THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2625, 7 June 1877, Page 3

THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

He stood on a chair in the dusk of the evening, and as a crowd gathered he began: — " Wine is a mocker—strong drink is raging. The Lord made cold waterSatan made whisky!" (Pause.) . "Let me tell you what I saw. Last night I saw a white-headed old man at the bar. I pleaded with him to come away, but he was deaf to my words. He filled a glass with deadly liquor, and as it went gurgling down his throat I said to him, ' Old man, thou art doomed ? " He laughed a cynical laugh, and he cursed me —ay! cursed the man who sought to save him ! " (Commotion in the crowd.) "This morning," continued the man, " I was at the morgue, where the unknown dead rest on the cold slabs. I did not think that my "words of the night before would come back to me with such awful significance." (Crowd grew closer.). "I looked through the glass door, and," my hearers, what do you'think I saw on the cold slabs before me?" " The old man ! " shouted twenty voices in chorus. "No, my friends," continued the man, as ho stepped down, " I didn't see a— ~ thing! " Several men chased him, but he made good his escape.