TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42786, 3 October 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

(By Reformer.) TEMPERAKcit? WORK 1 THE BOYAIi NAVY. ■ , ITS RISE With pledge-sig ing, % in . tlie there is; current idea amoSg some penso d tnan p the pled and breaks it, he wot than he s wae before. Such? certainly;:? not 5 i Miss Weetbi exjieMehce saikh how hap he waus .when -he md nothing; thendriii, how miii better he got ondn theSeryu heis sorry tnatj [lie broke, at he would like tcj try again, ” such is tbe invariable tcstimb: Tbp,fallen man picks himself ti afifc feels [ ‘that \ rith God’s M there are better days m store: him. Many per song also ha a great - prejudice against f| faotef-signing a pledge, becaii they argue, if broken a solen oath is Without any way- defcaiting from t great impor|aucS’M|he membi not pp|v keepis true to 1 the obligation, we me tain;that iin itself, it is bu record in writing of a prom madeiti awitne . Such.. promises vare<'daily ma underuiffekntr.cii'cumstanc And H ipledge against drmk'ihvolves qath,|huta L simpie promise whi a ,manr, takes afrphis- l own?|t will, and'fitbhi 3 ,wKich,hecan] lease pleas by giving duembtideui writin Wit; ig|jf sSnongs|l thousapds;;pt;^ses ha ' come" under Miss Weston’s; i ti ce although many pijder stroi /temptation .have • broken : m sorrow, not one per .thousai has. / resigned; -.® testimony of. the men on t® [joint would fill ;a 1 voluoi • * Thank God for the "day (I which I took the pledge,’’ sal one; “I became a different n® since. ” “', I have been saved ® the Service, and for myfamil® •says' another. -*f I . broke \® pledge mere than once, ” wril a third ; “but I felt that manly thing to do.was.in Gb® strengthjto try again, and to-® lam a saved man.” “ On® day I signedjthe pledge, ”am another earnest worker, “ Ig® my heart to God.” We co® chronicle the history of numb® of what Americans would c® “ reconstructed, men, ; who ® the ; same v ptory;. li .Some test® to the fact that the pledge, un® God opened a way fpr the 1® of Chriist in their souls ; ; othe® that they, have entered oh® career of suebess and advan® rnent in the Service; and® various ways ,God bps stain® His m ark unmistakably on t® simple promise of aostience. ® > .fT,,-j<. ->j <•