THE TEMPERANCE LEAGUE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 38, 31 October 1868, Page 3

THE TEMPERANCE LEAGUE.

(To the Editor of the Tutvpeka Times.) Sir,— l obkeYyed's'omesliprt time ago an advertisement-in-one of the columns o.f ..- T your pap r ei;, annpuncing -a, tempe-, ranee league,m!e_e&ig, ,tb tp,ke place at Lawrence ('but' as I have, not, heard what progress tha^ ,'society has, made, I fear.ebriety has carried its sway. As ilis' dociarine is indefensible," Il'wouldI I ' would recommend and. suggestoto the promoters 1 of the league to, take^heir,.text from-'the'foliowirig woM ;' thfetf'it iniy haye 1 the desired ■ effect upon intemperance, or a tendency in that direction: — . yy Chairman • G-entlemen, my text isj 'SMalt jcV- <I jcaimot> .divide rat into jwdrdsj-ifc. being i but one y -I must, •therefor*?, of necessity, it into lettgg ? wMchjl £mA i© .be- tlies^^four x, m aFt M is.moraly ajs allegorical; lis literal ; t'iß-fh'ebldgical. Tho moral is set forth to_t§ash< you drunkards good manners ; therefore, m, masters, %,mi btydil; 1} lisfePtj'-to my-text. The.allogorieal, isr-when- f one».thing is ♦spokea~-fwad -aao^ei— tiiiiWf-is-iaesHat ;' ,the Quit ; thSth% 1 meant as the juice of malt which fad cantabaTtnake'. M,J y<sutt.'itcCister ; a, your *appc-al ; I, your liberty ; t, your trurif.rj'"Tho,t-|^a|p^^^)according to V;\S offsets that it worki? ; and theso I Ifiml io 1j) of fvjuhia,] s : fixvt, in r.>i--» • orld ; obertu'liv in ibo worLl to eoxd^l

are, in some cases, m, murder j L adultery; in all 1, looseness ofr fifes; _ and in som6, formerly, t, treason. Tbje< effectfr.that'iV works in. ther^prld VP come are Th" r misery; -a, anguish; 1, Jairiea2b±kmr;_^Ji&-.±fJ»^ muclvfor^tjiis time,and .t&M ,;.l- shall lmgrov^a tlm, first, Ijjf way o£^xnortation :* ifr, masters, s!(*aLrof -foil, l, _lea^e •*6F^onim(dß^^.^^%asj^sj a, all of you, 1, looTP'6^ut-^6r'-{ptormrat; . thirdly,, ,by way" oi caution, taka ,thiac : a,drunkaijd is, the-annoyaH ce.ot«^n<|- (- dVsly^tho spoil _'of civilitjr/ |ne desfructioja of .reason, fjae' brewer's agent, the alehouse 'benefactor, his wife's, -sorrow, his children Vtmuhle, his. own shame, his neighbour's scoff, a swill- , bowl, the picture -of .a -beast, and the monster of a, man. t „' ■ -* I heartily endorse, the doptrine of temperance," n.o't., total, abstinence, as there "is no'rule' litid^&bwn for it, only for 's^mbiers ; indeed St. Paul says— ■"/Let, jjpur '"m'oderatioji ibe t known, untjo all men, for the Lord is at hand." — : I' am, &c, r <■. , . „ „ „ „Ertkja£lTY.. - 1 . TSlifc Spur,' Octf 27,' 186S: >v ■ ' ' : •