GOOD TEMPLARS' HALL.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2080, 3 September 1875, Page 3

GOOD TEMPLARS' HALL.

An interesting and useful lecture on tae object of Good Templary and the means of its attainment was delivered by Mr W. J. Speight yesterday evening ia the above mentioned Hall. On the motion of Mr Honiss the Eev. Y. Lash was called to the chair, who', on introducing the lecturer to the audience, expressed bis sympathy with the object Good.Templars had in view, and stated that he had no scruple in identifying himself with a cause which could boast of such men as Bishops Selwyn and Abraham among its supporters. The lecturer on commencing lecture said he mtsnded to divjde thf subject into two parts-L The object at which Good Templary aimed. 2. Ihe means which should be used in order to attain that end. First, as regarded the £X.sed object of Good Tempkry- ha object-was to alter entirely the present customs and habits of society,, and effect a radical change in every class m Me with respect to the use of alcoholic liquors. He quoted various statistics, wh.ch have already appeared in these-columns, to show the extent to which intoxicants, were consumed in .this Colony, and the cost of these to individuals, but the waste of money thus spent did not by any means reprasent the misery incurred by homes being broken up and rendered wretched through alcohol. The means, to attain this end were_twofold; one being total abstinence for individuals; the other prohibition by the si ate. Total abstinence he argued was necessary or all-necessary for those who had fallen under the power of drink; and necessary for others to abstain themselves, though necessary to prevent our being a degraded race of beings. At the close of the lecture a vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to the lecturer on the motion of Mr C. F. Mitchell.