TEMPERANCE SUNDAY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2927, 13 November 1916, Page 2

TEMPERANCE SUNDAY

Yesterday was celebrated in the churches throughout the Empire as Temperance Sunday. ' "'Britain and Kaiser Alcohol was tlie subject of a very able and spirited address given last evening by the Rev. W. S. Rollings in the Brooklyn Baptist Church, in connection with Temperance Sunday. Thoro was'a largo conception, including members of tho Rcchabites and temperance .societies m regalia. The speaker mado a strong indictment against the drink evil, giving the authority of leading English statesmen and-war offioials'to show that it, was a standing menace to the safety of,, our liberty and tho nation's efficiency in this dreadful war. As one writer has said in the "Daily Chronicle," if England should lose this war it would not bo on account of Germany's supremacy, but because of inefficiency caused chiefly through drinking habits. He deprecated the refusal of tho representatives of royalty in New Zealand to follow their King in the abolition of drink, although 111 Australia', Canada,' and among tn© Allies it had been banned from, tho legislative and viccregal establishment s, At tho' close of the service tho following motion was moved by Mr. J. Wilson, and carried unanimously :-"That in view of the urgent need for fit men to help to bring this terrible war to a successful issue, this meeting of citizens urges the necessity for steps taken to restrict the liquor traffic during the war, and it also pledges itself to support any movement towards tho suppression of this national clement of defeat." The singing of a verso of the National Anthem closed tho proceedings. ■ ''