Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1894, Page 4

Temperance Items.

Archdeacon Farrar was nskcd one day why he took such a deep interest in total abstinence, seeing that he himself dirt not need to practice it. The following was his reply : — "At the entrance of one of our college chapels lies a nameless grave ; that grave covers the mortal remains of one of its most promising fellows — ruined by drink ! received not very long ago a letter from an old schoolfellow, a clergyman, who, after long arduous labor was in want of clothes and almost food. I inquired the cause ; it was drink. A fe^ weeks ago, a wretched clergyman came to mo in deplorable misery, who had dragged down h * family with him ' into ruin What had ruined him ? j Drink ! When I was at rambridj'-e one of the most pr<unisi'>sr scholars w«s a youth who, years a<ro, died in n Lnn don hospital, penniless, of delirium tremens. through drink. When I was at Kind's College. I used to sit next to a handsome youth, who jrrew up to be a brilliant writer; he 'Heo' in the primp of life a victim to drink I once knew an eloquent philanthropist who was a very miserable man. l'h<* world never knew th« curse which was upon him ; but his frinnds knew it was drinK. And why i* it that rhe^e tragedies arcs daily bapppninjr ? his through the fatal fascination, the seductive sorcery of drink, against which Scripture so often warns. It i* bpcause drink is one of the surest of the devil's ways to man, and of man's ways to the devil " "I f we could abolish strong drink," *ays Mr Price Hughes, " we should cut at the yery roots of pauperism, gambling, debauchery, and crime." Mrs Hunt, of the American W J. r.U., pays that the Union " has only six more States to win before the whole United States and Territories will be under compulsory temperance education, with their 05,000 000 in- j habitants and 18,000,000 school chil- j dren. Already in forty-four Ptates j iind Territories the law says that th n- , 13 000,000 school children should >c J taught as a part of their regular school pducation God's law, of abstinence from alcohol and all narcotics, with other laws of health." A French profwssor recently wrote .ih tho blackboard " Bwibfci£j.Se-.-pwy-~; s>riety, regularity," oVr aritig; them the conditions of health, ami of more importance than the much boasted " Liberty, equality, fraternity." Says The Irish Temperanco Lpa ' gue Journal : — •'Philanthropists, and humane persons of all shades of thought and spheres of work, are becoming painfully aware that the svs tern of fines is utterly inadequate to the case. A fine of * five shillings and costs,' or of * fifty shillings and costs,' only means less food and cl .th iug and more suffering an I * i-ntched ne6s to the children