A HINT TO GOOD TEMPLARS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3767, 24 January 1881, Page 3

A HINT TO GOOD TEMPLARS.

' (Per favour of Thames Eveniwo Star.) Sib, —Our Good Templars instead of trying to stop people from drinking beer and spirit "they might just as well try.to drain tbe ocean "—might use their influence in a more becoming way. It maj, perhaps not ,be known to many that our great grandmother Eve died about A\ oo years before. Christ in exile, and wm buried without the assistance of aeUrcyman, Rabbi, or Monk in. Dsobiddah, •hipping port of Mekka. Tbe Arabians some Mm* aftwrwardi built a sort of chapel over the

grave, bul the same has almost disappeared of late, therefore I hope pur Uood Templnrs, of whom Eve was a •ister,'' heuause sbn ftlimbod up the apple-tree and collared some forbidden fruit," will exert themselren and matte a collection all over the Australasian Colonies, ,to have a grand tombstone .erected .over* the grave of their great grand Bister with suitable inscription in all the lijrSjg,:< ond dead languages. ' Our great LegftUtor, W. J. Speight, has given £5 towardtfiffte expense of bringing out'from England^bocn . idiot; he might with more propriety .give £10 to the , above named cause.—l am, &c., ■ , Practical, i