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 YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETIES, SUNDAY-SCHOOLS, 
 AND CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNIONS. 
 
 BELLE M. BRAIN, 
 
 AUTHOR OF " FUEL FOR MISSIONARY FIRES. 
 
 " Fight the drink ! Fight it, fight it wherever ive find it, fight it 
 in the social circle, fight it in tlie dram-shop, fight it at home, fight 
 it abroad. I expect to my dying day to fight the drink with every 
 lawful weapof I, ''"' — John B. Gough. 
 
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 UNITED SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. 
 
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 United Society of Christian Endeavor, Boston. 
 
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jFrances IE. rafllarli, 
 
 "The Best Loved Woman in America," 
 
 Whose Message to Temperance Committees on the 
 following page suggested the 
 
 preparation OF IT, 
 
 Z\}is ILittlc Tolumc 
 
 Is Affectionately Dedicated. 
 
 BELLE M. BRAIN. 
 Springfield, Ohio, 
 
 Ja7i. 2 1, 1897. 
 
The Cottage, Reigate, England, 
 
 August 22, 1896. 
 
 To THE Members of Temperance Coisimittees. 
 
 Beloved younger Brothers and Sisters — 
 
 Only a clear brain can think God's thoughts after him. 
 
 Only a steady hand can glorify the divine Carpenter by faith- 
 ful industry. 
 
 Only a heart unhurried by artificial stimulants can be loyal 
 in its love toward Christ and humanity. 
 
 I beseech you to be incessant and ingenious in your efforts 
 to teach total abstinence for the sake of Head, Hand, and 
 Heart ; and to take as your watchwords 
 
 home protection, 
 
 and 
 
 THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC MUST BE DESTROYED. 
 
 Yours in the purpose to glorify God in our bodies and our 
 spirits, which are his. 
 
 Frances E. Willard, 
 
A pari of the matter in the following pages has appeared in 
 the columns <?/The Sunday.School Times, The author de- 
 sires to acknoudedge the kindness and courtesy of ike publisher 
 in allowing it to be reprinted. 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGES 
 
 A Plea for Temperance Teaching 9 
 
 Encouragements to Temperance Work 11 
 
 Pledge-signing 14 
 
 What shall We Teach ? 16 
 
 The Devotional Service of the Temperance IMeeting . . 17 
 
 Temperance Budgets 24 
 
 Sketches of Noted Temperance Workers 31 
 
 Our Foreign Mail 34 
 
 Sharp-shooting 35 
 
 Quotations 40 
 
 Facts and Figures 47 
 
 Scripture Problem 53 
 
 Conversations ; 56 
 
 A Quiz on Alcohol 57 
 
 Drinking, and Positions of Trust 60 
 
 The Opinions of some Great People 61 
 
 A Temperance Pow-Wow 63 
 
 Personal Reminiscences of Temperance Workers ... 64 
 
 Two-Minute Talks on Temperance 64 
 
 Surprise Meeting 65 
 
 Sermon with Hidden Text 66 
 
 From our Watch-Tower 66 
 
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8 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGES 
 
 Temperance Contests 67 
 
 Original Stories and Poems 67 
 
 Temperance Anecdotes 68 
 
 Traditions about Alcohol 68 
 
 Temperance Catechisms 68 
 
 Simple Experiments with Alcohol 69 
 
 Titles for Temperance Papers 75 
 
 An Evening with John B. Gough 81 
 
 " The Wicked Company of the Man Wonderful in the . 83 
 
 House Beautiful." — An Allegory 
 
 A Palaver about Africa and the Liquor Traffic .... 85 
 
 A Lesson in Temperance History 97 
 
 Alcohol Unmasked 98 
 
 An Evening with the W. C. T. U 100 
 
 Wanted ! A Picture loi 
 
 Wanted ! A Story 102 
 
 Lists of Books, Leaflets, etc 103 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE 
 WARFARE. 
 
 A PLEA FOR TEMPERANCE TEACHING. 
 
 A WELL-KNOWN temperance worker, who was 
 asked to address a Sabbath-school, desired to bring 
 out the fact that the drunkards of the future must 
 come from the ranks of the boys of to-day. " Boys,'' 
 he said, " these men all around us, on the street, in 
 the stores, in this church, are growing older every 
 day, and sooner or later they will die. Who will 
 take their places and be the men then ? " A moment's 
 pause, and then came the answer, " We boys.*' 
 
 "Very true, very true. Now, boys, you have all 
 seen men who drink too much, — drunkards, we call 
 them. They are growing old too, and will die. Now 
 who will take their places, and be the drunkards after 
 awhile?" Promptly came the answer, " We boys ! " 
 
 The thoughtless answer startled the whole school. 
 Could it be possible that any of these bright boys 
 would become drunkards? Alas, yes! The record 
 of the past makes it reasonably certain that many of 
 the boys in the classes of our Sabbath-schools, as 
 well as in the ranks of our young people's societies, 
 will come under the power of the drink demon. It 
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 is stated on reliable authority that nine-tenths of 
 the criminals were once Sabbath-school children, and 
 also that nine-tenths of all the crime is the result of 
 intemperance. Of forty-six men in the New York 
 Christian Home for Intemperate Men, forty (that is 
 eighty-eight per cent), were once attendants at Sab- 
 bath-school. On the other hand, it is quite impos- 
 sible to estimate the vast number that have been 
 saved from a life of crime and intemperance by the 
 restraining power of the Sabbath-school : only eter- 
 nity will reveal this. 
 
 These facts stand as great, unanswerable arguments 
 in favor of strong and faithful temperance teaching 
 and temperance work in the Sabbath-school and the 
 young people's societies. It is a case where "an 
 ounce of prevention is worth" more than "a pound 
 of cure." John B. Gough says, " Prevention is better 
 than cure. It is worth a life effort to lift a man 
 from degradation. To prevent his fall is far better." 
 And Dwight L. Moody, out of his very large experi- 
 ence, says, " I have been working a good deal with 
 drinking men, and I think the rest of my work will 
 be with the young. Once in a while a drunkard may 
 stand up for a time and keep away from the cup ; 
 but it takes all his strength and all his time to fight 
 against the habit. It is a good deal better to begin 
 when you are young, and never get the habit fostered 
 in you." 
 
 Thanks to the Woman's Christian Temperance 
 Union, temperance teaching in the public schools is 
 compulsory in almost all States of the Union. Would 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. II 
 
 it not be well if temperance teaching were compul- 
 sory in all our Sabbath-schools and young people's 
 societies, being enforced by the law of humanity and 
 Christian love ? 
 
 " I took a piece of plastic cla}', 
 And idly fashioned it one day ; 
 And as my fingers pressed it still, 
 It moved and yielded to my will. 
 
 " I came again when days were past — • 
 The bit of clay was hard at last ; 
 The form I gave it still it bore, 
 But I could change that form no more. 
 
 " I took a piece of living clay, 
 And gently formed it day by day ; 
 And moulded with my power and art 
 A young child's soft and yielding heart. 
 
 " I came again when years were gone — 
 It was a man I looked upon ; 
 He still that early, impress wore. 
 And I could change him never more." 
 
 ENCOURAGEMENTS TO TEMPERANCE WORK. 
 
 The evil of intemperance is such a giant evil and 
 seems to grow in power with such rapidity, that many 
 a Christian worker engages in the warfare against it 
 simply from a sense of duty, with little hope of ac- 
 complishing anything, and with an utter lack of faith 
 
12 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 in God's power to overthrow it. But God can over- 
 throw it, and- will in his own good time. 
 
 God works out his will in this earth through hu- 
 man instrumentality, and he has from time to time, 
 especially during this nineteenth century, raised 
 up human instruments and endued them with great 
 power, and these have wrought a mighty change 
 in the world's views on the temperance question 
 and in the world's customs in regard to drinking 
 spirituous liquors. One has only to study the con- 
 dition of things at the beginning of this century and 
 compare it with the condition of things now, to real- 
 ize how great is the change that has taken place. 
 (Read "Fifty Years Ago," Walter Besant ; also 
 "The Great Social Change," Chapter I. in "The 
 Blue Ribbon," by Kimball.) 
 
 Study the work of Dr. Benjamin Rush (a signer 
 of the Declaration of Independence), of Dr. Lyman 
 Beecher, Father Mathew, John B. Gough, Frances 
 E. Willard, Francis Murphy, the women of the Cru- 
 sade, and a host of others, scarcely " lesser lights," 
 and see with what tremendous power they have la- 
 bored against the hquor traffic, and how great the 
 results of their work have been. Father Mathew 
 himself, between the years of 1838 and 1842, secured 
 five million pledges in Ireland alone, one result of 
 which was that the consumption of liquor fell from 
 11,595,536 gallons in 1838 to 5,290,650 gallons in 
 1842, a decrease of over 6,000,000 gallons. 
 
 It is well to remember that other giant evils have 
 been put down, other great reforms have been ac- 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 1 3 
 
 complished — evils that men said were too deeply 
 rooted ever to be cast out, reforms that men said 
 were too great ever to be effected. Dr. Crafts, Su- 
 perintendent of the National Reform Bureau, says : 
 '•In my lifetime (and I am not by any means an old 
 man yet) five giant evils that men said were here to 
 stay, have been put down, and two more are so nearly 
 accomplished that we may almost say seven great 
 reforms have been effected. Slavery, duelling, the 
 lottery, the spoils system (civil service reform), and 
 polygamy, have been blotted out of the land ; while 
 the secret ballot, doing away with the selling of votes, 
 and temperance instruction in the public schools, 
 teaching the children and youth the evil and poison- 
 ous effects of the use of alcohol, have been adopted 
 in almost all the States of the Union.''' 
 
 If these great reforms have been effected, so can 
 others. Take courage, then, brave workers, and take 
 up this warfare for "God, and Home, and Native 
 Land,'' with renewed vigor, remembering that God 
 rules, and " Christ must reign, till he hath put all 
 enemies under his feet ; " and that " the weapons of 
 our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God 
 to the pulling down of strongholds." 
 
 " Freighted with love our Temperance Ship, 
 Around the world shall sail ; 
 Take heart and hope, dear mariners, — 
 God's errands never fail." 
 
 — Whittier. 
 
14 WEAPONS FOR TEIVIPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 PLEDGE-SIGNING. 
 
 " Let no man tell me that he is safe enough, that he has no 
 occasion to take the pledge, that he is above temptation." 
 
 Father Mathew. 
 
 Every Sabbath-school and every young people's 
 society should endeavor to secure a total abstinence 
 pledge from each of its members. And the pledge- 
 signing need not stop with the members, but may be 
 extended to their relatives, friends, and all whom 
 they can reach in any way. In some schools and 
 societies pledge-cards are signed and kept by the in- 
 dividual signer, and the names placed in a record 
 book by the secretary of the school or by the chair- 
 man of the temperance committee. Another way is 
 to place the names on a large "roll of honor" 
 which hangs in a conspicuous place on the wall. 
 
 Public schools in Belgium have a custom which 
 might be copied to advantage by our Sabbath-schools 
 and societies in this country. They celebrate what 
 is called " pledge-taking day," when the " school is 
 decked with flowers, and the pupils are in holiday 
 attire. Local officers, clergymen, and parents are 
 invited to the ceremony. Children from the age 
 of twelve years are asked to pledge themselves to 
 abstain from the use of liquor until they are twenty, 
 when it is found they do not want to drink." 
 
 Pledge-signing among children is greatly needed. 
 It is stated on good authority that there are over a 
 hundred thousand drunkards in the country who are 
 
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 boys between the ages of sixteen and twenty years. 
 The writer has herself known a number of cases of 
 Httle children, both boys and girls, in the public 
 schools, so under the influence of liquor as to be 
 unable to do the work required of them. 
 
 Men, women, and children should all be total ab- 
 stainers, not only for the sake of others, but for their 
 own sakes, and signing the pledge has been a safe- 
 guard to thousands of souls. So deceptive, so in- 
 sidious, so powerful a foe is alcohol, that no man 
 dare say he is safe. Dr. Crafts says : " It is foolish 
 egotism to say you are too strong to be overcome 
 by that mocker who has conquered such giants as 
 Webster, Pitt, Burns, and Poe." 
 
 There is only one safe way, and that is to stand 
 pledged to 
 
 " Clasp the teeth and not undo 'em 
 To suffer wet damnation to run thro' 'em." 
 
 But, as Axel Gustafson so wisely says : " We want 
 the abstinence that is voluntarily imposed upon 
 himself by man, under the serious conviction that 
 intoxicating drinks are evil." Therefore let every 
 crusade against liquor be accompanied by a cam- 
 paign of intelligent instruction concerning the whole 
 subject, and every effort to secure total abstinence 
 pledges be preceded by strong and effective temper- 
 ance teaching. 
 
1 6 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 WHAT SHALL WE TEACH? 
 
 " It may be well to make a nearer acquaintance with alcohol. 
 Presenting himself as he does under the character of a bene- 
 factor-general to our much suffering race, under all circum- 
 stances and conditions, ' in joyance and in high tides, in weeping 
 and in woe,' it becomes us to take his measure, to familiarize 
 ourselves with his changes of apparel which are as parti-colored 
 as the rainbow ; to take note of his deeds, history, and charac- 
 ter; to trace his pedigree; and, in brief, to analyze him from 
 centre to skin." — John Guthrie, M.A., D.D. 
 
 Temperance teaching may be made very bright 
 and attractive. It should be in many different lines 
 and accomplished by using a great variety of plans. 
 There is an abundance of most excellent literature 
 on the subject. Let us teach — 
 
 1. The history and nature of alcohol and alcoholic 
 drinks, calling into use simple chemical experiments. 
 
 2. The eifect of alcoholic drinks on the human 
 system and its various organs, making use of simple 
 experiments and of the admirable plates and charts 
 that have been prepared for this purpose. 
 
 3. The failure of alcohol to cure disease, to help us 
 to endure cold and heat, to sustain us under either 
 physical or mental exertion, or to prolong life. 
 
 4. The dangers of moderate drinking ; the fearful 
 growth of the appetite for liquor ; the great difficulty 
 of breaking the habit once formed ; the danger of 
 using liquor in food or as medicine. 
 
 5. The poverty, crime, insanity, immorality, and 
 disease that result from the use of alcohol and al- 
 coholic drinks. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 1 7 
 
 6. The enormous and extravagant expenditure of 
 money caused by the liquor traffic. 
 
 7. The history of the temperance movement and 
 the lives of the great temperance leaders. 
 
 8. What is going on now in the world, both at 
 home and abroad, from a temperance standpoint. 
 
 9. The opposition of the liquor traffic to the spread 
 of the gospel. 
 
 10. Our duty and responsibility concerning the 
 temperance question. 
 
 PLANS AND PROGRAMMES FOR TEMPERANCE 
 MEETINGS. 
 
 THE DEVOTIONAL SERVICE OF THE TEMPER- 
 ANCE MEETING. 
 
 The devotional service of a temperance meeting, 
 — the Scripture lesson, the prayer, the music, — 
 must receive most careful attention, for they are most 
 important elements in making a meeting both attrac- 
 tive and effective. A bright and powerful Scripture 
 lesson will hold interested attention ; prayers for real 
 needs and praise for real blessings will find an echo 
 in all hearts ; and every leader knows the winning 
 power of hymns wisely chosen and well sung. 
 * * 
 
 Prayer. — Have short, earnest prayers for a bless- 
 ing on this special meeting ; for our land, that it may 
 
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 be delivered from the liquor power; for the children, 
 that they may grow up pure, and strong to resist evil ; 
 for the young people, that their influence may always 
 be on the right side ; for those that are enslaved by 
 their appetite for drink ; and especially for any who 
 are striving to throw off the yoke and do better. Do 
 not pray just because it is the proper thing to do, but 
 pray because our God hears and answers prayer, and 
 because this heavy-laden sin-cursed world needs the 
 blessings he is both able and willing to send. 
 
 * * 
 
 Music. — The following are some of the most fa- 
 miliar Gospel Hymns that are especially adapted for 
 use in temperance meetings : Dare to do Right, Yield 
 fiot to Te?nptatiofi, Dare to be a Dajiiel, Throw-out 
 the Life-Li?ie, Rescue the Perishing, What shall the 
 Harvest be? Why not To-7iight f Where is My Boy 
 To-night? Have You sought for the Sheep that have 
 wandered ? Sin no more, My Soul be ofi Thy Guard 
 See also the " White Ribbon Hymnal,'" published by 
 the-W. T. P. A., and the many excellent song-books 
 published by the National Temperance Society. 
 " Song Leaflets " are printed by the W. T. P. A. for 
 fifteen cents a hundred; and "Temperance Lesson 
 Leaves '' (on the last page of which is a temperance 
 hymn), by the National Temperance Society for fifty 
 
 cents a hundred. 
 
 * * 
 
 Scripture Lessons. — Make the Scripture lesson 
 a feature of the programme. Use the Bible as the 
 "sword of the Spirit," the "living and powerful 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 19 
 
 word of God," There is a great promise attached to 
 
 the use of God's word in Isaiah 55 : 11. Claim it. 
 
 There are many methods of using Scripture, many 
 
 ways of presenting Bible truth. Try sometimes one, 
 
 sometimes another. 
 
 * * 
 
 I. Single Texts. — Sometimes a single text, fol- 
 lowed by a few pointed remarks, will be an arrow 
 sinking deep into some heart, and have greater power 
 than a whole chapter read without any special aim. 
 
 Exa)iiples, — " Woe unto him that giveth his neigh- 
 bor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest 
 him drunken.'" {Hab. 2 : 15.) We usually apply this 
 to saloon-keepers, and all who make a business of 
 selling liquor. We forget that it means all who give 
 others drink : physicians who prescribe wines and 
 liquors of various kinds for their patients, fathers who 
 allow wine on their tables, using it themselves and 
 giving it to their children, mothers who flavor their 
 sauces, puddings, and mince-meat with brandy. This 
 text should be carved on every side-board, printed 
 on the title-page of every cook-book, and engraved 
 on the lid of every medicine chest. 
 
 Or this : "Be not among wine bibbers ; among 
 riotous eaters of flesh ; for the drunkard and glutton 
 shall come to poverty ; and drowsiness shall clothe a 
 man with rags." {Prov. 23 : 20, 21.) Show by chart 
 or pyramid how vast are the sums our nation spends 
 for liquor and tobacco in comparison with other ex- 
 penditures. (Such a chart may be purchased from 
 the National Temperance Society.) Show by work- 
 
20 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. ' 
 
 ing out a problem on the blackboard, how the com- 
 paratively small sums that a drinking man spends for 
 liquor every day rapidly count up into large amounts, 
 and how in return he has nothing to show for it but a 
 poverty-stricken home, a diseased body, a weakened 
 mind, and perhaps a lost soul. (Such a problem may 
 be found in the leaflet, " How a Smoker got a Home." 
 Of course the sums here named are for tobacco, but 
 it is equally true for liquor.) Present some statistics 
 (see " Facts and Figures,*' p-47) showing how the 
 drunkard does come to poverty, as Solomon says. 
 
 Still anotlier text that can be so used is this : " Do 
 th}'self no harm." {Acts i6: 28.) Show how even 
 moderate drinking ruins a man physically, mentally, 
 spiritually. 
 
 Read Proverbs 23 : 29-32 in this way : 
 
 Leader. — {The Questions.') " Who hath woe? 
 who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath 
 babbling ? who hath wounds without cause ? who 
 hath redness of eyes?" 
 
 Society. — (/y^d^ Aiiszuer.) "They that tarry 
 long at tlie wine : they that go to seek mixed wine." 
 
 Pastor. — {The Solemn Exhortation.) "Look 
 
 notupon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his 
 
 color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the 
 
 last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder." 
 
 * * 
 
 The story of the Rechabites {Jer. 35) is very fas- 
 cinating and full of good lessons. It is especially 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 21 
 
 nteresting in the light of recent discoveries which 
 claim that the descendants of the Rechabites have 
 been found in Arabia, proving that God has been 
 faithful to these promises all through the ages. 
 
 * * 
 
 The story of Daniel and his companions {Dan. i) 
 is a good temperance, lesson. To secure attention 
 and rouse interest, let the leader say, " I am going 
 to read you a temperance story. It is a story of four 
 boys about fourteen years of age — all of them fine, 
 manly young fellows, each of them a prince. They 
 were carried away captive to a strange country, and 
 given wine from the king's table ; but they begged 
 to be allowed to have water instead. Who were they, 
 and where did they live ? "' 
 
 * * 
 
 Bible Readings. — Let the leader select a number 
 of passages, and ask different persons to read them 
 when called for. 
 
 Examples. — Temperance Teachings of Solomon, 
 the Wise Man — Proverbs 4:17; 20 :i; 21:17; 
 23 : 20, 21 ; 23 : 29, 30, 31 , 32. {Proverbs 31 : 4-7 is 
 not given by Solomon, but is part of the " words of 
 King Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught 
 him.'") 
 
 Warnings from Isaiah, the Temperance Prophet 
 — Isaiah 5:11,12; 5:22; 24 : 9 ; 28 : i , 3 ; 28 : 7 ; 
 56; 12. 
 
 Temperance Teachings of Paul the Apostle — Ro- 
 mans 14:21; 15:1. I Corinthia7is 5:11; 6 : 10. 
 
22 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 Galaiians 5:19-21. Ephesians 5:18. i Timothy 
 3:3; 3:8. Titus 1:7,8; 2:2,3. 
 
 Bible Testings. — a. Call for a list of the most 
 noted total abstainers of the Bible (Samson, Samuel, 
 John the Baptist, etc.). As the names are given, 
 write them upon the blackboard, and spend a little 
 time discussing the work and character of each one. 
 
 b. Either with or without previous notice call on 
 the audience to give strong temperance texts from 
 the Bible. If notice is given beforehand, ask each 
 one to give the text that he considers the strongest 
 temperance text in the Word of God, and tell why 
 he so considers it. 
 
 c. Make a list of the most familiar texts on the 
 subject of temperance. Write these texts on slips of 
 paper, without the refet'ence^ and distribute them. 
 Call for them by number, and after each one is read, 
 ask the audience to name the book in which the text 
 is found. Do not use too many texts ; ten or twelve 
 are sufficient. 
 
 Texts. — i. "They shall not drink wine with a 
 song ; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink 
 it." (/r^. 24:9.) 
 
 2. "Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess; 
 but be filled with the Spirit." ^Eph. 5:18.) 
 
 3. " For the drunkard and the glutton shall come 
 to poverty ; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with 
 rags." (/y^^T/. 23 : 21.) 
 
 4. " Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 23 
 
 not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean 
 thing/' {Judges 13:4.) 
 
 5. "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging; 
 and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." 
 {Prov. 20 : I.) 
 
 6. "It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink 
 wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth. 
 or is offended, or is made weak."" {Rom. 14: 21.) 
 
 7. " Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, 
 and men of strength to mingle strong drink." {/sa. 
 5:22.) 
 
 8. " Be not among wine bibbers." {Prov. 2t,: 20.) 
 
 9. " Not given to wine." (i Ttm. 3 : 3.) 
 
 10. "Woe unto them that rise up early in the 
 morning, that they may follow strong drink ; that 
 continue until night, until wine inflame them." 
 {/sa. 5 : II.) 
 
 11. "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor 
 drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest 
 him drunken also." {Hab. 2: 15.) 
 
 12. "Neither thieves, nor covetous, nor drunk- 
 ards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit 
 the kingdom of God." (i Cor. 6: 10.) 
 
 For other help in the Scripture lessons see " Tem- 
 perance Lesson Leaves ; " " Temperance Bible Stud- 
 ies," by F. N. Peloubet, D.D. ; " The Sunday-school 
 Temperance Catechism," by Julia Colman ; and 
 "Temperance Hand Book for Speakers and Work- 
 ers," by Julia Colman ; all published by the National 
 
2 4 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 Temperance Society. See also the " Bible Read- 
 ings," published by the W. T. P. A. 
 
 " So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my 
 mouth ; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall 
 accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper 
 in the thing whereto I sent it." (^Isa. 55 : 11.) 
 
 TEMPERANCE BUDGETS. 
 
 Budgets of temperance news may be made very 
 bright and instructive. Such a budget may be pub- 
 lished as a feature of one single programme, or it 
 may be published many times, one number at each 
 temperance meeting. Call it by any suitable name, 
 such as " Temperance Times," " Temperance Ad- 
 vocate," "The Watchman," "The Bulletin," etc. 
 Make it as attractive as possible in every way. Write 
 it (if possible, typewrite it) on any convenient size 
 of paper, and make covers of heavy cardboard, tied 
 with ribbon, and decorated in either pen and ink or 
 water-colors by any member of the society willing to 
 consecrate a little artistic talent. 
 
 These budgets may be prepared in several different 
 ways. 
 
 I. Appoint two editors, whose duty shall be to 
 prepare the Budget and read it. In this case let 
 the editors each take two turns in reading to avoid 
 monotony. 
 
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 2. Appoint one person editor, and let him call on 
 different members for contributions. In reading let 
 each contributor read his own production, the editor 
 announcing the title, and introducing the author. 
 
 3. Some one class in the Sunday-School, or the 
 temperance committee in the young people's society 
 may be asked to prepare a budget, the teacher of 
 the class, or chairman of the committee acting as 
 editor. 
 
 Each budget should have one or more short edi- 
 torials, a poem, several good articles, news about 
 temperance, a short story, a column of short items, 
 advertisements, and any novel and unique features 
 the editors are bright enough to introduce. The ta" 
 bles of contents for four such budgets are given in the 
 following pages. If you cannot secure the material 
 called for, substitute something else. Material for pre- 
 paring budgets may be found in the " Encyclopaedia 
 of Temperance and Prohibition,*' Reid's " Temper- 
 ance Encyclopaedia,"" temperance books, biographies, 
 pamphlets, leaflets, etc. Files of temperance papers 
 are invaluable, containing a great variety of material. 
 Send to the Woman's Temperance Publication As- 
 sociation, The Temple, Chicago, 111. ; to National 
 Temperance Society and Publication House, 58 Reade 
 Street, New York City; and to Miss Julia Colman, 
 47 Bible House, New York City, for catalogues of 
 their publications. Illustrating the budget with a 
 few appropriate pictures cut and pasted on its pages, 
 will add to its interest and value. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 2/ 
 
 
 E^t SCrmprranrr ^tibocatr* 
 
 
 March, 1897. 
 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 1. 
 
 Editorials. 
 
 o_ 
 
 What is Going on in the World, from a 
 
 
 Temperance Standpoint. 
 
 3. 
 
 People You Should Know — Lady Henry- 
 
 
 Somerset. '^ 
 
 4. 
 
 Alcohol — Is it '<Aqua Vitae," or <'Aqua 
 
 
 Mortis?"-^ 
 
 5. 
 
 Is It Nothing to You? (Poem.)^ 
 
 6. 
 
 A $200,000 Glass of Beer.^ 
 
 7. 
 
 The Story of Adam Ayles.^ 
 
 8. 
 
 Temperance Teachings of the " Wise 
 
 
 Man." 
 
 9. 
 
 The Law of Habit./ 
 
 10. 
 
 A Chapter of Woes. 
 
 11. 
 
 The Safety of the Never-Begin-er. 
 
 12. 
 
 Advertisements. 
 
 a. See "Sketches of Temperance Workers," p. 31. 
 
 3. See Guthrie's Temperance Physiology. 
 
 c, d, and f. Leaflets. Woman's Temperance Publication Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 e. Leaflet, " The Champion Sledger." National Temperance 
 Society. 
 
28 WEAPONS FOR TE^tPERANXE WARFARE. 
 
 
 Ei}t Etm^txmitt Sitiboratc* 
 
 
 June, 1897. 
 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 1. 
 
 Editorials. 
 
 2 
 
 From Our Watch-Tower. 
 
 3. 
 
 People You Should Know — Hon. Neal 
 
 
 Dow.^ 
 
 4. 
 
 Alcohol and the Cook-Book. 
 
 5. 
 
 Farmer Jonathan's Decision on the Cider 
 
 
 Question. (Poem.)'^ 
 
 6. 
 
 Does Alcohol Help us to Endure Cold ? ^ 
 
 7. 
 
 '< Smoke Stack " and '' Beer Bottle " 
 
 
 Escorts. 
 
 8. 
 
 Temperance Testimonies from some Great 
 
 
 Men.^ 
 
 9. 
 
 Jamaica Ginger.^ 
 
 10. 
 
 Alcohol the Foe of Missions./ 
 
 11. 
 
 What Shall We Drink? 
 
 12. 
 
 Turn on the Light. ^ 
 
 a. See " Sketches of Temperance Workers," p. 31. 
 d and e. Leaflets. National Temperance Society. 
 
 c. Guthrie's Tei)ipera7ice Physiology- Leaflets," Ross, the Arciic 
 Explorer," and "Alcohol and Cold." National Temperance Society. 
 
 d. See "Quotations," p. 40, and Temperance Shot and Shell. 
 
 f. "Drink Traffic and Foreign Missions," Vol. IL, Temperance 
 in all Natio/ts. 
 
 g. Leaflet. Woman's Temperance Publishing Association. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 29 
 
 
 E\}t STcmprranrc ^ItibDcate. 
 
 
 September, 1897. 
 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 1. 
 
 Editorials. 
 
 
 
 Behold What Rum hath Wrought! 
 
 3. 
 
 Our Mysterious Enemy Unveiled.'* 
 
 4. 
 
 Two Pictures.^ 
 
 5. 
 
 Pen Pictures of some Noted Abstainers.^ 
 
 6. 
 
 A Bit of Advice from Robert J. Burdette.^ 
 
 '^• 
 
 Temperance Testimony of Explorers in 
 both Torrid and Frigid Zones. 
 
 8. 
 
 Which Shall It Be? (Poem.)/ 
 
 9. 
 
 Freedom or Slavery ?^ 
 
 10. 
 
 Shall Alcohol have a Place in Our Medi- 
 cine Chests? 
 
 11. 
 
 What It Costs. ^^ 
 
 12. 
 
 Moderate Drinking Dangerous. 
 
 a. The Teinperance Handhookfor Speakers and Workers. 
 
 b. Leaflet. " The Drinker's Thermometer," p. 6. W. T. P. A. 
 
 c. Eficyclopcedia of Teinperatice and Prohibitio7i. 
 
 d. See item, " Sharp-shooting," p. 35. 
 
 e. Guthrie's Temperance Physiology. 
 /, g, and h. Leaflets. W. T. P. A. 
 
30 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 
 E\}t Ennperance Sltibocate. 
 
 
 December, 1897. 
 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 1. 
 
 Editorials. 
 
 2. 
 
 Since Our Last Issue. 
 
 3. 
 
 People You Ought to Know — Frances E. 
 Willard. « 
 
 4. 
 
 What I Lost by Signing the Pledge.^ 
 
 5. 
 
 Some Facts and Figures. 
 
 6. 
 
 Temperance in the Turkish Empire.*^ 
 
 7. 
 
 A Sermon on Malt.^ 
 
 8. 
 
 Alcohol, the Great Life-Destroyer. 
 
 9. 
 
 What Can You and I do About It? 
 
 10. 
 
 How John Stafford Bought His Home. 
 
 11. 
 
 How About Root Beer?^ 
 
 12. 
 
 Ted's Christmas. (A Poem.) 
 
 a. Glimpses of Fifty Years. 
 
 b. See item 5, " Sharp-shooting," p. 35. 
 
 c. Temperance in ail Natiofis, and Encyclopaedia of TemPeranci 
 and Prohibition. 
 
 d. Leaflet, " The Student's Trick," National Temperance Society 
 
 e. Leaflets, "The Root Beer Fraud " and "The Alcohol in Root 
 Beer." National Temperance Society. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 3 1 
 
 SKETCHES OF NOTED TEMPERANCE 
 WORKERS. 
 
 '■'■Lives of great men all remmd us 
 VV^e can make our lives sublime! 
 
 Carlyle says, " Great men, taken up in any way, 
 are profitable company. We cannot look, however 
 imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining some- 
 thing by him." Studying truly noble lives inspires 
 in us a desire to imitate them, fills us with love and 
 interest for the things they loved, and begets in us a 
 desire to work as they have worked. Such study in 
 temperance lines cannot fail to be followed by good 
 results. 
 
 A plan that may, with profit, run-through a series of 
 temperance meetings, is to prepare a sketch of noted 
 temperance workers. Write each sketch on a large 
 sheet of heavy white cardboard, about twenty by 
 twenty-seven inches, and divide it into two, three, or 
 four columns, as the writer desires. Decorate the 
 cardboard in any pleasing manner, and print the 
 name of the subject of the sketch across the top. If 
 possible, secure a picture of him (or her), and paste 
 it near the top of the left-hand column. 
 
 These pictures may be found in papers or maga- 
 zines ; if you cut around the outline of the picture, 
 leaving none of the original background around it, 
 and paste it carefully on the cardboard, it will be 
 
32 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANXE WARFARE. 
 
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WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. ^;^ 
 
 almost impossible to tell that it has not been printed 
 there. 
 
 Pictures of the home, the workshop, etc., of the 
 temperance worker, together with his (or her) au- 
 tograph, might be cut and pasted in a similar man- 
 ner, giving added interest to the sketch. Finish the 
 whole with a narrow gilt moulding across the top 
 and bottom, and tie ribbons by w^hich to hang it. 
 
 The lives of the following men and women, as well 
 as many others, deserve such study : — 
 
 Dr. Benjamin Rush,« the man who, " in this tem- 
 perance war for independence, fired the opening 
 'shots heard 'round the world.'" 
 
 John B. Gough,'^ the "prince of platform orators,"' 
 the "greatest leader of the world's greatest reform.*' 
 
 Frances E. Willard,'^' the " best-loved woman in 
 the world."' 
 
 Lady Henry Somerset,^ President of the British 
 Woman's Christian Temperance Union. 
 
 Hon. Neal Dow,'? that "grand old temperance 
 hero," the originator of the " Maine Law.'" 
 
 Father Mathew,/the Apostle of Temperance. 
 
 Francis Murphy,.^ founder of the Blue Ribbon 
 Movement. 
 
 REFERENCES. 
 
 a. See any encyclopaedia ; T/ze Te7npera7ice Century, by Dr. 
 Crafts; and Guthrie's Tempera7ice Physiology. 
 
 b. Memorial number of The Uiiiofi Signal, April S, iSS6; Plat- 
 form Echoes ; Stmlight attd Sltadow, or, Glea7iings /ro77i My L i/e 
 U 'ork ; A utobiograpy a7id Personal Recollect iofis of John B. Gough ; 
 " Make Your Record Clean " (a tract with a picture of Gough). 
 
 c. Gliitipses of Fify Years (an autobiography of Frances E. 
 
34 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 Willard); "Frances E. Willard," by Lady Henry Somerset (this 
 article is illustrated by a large number of admirable pictures), TJie 
 Oiitlook, issue of June 27, 1896. 
 
 d. The Golden Rule of April 7, 1S92, and The Outlook for June 
 27, 1896, contain pictures of Lady Henry, Eastnor Castle and the 
 Priory, Reigate, two of her homes. 
 
 e.^ See any encyclopsedia ; EncycloptEdia of Temperance and Pro- 
 hibition. TJie Golden Ride, issue of June 16, 1892, contains a short 
 sketch and a picture of Neal Dow. 
 
 _f. See Eficycloptzdia of Temperance and Prohibitioti. 
 
 g. See TJie Bhie Ribbon, by Kimball. 
 
 OUR FOREIGN MAIL. 
 
 Appoint one or more " Round the World Temper- 
 ance Missionaries "^ to make a journey around the 
 world (imaginary, of course), and send letters to the 
 meetings about the drinking customs of foreign coun- 
 tries, and the progress of the temperance movement. 
 Make these letters seem as real as possible by en- 
 closing them in large envelopes, properly addressed 
 to the secretary of the society, and seal them. Can- 
 
 Sec. Y. P. S. C. E., 
 
 First Fr-esbyte?'ian C/uirch, 
 
 SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, 
 Froin Tzirkey. U. S. A. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 35 
 
 celled stamps from the country from which the letter 
 is supposed to have come can easily be obtained; 
 placed in proper position on the envelope, they will 
 add to the interest. The letters should be as bright 
 as possible and as true to fact. Many facts about 
 temperance customs, and also about the great hin- 
 drance the liquor traffic is to missions, can be viv- 
 idly impressed in this way. 
 
 REFERENCES. 
 
 Booklets. — " The Liquor Traffic in Western Africa ; " " Round 
 the World with the White Ribbon ; " "Africa and the Drink Trade ; " 
 "A Tour Around the World Among the Temperance Brownies." 
 
 Books. — Qiwtatiofis onDrhik and JMissiofis, see pp. 46, 47; Tem^ 
 perance Shot afid Shell ; Encyclopcedia of Tetnperance and Prohibi- 
 tion ; Teinpera7ice in A II Nations. 
 
 SHARP-SHOOTING. 
 
 Select a number of items, some very short, others 
 longer. Copy them on cards and number them. To 
 make the exercise effective, let it be just what the 
 name suggests, — sharp-shooting. Call the items 
 " shot," and those who take part " sharp-shooters."" 
 Distributing the shot several days before the meet- 
 ing may have the eifect of bringing some to the meet- 
 ing who would not otherwise come and take part : but 
 as some one is almost sure to be absent, keep a du- 
 plicate of each shot and the name of the one asked 
 to read it. Carry the duplicate shot and the list of 
 names to the meeting, and if any one is missing, 
 
36 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 hand his shot to some one else. Call for the items 
 in quick succession, by number. 
 
 1. A Massachusetts manufacturer, in payment of 
 his seven hundred operatives, gave each one a crisp, 
 new ten-dollar bill on Saturday night. Each bill was 
 marked so that it could be recognized. By the Tues- 
 day following, /c*?//- Jnindred and ten of these seven 
 hundred bills had been deposited in the banks by 
 saloon-keepers. 
 
 2. The nation's drink bill for 1895, — $962,192,854. 
 
 3. Time is making great changes in temperance. 
 About the time Columbus set out on his voyage of 
 discovery, social custom in England did not allow 
 the drinking of water, except as a penance. There 
 was also a time when one might be a member of a 
 temperance society, in good standing, on a pledge 
 not to drink more than sixteen glasses of wine a 
 day! 
 
 4. Song of the grape : — 
 
 '• Eat me, and I am food ; 
 Drink me, and I am poison." 
 
 5. The following speech was made at a temper- 
 ance meeting by a reformed drunkard : — 
 
 " I have been thinking since I came into the meet- 
 ing to-night about the losses I have met with since I 
 signed the temperance pledge. I tell you there is 
 not a man in the society that has lost more by stop- 
 ping drink than I have. Wait a bit till I tell you 
 what I mean. There was a nice job of work to be 
 done in the shop to-day, and the boss called for me. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 37 
 
 ' Give it to Law,' says he ; ' he's the best hand in the 
 shop/ 
 
 "Well, I told my wife at supper-time, and she 
 says, ' Why, Laurie, he used to call you the worst ! 
 You've lost your bad name, have n't you?' 
 
 " ' That's a fact, wife,' say I ; ' and it 't ain't all I 've 
 lost in the last six months, either. I had poverty and 
 wretchedness, and I 've lost them. I had an old rag- 
 ged coat and a shockin' bad hat, and some waterproof 
 boots that let the wet out at the toes as fast as they 
 took it in at the heels. I 've lost them. I had a red 
 face and a trembling hand, and a pair of shaky legs 
 that gave me an awful tumble now and then. I had 
 a habit of cursing and swearing, and I 've got rid of 
 that. I had an aching head and a heavy heart, and, 
 worse than all the rest, a guilty conscience. I thank 
 God I 've-lost them all ! ' 
 
 "Then I told my wife what she had lost. 'You 
 had an old ragged gown, Mary,' say I, ' and you had 
 trouble and sorrow, and a poor wretched home and 
 plenty of heartaches, for you had a miserable drunk- 
 ard for a husband. Mary, Mary! Thank the Lord 
 for all that you and I have lost since I signed the 
 Good Samaritan Pledge ! ' " 
 
 6. A professional baseball player said that it would 
 be worth $500 off his salary to be seen going into 
 a saloon. 
 
 7. A saloon can no more be run without using 
 up boys, than a flour-mill without wheat, or a saw- 
 mill without logs. The only question is, " Whose 
 boys ? " 
 
38 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 8. Twenty-five snakes running through the streets, 
 — free whiskey. 
 
 Box up the twenty-five snakes, and, by the author- 
 ity of the court, bore twenty-five holes in the box, — 
 low license. 
 
 Stop up ten holes so that the snakes can all get out 
 through the other fifteen holes, — high license. 
 
 Drive the snakes to the next town, — local option. 
 
 Kill the snakes, — prohibition. 
 
 9. Spurgeon says, "Grape-juice has killed more 
 than grape-shot." 
 
 10. The following advertisement appeared in a 
 daily paper : — 
 
 "Wanted — A nice cottage and grounds in ex- 
 change for a choice lot of liquors." 
 
 Thousands of drinking men have made just such 
 an exchange. 
 
 11. My homeless friend, with the chromatic nose, 
 while you are stirring up the sugar in a ten-cent glass 
 of gin, let me give you a fact to wash down with it. 
 You say you have longed for years for the free, inde- 
 pendent life of the farmer, but could never get money 
 enough together to buy the farm. 
 
 But this is just where you are mistaken. For sev- 
 eral years you have been drinking a good improved 
 farm at the rate of 100 square feet at a gulp. 
 
 If you doubt this statement, just figure it out for 
 yourself. An acre of land contains 43,560 square 
 feet. Estimating, for convenience, the land to be 
 worth $43.56 per acre, you will see that it brings the 
 land to just one mill per square foot, one cent for ten 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 39 
 
 square feet, ten cents for 100 square feet. Now pour 
 down that fiery dose, and imagine you are swallowing 
 a strawberry patch ! Call in five of your friends, and 
 have them help you gulp down a 500-foot garden! Get 
 on a prolonged spree some day, and see how long a 
 time it takes you to swallow a pasture big enough to 
 feed a cow ! Put down that glass of gin ; there's dirt 
 in it, — 100 square feet of good rich dirt, worth $43.56 
 per acre. — Robert J. Burdette. 
 
 12. A wineglass is never right side up until it is 
 upside down. 
 
 13. An old colored man who addressed a temper- 
 ance meeting said : — 
 
 " When I sees a man going home wid a gallon of 
 whiskey and a half-pound of meat, dat's tempYance 
 lecture nuff for me ; and I sees it ebery day. I knows 
 dat eberyting in his house is on de same scale, — 
 gallon of misery to ebery half-pound of comfort." 
 
 14. This is how some one figures it out : — 
 From a bushel of corn a distiller gets four gallons 
 
 of v;hiskey which retails at $16.00: the government 
 gets $3.60 ; the farmer who raised the corn gets forty 
 cents ; the railroad gets $1.00 : the manufacturer gets 
 $4.00 ; the retailer gets $7.00 ; and the consumer gets, 
 — drimk ! 
 
 15. General Von Moltke said, " I, myself, abstain 
 altogether from alcohol. . . . Certainly one of the 
 greatest enemies of Germany is the misuse of it." 
 
 16. Madame Patti says if a young woman adopts 
 the calling of professional singer, and really means to 
 succeed, she must let wine alone, as it almost invari- 
 
40 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 ably ruins the voice. " For myself," says the prima 
 donna, " I never touch wine." 
 
 17. A law recently passed in Denmark provides 
 that all drunken persons shall be taken home in car- 
 riages at the expense of the landlord who sold them 
 the last glass. 
 
 18. In 1890 American beer-makers produced seven 
 million barrels of beer and oceans of tears. 
 
 19. Cruikshank, the artist, offered ^100 for proof 
 of a violent crime committed by a total abstainer ; 
 and the money remains unclaimed to this day. 
 
 20. "Touch not; taste not; handle not," (G?/. 
 
 2:21.) This may be wisely applied to the use of all 
 
 liquors. 
 
 * * * 
 
 QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Temperance quotations may be used in many dif- 
 ferent ways. 
 
 a. Copy them on slips of paper and number them. 
 Distribute them at the meeting, and call for them by 
 number, calling the exercise " Temperance Quota- 
 tions " on the programme. 
 
 b. Ask each member to be prepared to give a 
 ^temperance quotation in answer to his name at roll- 
 call. 
 
 c. Write the quotations on name-cards, and use 
 them at temperance socials. Make the cards dainty 
 and pretty enough to be carried away as souvenirs. 
 
 d. Read the quotations as a test exercise, not giving 
 the authors, but asking those present to give them. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANXE WARFARE. 41 
 
 1. " Oh, thou invincible spirit of wine, if thou hast 
 no name to be known by, let us call thee — devil." 
 
 — Shakespeare. 
 
 2. •' Some by violent stroke shall die, 
 
 By fire, flood, famine ; by intemperance more." 
 
 Milton. 
 
 3. " All the crimes of earth do not destroy so 
 many of the human race, nor alienate so much prop- 
 erty." — Lord Bacon. 
 
 4. " Liquor-selling is one of the most criminal 
 methods of assassination for money ever adopted by 
 the bravoes of any age or country." — Ruskin. 
 
 5. '• Temperance in all things, especially wine 
 and words." — Louisa ^l. Alcott. 
 
 6. " There is a devil in every berry of the grape." 
 
 — Kora)i . 
 
 7. " There is a great fault in wine ; it first trips up 
 the feet, it is a cunning wrestler." — Plautus. 
 
 8. " Call things by their names. . . . Glass of 
 brandy and water I That is the current, but not ap- 
 propriate name ; ask for a glass of liquid fire and 
 distilled damnation." — Robert Hall. 
 
 9. "Wine has drowned more than the sea." — 
 PuBLius Syrus. 
 
 10. "■ It is all nonsense to talk about not being 
 able to work without ale and cider and fermented 
 liquors. Do lions and cart-horses drink ale?" — 
 Sydney Smith. 
 
 'II. "The smaller the drink, the clearer the head." 
 
 — William Penn. 
 
 12. " Wine often turns the good-natured man into 
 
42 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin.'' — Addi- 
 son. 
 
 13- 
 " O madness to think use of strongest wines, 
 And strongest drinks our chief support of health, 
 When God, with these forbidden, made choice to rear 
 His mighty champion, strong above compare. 
 Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.'' 
 
 — Milton, Sa}}ison Agonistes. 
 
 14. " He who would keep himself to himself 
 should imitate dumb animals and drink water." — 
 Bulwer-Lytton. 
 
 15. "Temperance 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." — Ben- 
 jamin Franklin. 
 
 16. " Grape-juice has killed more than grape- 
 shot." — Spurgeon. 
 
 17. " If temperance prevails, then education can 
 prevail ; if temperance fails, then education must 
 fail." — Horace Mann. 
 
 18. " Every moderate drinker could abandon the 
 cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could." 
 — John B. Gough. 
 
 19. " Drink not liquors that intoxicate and disturb 
 the reason." — Buddha. 
 
 20. 
 '* Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind. 
 Unnerves the limbs and dulls the noble mind." 
 
 — Homer. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 43 
 21. 
 
 "Memory confused, and interrupted thought, 
 Death's harbingers, lie latent in the draught ; 
 And in the flowers that wreathe the sparkling bowl 
 Fell adders hiss, and poisonous serpents roll." 
 
 — Prior. 
 22. 
 " Freighted with love our temperance ship 
 Around the world shall sail ; 
 Take heart and hope, dear mariners ; 
 God's errands never fail.'' — Whittier. 
 
 23. " Surely wine and lots are an abomination, a 
 snare of Satan ; therefore avoid them."^ — Mohammed. 
 
 24. " Men dread cholera, the yellow fever, the 
 smallpox, and take expensive precaution against 
 them, while the ravages of all of them in a year do 
 not produce the mischief that intemperance does in a 
 month."' — John G. Holland. 
 
 25. " Beer is very injurious to health and destruc- 
 tive of life." — Kant. 
 
 26. "I cannot consent, as your Queen, to take 
 revenue from that which destroys the bodies and 
 souls of my subjects.' — Queen of Madagascar. 
 
 27. " If ever ' wine is a mocker,' it is when it 
 dons the physician's cloak, and professes infallibility 
 to cure." — John Guthrie, D.D. 
 
 28. " Nature never forms spirituous liquors : she 
 rots the grape upon the branch, but it is art which 
 converts the juice into wine." — Chaptal. 
 
 29. " Many a time has a glass of whiskey wrecked 
 a ship." — Captain of a Great Steamship Line. 
 
44 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 30. " Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet 
 poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath 
 not himself; which whosoever doth commit, commit- 
 teth not a single sin, but becomes the centre and 
 slave of all manner of sin." — St. Augustine. 
 
 31. " Where will we find a sermon strong enough 
 . . . to rescue us from this Drink Devil.'"' — Luther. 
 
 32. " Wine bringeth forth three grapes: the first 
 of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of 
 sorrow." — Anacharsis the Scythian, 500 b.c. 
 
 33. " The art of extracting alcoholic liquors by 
 distillation is the greatest crime ever inflicted on 
 human nature." — Dr. Paris. 
 
 34. " Is there no middle way betwixt total absti- 
 nence and excess which kills you? For your sake, 
 reader, and that you may never attain to my expe- 
 rience, with pain I must utter the dreadful truth, 
 there is none." — Charles Lamb, in Cotifessiotis of 
 a Drunkard. 
 
 35. " This demon, like death, seems to love a 
 shining mark. From every profession he has drawn 
 his victims." — Schuyler Colfax, ex-vice-pres- 
 
 IDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 36. " Much is said about the prudent use of ardent 
 spirits ; but we might as well speak of the prudent 
 use of the plague, of fire handled prudently among 
 powder, of poison taken prudently every day, or of 
 vipers and serpents introduced prudently into our 
 dwellings, to glide about as a matter of courtesy to 
 our visitors and of amusement to our children." — 
 Lyman Beecher. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 45 
 
 37. " We suffer more year by year from intem- 
 perance than from war, pestilence, and famine com- 
 bined — •• those three great scourges of the human 
 family.'' — Gladstone. 
 
 38. " The only safe way of drinking . . . is ' to 
 leave off before you begin.' '' — Canon Farrar. 
 
 39. " In all the towns and countries I have seen, I 
 never saw a city or a village yet whose miseries were 
 not in proportion to its public-houses." — Oliver 
 Goldsmith. 
 
 40. " Like so many boxes of Pandora, dram-shops 
 are hourly scattering plagues of every kind — natu- 
 ral, moral, political."' — John Adams. 
 
 41. " Your poor-houses are full, and your courts 
 and prisons are filled with the victims of this infernal 
 traffic, and your homes are full of sorrow, and the 
 hearts of your wives and mothers ; and yet the sys- 
 tem is tolerated," — Father Taylor. 
 
 42. " Only a clear brain can think God's thoughts 
 after him. Only a steady hand can glorify the divine 
 Carpenter. Only a heart unhurried by artificial stim- 
 ulants can be loyal in its love to Christ and human- 
 ity." — Frances E. Willard. 
 
 43. " Let no man say that he is safe enough, that 
 he has no occasion to take the pledge. I have seen 
 the stars of heaven fall, and the cedars of Lebanon 
 laid low." — Father Mathew. 
 
 44. " Nothing impresses me so much about this 
 temperance reform as the eternity of it." — Eliza- 
 beth Stuart Phelps. 
 
46 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 45. " Temperance brings blessings in both hands, 
 
 — blessings for time and blessings for eternity." — 
 Father Mathew. 
 
 46. " I feel a special grudge against one form of 
 Satan ; I have a special desire to fight that .form 
 whenever and wherever I can, and with whatever 
 weapons I can get hold of — and Satan just now 
 means Rum." — Mrs. G. R. Alden (Pansy). 
 
 47. " The fearful devil-fish crushing a fisherman 
 in its long, winding arms, and sucking his life blood 
 from his mangled body and limbs, is not so frightful 
 an assailant as this deadly but insidious enemy." — 
 Nasby. 
 
 48. " I never use it; I am more afraid of it than 
 of Yankee bullets."' — Stonewall Jackson. 
 
 49. "Abstinency is favorable both to the head and 
 to the pocket." — Horace Greeley. 
 
 50. " O that men should put an enemy in their 
 mouths, to steal away their brains ! " — Shake- 
 speare. 
 
 51. "A schoolboy in Australia recently put the 
 matter tersely, thus : ' I abstain from liquor because, 
 if I wish to excel as a cricketer, Grace says, "Ab- 
 stain ; " as a walker, Weston says, "Abstain;" as 
 an oarsman, Hanlon says, "Abstain;" as a swim- 
 mer, Webb says, "Abstain; " as a missionary, Liv- 
 ingstone says, "Abstain;" as a doctor, Clark says, 
 "Abstain ; " as a preacher, Farrar says, "Abstain." ' " 
 
 — Youth'' s Co77ipa7iio7i. 
 
 52. "The very floor of one of the bar-rooms, in 
 a neighborhood that lately resounded with a cry for 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 47 
 
 bread from starving workmen, is paved with silver 
 dollars." — Jacob A. Riis, in How The Other Half 
 Lives. 
 
 53. "As in Africa streams intersect the forest in 
 every direction, so the gin-shop stands at every cor- 
 ner, with its River of the Water of Death flowing 
 seventeen hours out of the twenty-four for the de- 
 struction of the people. A population sodden with 
 drink, steeped in vice, eaten up by every social and 
 physical malady, these are the denizens of Darkest 
 England." — General Booth, in Darkest Etigland. 
 
 54. " Children should be taught . . . to hate rum 
 as intensely as Hannibal was taught to hate Rome." 
 — Crafts. 
 
 55. " For thirty years I have been a temperance 
 man, and I am too old to change." — Abraham 
 Lincoln. 
 
 FACTS AND FIGURES. 
 
 " Facts are stubborn things^ 
 
 It is sometimes advisable to present a formidable 
 array of statistics. When this is desired, select a 
 number of facts, write them on slips of paper, and 
 distribute them. Call for them by number in quick 
 succession. It will brighten the meeting, and fasten 
 many facts in the mind. 
 
 Call the exercise " Fifteen Facts," " Twenty 
 
48 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 Truths,"" "Thirty Thoughts/' or "Forty Facts for 
 Thinking Christians,'* according to the number used. 
 
 1. Allowing eleven feet frontage for each, the sa- 
 loons of this country would line both sides of a street 
 reaching from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 2. 60,000 drunkards die every year in the United 
 Kingdom, and at least 120,000 lose their lives from 
 alcoholic excesses. 
 
 3. The world's production of beer for 1894 was 
 5.477,862,221 gallons, nearly five and one-half bil- 
 lion gallons. Beer-kegs sufficient to hold this quan- 
 tity would belt the earth seveji times at the equator; 
 
 4. English people spend for liquor at the rate of 
 $19.40 per annum for every man, woman, and child 
 in the realm ; the Scotch spend $14.70, and the Irish 
 $13.12. 
 
 5. The saloons of this country graduate and turn 
 out on the street 600.000 drunkards every year. Of 
 this number one-sixth, or 100,000, are boys from 16 
 to 20 years old, 
 
 6. In the United States 60.000 go every year to 
 fill a drunkard's grave. 
 
 7. It is estimated that 90 per cent of the business 
 of the criminal courts is caused by the liquor traffic. 
 
 8. The stock of wines and liquors laid in for a trip 
 to England and back, on one of the large Atlantic 
 liners, is 2.500 bottles of wines and spirits, and 2,000 
 bottles of ale and porter. 
 
 9. In Boston over 100.000 different persons pat- 
 ronize the saloons every day, and $22,675 ^^^ passed 
 over the bars. 
 
V/EA^GNS FOR TEMPERANCE WaRFARh.. 49 
 
 10. In Cambridge, Mass., when prohibition was 
 adopted, 122 saloons were turned into stores or 
 dwellings. 
 
 11. If the money spent every year in drink were 
 given to a man in $5.00 gold-pieces, he might walk 
 around the earth at the equator tJiree times, and drop 
 one at every step. 
 
 12. Christendom has introduced into Africa 70,000 
 gallons of rum to every missionary sent. 
 
 13. In the Congo Free State there are 100 drunk- 
 ards to one convert. 
 
 14. The managers of 25 different railway lines in 
 the United States, employing 180,000 men, will not 
 tolerate a drinking man in their employ. 
 
 15. In one year over $1,000,000 worth of property 
 was destroyed by the failures of beer-drinking engi- 
 neers and switchmen. 
 
 16. The annual consumption per capita of intoxi- 
 cating liquors in the United States is as follows : 
 whiskey, 4 gallons ; wine, i gallon ; beer, 46 gallons. 
 
 17. In the penitentiary at Sing Sing, New York, 
 92 per cent of the criminals are there because of drink ; 
 at Boston, Mass., 85 per cent. 
 
 18. "We sacrifice, in England, every year, to the 
 drink demon, more children than were ever offered 
 to Moloch in ages gone by. In London at least 1,000 
 babies are suffocated every year by drunken moth- 
 ers*." — Canon Farrar. 
 
 19. There are 1,600,000 drunkards in the United 
 States. Estimating the adults at 25.000,000, this 
 means about one person out of every 15 a drunkard. 
 
50 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 20. In 1895 New York City spent for liquor $139,- 
 710,208, from which the city derived a revenue of 
 $1,729,000. The arrests due to drink were 41,153, 
 and the costs of these trials and imprisonments 
 amounted to $3,703,770, or more than double the 
 revenue. 
 
 21. Cambridge, Mass., has 80,000 people, and no 
 saloons. The last year before saloons were aboK 
 ished, $140,000 was deposited in the Savings Bank. 
 The next year, with no saloons, the deposits reached 
 $586,000. 
 
 22. In 1895 Chicago consumed 157,477,900 gal- 
 lons of liquor, costing $125,739,188. 
 
 23. Of 611 paupers in the Edinburgh poor-house, 
 not one was a total abstainer ; 407 of them admitted 
 that their poverty was due to intemperance. 
 
 24. The Bishop of London points out that, whereas 
 it takes 1,000 people to support a baker's shop, and 
 700 to 800 a butcher's shop, it takes only from 100 
 to 120 to support a grog-shop. 
 
 25. London spends annually $100,000,000 for 
 liquors. 
 
 26. Belgium's revenue from drink has grown in 
 40 years from 4 million to 53 million francs. Crime 
 at the same time has increased 200 per cent, and in- 
 sanity 128 per cent. 
 
 27. Some years ago a striking comparison was 
 made between Vineland, N.J., and New Britain, 
 Conn. Each had about 11,000 inhabitants. New 
 Britain had 80 saloons, Vineland none. New Brit- 
 ain paid $8,500 for the care of paupers, and Vineland 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 5 1 
 
 $224. New Britain paid for police $7,500, and Vine- 
 land $75. 
 
 28. Under the maddening influence of liquor sent 
 from New England, 200 Congoans butchered each 
 other, and one gallon of rum caused a fight in which 
 50 were killed. 
 
 29. " Out of every 100 patients that I have charge 
 of at the London Hospital, 70 owe their ill-health 
 to alcohol — I do not say 70 are drunkards." — Sir 
 Andrew Clark, IVI.D. 
 
 30. According to Le Journal iV Hygiene the prob- 
 abilities of life for moderate drinkers and total ab- 
 stainers are as follows : — 
 
 At 20 years 
 
 ' k \ 
 
 
 '15.6 yrs. 
 
 V 
 
 44.2 yrs. 
 
 At 30 years 
 
 "v 
 
 may 
 
 13 yrs. 
 
 1 
 
 36.5 yrs. 
 
 At 40 years - 
 
 ■^ 
 ^ 
 
 expect 
 
 1 1.6 yrs. ' 
 
 -2 
 
 .28.8 yr*s. 
 
 
 V 
 
 to 
 
 
 "13 
 
 
 hi 50 years 
 
 "^ 
 
 live 
 
 10.8 yrs. 
 
 
 21.2; yrs. 
 
 At 60 years 
 
 . ^ . 
 
 
 . 8.9 yrs. 
 
 ^ -^ 
 
 15.285 yrs. 
 
 31. A London gentleman recently offered a guinea 
 each to destitute families who were and always had 
 been total abstainers. Only 19 applications were re- 
 ceived from all England, and only 6 of these were 
 able to conform to the condition. 
 
 32. San Francisco has 3,200 licensed saloons. It 
 is estimated that they would cover 66 solid blocks, 
 and make a street 16 miles long. A hideous proces- 
 sion of 15.000 persons arrested during the year for 
 drunkenness gives one of the results of these 16 
 miles of saloons. 
 
52 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 33. It would require a cask 455 feet high and 
 227>^ feet in diameter to hold the beer annually con- 
 sumed in San Francisco. The battle-ship Oregon 
 could easily float in this cask. 
 
 34. The London Temperance Hospital has suc- 
 cessfully treated 40,000 patients without alcohol. 
 
 35. A great railway corporation gathered all the 
 facts concerning the accidents which had occurred 
 on its line for five years. The results showed that 
 40 per cent of all accidents were due altogether or 
 in part to the failures of men who had been drinking, 
 and in 18 per cent more there was strong suspicion of 
 such cause, but no clear proof. 
 
 36. In the United States the average wages is 
 $354, and the expenditure for drink nearly $100 a 
 year per family. 
 
 37. Put $362 into the gin-mill, and the farmer 
 gets but $13. the remainder going to the liquor 
 men. Put $362 into home comforts, and the farmer 
 gets $139, and other honest workers the remaining 
 $223. 
 
 38. The liquor traffic stands lowest in the list of 
 industries in the proportion of wages to the value 
 of products. In publishing and printing it is 38 
 per cent. In the hat and cap business it is 37 per 
 cent ; and so on down the list to distilled liquors, 
 where it is 2 per cent, and vinous liquors, where it 
 is I per cent. 
 
 39. If the $1 ,000,000,000 spent for drink were spent 
 for the necessaries and comforts of life, it would give 
 employment to those turned out of the liquor traffic, 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 53 
 
 and to 1,350,000 others as well, giving them more 
 than $130,000,000 of wages, and provide for those 
 out of employment in our worst panic years. 
 
 40. The direct cost of the liquor traffic in the 
 United States is almost $1,000,000,000. The indi- 
 rect cost, according to most careful estimates, is as 
 follows : — 
 
 $8,374,889 for maintaining paupers made by in- 
 temperance. 
 
 $37,500,000 for crime caused by intemperance. 
 
 $8,250,000 for insanity caused by intemperance. 
 
 $109,500,000 for medical attendance and medicine 
 in sickness caused by mtemperance. This does not 
 include unestimated losses by fire and accidents caused 
 by intemperance, depreciation of property, etc., which 
 would amount to a very large sum. 
 
 To offset this the government receives a yearly 
 revenue of $135,000,000. 
 
 SCRIPTURE PROBLEM. 
 
 Sometimes it is desired to impress some special 
 number in connection with a temperance programme. 
 Making a problem with Bible numbers, having for its 
 answer the special number, will by its novelty rouse 
 interest in that number, and secure perfect attention. 
 It is a good plan to use at a temperance social. 
 
 Give it as a blackboard exercise. Let the leader 
 announce that he has a little problem that he would 
 
54 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANXE WARFARE. 
 
 like to have the audience work out mentally while he 
 reads it very slowly to them. Probably no one can 
 do it, but it rouses enthusiastic interest and much 
 curiosity to make the request. After the reading, 
 unless some one has been able to solve the problem 
 and give the answer, let the leader proceed to work 
 it out step by step on the blackboard, calling on the 
 audience for the diiTerent numbers. Before begin- 
 ning, pass out slips with the Scripture reference for 
 each number, but do not allow those holding the 
 references to give the answer, except in cases where 
 no one else can give it. 
 
 A sample problem is given here. Any leader de- 
 siring to obtain some other answer will, find it easy to 
 select other Bible numbers, and vary the operations 
 so as to obtain the desired result. 
 
 PROBLEM. 
 
 (The answer will be the money value of the prop- 
 erty destroyed during one year by the failure of beer- 
 drinking railroad engineers and switchmen.) 
 
 Divide the age of Methuselah ( Gen. 5: 27) by the num- 
 ber of Job's daughters. (^Job 1:2.) 969 -r 3 = 323. 
 
 Subtract the number of the chapter in Proverbs con- 
 taining the strongest warnings against intemperance (23). 
 
 323 — 23 = 300. 
 Divide by the number of Jacob's sons. ( Gen. 35 : 22.) 
 
 300 -f 12 = 25. 
 Add the number of songs Solomon wrote, (i Ki)igs 
 4:32.) 25 4- 1,005 -- 1.030- 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 55 
 
 Divide by the number of chapters in the Book of 
 Esther (10). I5O30 -f- 10 = 103. 
 
 Muhiply by the number of stones David selected to kill 
 Goliath. (l Sam. 17:40.) I03 X 5 = 515. 
 
 Add the number of baskets of fragments gathered after 
 the feeding of the five thousand. {Malt. 14: 20,) 
 
 515 4-12 = 527. 
 
 Subtract the number of verses in the shortest Psalm, 
 {Ps. 117.) 527-2= 525. 
 
 Divide by the number of loaves used in feeding the 
 four thousand. {Mark 8: 5-6.) 525 -i- 7 = 75. 
 
 Multiply by the numl)er of years David reigned over 
 Israel. (l Chron. 29:27.) 75 X 40 = 3,000, 
 
 Multiply by the number of proverbs that Solomon spoke, 
 (l Kings 4: 32.) 3,000 X 3,000 = 9,000,000. 
 
 Divide by the number of years Moses lived. {Dent. 
 34: 7.) 9,000,000 4- 120 = 75,000. 
 
 Subtract the number of souls brought into the church 
 on the day of Pentecost. {Acts 2: 41.) 
 
 75,000 — 3,000 = 72,000. 
 
 Divide by the number of " Cities of Refuge." {Xu»i. 
 35 : 6. ) 72,000 4- 6 = 12,000. 
 
 Divide by the number of furlongs Bethany was distant 
 from Jerusalem, {John 11 : iS.) 12,000 -i- 15 = 800. 
 
 Multiply by Joseph's age when he stood before Pha- 
 raoh. ( Gen. 41 : 46.) 800 X 30 = 24,000. 
 
 Divide by the height in cubits of the porch of Solomon's 
 Temple. (2 Chron. 3:4.) 24,000 -i- I20 = 200. 
 
 Add the number of men in Gideon's band, {yndges 
 7:7.) 200 + 300 = 500. 
 
 Multiply by the number of chapters in the Book of 
 Haggai (2), 500 X 2 = 1,000, 
 
56 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 Multiply by the number of lords invited to Belshazzar-'s 
 feast. {Dan. 5: i.) 1,000 X 1,000= 1,000,000. 
 
 Ans. — $1,000,000 worth of property destroyed in one 
 year by the failure of beer-drinking railroad engineers and 
 switchmen. 
 
 CONVERSATIONS. 
 
 Conversations '' on a given subject are very 
 profitable, and are valuable in bringing out a number 
 of speakers and much information. The plan is a 
 very good one to use in temperance meetings. 
 
 Choose a topic for the conversation, and divide 
 it into any number of sub-tojMCs that se^ms wise. 
 Select a leader for the conversation, and assign the sub- 
 topics to different persons, to prepare a two- or three- 
 minute talk. Ask all the members to come prepared 
 to take part in a short discussion after each topic. 
 
 Examples. — Conversation on " The Power of Al- 
 cohol." 
 
 1. As a Promoter of Disease. 
 
 2. As a Producer of Insanity. 
 
 3. As a Cause of Poverty. 
 
 4. As an Instigator of Crime. 
 
 5. As a Deceiver of the Human Race. 
 
 6. As an Instrument of Death. 
 
 7. As a Destroyer of the Soul. 
 
 Conversation on "The Failure of Alcohol."" 
 
 1. To Sustain Life as a Food. 
 
 2. To Heal the Body as a Medicine. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 57 
 
 3. To Give Support in Either Mental or Physi- 
 
 cal Labor. 
 
 4. To Enable Us to Endure Either Cold or Heat. 
 
 REFERENCES. 
 
 Temperance Physiology, by Guthrie. 
 Alcohol and Science, by Hargreaves. 
 7V« Lectures on Alcohol, by Richardson. 
 Alcoliol as a Food atid Medicine, by Hunt. 
 The Text-Book of Temperance, by Lees. 
 Alcohol and Hygiene, by Julia Colman. 
 The Temperance Lesson Book, by Richardson. 
 
 A QUIZ ON ALCOHOL. 
 
 A DOZEN QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY EMINENT 
 AUTHORITIES. 
 
 Write each question and its answer on a slip of 
 paper. Let the leader ask the questions, and those 
 who hold the answers give them. 
 
 1. Is Alcohol a Food ? 
 
 John Bell, M.D. — " Alcohol is not a food.*' 
 Ezra M. Hunt, Af.D. — " The trend of scientific 
 research, up to the present moment, is more and 
 more against assigning any definite food value, direct 
 or incidental, to alcohol."' 
 
 2. Is Alcohol a Poison ? 
 
 Sir Andreiu Clark, M.D. — " Alcohol is a poison ; 
 so is arsenic ; so is opium. It ranks with these 
 
58 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 agents. Health is always in some way or other in- 
 jured by it ; benefited by it — never.'' 
 
 3. Does Alcohol Aid Digestion? 
 
 F. R. Lees, M.D. — " It is false that alcohol aids 
 
 digestion.*' 
 
 4. Is THE Use of Alcohol as a Medicine 
 Necessary? 
 
 yo/in H. Griscomb, M.D. — "I have come to the 
 conclusion that alcohol as a medicine can be wholly 
 dispensed with, and more speedy and thorough res- 
 toration of health and the prolongation of life be 
 insured." 
 
 5. Does Alcohol Promote Health when 
 Used as a Beverage ? 
 
 Sir Andrew Clark, M.D. — " Good health will, in 
 my opinion, always be injured by ev^en small doses of 
 alcohol. Even in small doses it will take the bloom 
 off and injure the perfection and loveliness of health, 
 both mental and moral." 
 
 Sir \Villia?}i Gull, M.D. — " I hardly know any 
 more potent cause of disease than alcohol." 
 
 6. Will Alcohol Prevent Disease ? 
 
 George F. SJirady, M.D. — "Whiskey is never 
 good to ward off anything. Good food is the best 
 means with which to ward off disease." 
 
 7. Will the Use of Alcohol Prolong Life? 
 [F. B. Carpenter, M.D. — " After a very large 
 
 experience of our life insurance companies, of our 
 benefit societies, the testimonv of all these is in 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 59 
 
 this direction, — that life is shortened and disease 
 induced and the body very materially injured by 
 indulgence in alcoholic liquors."" 
 
 8. Does Alcohol Help Us to Endure Cold ? 
 Sir JoJin Richardson. — "I am quite satisfied that 
 
 spirituous liquors diininisJi the power of resisting 
 cold. Plenty of food and sound digestion are the 
 best sources of heat."" 
 
 Captaiti Parry. — " People say that ardent spirits 
 keep cold out. I say, they let it in. Few seamen 
 have been in the cold more than I have, and I know 
 that spirits do harm." 
 
 9. What can Alcohol do for Us under Great 
 Heat? 
 
 Dr. Parkes. — " The best authorities on tropical 
 diseases speak strongly. ... It seems quite cer- 
 tain that not only is heat less well borne [by tbose 
 who use alcoholic beverages], but that insolation 
 [sunstroke] is predisposed to. The common notion 
 that some form of alcoholic beverage is necessary in 
 tropical climates is, I firmly believe, a mischievous 
 delusion."* 
 
 10. Does Alcohol Help Us to Endure Phys- 
 ical Exertion ? 
 
 B. IV. Richardson, M.D. — " It is often thought 
 that wine and beer and spirits give strength to a 
 man ; that they make the muscles contract with more 
 force, and sustain the action. I have put this matter 
 to test by means of experiments, and I have found 
 
6o WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 that the idea of alcohol giving force and activity to 
 the muscles is entirely false.'' 
 
 11. Does Alcohol Help Us to Endure Men- 
 tal Exertion ? 
 
 Joh7i Guthrie, M.A., D.D. — " The brain is the 
 organ into which alcohol strikes its venomous fangs 
 with special directness and malignity. For a few 
 excited moments, indeed, brilliancies and piquancies 
 flash forth from the beleaguered organ ; but these 
 are, at best, signs of distress, and soon subside. 
 Whoever wants, by a short and easy method, to 
 divest his thinking of all clearness and balance, let 
 him apply the bottle."" 
 
 12. What is Alcohol? 
 
 IVillard Parker, J/.i7. — " Alcohol is the one evil 
 genius, whether in wine or ale or whiskey, and is 
 kilRng the race of men."' 
 
 William Reid, J/.Z^. — " What is alcohol? A 
 poison — a brain poison — a soul poison — a poison 
 of virtues, of morals and religion — the cause of 
 more sin than all the other causes combined." 
 
 * * * 
 
 DRINKING AND POSITIONS OF TRUST. 
 
 Test-exercises of any kind rouse interest and 
 enliven a meeting. Let the leader go to a blackboard 
 and write at the top, " Men whom we all want to be 
 total abstainers." Then let him ask the audience to 
 name some such, and as they are given, let them be 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 6 1 
 
 written on the board. In order to make what is 
 wanted a little clearer and more definite, let the 
 leader give the first one. It is well for him to have 
 a list of his own, to use in case the audience does not 
 respond very well. Here are some : — 
 
 The man at the wheel on a stormy night. 
 
 The drug clerk when he puts up a powerful pre- 
 scription. 
 
 The surgeon who performs a difficult operation. 
 
 The motorman of an electric car. 
 
 The firemen trying to save our lives and property. 
 
 The engineer of the train. 
 
 The driver of a pair of spirited horses. 
 
 The train despatcher and the switchmen. 
 
 The nurse who watches the crisis with a typhoid- 
 fever patient. 
 
 The driver of a stage-coach in the mountains. 
 
 In fact, every one who is engaged in work that 
 requires a clear brain and a steady hand. 
 
 THE OPINIONS OF SOME GREAT PEOPLE. 
 
 WHAT THEY THINK OF LIQUOR AND THE LIQUOR 
 TRAFFIC. 
 
 Write these opinions on slips of paper, with the 
 names of the authors. Let the leader ask the ques- 
 tions, and those who hold the slips give the answers. 
 
02 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 Ques. — "Queen Victoria, whajt do you call the Liquor 
 Traffic ? " 
 
 Ans. — " A curse." 
 
 Ques. — '' Gladstone, what do you call the Liquor Traffic ? " 
 
 Ans. — " A scandal and a shame." 
 
 Ques. — '• Sir W. Harcourt, what do you say the Liquor 
 Traffic is .? '• 
 
 Ans. — "A poison in politics as well as in society." 
 
 Ques. — " Lord Rosebery, what is the Liquor Traffic doing 
 to your nation ? " 
 
 Ans. — "' The nation is being throttled by the traffic." 
 
 Ques, — '-Canon Farrar, what do you call the Liquor Traf- 
 fic?" 
 
 A71S. — "A national crime." 
 
 Ques. — " Earl Cairns, what is your name for saloons ? " 
 
 Ans. — '• Traps for workingmen." 
 
 Ques. — " Lord Chesterfield, what do you call liquor-sellers ? " 
 
 Ans. — " Artists in human slaughter." 
 
 Ques. — " Bismarck, what does strong drink do ? " 
 
 Ans. — " It stupefies and besots." 
 
 Ques. — '• Lord Randolph Churchill, what is your opinion of 
 strong drink ? " 
 
 Ans. — '• It is devilish and destructive." 
 
 Ques. — " Prince Leopold, what do you think of strong 
 drink ? " 
 
 Ans. — " The only terrible enemy England has to fear." 
 
 Ques. — " Sir Wilfrid Lawson, what is alcohol .'' " 
 
 Ans. — " The devil in solution." 
 
 Ques. — " Lord Brougham, what is drink ? " 
 
 A71S. — " The mother of want and the nurse of crime." 
 
 Ques. — " General Von Moltke, what is beer ? " 
 
 Ans. — "A far more dangerous enemy to Germany than all 
 the armies of France." 
 
 Ques. — " Lord Shaftesbury, what have you to say of drink } " 
 
 A71S. — " Impossible to relieve poverty until we get rid of 
 the curse of drink." 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 63 
 
 A TEMPERANCE POW-WOW. 
 
 Pow-wow is the name for a '' big talk " among the 
 North American Indians. A good exercise under this 
 name can be arranged for a temperance social. 
 
 Select five topics. Have cards printed or mimeo- 
 graphed with a Hst of the topics, and a dotted line un- 
 
 FlVE-WIflOTE CONtfERSRTIONS. 
 
 - ■n.ii«M.M.i..iitn.>la,>'ai> 
 
 I. fflg iicrsonal ©bserbation of tfje lEbils of Cn^ 
 trmpcraucc. 
 
 2. Qangcrous iSeberagcs — SHfjat tiare toe lirtnk ? 
 
 3. Co fajl}at lEitent is Social Uriitking ^rebalcnt 
 in ©ur ^Citg? 
 
 4. Qrunkartis C p?abc Sern — HEfjat causeU tfjeir 
 fall? 
 
 5L^^f}at bJE are tiotng ^ 
 5. J2ai]at tor arc not tfoing S- for ^Temperance. 
 U^\)Rt toe coulti tio ) 
 
 
04 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 derneath each one. Give a card and a small pencil 
 to each person present, and request the gentlemen to 
 select partners for each topic of conversation. When 
 all are ready, tap a bell, and announce that the gen- 
 tlemen may claim partners for the first topic, and dis- 
 cuss it for five minutes. At the end of five minutes 
 tap the bell, and change partners ; and so on through 
 the whole list. At the close it may be well to have 
 a short general discussion of all the topics, under a 
 bright leader. Care must be taken in the selection 
 of topics. Don't select very deep subjects, but let 
 them be on questions of vital interest. 
 
 PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF TEMPERANCE 
 WORKERS. 
 
 The many great meetings and conventions of the 
 present day have given many opportunities both to 
 see and to hear the great leaders of the world's great 
 reforms. Ask those who have seen any noted tem- 
 perance worker to tell about it, and, if possible, give 
 some inspiring and helpful word from the address of 
 the worker. 
 
 TWO-MINUTE TALKS ON TEMPERANCE. 
 
 Invite ten or twelve bright speakers to give two- 
 minute talks on temperance. Ask some wide-awake, 
 witty speaker to introduce each talker, and observe 
 the time-limit strictly, tapping a bell or striking a gavel 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 65 
 
 at the end of two minutes. If so desired, one special 
 subject may be chosen as a common topic for all the 
 talks, instead of allowing each one to say what he 
 pleases. Such topics as the following could be used : — 
 
 What have you seen of the evil results of intem- 
 perance ? 
 
 What argument would you use to induce any one to 
 sign a temperance pledge ? 
 
 What first interested you in temperance? 
 
 What crimes of which you have personal knowledge 
 have resulted from intemperance? 
 
 SURPRISE MEETING. 
 
 Give an envelope with sealed instructions to six' or 
 eight of the brightest and most earnest young people. 
 
 COPY OF SEALED INSTRUCTIONS. 
 
 Please do one of the following things at our 
 " Parlor Temperance Meeting " next Tuesday eve- 
 ning. ^Yhatever you do must be on the subject of 
 temperance, and appropriate to our meeting : 
 
 1. Sing a solo, or arrange for a duet, trio, or 
 quartette. 
 
 2. Prepare and conduct a Bible Reading. 
 
 3. Give a recitation, or reading. 
 
 4. Write a poem, or an original story. 
 
 5. Make a short address. 
 
 6. Write a paper. 
 
 7. Tell anecdotes of some noted temperance 
 worker. 
 
66 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 SERMON WITH HIDDEN TEXT. 
 
 Some years ago a celebrated Baptist divine 
 preached a sermon at Chautauqua, announcing that 
 he would not give his text till the close of the dis- 
 course, because he wished to see if his hearers could 
 discover it for themselves. The result was intenst. 
 interest and closest attention. 
 
 The plan can be nicely used by the pastor in a 
 temperance sermon, or by some gifted young person 
 in a temperance paper or address. Such subjects as 
 the following would be suitable: "Abstinence for 
 One's Own Sake;" "Abstinence for the Sake of 
 Others ; " " The Only Safe Way, — Touch not, Taste 
 not, Handle not ; " " Poverty and Intemperance." 
 
 FROM OUR WATCH-TOWER. 
 
 Every worker ought to keep up with the times in 
 regard to temperance news. The daily papers, the 
 rehgious press, the temperance papers, are full of 
 news about both temperance and intemperance. Bud- 
 gets of news items should often find a place on tem- 
 perance programmes. The one who prepares such a 
 budget may be called the " Watchman " or the " Re- 
 porter." The budgets of news may be called on the 
 programme: "From Our Watch-Tower ; " "Since 
 Our Last Meeting;" "What is Going on in the 
 World from a Temperance Standpoint ; " or the 
 " Bulletin." 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 67 
 
 TEMPERANCE CONTESTS. 
 
 A GOOD way to call attention to some special sub- 
 ject in connection with temperance is to hold a con- 
 test. Not only will those who take part in such a 
 contest be especially careful to make their addresses 
 or papers of unusual interest, but those who listen 
 will give unusual interest to the speakers. Appoint 
 several good speakers (four perhaps is the best num- 
 ber) who are interested in temperance work, asking 
 each to prepare a paper or address on the same topic. 
 Appoint judges to decide which contestant has made 
 the strongest appeal. To avoid hurting any one's 
 feelings, ask the judges to mention only the best 
 one, leaving the others ungraded. 
 
 Such subjects as these would be suitable for con- 
 tests : "Alcohol, the Deadly Foe of Mankind;'' 
 " The Moderate Drinker — A Slave or a Free Man ? " 
 "Drink, the Curse of the Nation;" "The Liquor 
 Traffic versus the Gospel ; " " The Conflict between 
 Man and Alcohol ; *' " Alcohol, the Deceiver of Man- 
 kind." 
 
 ORIGINAL STORIES AND POEMS. 
 
 In almost every society there are talented young 
 people who can write bright stories or original poems. 
 Utilize this talent for the benefit of the temperance 
 programme. A story or a poem produced by home 
 talent will rouse more- interest than one by some 
 unknown author, even if its merit is not so great. If 
 
68 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 there is no one in the society who is capable of doing 
 such work, perhaps there are those in the church or 
 the community who can be pressed into service. 
 
 TEMPERANCE ANECDOTES. 
 
 Temperance literature is full of entertaining an- 
 ecdotes, many of which carry with them strong and 
 powerful lessons. Ask a number of persons to give 
 a short, bright anecdote about some temperance work 
 or worker. Let each one talk two, three, or five min- 
 utes, and observe the time-limit strictly, tapping the 
 bell at the close. 
 
 TRADITIONS ABOUT ALCOHOL. 
 
 There are many curious ancient traditions about 
 alcohol. Copy these on ditTerent pieces of paper, 
 and ask different ones to read them. A number of 
 these may be found in The Foundatioji of Death, by 
 Axel Gustafson. 
 
 TEMPERANCE CATECHISMS. 
 
 A CATECHISM on any subject, with its questions and 
 answers, forms an admirable way of imparting much 
 information in a short time. A number of cate- 
 chisms, with short, concise questions and answers, 
 suitable for temperance programmes, will be found 
 in the Scientific Temperance Bidletin. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 69 
 
 SIMPLE EXPERIMENTS WITH ALCOHOL. 
 
 Experiments of any kind, even very simple ones, 
 never fail to rouse interest and hold attention. Ex- 
 periments with alcohol, accompanied by a bright 
 talk or lecture, will furnish very delightful as well 
 as profit. ible entertainment for a temperance social. 
 
 Miss Julia Colman gives admirable suggestions for 
 this kind of work in a little pamphlet called " Our 
 Chemical Experiments/'' She says: "Provide all 
 the supplies you will need, and see that they are 
 carefully labelled. Have matches, a plate or saucer, 
 a slop-bowl, and a towel. See that your lamp is 
 filled. If you are to distil and condense, have the 
 ice ready. . . . Become familiar with your appa- 
 ratus, so that you can handle it readily without burn- 
 ing or breaking anything. . . . Let no experiment 
 be a failure ; for be assured, no apologies nor expla- 
 nations will clear away its effect. . . . 
 
 " Women have a natural adaptability to this work, 
 as has often been proved in the laboratory. Many 
 have taken the apparatus and handled it with ease, 
 though previously quite unacquainted with chemical 
 manipulation. 
 
 " Especially important is it to remember that 
 every experiment must have its teaching, so that 
 these precious and important helps shall not dwindle 
 into the province of mere playthings. . . . Fa- 
 miliarize your own mind with the principles to be 
 illustrated, and talk about them so forcibly and so 
 
70 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANXE WARFARE. 
 
 earnestly that your efforts to teach the truth may 
 not be lost. It is most desirable to have all forms 
 of temperance entertainment instructive. "" 
 
 A few of the simplest experiments are given here. 
 For others see The Colors of Flames, iviih Experi- 
 7nents : Our Chemical Experiments to Illustrate 
 Tempe?'a7ice Teachijig (this contains valuable hints 
 and directions, as well as an excellent specimen lec- 
 ture, with experiments. Do not fail to send for it, 
 even if no other work is attempted than the experi- 
 ments given here) ; The Tej}iperajice Handbook for 
 Speakers and Workers (this contains many experi- 
 ments, and ten lectures, several of which are excel- 
 lent) ; The Scientific Te7?ipera7ice Bulleti7i j How to 
 Keep Well. 
 
 Many experiments can be performed with home 
 contrivances, but many will be glad to know that 
 specially prepared supplies for this work will be 
 furnished at very reasonable figures by Miss Julia 
 Colraan, 47 Bible House, New York. An excellent 
 testing apparatus, called "The Little Detective,*' 
 costs $2.00: a chemist's retort for distillation, $1.00: 
 test-tubes, 10 cents each, two for 15 cents, or three 
 for 20 cents. 
 
 EXPERIMENTS. 
 
 1. Show two bottles, one containing alcohol and 
 the other water. Ask the audience to guess which is 
 which. It is impossible to discover without tastifig 
 or smelling, as alcohol is a pure, colorless liquid, 
 having exactly the appearance of pure, clear water. 
 
 2. Alcohol burns with a pale-blue flame, making 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANXE WARFARE. 7 1 
 
 little light, but great hear. Pour a ven.- little on a 
 plate, and burn it. 
 
 3. Alcohol bums without smoke, and produces no 
 soot, making it valuable in the arts and sciences. 
 Light an alcohol lamp, and hold a saucer down over 
 the flame, and show that no soot has formed. 
 
 4. When any substance is burned, the peculiar 
 color of its flame is one oi the ways by which we 
 prove its identity. The pale-blue flame, slightly 
 tipped with yellow, is peculiar to alcohol. Bum a 
 little alcohol on a plate', light a candle and bum 
 a match, noting carefally the different colors of their 
 flames. (.Very pretty experiments may be added to 
 this by buming other chemical substances and con- 
 trasting the flames.) 
 
 5. Alcohol lends its taste and its smell so easily to 
 other substances, that it is often quite impossible 
 to detect its presence, either by tasting or smelling. 
 But the peculiar pale-blue flame, when burned, will 
 alwa\-s reveal it. When any substance contains more 
 than forty per cent alcohol its presence can be dis- 
 covered by simply pouring a little on a plate and 
 burning it. When the amount of alcohol is not 
 above flfty per cent it is difficult to set fire to it. 
 on account of the presence of so much \s-ater. and 
 it may have to be lighted several times before it pro- 
 duces a flame. 
 
 Bum brandy and whiskey, which are usually about 
 half water. 
 
 Test paregoric, which is about fifty per cent al- 
 cohol. (Paregoric also contains opium.) 
 
72 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 Burn Jamaica ginger. This is ninety-five per cent 
 alcohol, and will leave nothing on the plate but a 
 little brown ginger. 
 
 Test different patent medicines, which are often 
 made up very largely of alcohol. 
 
 6. The vapor of alcohol will burn. Put a little 
 alcohol in a pan or a retort, and heat it. When it 
 begins to boil, hold a lighted match over it, and 
 the vapor will burn, showing the pale-blue alcoholic 
 flame. 
 
 7. By burning the vapor the presence of alcohol 
 can be detected in substances where the per cent is 
 too small to show it by burning on a plate. Where 
 there is more than ten per cent, the presence of 
 alcohol can be revealed by putting the liquid into 
 a pan and heating it. Just before it begins to boil 
 hold a lighted match over it, and the vapor will 
 ignite. When the per cent of alcohol is very small, 
 the flame will be very slight ; but close watching will 
 discover it. By the use of Miss Colman's " Little 
 Detective," as low as five per cent of alcohol can be 
 revealed by burning the vapor. 
 
 Test fermented fruit juice, either cooked (when 
 fruit is " turning") or uncooked; home-made fer- 
 mented wine ; port wine ; hard cider. Cider varies 
 from no alcohol in perfectly sweet cider to nine per 
 cent. It will be necessary to use the apparatus for 
 testing cider, and then it will be successful only 
 where the cider is so hard that it has more than 
 five per cent alcohol. 
 
 8. Burning on a plate reveals the presence of forty 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE.- 73 
 
 per cent or more alcohol ; burning the vapor reveals 
 five per cent or more ; but something is needed to 
 detect the presence of less than five per cent. Alco- 
 hol boils at 170° Fahr., and water at 212°. In boiling 
 any liquid containing both alcohol and water, the 
 vapor of alcohol passes off first. If this vapor is 
 condensed the product will be a new liquid contain- 
 ing a much larger per cent of alcohol than the ori- 
 ginal liquid. This process is called distillation. 
 
 A simple home-made distilling apparatus may be 
 constructed by using an ordinary tin teapot, a wide- 
 mouthed bottle, and a short piece of rubber tubing. 
 Put the bottle in a pan of cracked ice, or ice-water, 
 and stand the teapot over an alcohol lamp. Fasten 
 one end of the rubber tubing on to the spout of the 
 teapot, and put the other end down into the bottle. 
 Put the liquid to be distilled into the teapot, and light 
 the alcohol lamp. When the liquid boils, the vapor 
 vi^ill pass into the cold bottle, and be condensed. 
 
 Try this distilling process with water first. The 
 result will be what is known as " distilled water," 
 which is free from all impurities, and is largely used 
 by chemists and druggists. 
 
 9. Distil some beer, which is usually rated at four 
 per cent alcohol. Test the product, either by burn- 
 ing on a plate, or heating in a retort and burning the 
 vapor. The first few teaspoonfuls are the strongest, 
 and will probably burn on a plate. 
 
 10. By this process of distillation strong liquors 
 are made from weaker ones. Distilling beer and 
 adding certain flavoring substances produces gin, 
 
74 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 which is usually about thirty-five per cent alcohol. 
 The strongest alcohol is obtained by repeated distil- 
 lations. 
 
 Make brandy by distilling port wine and adding a 
 little burnt sugar or caramel. In the same way make 
 apple brandy by distilling cider, and peach brandy by 
 distilling fermented peach juice, adding burnt sugar 
 to give the brandy color. Test each of these by 
 burning on a plate if strong enough ; if not, by heat- 
 ing in the testing flask or retort. 
 
 11. Alcohol is not found in nature. It makes its 
 appearance only when fermentation takes place. Test 
 perfectly sweet cider, fresh grape-juice, fresh fruit 
 juices both sweet and sour, and boiled or canned 
 fruit juices, to prove that there is no alcohol in them. 
 Use all methods of testing, — burning on a plate, 
 heating in the retort, and distilling. 
 
 12. To show the effect of alcohol on albumen, put 
 the white of an egg into a glass, and pour some 
 alcohol over it. In a short time the egg will become 
 hardened. The greedy alcohol has seized the water 
 in the albumen and has cooked it. We must remem- 
 ber that the blood, brain, and tissues of the body all 
 contain albumen in large quantities. 
 
 13. Put a piece of raw beef in some alcohol, and 
 let it stand a few days. The meat will harden and 
 shrink because the alcohol has drawn the water from 
 the fibres and coagulated the albumen. 
 
 14. To show the effect of alcohol on the blood cor- 
 puscles, prick the finger and secure a drop of blood. 
 Examine it with a powerful microscope, and study 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 75 
 
 the shape and arrangement of the corpuscles. Add 
 a drop of alcohol, and carefully note the different ap- 
 pearance. The alcohol has coagulated the albumen 
 of the corpuscles. 
 
 15. Procure from a butcher a little brain matter. 
 Pour some alcohol over it, and it soon hardens, be- 
 cause the alcohol has extracted the water. 
 
 16. A very pretty experiment, but one that must 
 be handled with extreme care, is the testing of the 
 strength of alcohol with gunpowder. This was the 
 method used in earlier times : Spread a little gun- 
 powder (about one-fourth teaspoonful) on a plate, 
 and pour a little gin over it (some of the alcohol that 
 has been previously distilled can be used). Set fire 
 to it. If it is not very strong, there will be enough 
 water left after the alcohol has burned away to keep 
 the powder from exploding. Distil the gin or weak 
 alcohol, and try again. Continue the distilling and 
 testing till an alcohol is obtained that is strong 
 enough to explode the powder when it burns. This 
 alcohol will be what is known as " proof." 
 
 TITLES FOR TEMPERANCE PAPERS. 
 
 (Many of these have been taken from temperance papers, 
 programmes, books, tracts, etc. For materials, see the list of 
 publications at the end of the book.) 
 
 Shakespeare asks, "What's in a name?" and 
 we have been content to agree with him that "a 
 rose by any other name would smell as sweet." But 
 
76 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 it is true, nevertheless, that a paper with an attrac- 
 tive name will secure attention and rouse interest far 
 better than one with an ordinary, commonplace title. 
 
 1. Alcohol : Its Power of Clinging to Its Victim. 
 
 2. The Great Instrument of Vice. 
 
 3. The Giant Opponent to Moral Reformation. 
 
 4. Water the All-Sufficient Beverage of Man. 
 
 5. Chemical Composition of Alcoholic Drinks. 
 
 6. The Alleged Virtues of Liquor. 
 
 7. Alcohol : the Great Disease-Producer. 
 
 8. Alcohol: the Deadly Foe of Mankind. 
 
 9. The Temperance Moral of Arctic Expeditions. 
 ID. Alcohol : Aqua Vitae or Aqua Mortis ? 
 
 11. Childhood and Youth of the Temperance Re- 
 
 form. 
 
 12. The Woman's Crusade. 
 
 13. Moderate Drinking Weighed in the Balances 
 
 of Experience and Found Wanting. 
 
 14. Alcohol : Its Place and Power. 
 
 15. The Use and Abuse of Alcohol. 
 
 16. Alexis St. Martin : Scientific Faith Becomes 
 
 Sight. 
 
 17. Alcohol Unmasked and Convicted. 
 
 18. The Temperance Reformation. 
 
 19. Abstinence for One's Own Sake. 
 
 " If you are fond of wine, you ought to abstain foi* 
 your own sake." — Farrar. 
 
 20. Abstinence for the Sake of Others. 
 
 " If you are not fond of wine, you ought to abstain 
 for the sake of others." — Farrar. 
 
 21. Paul's Rules Concerning Abstinence. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANXE WARFARE. 77 
 
 22. The Drink Demon. 
 
 23. Pen Pictures of Life-Long Abstainers. 
 
 24. Influence of Alcohol on the Human Race. 
 
 25. The Great Poverty-Producer. 
 
 26. The Mother of Crimes. 
 
 27. Danger Signals. 
 
 28. Alcohol: Its Greed for Water. 
 
 29. Wine a Mocker. 
 
 30. The Faithful Servant of Our Arch-Enemy. 
 
 31. Alcohol: a Great Deceiver of Mankind. 
 
 32. A Chapter of Woes. 
 
 33. The Curse in the Cup. 
 
 34. The Curse of Africa. 
 
 35. Our Battle with the Drink-Demon. 
 
 36. Alcohol the Source of Poverty, Crime, Dis- 
 
 ease, and Death. 
 
 37. The Fatal Power of Fire- Water. 
 
 38. Behold What Rum Hath Wrought ! 
 
 39. Cider or not Cider — That is the Question. 
 
 40. The Only Safe Way — " Touch not, Taste 
 
 not, Handle not." 
 
 41. A Great Life-Destroyer. 
 
 42. The Drink Demon's Work in Our Land. 
 
 43. The -'Old Oaken Bucket" or the "Little 
 
 Brown Jug "' — Which ? 
 
 44. The Safety of the Never-Beginners. 
 
 45. The Footprints of the Arch-Fiend, Alcohol. 
 
 46. Autobiography of Alcohol. 
 
 47. Rum, the Workingman's Worst Enemy. 
 
 48. The Serpent in the Glass. 
 
 49. Social Drinking. 
 
78 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 50. The Chains Forged by Alcohol.- 
 
 51. The Moderate Drinker — A Slave or a Free 
 
 Man? 
 
 52. Fruits of the Liquor Traffic. 
 
 53. Total Abstinence a Duty and a Gain. 
 
 54. The Power of Woman's Influence. 
 
 55.* A Cloud of Witnesses to the Deadly Power of 
 Drink. 
 
 56. A Nation's Greatest Danger — Grape-Juice or 
 
 Grape-Shot? 
 
 57. Have We a King in America? 
 
 58. How Drink Curses a Nation. 
 
 59. Death in the Cup. 
 
 60. The Liquor Traffic and Its Fruits. 
 
 61. A Short Line to Destruction. 
 
 62. Dangerous Beverages. 
 
 63. Some Ugly Facts. 
 
 64. The Mocking Genius of the Winecup. 
 
 65. Rum a Robber. 
 
 66. Alcohol in the Kitchen. 
 
 67. The Agent of Our Adversary. 
 
 68. A Monster Evil in the Land. 
 
 69. Some Celebrated Total Abstainers. 
 
 70. An Enemy Hard to Conquer. 
 
 71. The Home Side of the Temperance Question. 
 
 72. Intemperance from a Business Standpoint. 
 
 73. Perverting God's Good Gifts. 
 
 74. The Saloon an Opposer of Civilization. 
 
 75. The Sacrifice of Children to the Drink Demon. 
 
 76. The Blindness of Moderate Drinkers. 
 -]-]. What Shall We Drink? 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 79 
 
 78. A Crusade against the Liquor Traffic. 
 
 79. What the Beer-Drinker Gets in Return for 
 
 His Money. 
 
 80. The Slavery of the Drink Habit. 
 
 81. The Viper in the First Glass. 
 
 82. Cider, Satan's Trap for the Children. 
 
 83. The Liquor Traffic and Foreign Alissions. 
 
 84. Human Life Sacrificed to the Drink Demon. 
 
 85. Can You Afford to Drink? 
 
 86. Temperance in the Home. 
 S7. Alcohol and the Pocket-Book. 
 
 88. The Conflict between Man and AlcohoL 
 
 89. The Home-Destroyer. 
 
 90. Alcohol : The Ally of Evil. 
 
 91. What the Nation Loses by the Drink Traffic. 
 
 92. Alcohol: the Enemy of the Gospel. 
 
 93. How the Liquor Traffic Hinders the Spread 
 
 of the Gospel. 
 
 94. Our Liquor Foe an Old Foe. 
 
 95. Recruiting Stations for Prisons, Poor-Houses, 
 
 Insane Asylums, and Drunkards' Graves. 
 
 96. Temperance Testimonies of Many Travellers. 
 97^. Father Mathew, the Apostle of Temperance. 
 
 98. The Washingtonian Movement. 
 
 99. The Story of the Blue Ribbon. « 
 
 100. The Great Social Change in the Nineteenth 
 
 Century. « 
 loi. Drinking among the Ancients."^ 
 
 102. Drink Customs of the Nations. 
 
 103. Ancient Traditions of Alcohol.* 
 
 104. Drinking a Sin Per Se. 
 
) WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 105. Direct and Indirect Cost of tlie Liquor Traffic. 
 
 106. Alcohol under the Ban of the Church. 
 
 107. The History of the Woman's Christian Tem- 
 
 perance Union. 
 
 108. Great Temperance Revivals. 
 
 109. The Power of Example. 
 
 no. Great Lives Extinguished in the Baleful Fires 
 of Alcoholism. 
 
 111. The Moral Responsibility of the .Moderate 
 
 Drinker. 
 
 112. Putting the Bottle to Our Neighbor's Mouth. 
 
 113. A Looking-Glass for the Rumseller. 
 
 114. The Blemish of Government, the Shame of 
 
 Religion, and the Disgrace of Mankind. 
 
 115. Ragged Homes, and How to Mend Them. 
 
 116. Alcohol against the Bible, and the Bible 
 
 against Alcohol. 
 
 117. Arrows from a Temperance Quiver 
 
 118. The Truth about Alcohol. 
 
 119. Heroes in the Temperance Strife. 
 
 120. What shall We do for the Drunkard? 
 
 121. Bacchus Dethroned. 
 
 122. The Relation between Drink and Crime. 
 
 123. A Brief Epitome of Temperance in the Nine- 
 
 teenth Century. 
 
 124. Drinking and Positions of Trust. 
 
 125. A Bitter Cry from Desolate Homes. 
 
 a. See Tlie Blue Ribbon. 
 
 b. See TJie Foundation of Death. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 8 I 
 
 AN EVENING WITH JOHN B. GOUGH. 
 
 " Could I cull a flower from every person whom John B. 
 Cough's life benefited or will benefit, a mountain loftier than 
 the highest Himalayan range would rise to reflect back the pu- 
 rity and grandeur of God." — Dr. \V. M. Taylor. 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 Scripture Lesson Mr. W — 
 
 Prayer Rev. — 
 
 Hymx. 
 Roll-Call — Quotations from John B. Gough.^ 
 
 Sketch^— Mr. B — 
 
 "The Greatest Leader of the World's Greatest Reform. 
 Vocal Solo — " The Drunkard's Lament."*^ 
 
 Written and sung by Gough .... Miss D — 
 Some Anecdotes and Illustrations used by 
 
 Gough ^ Conducted by Miss C — 
 
 Personal Reminiscences of John B. Gough. <? 
 
 Rev. — 
 
 " Young man, keep your record clean.-' 
 
 Gough's last words. 
 
 THE DRUNKARD'S LAMENT. 
 
 IVords written and sung- by John B. Gough. 
 (Air. — "Long, Long Ago.") 
 
 Where are the friends that to me were so dear ? 
 
 Long, long ago — long ago. 
 Where are the hopes that my heart used to cheer 1 
 
 Long, long ago — long ago. 
 
82 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 Friends that I loved, in the grave are laid low; 
 Hopes that I cherished are fled from me now; 
 I am degraded, for Rum was my foe, 
 Long, long ago — long ago. 
 
 Sadly my wife bowed her beautiful head, 
 Long, long ago — long ago. 
 
 Oh, how I wept when 1 knew she was dead ! 
 Long, long ago — long ago. 
 
 She was an angel, my love and my guide ; 
 
 Vainly to save me from ruin she tried ; 
 
 Poor broken heart ! it was well that she died, 
 Long, long ago — long ago. 
 
 Let me look back on the days of my youth — 
 Long, long ago — long ago. 
 
 I was no stranger to virtue and truth, 
 Long, long ago — long ago. 
 
 Oh, for the hopes that were pure as the day ! 
 
 Oh, for the loves that were purer than they ! 
 
 Oh, for the hours that I squandered away ! 
 Long, long ago — long ago. 
 
 REFERENCES. 
 
 a. Te»iperatLce Shot a>id Shell, gives six strong quotations from 
 Gough. 
 
 b. See " Sketches of Temperance Workers," p. 31. 
 
 c. Gough sang this sad lament in " sweet, plaintive tones that 
 touched the hardest hearts." Music and words can be obtained from 
 the Woman's Temperance Publication Association under the title 
 "The Inebriate's Lament." 
 
 d. Have some one select a number of anecdotes, etc., from Gough's 
 writings, and conduct the exercise as in " Sharp-shooting," p. 35. 
 See Platform Echoes ; Sunlight and Shadow ; or, Gleani7igs from 
 My Life Work; A idobiography and Personal Recollections of John 
 B. Gough. 
 
 e. See Personal Reminiscences of John B. Gough, by Frances E. 
 Willard; memorial number of the Unioti Signal, April 8, 1886. Per- 
 haps it would be better still to have this number given by some one 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. S>^ 
 
 who still remembers Gough. There are probably many in every 
 city who have listened to this " prince of platform orators." 
 
 THE WICKED COMPANY OF THE MAN WON- 
 DERFUL IN THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL."^ 
 
 AN ALLEGORY. 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 Scripture Lesson Mr. R- 
 
 Prayer Rev. - 
 
 Hymn — " We shall do it by and by."^ 
 
 PART I. <^ 
 THE QUACK DOCTOR. 
 
 The Liberation of Al Gohul, the Great, Mr. S 
 
 Majority Report, presented by Dr. Hand 
 
 and Gulp, e/ a/ Mr. C 
 
 Minority Report, presented by Madame 
 
 Science Mrs. K 
 
 Music— " Where there's Drink, there's Danger." ^ 
 
 PART 11.'^ 
 THE SHYSTER — A DECEIVER. 
 
 Gohul in Disguise Mr. A 
 
 Report for Gohul, by Dr. Wiseacre, Prof. Swell- 
 head, Rev. Esau Timeserver, f/ (7/. . . Miss J 
 
 Report against Gohul, by Prof. Liebig, Chemist, 
 
 Dr. Bartholow, John Bell, M.D., e^ al. Mr. M 
 
 Piano Solo — " W. C. T. U. March Medley." b 
 
84 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 PART III.^ 
 THE THIEF. 
 
 GoHUL IN A New Disguise Mrs. W- 
 
 Testimonies against Gohul, by 
 
 1. Observation Miss R- 
 
 2. Chemistry Prof. Q- 
 
 3. Madame Science Mrs. K- 
 
 4. Medicine Dr. B- 
 
 Music — Quartette, "The Drunkard's Woe." ^ 
 
 PART IV./ 
 
 THE MURDERER. 
 
 Gohul Unmasked Miss F- 
 
 The Report of the Committee . . . Mr. G- 
 reports of 
 
 1. Madame Science Mrs. K- 
 
 2. Experience Miss H- 
 
 3. Heredity Mrs. N- 
 
 4. Economy Mr. D- 
 
 5. MoraHty (signed by Truthfulness, Charity, and 
 
 Goodness) Miss T- 
 
 GoHUL's Study of the Situation . . Mrs. O- 
 SoLO and Chorus — " Some Glad Day." i> 
 
 REFERENCES 
 
 a. Four chapters from The Man Wonder/id 171 the House Beau- 
 tiful, by Drs. Chilion B. and Mary Allen. 
 
 b. " Drunkard's Woe," see Bugle Notes, or Temperance Lesson 
 Leaf No. 50, called " Manifold Woe." " We shall do it by and by," 
 see Ripples of Song, or Juvenile Temperance Hymn Card. " Some 
 Glad Day," "Where there's Drink, there's Danger," and " W. C. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERAN'CE WARFARE. 85 
 
 T. U. Medley " — Woman's Temperance Publication Association. 
 Other appropriate music can be substituted for these numbers. 
 Effective and appropriate tableaux might be also used between the 
 parts of the programme. 
 
 c. Chapter X. Let Mr. S read from p. 270 to the " Majority 
 
 Report," p. 275; also p. 278, the last two paragraphs. Omit the 
 foot-note, p. 276. 
 
 d. Chapter XI. Let Mr. A read from p. 279 to " Report in 
 
 Favor of Beer," p. 282. Omit the foot-note, p. 284. 
 
 e. Chapter XIL Let Mrs. W read from p. 2S7 to the sen- 
 tence, " Gohul is a thief," etc., p. 289; also from the paragraph 
 beginning, " These assertions," etc., p. 289, to the paragraph begin- 
 ning, "Chemistry tells us," etc., p. 290; also the last paragraph on 
 p. 293. 
 
 /. Chapter XII L Let Miss F read p. 294 as far as the " Re- 
 port of the Committee ; " also the poem on pp. 305 and 306. Omit 
 p. 307. Have the same person read all three of the reports by 
 "Madame Science." 
 
 A PALAVER ABOUT AFRICA AND THE LIQUOR 
 TRAFIC. 
 
 Palaver is the African name for a '■ big talk." 
 
 For directions, see the exercise called " Sharp- 
 shooting," on p. 35. Conduct the palaver in a simi- 
 lar manner. If it could be arranged for the different 
 speakers to give their parts in the right order, with- 
 out being called for by luimber or 7iame, it would add 
 very much to the effectiveness of the palaver. 
 * * 
 
 I. In the centre of the nave of Westminster Ab- 
 bey is the grave in which lie the remains of David 
 
86 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 Livingstone, carried by his faithful blacks during an 
 eight months' journey to the coast, and identified in 
 England by the marks of the lion^s claw upon his 
 arm. On that grave are inscribed the last words he 
 wrote in his diary before he closed his eyes — with 
 none but black faces around him — in his humble 
 hut at Chetamba's village, Ulala. They are: "All 
 I can add in my solitude is, May Heaven's richest 
 blessing come down on every one, 7\merican, Eng- 
 lish, or Turk, who will help to heal this open sore of 
 the world.'' This open sore was the slave trade. — 
 
 Farrar. 
 
 * * 
 
 2. The old rapacity of the slave trade has been 
 followed by the greedier and more ruinous rapacity 
 of the drink-seller. Our fathers tore from the neck 
 of Africa a yoke of whips ; we have subjected the 
 native races to a yoke of scorpions. Our fathers con- 
 ferred on this vast and helpless continent a most 
 precious boon ; we have more than neutralized the 
 boon by the wholesale introduction of an intolerable 
 bane. We have opened the rivers of Africa to com- 
 merce, only to pour down them that "raging Phlege- 
 thon of alcohol," than which no river of the Inferno 
 is more blood-red or more accursed. — Farrar. 
 
 3. It is my sincere belief that if the slave trade 
 ■were revived with all its horrors, and Africa could 
 get rid of the white man with the gunpowder and 
 rum which he has introduced, Africa would be a 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 87 
 
 gainer in happiness by the exchange. — Sir Rich- 
 ard Burton, discoverer of Tajiga?iyika. 
 
 4. Who are the promoters of this gigantic evil, and 
 the. particeps criniinis in the matter? The answer is 
 easy. There are two sets of individuals implicated 
 in the crime, and each set is wholly to blame. It is 
 a question which should be named first, the rum- 
 selling miscreants who are doing the devil's work, or 
 the statesmen composing the Berlin Conference, who 
 allowed them to do it. On the whole, I think the 
 latter are entitled to the place of honor. — W. T. 
 
 HORNADAV. 
 
 At this congress, held in 1885, America, England, 
 France, and Italy endeavored to shut drink out of 
 the new world in Central Africa. Leopold of Belgium 
 joined with their representatives — Kasson, Malet, 
 Courcy, and Launay — in desiring prohibition ; but 
 the liquor dealers of' Germany, Holland, and Portu- 
 gal insisted on free rum in the Congo basin, be- 
 cause it is consecrated to free trade. So the vultures 
 settled dow^n again — this time more boldly — upon 
 the body of Africa, and tore at her vitals even more 
 ravenously. — F. P. Noble. 
 
 5. The African has neither the stamina nor the 
 will to withstand brandy, gin, and rum. If he drinks 
 them once, an appetite forms itself, which he is as 
 powerless to kill as the prince who permitted Satan 
 
88 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 to kiss him on the shoulders was to tear away the 
 serpents that grew out of his body where the fiend's 
 lips touched human flesh. The poison of distilled 
 spirits, with the deadliness of the climate and the 
 vices of heathenism, destroys body and soul. Na- 
 ture-peoples must be sober or die. The natural cru- 
 elty and blood-thirstiness of the African is kindled 
 by "crazy waters'' into the madness of demons. On 
 the Gold Coast drunkenness is so common that it is 
 customary not to visit native officials after dinner. 
 No street preaching is allowed in tlie evening, for no 
 man dare face the intoxicated multitude. Funerals 
 are horrible with rum and powder, $500 worth being 
 sometimes drunk and burnt. At times a whole vil- 
 lage is intoxicated. Many sleep with bottles as pil- 
 lows, and drink during the nio:ht. — F. P. Noble. 
 
 6. It is not possible to find out just how much 
 liquor goes to Africa. The traders on the spot refer 
 one to the agents in Europe ; the agents are perfectly 
 noncommittal. They don't want anybody to know 
 how much they sell, or at what profit. One German 
 house sends to Africa a large steamer every third 
 week filled with gin. On one that I saw there were 
 50,000 gallons for one town near tlie mouth of the 
 Niger. 
 
 As we steamed into the harbor of Freetown, Sierra 
 Leone, on my way down the coast, my attention was 
 called to a beautiful sailing-vessel lying at one side, 
 with the remark: " That is an American vessel." It 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEiMPERANCE WARFARE. 89 
 
 was painted white from stem to stern, and every line 
 and detail was perfect. The " Stars and Stripes " 
 were flying; and when I saw them, and the name, 
 White Cloud, Boston, with a swelling heart, caused 
 by pride and aiTection, I rapturously waved my hand- 
 kerchief, when my interlocutor said : " Her cafgo is 
 rum ; that line brings little else."' Since then, every 
 American ship I see on the coast costs me a shud- 
 der and a feeling of shame so strong that I avoid 
 all mention of them. The descendants of the Puri- 
 tans sending rum to debauch these poor, ignorant 
 natives I — Mary Clement Leavitt. 
 
 7. At Sierra I saw great pyramids of demijohns of 
 gin, row upon row of butts of rum and whiskey, piled 
 out-of-doors, besides store after store full of it. At 
 Aforjupa, not long ago, all the seats of the church 
 were gin boxes. I walked through a village near 
 Mpallaballa on the Congo, where the chief's house, 
 and others of the better houses, had for foundations 
 gin bottles, with their necks driven into the ground ; 
 and farther north on the coast, garden beds and 
 walks are very frequently bordered with them. — 
 Mary Clement Leavitt. 
 
 8. From Boston. Liverpool, Hamburg, and Hol- 
 land flow these streams of liquid damnation. Since 
 1882 (this was written in 1894) at least one hundred 
 million gallons of spirits have flowed into Africa. 
 
90 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 The gauge of wealth is the amount of liquor the vil- 
 lage can afford to drink. — F. P. Noble. 
 
 9. As you travel through some of the interior 
 country, your eyes rest upon miles and miles of land 
 well cultivated ; and as you stand at Lagos you can 
 see fleets of canoes laden with casks of palm-oil, 
 nuts, and other produce. But when they are return- 
 ing home, what do they carry with them ? Very few 
 pieces of cloth ; every one of them is laden with rum 
 and gin. We give Europe palm-oil and many other 
 useful things ; but what does she give us in return ? 
 This vile stuff; this spirit which sends our people 
 drunken and mad. — Rev. James Johnson, a dis- 
 tinguished native. 
 
 10. European traders force drink upon the natives 
 and the native traders contrary to their will. One 
 European trader said to another in my hearing, 
 " Down my way the niggers are getting so impudent 
 they don't want to take what you offer them in trade ; 
 they want to choose." Said the other trader, " What 
 do they want? *' — " Oh, clothes, and salt, and money ! 
 Think of that ! They want 7no?iey, and they don't 
 want rum ! " 
 
 The following incident was related to me by one of 
 the missionaries at Duke Town, Old Calabar: A 
 chief of one of the towns up the river had been 
 trained in the mission school, but had not been con- 
 verted. He returned to his village, married, and be- 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 9 1 
 
 came a trader. Afterwards he was converted and 
 wished to join the church. Among the questions 
 asked was this, " Are you willing to sign a total ab- 
 stinence pledge ? '^ He was willing, and signed it. 
 Next this question was put, " Will you give up trad- 
 ing in drink ? "^ This caused some hesitation, as it 
 would interfere with his profits to a very considerable 
 extent ; but this was also promised. Not long after 
 he had a boat-load of palm-oil and kernels to send to 
 Duke Town. He charged the clerk not to take any 
 drink in payment ; but the trader said he inusf take 
 one cask, and finding remonstrances in vain, the 
 clerk consented to receive the cask on board the 
 boat. The chief went down the river to exchange 
 the drink for other goods, but the trader refused to 
 do so. The chief poured the rum into the river, 
 threw the empty cask after it, and returned home. 
 — Mary Clement Leavitt. 
 
 II. Gin is used as currency. Gin and rum are 
 also largely consumed as grog by our native work- 
 men. We dilute both largely, but we are compelled 
 to serve it out morning and evening. A stoppage 
 of this would be followed by a cessation of work. It 
 is "custom;" custom is despotic, and we are too 
 weak and too new in the country to rebel against 
 custom. Every visitor to our camp on this part of 
 the Congo (the lower), if he has a palaver with us, 
 must first receive a small glass of gin or mm. The 
 chief receives a bottleful, which he distributes, tea- 
 
92 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 spoonful by teaspoonful, among his followers. This 
 is the Lower Congo idea of "an all-around drink." 
 — Henry M. Stanley. 
 
 12. The African liquor traffic is the upas-tree of 
 commerce. Within its poison-area no other trade or 
 industry can grow. In any African community drink 
 finds ready sale, even when it is first introduced. 
 The trade in which gin is the medium of barter must 
 grow one hundred times faster than where cotton is 
 currency ; but a commerce beginning with gin must 
 end with gin, for every bottle of spirits drives out a 
 bale of goods. Industry cannot thrive, and in its 
 absence there can be no development of natural re- 
 sources. One trader says himself: " The traffic has 
 so debased them that they neglect comfort. There 
 is no thought of providing regularly and systemati- 
 cally for themselves and dependents ; of cultivating 
 palm-trees or collecting and shelling palm-nuts for 
 the market : of proper systems of agriculture ; no de- 
 sire of acquiring wealth ; no home and no care of 
 domestic business. It will be a great gain to com- 
 merce if the liquor traffic is eradicated." — F. P. 
 Noble. 
 
 13. If the natives take to drinking brandy, the 
 craving for it soon becomes uncontrollable. In a 
 short time all their cattle are sold for the purpose of 
 buying brandy ; they then become thieves, sinking 
 to even deeper depths ; lose health and strength, and 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 93 
 
 miserably die. The drink traffic in South Africa 
 means death and ruin to the natives. In 1883 it 
 was officially reported that in two months one hun- 
 dred and six natives had been killed by brandy- 
 drinking. How many daily pine away and die under 
 this curse, all over South Africa, of which no human 
 record is kept ! — Rev. N. J. Hofmeyer. 
 
 14. Through the wounds inflicted by the twin de- 
 mons of Moslem slaving and Christian rum-selling, 
 Africa is bleeding out her life blood at every pore. — 
 F. P. Noble. 
 
 The death of the negro race is only a question of 
 a few years. I would rather my countrymen were in 
 slavery and hard worked, but drink kept away. — 
 Rev. James Johnson. 
 
 15. In the Congo Free State, the battle will be 
 between the Bible and the bottle. — F. P. Noble. 
 
 16. Every ship that takes missionaries to Africa 
 carries enough poisonous rum and gin to off'set in 
 evil the good eflfect of one thousand missionaries. 
 Since the opening of the Congo region enormous 
 quantities of this stuff — so vile that there is no mar- 
 ket for it in any civilized country — have been shipped 
 to the savages. — New York Times. 
 
 The steamer on which we came brought apparatus 
 
94 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 to establish a manufactory of brandy. They will 
 soon have seven hundred barrels of the poison 
 ready for sale. — A Missionary in Africa. 
 
 For any African who is influenced for good by 
 Christianity, a thousand are driven into deeper deg- 
 radation by the gin trade. — Joseph Thompson, 
 F.R.G.S. 
 
 Were it not for this import of spirits, native church- 
 members now reckoned at only one hundred and fifty 
 thousand would number a million or more. — F. P. 
 
 Noble. 
 
 * * 
 
 17. One aggravation of our national guilt in this 
 matter is the fact that even these helpless races have 
 found a voice to express their entreaty that they may 
 be delivered from an alien curse, inflicted by a con- 
 tact which they did not seek and which is destroy- 
 ing them. In 1883 the natives of the diamond fields 
 implored Parliament to have public-houses removed 
 from them a distance of six miles, and their petition 
 was cruelly rejected. — Farrar. 
 
 Khama, the King of the Bamangwatos, had passed 
 a law that no liquor should be sold in his territory, 
 under heavy penalty, and also that no trader having 
 liquor in his possession for sale should enter his 
 kingdom, or even be permitted to pass through any 
 portion of it. Along came an English trader, Mr. 
 " X," who smuggled several casks of alcohol into 
 the territory. Being detected, " X" was ordered out 
 of the country. After trekking a short distance, he 
 buried his alcohol, returned, "lied atrociously " to 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 95 
 
 the king about it. and afterwards sold it to the king's 
 subjects. His perfidy was discovered and he fled ; 
 but the king's soldiers hunted him down. "X" 
 was fined ^100 for breaking the law, and formally 
 expelled from the territory as a dangerous char- 
 acter. 
 
 What a pitiful spectacle is this, of an ignorant 
 African savage struggling with intelligent European 
 Christians (!) to save his people from the horrors of 
 intemperance, a vice thrust upon him by civilization. 
 
 — W. T. HORXADAV. 
 
 18. Listen to the tragic story of Madagascar. In 
 1800 the Malagasy were a nation of idolaters; now 
 they are a nation of Christians. Unhappily Mauri- 
 tius became a sugar-producing colony, and rum was 
 made from the refuse of the sugar-mills. What was 
 to be done with it ? It was not good enough for the 
 European markets, and Madagascar " was made the 
 receptacle for the damaged spirit of the colony." 
 They received the curse in their simplicity, and it 
 produced frightful havoc. " The crime of the island 
 rose in one short year by leaps and bounds to a 
 height too fearful to record." The native govern- 
 ment was seized with consternation, and the able 
 and courageous king, Radama I., paid the duty and 
 ordered every cask of rum to be staved in on the 
 shore, except those that went to the government 
 stores. The merchants of Mauritius complained; 
 the English officers interfered ; and from that 
 
g6 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 day the "cursed stuff" has had free course, and 
 deluged the land with misery and crime. 
 
 * * 
 
 19. If Islam and Arab influence advance with the 
 sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, Chris- 
 tianity and European influence go to Ethiopia, as she 
 stretches out her hands to God, with the Bible in one 
 hand and rifle or rum-bottle in the other. We see 
 ourselves in our proclamations, but Africans see us 
 in our acts. We think of Islam as inseparable from 
 slave trade ; the open-eyed and quick-witted Africans 
 think Christianity the slave of commerce and the rum 
 trade. W^e decry and try to stamp out their slave 
 trade ; we fail to choke our liquor traffic. Yet this 
 is more blood-guilty than that. So the native says : 
 Christians are hypocrites. Missionaries are but broth- 
 ers of traders. I prefer to remain uncivilized. Tall 
 hats and new rum have attractions, but it is better to 
 stay black and bareheaded and pagan and even so- 
 ber than to wear " stove-pipes " and get drunk and be 
 " done brown'' by Bible-reading pale-faces. — F. P. 
 
 Noble. 
 
 * * 
 
 20. We beg of you to send us more Gospel and 
 less rum. — Ugalla, a Congo native. 
 
 For these references and a storehouse of other material on the sub- 
 ject see Africa and the Drink -Trade, by Farrar : Free Rum on the 
 Congo, W. T. Hornaday; Tlie Liqiwr Traffic in Western Africa, 
 Mary Clement Leavitt ; Ligtior on the Corigo, Henry M. Stanley; 
 Christendojn 's Rum - Trade with Africa, Frederic Perry Noble, in 
 Missionary Review of the World, p. 412, June, 1894. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 97 
 
 A LESSON IN TEMPERANCE HISTORY. 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 Scripture Lesson. Prayer. 
 
 Hymn — "Faith is the Victory." 
 
 Paper — " Drink Customs Among the Ancients." <» 
 
 Miss C 
 
 Paper — "The Great Social Change in the Nineteenth 
 
 Century"* Mr. W 
 
 Music — "There's a Better Time A-coming."-^ 
 
 THREE-MINUTE TALKS, a' 
 
 Topic — "Some Factors of the Great Social Change." 
 
 Conducted by Dr. G 
 
 1. "The Temperance Shot that Echoed Round the 
 
 World "^ Mr. B 
 
 2. Lyman Beecher's "Six Lectures "/ . . MiSS K 
 
 3. The "Moral Suasion Crusade ".r . . . Prof. J • 
 
 4. Father Mathew, Temperance Apostle-^ . Miss S 
 
 5. "The Greatest Reformer of the World's Greatest 
 
 Reform " i Dr. M ■ 
 
 6. "A Ribbon of Blue " {Xtcm. 15 : 37-39)7 Miss C 
 
 7. The Woman's Crusade-^ Mrs. S 
 
 8. A " Bow of White Ribbon " / . . . . Mrs. A 
 
 Original Poem'« (or Story), "A Spoiled Thanks- 
 giving, « or, The Need of a Greater Social 
 
 Change" Miss F 
 
 Hymn — "Dare to Be a Daniel." 
 
95 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 REFERENCES. 
 
 a. Axel Gustafson's Fojindation of Death. 
 
 b. The Blue Ribbon, by Kimball. 
 
 c. Song Leaflet, W. C. T. U. 
 
 d. " Two-Minute Talks," p. 64. 
 
 e. See Dr. Benjamin Rush, " Sketches of Noted Temperance 
 Workers," p. 31. 
 
 f. See Lyman Beecher, Etuyclopcedia 0/ Temperance and Prohi- 
 bition. 
 
 g. See "The Washingtonian Movement," EncycIopiEdia of Tern, 
 perance and Prohibition. 
 
 h. " Sketches of Noted Temperance Workers," p. 31. 
 
 /. John B. Gough. See " Sketches of Noted Temperance Work 
 ers," p. 31. 
 
 j. Murphy Movement. See The Blue Ribbon. 
 
 k. The Woman's Crusade. See Memories of the Crusade; En^ 
 cyclopCBdia of Temperance and Prohibitio7i ; The Story of the Cru 
 sade. 
 
 I. Badge of the W, C. T. U. For history of it, see E?icyclopcedict 
 of Temperance and Prohibition ; Do Everything, by Frances E. 
 Willard. 
 
 ;«. See " Original Stories and Poems," p. 67. 
 
 n. The title of a very striking temperance picture, drawn by Alice 
 Barber Stevens, in Harper s Weekly, Nov. 28, 1896. If the story or 
 poem is written from the picture, it would add to the interest to dis- 
 play it at the meeting. 
 
 ALCOHOL UNMASKED. 
 
 " The worst thing ever put in drink is alcohol." 
 
 Dr. Janeway. 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 Scripture Lesson. Prayer. 
 
 Vocal Solo. 
 Traditions about Alcohol « .... Miss A- ■ 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 99 
 
 A Half-hour with the Little Detective. -^ 
 
 Prof. 
 
 " King Alcohol has many forms 
 
 By which he catches men ; 
 He is a beast of many horns, 
 
 And ever thus has been. 
 There are rum and gin and beer and wine. 
 
 And brandy of logwood hue ; 
 And these with other fiends combined, 
 
 Will make any man look blue."^ 
 
 Vocal Solo — "Where there's Drink there's Dan- 
 ger"^ Mrs. O 
 
 Quiz on Alcohol <? . . . Conducted by Dr. S 
 
 Recitation — Cold Water — "The Royal Guest of 
 Man Wonderful in the House Beautiful."/ 
 
 Miss T 
 
 REFERENCES. 
 
 a. "Traditions about Alcohol," p. 68. 
 
 b. " Simple Experiments with Alcohol,"' p. 69. Select about a 
 dozen experiments to show that alcohol is alcohol wherever we find it, 
 — in cider, beer, wine, whiskey, medicines, etc. 
 
 c. The first verse of a quaint temperance song, composed by Jesse 
 Hutchinson. It was first sung by the famous Hutchinson family in 
 the old Deacon Giles distillery at Salem, after it had been converted 
 into a temperance hall. 
 
 d. Song Leaflet, W. C T. U. 
 
 e. " Quiz on Alcohol," p. 57. 
 
 f. See the chapter called "The Royal Guest," in the book, TJie 
 Alan Wonderful in the House Beatitiful. 
 
lOO WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 AN EVENING WITH THE W. C. T. U. 
 
 " But for temperance associations we should be immersed in 
 such an ocean of immorality, violence, and sin as would make 
 this country uninhabitable." — Lord Shaftesbury. 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 Scripture Lesson — Crusade Psalm. « 
 
 Prayer. 
 Hymn — " Onward, Christian Soldiers." 
 
 All About the W. C. T. U. — A Catechism. -^ 
 
 Conducted by Miss C 
 
 Sketch c Miss M 
 
 "The Best Loved Woman in America." 
 
 Reading — " The Daughter's Sacrifice " d Miss W 
 
 Thumb-Nail Sketches of White Ribbon Leaders.^ 
 
 Conducted by Mrs. K 
 
 ' ' Around the World the Ribbon White is Twined. ' '/ 
 
 Miss T 
 
 Music — " Some Glad Day.'V 
 
 REFERENCES. 
 
 a. Ps. 146. For the story about the psalm see the article " Cru- 
 sade," in Encyclopeedia of Temperance and Prohibition. 
 
 b. See " Annual Leaflet of the National Woman's Christian Tem- 
 perance Union," published by the W. T. P. A., The Temple, Chi- 
 cago. This contains a great quantity of material in the form of a 
 catechism. In using it, it must be much shortened. See also Do 
 Everything, by F. E. Willard. 
 
 c. See " Sketches of Noted Temperance Workers," p. 31. 
 
 d. In Readings atid Recitations, No. 8, by Miss L. Penny. 
 
 e. Selections from Thumb-Nail Sketches of White Ribbon Women. 
 
 f. Onginal poem, or prose article, about the work of the W. C. T. 
 U. in foreign lands. g. Song Leaflets, W. C. T. U. 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. lOI 
 
 WANTED ! A PICTURE. 
 
 (This item and the one following would be useful in the 
 advertisement column of a Temperance Budget.) 
 
 Canon Farrar writes thus : — 
 
 " Many years ago, in Mr. Ruskin's house at Den- 
 mark Hill, I was sitting at lunch opposite to Turner's 
 magnificent and awful picture of the slave-ship. I 
 could think of nothing else, as I gazed spellbound at 
 those waves incarnadined with sunset, and horrible 
 with the scene of murder. And as I was trying to 
 take in the full awfulness of the moral protest which 
 the picture embodied, 'Yes,' said Mr. Ruskin, 'that 
 is Turner's sermon against the slave-trade. ' '' 
 
 Is no artist great enough to preach such a sermon 
 against the worse, because more plausible, more se- 
 ductive, more creeping, and more destroying shame- 
 fulness of the drink traffic, which inevitably involves, 
 not only the demoralization, but even the sure, if 
 slow extinction of native races? 
 
 WANTED! A STORY. 
 
 A correspondent of the Outlook relates the follow- 
 ing interview with Mrs. Stowe : — 
 
 " A number of years ago I called upon Mrs. Harriet 
 Beecher Stowe to talk to her in regard to the temper- 
 ance cause. I felt that nothing but a thrilling story 
 such as Uncle Toms Cabin would awaken a strong 
 
I02 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 and absorbing interest. When I told her how I felt 
 in regard to it, and that she was the only one among 
 our writers who had the ability or the genius to por- 
 tray the evils of intemperance in such a way as to 
 produce the desired result, a look of intense sadness 
 came over her face. She said that she ' could not 
 attempt such a work, — it would be too sad. There 
 was a bright side to slavery, — there were kind mas- 
 ters sometimes, and happy slaves, — but there could 
 be no bright side to intemperance.' She said that 
 ' even the fun and frolic of young men when but 
 slightly under the influence of strong drink was pain- 
 ful to her, knowing to what it might lead.' ' When 
 she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin she could have a change 
 occasionally ; after writing the trying scenes she could 
 change to the humorous or cheerful aspect, but in a 
 story on the " drink problem " it would be all dark.' " 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. I03 
 
 LIST OF BOOKS, 
 LEAFLETS, MAGAZINES, MUSIC, ETC. 
 
 To WHICH Reference has been made. 
 
 NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY AND PUBLICA- 
 TION HOUSE. 
 
 PRICE 
 
 Temperance Cyclopcedia. By Rev. Wm. Reid . . . S2.50 
 Temperance Physiology. Guthrie. Paper 3° 
 
 Cloth 6° 
 
 Temperance Shot a7id Shell. Paper 25 
 
 Cloth 50 
 
 Alcohol and Science. Hargreaves. Paper 5° 
 
 Cloth ^-5° 
 
 Ten Lectures on Alcohol. Richardson. Paper ... .50 
 
 Cloth 1-°° 
 
 Alcohol as a Food and Medicine. Hunt. Paper . . .25 
 
 Cloth 6° 
 
 Text Book of Temperance. Lees. Paper ..... .5° 
 
 Cloth ^-25 
 
 Alcohol and Hygiene. Julia Colman. Paper 25 
 
 Cloth 50 
 
 Dr. Richardson s Lesson Book. Paper 5° 
 
 Alcohol: Its Nat itre and Effects. Story 75 
 
 Temper atice Hand Book for Speakers and Workers. 
 
 Paper 5° 
 
 Cloth i-°° 
 
 Brief Note for Tetnperance Teachers. Richardson. 
 
 Paper 25 
 
 Cloth 50 
 
 Our Wasted Resources. Hargreaves, Paper 50 
 
 Cloth 1-25 
 
104 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 Bugle Notes for the Temperattce Army (Song Book) . .35 
 
 Ripples of Song. Paper 15 
 
 Board 20 
 
 Temperance Lesson Leaf No. 50. " Manifold Woe." 
 
 per 100, .50 
 
 Juvenile Temperance Hymn Card per 100, .75 
 
 Chart, '• The Great Drink Waste." White paper, 22 x 
 
 28 inches 10 
 
 White muslin 25 
 
 Temperance Lesson Leaves per 100, .50 
 
 The Sunday-School Tonperance Catechism. By Julia 
 
 Colman each, .05 
 
 per doz., .60 
 Bible Te?npera7tce Lesson Leaves. F. N. Peloubet, D.D. 
 
 No. 26. " Defihng the Temple of God." . per 100, .50 
 No. 27. "The Interpreter's House" . . . per 100, .50 
 No. 28. "The Demons of the Cup" . . . per 100, .50 
 
 " Jamaica Ginger " per 1,000, i.oo 
 
 " The Students' Trick " per 100, ,28 
 
 " Ross, the Arctic Explorer " per 100, .28 
 
 " Alcohol and Cold " per 1,000, 2.25 
 
 " Alcoholin Root Beer" per 1,000, 1.30 
 
 "The Root Beer Fraud" per 1,000, 1.30 
 
 " Make Your Record Clean " per 1,000, 2.00 
 
 " The Champion Sledger" per 100, .28 
 
 " Farmer Jonathan's Decision on the Cider Question" . .01 
 
 " Why not Drink Cider?" 01 
 
 Africa atid the Drink Trade. Farrar 10 
 
 A Tour Round the World with the Temper atice Brown- 
 ies. Mrs. W. F. Crafts 10 
 
 One Hundred Years of Temperance 
 
 Temperance in All Nations. Two volumes , .each, 2.50 
 
 One volume edition on thin paper 2.00 
 
 Readings and Recitations. No. 8. By Miss L. Penny, 
 
 Paper 25 
 
 Cloth 60 
 
WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 105 
 
 Temperance Responsive Exercises per 100, .05 
 
 Free Ruvi on the Congo. Hornaday 10 
 
 Se>idfor a catalogue of publications. 
 
 Address : 
 NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY PUB. HOUSE. 
 58 Reade Street, New York City. 
 
 WOMAN'S TEMPERANCE PUBLICATION / SSOCIATION. 
 
 Glimfses of Fifty Years (Miss Willard's Autobiography) 
 
 Cloth $2.25 
 
 Thumb-N ail Sketches of White Ribbon Women. Paper, .50 
 
 Cloth 1. 00 
 
 Bible Temperance Studies. Paper 40 
 
 Cloth 75 
 
 Round the World unth the White Ribbon 10 
 
 The White Ribbo?i Hymnal 35 
 
 "Song Leaflets"' per 100, .15 
 
 " Some Glad Day ; '' '' The Inebriate's Lament ; " and 
 
 •' Where there's Drink there's Danger '' . per 100, .15 
 
 "W. C. T. U. March Medley' 50 
 
 "Bible Readings" each, .01 
 
 "Turn on the Light"' 01 
 
 " Freedom or Slavery " per 100, .15 
 
 " A $200,000 Glass of Beer " per 100, .15 
 
 " Is it Nothing to You ? " ) , ^ 
 
 .^iT'u- u cu 11 -^ r> 5-> ( one leaflet 01 
 
 " Which Shall it Be ? ' j 
 
 " The Law of Habit " 01 
 
 " What it Costs " 01 
 
 " The Drinker's Thermometer " 02 
 
 " How a Smoker Got a Home " per 100, .15 
 
 " The Story of the Crusade " 02 
 
 "The Liquor Traffic and Foreign Missions" . per 100, ^30 
 
 " The Liquor Traffic in Western Africa " 05 
 
 Liquor en the Congo. Henry M. Stanley . . per 100, .15 
 
Io6 WEAPONS FOR TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 
 
 Do Everything. Frances E. Willard 35 
 
 Union Signal., weekly paper per annum, i .00 
 
 Send for a catalogue 0/ /mi I teat ions. 
 Address : 
 
 WOMAN'S TEMPERANCE PUB. ASSO., 
 
 The Temple, Chicago, III. 
 
 " Colors of Flames," with experiments . . . per 100, $ .35 
 " Our Chemical Experiments to Illustrate Temperance 
 
 Teaching " 05 
 
 The Temperance Ha7id Book for Speakers and Work- 
 ers. Paper 50 
 
 Cloth 1. 00 
 
 " The Little Detective ■' (Testing apparatus) .... 2.00 
 
 Chemist's Retort for Distillation 1.00 
 
 Test-tubes, 10 cts. each ; 2 for 15 cts. ; 3 for 20 cts. 
 
 Send for a catalogue of teviperance liter attire and supplies 
 of all kinds. 
 Address : 
 
 MISS JULIA COLMAN, 
 47 Bible House, New York, N.Y. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Fifty Years Ago. Walter Besant. ^2.50. Harper Brothers, 
 
 New York. 
 The Blue Ribbon. Kimball, This book is out of print, but 
 
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 The Foiaidation of Death. Axel Gustafson. ^1.50. Funk 
 
 & Wagnalls Co., New York. 
 EncyclopcBdia of Temperance and Prohibitioti. ^3.50. Funk 
 
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 T/ie Temperance Century. Crafts. Paper, 35 cts. Cloth, 
 
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 Platform Echoes. Gough. ^3.25. A. D. Worthington & Co., 
 
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 Autobiography and Personal Recollections of John B. Gough. 
 
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 Memories of the Crusade. Mother Stewart. 32-oo. William 
 
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 How to Keep Well. Blaisdell. 55013. Ginn & Co., Boston. 
 Scientific Temperance Bulletin. 15 cts. Mrs. Frances W. 
 
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 The Man Wonderful in the House Beautiful. Drs. Chilion 
 
 B. and Mar}' Allen. This book is out of print, but may be 
 
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