PROHIBITION QUESTION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 90, 11 September 1914, Page 4

PROHIBITION QUESTION

LECTURE BY DR. SBEI.DOX. There was a large attendance at tlio Theatre Royal last night to hear JJr 0. M. Sheldon deliver a lecture tmdci the auspices of the Taranaki Xo-lkeiise league. The Rev. T. 11. Rosevcare pr«sided. The lecturer dealt -with the 'licensing law in the United States, the growth and success of the movement for closing tho saloons there, and the grand united work of the churches to that end. He dealt trenchantly with some of the evilt arising out of the liquor traffic, and pic tured in Mowing periods the immense moral and physical benefit that must accrue to tho human race from the absolute extinction of the manufacture ami sale of alehoolic liquors. At the close, after questions, resolutions were carried in favor of lfesininfj the majority required to carry nolicense, and congratulating the Minister for Defence upon his prohibition ot liquor in the concentration camps and on the troopships. A fuller report is held for Saturday's issue. A CO-YFKREXCE.

In tlie afternoon Dr. Sheldon addressed a conference of workers in the Baptist 'Tabernacle. Tlie Rev. T. 11. Roseveare (president of the New Plymouth Xo-license Ecague) presided over a good attendance. The visitor referred to tlie progress of American churches in the dirctioi) of federation, and showed how the fusion of denominational forces was resulting in the strengthening of churches, which, owing to tlie multiplicity of denominations, had hitherto been individually weak. By such association of forces in what was called a community church, the churches gained—in the matter of increased power for attack in their common moral enemies —infinitely more than thoy lost. After ten, which was served in the flood Templar Kail, Dr. Sheldon g:w an address, in which grateful allusion was made to tlie uniform kindness-he had received from the people, of Xow Zealand, and appreciation expressed of the progressive movements of the Dominion. Incidentally, the speaker caused amusement by stating that while taking photographs from a height overlooking Sydney Harbor, his hoy was arrested on suspicion of being a spy, his camera forfeited, and all the pictures destroyed.