MR BRUNTNELLS MISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 284, 25 November 1908, Page 3

MR BRUNTNELLS MISSION.

By request, iir. A. Biunlnell, NoLicense lecturer, delivered his 'wellknown lecture, "Two Hours with John It. lioHgli," tu the Whitelev Hull last night. The Rev. J. Guv presided, there was not u large attendance. -Mr. Bruntncll followed the trrcat I temperance orator f,. ()m j,j s lvc.it i-Ii I j childhood, through tin. varying fortunes | j oi a boisterous, mischievous, fun-loving i hoyhooil, into his vigorous Voiuli. He ! t»'ld of his wlf-,ai-rilice. of his „ann.., i expended in lakiug .his molhcr and j si'ter fro,,, Hm sll . L , <s u ,- m |.; lu ,|. nl ,| j to the glorious but for them uoi too I lileuleous West, The loss of his mother I Ins ultimate downfall from u,iu.r hi,'l voice in music-hall and l,ar. a.id hi" ulti-

mate degradation— to he picked up hy the kind word of a Washimnoninn Hood I'emplar. He fell, hut. he was not ..ivcn «I>. From his lift- .Mr. Bruntnell drew Jiian.V lessons. First there was the need lor making greater efforts to enlist the •sympathies of the young. "You can't get the grown-ups," ,he said, "to interest themselves as they should in work amongst the young people." lie exhorted parents to look lor the good points in boisterous children, and to bring out their best attributes; voting

, men to be careful of the company they Kept and the companionships formed; young women to join a "marry-no-initn-if-he-driuks association"; all to sign the pledge ami get it signed; to seek again after the drunkard who fails to keep Ins pledge; and to inculcate the motto, "Abstinence for the individual, prohibition for the State." Passing on, in a I disjointed series of humorous' and pathetic stories, he arrived at the magnificence of John I!. (Jough as a temperance orator, unto the hour when, as he had often prayed, he "died in harness." espousing the cause.

A vote of thanks was accorded the speaker, on the motion of the Rev. T. 11. Brooke, and a vote; for his valuable services rendered during the recent cam- I paign. In thanking the meeting for the vote, Mr. Biuntnell thanked the friends who had been so kind to him during his stay, lie remarked that but for the vigorous light put up by the No-License party they would have not been so far advanced, for the other side had been fully extended. "The other side," he said, "may put up spasmodic efforts, but they cannot withstand the force and fervor of this great reform movement." A vote of thanks to the chairman, and the benediction pronounced by the Rev. J. Laird, terminated the proceed-