, who gave it to you, and
to whom are you resposible for the use you
make of it? The greatest question before our country
to-day is, "Shall the liquor traffic be protected and per-
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ment of the Boundary Award, or the disallowance of
the Streams Bill is of small importance compared with
the settlement of the momentous issues involved in
the liquor traffic.

What is your position towards this question ? For
or against — which ? " Why do I ask you," do you
say? Because you are the proper one to ask; you are
a voter — so am I. By our votes this liquor curse
lives and spreads itself everywhere. It could not
exist for one hour but for these. They give it a legal
right to be here, and clothe it with all the respect-
ability it possesses. By our votes we have put it
upon the throne where it now sits, and have, given
that throne its stability. By our votes it reigns and
conquers. Do you know we are partners in the busi-
ness and sharers in the responsibility for its crimes ?
There is not a liquor-seller in the Dominion but can
point to our votes and influence as the reason for the
existence of his dreadful trade in death-dealing drink.
We are responsible for the opening or shutting of the
drink shops. " How is that," do you say ? Because
the liquor traffic is protected by law, and our votes
say who shall make the laws, and approve or dis-
approve of them after they are made. If we
vote for license we vote to make it morally certain
that at least 7,000 per year of our fellow-citizens
will die drunkards. We vote for a traffic that
makes 75 criminals out of every 100 that are
sent to our jails and prisons; that produces three-
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make thousands of wives widows and tens of thousands
of children orphans and paupers. Why should we do
this ? Do we hate our kind that we should seek to
perpetuate a business that ruins multitudes of them ?
God forbid ! With license we are helpless to protect
the weak against the strong. With prohibition you
can punish the man who sells another liquor; you
make the liquor traffic an outlaw, and all who sell pre
violators of law and criminals. Prohibition will de-
throne the liquor traffic from its place of power as a
party weapon in politics, and brand its use as thrice
accursed in social life. Are we not our brother's
keeper? Let us then shut up the door of this great
temptation that lies open at his feet, thereby lessen
the probabilities of his utter ruin, and protect his wife
and family from cruelty and hunger. It is time as
electors that we spoke out upon this subject — that we
freed ourselves from complicity in this traffic, by
saying no license shall be given with our consent.
Shall we do it? Let reason, judgment and conscience
answer, and so far as your vote and mine will go, the
wrong of license shall be righted and the right shall
be sustained.

VOTE AS YOU PRAY.

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PROHIBITION

j^HEN temperance people and friends of prohibi-
tion advocate the suppression of the liquor
traffic, they often hear a great deal about the revenue:
" It would be ruinous to any country to adopt such a
measure, to kill the hen which lays the golden eggs,"
etc., but the trouble is, the hen is always hatching
troublesome chickens which will not come home to
roost. Reliable statistics inform us that in Indiana
the expenses of paupers and criminals arising directly
from liquor in twenty years have been nearly
$15,000,000 ; the receipts for licenses, etc., have been
a little more than $2,000,000. This shows a clear loss
to the State of over $12,000,000. As we have shown
elsewhere in this book, Canada would be immensely
enriched if the whole traffic was abolished.

It is properly the duty of Governments to take the
lead in temperance work by making good laws. It is
said, in answer to this, " You can't make men good
by any Act of Parliament." That may be true, but it
is just as true that the consumption of intoxicating
liquors can be controlled by such Acts. The principle
of prohibition is already recognized in the numerous
restrictions we have imposed on the traffic. We want
an extension of the same principle until the traffic is
entirely controlled. Just in proportion as the liquor
laws are stringent or loose is the amount of drunken-
ness, as a rule, therefore any law that would shut
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because it is here that many learn their first lessons
in drinking. " There being fewer gins, the number of
birds taken would be smaller, as a natural conse-
quence." If the law does not " make men good," it is
able to remove the cause of crime and so enhance the
cause of virtue.

We are told we have " No right to interfere with a
man's personal liberty, and his right to eat and drink
what he pleases." When a man's definition of " per-
sonal liberty " is that he must have liberty to tempt
and ruin his neighbors' sons by keeping an open
whiskey and beer saloon, every day in the week, he
needs either a new dictionary or a new heart. It
ought to be clearly understood that we have no wish
to infringe on any one's liberty as to eating and
drinking. Suppose an ox or a sheep is dying of
disease, and the owner kills it and brings the meat
into market. A town officer steps up, saying, " The
law prohibits the sale of this article." But there
happens to be one standing by who is jealous of his
own and other's privileges, and he turns and defiantly
asks, " Do you mean to interfere with the rights of
freemen ? Cannot any one eat unsound meat who
pleases ?" The officer replies, " Certainly, he can ; but
that is not the question. This man, by exposing for
sale what is injurious to health, has rendered the
article liable to destruction and himself to a heavy
fine." That is the law, and a very good one, necessary
for the protection of society. So the object of the law
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infringement of his liberty as to what he should drink,
but the prohibition of an unsound, soul-and-body-
destroying traffic." Is not that plain enough ? The
purpose for which Qovernments exist is the protection
of the people, and when they fail or come short in this,
in the highest and best sense, just so far they fail of
the purpose tor which they are established. And we
can see no reason why intoxicating drinks should be
claimed as an exception to the subjects over which
Governments exercise authority. If dangerous animals
expose human life or property to peril, magistrates
adopt measures for public safety by destroying or
confining them within their proper limits. In seasons
of prevailing epidemics, the authorities of any town
or city exercise the right of removing any cause which
has a tendency to increase or perpetuate the malady,
even at the risk of interfering with the lawful interests
of individuals. And yet the tra^c in strong drink is
in perpetual operation, withering, cursing and destroy-
ing some of the fairest portions of society, spreading
its devastations in every direction, and, when compre-
hensive measures are proposed to remove the evils
inflicted, the patriots of appetite and avarice raise the
alarm that an act of unpardonable tyranny is about to
be perpetrated. The liberation of thousands from a
worse than African bondage is nothing in the estima-
tion of such benevolent souls (!) when compared v <^
the gratification of sense, or the gains ' iig from
administering to the demands of an ^.erious an
depraved appetite.

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It is said, too, by the friends of license, that " Pro-
hibition doesn't prohibit, because men sell liquor and
get drunk where prohibition exists." The West Vir-
ginia FreeTnan says : " Suppose we use the same argu-
ment in other matters; for instance, Christianity
doesn't christianize, because there are sinners in the
world. Wisdom doesn't make men wise, because fools
are still to be found. Cultivation doesn't cultivate,
because weeds still come up in the field. Education
doesn't educate, because it does not exterminate the
ignorance that persists in such silly arguments as the
above." Maine adopted this principle over thirty years
agO| and has been fighting away ever since against this
" whiskey devil," and the result is that no political
party now dares to take issue against prohibition.
To assert that the law is broken and that some get
drunk where prohibition exists, is simply to charge
that it is like any other law, human or divine, for all
laws are broken ; but the violation is often the most
conclusive evidence of the necessity of the law. Had
no one any disposition to do that against which a law
is directed, such law would be needless. Therefore to
say that a law will be broken is really an argument in
favor of the law. That stale old lie that " more liquor
is sold under a prohibitory law than under a license
law," will not go down with the common people, whose
quick reasoning discerns the fact that while the rum-
sellers declare their business to be better under a pro-
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and earth, and tlie other place, to get the restrictions
lifted.

Prohibition in relation to liquor is not a new thing,
for history informs us that in 1733 the trustees of the
colony of Georgia enacted that " the drink of rum in
Georgia be absolutely prohibited, and that all which
sha-U be brought there be staved." In Scotland twelve
hundred years ago there was a law that any one who
would sell intoxicating drinks should have his house
pulled down and he be banished. If he returned and
began his business again he was to be hanged.

This great evil will never cure itself. It never did
that and never will. They who are not in its fangs
ought to make it hard for others to be destroyed.
Only a few months ago an elderly man said that he
had that morning walked ten miles to get whiskey
with which to celebrate his fifty-fifth birthday, which
was the next day, by getting on a " big drunk ;" but
to his sorrow (it ought to have been to his joy) he
failed to procure the "celebrating" fluid. So much
on the duty of putting the evil out of the way, in
accordance with Gladstone's statement made not long
ago, viz., "It is the function of the Government to
make it easy for the people to do right, and difficult
for them to do wrong.*'

How is this great end to be gained ? Edmund
Burke once said, " When bad men conspire, good men
must combine." Let all "good men (and women,
too) combine " in this work, and may God help those
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orators and heroes from " the curse that has blighted
its men of genius, murdered its young manhood, and
broken its women's hearts !"

"There is an evil in the land,

Kank with age and foul with crime,
Strong with many a legal band,
Money, fashion, use and time ;
'Tis the question of the hour,
How shall we the wrong o'erpower !

Vote it out !
This will put the thing to rout,

Vote it out !
Let us rise and vote it out !

"We have begged the traffic long,

Begged it both with smiles and tears,
To abate the flood of wrong,

But it answered us with sneers ;
We are wearied with the scourge —

Vote it out !
Loyal people raise the shout.

Vote it out !
Let us rise and vote it out !

" 'Tis the battle of the hour ;

Freemen show your strength again,
In the ballot is your power,

This will bring the foe to pain.
We have preached against the wrong,
We have pled with words of song ;

Vote it out !
Vote and pray with heart devout,

Vote it out !
Let us rise and vote it out !

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" Never shall the promise fail,
Qod is with us for the right ;
Truth is mighty to prevail,

Faith shall end in joyous sight.
We shall see the hosts of Rum
Palsied with affright, and dumb,

Vote it out !
Thus we'll put the fiend to rout,

Vote it out !
Let us rise and put him out."

OUR WAR CRY.

*HE war drums are beating !
Up, soldiers and fight !
The despot Intemperance,

Hurl down from his height!
Oh, gird on your armours.

His minions are nigh,
I'll give you a watchword —
"We conquer or die !"

The clarion is sounding

From inland to shore ;
Your swords and your lances

Must slumber no more.
Shout, shout in your glory,

Your caps waving high,
"We are fighting for freedom I

We conquer or die."

March forth to the battle

All fearless and calm,
The strength of your spirit

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And let your proud motto

Ring up to the sky,
Till the very stars echo

"We conquer or die!"

Strike deep and unerring ;

Nor dare to retreat,
Though thousands by thousands

The enemy meet !
The thicker the foemen,

The firmer stand by.
Remembering your watchword —

" We conquer or die !"

Go forth in the pathway

Your forefathers trod ;
Ye, too, fight for freedom.

Your leader is God.
Fling out your broad banners

Against the blue sky.
And shout like true soldiers,

" We conquer or die !"

Not chains for the tyrant.

For chains are in vain ;
He is planning already

To break them in twain !
But raise your deep voices.

And shout the war cry —
"Death ! death ! for the tyrant ;

We conquer — or die!"

— Mr$. Mansfield,

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BENEFITS OF PROHIBITION.

'HERE is a man in the Western States who is in
the employment of the liquor party. He goes out
on lecturing tours. "Twenty dollars for every speech,"
he says, "and five dollars a day for expenses; such are
my terms, and I am open for any argument, my role
being to show that prohibition does not prohibit."

Neal Dow says, "There is no place, — there never
has been one, — where prohibition exists, in which
the volume of the liquor traffic has not been dimin-
ished. In many of them greatly reduced ; in many of
them entirely swept away." If prohibition vastly
increases the liquor traffic the conduct of the liquor
men, who spend large sums in resisting it, employing
men to write down prohibition, and papers to advo-
cate license, is unexplainable. We have testimonies
recently furnished by men in responsible positions as
to the efficiency of this righteous measure. Governor
Robie, in his inaugural address to the Legislature, re-
views the growth and success of the State of Maine,
in which he says : " Prohibition has worked immense
advantages for the State of Maine. The vast sum of
money which formerly went to the saloon-keeper is
now spent in improving farms, households, and a
thousand other ways which benefit society, till both
political parties, and a great majority of the people,
look upon the prohibition of the liquor traffic as the
salvation and safety of the State. The above gives
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interest persistently sends forth, that prohibition is
a failure. It has made liquor-selling a failure, except
when they defy both God and man, and are willing to
sell their souls to the devil for a glass of rum."

The Hon. J. G. Blaine, gives the following testimony :
"Intemperance has steadily decreased in this State
since the first enactment of the prohibitory law, until
now it can be said with truth that there is no equal
number of people in the Anglo-Saxon world among
whom so small an amount of intoxicating liquor is
consumed as among the six hundred and fifty thousand
inhabitants of Maine."

The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Edwards County,
Illinois, lately submitted the following facts: " There
has not been a licensed saloon in this county for over
25 years. During that time our jail has not averaged
an occupant. This county never sent but one person
to the penitentiary, and that man was sent up for
killing his wife while drunk on whiskey obtained from
a licensed saloon in an adjoining county. We have
but very few paupers in our poor house — sometimes
only three or four. Our taxes are 32 per cent, lower
than they are in the adjoining counties where saloons
are licensed. Our people are prosperous, peaceable
and sober." Dr. Talmage said : " I don't know how
you feel, but I confess I am tired of paying taxes to
fix up the work of these infernal grog-shops that are
tossing tens of thousands of people into crime and suf-
fering." In Kansas a prohibitory law is in force. The
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should not be said that Kansas could not enforce pro-
hibition, and he ordered the saloons closed. One or
two men refused to obey the proclamation and they
were immediately arrested.

Thus the work is going on. Prohibition does
prohibit, and it always will where the temperance
sentiment of the people is strong enough to make
legislation effective, as it is in those places where the
majority have &aid, " We will not submit any longer
that the work of destruction shall go on in our midst."
Let the whole traffic be put under the ban of the law.
If after that evils come from it, let them be — like
robbery and murder — against the law, and not by its
consent and appointment — in accordance with law.

REMUNERATION.

►tWT is said " if a prohibitory law be passed we ought
^ to remunerate the liquor-dealers for the loss of
their business." It would be greatly to the advantage
of the country to buy out every establishment in the
Dominion, destroy the whole stock, and allow no im-
portation, except what shall be placed under the same
restrictions as other dangerous articles on the apothe-
cary's shelf, rather than permit matters to go on as
they are now. But if we begin the work of compen-
sation, of course those who have profited by the trade
must be required to remunerate those who have been
ruined by it. Thousands of our population are groan-

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ing under injuries and miseries which money cannot
repair or alleviate ; how are they to be compensated ?
If the Legislature refuse a prohibitory law, will they
agree to indemnify those who will suffer by the present
license system in the future ? If they do, they will
soon have no trouble in distributing a surplus revenue.
The idea of remunerating those who have been fatten-
ing on the degradation and i:alamities of others is a
gross absurdity and outrage. Let them turn to some
useful calling as a means of support, thankful that
they get off so easily as to be allowed to do so.

The trade in strong drink is a root from which
grows a rank crop of all moral and social evils ; it is a
tree planted in our midst whose spreading branches
drip with poison, and in whose deep shadow death
reigns. The only effectual protection we can have
against its influence is to cut it down and cast it out.
I have no sympathy with those timid warnings against
" legislating in advance of public opinion." The idea
that we are not to proclaim a truth or enact a law
until everybody is prepared for it, and the bulk of
men think alike about it, is contrary to the whole
philosophy of reform and improvement, as well as to
the teachings of history. That the law would be vio-
lated is no argument against its enactment. What
species of crime can be mentioned which prohibitions
and penalties have entirely driven from among men ?
Not one. The laws against murder, profanity, robbery,
outrage, perjury, are disregarded by many. Would
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If public opinion is wrong, let the laws be made right,
thereby hastening the work of leading the popular
mind on to the truth.

We may all become educators on this subject. Let
the friends of sobriety and good order determine to
take a part in the struggle now going on. When
thousands upon thousands of the loftiest intellects and
the most generous hearts are annually destroyed by
rum; when multitudes of broken-hearted wives and
worse than orphaned children are imploring us to aid
in securing a triumph which will restore to them
deluded husbands and fathers; when the drunkard
himself is calling upon us, in his misery, to give him
that shield which will protect him from the tempter
whose siren voice will otherwise draw him on to de-
struction, can we longer be silent and indifferent?
Never was there a more favourable time for action
than now. We must all become agitators on this sub-
ject in our own vicinity ; and we must press it upon
the attention of our law-makers in such numbers and
with such earnestness that they will be compelled to
yield. The demon will yet be trampled down, annihi-
lated, and the banners of victory will wave over our
gladdened earth. Temperance will yet triumph. Both
God and man call upon you to labor for its spread. —
Rev. K. Creighton,

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CANADA TEMPERANCE ACT OF 1878

(known A8 the "SCOTT AOT")

VERSUS THE CROOKS ACT.

[CIRCULAR.]*

^"^AST week a circular, with a title opposite to the
^^ above, was issued and sent to the electors of the
County of Oxford. Though it does not bear the name
of any individual, it is generally understood to have
had its origin among the liquor-dealers and their
friends. The writer, or writers, assume at the outset
that "some may not be acquainted with the restric-
tions of the Scott Act, and that some ** (possibly the
Temperance people) " may represent them differently
to what they are," therefore they proceed to give ex-
tracts from each of the Acts, — though I am sure the
reading of the quotations will not militate against the
Temperance cause, as it will be apparent to every
intelligent reader that the Crooks Act, which they
endeavor to extol, permits the granting of licenses
(precisely that which we wish to prevent), while the
Scott Act does not grant such licenses. This circular
informs us as to some of the evil effects which will
result from the passing of the Scott Act. 1st. It will
promote /ntemperance. They have made this bold

* This and the following letter were originally written in answer
to a circular sent out in the County of Oxford by the liquor-dealers
or their friends. I have though .^ it might serve a good purpose to
insert them in this volume, as the same objections have to be met in
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statement without any attempt at proof. Now, as
temperance workers, we honestly believe the opposite
will be the case, hence we are consistent in laboring
for the success of the Act. If the liquor-vendors
believe, as they tell us, that it will increase intem-
perance, thereby increasing their receipts, why not
act consistently with their professed convictions and
labor for the passage of the Scott Act ? 2nd. We are
told the " Crooks Act is a success." That altogether
depends on what is meant by " success." If it is
meant that it licenses a system which impoverishes
families, creates animosity between husbands and
wives, retards the Gospel chariot wheels, peoples mad- .
houses, pleases the devil, replenishes the grave, plants
the dying pillow with thorns, condemns at the judg-
ment day and shuts the drunkard up in hell ; then it
is one of the most gigantic successes this age has
ever witnessed. Will a Christian people, in this the
19th century, vote for the perpetuation of this huge
" success " when a grand opportunity is afforded
them to do otherwise? I hope not. I believe not.
3rd. "If you adopt the Scott Act, you are going to
grant the druggists licenses," etc. For years, on our
Temperance platforms, we have said, if liquor must be
sold, let it be kept in its place, alongside other poisons
on the apothecary's shelf, and if it be kept there, as
the Scott Act directs, " for medicinal purposes," doubt-
less it would be pure, which cannot be said of much
of that which is sold lu saloons — composed largely, as
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Apart from that, I ask the electors to carefully read
and examine the restrictions under which liquor is to be
sold by druggists, and I am persuaded you will con-
clude it is decidedly preferable to having rum-shops
on every corner — with their glittering bottles and
soul-destroying abominations to trap and ensnare the
young, who are the hope of this country.

We are told " if we displayed the Christian spirit
which we profess, we would be willing to remunerate
for the property we destroy," in case the Act be passed.
If the saloon-keepers advocate " remuneration " let it
commence in the families who have suffered indescrib-
ably through the nefarious traffic. They must remem-
ber their license is granted for one year only, and at
the expiration of that period, the authority that had
power to grant it has power to withhold it, if the
trade pursued under that license is found to be in-
jurious to the public. During the past winter, a
manufacturer in the West marked $700 in new bills
which he paid his workmen one Saturday night, and
the next Monday afternoon $450 of those identical
bills were deposited in the bank by the saloon men.
Who will do the " remunerating " there ? The advice
to " display the Christian spirit " certainly comes with
bad grace from the " whiskey ring," whose business, if
allowed, would throttle and destroy Christianity. I
ask the electors to read the following parable and tell
us who, in this case, displayed the "Christian spirit :" —
" It came to pass that as a certain man journeyed from
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who robbed him of his money, ruined his good name,
destroyed his reason, and then kicked him out wors6
than dead. A moderate drinker came that way, and
when he saw him he said, * He is but a dog ; they
served him right. Let him die, he is a curse to his
family.' And also a license voter came that way,
and when he saw him he said, * The brute ! Put a ball
and chain on his leg and work him on the street.'
And a fanatic teetotaler came that way, and when he
saw him he had compassion on him and raised him up,
assisted him to his home, ministered to his wants and
to the wants of his family ; got him to sign the pledge,
and started him on his journey in comfort and happi-
ness." Whom, think you, was the greater friend to
humanity — the saloon-keeper, the moderate drinker,
the license voter, or the teetotaler fanatic ?

It is certainly very startling to be told in the cir-
cular under review, that " ministers have no interest
in the county, they don't mix with the people," etc.
They are not hermits, — they mix a great deal with the
community, and every minister sees evidences of the
sad work done by the liquor traffic, and the necessity
of manifesting the " Christian spirit " in doing what
we can to save our fellow-men from the crime and
curse of drunkenness, even though we are but " tem-
porary residents." If it be meant that " ministers do
not mix with the people " in bar-rooms, then I am sure
we are all grateful for the compliment.

You are advised to vote " nay " to the Act also, to
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liquor-seller sold a pint of liquor under the " license "
system, and made a few cents profit. The drinker,
under its influence, shot his son-in-law, and his arrest,
imprisonment, trial and execution cost the country
more than $1,000 ; and what expense will be connected
with the sad event that transpired, in connection with
liquor, six miles from this place, not more than three
weeks ago ? Will the liquor-dealers please " rise and
explain ?" We are told the Scott Act is a " failure " in
Halton. A law is not a ** Uure because of a few viola-
tions. I doubt not but the liquor-sellers have experi-
enced a heavy " failure " in cash, but when liquor is
sold and the law violated (by men such as have
addressed you in their recent circular), the authorities
are doing what they can to bring the offenders to
justice.

" The saddest thing in the present legalized liquor
traffic is this — it prepares its own victims. If the hotels
found men who demanded drink and supplied these
only, it would not be so terrible. But they know right
well that if they did this only their patronage would
soon cease, when 7,000 drunkards in Canada are
swept away every year, therefore they set themselves
with cool and bloody cunning to prepare men to like
liquor and demand it." The man who scatters a trail
of corn and coaxes your hog into his pen, you call a
hog thief, and you send him to the penitentiary in
disgrace. But the men who allure your sons into
whiskey dens, and for their money make them drunk-
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and good fellows, and, as appears in the circular under
consideration, "respectable hotel-keepers." I ask,
electors, will you in the coming contest, vote that
their business is legitimate and ought to be fostered
b} this fair Dominion at an enormous expense ? We
will meet opposition, fallacious and illogical reasonings,
exhibitions of selfishness, because the " craft by which
they get their wealth is in danger," but we must work
and pray and vote. It will not do to sit down in
supine inactivity and mourn over the evils of intem-
perance, for while we are doing so the business of the
drunkard will go on — for the most conclusive of
reasons — it 'pays. There is money in it, and men will
brave all shame and all dangers for big money. My
ground is squarely taken and here I stand : " Society
has a right to protect itself against the business that
makes drunkards, and against the drunkards that
make the business."

[LETTER.].

I have recently written a circular in wnich some of
the fallacies of the circular by the liquor party have
been exposed.

I will no tie a few more of its remarkable statements.
We are told the " Scott Act will do away with all
light, harmless drinking, such as ale. beer, etc." i.c-
cording to that admission the Act is not going to be a
" failure " after all ; for we hold it is the use of these,
the " treating " and fatal social drinking, that starts
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instances, leads to positive drunkenness. Prevent this
" harmless drinking " and you will give the weak and
struggling victim a chance to reco^^er himself. A man
addicted to drink said, this week, that he hoped the
"Scott Act" would pass — it would remove the tempta-
tion out of his way. He said, farther, that many times
he had sent some member of his family to town in his
place, to keep out of the snare. Some would laugh at
that frank acknowledgment, but those who have had
to battle against the desire for drink, acquired by this
" harmless " tippling, will understand the force and
point of such a statement. Mary of this class will
thank us for our endeavors to shut those " traps v-hat
catch men."

Then, again, it is said " the Scott Act will rob your
fellow-citizen" (the hotel-keeper). It ought to be
remembered that we are nob fighting against them as
individuals, so much as wc are warring against the
" license system " which they have extolled. What
does that system do ? Not content with " robbing "
men of their property, the evil effects of it enter the
sacred precincts of the home, and blast the character
and destiny of our children. And if this "Act" be
passed and fairly tested, we believe that even whiskey-
sellers will have the occasion, when their feelings have
cooled down and their consciences have been allowed
to speak, to be glad that they and their families are
from under the shadow and curse of such a business.
They ought to rejoice, if by any legal regulation they

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are compelled to follow a more reputable way of
making a livelihood.

Then "the markets will be destroyed by this
Act." I do not imagine that the intelligent farmers
of Oxford, to whom this bait is thrown, will grasp at
it. To make such a statement as the above is about
as reasonable as it would be to argue with an incen-
diary that it would ruin a city to put out the fire that
was burning it up. Will any intelligent man believe
that the prices of grain and other produce is made to
depend on the traffic in liquor ? I simply ask the
question and leave it to the electors to decide.

We are told we will " lose a large amount of money
raised by licenses." The question naturally arises,
how can hotel-keepers pay these " large amounts " —
with occasional fines — unless some of our fellow-citi-
zens are badly fleeced ? There can be no doubt this
traffic is fraught with untold evils, and the question
is — Will we as electors, for the license money, grant its
continuation ? When the Emperor of China was
requested to legalize the traffic in opium, his memorable
reply was : " I will never consent to increase my
revenues by the vices of my subjects." Let us say so
too, and clear our skirts of the " blood-money " from
licenses which grant our fellow-citizens the privilege
of dealing out poison, destruction and death.

The old argument as to "increase of taxes" has been
trotted out. I have not heard it stated to what extent
that increase will be. An authority says that the
whole revenue from drink is $5,000,000, which repre-

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sents $1.20 per head ; but, according to an unchallenged
statement laid before the House of Commons, the
drink traffic costs the country over $7.00 per head.
I doubt not but this is correct. Even if the opposite
were the case, can any country prosper in the long run
whose Government lives on the revenues of iniquity ?

We ask the people to vote for the " Scott Act " for
weighty and substantial reasons. The (so called) argu-
ments of our opponents are mostly sweeping assertions,
unsustained by facts, and misrepresentations respecting
the actual working of this Act where it has been, and
is, law. The interests of the sober and law-abiding
should far outweigh those of the other party, who wish
to force upon the county or country a demoralizing,
body-and-soul-destroying traffic, that the majority of
voters believe to be, not only unnecessary, but posi-
tively injurijus. Let us show them that we so
believe.

You are asked to " stamp out with an iron hand
this uncalled-for agitation," but we believe the duty
of every intelligent and right-thinking citizen will be
to " stamp out " this nefarious traffic, with its din and
clatter, that the fiery breath of the whiskey-devil may
no longer scorch and blast the lives and happiness of
the people.

KiNTOEK, May Ist, 1883.

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A SHOT AT THE DECANTER.

'HERE is a current story that a Quaker once dis-
covered a thief in his house, and taking down
his grandfather's old fowling-piece, he quietly said:
"Friend, thee had better get out of the way, for I
intend to fire this gun right where thee stands."
With the same considerate spirit we warn certain
good people, that they had better take the decanter
off their table, for we intend to aim a Bible truth
right where that decp-nter stands. It has no more
business to be there at all than the thief had to be in
the honest Quaker's house. We are not surprised to
find a decanter of alcoholic poison on the counter of a
dram-shop, whose keeper is " licensed " to sell death
by measure. But we are surprised to find it on the
table or the sideboard of one who professes to be
guided by the spirit and teaching of God's Word.
That bottle stands right in the range of the following
inspired utterance of St. Paul: "It is good neither to
eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anythir^g whereby thy
brother stumbleth." This text must either go out of the
Christian's Bible, or the bottle go off the Christian's
table. The text will not'move, and the bottle must. —
T. L. Cuyler, D.D.

FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT.

TO YOUNG MEN.

Extract of an address delivered by Mr. R. T. Booth,
in Plymouth, England, 188S.

I* HE greatest conundrum that young men have to
solve on this drink question is this. They see
men occupying positions of honour and trust, respected
by their neighbors, beloved by the poor, and they see
them drink. These young men may have been taught
that in order to succeed they must be honest; that in
order to obtain the respect of their fellow-men they
must be sober. It may be, if their mother has been
true to them, that they have been taught to sigr the
pledge — the pledge of total abstinence. When they
come out into the world and see these things they are
unable to understand how those who drink have got
on. The great mistake that young men make to-day
is this. They see these things, and do not stop to
consider that these men came on the scene of action
when public sentiment was different to what it is
to-day — when it was not unpopular to drink wine. I
thank God the day is coming when it will be just as
unpopular as it is disreputable to drink this stuflf.
But there was a day when that was not so. But
public sentiment has changed and times have changed.
To-day is not yesterday; this year is not last year.
In years gone by we would hear it sung —

My willing soul would stay
In such a frame as this ;
And sit and sing itself away
In everlasting bliss.

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IS'"

But what do we hear to-day —

Bescue the perishing,
Care for the dying.

We used to see a lot of little chubby boys sitting
together like cats, with their faces blown out, singing —

I want to be an angel,
And with the angels stand.

Now we hear —

Hold the Fort for I am coming,

Jesus signals still ;
Wave the answer back to Heaven,

By Thy grace we will.

That is the sentiment and that is the feeling in this
land to-day. There is no demand for a young man
who drinks. If you pick up a morning paper in
Plymouth to-morrow, I will defy you to find an adver-
tisement like this, " Wanted, a young man who drinks
beer, gin, or whiskey." But you will find scores of
advertisements which read like this, " Wanted, a
young man, sober and steady," and in some cases there
may be added, "Only Blue Ribboners need apply."
There is no single occupation in the land to-day which
calls for a man who drinks. Even the publicans want
people who are total abstainers in their employ. I
have got an advertisement in my pocket out from the
Bh^mingham Daily Post. An hotel-keeper was there
advertising for what we call in our country a "bouncer"
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turn out from his house men who, having got the
drink in them, became disorderly. In fact the man
was to do a kind of police work. Well, this hotel-
keeper wound up his advertisement by saying, " Only
abstainers need apply." Think of that. That is a
question which has been solved and which has been
answered. The men who employ labour, the men who
manage railways, the men who have the guiding of
the great steamers across the Atlantic, should know
that there are rights which they are bound to respect.
I say, as an abstainer, when I take a railway ticket I
have a right to demand that the railway company
should put a sober man on the engine to drive it. All
the Cunard men, when they go on board the ships of
the line, have nothing to drink until the voyage is
ended. The White Star line has adopted the same
rule. It is on the sea and on the land, in posts of
difficulty, that men want clear heads and steady nerves.
When I sweep through your country in express trains
I don't think of the man who sold me my ticket ; I
do not care for the men who own the line ; my only
concern is about the man who is driving the engine
and the man who is in the signal box. But the mo-
ment we talk about thip to young men they say, " Oh,
Mr. Booth, it is all very well, you know, but we have
will, — power, and strength of mind ; we will keep this
appetite under ; " or, " it will never get the upper
hand of me." I say, "Talk with that young man
earnestly and plead with him to give it up." I met
a young man in the train the other day and he said,

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" I only drink one glass per day, Mr. Booth ; I can
drink or let it alone." I told him it was a grand thing
to be able to say that, but it was a grander thing to
" let it alone." But this is the same song that every
drunkard in the land has sung. There is no one lying
in a drunkard's grave to-night but has sung it, and has
sung it whilst he saw the rocks on that shore where
no wreck is ever repaired. Let it alone ; to-night is
your opportunity. Heaven will rejoice if you will
take this step in the right, and give your heart to the
Lord. * * * * Do you ever suppose the young
man becomes a drunkard all at once ? Never ! No
young man ever took a glass of wine or liquor, and
said, "I know what this will do. I know it will
make every nerv^ in my body dance with pleasure ;
it will thicken my blood and weaken my nerves until
I tremble with palsy ; that it will rob me of virtue,
fill my heart with woe, and fit my soul for hell below.''
That is never done, and never will be. Tho start is
made without thought, and, strangest of all, without
fear of the danger. Everything is pleasing and beau-
tiful — green fields and waving corn, and the whole
world filled with sunshine. That is the experience at
starting, of the man who drinks. He sees before him
this mirage, this phantom, this delusion, which is
beckoning him on. At every step he sees dancing
before his eyes this inscription — " This is the way to
social, jovial companionship ; this is the way to inno-
cent amusement; this the way to freedom from care;"
and thus with singing and dancing he has hardly

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cros ed the fatal boundary when the flimsy drapery
is dropped, the tinsel and the mask are removed, and
the hideous monster stands revealed. It is only
then that the drinking man understands the battle ;
then, only then, it becomes a thing of reality. He sees
he has all the powers of the bottomless pit to contend
with and so the fight goes on. Everywhere his enemy
dogs his steps ; everywhere he goes it is with him,
for ever hunting him down. Yes, every hour of the
day, all night long the shattered man cries drink,
drink, drink, evermore drink ; and is never satisfied.
This sin changes thus as it goes on. There are times
when memories crowd in upon him and he longs for
better days. Life, youth, and innocence — he would
go back to it ; but no, sitting in the house of God and
longing for the balm of Gilead, there stands written
before him " No hope, no hope." He strives to be free,
but it is only to be overcome and overwhelmed again
and again, and thus it goes on until by and bye,
blessed be God, in his weakness he looks to the
Saviour, and finds it is life to look at the Crucified One.
His enemies leave him ; God takes possession, and the
mighty folds of the blood-stained banner of King
Jesus float over the battlements of his soul. Men and
women fall into the ranks; our Captain has never
lost a battle ; and in this conflict He has sounded a
trumpet which has never called a retreat. It is
"Onward" and "Forward." Though a great sea of
difficulty is before us, and mountains of opposition
are on the left hand and on the right. He shall roll

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them away as the mist before the sun ; the watert
shall separate and roll back as a scroll, and we will
stand on the other side with the Redeemer, and there
sinpr—

" Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea,
Jehovah has triumphed, his people are free."

A BED-ROOK FOR THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

iJKANY of us are utterly weary of the wrangling —
in pulpits, reviews, or newspapers — about half
a dozen contested passages of Scripture. Ink enough
has been wasted to fill the six water-pots of Cana
many times over. It is quite sufHcient for all practical
purposes to teach every child that alcohol as a beverage
does nobody any good, and sent millions upon millions
to perdition. The Bible closes the " kingdom of God "
against the drunkard. The Bible declares that wine
is a mocker, and warns us against its adder-bite and
serpent-sting. The Bible proclaims that noble Chris-
tian principle of self-denial, " It is good not to drink
wine or anything by which thy brother stumbleth."
One of these passages teaches the terrible danger of
tampering with what is by its very nature a subtle
deceiver. Another pronounces the awful doom of
those who are enslaved by the deceiver ; and the third
unfolds a most sensible and beautiful principle on
which all who have any regard for their fellow-crea-
tures should be willing to stand in solid phalanx.

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" Why don't you take wine ?" inquired a certain bishop
of a neighbor to whom he pushed a decanter at a public
table. The reproving reply was, " I do not for the
sake of my example."

Now, the above-mentioned simple, clear, undeniable
principles constitute a sufficient bed-rock on which to
build the temperance reform. The acceptance and the
practice of these principles would give us a community
of abstainers. They would give us the most effectual
law to uproot the destructive liquor traffic. They
would go far toward removing what is the most terri-
ble obstacle to the progress of Christ's kingdom. But
we seriously fear that less is being done to spread these
undeniable principles than was done forty years ago.
A smaller percentage of the American people are total
abstainers to-day than at the time when the original
"Maine law" was enacted in 1851. This fact can
easily be accounted for, but the fact is unquestionable.

What amazes and shocks me is to see the wine bottle
where it is as flagrantly out of place as a bonfire would
be on the floor of a powder-mill. No intoxicant has
any business to be on the table of a family which con-
tains any boys, or on the table of any miscellaneous
social party, or in the cupboard of any professional
man, or anywhere else, in short, except possibly in the
hands of a very discreet and careful physician. Every
bottle that contains alcohol contains a serpent. The
serpent in Eden was not a more perfect embodiment
of deceit. A bottle of Bourbon or Burgundy will de-
ceive the very elect. I am constantly called to labor
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for the reformation of persons who began with the
most honest resolutions to drink moderately ; but their
glasses insensibly enlarged and deepened until they
became literally a pit of damnation! Some of the
hardest cases I encounter are of those whose names
are enrolled on church registers. In yonder lecture-
room I have heard a man pray most pathetically for
deliverance from the tempter, and yet he has been
tracked to a drinking-saloon on his way home from
the prayer-meeting ! More than once he has been the
subject of most loving personal efforts (once or twice of
necessary church discipline), and still does he cry out
in agony from the bites of the serpent which he de-
liberately put into his own bosom when he was a
young man. He never whines about being "a poor
unfortunate victim," etc., etc. ; he squarely admits that
he is a heinous sinner against God and his own soul.
But what shall be f^aid of those Christian people who,
from thoughtlessness or from the tyranny of fashion,
will set wine bottles where they will produce just such
conflagrations ? In my honest judgment, Pat O'Raf-
ferty, the grog-seller, will have no heavier account to
answer for in the "great day" than will those re-
putable and professedly Christian people who place
bottled serpents on their hospitable tables for the
temptation and poisoning of their guests. Half the
drunkards in the land had one or more partners at the
outset. God's Word solemnly declares, "Be ye not
partakers of other men's sins ;" how much worse to be
their tempters.

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to be

The one momentous truth that must be instilled
into the minds and consciences of the young is, that
nobody can safely tamper with an intoxicating bever-
age. On the bed-rock of entire abstinence alone are
they safe. I am willing to confess on this public page
that I would no more dare to tamper with a wine
bottle than I would dare to thrust a fire-brand into
one of the pews of my church edifice. The venerable
President of my college told me how often in his stu-
dent days he used to listen to the eloquent sermons of

Dr. ; but those very sermons were delivered under

the inspiration of the wine-cup ! The excuse was, " I
can preach better with the help of a stimulant." He
delivered a discourse once on the sufferings of our
Lord that melted his auditory to tears ; but his nerves
were all on fire with port wine while he was preach-
ing ! How this brilliant minister of Christ fell at last
into open intemperance, and how bitterly he repented,
and how he reformed and was reinstated, is still re-
membered by a few aged people. His temporary fall
is a warning — trumpet-tongued to all of us — not to
" look upon a cup that stingeth like a serpent."

The only gospel of temperance I have yet learned,
or which I dare to preach, is — let it alone ; it is a de-
ceiver ; it has power to cast both body and soul into
hell. This is the principle to teach to the rising
generation. On this bed-rock of entire abstinence
they can build safely. On that immutable rock let
us maintain and enlarge the temperance platform. —
Dr, T. X. Cuyler.

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HOLD THE PORT.

|0 ! my comrades, see ou? banner
Waving in the sky,
Hear our rallying hosanna
Echoing on high.

Chorus — Hold the fort for prohibition,
Freedom signals still ;
Answer back to the petition,
By our votes we will.

All our land the foe engages,

Let no freeman lag,
For the battle fiercely wages —

Rally round the flag.

Hear the groans of thousands dying

On the slaughter field ;
By the ensign o'er us flying

We will never yield.

Hark ! what shrieks of woe appalling

Pierce through all the air ;
Hear the wretched veterans calling,

" Save us from despair."

By the land our fathers bought us

With their precious blood,
By the birthrights they have brought us,

Stem the battle flood.

By the right which freedom gave us

With immortal souls,
Crush the foe who dare enslave us ;

Forward to the polls !

—W. H. T,

FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT.

METHODISM AND TEMPERANCE.

{Delivered by the Rev. M. L. Pearson at the meeting of the
Montreal Conference^ 1875).

.cWT is not of late that the Methodist Church has
^ commenced the advocacy of the temperance
cause. From addresses recently delivered, we are re-
quired to believe that never until within the last few
years did our Church become aware of the prevalence
of intemperance, or peradventure being aware of its
existence it never realized that it was the deadly and
unpitying enemy of mankind. This is certainly a
false representation. Our Church's opposition to the
use of alcoholic stimulants is co-equal with our Church's
existence, and the discipline of our Church always
demands as a condition of continuance in membership
the non-use of all intoxicating liquors as a beverage.
Before any of the tempercnce organizations that now
exist had undertaken the Christlike work they are
accomplishing, the people called Methodists took ad-
vanced ground on the question, and its ministers (at
least many of them) have laboured earnestly to mould
the sentiment of the people in favour of total absti-
nence. It is perhaps more recently that the subject
at the Conference has received that recognition which
its importance demanded, and it is pleasing to contem-
plate that when our children, and our children's
children, shall in after years read the history of this
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they will notice that the first public meeting held
under the sanction and by the authority of Conference
was in the interest of the temperance reformation.
Times there have been when the introduction of this
subject into the pulpit was the signal for the visitation
of the heaviest malediction of the congregation on the
head of the unfortunate offender, and in too many
instances awed by this prejudice, the subject was
passed by unnoticed and unexpounded. But now
foremost among those who in this great reformation
are in labours most abundant, are many upon whom
the burdens of ministerial responsibility are resting.
The ministry of the day are not sleeping, they have
been on the watch-tower making discoveries and ascer-
taining the enemy's movements, and as they looked
they have seen the sword coming upon the people ;
not the sword of war, but intemperance, the heaviest,
and deadliest of all; and they have blown the trumpet,
and warned the people, and roused by the call of the
clarion, the hosts of Israel are gathering for the con-
flict, and having at their sacred altars sworn eternal
enmity to rum, they are inspired by the prospect of a
certain and speedy victory. In the present state of
the antagonistic armies is not the duty of the ministry
clear and unmistakable ? Who among us can be
neutral in the strife, and how can the Christian am-
bassador, who fails in the announcement of this mes-
sage, however eloquently he may dilate on other
themes — how can he, I ask, expect to be greeted by the
Sovereign, when the rewards of eternity are being

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by the

distributed, or to hear from His sacred lips those words
uttered with kingly authority which I earnestly covet
for myself when the last labour is completed, and the
last battle is o'er, "Well done, good and faithful
servant." I appeal now to the followers of the Saviour
who are in this church to-night. Is not the work in
which we are engaged a part of the work of the
Church ? Some answer " No." They suppose it con-
flicts with the spiritual character of the Church. The
Church, they agree, has been established for the con-
version of the world; it aims at the implanting, by the
power of the Spirit, a whole new principle of being.
The temperance reform, and indeed all moral reforms
in general, only deal with specific sins, which are but
the symptoms of the world's great disorder. Why,
they ask, distract the Church's energies, whose duty it
is to destroy the malady, and seek to trouble it with
your quackery about the symptoms? Now we are
bound to admit that the Church is a spiritual institu-
tution. But the Church has been established for man
as he is, mind and body. It is adapted to the facts of
man's condition as a sinner, and as a being suffering
for his sins. Surely it is safe for the Church to fashion
its policy after the model of its Divine founder. And
how large a portoin of His recorded activity was
employed in alleviating the woes and sufferings of
mankind. We read of Him going about doing good,
removing the sorrow of the people without even hint-
ing at His higher character as the physician of the
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judgment, when the Son of man, sitting upon the
throne of His glory, has before Him all the nations of
the earth, we have clearly set forth the fact that God
will hold His people accountable for failure to carry
out His beneficent policy to a suffering world. No
one questions the propriety of the Church's actions
when a Dorcas Society is formed. But where is the
difference in principle between making a society for
aiding the poor, a part of the work of the Church, and
establishing a weekly or monthly temperance meeting
under the auspices of the Church? If either of the two
is apart from the profound idea of ^ohe Church's mis-
sion, it is the effort for the direct relief of the poor, for
the temperance movement strikes at the root of nine-
tenths of the poverty of our ls.nd, and there can
scarcely be anything done that will be of greater
benefit to the poor than for the Church to engage
heartily in the temperance reformation. But it is
absurd to waste time debating this question. The
Church must interfere. It cannot keep out of the con-
flict. It has been foully attacked. Intemperance has
invaded our territory, and to maintain our position we
must be active in this cause. It has destroyed the
happiness and extinguished the brightness of many
Christian homes. It has thrown down the family
altar. It has gone into the chamber where the good
man meets his God, and dragged him from his devo-
tions. He has intruded into the privacy of the class-
room, and laughed to scorn the promises made to
resist his power. There is no sanctuary in our land —

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not one, the wide world over, that has not been pol-
luted by his presence. He has forced men out of their
pews when for years they have sat and worshipped,
where they have wept and rejoiced under the melting
influence of gospel truth, and hurled them into wretch-
edness and sin ; and having robbed them of the love-
liness of their live^ he has given the poor diseased
body to the drunkard's grave, and consigned his death-
less spirit to the tortures of the drunkard's hell. And
then, as if ultimately he aimed at the destruction of
the angels in heaven, he has gone up higher than the
pew, entered the sacred enclosure of the pulpit, and
cast down from their elevation some of the noblest men
that ever preached the Saviour's name. Intemperance
has severed the heart-strings of some of earth's fondest
mothers and brought down the grey hairs of some of
her grandest sires in sorrow to the grave. It has
blasted the prospects of thousands of our promising
young men, led them forth upon a career of wicked-
ness and sent them down to people perdition. How
many fathers there are who tremble with fear as the
son leaves his quiet rural home to enter into business
in some of our large towns or cities, as he thinks of
the terrible temptation that awaits that boy. Follow
that old man into his place of communion and prayer
with God, listen to him as he enquires day by day of
Him to whom he has entrusted the body and soul of
that loved one : " Is the young man Absalom safe ? "
And now see that parent again, when after years of
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his hopes blasted, his prospects ruined, his health gone,
and the religion his mother taught him in childhood
disgraced and dishonored, and now hearken to that
old man as he looks with bleeding heart upon the
remnant of his bright and promising son, and exclaims,
" It is my son's coat, a wild beast hath devoured him."
Yes, it blasts all that is great, and blights all that is
good in humanity. The man of honor it betrays
into infamy, and the man of weakness into sin. It
destroys the tenderest ties of social life, exiles the
sweet endearments of home, and robs earth of its love-
liness. In its power, in its influence, and in its fas-
cination, it stands like Qoliath among the Philistines,
more than any other foe a terror to the host of the
Lord; like Saul, it is head and shoulders above its
fellows in degrading, debasing, and demoralizing
effects. " Oh thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast
no name to go by, we will call thee Devil."

And all this evil, and places for the production of it>
are guarded — are perpetuated b^^ the sanction of law.
At almost every street corner there are planted upas
trees of poison, under which nothing good and virtuous
can have a healthy life, guarded and protected by law.
In every direction you meet with these pestilential
fountains, sending forth their slimy stream, and these
fountains are legalized by Parliamentary enactment,
and if we dare remonstrate with these men who are
engaged in this traffic of death, they fling defiantly in
our face their license from the highest authority,
authorizing them to carry on their infernal mission.

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" Licensed to make the strong man weak,
Licensed to lay the strong man low ;
Licensed the wife's fond heart to break,
And make the children's tears to flow.

Licensed to do thy neighbor harm,
Licensed to kindle hate and strife ;

Licensed to nerve the robber's arm,
Licensed to whet the murderer's knife.

Licensed thy neighbor's purse to drain.
And rob him of his very last ;

Licensed to heat his feverish brain,
Till madness crowns thy work at last.

Licensed, like spider for a fly,
To spread thy nets for man, thy prey ;

To mock his struggles, suck him dry.
Then cast the shattered hulk away.

Licensed, where peace and quiet dwell.
To bring disease, and want and woe :

Licensed to make this world a hell,
And fit a man for hell below."

There are two objects which the earnest men of the
Churches and of other organizations have in vie w. First,
— To persuade every man to pass a prohibitory liquor
law upon himself. This is one' constituency, certainly,
over which he has control, and though there will be
difficulty in enforcing the law, yet he has to aid him
the omnipotent hand of God. Our appeal is based
upon the ground of self-sacrifice for the good of others.
Underlying this appeal is the example of the great
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that it might be employed for the benefit of others,
and who declares, " It is good neither to eat flesh, nor
to drink wine, nor anything, whereby thy brother
stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak." The
principal ground of our appeal, however, is love to
Christ, and to the souls purchased by His blood. O !
that we could all rise to the dignity of our calling,
and identify ourselves with Him whose entire life
was one of self-sacrifice for the world's good; who
taught that sacred principle in all His actions, and
heightened the majesty of it, when on the cross He
died in our room and in our stead.

The other object in view is the education of the
public sentiment with a view to securing " legislative
enactment, pronouncing illegal the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors." I shall not discuss the
propriety of an immediate enactment. I shall leave
to men of more mature wisdom and experience the
question: Whether the passing of such a law, in the
present state of public opinion, would be beneficial or
otherwise to the cause of temperance; whether such
legislation would advance or retard the end in view ?
The duty of the hour is unquestionably to enlighten
the public mind, and educate the opinion of the people.
This is being done : the signs of the times are most
encouraging and there are clearly describable good
omens which cheer us in the conflict, and indicate the
triumphant issue of the struggle in which we are
engaged. Espousing the cause of prohibition to-day
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merchantman is now convinced that the commercial
interests of this country are not wrapped up in the
liquor traffic, and repudiates the notion that was a
few years ago unanimously accepted as a fact, that
the destruction of the traffic would be the ruin of the
country's trade. Politicians, too, are being aroused
from the slumber of ages. Some of them have, for
some years past, been fondly dreaming of their duty
to the land. But the people have recently been
knocking so distinctly at ih>: halls of Legislation that
the honourable gentlemen are getting up, some of them
pen^isting that they wer, not asleep md it is evident
the day is not far distant when ilie subject of Prohibi-
tion will be the main queitiua agitating the country
from one end to the other.

Every year our cause moves on apace, and the
ultimate triumph of the work is guaranteed, not only
by recent successes, but by the infallible Word of
God.

I am not ignorant of the accumulated and formid-
able difficulties still in the way, and of the painful
prevalence of the drinking customs of society. I hear
the voices of many almost discouraged ones exclaiming
"What of the night?" But, brethren, it is past mid-
night, yes, long past midnight, and through the grey
streaks of the morning there comes the answer,

*' It's a long night, and murky, and drear,
But my faith is strong that the day is near ;
There's a gleam of light in the dusky sky,
It mvksi be, brethren, that the day is nigh."

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The last fire in the last distillery in this land shall
soon be put out, the last stream of desolation shall be
dried up, the last tear from the last drunkard's wife
shall be wiped away, the last drunkard's child shall
be protected and saved, and the latest in the succession
of the slaves of infatuation, shall, in God's name, assert
the royalty of his freedom and dash the cup away.

There is a fount about to stream,

There is a light about to beam,

There is a warmth about to flow,

There is a flower about to blow.

There is a midnight darkness changed into day.

Men of thought, men of action, men of Temperance,

Clear the wat.
Aid it, dawning tongue and pen.
Aid it, hopes of honest men ;
Aid it, x>aper, aid it, type, k
Aid it, for the cause is ripe.
But our earnest must not slacken into play,
Men of Qod, men of faith, brethren, sisters.

Clear the wat.

A TEMPERANCE SONG.

AOt, "ADLD LANQ BTMI."

^AN we forget the gloomy time.
When Bacchus ruled the day ;
When dissipation, sloth, and cnme,
Bore undisputed sway?
The time, the time, the gloomy time,

The time has passed away.
When dissipation, sloth, and crime,
Bore undisputed sway.

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Can we forget the gray-haired sirea,

Who sunk, by anguish riven,
To see their sons, by liquid iires,
To endless ruin driven ?
The sires, the sires, the gray -haired sires,

No more shall thus be riven,
Nor see their sons, by liquid fires,
To endless ruin driven.

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Can we forget the tender wives,

Who found an early tomb 1
For, ah ! the partners of their lives
Had met the drunkard's doom :
The wives, the wives, the tender wives

May bid adieu to gloom.
For now the partners of their lives
Abhor the drunkard's doom.

We'll ne'er forget that noble band,
Who feared no creature's frown,
And boldly pledged both heart and hand
To put intemperance down :
The band, the band, the noble band.

The band of blest renown,
Who boldly pledged both heart and hand
To put intemperance down.

Well praise and bless the God of love,

To whom this grace we owe,
That living waters flow above.
And streams of health below :
The God, the God, the God of love.

To Him our praise we owe.
That living waters flow above,
And streams of health below.

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Nor shall the Pledge be once forgot,

That 80 much joy creates, —
"We'll touch not, taste not, handle not,
Whate'er intoxicates : "
The Pledge, the Pledge is not forgot.

The Pledge that Satan hates ;
" We'll touch not, taste not, handle not,
Whate'er intoxicates."

—Rev. E. F. Hatfield, D.D.

TEMPERANCE THOUGHTS AND GLEANINGS, AT

RANDOM STRUNG.

1. A Good Creature of God.

'HE Rev. Dr. Guthrie said : " I have heard a man
with a bottle of whiskey in his hand have the
impudence and assurance to say, * Every creature of
God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be re-
ceived with thanksgiving ;' and he would persuade me
that what was made in the still-pot was a creature of
God. In one sense it is so, but in the same sense so
is arsenic, so is oil of vitriol, and so is prussic acid.
Think of a fellow tossing off a glass of vitriol, and ex-
cusing himself by saying that it is a good creature of
God. He would not use many such creatures, that's
all I'll say. Whiskey is good in its own place. There
is nothing like it for preserving a man when he is
dead, but it is one of the worst things in the world for
preserving a man when he is living. If you want to
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to kill a living man put whiskey into him." The
same celebrated divine said : " I have four reasons for
being an abstainer from ardent spirits — 1st, My head
is clearer ; 2nd, My health is better ; 3rd, My heart is
lighter; 4th, My pocket is heavier." Everyone will
say they are good and sufficient reasons.

2. Ctrus, the great king of Persia, was a man of
good temperance principles and habits, as well as of
noble traits of character. We are told that when a
boy, being at the court of his grandfather he engaged
to perform the office of cup-bearer at the table. He
was required, in his official position, among other
duties, to taste the liquor before presenting it to the
king ; but, without performing the duty of tasting, he
delivered the cup to the king, who observed the omis-
sion, which he imputed to forgetfulness. " No," said
Cyrus, "I purposely avoided it, because I feared it
contained poison, for lately at an entertainment I ob-
served that the lords of your court after drinking it
became noisy, quarrelsome, and frantic." The effects
of liquor is still the same, and young men will do well
to imitate the example of Cyrus.

3. For the manufacture of thi valuable commodity,
pyhlic sentiment, in favor of putting down the traffic,
we certainly have an ample supply of matter-of-fact
material at hand. The simple process is work up.
Without this our cause is lost, or at least indefinitely
delayed. With courageous action certain success.
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" Smote by truth, fall ancient error,

Reared by power, and propped by wrong ;
And earth wonders, when they perish,
That they stood the test so long."

4. J. B. GouGH relates the following : — " In one of
our sleeping cars in America there was an old bachelor
who was annoyed by the continual crying of a child
and the ineffectual attempts of the father to quiet it.
Pulling aside the curtain and putting out his head, he
said, ' Where is the mother of that child ? Why doesn't
she stop this nuisance V The father said very quietly,
' The mother is in the baggage car in her coffin. I am
travelling home wHh the baby. This is the second
night I have been with the child, and the little thing
is wearying for its mother. I am sorry if its plaintive
cries disturb anyone in the car.' *Wait a minute,'
said the old bachelor. The old man got up and dressed
himself, and compelled the father to lie down and
sleep, while he took the babe himself. The old bache-
lor stilling the cry of the babe all night was a hero.
And the man who, for the sake of others, gives up a
lawful gratification in his own house or in the social
circle, is as great a hero as though he stood upon the
battlefield."

5. In one of our Canadian cities, a few years ago,
a young lawyer became addicted to habits of intem-
perance, and finally got so low that one day he fell
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sun pouring upon his face. A young lady, a stranger
to him, passing by, took pity on him and covered his
face with her pocket handkerchief. When he came
to his senses, and was told of the act of kindness, he
was so affected by it that he said he would hereafter
be a temperate man. He took the pledge, and soon
became a promising man in his profession. Not long
after he was introduced to the lady who had done him
the act of kindness, and afterwards married her. The
parties are living happily together, and the young
lawyer is now the Attorney -General of one of the
Canadian Provinces.

6. P. T. Barnum says the money spent for liquor in
any city would pay all the municipal expenses, and
give every citizen two good suits of clothes every
year.

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7. A GENTLEMAN travelling in Vermont found the

following lines inscribed upon a board near a watering

place where he stopped to water his horse :

" Temperance fountain, good as can be ;
Better far than rum or brandy :
If this truth excite your fury,
Let your horse be judge and jury."

8. Bishop Asbury having been compelled to spend
a night in a log cabin standing in a western wilder-
ness, in which night had overtaken him, found himself
in very rough company. The cabin was a sort of

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desert tavern, to which many hunters and others re-
sorted, and was the scene of many ungodly carousals.
The good bishop prayed with them, however, and kept
them by his reverend presence within the bounds of
decency. In the morning the landlord approached
him with a bottle and a glass and offered him a little
whiskey. " Nay," replied the bishop, " I make no use
of the devil's tea." Was whiskey ever more appro-
priately named ?

9. In the state of Oregon every man who drinks
liquor is required to take out a license costing $5 a
year. Unless armed with this document he cannot
get liquor at any hotel or saloon, as it is a penal offence
for the proprietors of these establishments to sell to
any person without a license. Every six months the
names of the persons who take out these licenses are
to be published in the local papers, so that the public
may know who and who are not authorized to drink.

10. An Easy, Sure Way.
A Quaker was once advising a drunkard to leave
off his habit of drinking intoxicating liquors. " Can
you tell me how to do it ?" said the slave of the appe-
tite. " Yes !" answered the Quaker, " it's just as easy
as to. open thy hand, friend." "Convince me of that,
and I will promise you to do as you tell me," replied
the drunkard. " Well, my friend, when thou findest
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the hand that contains it before it reaches thy mouth,
and thou wilt never be drunk again." We are told
that the toper was so well pleased with the plain
advice that he followed it and became a sober man.

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11. It is well to keep facts relating to the temper-
ance subject constantly before our minds, and in pro-
portion as we see the gigantic evils of the liquor traffic
will be the earnestness of our efforts to do what we
can to suppress them. We do not now propose to
discuss this or that method of suppression, only let
all patriots, freemen and Christians be awakened to
the fact that something must be done. Discussions on
the traffic lodges doubt and disquiet in the hearts of
many implicated therein. Some of these are partly
coming over to the other side — while others will fight
for the evil thing with a constantly increasing sense
of weakness an,d foreboding of inevitable defeat.

Dr. Howard Crosby estimates, that in New York
city, there is a saloon for every eighteen drinkers,
and, that to support the rum-selling proprietors, each
drinker must pay $7.00 per week ; that is to say, about
one-half the average weekly earnings go into the
tavern bill. The quantity of liquor drunk, adulterated
and disguised, in the shape of patent medicines, gives
the devil much help in his murderous work of drunk-
ard-making. In different ways the enemy urges on
his work, and does not refuse help even from Christian
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obstacles encountered by the missionaries proceed
from the drunkenness and vice introduced by nomin-
ally Christian nations.

Let every good man and woman give liquor-selling
a blow at every opportunity by free speech, by the
ballot and by prayer. At a late Convention in Ohio,
the audience was largely composed of women. They
do not vote, but they pray, and in the long run, prayer
for a good cause will be stronger than the logic of the
beer seller in behalf of a bad one.

The red -faced whiskey-seller saw his neighbor's son
as he staggered homeward drunk, and then went back
inside his '' bar " to mix drinks for the next victim
who might call. What were his thoughts ? And yet
that is but one illustration of the murderous work
that has gone on for years past. Temperance people
are not " a lot of fanatics," fighting an imaginary evil.
When men and women '^.ease to cry out against this
work of drunkard-making, it will be when they cease
to have human hearts within them; hearts to feel
another's woe.

12. High license for the privilege of whiskey-selling
means that the whiskey-devil will strike higher game.
It tends also to make an aristocracy of evil. The man
who can afford to pay a thousand dollars for the privi-
lege of helping the devil in his murderous work, ought
to have a seat in his front parlor.

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13. As you approach the city of Louisville from the
east an impressive scene is presented to the view.
Just beyond you, in the valley, are huge distilleries
with a capacity for hundreds of barrels of whiskey
per day. Farther out to the left, on an elevation, is
the city infirmary, where the victims of this business
are cared for at public expense. A little farther on,
and in full view, is the cemetery, where lie the bones
of thousands of victims of the whiskey curse.

" Step by step he leads his victim
To the veige of dread despair ;
Hurls him o'er the brink of ruin,
Laughs and leaves him helpless there.

Widowed hearts and homes deserted,
Helpless children, orphans made ;

What a picture ! God of mercy
Let the cruel tide be stayed."

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CONTRIBUTIONS.

BRITONS NEVER SHALL BE SLAVES."

BT RBY. E. A. STAFFORD, A.B., WINNIPEG, MAN.

•HEN mighty kings with iron hand
Enslaved the unsuspecting land,
And Freedom's name but newly bom
The heritage of man, was torn
From sons of toil, to serfdom led ;
And rank in fealty bowed its head ;
And heirs of noble sires were driven
From rights to all by nature given ;
Uprose the stalwart l)aron8 then,
To claim their heritage as men.
And stood before their cowering lord.
While gleaming steel enforced their word ;
And craven John perforce began
An age of liberty for man, —
He signed the charter of the free —
The shield of ages yet to be : —
Thus saved from servitude and woe,
Tn common vow joined high and low.
And swore while England yet had graves,
That Britons never should be slaves !

When length'ning ages sped along.
And kings unwatched, again grew strong.
Girding by stealth their arm with power.
That robbed each man of nature's dower ;

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And Tudon into Stuarf b hand
Of iron, pawed their stem command,
Who closer drew enslaying chains.
And higher heaped extortion's gains.
While guardian angels seemed to weep,
O'er Liberty's fair form asleep :
Then nature moved in laboring throes ;
Qreat Hampden, Pym, and Eliot rose,
To claim for universal man
The rights that with their race began :
Then England wrote her history's page
In tears, and bled for every age ;
Her flaming banner high unfurled
Meant liberty for all the world ;
And heroes sought untimely graves.
That Britons never might be slaves I

Such sires as these begat us all !

Here at our feet their shadows fall !

So brave they strove — so near they stand,

Their names are worthy to command !

Yet, where they fought and died to save

Their latest child from doom of slave,

Such guilty bondage is begun

As never yet defied the sun !

In passion's chains enslaved, and sold

In pleasure's mart — more base than gold —

Men drink to curse, and curse to die ;

They rush to ills that toward them fly, —

They court th' avenging doom of sin,

And here their hell of woe begin, —

They scorn the happiness of earth, —

They shame the diadem of worth, —

Their honored name — their high degree —

Their manhood's crown — their heaven to be —

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They barter all, like base born-knaves,
And Briton's sons are worse than slaves !

O mom of hope from darkness rise !
O pitying light from angel eyes,
Shine forth where manhood pities not !
Where kind affections are forgot I
Where starving children hopeless pray —
And vice seeks out a darker way, —
On shadowed homes where womanhood,
With blighted faith continues good !
Where filth and rags their signal raise
Of sin and shame, where want dismays
The hand that gives, the eye that weeps,
And demons guard while vileness sleeps !
Let brighter light illume our day I
This bondage break, drive shame away I
Let nobler inspirations glow
In hearts benumbed from self-sought woe !
Let Law with voice of power speak.
And stretch its shield above the weak !
Let those who bear the Christian name,
Denying self, Christ's way proclaim,
In burning word and holy deed,
That all who err His help may heed !
Where growing wealth its pride displays —
Where voice of power the rabble sways —
Where learning's radiant mantle falls —
Where statesmen walk the nation's halls —
Wherever drink the soul depraves,
May Britons bom no more be slaves !

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A GLANCE AT THE SITUATION.

BY KKV. J. J. RICK, OOBOURU.

^HE importance of the Temperance movement is
"^ becoming more and more manifest, and has now
reached a point at which it is ignored by none. With
the increase of light that has dawned upon the
question, there has also arisen a very pronounced
public opinion, and with it, a deeply sensatized con-
science has been created, and that in all grades of
society. These active forces have, of late years
especially, given greatly accelerated momentum to
this mightiest of modern moral and social revolutions,
which at length appears to be marching grandly
onward to its inevitable consummation. We need not
pen the one word which is now felt to be the only one
that can express the fitting solution of all past pro-
gress in this mighty movement for the emancipation
of our well-nigh rum-ruined race. To speak of eman-
cipation, implies the degradation and slavery which, as
an effect of the great social evil, has for many
centuries past settled down with crushing fatal force
upon untold millions, who but for it had been a
benison to the world, but through the rum traffic's
operation became its blight. The wrong, however,
must not always triumph. The world's redemption
in this regard now draweth near — the day of doom
for the rum-fiend is at hand ; and the entire uprooting
of this deadly upas tree is only a matter of time.

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Among the mightiest of the forces combining to
press this foul fountain of evil, the liquor traffic, to the
wall, is the Methodism of this and other lands. Of
necessity, wherever "Christianity in earnest" exists,
it will largely preponderate on the side of Temperance,
as well as every other recognized reform. The dif-
ferent sections of Canadian Methodism have hitherto
(although severally distinct, organically) always been
largely united upon this great question, so much so,
that for many years past a Methodist, whether lay or
clerical, who was known to tamper with intoxicants
has been justly regarded with suspicion and out of
place among his co-religionists, and a reproach to his
profession. In England, Methodism has the same
proud distinction ; and all its sections there vie with
each other in effort to advance the cause of Temperance.
In this we cheerfully, gratefuly acknowledge that
Methodism is not singular, so far as English denomina-
tions are concerned, for every religious organization
there, Protestant and Roman Catholic, if not to the
same degree as Methodists, is nevertheless exerting a
powerful influence to-day, which is fast leavening, at
least, the church-going portion of the community. A
new departure marked the English Bible Christian
Conference of 1883, in the appointment of District
Secretaries, with a General Temperance Secretary, to
whom these make annual returns for Conference.
This action so far recognizes the Temperance move-
ment as to make it henceforth, more prominently than
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a matter in which every class of its officialism will be
expected to take a more or less active part.

In connection with the late General Conference of
the United Methodist Church, in the city of Belleville,
while day and night that great representative body
was so crowded with weighty matters involving strain,
mental and physical, upon the delegates, there was no
possibility of affording time, as usual, for public religious
services; nevertheless, one public meeting was held, and
that an old-fashioned Temperance meeting. It was
spoken of by many as the most successful and satis-
factory gathering of the kind ever held in the city.
That grand old Methodist preacher. Dr. John A.
Williams, President of the Conference, occupied the
chair as few men could have done ; and he, together
with Revs. R. Cade, D. V. Lucas, D. L. Brethour, and
J. J. Bice, and an influential and eloquent layman from
the Eastern Townships (Mr. W. H. Lambly), gave
spirited and most effective addresses. The prominence
thus given to the great temperance movement under
such circumstances, by a great representative convoca-
tion, is a guarantee of the high position this question
has reached in the heads and hearts of their con-
stituents, and thus a further pledge that the new
Methodist Church will tolerate no half-way doings,
denominationally, in its share of the work necessary
to the securing a legislative measure of general prohi-
bition. Our Pioneer Prohibitory Act for the North-
West Territory, intended, doubtless, to give Canadians
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home a retreat forever free from the curse of the rum
traffic, and also to test practically the operation of
such a measure under circumstances at the time
favorable to its proper enforcement. That beneficent
Act has been largely and shamelessly voided, and those
who placed it upon the Statute-Book stultified, by the
privileges granted to almost any one, and especialljr
to any Government ofiicial, itinerant or resident, in the
way of special permit, to take intoxicants into the
territory for personal or party use. Against this out-
rage the people resident there are indignantly pro-
testing, and it will be the manifest duty of the friends
of prohibition to endorse that protest and sustain by
every legal means the efforts of an injured people to
obtain redress. This, as a first du^.y; and then to
labor on, and earnestly and increasingly supplicate the
Divine blessing upon such labor, until prohibition be
secured, and secured to be adequately enforced through-
out the length and breadth of this fair " Canada of
ours."

BLIGHTED HOPES; OR, THE WIDOW'S SON.

BY BEV. WM. GALBRAITH, LL.B., OF MONTREAL.

IpRED OSLAM was the son of a respectable widow,
^^ His father died when he was only three years
of age, leaving Fred and two sisters — one six months,
and the other five years — to the care of their mother.
They were in comfortable but not affluent circum-

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stances. Mrs. Oslam continued the grocery business
in which her husband had been engaged.

She resolved to bring up her children respectably,
and to give them a good education. Fred was a
bright, attractive boy, replete with life and energy.
At school he took the most prominent part in every
play, and usually stood at the head of his class. His
genial, bland, affable and cheerfu? disposition made
him a general favorite.

On arriving at fourteen years of age, he was accus-
tomed every evening after school to relieve his mother
from the cares of business. For convenience, in closing
and opening the store, and also as a supposed additional
safety to tho premises, he slept over the shop, which was
some distance from the family residence. Mrs. Oslam,
though not a member of the Church, was a woman of
great force of character, unblemished reputation, and
good principles. She regarded the manufacture and
sale of liquor as wrong — opposed alike to the laws of
God and the best interests of humanity. She never
allowed any in her grocery. If a customer asked for
it, she was always ready with an apt reply, such as
this : " I don't traffic in the ' sum of all villanies.' I
will not take f jr liquor the money which a poor man
should give for bread to feed his hungry family. I
cannot make my shop a fountain of death to pour
forth its streams of poverty, misery and desolation
upon the community on which I live."

At other times ihe would vindicate her temperance
principles by saying : "I am not a true Christian,

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though I ought to be; but, I tell you, this liquor busi-
ness is the darkest blot on Christendom. But for it,
we would have little need of police, prisons or poor-
houses. Politicians speak of the increase of revenue
from the license system. Deluded men! It is the
most costly burden that crushes the nation. Without
it, the government of the country would not be half
so expensive as it is. That which impoverishes the
individual subject, and reduces the amount of taxaV'
property, cannot enrich the State. Then, look ai
these facts: The traffic in strong drink costs Great
Britain and America two thousand millions of dollars
annually; forty thousand members are yearly ex-
pelled from Christian Churches for drunkenness ; and
thirty thousand die annually in those two great
Christian nations from the same sad cause ! !"

Her sentiments on the temperance question soon
became extensively known; and those who wanted
strong drink went to other groceries. Fred's mind
was early and thoroughly imbued with his mother's
sentiments. He had full sympathy with her in regard
to the sale of ardent spirits.

At the age of seventeen he went to college, and at
the end of four years graduated with the highest
honors of the University. He then began the study
of law. On completing the course, he opened an office
and commenced practice. His mother was justly
proud of him. His neighbors prophesied for him a
brilliant career. His business rapidly increased. It
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one of the most wealthy and influential men of his
native town.

He sought and obtained in marriage the hand of a
young lady of exquisite beauty and refinement — the
daughter of a wealthy wholesale merchant. On the
wedding-day the friends of both parties congratulated
most heartily the bride and bridegroom. Scarcely
twelve months had elapsed when Fred began to keep
late hours. His wife became solicitous and expostu-
lated. Business engagements were offered as an
excuse. In certain circles it was whispered, with
bated breath, that Fred Oslam was drinking. The
painful fact soon became generally known that he was
a confirmed drunkard. It was now ascertained that,
when a lad, sleeping over his mother's shop, young
men were accustomed to come in after business closed,
and spend the lafce hours of the night with young Oslam.
First, they played checkers, then chess and cards.

Fred's temperance principles were thoroughly un-
derstood by his companions. They brought cigars,
and afterwards liquor was gradually and stealthily
introduced. Finally, Fred's scruples were overcome.
A taste for intoxicating drink was acquired. It had
been gaining strength during his college life.

Simultaneously and imperceptibly the will power
became enfeebled as the appetite increased in strength
till the desire for ardent spirits could no longer be
concealed. His downward career was then most ra-
pid. Wife, mother, and sister expostulated, pleaded,
and wept. But words and tears were unavailing.
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Business was neglected and constantly decreased.
The little money he had previously saved was soon
squandered. He became utterly reckless and dissi-
pated. He shunned respectable society, and associated
with the lowest and most degraded. The disappoint-
ment of his mother was inexpressible, and her grief
inconsolable. Her health sank under the burden of
sorrow, and she died broken-hearted. At her funeral
his friends accused him of being the cause of her
death. He pleaded guilty of the awful impeach-
ment, and wept like a child. Despairing and alone
he entered the room where lay the body of his mother
stiff and cold in death. He bowed over the pale form
and yielded to unrestrained lamentation. On rising
to leave his eye caught sight of a bottle of brandy:
he seized it and drank greedily its contents. An hour
later, his friends, wondering at his long delay, opened
the door, and behold! to their amazement and con-
fusion, there were two bodies on that bed — the body
of the mother and that of the dead drunk son.

Stung with shame and remorse, he moved with his
family to a country village. His wife was not only
highly accomplished, but a woman of deep spirituality
of mind. In the most tender, loving manner, she ap-
pealed to every attribute of his manhood; to his
former sentiments ; to his marriage vows; to his obli-
gations as husband and father, and to his own present
and eternal interests. With all the moving pathos
and eloquence of tears, she besought him to abandon
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terly he reproached himself, and resolved and vowed
he would drink no more ; but his resolutions and vows
were made in the strength of a will shattered and en-
feebled by alcohol, and were then broken as often as
made. One day after his recovery from a protracted
debauch, his amiable and loving wife came to him,
and threw her arms around his neck, and, bathing his
bloated and disfigured face with her tears, said, " Fred,
you do not try to reform in the right way. With you
the disease of drunkenness has advanced too far for
reformation by mere human strength. Satan is the
strong man armed. In your case strong drink is the
armor in which he trusts to kfeep your soul in
bondage. Now, Jesus Christ, who is stronger than he,
must enter, bind this strong man, and take away his
armor. If you will surrender your heart to Him, by
the renewing of His spirit He will take away the
appetite for rum."

Fred wept bitterly and said, " I have degraded my-
self, broken my mother's heart, brought the best wife
in the world to shame and sorrow, and my innocent
children into disgrace and poverty. I am not fit to
live. Oh ! that I had become a Christian before this
fiend of Intemperance enslaved me ! I- see, my dear wife,
the course you advise is my only hope." But he did
not reform. His wife, reared in luxury, was reduced
to abject poverty, and was fo.^^ed to do all the work for
herself, husband, and four children. Her father gave
her a cow, the milk of which her degraded, unfeeling
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buy whiskey. Almost any evening he might be seen
in the yard of a low groggery earning a glass of liquor
by keeping "tally" for the most abandoned villagers,
while they pitched quoits for a " treat." His mental
and moral nature was completely deteriorated. Soon
his physical constitution was completely wrecked, and
disease, induced by strong drink, bore him to
drunkard's grave.

CLOSE THE SALOONS.

BY REV. WM. K. BOYLE,

Editor of " The Episcopal Methodist," Baltimore, Md.

ACTS and arguments are so thoroughly on the
side of the temperance movement, that it is
matter of great astonishment that any sensible men dis-
pute or oppose its progress. We have no sympathy with
the intemperate utterances of some of the temperance
advocates, and for the politician who only uses this
question to help himself into office we feel an utter
disgust. We go quite far also on the question of
sumptuary laws. We do not believe that we have
any right to legislate on any matter affecting a man's
personal liberty, or to say that he must eat only cer-
tain food and confine himself to non-intoxicants for
drink. Let it be understood that the vast majority of
thinking temperance people admit that any man may
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meanest whiskey he can find. We have no right to
prevent him by force. As affects the individual we
can only rely on moral suasion. We can argue with
him, show him the certain outcome of dissipation, but
we dare not presume to fix his diet, or tell how he
must quench his thirst. But we strenuously insist
that in every community the citizens have an unques-
tionable right to abate any nuisance or to destroy
any agency that works against good order and good
morals. The very fact that law does license, in many
places, the sale of drink, is an acknowledgment that
the traffic is amenable to law: the fact that repressive
measures are admitted as necessary to prevent the
increase of the saloons, and a high license is therefore
demanded, is a fatal admission of the danger, and the
need of a remedy. The undisputed fact that fully
eighty per cent, of all the crime, pauperism, and sick-
ness is directly traceable to drink, and thiit but for
the opportunities afforded by the saloons, the habit of
drinking would be greatly abridged and lessened, calls
with a mighty voice, " Close the Saloons" By law we
abate any nuisance that offends any of the senses : we
forbid the publication of any lewd prints and impure
literature : we force men to close a slaughter house or
glue factory because they offend our olfactories and
breed disease : there is a heavy fine for selling decayed
food of any kind, and why, in the name of reason and
good morals, shall we not destroy anything that of-
fends the moral sense of a community ? Shall we
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mill right under our noses, so that the stench of stale
ale and sour beer and mean whiskey shall till the air:
shall we permit such traps to be set for our sons,
where they may be robbed of health and character, and
immortal hope : shall we allow these nurseries of crime
to spread and grow under legal protection : shall these
people fatten on the sins and follies of the hard-work-
ing people whose earnings they so greedily secure for
drink ? We say a thousand times No ! Let us close
the saloons. A healthy public sentiment is, we know,
necessary to execute our prohibitory laws, and in some
places temperance men have been satisfied with get-
ting the law passed, as if it would execute itself.
Eternal vigilance is the price of our liberty. Agitate
unceasingly; show your faith in the cause by spend-
ing your money to see the law executed, and by your
constant effort to keep the whole truth as to this
abominable traffic and its effects before the people.
The working men are rapidly absorbing the teachings
of Socialism. They are restless because they have not
the comforts of the rich ; but if they could only be
induced to stop drink every industrous and saving man
could own his own house in five years, and secure for
his children an education to which they cannot now
aspire. If the almost incredible millions now wasted
in drink could be saved, it would make every man
woman, and child richer each year by at least $50 ;
and a family of six or eight would have a nice sum
in the savings bank at the year's end.

Be careful in legislation that you do not infringe on

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men's liberty, but as the highest courts have held that
prohibition is a remedy not at all incompatible with
man's freedom or our principles of government, and
as it has been abundantly proved that prohibition,
where properly carried out, does elevate men and de-
stroy most of the evils under which we labour, there-
fore "Close the Saloons."

As Christian men let us put our conscience in this
work, and never cease our efforts until every miser-
able groggery and gilded saloon are closed and de-
stroyed. " Moral suasion for the drinker and legal
suasion for the seller," is the motto inscribed on the
temperance banner. None of us have ever thought
of interfering with personal liberty, but we fight
againt "license," and shall to our dying day. And
any country that legalizes this iniquity makes a
" league with death and a covenant with hell."

THE MAN-EATING TREE OF CANADA.

BY BEV. J. A. M 'CLUNG, SUNDERLAND, ONT.

OT long ago a friend of mine told me he had
been reading of a singular production of nature
(so-called at least), named the Man-eating Tree of
Madagascar. My informant said that it w&s custom-
ary for the natives on certain occasions to select one
of their own number, whom they would unite in com-
pelling to climb to the centre of the great sensitive
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begin gradually to close upon him, in pressing closer
and closer with an irresistible force, till the blood ran
from every pore of his body and mingled with a kind
of liquid which exuded from the plant, and, trickling
down, is caught and drank with a kind of infernal
g' ae for its intoxicating properties.

Now, I have searched the Encyclopaedias, from the
" Britannica " down, for anything answering to this de-
scription, but in vain. After searching among the
books till weary, I had a dream ; and in my dream I
saw right here, in our beautiful. Christian Ontario,
what I had sought in vain as a, product of a foreign
clime and heathen practice. It was so large that its
long, sinuous arms covered the whole of our fair Pro-
vince, and was in danger of covering the Dominion.
They don't call it by the harsh name of the " Man-
eating Tree." It would be too frightful to call it by
a name that would describe it. So they call it the
«' Liquor Traffic " or " Licensed Victuallers' Associa-
tion." This tree puts forth limbs far-reaching and
powerful, but they called them Distilleries, Breweries,
Saloons, Taverns. And I saw in my dream, and be-
hold men climbed its sinuous branches by hundreds,
and put themselves in its deadly grasp. I saw men,
apparently sensible men in other matters, take pro-
perty and life and all, and cast themselves into the
capacious maw of Lhis vegetable devil-fish, for it seemed
to live and grow strong on whatever robbed poor
humanity of home and happiness. Worse than all, I
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mothers, their wives, their children — and with hellish
shriek, mingled with blasphemy, fi'^ng them in, and
their blood ran down a livid stream.

Wondering what was the power of this tree which
seemed to have such fatal influence in drawing men
with irresistible force to their ruin, I thought that
Shakespeare appeared to me, and I asked him what
was the secret of this fatal power. "The 'invisible
spirit of wine ' which I call ' devil,* " was his reply.

Around this tr je I saw many of its worshippers who
were loud in its praises. I saw statesmen there, and
as they held up the loathsome mixture they said it is
worth $5,000,000, and the country could not do with-
out it. Political parties danced around it in high glee,
for it casts its protecting shadow over the throne of
our Sublime Chief. And so I saw once in four years
— sometimes oftener — the supporters of Her Majesty's
Government, or the supporters of Her Majesty's Oppo-
sition, as the case may be, gathered to water it care-
fully with a funny kind of pail they call a "ballot
box." And I saw in my dream that, however they
differed on other things of minor importance, they
seemed mostly to agree in shouting, "Great are the
benefits of the mighty Man-eater, for he brings much
gain to our party, and our Chief sits under its shadow
and eats its fruit with much delight." And they ap-
pointed sedate men, men of broad views, to fence it
and care for it. And behold, I saw it surrounded by
a fence, great and high, built of that beautiful picket
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they said it must not grow ; but it did grow. And
men were drawn by its long arms, and they were
crushed, and they cursed the day they were born ;
and others drank of their blood and cried, " Great is the
Man-eater."

And I saw doctors there who said it must live, for
great were its healing virtues, and our patients grow
vigorous under its shadow. And yet I saw a thousand
die by its tortures for one that was benefited by its
virtues.

Stranger than all, I heard learned divines wax elo-
quent in its praises, because they say Jesus planted a
root of it by His first miracle in Cana of Galilee, and
presented it to a young couple as a wedding gift!
This so shocked me that I woke out of my dream ;
and lo ! it was not a dream.

Who is so stupid as to need an interpretation of
this ? Who is so blind as not to see, in his readings of
the daily press, a reality of which this is only a very
faint picture? It's to-day a stabbing affair in the
streets of Kingston, and to-morrow a shooting affair
in Toronto, and the next day a mother burns herself
and children to death because she is drunk, and the
next day a noble young man felled like an ox ; and
then its a suicide; and then for a change its all of
these and more in a day, and the one only cause is —
Drink ! soul and body-destroying drink ! But what
of that ! There are a lot of harpies who say they must
live ; though no one but themselves can see any good
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men. And the Government says that the country will
go to ruin if it does not grant license to spend S50,-
000,000, and murder hundreds of its citizens, to get a
paltry $5,000,000 of a revenue.

Now, all this and a thousai:.d-fold worse can be
proven against this monster of crime and blood, and
yet the license will be issued, the fence will be built,
the tree will be watered instead of uprooted. But if
only one this year should perish, and that one out of
your home, would you, dear reader, say, "Issue the
license ?" Remember then, when you are giving your
vote for license, that you are giving your vote for
that which will slay somebody's loved one.

Here is a case in point which happened in this land
not many years ago, and with most of the parties the
writer was acquainted. A noble young man, son of
respectable Christian parents, goes out on business a
few miles from home, and passes the licensed comer
tavern. The landlord, either in pretence or reality
(the judgment-day will reveal), wants to attend a
neighbor's funeral, borrows the young man's horse and
cutter, and tells him to stay till he returns. The
young man thoughtlessly consents. A quarrel in some
way arose 'a lie bar between him and a butcher.
The 'jutciier utrvick the young man one blow, and he
was Isl-u ?. lifeless corpse on the floor. The poor father
and mot]h.er are at home wonderinsr " where is my boy
to-night ■" The wretch who kept tliat place drove
past thao home once and again, but never let the lonely
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inquest, and secured the verdict he wanted. The first
they knew was a request to bring a coffin for the life-
less remains of that much-loved son. Who will wonder
when I tell them that that poor broken-hearted mother
and two daughters were shortly after laid on beds of
death, from which they were carried, after a lingering
illness — one on one Sabbath and two on the ricxt — to
the silent resting-place of the dead, and the father and
remaining son left the lonely survivors in the home of
the once happy family. This is the fruiii of the " Man-
eating Tree of Canada." "How iong, Lord! how
long " shall this monster of iniquity be pevrritted to
crush and destroy human hopes and huro.5.n ji^arts ?

TOTAL ABSTINENCE VERSUS MODERATION.

BY KEY. J. COOPER ANTLIFF, M..A., B.D.,

Editor of *^ Christian Journal" Toronto.

.tWN reference to the using of strong drinks, all per-
^ sons may be divided into three classes — drunk-
ards, moderate drinkers, and abstainers.

In regard to the first class — the drunkards — all ar(
agreed that their habit is to be condemned. If
any one were found advocating it, he would justly be
considered a suitable person for either a gaol or an
asylum. With many drunkards, however, the habit
indicates not only a vice but a disease, and hence the
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ebriates. It does not, however, follow that because
there is the element of disease in drunkenness that it
is the less immoral ; for it is by the drunkard, — or, as
as he is sometimes significantly called, the dipso-
maniac, — having gradually relinquished self-govern-
ment that he has fallen into his present condition ;
and therefore blame must not be merged into pity.

But though none are to be found advocating drunk-
enness, there are many who are prepared to maintain
that moderation is even a virtue, and that it is pre-
ferable to entire abstinence. Now, let us consider the
claims put forward in its behalf, and afterwards con-
sider the claims of entire abstinence, and if, on a
candid comparison, the latter are found to be superior,
let our conduct harmonize with our belief.

In answer to the question, What is moderation ?
we remark that it is difficult to specify an exact
quantity of strong drink the partaking of which may
be termed moderation. Much depends on habit, con-
stitution, and climate ; but, in general, it may be
defined as the taking of alcoholic drinks in such quan-
tities as will not superinduce intoxication.

1. It is claimed that moderation has the advantage
of conforming to custom or fashion. Though the
custom, happily, is not so prevalent as formerly, it is
still a too common thing to bring out strong drink at
births, marriages and funerals. It is used as a token
of friendship, and to give it is reckoned a sign of
hospitality. There are few influences more powerful
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With many the question is not "What is right ?" but,
"How do people generally act?" There are more
idols than those made of wood and stone, and in
Christian lands there are multitudes of idolaters who
bow down at the shrine of the huge idol — Fashion.
Now, when we can conform to custom without sacri-
ficing principle it is well to do so, for those crotchetty
persons who prefer going counter to custom, for the
mere sake of being singular, are justly shunned. But
that man exhibits true heroism who will do right,
wh(=:n right is in the minority, and will dare to ignore
a xO.M cjh and hurtful custom.

2. iidt another advantage pleaded for moderate
drinking is, that it tends to the enjoyment of life.
There is doubtless force in this statement, and it
unfortunately happens that the kind of pleasure
drinking gives, viz., physical, though of the lowest
type, is that most generally appreciated. There is,
however, no merit apart f.-om some good end to be
accomplished in a man denying himself pleasure, and
it is, under certain conditions, even our duty to avail
ourselves of enjoyment placed within our reach. In
the use of strong drinks exhilaration is experienced,
and hence many partake of it to drive dull care away.

3. Other arguments urged in favor of moderation
are not so valid as those just mentioned. When it is
stated that it is sanctioned by the apostolic precept —
" Let your moderation be known unto all men," there
is manifestly ignorance as to the meaning of the term
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more correctness, uses the word forhearamce; and
Bishop Lightfoot, in referring to this new rendering,
says, " Forbearance is the opposite to a spirit of con-
tention ,and self-seeking." Dr. McKnight says : " It
means meekness under provocation, readiness to for-
give injuries, equity in the management of business,
candour in judging of the characters and actions of
others, sweetness of disposition, and the entire govern-
ment of the passions." So that this frequently mis-
quoted passage has no direct reference to the use of
alcoholic beverages.

4. Again, it is sometimes argued that abstainers who
ask those who are moderate drinkers to abstain
entirely because some drink to excess, might on the
same principle ask persons to abstain from food because
some are gluttons. But there is this fatal objection
to this analogy, that while eating is a necessity the
partakin&f of strong drinks is only a luxury.

II. Having now stated the pleas usually urged in
favor of moderation, let us consider what advantages
can be offered in favor of entire abstinence.

1. In the first place, it tends to the saving of money.
Drinking is one of the principal causes of the poverty
witnessed in many of the homes of the people. While
the few are enriched by the drink traffic, the many
are impoverished. It has been calculated that this
traffic costs Canada forty millions of dollars yearly, or
ten dollars per head for every man, woman, and child,
and about as much indirectly. If the small sums
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they might secure many comforts in their homes of
which they now deprive themselves, and they might
also make better provision for the needs of old age.
It is a lamentable fact that when trade becomes
depressed, many artisans, whose wages in good times
are in advance of the incomes of some professional
men, find themselves under the necessity of pawning
their household goods, and seeking charity at the
hands of their more frugal neighbors.

2. Again, entire abstinence has the advantage of
conducing to health. It is now agreed by the highest
medical authorities that alcohol is not a food but a
^ jison, and that the partaking of it as a beverage,
even in moderate quantities, is injurious. Sir Henry
T'hoi. fjon, F.R.C.S., says : " I am quite satisfied that
fermented liquor of any kind is unnecessary as an article
of diet. For people who enjoy tolerable health, but
nevertheless find 'digestion slow,' or 'imperfect,* or
* the circulation languid ' — popular forms of excuse for
taking wine — it seems to me more frequently a
dangerous snare than a tolerable remedy. Let us put
alcoholic liquor in its proper place — namely, among
the so-called luxuries of life, not among its necessities.
Don't take your daily wine under pretext of its doing
you good. Take it frankly as a luxury, one Which
must be paid for — and mostly some loss of health, or
of mental power, or of calmness of temper, or of judg-
ment is the price."

Dr. B. W. Richardson, in his Diseases of Modern
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healthy and safe. A man or woman who indulges at
all is unsafe. A man or woman who relies on alcohol
for support is lost."

It is a well-known fact that the Grecian athletes,
when they were being trained for the games, were
required to abstain from wine, and modern gymnasts
observe the same regulation. It was found in the
Crimean war that those soldiers who were water-
drinkers were not so liable to suffer from the intense

cold as those who were accustomed to drink grog. In
the Ashantee expedition the military surgeons advised
the men to avoid strong drink, and to drink ccid tea
as the best beverage. In the Government returns
regarding the mortality of troops in India, we tind they
are arranged in three classes, viz., abstaining, temperate,
and intemperate, and the mortality is respectively 11,
25, and 44. In cases where great physical exertion is
necessary, it has been found that meal and water will
enable workmen to do a far greater amount of work
than beer and kindred beverages. It is sometimes
urged by those who partake of these drinks that they
feel stronger after partaking of them. The reason of
this is, they act as stimulants. But a stimulant does
not impart strength; it draws on the strength stored up
by nature in our system, and which strength should
be carefully husbanded for seasons of extremity.
Strong drink no more imparts strength to a man, than
whip-cord strengthens a horse. A person seized with
disease, say fever, who has been an abstainer, other
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than one Vho has been a moderate drinker. We do
not maintain that there is not a place for these drinks
as medicines ; though they would be far less frequently
prescribed were medical men more skilful or conscien-
tious. They are prescribed at times to please the
patient ; for a medical gentleman assured the writer
of this paper that in his visits he was at times almost
requested to order them. The late Dr. Higginbotham,
of Nottingham, England (the original of Dr.Wilbraham
in the prize tale By the Trent), once stated that he had
lost £10,000 in his profession by being an abstainer,
for when his patients discos ered he would not order
strong drinks, they sought the services of some practi-
tioner less scrupulous.

In further corroboration of our position that entire
abstinence is conducive to good health, we may cite
the experience of Insurance Societies. It is found in
the working of the " United Kingdom Provident and
Temperance Institution" that, taking the number
assured at a given age, for every 100 deaths among
abstainers there are 117 in the general section ;
and experience has proved that for every £4 of profit
realized in the general section there is a profit of £7
accruing to those in the temperance section, which is
kept separate.

3. But passing from the advantages of entire absti-
nence, from a financial and physiological point of view,
to its moral advantage, we cannot fail to perceive its
superiority over moderation.

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intemperance. Though tens of thousands of drunk-
ards are dying annually, their places are being filled
up year by year. Where do the recruits come from ?
Most certainly from the ranks of the moderate
drinkers. There is a percentage of these who will in-
evitably become drunkards, for gradually and stealthily
the love of strong drink grows on a man ; may be he
flatters himself that he can give up the habit of taking
them whenever he will, but at length he finds the
power of his will has been undermined, and he is the
slave of his vicious appetite.

But even when absolute drunkenness is avoided
there is still an injury suffered by our higher nature
by the action of alcohol ; the moral sensibility is
blunted ; the passions are excited, and self-control is to
an extent lost. It has been well said by Bishop Hall,
" He that would be safe from the acts of evil, must
wisely avoid the occasion." That the partaking of
strong drink is liable to lead men astray, however
sacred their position, is set forth in the prohibition
addressed to Aaron, Lev. 10. 8, 9, "Do not drink
wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee,
when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation,
lest ye die : it shall be a statute forever throughout
your generations."

Again, the example of the abstainer is more likely
to benefit than that of the moderate drinker. Example
is more powerful than precept. Around us we see
the fearful evils that the use of strong drink is in-
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follow armies to the field of carnage, so do sin, misery,
and disease follow the use of strong drink. The
question will suggest itself to every patriot and
Christian, " What can be done to remedy this state of
affairs ? " and when the answer almost spontaneously
presents itself, " These poor wretches cursed with in-
temperance must give up the cause of their sorrow,"
does it not seem feasible that a man who himself
abstains will be more likely to succeed in reclaiming
the drunkard than one who takes alcoholic beverages,
though to a very limited degree ? But besides this,
the example of the man who entirely abstains is
quietly but certainly influencing those around him for
good. There are those who seem so deficient in moral
strength that they look to others for their principle.
Let a stronger will than their own come near them,
and they tremble like a needle near a magnet. Now,
though there may be those who could drink in mod-
eration during a lifetime and never be actually intoxi-
cated, there are vast numbers who have not this
power, and it is a noble resolve to say, " Well, I could
take the drink and it would not overcome me, but I
find others cannot act thus, and I will relinquish what
is to me a luxury for the sake of my weaker brethren."
In conclusion, let the thoughts embodied in this
paper be carefully considered, and to an unprejudiced
mind, I am not without hope, it will appear that,
though moderation may claim conformity to custom
and be a source of pleasure, yet that the advantages
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in weight, and therefore it becomes those who are
governed by reason and religion, and not by fashion
and appetite, to accept its principle, and, what is more
difficult, adopt its practice.

TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

BY THE REV. WILLIAM M. TAYLOB, D.D.,

(Congreijational), New York.

.cmtT is supposed by many that a luxurious diet is
necessary to health, and not seldom men use
intoxicating drink as a constant beverage, under the
delusion that it imparts strength. Both of these
mistakes are easily exposed. A sparing diet is con-
ducive to health and long life, while the pampering of
the appetite with many dainties tends to the produc-
tion of disease. Then, as regards strong drink, we
have the testimony of medical men of highest standing
to the fact that it is not necessary to a healthy person,
and that its habitual use is always more or less in-
jurious. Hence, if for no other reason, we might
well abstain from it as an article of diet. But when
we take into account the insidious nature of alcohol,
which always creates a craving for its ; ( and, above
all, when we think of the numbers in the land who
are continually falling under its power, and of the
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traceable, directly or indirectly, to its influence, we
may surely be brought to adopt the course of Daniel
and his friends in regard to it, the rather as no evil
consequences will follow the carrying out of such a
resolution.

Do not say to me that there is no dt ; of you.
It is he who thinketh he standeth here who has most
need to take heed lest he fall. You may find among
the helpless, almost hopeless, drunkards on our streets
many who once said the same thing as you are now
saying, and who seemed then to have as good a ground
for saying it as you have now. Why, then, should
you imagine that you are in this respect infallible ?
You may reply again, as some have done, that if there
were any certainty that you would become a drunkard
you would abstain. But to that I ans 'er in the
words of Butler, " Probability is the gi of life."
You guard against probabilities, nay, even against
mere possibilities in other things ; why not also in
this ? You have no certainty that your house shall
take tire, yet, as a prudent man, you insure it, and
your furniture too : you have no positive knowledge
that your ship shall be lost at sea, yet, as a wise man,
you underwrite it to the full. So abstinence from
strong drink is an insurance against intemperance,
with this advantage — that the premium goes not into
the coffers of a wealthy company, but comes back to
yourself in the shape of pecuniary saving, physical
health, and domestic comfort.

But I care not to put this question on such selfish

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ground. I ask you to look at it in the light of the
multitudes whom strong drink is beguiling to their
ruin. Will you not abstain, if thereby you may re-
move temptation out of their way, and help them to
restoration? There is no hope for them save in
abstaining. But should not we assist them by
the moral influence of our fellowship in so doing?
When David thirsted for the water of the well
of Bethlehem, and his three mighty men broke
through the enemy's ranks and returned with a
pitcherful of it, he would not drink it. Men's lives
had been jeopardized for it! So he poured it out before
the Lord. In like manner, when the wine cup is pre-
sented to you, think of the multitudes which are not
merely imperilled, but desti oyed, by that bewitching
draught, and then you, too, will pour it out before the
Lord, saying, " It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to
drink wine, nor to do anything whereby a brother
stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak."

THE QUESTION OF THE TIMES.

BT THE REV. WM. M'DOKAOH, OF SARNIA.

'HE age we live in, like all other ages, is, no doubt,
most interesting to those who live in it. Their
business is with the present. The times past may be
accountable for the introduction of many evils which
in the present afflict the nations ; yet we who live in
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not down to coming ages great wrongs as a heritage
of shame and cursing.

The present time is marked by two characteristics —
on the one side dense spiritual darkness, like that of
Egypt of old ; and on the other side the dawn of the
approaching day of the Sun of Righteousness, which
shall dispel all mists of evil now enveloping the world.

As one of the agencies in opposition to the well-
being of men and the prosperity of the cause of Christ,
there is none more injurious than the liquor traffic.

That it is too late in this day of the temperance
reformation to attempt any elaborate description of
the evils of the liquor traffic, seems to be a sentiment
cherished, and, we humbly think, carried a little too
far by a certain class of temperance advocates. But
we have to do with such a tremendous evil, we are apt
to lose anything like an adequate idea of the magni-
tude of the figures continually repeated concerning it.
We say here in Canada that about $30,000,000 are
worse than wasted or misused in this cursed traffic
every year ; that eight thousand men and women die
annually and directly from drink alone, and we think
we have some vague idea of this monster evil. But
when we bring it nearer to ourselves, then we have a
much nearer, stronger, and real sense of its terrors. I
wonder how many families have been scorched by this
traffic and their peace destroyed ; that have not had
their hearts well-nigh broken by reason of this tremen-
dous evil of intemperance. 0, it is when we come
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real idea of the evil! And then when we come to
multiply the individual cases by the thousand and
myriadfold we come to have something like a right
idea of what v^e have to contend with. This giant is
three-headed — appetite, fashion, and interest. The
best brains of our country and the most philanthropic
hearts, with the most fertile and productive pens, have
for years been engaged in the task of combatting this
three-headed monster, performing their work with
skill and force. But we are now confronted with
another danger, that of admitting the existence of
these evils so readily that they may not have their
due weight on our minds and hearts.

It is beyond a reasonable doubt that this traffic in
intoxicating liquors is the crime and curse of our coun-
try as it is the crime and curse of other lands ; the
darkest stain on our Christian civilization, and the
chief hindrance to social and financial prosperity.
More of pure saintliness, more of noble manhood, of
real service for God and man ; more innocent youth ;
more of all that is great, good and noble, has been lost
by this cursed business, to the Church and nation, than
by almost all other causes put together ; yea, it is be-
coming one of the commonplaces upon our magisterial
benches for the judges of our land, in concert with
those of other lands, to declare that nine-tenths of the
crimes against law and human rights are perpetrated
under the influence of this nefarious traffic. It spares
neither age nor sex. Its trophies are more to be
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most desolating strifes are at our firesides. Why
should a Christian Government license it? Why
should a Christian people tolerate any authority that
attempts to license such a curse and pollution ? is a
question which moves the heart of a Christian public.
By doing so you make war on the comfort and happi-
ness of the households of our land, and you carry war
and want into thousands of homes. Why, in God's
name, tell us, in this land of plentv, where our har-
vests roll like a golden ocean, anci /here an ever kind
Providence has scattered blessings on every hand,
should women and helpless children go hungry for
bread ? These same children, stripped by this cursed
traffic of father and home, of comfort, nursed by it
into scowling criminals, or wallowing in vice or dying
on the scaffold. Shame on a people that can license
such a nuisance ! We speak as unto wise men ; judge
ye what we say.

But we are told by the advocates of this traffic,
as a bar, as they term it, to all this declamation,
that the temperance movement is hostile to human
rights, to the general and business interests of the
country, and, of course, to their interests in par-
ticular. If the temperance cause triumph, it will
throw so many men out of employment, and cause
a great waste of capital. They tell us of the mil-
lions involved in the traffic, as well as the worth of
houses, now as property, bringing a large return to
the owners. This may or may not be true ; we believe
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dream. But granting the truth or forcefulness of their
argument for a moment, we ask is this the whole truth ?
Ought not the fact also to be stated, to the credit of
this liquor business, that it has made thousands of
criminals for this country to support or punish ; that
it is the fruitful cause of the death of more than eight
thousand yearly of the inhabitants of this country;
that twice that number are now on their way to the
same dread fate ? And is it possible that the Chris-
tian people of this fair land can be imposed on by
these liquor advocates and their sophistries, and so
fear to attack it ? Farmers dread lest they should
lose a market for some of their crops, and the mer-
chant dreads lest he should lose custom or lose debts
contracted by some of those connected with the traffic.
Bankers, brokers, and money-lenders have their ob-
vious reasons for letting liquor-dealers alone ; and
lawyers know too well where fees can be found to
take any active part against its curse. Doctors under-
stand where to find patients ; and ministers themselves
are sometimes profoundly impressed with the need of
refraining from studying this subject in all its aspects
lest it might lead them, under the demands of con-
science, into little unpleasantnesses. You know, dear
brethren, we appeal to the conscience of every man.
do not misname your fear and baptize it " prudence."
Again, people say of this evil business that it is the
fault of the Government, and that if its manufacture
and sale were stopped it would bring an end to the
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depraved nature there will be the craving for such
indulgence. Well, these statements are not all true,
nor yet are they all untrue. This appetite is not from
within; it never was placed here by God. Every
natural appetite in its felt needs can be met and satis-
fied by creatures provided to meet the requirements ;
but here is something God never provided in nature,
but which results from the destruction and rotting of
God's creatures — the product of disintegration and
death — for the enjoyment of which there is no natural
but an acquired appetite and taste, producing and bring-
ing death in every form to the user and not life. Then
there is a mutual fault — that of the individual and
that of Government. A certain writer has said that
drunkenness is said in the Bible to come out of the
heart. But we answer, No ! The Bible says that
spiritual evils, such as envy, malice, etc., come out of
the heart. The whole human family are inclined to
some of these evils from the heart, but you can find
millions of the race that know nothing of drunkenness
as an appetite. It is an artificial appetite, and will be
destroyed as soon as the human family decrees it. But
the question has long been debated, "How can this
artificial vice be destroyed, and all that ministers to it
be swept away ?" We apprehend the means must be
threefold — moral, social and political.

In the first place, if the country is saved from this
vice, we must protect the young. . We plead with you
on behalf of the young people of our land, and we
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havp done before them. When the slaves of the
tippler's and drunkard's appetite are dead and gone,
shall there be after us a new generation of drunkards,
twenty or thirty years from this time ? Where are
they to come from, if not from the children God has
given to His people. They are little children now, in
our homes, in our Sabbath-schools, and must we, will
we go on merely talking and making effort to save
the drink -seller's victim, but license the traffickers in
human souls and human misery to still go on with
their wicked business. No ! forever No ! Let it be
heard, in answer to the attempted smugglers of the
Scott Act amendment, like the voice of the old Roman
populace, —

" Tribunes, we will have Tribunes !
Down with the Wicked Ten.^*

Freedom, we must have freedom. Down with this
God-cursed traffic and its abettors.

Let us, as Christians, teach Temperance and Prohi-
bition in our Sabbath-schools as a gospel means of
grace, and strike down any law that upholds vice, and
also the legislator that may advocate such legalizing
of sin.

Next to the importance of taking care of the
children, and aiding in carrying out of this work,
there must and ought to be the most eaiuest grappling
with the drunken customs of society. These are at
the very root of the evil, and effect the ruin of
thousands. Till the drink is banished from the tables

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of our homes, the children of those homes will sink
into the miserable and drivelling drunkards of the
future. Take care that the serpent is not already in
your paradise, and perchance that child you clasp to
your bosom may yet bring your gray hairs with sorrow
to the grave.

Then let us make every eflfbrt to save the drunkards
we meet. Let us do it by the power of love. Love
only possesses power to stoop and lift the lost. Ab-
stinence for the drunkard is an absolute physical
necessity if he would conquer his habit and be saved.
If I wish to deliver and save him, I must endeavor to
get him never to touch the accursed drink which has
ruined him. But before I can have influence to per-
suade him, I must make abstinence an honorable thing.
Low as he may seem to be, he will never become an
abstainer if he imagines that, by his doing so, he bears
any disgrace. He will rather die in his intemperance
than become an abstainer to be pointed at by the
drunkard and moderate drinker as a man that had to
give up tasting strong drink to save himself from
drunkenness. If we mean to save him, therefore, we
must stand on the same platform with him, just as the
Son of God stooped to our low condition, became a
man among men ; so we, as Christians, must put our-
selves in and alongside of the victim of alcohol, though
not guilty of his sin, in order to lift him. Teetotalers,
as we are already, we must try to persuade and lift
him up into the liberty we enjoy. Somewhere about
fifteen years ago the Sailors' Home in Liverpool, in

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England, was discovered to be on fire. It was past
midnight; all the inmates had retired to rest, and
^were startled out of their slumber by the terrible
alarm. The flames spread rapidly, until from every
window and door the smoke and flame belched forth,
so that when the fire brigade got on the ground they
found their principal work for the present was to save
the inmates. A dense crowd of onlookers had gathered
round, and many a stout-hearted man came forth and
volunteered his service in the perilous enterprise of
saving those who were as yet within the walls of the
burning pile. A company of mariners landed from a
man-of-war at anchor in the Sloyan, and gave them-
selves to the same great work, until about ninety-seven
had been snatched from the burning, and it seemed
that all were saved. Now men breathed freely, and
looked upon the gorgeous spectacle of that massive
building wreathed in fire, but hark ! a piercing shriek
is heard high over the shouts of the multitude, and
yonder, on one of the upper ledges of the building,
five men are seen calling for help. As soon as possible
the longest ladder is lifted to the spot against the wall,
but it reaches only twenty feet below the parapet on
which the men are standing. An agony of disap-
pointment wrings the heart of every onlooker as hope
of their deliverance fast sinks into despair. Stand
back! cries a courageous man, and, resolute in his
purpose of saving, with another ladder on his shoulder,
he sets foot on the lowest round and prepares to ascend
to their relief. On him all eyes are fixed. They

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watch him until he has reached the top of the long
ladder, and there he plants the ladder he has carried
up with him, but ah ! how bitter the disappointment
again ; it is found too short to reach them. What is
now to be done? Quick as thought, no time to lose, he
raises the short ladder upon his own shoulders. There,
at nearly fifty feet high from the ground, he places
his own length to the one he carried up; as he stands
on the other ladder he calls to the men to come down
over his body and be saved. The multitude below
hold their breath lest the slightest sound should mar
the self-possession of the men, but when one after
another had safely passed over him to salvation, and
he himself was safe, then there broke from that mul-
titude cheer after cheer in deafening sound. Thus,
my brethren, must we save the drunkard from the
devouring fire. The ladder even of abstinence will be
too short unless we add ourselves to it, and make over
ourselves a pathway of safety for the lost. Our
Leader in this enterprise is the Jehovah of the gospel,
and as He leads success is sure. Then who is our
God to lead, if not the hosts of Christians in the
Church, with its ministers in the van of the Salvation
Army. John Wesley's sons must be where they ought
to be, in the van. One reason is, Methodism is the
advanced guard of Jehovah's great army, and if they
are worthy still to be known and acknowledged to be
the exhibitors of "Christianity in earnest," then, in
the name of the Master, let us go forward in this
march to the promised land of victory and freedom.

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I can tolerate indolence better anywhere than among
Christians, and I say that the sons and daughters of
John Wesley, in Canada, ought to respond to our
appeal and stand up and rid themselves of all partici-
pation with this cursed evil, and then the blessing of
God will come upon us and our country.

We are a law-abiding people, we are also judges of
law and its benefits or evils. For the last four
hundred years Legislatures have been licensing this
abominable traffic in death and evil, und professedly
for the purpose of restraint. But license has always
proved a failure. It has been weighed in the balance
and found wanting. And why ? Because it is against
the law of God to license evil. He always prohibits.
Licensing: this accursed traffic, is like casting: out devils
by Beelzebub the prince of devils. It is an attempt to
prevent men from learning to drink, by legally pro-
viding materials for the lust of the drunkard's appe-
tite. It is to stop drunkenness by beginning it
according to law. The license law says to every
unprincipled money-grabber, " Pay us so much out of
your profits and you may tempt the unwary and
make drunkards out of the respectable citizens of
this country, of which we are the legislators. You
may stimulate the worst passions of the worst men.
We will provide police and judges to take your manu-
factured articles, and pay them, and support prisons
and penitentiaries, that you may light the fires of hell
among us all, only for decency sake you must submit
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with you, and in return we baptize your hellish traffic
an honourable calling. We will make laws to punish
the drunkards when you have made them according
to law. The whole community shall fear and groan
under the power of your vile business, but you shall
be protected and enriched." Shall this continue to be
the language of legislators? No ! Let it be heard from
one end of our country to the other irrespective of
political parties. Let us by votes and the carrying of
the provisions of the " Scott Act " in every munici-
pality testify that we as a people, and especially as
Christians, are not among those upon whom the law of
God pronounces a just condemnation, who "do evil that
good may come, whose damnation is just."

AN APPEAL TO VOTERS.

BT A. R. CARMAK, B.A., BELLEVILLE, OKT.

Reviewed hy Bishop Carman.

►tWN 1856 the United States was writhing in the
^ quickly-tightening folds of a hideous slavery.
The officiary, from President to pound-keeper, was
Democratic, and did not scruple to sustain itself by
bribery, force, ruffianism and, at times, murder. Abo-
lition was confined to a few noble-hearted Northerners.
One morning a discouraged anti-slavery orator might
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New England abolitionists. He showed them the
hopelessness of their case, painted the prospect in
hues black as night, and clinched his arguments with
the returns from a republican city, where a popular
candidate had been ignominiously beaten, because he
would not promise to support slavery. " Give up your
hopes ; it is all in vain," he cried. Then an old negro
woman, whose hair was whitened, and form bowed by
the sorrows and sufferings of slavery, standing up,
asked in a tremulous voice, "Oh, sir! is God dead?"
Look at the answer of the Great God. In 1860 the
republicans, strong in their union with omnipotence,
swept a corrupt democracy from their long-held su-
premacy, and with Lincoln at their head, carried the
principle of abolition into the White House. Then
ensued the rebellion, but the blood-bought victories
of Grant and Sherman enforced the mandates of
Jehovah.

In 1856 slavery was a part of the Constitution, a
great factor in commerce, a mighty influence in the
money market, a traffic in which a large proportion of
American citizens were engaged. Human beings were
sold as cattle, and many a wealthy aristocrat had
every dollar invested in "niggers." Is the rum traffic
any better intrenched, any mightier to-day ?

In 1866 slavery was dragged from its towered
fortress and crushed beneath the heel of a free and
triumphant Christian people. A slaveholder was a
criminal. Slave markets were all. closed. How was
it done ? By work. By putting abolition before party.

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By following preaching with practice in the form of
influence and votes. The Canadian Prohibitionists to-
day hold the balance of power in nearly every con-
stituency. They are strong enough to have carried
the Scott Act in thirty constituencies. They have
polled 1,(361 votes out of a total 4,472 votes cast in a
great liquor centre like Hamilton. If the temperance
vote were "solid" it could turn any election in this
Dominion. But so long as Prohibitionists are satisfied
with social entertainment, Temperance Societies, pleas-
ing addresses from paid lecturers, talking loudly about
the "rum curse;" and then on voting days, sinking all
their convictions and principles in the great seething
whirlpool of party, mark their ballots for a drunken
supporter of a Government pledged to the liquor in-
terest, Canada will never wipe out the stain. No!
You must sink party in principle, self in the salvation
of your brother, and, trusting in an overruling Provi-
dence, do your duty. If the prospect looks black, if
the viper of alcohol seems to have coiled itself around
the vitals of your country, remember the old negress'
question, and remember God's mighty answer.

You may ask, "How can we bring the temperance
question into municipal and political relations?" His-
tory tells you, you must force it in. You must make
the temperance vote a felt factor in the elections, and
just as soon as its influence tells, just f^ so .vill
every ambitious politician, from ^^"^' ' Aidermar to
cabinet minister, bid for that vote.

Listen to the advice of Horace Greeny, that mighty

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champion of right, on this question just thirty years
ago. "Now, we approve most heartily the nomination
of distinctive Maine Law candidates, where we must
have such or none. Where we can],do nothing better,
we should at least show that a part of us are in down-
right earnest. Let us nominate special candidates,
where that is necessary, to open the mouths of dumb
politicians, anxious to ride on both sides of the sapling
and pretty certain to cheat us if we blindly trust
them. But wherever any political party has pre-
sented a Maine Law candidate, there we should take
up that candidates and elect him, if possible, though
this involve the dropping of our own better men.
If both parties, or more than one, present Maine Law
candidates, we should concentrate on whosoever is
intrinsically strongest and elect him. But to run a
special candidate against one who is with us, yet will
receive votes outside of our own battalions, is madness
— treason."

This is the principle upon which abolition was
carried. You must force one or both parties to nail
the plank of Prohibition in their platform, force them
to nominate Temperance workers for candidates in
your own constituency. If this is not feasible,
nominate a good man yourselves on the Prohibition
ticket, then work, fight, vote, and PRAY for him
Then linked with the Deity of Ages, united and firm
among yourselves, with but one motto emblazoned on
your banners, "Freedom from the Rum Power," you
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the slavery of to-day — a slavery that fills our asylums,
our prisons, our homes with desolation, our streets
with starving children and debased women, our gal-
lows with murderers, our graveyards with suicides, and
hell with the Demon's victims.

The former was a slavery of the body, this is
slavery of the immortal soul ; that held in bondage
only the sun-burnt descendants of Ham, this is no
respecter of persons ; it claims white and black,
millionaire and pauper, prince and peasant. It plants
its iion heel alike upon the neck of the powdered,
padded, and perfumed aristocrat who reels to his
carriage from the clubhouse-door drunk ; and upon
the poor, threadbare, penniless wretch who, staggering
from his bed of rags and straw, can't hold his palzied
hand steady until he has had his morning dram.
How many dying wives and starving children to-day
are crying against this curse ?

You, perhaps, strong In resistance of the appetite,
are begged to strike the glass of grog from the
shaking hand of the poor reeling drunkard ; starving
families ask you, broken-hearted mothers ask you,
the wards of ten thousand prisons cry to you, the
poor wretch who can't pass the grog-shop pleads with
you. Won't you do it? As you hope for a divine
freedom hereafter strike for the liberty of your en-
slaved brother, strike with your voice, your influence
and your vote.

"Strike till the last armed foe expires,
For God and your native land."

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It is no excuse that the temperance cause has met
with many disastrous defeats in times past. Every
reform has its reverses. The Papal Chair at Rome
laid its foundations amidst the blood and ashes of
thousands of martyred Christians. When you boast
of religious freedom, remember the ashes of Savon-
arola, Huss, Jerome, Ridley and Latimer. When you
enjoy civil liberty remember Edge Hill, the Cabal,
and "Red Dunbar." When you thank high Heaven
that all the horrors of slavery are past, think for a
moment of the life enerj^ies of a Wilberforce, and a
martyred Lincoln, then listen to the mournful wail
from desolated hearthstones when the smoke cleared
away from Gettysberg. Oh it is the ceaseless drop-
ping of the water that wears away the granite.

You have a hard battle to fight. The breweries,
the groggeries, the "high-toned" bars, the great army
of drunkards, the unscrupulous politician, the church
member who takes his beer, the aristocrat who dubs
you "enthusiast," the devil and all hell are leagued
against you. But you are sure to win. All heaven,
with ensigns spread, is marching to your aid, angel
choirs are ringing with your battle anthems, and the
God, who controls the whirling worlds by His will,
stands ready to crown you "Victors."

" Unfurl the Temperance Standard, lift it manfully on high,
And rally where its shining folds wave out against the sky,
Away with weak half-heartedness, with faithlessness and fear,
Unfurl the Temperance Standard, and follow with a cheer I"

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CONFLICTING CORNERS.

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BT JACOB SPENCE, ESQ., TORONTO.

'HE church at the corner (countiy, city or town)
during part of ONE day in the week, has in
operation religious ordinances. ' The school house is to
be seen over the way and there for part of five days
of the seven, children receive useful instruction. Then
at the next comer stands the building where directly
adverse training is CONSTANTLY imparted. The strong
drink establishment carries on persistent " Protracted
services," sternly and effectually counter- working both
the church and the school.

Surely any one who thoroughly notices the ten-
dency of religious and educational institutions and the
distinctly adverse bearing of the drink-shops by law
established at neighboring corners, can clearly enough
discover that there unmistakably exist thus near to
each other, active agencies engaged in direct conflict,
exerting utterly antagonistic influences on society —

DOING AND UNDOING,

moralizing and demoralizing, elevating and degrading,
purifying and polluting, blessing and cursing the com-
munity ; leading to peace and plenty, creating dis-
tressing disturbance, and working destitution, disaster
and fearful calamity ; tending to utility, felicity and

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life; drawing to imbecility, misery and death. The
edifices at the three corners in short might appro-
priately have sign-boards over entrance doors, truly
designating the special distinct characteristics of the
various services conducted in the several structures as,

EDUCATION— SALVATION— DAMNATION.
i^" Ought we really retain the three in operation ?

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YOUTH'S department;

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My Dear Young Friends —

The following pages are addressed to you. It
is hoped you will find in them amusement, pleasure
and profit We expect a great deal from the young
in this conflict against drink. The main thing is, to
induce you to abstain from all intoxicants, by implant-
ing in your youthful mind temperance principles, and
a hatred to everything that can intoxicate ; everything
that would mar and destroy your enjoyment here and
rob you of heaven at last. Fifty years ago, Dr. Justin
Edwards used this remark in many of his addresses :
" The person who never drinks liquor can never
become a drunkard," and though many addresses have
since been given, many books written, we have never
been able to get an inch beyond that excellent precept.
I would be very much pleased if all the little folk who
read these lines would commit to memory that simple,
plain and positive receipt to prevent drunkenness. It
may be of great service to you in after life.

You will find here, too, many excellent pieces, some
of rare worth, for use in your temperance or " Band of

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;

Hope " meetings. Commit them to memory, and they
will be useful to you in the future.

Fearing lest some of the little boys, in these days of
pipes and cigars, might be induced to commence the
injurious practice of using tobacco, I have thought it
wise to furnish you with some articles bearing on the
subject, that you may learn how injurious tobacco
is to the health, and how, in many cases, it has led
young men into the society of the drunkard, and given
them a taste for that which ruins body and soul, and
is to-day the cause of one-half of the world's poverty
and crime.

Here is a verse I have frequently quoted when
talking to children, and their answer in every case
has been — " No good."

" What good can it do
To smoke and to chew,
To swear and to drink,
And never to think
What the end will be 1"

" But will you forget to say a word to the girls and
young women," says one. Oh, no. They have a place,
and a work to do, in this great and good cause.
Woman has suffered untold misery because of the
drinking habits of their husbands. It may be that
when he promised to "love, comfort, honor and
keep her," he was only what many looked upon as
harmless — " a moderate drinker — able to take a little

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when he liked and able to let it alone when he liked,"
— but he was on the road where every drunkard has
travelled before him, and was in danger of reaching
its sad terminus. I hope none will forget the line :
" The person who never drinks liquor can never
become a drunkard," and that the young women will
adopt this couplet as their motto in relation to this
important subject : —

" The lips that touch wine
Shall never touch mine."

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TAKE THE PLEDGE, BOYS, AND KEEP IT.

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DARE TO DO RIGHT.

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^ Hereby ^lifUi^i^ myself thai, God being my ^
Helper, / will abstain from the use of all Intoxicating :
Liquors as a Beverage: from the use of Tobacco in any
form; and also from Swearing and Profanity.

Signed

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iJKTf ANY little boys and young men have taken the
"^^ above pledge, and have kept it too. Some men
were once working together, and a little boy seemed to
be in the way, and they said to him, " Get out of the
road, what good are such things as you ? " The little
fellow looked up and thoughtfully said, " They make
men out of such things as me." Well said; and if you
are good temperance boys, and keep your pledge, you
will make good temperance tnen by-and-bye. A little
boy had signed the pledge. A gentleman — if we can
call him such — said, " I can get that boy to drink
wine." So he filled a glass and offered it to him, but
the noble boy refused it, saying, " I have signed the
pledge."

" I will give you half-a-dollar if you will drink."

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" No, sir, I will not."

" I will give you a dollar."

" No, sir."

" Will you drink if I give you a $10 bill ? "

He looked at him, and it seemed desirable, but no
change in his answer.

The man then pulled out his silver watch and said,
" I will give you this nice silver watch if you will
drink."

That was the greatest temptation, for most boys,
you know, like a watch, but instead of yielding he
replied, " Sir, if I don't drink, I may some day have
a gold luatch" The boy was right, for many have
spent all they made in drink. Instead of spending
your money on this foolish indulgence, save it up for
the missionary and other good causes, and God will
bless you in your givings, and perhaps you may have
the " gold some day." A man who once was addicted
to drink gave it up, and afterward he was said to look
the color of gold. The landlord said to him, " Why,
Mr. Garner, you are beginning to look yellow since
you gave up drinking ! "

Garner (putting his hand into his pocket and pull-
ing out five or six sovereigns), replied, " Ay, and my
pocket is beginning to look yellow too ! "

You may be assured, my young friends, that pros-
perity cannot attend the use of strong drink. Solo-
mon said, " It clothes a man with rags." Some time
ago a youth was put out as an apprentice and often
had to go errands for the other and older apprentices.

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Part of his work was to procure their ardent spirits.
But the youth never drank any himself. The others
laughed at him and said he was " not man enough to
drink." Under their abuse he often cried. But every
one of these apprentices, we are told, is now a drunk-
ard, or in a drunkard's grave. The young teetotaler
is now owner of a large estate, which he has acquired
by his industry, and he exerts a highly salutary influ-
ence where he lives.

Did you ever hear of a dog taking the pledge ? Poor
Cesar followed his master one night to the tavern and
they persuaded him to swallow some liquor. It made
the poor brute tipsy, and he tumbled over, and played
such queer antics that the topers roared with laughter.
The night after the man took him again to have some
more fun, but they could not get him inside the door.
They coaxed and drove, and the tavern-keeper offered
some cake, but it was no use. Cesar had taken the
pledge ; one trial of the drink was enough for him.
He was not to be caught in a rum-trap the second
time. It proved to be as good as a temperance lecture
to all those topers. The dog's master was never
known to enter a tavern again. He made up his
mind that he ought to know as much as Cesar, and
some of the other topers followed his example.

Now, in regard to the second part of your pledge, it
reads, " I will abstain from the use of Tobacco in any
form." We have this as part of our pledge because we
know it will be for your good to abstain from its use.

1. It will be good to abstain for health's sake. Some
have become such slaves to it that they cannot even

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sit down to think without a cigar or pipe in their
mouth. If they undertake to think without it their
hands tremble and their heads whirl. You will see,
boys, it is better to let it alone and keep the head
clear and the hand steady. It makes many who use
it pale, puny, and nervous.

2. It will be good for the pocket to abstain. If a
boy uses a cigar in a day, at five cents — that will be
$18.25 a year gone away in smoke. Would it not be
better to buy a suit of clothes, put $5.00 in the bank,
and give the rest for the missions and the poor.
What do you think of this old verse?

" Tobacco is a nauseous weed ;
It was the devil sowed the seed.
It drains the pocket, soils the clothes,
And makes a chimney of the nose."

Then you are to abstain from swearing. A higher
authority than man has said, "Thou shalt not take the
name of the Lord thy God in vain," and He will not
hold you "guiltless " if you do. I have known some
boys who seemed to think it was manly to swear, as
well as to smoke and drink, but it is not.

The story is told of an errand boy in an office where
there were four men. The boy was small of his age,
and did not seem to grow much. One of the men said
to him one day, "You'll never amount to much, you
are too small."

"Well," said the little fellow, after a moment's hesita-
tion, "as small as I am, I can do something which
none of you gentlemen can do."
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"Ah, what is that?" they asked.

I don't know as I ought to tell you," he said.

But they were anxious to know, and they urged
him to tell what he could do that none of them were
able to do.

"/caw keep from swearing,*' ^2^6. the boy. I tell
you there were some blushes on four manly faces in
that office then, and there was not another word on
the subject.

God will certainly punish those who take Hi»
" name in vain " in the future world, and sometimes
it is punished in this life, for He will not abide this
sin. " There was a young man standing on the rail-
road track in New Brunswick, blaspheming. The
cars passed, and he was found on the track with his
tongue cut out. People could not understand how,
with comparatively little bruising of the rest of the
body, his tongue could have been cut out."

You will see that the pledge says, "God being my
helper." And He will help you if you ask. With
your Heavenly Father's assistance you will grow up
a joy to your parents and an ornament in society.

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WOODIE'S TEMPERANCE SPEECH.

I' OME people laugh and wonder

^ What little boys can do
To help this temp'rance thunder

Roll all the big world through ;
I'd have them look behind them,

When they were small, and then
I'd like just to remind them

That little boys make men !

The bud becomes a flower.

The acorn grows a tree,
The minutes make the hour—

'TIS just the e.'^me with me.
I'm small, but I mi growing

As quickly as I can ;
And a temp'rance boy like me is bound

To make a temp'rance man !

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TAKE OARE OF THE CHILDREN.

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BT KEV. CHARLES GARRETT, PRESIDENT OF THE ENGLISH CONFEBENCK.

An extract ofanAddess be/ore the Band of Hope Union of

England, 1883.

ENTLEMEN, the children of our country are in
danger. Oh ! would that I could say words
that would make every man and every woman in this
audience understand me. The children of our country
are in danger! Do you doubt it? Then I ask you
for a moment to look at those who were children with
us — the children of the present generation. Where
are they ? Were they in no danger ? Turn over the
tablets of your memory. Ask for your old companions.
Where are they ? Go and look in the graveyard, turn
over the green turf. Find the coffin lid, and there in
hundreds, in thousands, aye, in tens of thousands of
instances you will find out that those who were boys
and girls when you were did not live out half their
days. What do you read there ? " Died, aged 22,"
"Died, aged 23," "Died, aged 24." The days of our
years are three score and ten ; but they did not live
so long, they are gone. Let us look for some more of
them. Go to that workhouse. There is a surging
crowd waiting for relief. They were boys and girls
as bright as any of us. Look at their faces. Look at
the dull and passionless look they bear, and at the
rags they carry. They were once bright and promis-
ing little children, but there they are at the workhouse

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door. And turn across to the prison. There is the
revolving treadmill. Miserable work ! Look at those
men in their yellow striped dress. They were once
bright, bonny boys. And go down your streets to-
night, and there you will find the outcast, and you
draw up your skirts lest the touch should be pollution.
Yet even she was once the bonny girl. Once a mother
blessed her, and a father prayed for her. They were
all as bright as an;' of us, but now look at the surging
mass. Picture their faces if you can, and then turn
round and look at these children behind, and turning
from the one to the other is like turning from hell to
heaven. Do you see it, gentlemen ? Look at that
crowd at the workhouse, at the prison, at the tread-
mill, at the lunatic asylum, and down in the grave-
yard, and then look at these bright and bonny faces,
and remember they were once like these ; and now I
go with trembling, an** I ask what hellish potion has
transmuted fair children into beings like that ? Some-
thing has done it. God has not done it. Oh, no!
God says, " It is not My will that any one of them
should perish." Then I ask, what has been the cause
c£ this terrible transmutation ? I speak to them as
they hustle at the workhouse door for a night's lodg-
ing. "How is it that you are here?" "Oh, it's the
drink that has done it !" I go to the man as he comes
off the treadmill — I did do so, and I said, " How came
you here ?" " Oh !" said he, " I was once a scholar in
your school, but the drink has done it."

I speak to the poor outcast on the street — as I did

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the other night — and ask, "How came you at this
terrible work ?" The tears stole down her young face,
a bright, bonny face, as she said, " Oh ! sir, the drink
has done it." And then came the sad story, a story
tha,t might be written in blood. She said, " My father
is a Wesleyan Methodist local preacher and a class-
leader. [She told me where he was.] I was brought
up a teetotaler. I went out to a Sunday-school holiday
and they took us into a public house." Oh ! gentle-
men, when will you understand that where there is
drink there is always danger. I wish every one here
could have seen that tear-bathed face and that quiver-
ing lip as the child said to me, "We went into the
public house and they gave me something to drink, I
don't know what, but," she said, " I was insensible. I
don't know what happened ; and then, in the mornin^ ,
I went home and we had family prayer. I knelt dowi*
with the rest of the children, and while father was
praying I felt I was staining them all. I said ' I can-
not tell them. I will leave them. They shall never
hear of me again,' and I fled from home. The drink
has done it." Dragging her down in her beauty, as
well as the young man in his strength. And so the
answer comes in horrible monotony, " The drink has
done it," " The drink has done it." Nothing but the
drink could have done it.

And now, brothers, I turn and say, " What ! were
those once like these ? Then in God's name shall these
be like those ?" Go, and look at that hustling crowd
round the workhouse door ; do you want them to be

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like that ? If somebody could do that before our
eyes ; if somebody could take that fair girl before our
eye, and by the administration of some potion trans-
mute her into what she is, would not the whole nation
rise up in indignation against him ? But it is done
surely though slowly by strong drink. Then what is
to be done? "Oh !" you say, "is it possible to save
the children ?" It is possible ; yes, brother, it is possi-
ble. It is possible to save every one of them. You
say, " Give me the remedy and I will pay any price
for it." You have nothing to pay. It is like the
Gospel, without money and without price. You want
to know what it is ? It is a remedy as certain as it is
cheap. What is it ? There is but one. You may
search all through the world to find another, but there
is none. I guarantee you, in the sight of God to-night,
that if you will only apply one remedy not a child
should perish from intemperance. What is it ? Total
abstinence. Keep the child from the drink, and
drunkenness is impossible.

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ONLY NOW AND THEN.

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'HINK it no excuse, boys,
Merging into men,
That you do a wrong act

Only now and then.
Better to be careful
As you go along,
If you would be manly.
Capable, and strong !

Many a wretched sot, boys,

That one daily meets
Drinking from the beer-kegs.

Living in the streets,
Or at best in quarters

Worse than a pen,
Once was dressed in broadcloth,

Drinking now and then !

When you have a hahit

That is wrong, you know,
Knock it off at once, lads,

With a sudden blow.
Think it no excuse, boys,

Merging into men,
That you do a wrong act

Only now and then !

— Selected.

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POISON ! POISON !

BY A BOY OF THIRTEEN YEARS.

.tW WAS going along the street one day when I met
three little children coming out of a lot with
their hands full of dandelions. They were little bits
of children, two little girls not more than five years
old, and a boy still younger. The little girls were
carrying their flowers in their hands, but the little
boy was putting his into his mouth. The little girls
turned around and saw him doing this, and you should
have seen how excited they became in a moment.
They sprang at him and pulled the flowers away,
crying out in little shrieks, both together : "O Benny!
It's poison it's poison ! Spit it out ! spit it out ! " and
then how frightened Benny was ! He threw every
stalk away, and tried to clean off* his tongue with his
dirty little fingers, and I passed him still spitting and
sputtering most resolutely. I was interested to see
how quickly the warning cry, "Poison ! poison !" was
understood and heeded. Now we tell you, children,
the same about wine, beer, cider and all the strong
drinkh. " It's poison, poison ; don't touch it !" Will
you mind ? do you feel afraid to take a drop inside
your lips ? and when you see any one else drinking it,
do you try to stop them with the cry, "It's poison! it's
poison ! Spit it out ?"

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BOYS WANTED.

g'HERE are always boys enough in the market, but
some of them are of little use. The kind that
are always wanted are : —

1. Honest.

2. Pure.

3. Intelligent.

4. Active.

5. Industrious.

C. Obedient.

7. Steady.

8. Obliging.

9. Polite.
10. Neat.

One thousand first-rate places are open for one
thousand boys who come up to the standard.

Many of these places are trades, and are already
filled by boys who lack some of the most important
points; but they will soon be vacant. One has an
office, where the lad who has the situation is losing
his first point. He likes to attend the drinking saloon
and the theatre. This costs more money than he can
aflford, but somehow he manages to be there frequently.
His employers are quietly watching, to learn how he
gets so much spending money ; they will soon discover
a leak in the money-drawer, detect the dishonest boy,
and his place will soon be ready for some one who is
now getting ready for it by observing point No. 1, and
being trutliful in all his ways. — Selected.

WHICH JUG I

?ERE I come, father, temperance in one hand and
intemperance in the other," said a little boy
as he trudged into the hay-field with a water jug in
one hand and a cider jug in the other.

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** Now who's for intemperance?" he asked, glancing
at the faces of the workmen.

The question went home to the father's heart ; he
decided for temperance, slaked his thirst with pure
cold water, and never sent cider into his field after
that.

DO NOT SMOKE.

^MOKING boys, like smoking chimneys, are likely
'^ to be out of order. Smoking is an offensive and
filthy habit. What right has the smoker to pollut*^
and poison the air which I must breathe or die ? What
right has he to sicken others with the fumes of his
tobacco or the stench of his breath ? Touch it not,
boys, and keep your brain clear and your breath pure.

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TOBACCO *'AS A MEDICINE."

GREAT many bad habits are persisted in, under
the plea of sickness. Now, if tobacco and liquor
are medicines, they ought to cure the sick within a
reasonable length of time ; and it is customary, when
people have used a medicine for years without being
cured, to employ a new doctor or try a new remedy.
It is said when Bishop Janes was once examining some
candidates for admission to the Providence Conference,
they were closely questioned as to whether they used
tobacco.

All said they did not use it except one ; he confessed
he did use tobacco, but " only as a medicine."

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" Well, brother, I hope ifc will cure you quick,** said
the Bishop ; and the Conference said " Amen."

When will these things cure ? In a week ? In a
year ? In ten, twenty, or fifty years ? Oh, no ; per-
sons have tried these medicines from childhood to gray
hairs, and they were worse at the end than when they
began to use them.

SAMMY HICKS AND HIS PIPE.

-cWT is said of that good man, Sammy Hicks, the

Macclesfield blacksmith, that " as he understood

the words of the Lord Jesus, it was quite enough for

him to see the path of duty steadfastly to travel in it."

An instance of this feature of his character was
exhibited in his sudden abandonment of tobacco. One
day he gave sixpence to a poor widow. She blessed
him and could hardly find words enough with which
to express her thanks.

He said to himself, " Well, if sixpence makes that
poor creature so happy. Oh how many sixpences have
I spent in tilling my mouth with tobacco !"

He made a vow instantly never to let a pipe enter
his lips again. Soon afterwards he was taken very
ill, and a doctor said to him, " Mr. Hicks, you must
resume your pipe."

" I will not," he replied.

" Then," said the doctor, " if you do not you will not
live."

" Bless the Lord, then," said Sammy, " I shall go to

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heaven. I have made a vow to the Lord that the
pipe shall never enter my mouth again, and it never
shall." Sammy Hicks kept his vow, and lived to be
an old man.— Rev. T. E. Thorshy.

THE GIRLS' AND BOYS' TEMPERANCE

PLEDGE.

^JCm^E girls and boys

ri^ Do not think
It wise to taste

The drunkard's drink.

We therefore promise

To abstain
And firm to temperance

Will remain.

This pledge I take,

And hope that I
Shall sober live

And sober die.

— Selected.

GOOD ADVICE.
^SE tobacco only in months that have a "z" in
'' their names, and use strong drink only in the
months that have a " k " in their names.
^^ When you study this out you will laugh, and say,
" He does not want me to use it at all."

A professional chemist says : " In men, small doses
of tobacco-smoke excite the intellectual faculties;

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repeated doses produce palpitations, disordered vision,
and decrease of memory."

The railway engine is the greatest abstaining
traveller. He can keep up for hours at the rate of
forty or even sixty miles an hour — and whistles over
his work all the while — and yet he never takes any-
thing but water when he wants to wet his whistle.

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JUVENILE SMOKING.

■*MT is evident to every observant person that the
^ evil habit of smoking is not decreasing. The
rising generation bids fair to be a generation of tobacco
users. All will admit that this is most undesirable.
Every parent, except it may be the degraded, would
very much prefer that his boy should abstain from
the weed, although he himself may be addicted to its
use. Indeed, those who use tobacco are often more
anxious about this matter than those do who not use
it. They know the evil of it and would shake off
the shackles of the habit that bind them if they could.
Medical testimony is all against the use of tobacco in
youth. The evidence is unanimous against it. It is the
cause of many diseases. The seeds of weakness are
sown for future years. The delicate, sallow appear-
ance of many boys and young men is caused by tobacco.
The clear ruddy skin and the bright sparkling eye
have often been sacrified on this selfish altar. More
information is needed. The boys should be instructed
in our schools concerning the physical and moral effects

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183

of the tobacco habit. This would do much to stop its
spread.

But the habit is perpetuated by the force of example.
Parents, teachers, even preachers delight in their pipes,
and of course their mouths are shut on this question.
Even those who are without the habit are not free to
speak, because prominent members of the Church,
and perhaps the fathers of the children, are slaves to
the habit and would be offended if much were said
about it. But this is a serious matter. It is time
more vi<(orous efforts were put forth. Many a lad who
has gone to ruin was led astray through this habit.
It led into evil company, and it created an unnatural
thirst which induced drinking. There is no doubt that
smoking does create a thirst for strong drink. Sta-
tistics show that the smoking teetotaller is five times
as liable to break his pledge as the non-smoker. A
crusade against smokers might do good ; but, at all
events, earnest efforts to save the children from the
vice would be profitable labor. — E. H. Dewart, D.D.

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SHOT AND SHELL.

A PLUCKY TEMPERANCE MAN.

(a recitation.)
!B0UT thirty years ago a young man went to
Washington with a petition to Congress from
the people of old Massachusetts. While in that city
he was invited to dine with the celebrated John
Quincey Adams.

Many great men sat at the table. The young man
had been poor, and was then only a mechanic in mo-
derate circumstances. During dinner Mr. Adams said,
"Will you drink a glass of wine with me, sir?"

The young man was a temperance man. But the
eyes of many greater than himself were upon him.
They were all wine-drinkers, and it was no small
matter to decline such a request from his venerable
host. No wonder the young man was so embarrassed
that he blushed and hesitated. It was a critical mo-
ment for him. But he was a true man. He had real
manhood, and he said, " Sir, I never take wine."

Nobly said, young man. Massachusetts heard that
answer and understood it. She saw in Henry Wilson
a man that could be trusted, and she made him one of
her senators. For many years he was known as Sena-
tor Wilson. May all who hear me this evening, and
especially the young, follow his example, and, however
or by whomsoever tempted, stick to their principles.

" Shun the strong cup whose poisonous tide
To ruin's dark abyss doth guide,
And with the sons of virtue stand
The bulwarks of your native land."

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