Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 226, 25 March 1895, Page 3

Temperance Items.

Dr. Norman Kerr sajs, •• If people but knew the effects of alcoholism < n tlie moral sense as I have learned them : Why, I kuve bad a patient once truthful and honourable who emptied a glass of spirits, set the glass on the table, and declared he had not touched it. Low cunning and base lyine are the everyday reamts of alcoholism." The Jews do not in tlieir feasts for Tfeveral purposes, " including marriago feast, ever use any kind of fermented drinks. In their ablations and libations, both public and private, they employ the fruit of the vine— that is, fresh grapes — unfermented grape juice, and raL-ins as thft symbol of benediction. Fernienta* tion is to them always a symbol of corruption, as in nature aud in science it is in itself decay, rottenness. " We do not beleive in the infallibility of the vox populi, but we are willing to risk the effect of the people's choice ; and the question is : " Are the publicans prepared to accept the decision of their own customers, whose interest they propose to serve ?"--Bev. Ossian Davies. " I, for my part, was for some time rather an opponent than a supporter of 0* Temperance cause. I, too, thought it right to think a great deal before I would join such a Society as this (N,T. League), but, nevertheless, haying joined it from strong and deep conviction, I do not think you will find another man who will go before me in the desire to make our cause prevail." — Bishop of London. " I feel convinced myself, after hay. ing been engaged for more than twenty years in the total abstinence cause, hay* ing graduated under that great master and leader, the late Cardinal Manning, what we have to do is this, to try and reach first of all the intelligence of the people, and then to guide their conscience. There is only one method of stopping drunkenness, and that is total abstinence."—Rev. Canon Murtrane.