TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42779, 16 September 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

(By Reformer.) TEMPERANCE WME-ylti THE ROYAL NAVY. ITS RISE The Society worked for some SsaiijajMW'gg mouth, at Devonport and Sherness, and also on board many ships. But after a time the practical and pressing question of the age—money— r * begw to piesj .ujpoji thsp, wM the difficidtjr.ofrßMingit M. 'Wa&f. they looked around for some plan by which the work could be carried on and developed, and the sinews of-war supplied* •At jthis juncture,dn> the year 1873, fte, League 'came withe aid ofijthe Society: the Committee offered to take over the naval work, supply the funds, it on themselves; and if ter- some little sideration the , . eommitlee i Portsmouth accepted ' <’ the Rbyai Naval Temperance Society then became tlfe fptgyal Naval Temperaioe ; BrinciL. .pf the NationalTemperauceLeague At 4 deeply mg at Portsmouth, Miss Weston who had long I "been,/ wdricmg among our sa^, fl • know fo her temperance, work* at Bath and elsewhere,.was hfMent and willingly committee, f cpny^yeS Lieutepant-Colonel; (afterwards General) Eardley .Wi|mot ;r to,' superintend it foiLtnein. She says: “Atotalabsatiner myself 1 knew very well that the sailor’s spiritual interests were closely hound up with the temperance question, as, f wpli as, his efficiency in Service; I. therefore ; cheerfully accepted the post of Superintendent of the League’s Naval Work.,, ' It will be distinctly seen that the important truth which I wish to W readers, called u |tas been an integral partftffhisworE' ', i The wishj for teetotalism came from the Service, and the Bbyai Naval Temperance "Society was formed in the Service and with its growth since—no erable same principle , v has become stronger and The League finds, money./ and; Miss Western keeps .the machine S going iby correspondence, per- " 'soual supervision, visiting the principal seaports, and holding occasional meetings on board ship, as well as on when, permission is given by ;;i fche A cap-. tain. iThe importance, where feasible, v of coming ~on beard Cannot i,,be over-estjb^tedtmen 'are reached in numbers, and in® fluenced by a lady taking The trouble to come to them, in a way which never could be attained On shore; and it has given Miss Weston a /hold , upon the Navy which she could.not have gained in any other way. The extent and variety of the work, and its important influence - not only upon the Navy* hut on, people of all lands and tonnes we hope r ,presently to ; The hoard and unsectarian basis on whick it stands—seeking to benefit all, without any question as to the religious jbpdy to which the man helongs-r-is worthy of so great a work, in speh a branch of the public service as/the Koyal Navy.