Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 6, 6 July 1895, Page 3

Temperance Items.

An enterprising Westminster hquoi seller, in order to push his iniquitous business, has a placard in his window, announcing that to every purchaser of a pint of wine or spirits, a quarter of a pound of tea wil 1 be given. In fo-ty-four states and territories of America 13.000,000 school children are taught as a part of the national education the injurious effects of alcohol upon the human system. A -pledge not to use cigarettes prey* ious to attaining the age of twenty-one has been circulated in some of tbe Amer. . ican schools. . At a meeting: recently lield in the Wesleyan chapel' Charlton-cuin Hardy, and presided over by tbe Reverend D. Walters (Congregationalism, a Roman Catholic priest, who was amongst the speakers, urged the necessity for ministers of all denominations uniting to* gether on the one broad platform of Christian pliilantrophy to rescne the masses from the greatest enemy church, and state have to fear. A man fell into a trance in Galicm, and awoke as he was being carried to the grave. He said he had been to lieaven and God had given him permission to return to earth again if he would strive to convince the peasants how bad the drinking of spirits was for their bodies The inhabitonts of several yilN ages have taken an oath that they will never drink spirits again.