THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.
The awakening in England on the subject of temperance spreads on every side. The clergy of the Established Church are especially active. The Archbishop of York and several bishops have become known as very earnest temperance speakers. Abstainers are no longer considered weak minded, and lacking in respectability. The clerical memorial, asking for the enactment of repressive and stringent measures, lias been signed by eleven thousand and sixty-seven clergymen—more than half of the whole number connected with the Established Church in England and Wales. In the number are eleven bishops, twenty-one deans, sixty-two archdeacons, fifty-nine canons, one hundred and ninety honorary canons, and one hundered and twenty-six probendiaries. In America Messrs Moody and Sankey have been holding weekly meetings in Chicago for the suppression of intemperance, which has been the means of reclaiming five hundred known drunkarks. — Exchange..
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 211, 18 April 1877, Page 2
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